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Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (1822-1886) —
also known as Wilmot G. de Saussure —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 23,
1822.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1848-49, 1854-57,
1860-63; Adjutant
General of South Carolina, 1862.
French Huguenot ancestry. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Ocala, Marion
County, Fla., February
1, 1886 (age 63 years, 193
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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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.
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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 |
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Maynard Dauchy Follin (1863-1948) —
also known as Maynard D. Follin —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.; Dunedin, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in New York, March 5,
1863.
Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Detroit,
Mich., 1926-31; writer.
French ancestry.
Died in Pinellas
County, Fla., August
4, 1948 (age 85 years, 152
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Danilo Goodrich (1916-1983) —
also known as Danilo Ogden Goodrich Del Castillo —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba,
November
12, 1916.
Member, public
relations staff for Pan American Airways;
Honorary
Vice-Consul for Haiti in Miami,
Fla., 1943-50.
Cuban
and French Canadian ancestry.
Died in Key West, Monroe
County, Fla., June 29,
1983 (age 66 years, 229
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Napoleon Joseph Dumais and Maria Raquel Del Castillo; married, September
9, 1936, to Isabel Lamazares. |
| | | Image source: Miami Herald, December
27, 1946 |
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James G. Jones (d. 1905) —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Restaurant
business; mayor
of Key West, Fla., 1885-86.
French Canadian ancestry.
Died in Key West, Monroe
County, Fla., April
23, 1905.
Burial location unknown.
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William Alexander LeBaron (1826-1902) —
also known as William A. LeBaron —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., November
7, 1826.
Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; commission
merchant; Consul
for Nicaragua in Mobile,
Ala., 1889-96; Vice-Consul
for Mexico in Mobile,
Ala., 1890-1902; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Spain in Mobile,
Ala., 1901; Consul
for Colombia in Mobile,
Ala., 1901-02.
French ancestry.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., February
12, 1902 (age 75 years, 97
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Antoine Jean Murat (1836-1922) —
also known as Antoine J. Murat —
of Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla.
Born in Santorini, Greece,
January
27, 1836.
Republican. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; seafood
business; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1873-81, 1909; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Apalachicola,
Fla., 1882-1903; Consular
Agent for France in Apalachicola,
Fla., 1889-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Apalachicola,
Fla., 1895-1903.
Catholic.
French ancestry. Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died in Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla., October
13, 1922 (age 86 years, 259
days).
Interment at Chestnut
Cemetery, Apalachicola, Fla.
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William Elery Nolin (1909-1997) —
also known as William E. Nolin —
of Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H., August
25, 1909.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New Hampshire, 1940.
Catholic.
French Canadian ancestry.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., December
6, 1997 (age 88 years, 103
days).
Interment at St.
Mary Cemetery, Claremont, N.H.
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William Barbour Pedigo (1870-1932) —
also known as W. B. Pedigo; "Bill
Bob" —
of Stuart, Patrick
County, Va.; Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va.; Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis.
Born, in a log
cabin, at Elamsville, Patrick
County, Va., January
28, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; Patrick
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1895-99; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1896;
candidate for West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1906; mayor
of Parkersburg, W.Va., 1907-11.
Baptist.
French ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., October
23, 1932 (age 62 years, 269
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Lewis Pedigo and Sarah Amanda (Taylor) Pedigo; married 1896 to Lena
Attaway. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph Richard Viens (1938-2018) —
also known as Joe Viens —
of Miramar, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., August
6, 1938.
Mayor
of Miramar, Fla., 1979-83; defeated, 1983, 1989.
French Canadian ancestry.
Died February
21, 2018 (age 79 years, 199
days).
Interment at South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth Beach, Fla.
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