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Samuel Barnard Adams (1853-1938) —
also known as Samuel B. Adams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
8, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director, Citizens and Southern National Bank;
director, Bibb Manufacturing
Company; director, Southwestern Railroad; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1902.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
20, 1938 (age 84 years, 193
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William B. Adams and Laleah (Pratt) Adams; married, December
19, 1877, to Annie Wynn. |
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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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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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James Stoddard Boynton (1833-1902) —
of Griffin, Spalding
County, Ga.
Born in Henry
County, Ga., May 7,
1833.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; county judge in
Georgia, 1866-68; mayor
of Griffin, Ga., 1869-72; member of Georgia
state senate, 1880-84; Governor of
Georgia, 1883; circuit judge in Georgia, 1886-93; counsel,
Central Railway of Georgia.
Died December
22, 1902 (age 69 years, 229
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Ga.
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Morris Brandon (1862-1940) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Dover, Stewart
County, Tenn., April
13, 1862.
Democrat. Lawyer;
general counsel, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1898.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Delta Theta.
Died February
13, 1940 (age 77 years, 306
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathan Brandon and Minerva Elizabeth (Morris) Brandon; married, June 1,
1892, to Harriet Inman. |
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Armstead Brown (1875-1951) —
also known as Thomas Armstead Brown —
of Lafayette, Chambers
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Talbotton, Talbot
County, Ga., June 6,
1875.
Lawyer;
Chambers
County Solicitor, 1898-1902; municipal judge in Alabama, 1911-15;
general solicitor, Florida East Coast Railway, and Florida
East Coast Hotel
Co.; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1925-46; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1925-26.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Kiwanis.
Died October
29, 1951 (age 76 years, 145
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Allen Daniel Candler (1834-1910) —
also known as Allen D. Candler; "The One-Eyed
Ploughboy from Pigeon Roost" —
of Jonesboro, Clayton
County, Ga.; Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Auraria, Lumpkin
County, Ga., November
4, 1834.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
the battle of Jonesboro, 1864, he was wounded, and lost an
eye; railroad president; mayor
of Gainesville, Ga., 1872; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1873-77; member of Georgia
state senate, 1878-79; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1883-91; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1894-98; Governor of
Georgia, 1898-1902.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., October
26, 1910 (age 75 years, 356
days).
Interment at Alta
Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga.
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William Dudley Chipley (1840-1897) —
also known as W. D. Chipley —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., June 6,
1840.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
fought against Reconstruction
along with other members of the Ku Klux
Klan; he was among those implicated
in the murder
of George
W. Ashburn in in 1868; tried in
a military court, but Georgia's re-admission to the Union ended
military jurisdiction, so he and his co-defendants were released;
general manager of the Pensacola Railroad; successfully
promoted the construction of the Pensacola and Atlanta
Railroad in 1881-83; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1884,
1892;
mayor
of Pensacola, Fla., 1887-88; member of Florida
state senate, 1895-97.
Died in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., December
1, 1897 (age 57 years, 178
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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Benjamin F. Conley (1815-1886) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., March 1,
1815.
Republican. Mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1857-59; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1868; member of Georgia
state senate, 1870-71; Governor of
Georgia, 1871-72; president, Macon and Augusta Railroad;
postmaster at Atlanta,
Ga., 1875-83; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Georgia, 1876.
Died in West End (now part of Atlanta), Fulton
County, Ga., January
10, 1886 (age 70 years, 315
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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Robert Wyche Davis (1849-1929) —
also known as Robert W. Davis —
of Palatka, Putnam
County, Fla.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born near Albany, Lee
County, Ga., March
15, 1849.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1884-85; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1885; general
attorney, Florida Southern Railroad; U.S.
Representative from Florida 2nd District, 1897-1905; mayor
of Gainesville, Fla., 1924-25.
Died in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., September
15, 1929 (age 80 years, 184
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gainesville, Fla.
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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 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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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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William Washington Gordon (1796-1842) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Screven
County, Ga., January
17, 1796.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1834-36; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1835; member of Georgia
state senate, 1838; founder and president of the Central
Railroad and Banking Co.
Died, from bilious
pleurisy, in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
22, 1842 (age 46 years, 64
days).
Original interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; reinterment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; memorial monument at Wright
Square, Savannah, Ga.
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William Washington Gordon (1834-1912) —
also known as W. W. Gordon —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in 1834.
Cotton
merchant; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
director, Central Railroad of Georgia; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1884-90; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Died in 1912
(age about
78 years).
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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William Smith Herndon (1835-1903) —
also known as William S. Herndon —
of Tyler, Smith
County, Tex.
Born in Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., November
27, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; attorney,
advisor, and solicitor for several railroad companies; U.S.
Representative from Texas 1st District, 1871-75; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1876,
1880.
Died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., October
11, 1903 (age 67 years, 318
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tyler, Tex.
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Edward Dwight Holton (1815-1892) —
also known as Edward D. Holton —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., April
28, 1815.
Abolitionist; wheat
trader; Liberty candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1845; founder,
Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railroad; banker;
Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1853; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin,
1856;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Milwaukee County 4th District, 1860.
Died, from malaria
and erysipelas,
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., April
21, 1892 (age 76 years, 359
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Relatives:
Married, October
14, 1845, to Lucinda Millard. |
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of Holton,
Kansas, is named for
him. — Holton Hall, at the University
of Wisconsin Milwaukee,
is named for
him. — Holton Street,
in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Dudley Mays Hughes (1848-1927) —
also known as Dudley M. Hughes —
of Danville, Wilkinson
County, Ga.
Born in Jeffersonville, Twiggs
County, Ga., October
10, 1848.
Democrat. Farmer;
railroad president; member of Georgia
state senate, 1882-83; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1909-17 (3rd District 1909-13, 12th
District 1913-17).
Baptist.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
20, 1927 (age 78 years, 102
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Perry, Ga.
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Hugh Judge Jewett (1817-1898) —
also known as Hugh Jewett —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Harford
County, Md., July 1,
1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1853; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1855-56; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1855, 1868-69; railroad
president; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1861; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1873-74; defeated, 1860
(16th District), 1870 (7th District); resigned 1874; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1880.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., March 6,
1898 (age 80 years, 248
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio.
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Alexander Campbell King (1856-1926) —
also known as Alexander C. King —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
7, 1856.
Lawyer;
attorney for railroads; U.S. Solicitor General, 1918-20; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1920-25.
Died in Flat Rock, Henderson
County, N.C., July 26,
1926 (age 69 years, 231
days).
Entombed at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of J. Gadsden King and Caroline Clifford (Postell) King; married to
Alice May Fowler. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Alexander Robert Lawton (1818-1896) —
also known as Alexander R. Lawton —
of Georgia.
Born in St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort District (now part of Beaufort
County), S.C., November
4, 1818.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Augusta and Savannah Railroad, 1849-54; member of
Georgia
state house of representatives, 1855-56, 1870-75; member of Georgia
state senate, 1860; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1876; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1880,
1884;
U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-89.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Clifton Springs, Ontario
County, N.Y., July 2,
1896 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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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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Edwin McNeill (born c.1858) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., about 1858.
Republican. Railroad superintendent; member of Connecticut
state senate 20th District, 1889-90.
Burial location unknown.
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Jonathan Norcross (1808-1898) —
of Atlanta, DeKalb County (now Fulton
County), Ga.
Born in Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine, 1808.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; sawmill
operator; mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1851-52; president, Georgia Air Line
Railway; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1876.
Died in 1898
(age about
90 years).
Burial location unknown.
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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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