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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual
misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape;
he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad
Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Md.
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Bond Almand (1894-1985) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Lithonia, DeKalb
County, Ga., January
13, 1894.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Fulton County, 1935-36;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1942-43, 1945-49; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1949-69; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1969-72.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Alpha Delta; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Junior
Order; Kiwanis.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 13,
1985 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander James Almand and Clara Emily (Bond) Almand; married, June 18,
1932, to Helen Whitefoot Barnett; grandson of William
Parks Bond. |
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Philip Henry Alston Jr. (1911-1988) —
also known as Philip H. Alston, Jr. —
of Sea Island, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., April
19, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; chairman of President Jimmy
Carter's campaign committee in 1976; U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 1977-81; Nauru, 1979-81.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 2,
1988 (age 76 years, 318
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jefferson Randolph Anderson (b. 1861) —
also known as J. Randolph Anderson —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
4, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for several railroads;
director, Savannah Bank and
Trust Co.; director, Savannah Electric &
Power Co.; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1905-06, 1909-12; member of Georgia
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1907-08; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1912
(speaker);
member of Georgia
state senate, 1913-14.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Clifford Anderson, Jr. and Jane Margaret (Randolph)
Anderson; married, November
27, 1895, to Anne Page Wilder. |
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Joseph Arnall (b. 1947) —
also known as Joe Arnall —
of Florida.
Born in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., February
14, 1947.
Republican. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 18th District, 1989-.
Episcopalian. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation.
Still living as of 1999.
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William Hale Barrett (1866-1941) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1866.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, 1922-41;
died in office 1941.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Rotary.
Died May 1,
1941 (age 74 years, 233
days).
Interment somewhere
in Augusta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hale Barrett and Susan (Rhind) Barrett; married, October
19, 1892, to Ella C. Barnes. |
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Benjamin Bentley Blackburn (b. 1927) —
also known as Benjamin B. Blackburn; Ben B.
Blackburn —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
14, 1927.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1967-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Optimist
Club.
Still living as of 1998.
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Paul C. Broun (1916-2005) —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Bogart, Oconee
County, Ga.
Born in Shellman, Randolph
County, Ga., March 1,
1916.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; merchant;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1963-2001.
Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Moose; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
Died February
14, 2005 (age 88 years, 350
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Devereux Byron (1895-1941) —
also known as William D. Byron —
of Williamsport, Washington
County, Md.
Born in Danville,
Va., May 15,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor of
Williamsport, Md., 1926-30; member of Maryland
state senate, 1930-34; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Episcopalian.
Killed in an airplane
crash at Jonesboro, Clayton
County, Ga., February
27, 1941 (age 45 years, 288
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Williamsport, Md.
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Howard Hollis Callaway (1927-2014) —
also known as Howard H. Callaway; Bo
Callaway —
of Pine Mountain, Harris
County, Ga.; Crested Butte, Gunnison
County, Colo.
Born in LaGrange, Troup
County, Ga., April 2,
1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1965-67; candidate for
Governor
of Georgia 1966, election inconclusive; member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1968-73; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia; Colorado
Republican state chair, 1981-87.
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Rotary.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., March
15, 2014 (age 86 years, 347
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) —
also known as John A. Campbell —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., June 24,
1811.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1837; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-61; Confederate States
Assistant Secretary of War, 1861-65; at the end of the Civil War, he
was suspected
of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln; arrested
in May 1865; held in detention for five months, but never charged;
released in October 1865.
Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., March
12, 1889 (age 77 years, 261
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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George H. Carley (b. 1938) —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., September
24, 1938.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1966; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1979-93; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1993-.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Elks; Rotary.
Still living as of 2014.
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Relatives: Son
of George L. Carley, Jr. and Dorothy (Holmes) Carley; married 1960 to Sandra
M. Lineberger. |
| | See also NNDB
dossier |
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Saxby Chambliss (b. 1943) —
of Moultrie, Colquitt
County, Ga.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., November
10, 1943.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1995-2003; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 2003-15.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2015.
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John Sanford Cohen (1870-1935) —
also known as John S. Cohen —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
26, 1870.
Democrat. Member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1924-; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1932-33.
Episcopalian. Jewish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 13,
1935 (age 65 years, 76
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Robert Beeman Conrad (1922-1981) —
also known as Robert B. Conrad —
of Genoa, Nance
County, Neb.
Born in Schuyler, Colfax
County, Neb., April 1,
1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nebraska, 1956;
administrative assistant to Gov. Ralph
Brooks, 1959-60; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1960; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1960.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
22, 1981 (age 58 years, 327
days).
Interment at Arlington
Memorial Park, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga.
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George Dent (1756-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., 1756.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1782-90; member of Maryland
state senate, 1791-92; state court judge in Maryland, 1791-95; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1793-1801.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., December
2, 1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Ga.
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Hooker Austin Doolittle (1889-1966) —
also known as Hooker A. Doolittle —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Tangier, Morocco.
Born in Mohawk, Herkimer
County, N.Y., January
27, 1889.
Automobile
accessories business; U.S. Vice Consul in Tiflis, 1917-21; Madras, 1921-23; Marseille, 1923-26; U.S. Consul in Bilbao, 1926-32; Tangier, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in Rabat, as of 1943; Alexandria, as of 1947.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Nu.
Died,from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Tangier, Morocco,
November
30, 1966 (age 77 years, 307
days).
Interment at St. Andrew Graveyard, Tangier, Morocco.
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George H. Edwards (1911-1980) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., February
13, 1911.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1955-78 (Wayne County 11th
District 1955-64, 12th District 1965-72, 9th District 1973-78).
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in 1980
(age about
69 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Howard Flowers Jr. (1913-2000) —
also known as W. H. 'Bill' Flowers, Jr. —
of Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga.
Born November
14, 1913.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1964-68.
Episcopalian.
President of Flowers Baking Company, and chief executive officer of
Flowers Industries.
Died in Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga., May 2,
2000 (age 86 years, 170
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Tillie Kidd Fowler (1942-2005) —
also known as Tillie K. Fowler; Tillie
Kidd —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., December
23, 1942.
Republican. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Robert
G. Stephens, Jr., 1967-70; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1993-2001; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Florida, 2004.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Junior
League.
Died, of a brain
hemorrhage, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., March 2,
2005 (age 62 years, 69
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian. French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
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| | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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William Mathis Gober (b. 1875) —
also known as William M. Gober —
of Ocala, Marion
County, Fla.; Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla.; Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Commerce, Jackson
County, Ga., July 29,
1875.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 1st District, 1916, 1922; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Florida, 1920
(alternate), 1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for Florida
state attorney general, 1920; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, 1921-29; candidate
for justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1924.
Episcopalian. Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William J. Gober and Clarisa (Embry) Gober; married, November
21, 1899, to Gussie E. Jackson. |
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Guy Despard Goff (1866-1933) —
also known as Guy D. Goff —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., September
13, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1911-15; colonel
in the U.S. Army during World War I; member, U.S. Shipping Board,
1920-21; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1925-31; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Died in Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga., January
7, 1933 (age 66 years, 116
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Philip Gramm (b. 1942) —
also known as Phil Gramm —
of College Station, Brazos
County, Tex.
Born in Fort Benning, Chattahoochee
County, Ga., July 8,
1942.
University
professor; U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1978-83, 1983-85;
resigned 1983; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1985-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1996.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Houstoun (1755-1813) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1755.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784-86; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
17, 1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Chapel, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Katherine Graham Howard (1898-1986) —
also known as Katherine G. Howard; Katherine Montague
Graham; Mrs. Charles P. Howard —
of Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Guyton, Effingham
County, Ga., September
30, 1898.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(Convention
Secretary; speaker),
1956
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1945-53; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1948-53.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, League of Women
Voters; Colonial
Dames.
Died in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., January
26, 1986 (age 87 years, 118
days).
Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, Mass.
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John Heddens Kingston (b. 1955) —
also known as Jack Kingston —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Bryan, Brazos
County, Tex., April
24, 1955.
Republican. Business
executive; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1985-93; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1993-2015; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 2014.
Episcopalian. Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha.
Still living as of 2015.
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Alexander Robert Lawton Jr. (b. 1884) —
also known as Alexander R. Lawton, Jr. —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., August
16, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
general solicitor, Central of Georgia Railway;
general solicitor, Ocean Steamship
Co. of Savannah; director, Colonial Oil
Company; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Chatham County, 1925-26.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Psi; American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) —
also known as William G. McAdoo —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., October
31, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner with William
McAdoo (no relation); attorney for railroads;
president, Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1908; member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1912; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920,
1924;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1932,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1933-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1937-39.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1941 (age 77 years, 93
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1849) and Mary Faith (Floyd) McAdoo;
married, November
18, 1885, to Sarah Houston Fleming; married, May 7,
1914, to Eleanor Randolph Wilson (daughter of Woodrow
Wilson and Ellen
Wilson); married, September
14, 1935, to Doris Isabel Cross; great-grandson of John
Floyd. |
| | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Byron
R. Newton — Nat
Rogan |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Federal
Reserve History |
| | Image source: Munsey's Magazine, May
1919 |
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George Anderson Mercer (1835-1907) —
also known as George A. Mercer —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1835.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Georgia state legislature, 1870; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1892.
Episcopalian.
Died from "congestion of the brain" (probably a stroke),
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., October
23, 1907 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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John Millen (1804-1843) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828, 1834-35, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843; died in office 1843.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., October
15, 1843 (age about 39
years).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Owen Hendricks Page Jr. (1915-1999) —
also known as Owen H. Page, Jr. —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., September
11, 1915.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Chatham County, 1949-52;
member of Georgia
state senate 1st District, 1955-56.
Methodist;
later Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Hospice
Savannah, Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
8, 1999 (age 83 years, 119
days).
Interment at Greenwich Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Joseph Palmer II (1914-1994) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; California.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 16,
1914.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Mexico City, 1940; Nairobi, 1941-45; U.S. Consul in London, 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1960-64; Libya, 1969.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1994
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Leigh Pierce (1740-1789) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in 1740.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1786; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1787; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
10, 1789 (age about 49
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Julian Larcombe Schley (1880-1965) —
of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone (now Panama).
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
23, 1880.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers;
Governor
of Panama Canal Zone, 1932-36.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Died March
29, 1965 (age 85 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jordan Schley and Eliza Ann (Larcombe) Schley; married, October
31, 1931, to Denise Vary. |
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Hugh P. Thompson —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1979-94; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1994-.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Jaycees;
Rotary.
Still living as of 2008.
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James Moore Wayne (1790-1867) —
also known as James M. Wayne —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1790.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1815-16; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1817-19; state court judge in Georgia, 1820-22;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1829-35; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1835-67; died in office 1867.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 5,
1867 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Richard Wayne (1804-1858) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., April 4,
1804.
Physician;
mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1844-45, 1848-51, 1852-53, 1857-58; died in
office 1858.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., June 27,
1858 (age 54 years, 84
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Maximilian Bethune Wellborn (1862-1957) —
also known as M. B. Wellborn —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Lewisville, Lafayette
County, Ark., January
22, 1862.
Democrat. President, First National Bank of
Anniston, 1905-14; director, Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad;
Calhoun
County Commissioner; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1912;
Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, 1919-28; member of Alabama
state senate, 1933-36; delegate
to Alabama convention to ratify 21st amendment from Calhoun
County, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Died in Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala., November
28, 1957 (age 95 years, 310
days).
Interment at Edgemont Cemetery, Anniston, Ala.
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Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) —
also known as "Fighting Joe" —
of Wheeler, Lawrence
County, Ala.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1836.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; planter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 8th District, 1881-82, 1885-1900;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the War of 1812.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
25, 1906 (age 69 years, 137
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Wheeler and Julia Knox (Hull) Wheeler; married, February
6, 1866, to Daniella Jones (granddaughter of Peter
Early); father of Thomas Harrison Wheeler. |
| | Wheeler County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | Wheeler Dam
(built 1933-36), on the Tennessee River in Lauderdale
and Lawrence
counties, Alabama, and the Wheeler Lake
reservoir, which extends into Limestone,
Morgan,
and Madison
counties, are named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
| | Image source: Men of Mark in America
(1906) |
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William Wayne Williamson (1854-1931) —
also known as William W. Williamson —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
1, 1854.
Cotton
exporter;
president, Savannah Cotton
Exchange, 1895-96; Vice-Consul
for Russia in Savannah,
Ga., 1902-03.
Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
29, 1931 (age 76 years, 209
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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North Winship (1885-1968) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
31, 1885.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Tahiti, 1910; Owen Sound, 1913-14; Petrograd, 1914-17; Milan, 1917-21; Bombay, 1921-22; Fiume, 1923-24; Cairo, 1924-27; U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, 1928-31; Toronto, as of 1943; Montreal, as of 1945-47; U.S. Minister to South Africa, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, 1949.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1968
(age about
82 years).
Entombed at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Bob Young (born c.1948) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born about 1948.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1999-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Georgia, 2000,
2004;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia.
Episcopalian. Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Vietnam
Veterans of America; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Still living as of 2004.
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