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Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (1832-1908) —
also known as Robert H. M. Davidson —
of Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla.
Born near Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla., September
23, 1832.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1856-59; member of Florida
state senate, 1860-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Gadsden County,
1865; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1877-91 (2nd District 1877-79, 1st
District 1879-91).
Slaveowner.
Died in Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla., January
18, 1908 (age 75 years, 117
days).
Interment at Western
Cemetery, Quincy, Fla.
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Joseph Edward Davies (1876-1958) —
also known as Joseph E. Davies —
of Wisconsin; Washington,
D.C.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis., November
29, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Democratic
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1912; law partner of Timothy
T. Ansberry; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-18; chair,
Federal Trade Commission, 1915-16; economic advisor to President Woodrow
Wilson at the Paris peace conference after World War I; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1936; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1936-38; Belgium, 1938-39; U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, 1938-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia following a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., May 9,
1958 (age 81 years, 161
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Fred Henry Davis (1894-1937) —
also known as Fred H. Davis —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., May 18,
1894.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
Leon
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1919-20; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1921-27; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1927; Florida
state attorney general, 1927-31; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1931-37; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1933-35.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Reserve
Officers Association; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Lions.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 20,
1937 (age 43 years, 33
days).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Fred Henry Davis and Annie E. (Pearson) Davis; married, February
3, 1921, to Frances M. Chambers. |
| | | Epitaph: "Lawyer -
Statesman - Jurist - Soldier." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Horatio Davis (1840-1912) —
of Chatham, Pittsylvania
County, Va.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., May 16,
1840.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
county judge in Virginia, 1880-86; mayor
of Gainesville, Fla., 1908-09.
Episcopalian.
Died in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., June 12,
1912 (age 72 years, 27
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gainesville, Fla.
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Jacob Erastus Davis (1905-2003) —
also known as Jacob E. Davis —
of Waverly, Pike
County, Ohio; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Beaver, Pike
County, Ohio, October
31, 1905.
Democrat. Lawyer; Pike
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1931-34; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1935-37; resigned 1937; common
pleas court judge in Ohio, 1937-40; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1941-43; vice-president,
Kroger Company (supermarkets),
1945-60; president and CEO, 1961-70.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons;
Acacia.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., February
28, 2003 (age 97 years, 120
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Jim Davis (b. 1957) —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., October
11, 1957.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1988-96; U.S.
Representative from Florida 11th District, 1997-2007; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Governor of
Florida, 2006.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert Wyche Davis (1849-1929) —
also known as Robert W. Davis —
of Palatka, Putnam
County, Fla.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born near Albany, Lee
County, Ga., March
15, 1849.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1884-85; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1885; general
attorney, Florida Southern Railroad;
U.S.
Representative from Florida 2nd District, 1897-1905; mayor
of Gainesville, Fla., 1924-25.
Died in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., September
15, 1929 (age 80 years, 184
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gainesville, Fla.
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Marion Lindsay Dawson —
of Richmond,
Va.; Suffolk
County, N.Y.; Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Scottsville, Albemarle
County, Va.
Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1915-19; campaign manager for
Gov. Cary
A. Hardee.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Redmen.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1903 to Alice
Taylor. |
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Thomas Cleland Dawson (1865-1912) —
also known as Thomas C. Dawson —
of Enterprise, Volusia
County, Fla.; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa.
Born in Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis., July 30,
1865.
Newspaper
publisher; lawyer; U.S. Minister to Santo Domingo, 1904-07; Colombia, 1907-09; Chile, 1909; Panama, 1910; U.S. Consul General in Santo Domingo, 1904-07.
Presbyterian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 1,
1912 (age 46 years, 276
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Laurent de Give (1828-1910) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Belgium,
January
31, 1828.
Lawyer; Consul
for Belgium in Atlanta,
Ga., 1860-1905; opera
house proprietor; movie
theater owner.
Catholic.
Belgian
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in Rockledge, Brevard
County, Fla., March
17, 1910 (age 82 years, 45
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Terence J. Delahunty —
also known as Terry Delahunty —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Lawyer; Honorary
Consul for Ireland in Orlando,
Fla., 2017.
Still living as of 2017.
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Mary Dolores Welch Denman (c.1932-2000) —
also known as M. Dolores Denman —
of New York.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., about 1932.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1978; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1979-2000; Justice of the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme Court, 1981-2000.
Female.
Catholic.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., 2000
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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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 Jabez
Huntington, Luther
Waterman and Joshua
Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Coit
family of New London, Connecticut (subset 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 — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate
Presidents [anthology] |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart (b. 1954) —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Havana (La Habana), Cuba,
August
13, 1954.
Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1987-89; defeated (Democratic),
1982; member of Florida
state senate, 1989-92; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Florida, 1992;
U.S.
Representative from Florida 21st District, 1993-.
Catholic.
Cuban
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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LaVern Ralph Dilweg (1903-1968) —
also known as LaVern R. Dilweg —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
1, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; played on the Green Bay Packers football
team, 1927-34; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 8th District, 1943-45; defeated,
1944; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1950.
Member, Lions; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Member, Wisconsin Sports Hall of
Fame.
Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., January
2, 1968 (age 64 years, 62
days).
Interment at Fort
Howard Memorial Park, Green Bay, Wis.
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John Charles Doerfer (1904-1992) —
also known as John C. Doerfer —
of West Allis, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
30, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer; member, Federal Communications Commission,
1953-60; chair, Federal Communications Commission, 1957-60; in 1960,
he spent a week-long Florida vacation on the yacht Lazy Girl,
owned by his friend George B. Storer, president of Storer
Broadcasting; as a result, he was accused of conflict
of interest and forced to
resign.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 5,
1992 (age 87 years, 188
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Hoyt Dominick (1915-1981) —
also known as Peter H. Dominick —
of Englewood, Arapahoe
County, Colo.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 7,
1915.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World
War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1957-61; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1961-63; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1963-75; defeated, 1974; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1964,
1972
(delegation chair); U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1975.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Hobe Sound, Martin
County, Fla., March
18, 1981 (age 65 years, 254
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Joseph M. Doty (1820-1868) —
of Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Fernandina (now part of Fernandina Beach), Nassau
County, Fla.
Born in Martinsburg, Lewis
County, N.Y., April, 1820.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; postmaster at Ogdensburg,
N.Y., 1845-47.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 19,
1868 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Downing (d. 1845) —
of St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla.
Born in Virginia.
Lawyer; member
Florida territorial council, 1837; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1837-41.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., 1845.
Interment at Huguenot
Cemetery, St. Augustine, Fla.
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John Hugh Dyer Jr. —
also known as Buddy Dyer —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida
state senate, 1993-2003; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1996,
2004,
2008;
candidate for Florida
state attorney general, 2002; mayor
of Orlando, Fla., 2003-05, 2005-; indicted
March 10, 2005, for illegally paying
a campaign worker to collect
absentee ballots in the 2004 mayoral election; suspended
from office as mayor; on April 20, the charges were dropped, and he
was reinstated; Democratic Presidential Elector for Florida, 2012
(voted for Barack
Obama and Joseph
R. Biden, Jr.).
Member, Order of
the Coif; Phi
Delta Phi.
Still living as of 2012.
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