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Robert Augustus Alston (1832-1879) —
also known as Robert A. Alston —
of DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., 1832.
Lawyer;
farmer;
newspaper publisher; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1878-79; died in office 1879.
Methodist.
A farmer named Ed Cox, angry over the sale of a prison labor lease
which Alston had negotiated, armed himself, announced he would kill
Alston, sought him in the Georgia state
capitol building, and found him in the State Treasurer's office.
Both men drew their pistols. Alston was mortally wounded by a shot to
the head, and died later that day, in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March
11, 1879 (age about 46
years). Cox was also shot and injured, but recovered, was
convicted of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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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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A. T. Atwater (born c.1873) —
of Rome, Floyd
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, about 1873.
Republican. Newspaper editor; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Georgia, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1932,
1948.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac Wheeler Avery (1837-1897) —
of Dalton, Whitfield
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., May 2,
1837.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; founder and
editor, Atlanta Constitution newspaper; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1872;
secretary
of Georgia Democratic Party, 1872.
Died in 1897
(age about
60 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1868 to Emma
Bivings. |
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Washington Montgomery Bartlett (1824-1887) —
also known as Washington Bartlett —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
29, 1824.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
journalist; newspaper publisher; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1883-87; Governor of
California, 1887; died in office 1887.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., September
12, 1887 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Stephen Bolles (1866-1941) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Janesville, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in Springboro, Crawford
County, Pa., June 25,
1866.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor and
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Wisconsin, 1928;
member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1936; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis;
Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 8,
1941 (age 75 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
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Benjamin Franklin Bomar (1816-1868) —
also known as Benjamin F. Bomar —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., August
9, 1816.
Physician;
newspaper publisher; mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1849-50; served in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Died February
1, 1868 (age 51 years, 176
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Cardwell (1837-1890) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga., January
28, 1837.
Newspaper editor; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1885-89.
Died, of heart
disease, in Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., April
17, 1890 (age 53 years, 79
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Hull Carlton (1835-1905) —
also known as Henry H. Carlton —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., May 12,
1835.
Democrat. Physician;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1873-77, 1899; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1876;
newspaper editor and publisher; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1884-85; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1887-91.
Died in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., October
26, 1905 (age 70 years, 167
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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James Garneth Carter (b. 1877) —
also known as James G. Carter —
of Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., December
15, 1877.
Merchant
tailor; letter
carrier; newspaper manager; U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1906-16; Tananarive, 1916-27; Calais, 1927-40; Bordeaux, 1940; U.S. Consul General in Tananarive, 1941-42.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Oscar Branch Colquitt (1861-1940) —
also known as Oscar B. Colquitt —
of Pittsburg, Camp
County, Tex.; Terrell, Kaufman
County, Tex.
Born in Camilla, Mitchell
County, Ga., December
16, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; oil
business; member of Texas
state senate 9th District, 1895-98; Governor of
Texas, 1911-15; defeated, 1906; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1916; member, U.S. Board of Railway Labor
Mediation.
Methodist.
Died March 8,
1940 (age 78 years, 83
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Alfred Cuthbert (1788-1881) —
also known as John A. Cuthbert —
of Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., June 3,
1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1811-13, 1817; member of Georgia
state senate, 1814-15; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1819-21; newspaper
editor and publisher.
Slaveowner.
Died in Mon Louis Island, Mobile
County, Ala., September
22, 1881 (age 93 years, 111
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Mobile County, Ala.
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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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Braswell Drue Deen (1893-1981) —
also known as Braswell Deen —
of Alma, Bacon
County, Ga.
Born near Baxley, Appling
County, Ga., June 28,
1893.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; president,
South Georgia Junior College, 1924-27; newspaper editor; real estate
developer; banker; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1933-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1940.
Methodist.
Died in Alma, Bacon
County, Ga., November
28, 1981 (age 88 years, 153
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Alma, Ga.
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Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) —
also known as Harry S. Edwards —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April
23, 1855.
Republican. Newspaper editor; author;
postmaster at Macon,
Ga., 1900-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Georgia, 1904;
Proleague Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1920.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., October
22, 1938 (age 83 years, 182
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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James Thomas Elliott (1823-1875) —
also known as James T. Elliott —
of Arkansas.
Born in Monroe
County, Ga., April
22, 1823.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River Railroad,
1858; circuit judge in Arkansas, 1865-66; newspaper editor; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 2nd District, 1869; defeated, 1868;
member of Arkansas
state senate, 1870; district judge in Arkansas 9th District,
1872-74.
Died in Camden, Ouachita
County, Ark., July 28,
1875 (age 52 years, 97
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Camden, Ark.
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John Holbrook Estill (1840-1907) —
also known as John H. Estill —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., October
28, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
newspaper editor; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1888; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1902.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., November
9, 1907 (age 67 years, 12
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Relatives:
Married, October
10, 1865, to Marion Virginia Thomson; married, June 30,
1895, to Ida Holbrook; married, March
21, 1897, to Maude Augustin Hill. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1902 |
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John Forsyth Jr. (1812-1877) —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.; Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., October
31, 1812.
Democrat. U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, 1835-38;
postmaster at Columbus,
Ga., 1845-49; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
newspaper editor; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1856-58; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1859; mayor of
Mobile, Ala., 1861, 1865.
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., May 2,
1877 (age 64 years, 183
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Forsyth and Clara (Meigs) Forsyth; married 1834 to
Margaret Hull; nephew of Henry
Meigs; grandson of Josiah
Meigs; grandnephew of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; first cousin of Henry
Meigs Jr.; first cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr.; second cousin of Return
Jonathan Meigs III; second cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden; second cousin twice removed of Timothy
Pitkin; third cousin of Chittenden
Lyon; third cousin once removed of William
Whiting Boardman and Benjamin
Lewis Fairchild; fourth cousin of John
Willard; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills, William
Woodbridge, Bela
Edgerton, Isaac
Backus, Heman
Ticknor, Martin
Olds, Eliphalet
Adams Bulkeley, John
Leslie Russell, Henry
Titus Backus, Joshua
Perkins, Roger
Calvin Leete and Mabel
Thorp Boardman. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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James T. Gardiner —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Newspaper publisher; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1866; resigned 1866.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Rueben Gibson (1857-1896) —
also known as Thomas R. Gibson —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born July 5,
1857.
Newspaper editor; U.S. Consul in Beirut, 1893-96, died in office 1896.
Died in Beirut, Lebanon,
September
20, 1896 (age 39 years, 77
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Beirut, Lebanon.
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Fleming Grantland (c.1790-1819) —
of Georgia.
Born about 1790.
Newspaper editor; served in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; member of Georgia
state senate, 1810.
Died January
28, 1819 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Seaton Grantland (1782-1864) —
of Georgia.
Born in New Kent
County, Va., June 8,
1782.
Whig. Newspaper editor; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1835-39; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia.
Slaveowner.
Died near Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., October
18, 1864 (age 82 years, 132
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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John Temple Graves (1856-1925) —
of Florida; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Willington, Abbeville District (now McCormick
County), S.C., November
9, 1856.
Newspaper editor; orator;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia; Independence candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1908; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
8, 1925 (age 68 years, 272
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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James H. Gray (1915-1986) —
of Albany, Dougherty
County, Ga.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., May 17,
1915.
Democrat. Editor and publisher of the Albany Herald newspaper;
owner of WALB radio and
television stations; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
Georgia
Democratic state chair, 1960; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1966; mayor of
Albany, Ga., 1974-86; died in office 1986.
Died, following a heart
attack, at the New England Medical
Center, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
19, 1986 (age 71 years, 125
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Jefferson Hamilton (b. 1885) —
also known as Thomas J. Hamilton —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Grovetown, Columbia
County, Ga., November
20, 1885.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor;
director, Georgia and Florida Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1924,
1928;
postmaster at Augusta,
Ga., 1933-37 (acting, 1933-34).
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Thomas
Jefferson |
| | | Relatives: Son of William Winslow
Hamilton and Kate Fleming (Mosly) Hamilton; married, June 10,
1908, to Daisye Ramsey. |
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Robert Harwell Henley (1843-1873) —
also known as Robert Henley —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Demopolis, Marengo
County, Ala., January
20, 1843.
Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1871-73; appointed 1871; died in office 1873.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., April
22, 1873 (age 30 years, 92
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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Hopkins Holsey (1779-1859) —
of Georgia.
Born in Campbell
County, Va., August
25, 1779.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1835-39; newspaper
publisher.
Slaveowner.
Died in Butler, Taylor
County, Ga., March
31, 1859 (age 79 years, 218
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Taylor County, Ga.
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Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) —
also known as Milford W. Howard —
of Fort Payne, DeKalb
County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., February
18, 1862.
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99; novelist;
appeared as an actor
in a silent
movie based on one of his novels; one of the editors of the
conservative magazine The Awakener in the 1930s.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sallie
Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
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Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; St. Georges, Bermuda;
Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., August
21, 1757.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; acting president,
University of Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14;
Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
4, 1822 (age 65 years, 14
days).
Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1878
at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; married 1782 to Clara
Benjamin; father of Henry
Meigs and Clara Meigs (who married John
Forsyth); uncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather of Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; granduncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden
Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John
Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha
Hunt Allen, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur
Morris, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg and Charles
Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
H. Eastman, William
Fessenden Allen, Rush
Green Leaming, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, Alvred
Bayard Nettleton, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Charles
M. Hotchkiss, Frederick
Hobbes Allen, Allen
Clarence Wilcox and Carl
Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Meigs,
Georgia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William M. Olin (1845-1911) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, Ga., September
18, 1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
newspaper reporter; secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1891-1911; died in office 1911.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
15, 1911 (age 65 years, 209
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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George Washington Paschal (1812-1878) —
also known as George W. Paschal; Lorenzo Columbus George
Washington Paschal —
of Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Greene
County, Ga., November
23, 1812.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1840; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas at-large, 1846; candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 1850; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1868.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1878 (age 65 years, 85
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton (1850-1914) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Effingham
County, Ga., June 26,
1850.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of Georgia state
legislature, 1882-83; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1912
(speaker).
Swedenborgian.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
16, 1914 (age 63 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hugh Peterson Jr. (1898-1961) —
of Ailey, Montgomery
County, Ga.
Born near Ailey, Montgomery
County, Ga., August
21, 1898.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Montgomery County, 1923-31;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1931-32; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1935-47.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Sylva, Jackson
County, N.C., October
3, 1961 (age 63 years, 43
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Montgomery County, Ga.
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Virginia Polhill Price (b. 1896) —
also known as Virginia Polhill —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., February
4, 1896.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1936-40; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1940.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Rufus Gordon Price. |
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Paul Edward Rapier (1875-1937) —
also known as Paul E. Rapier —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Alabama, August
28, 1875.
Democrat. Newspaper advertising manager; alternate delegate to
Gold Democrat National Convention from Alabama, 1896; Consul
for Costa Rica in Mobile,
Ala., 1900-07; accountant.
Died, from pneumonia
and diphtheria,
along with myocarditis,
in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
18, 1937 (age 61 years, 143
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Eurith Dickinson Rivers (1895-1967) —
also known as E. D. Rivers —
of Lakeland, Lanier
County, Ga.; Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga.
Born in Center Point, Howard
County, Ark., December
1, 1895.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Governor of
Georgia, 1937-41; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1939-47; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1940.
Died in Lakeland, Lanier
County, Ga., June 11,
1967 (age 71 years, 192
days).
Entombed at City
Cemetery, Lakeland, Ga.
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Benjamin Edward Russell (1845-1909) —
also known as Benjamin E. Russell —
of Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga.
Born in Monticello, Jefferson
County, Fla., October
5, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
newspaper editor; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1880;
mayor
of Bainbridge, Ga., 1881-82; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-83; postmaster at Bainbridge,
Ga., 1885-90; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1893-97.
Died in Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga., December
4, 1909 (age 64 years, 60
days).
Interment at Oak
City Cemetery, Bainbridge, Ga.
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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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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
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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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Michael Hoke Smith (1855-1931) —
also known as M. Hoke Smith —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Newton, Catawba
County, N.C., September
2, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1893-96; Governor of
Georgia, 1907-09, 1911; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1911-21.
Presbyterian.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
27, 1931 (age 76 years, 86
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Patrick Walsh (1840-1899) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Ballingarry, County Limerick, Ireland,
January
1, 1840.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1872-76; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1880,
1884;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1894-95; mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1897-99; died in office 1899.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., March
19, 1899 (age 59 years, 77
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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