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Tazewell County
Illinois

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Tazewell County

Index to Locations Delavan Prairie Rest Cemetery Pekin Glendale Memorial Gardens Pekin Lakeside Cemetery Pekin St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery Washington Glendale Cemetery Prairie Rest Cemetery Delavan, Tazewell County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   Harry Howland Mason (1873-1946) — also known as Harry H. Mason — of Illinois. Born in McLean County, Ill., December 16, 1873. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Illinois 21st District, 1935-37. Died in a hospital at Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., March 10, 1946 (age 72 years, 84 days). Interment at Prairie Rest Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Glendale Memorial Gardens Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois Politicians buried here: Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) — also known as Everett M. Dirksen; "The Wizard of Ooze" — of Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill. Born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., January 4, 1896. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; merchant; U.S. Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1933-49; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1940 (alternate), 1948, 1952 (speaker), 1956 (speaker), 1960 (member, Credentials Committee), 1964 (delegation chair), 1968 (delegation chair); U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1951-69; died in office 1969. Christian Reformed. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Freemasons; Order of the Eastern Star; Shriners; Eagles; Elks; Moose; American Bar Association; Odd Fellows; Izaak Walton League. Died, of lung cancer, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., September 7, 1969 (age 73 years, 246 days). Interment at Glendale Memorial Gardens.   Relatives: Father of Joy Dirksen (who married Howard Henry Baker Jr.).   Political family: Baker-Dirksen family of Huntsville and Alcoa, Tennessee.   Cross-reference: Harold E. Rainville   The Dirksen Senate Office Building (opened 1958), in Washington, D.C., is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile   Books about Everett Dirksen: Byron C. Hulsey, Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics   Image source: U.S. postage stamp (1981) Lakeside Cemetery Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   Dietrich Conrad Smith (1840-1914) — also known as Dietrich C. Smith — of Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill. Born in Germany, April 4, 1840. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; banker; railroad builder; manufacturer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1876-78; U.S. Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1881-83; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1884. Died in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., April 18, 1914 (age 74 years, 14 days). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   George Leroy Saal (1918-1996) — also known as George L. Saal — of Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill. Born in Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., December 2, 1918. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; insurance business; Tazewell County Sheriff, 1950-54, 1958-62; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1952 (alternate), 1960, 1964; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1955-58, 1963-64, 1967-68. Catholic. Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion; Forty and Eight; Marine Corps League; Amvets; Knights of Columbus; Elks; Moose; Eagles. Died in Methodist Medical Center, Peoria, Peoria County, Ill., July 12, 1996 (age 77 years, 223 days). Interment at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of George John Saal and Alice (Baldwin) Saal; married, August 31, 1946, to Jane Dorothy Allen; second cousin five times removed of Simeon Baldwin.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Cornell family of New York; Adams-Baldwin family of Boston, Massachusetts; Hendricks family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Glendale Cemetery Washington, Tazewell County, Illinois Politicians buried here: Joseph Verdi Graff (1854-1921) — also known as Joseph V. Graff — of Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill.; Peoria, Peoria County, Ill. Born in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., July 1, 1854. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1892; U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1895-1911 (14th District 1895-97, 5th District 1897-99, 14th District 1899-1903, 16th District 1903-11). Died in Peoria, Peoria County, Ill., November 10, 1921 (age 67 years, 132 days). Interment at Glendale Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)

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