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William Charles Adamson (1854-1929) —
also known as William C. Adamson —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga.
Born in Bowdon, Carroll
County, Ga., August
13, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
city judge in Georgia, 1885-89; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1897-1917; Judge
of U.S. Customs Court, 1926-28.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arcanum; Knights of Pythias.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1929 (age 74 years, 143
days).
Interment at Carrollton
City Cemetery, Carrollton, Ga.
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Ivan Earnest Allen, Sr. (b. 1877) —
also known as Ivan Allen —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Dalton, Whitfield
County, Ga., March 1,
1877.
Democrat. Business
executive; member of Georgia
state senate, 1919-21; treasurer of
Georgia Democratic Party, 1936; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Georgia; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights of Pythias; Elks; Rotary;
Moose.
Gave Fort Mountain to the state of Georgia.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Earnest Allen and Susan Reese (Harris) Allen; married 1908 to Irene
Beaumont; father of Ivan
Earnest Allen Jr.. |
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William Thomas Anderson (b. 1871) —
also known as W. T. Anderson —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Hayneville, Houston
County, Ga., August
21, 1871.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1916.
Member, Knights of Pythias; Elks; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Christopher Cohen Anderson and Laura (Tooke) Anderson; married to
Elizabeth Griswold. |
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William Julius Barker (1886-1968) —
also known as William J. Barker —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Bartow, Polk
County, Fla.; Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., June 25,
1886.
Lawyer;
circuit judge in Florida, 1925-40; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1940-59;
took senior status 1959.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias.
Died April
13, 1968 (age 81 years, 293
days).
Interment somewhere
in Tampa, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of William Dobbs Barker and Kate (Agricola) Barker; married, October
20, 1916, to Pauline Eleanor Bigham. |
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Reason Chesnutt Bell (b. 1880) —
also known as R. C. Bell —
of Cairo, Grady
County, Ga.
Born in Webster
County, Ga., January
28, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1921-22; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1922-32; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1932-43, 1946-49; appointed 1932; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1943-46.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Reason Alexander Bell and Martha (Elliott) Bell; married, January
28, 1908, to Jennie Vereen; father of Vereen McNeill
Bell. |
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John William Bennett (b. 1865) —
also known as John W. Bennett —
of Waycross, Ware
County, Ga.
Born in Wayne
County, Ga., September
15, 1865.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1892-96; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1900;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, 1919-22.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John T. Bennett and Rebecca Jane (Akins) Bennett; married, December
31, 1889, to Gertrude Price. |
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Charles Hillyer Brand (1861-1933) —
also known as Charles H. Brand —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Loganville, Walton
County, Ga., April
20, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1894-95; superior court judge in Georgia, 1906-17;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1917-33 (8th District 1917-33, 10th
District 1933); died in office 1933.
Presbyterian.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Redmen;
Elks; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., May 17,
1933 (age 72 years, 27
days).
Interment at Shadowlawn
Cemetery, Lawrenceville, Ga.
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William Gordon Brantley (1860-1934) —
also known as William G. Brantley —
of Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Blackshear, Pierce
County, Ga., September
18, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1884-85; member of Georgia
state senate, 1886-87; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 11th District, 1897-1913; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
11, 1934 (age 73 years, 358
days).
Interment at Blackshear
Cemetery, Blackshear, Ga.
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John Slaughter Candler (1861-1941) —
also known as John S. Candler —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Villa Rica, Carroll
County, Ga., October
22, 1861.
Democrat. Superior court judge in Georgia, 1896-1902; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1902-06; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1912.
Methodist.
Member, Knights of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Fulton
County, Ga., December
9, 1941 (age 80 years, 48
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Edward Eugene Cox (1880-1952) —
also known as Edward E. Cox —
of Camilla, Mitchell
County, Ga.
Born near Camilla, Mitchell
County, Ga., April 3,
1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1908,
1936,
1952;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1912-16; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1925-52; defeated,
1916; died in office 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., December
24, 1952 (age 72 years, 265
days).
Interment at Oakview
Cemetery, Camilla, Ga.
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Charles Robert Crisp (1870-1937) —
also known as Charles R. Crisp —
of Americus, Sumter
County, Ga.
Born in Ellaville, Schley
County, Ga., October
19, 1870.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1896-97, 1913-32; city
judge in Georgia, 1900-11; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1928;
Parliamentarian, 1912.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Died in Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., February
7, 1937 (age 66 years, 111
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Americus, Ga.
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John Saxton Daniel (b. 1889) —
also known as J. Saxton Daniel —
of Claxton, Evans
County, Ga.; Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Hagan, Evans
County, Ga., October
15, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
solicitor general, Atlantic Judicial Circuit, 1919-27; superior court
judge in Georgia, 1927-33; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, 1933-53.
Primitive
Baptist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Chadburn Daniel and Nancy (Brewton) Daniel; married, April
15, 1915, to Annie Elizabeth Brinson. |
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Benjamin Jefferson Davis (b. 1870) —
also known as Ben J. Davis; "Big
Ben" —
of Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., May 27,
1870.
Republican. Bricklayer;
school
teacher; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia,
1896
(alternate), 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1940
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1944;
member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1924-28.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Franklin George (1878-1957) —
also known as Walter F. George —
of Vienna, Dooly
County, Ga.
Born near Preston, Webster
County, Ga., January
29, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1912-16; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1917; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1917-21; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1922-57; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1936,
1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Elks; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died in Vienna, Dooly
County, Ga., August
4, 1957 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at Vienna
Cemetery, Vienna, Ga.
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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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Henry Lincoln Johnson (1870-1925) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 27,
1870.
Republican. Blacksmith;
lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1912-16; member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1920-24.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Pythias; Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, and died a few days later in Freedmen's Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., September
10, 1925 (age 55 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, September
28, 1903, to Georgia Douglas Camp. |
| | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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James Lee Key (1867-1939) —
also known as James L. Key —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in DeKalb
County, Ga., July 27,
1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1919-23, 1931-37.
Methodist.
Member, Knights of Pythias; Elks; Redmen.
Died in 1939
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Terrell Key and Rhoda (Carroll) Key; married, June 20,
1906, to Ela Tillman. |
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William Washington Larsen (1871-1938) —
also known as William W. Larsen —
of Dublin, Laurens
County, Ga.
Born in Hagan, Evans
County, Ga., August
12, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1914-15; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 12th District, 1917-33.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias.
Died January
5, 1938 (age 66 years, 146
days).
Interment at Northview
Cemetery, Dublin, Ga.
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Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich., 1889-93; member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Presbyterian.
English,
French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma
Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April
11, 1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
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Emmett Marshall Owen (1877-1939) —
also known as Emmett M. Owen —
of Zebulon, Pike
County, Ga.; Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga.
Born near Hollonville, Pike
County, Ga., October
19, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer; fruit
farmer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1902-06; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1933-39; died in office
1939.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights of Pythias; Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1939 (age 61 years, 245
days).
Interment at East
View Cemetery, Zebulon, Ga.
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Choice Boswell Randell (1857-1945) —
also known as Choice B. Randell —
of Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex.
Born near Spring Place, Murray
County, Ga., January
1, 1857.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1901-13 (5th District 1901-03, 4th
District 1903-13).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias.
Died in Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., October
19, 1945 (age 88 years, 291
days).
Interment at West
Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Tex.
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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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Richard Brevard Russell (1861-1938) —
also known as Richard B. Russell —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Russell, Bartow
County, Ga.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., April
27, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; newspaper
editor; president, Hoschton Telephone
Co.; organizer, Athens Street
Railway Co.; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-88; circuit judge in
Georgia, 1898-1906; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1906; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1907-16; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1923-38; died in office 1938.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum.
Died December
3, 1938 (age 77 years, 220
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.
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Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (1906-1994) —
also known as Robert L. F. Sikes —
of Crestview, Okaloosa
County, Fla.
Born in Isabella, Worth
County, Ga., June 3,
1906.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1937-40; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1941-44, 1945-79 (3rd District
1941-44, 1945-63, 1st District 1963-79); resigned 1944; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1956
(delegation chair).
Methodist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grotto;
Knights of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Military
Order of the World Wars; Phi
Kappa Phi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Alpha
Zeta; Alpha
Gamma Rho; Elks.
Reprimanded
by the House of Representatives in 1976 over conflicts
of interest.
Died while suffering from Alzheimer's
disease, September
28, 1994 (age 88 years, 117
days).
Interment at Liveoak
Park Memorial Cemetery, Crestview, Fla.
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Clifford Mitchell Walker (1877-1954) —
also known as Clifford M. Walker —
of Monroe, Walton
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., July 4,
1877.
Democrat. Mayor, Monroe, Ga., 1902-04; board chairman, Bank of
Monroe; Georgia
state attorney general, 1915-20; Governor of
Georgia, 1923-27; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1928.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights of Pythias; Freemasons;
Ku Klux
Klan; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., November
9, 1954 (age 77 years, 128
days).
Interment at Old
Baptist Cemetery, Near Monroe, Walton County, Ga.
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Eric Alexander Zelius (1859-1926) —
also known as Alex E. Zelius —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Norway,
May
20, 1859.
Ship
chandler; wholesale
grocer; Vice-Consul
for Netherlands in Pensacola,
Fla., 1896-1902.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Knights of Pythias.
Died in a hospital
at Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., August
21, 1926 (age 67 years, 93
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.
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