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English ancestry Politicians in Florida

Zachary Taylor Bielby (1850-1924) — also known as Zachary T. Bielby — of DeLand, Volusia County, Fla. Born in Little Falls, Herkimer County, N.Y., May 30, 1850. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1912, 1916, 1920 (member, Resolutions Committee). English ancestry. Died in Volusia County, Fla., January 3, 1924 (age 73 years, 218 days). Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, DeLand, Fla.   Presumably named for: Zachary Taylor   Relatives: Son of John Beilby and Martha (Liddle) Beilby.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) — also known as Thomas E. Dewey — of Pawling, Dutchess County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Mich., March 24, 1902. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940; Governor of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1952 (speaker), 1956. Episcopalian. English and French ancestry. Member, Freemasons; American Bar Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Farm Bureau; Grange; Phi Mu Alpha; Phi Delta Phi. Died, from a heart attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel, Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade County), Fla., March 16, 1971 (age 68 years, 357 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of George Martin Dewey and Anne Louise 'Annie' (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16, 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (grandniece of Jefferson Finis Davis); nephew of Edmond Otis Dewey; first cousin four times removed of David Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Glasby Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Luther Waterman and Joshua Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James Gillespie Blaine III.   Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Upham family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Eastman family; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Abbott family of Salinas, California; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Cross-reference: Herbert Brownell, Jr. — Charles C. Wing — Martin T. Manton — Herman Methfessel   The Thomas E. Dewey Thruway, which runs through Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Greene, Albany, Schenectady, Montgomery, Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Monroe, Genesee, Erie, and Chautauqua counties in New York, is named for him.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M. Stolberg, Fighting Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E. Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political Leadership — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times — Scott Farris, Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation — David Pietrusza, 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America   Image source: Library of Congress   Bert Fish (1875-1943) — of DeLand, Volusia County, Fla. Born in Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., October 8, 1875. Superintendent of schools; lawyer; county judge in Florida, 1910-17, 1931-33; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1933-38; Saudi Arabia, 1939-41; Portugal, 1941-43, died in office 1943. German and English ancestry. Member, Sigma Nu. Died in Lisbon, Portugal, July 21, 1943 (age 67 years, 286 days). Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, DeLand, Fla.   Relatives: Son of George W. Fish and Sarah M. (Lee) Fish.   Fish Memorial Hospital (later, Florida Hospital Fish Memorial; now, AdventHealth Fish Memorial), Orange City, Florida, is named for him.   Epitaph: "An educator and philanthropist, a judge and outstanding statesman, who died while on duty, in the service of his country."   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial   Claudius Buchanan Grant (1835-1921) — also known as Claudius B. Grant — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich.; Houghton, Houghton County, Mich.; Marquette, Marquette County, Mich. Born in Lebanon, York County, Maine, October 25, 1835. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; postmaster at Ann Arbor, Mich., 1867-70; member of Michigan state house of representatives, 1871-74 (Washtenaw County 2nd District 1871-72, Washtenaw County 1st District 1873-74); member of University of Michigan board of regents, 1872-79; Houghton County Prosecuting Attorney, 1877; circuit judge in Michigan 25th Circuit, 1882-89; justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1890-1909; chief justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1898-99, 1908. English ancestry. Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Fla., February 28, 1921 (age 85 years, 126 days). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Grant and Mary (Merrill) Grant; married, June 13, 1863, to Caroline L. Felch (daughter of Alpheus Felch).   Political family: Felch-Lawrence-Grant family of Ann Arbor and Monroe, Michigan.   Henry Leonard Hilton-Green (1893-1975) — also known as H. Hilton-Green — of Pensacola, Escambia County, Fla. Born September 16, 1893. Shipbroker; Honorary Vice-Consul for Belgium in Pensacola, Fla., 1922-44; Vice-Consul for Netherlands in Pensacola, Fla., 1938. English ancestry. Died in Pensacola, Escambia County, Fla., March 28, 1975 (age 81 years, 193 days). Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.   Relatives: Son of Leonard Hilton-Green and Ada Mary (French) Hilton-Green; married to Virginia Pritchard.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   George Westerby Howe (1867-1957) — also known as George W. Howe — of Pensacola, Escambia County, Fla. Born in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., May 13, 1867. Consular Agent for France in Pensacola, Fla., 1935. English ancestry. Died in Escambia County, Fla., January 10, 1957 (age 89 years, 242 days). Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.   Relatives: Son of Osmond Collins Howe and Elizabeth Anne (Jones) Howe; brother of William Dodson Howe; married 1899 to Louise Sellars.   Political family: Howe family of Pensacola, Florida.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Joseph Posey (b. 1947) — also known as Bill Posey — of Rockledge, Brevard County, Fla. Born in Washington, D.C., December 18, 1947. Republican. Real estate business; member of Florida state house of representatives 32nd District, 1993-2000; member of Florida state senate, 2001-08 (15th District 2001-02, 24th District 2003-08); U.S. Representative from Florida, 2009-20 (15th District 2009-13, 8th District 2013-20). Methodist. English and Jewish ancestry. Member, Kiwanis. Still living as of 2020.   Relatives: Son of Walter J. Posey and Beatrice (Tohl) Posey.   See also congressional biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Encyclopedia of American Loons   George A. Robinson (1851-1908) — of Sayville, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Newmarket, Ontario, January, 1851. Republican. Physician; naturalized U.S. citizen; volunteer fire fighter; director, Sayville Electric Light and Power Company; member of New York state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1901-02. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Foresters; Royal Arcanum. Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla., February 22, 1908 (age 57 years, 0 days). Interment somewhere in Islip, Long Island, N.Y.   Relatives: Married to Amelia A. Foster.

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