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Wyatt Aiken (1863-1923) —
of Abbeville, Abbeville
County, S.C.
Born near Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
14, 1863.
Democrat. Farmer;
stenographer; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1903-17;
defeated, 1916, 1918.
Died in Abbeville, Abbeville
County, S.C., February
6, 1923 (age 59 years, 54
days).
Interment at Melrose
Cemetery, Abbeville, S.C.
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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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Thomas Montgomery Bell (1861-1941) —
also known as Thomas M. Bell —
of Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Nachoochee Valley, White
County, Ga., March
17, 1861.
Democrat. Traveling salesman; Hall
County Superior Court Clerk, 1898-1905; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1905-31.
Methodist.
Died in Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga., March
18, 1941 (age 80 years, 1
days).
Interment at Alta
Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga.
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Edwin Ford Blodgett (1849-1912) —
also known as Edwin F. Blodgett —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 10,
1849.
Republican. Railway
conductor; purchasing agent; postmaster at Atlanta,
Ga., 1902-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Georgia, 1908.
Baptist.
Died, from cirrhosis of
the liver, in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., October
3, 1912 (age 63 years, 85
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Foster Blodgett Jr. (1826-1877) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., January
15, 1826.
Republican. Bridgekeeper; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1859-61, 1867-68; defeated, 1861; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; postmaster at Augusta,
Ga., 1865-69; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1868.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
12, 1877 (age 51 years, 301
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Henry Farrington (1863-1909) —
also known as John H. Farrington —
of Punta Gorda, De Soto County (now Charlotte
County), Fla.
Born in Waldoboro, Lincoln
County, Maine, November
7, 1863.
Private secretary to Sherman Conant, general manager, Florida
Southern Railway;
orange
grower; banker; Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Punta
Gorda, Fla., 1896-98; deputy collector of customs.
Died in Punta Gorda, De Soto County (now Charlotte
County), Fla., January
8, 1909 (age 45 years, 62
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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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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Owen W. Gaines (b. 1897) —
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., December
7, 1897.
Office clerk; paymaster of a railroad
in Honduras; U.S. Vice Consul in Nuevitas, 1925-26; Nassau, 1926; Corinto, 1926-28; Madrid, 1928-29, 1929; Oporto, 1929; Bilbao, 1929-33; Santiago de Cuba, as of 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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Bill S. Huffman (b. 1924) —
of Madison Heights, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Estelle, Walker
County, Ga., December
27, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; sales
representative; mayor
of Madison Heights, Mich., 1961-63; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-74 (Oakland County 6th
District 1963-64, 66th District 1965-74); defeated in primary, 1956;
member of Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1975-82; resigned 1982; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1980.
Protestant.
Member, Kiwanis.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Lester L. Schnare (b. 1884) —
of Fitzgerald, Ben Hill
County, Ga.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Washington,
D.C.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Mondovi, Buffalo
County, Wis., May 15,
1884.
School
teacher; newspaper
editor; stenographer; U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1916-17; Canton, 1917-18; Yokohama, 1918; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, 1920, 1921; Kobe, 1920-21, 1921-22; Swatow, 1922-23; Cartagena, 1923-27; Breslau, 1927-31; Hamburg, 1931-35; Milan, 1935-38.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry W. Schnare and Anna M. (Hefling) Schnare; married, September
29, 1919, to Margaret B. Kloss. |
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