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Walter J. LaBuy (1888-1967) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Beaver Dam, Dodge
County, Wis., July 25,
1888.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Illinois, 1920
(alternate), 1932;
circuit judge in Illinois, 1933-44; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 1944.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Union
League.
Died September
29, 1967 (age 79 years, 66
days).
Interment at St.
Adalbert's Cemetery, Niles, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob LaBuy. |
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Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious (1922-1997) —
also known as Jewel Stradford; Jewel Stradford Rogers;
Jewel Stradford Lafontant —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
28, 1922.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1960
(alternate), 1972,
1988;
candidate for superior court judge in Illinois, 1962; candidate for
Judge, Illinois Appellate Court, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to , 1989.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; National
Bar Association; NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of breast
cancer, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 31,
1997 (age 75 years, 33
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Cornelius Francis Stradford and Aida Arabella (Carter)
Stradford; married 1946 to John
W. Rogers; married 1961 to H.
Ernest LaFontant; married 1989 to Naguib
Soby Mankarious. |
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Isaac Eli Lambert (1854-1909) —
also known as Isaac E. Lambert; Ike
Lambert —
of Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., August
18, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; race horse
owner; postmaster at Emporia,
Kan., 1889-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kansas, 1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); member of Kansas
state house of representatives 47th District, 1897; U.S.
Attorney for Kansas, 1897-1901.
Methodist.
Killed in the fire at the
Copeland Hotel,
Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., January
14, 1909 (age 54 years, 149
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Martin D. Lambert and Adaline (Johnson) Lambert; married 1877 to
Harriet Stowe 'Hattie' Barnes; married 1907 to
Millison Slayton Cutler. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Lane (1842-1912) —
of Hillsboro, Montgomery
County, Ill.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March
27, 1842.
Democrat. Lawyer; Montgomery
County Judge, 1869-73; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 17th District, 1887-95.
Died in Hillsboro, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
30, 1912 (age 70 years, 217
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Hillsboro, Ill.
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John Anthony La Pietra —
of Marshall, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Illinois.
Green. Lawyer; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Michigan; candidate for secretary
of state of Michigan, 2010.
Still living as of 2012.
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Arthur V. Lashly (b. 1880) —
of Webster Groves, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in Randolph
County, Ill., February
14, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; St.
Louis County Prosecuting Attorney, 1912-14; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 25th District,
1922-23.
Burial location unknown.
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Scott R. Lassar (b. 1950) —
of Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 5,
1950.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1997-.
Still living as of 1998.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Ernest Lassar and Jo (Ladenson) Lassar; married, May 22,
1977, to Elizabeth Levine. |
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Edward E. Laughlin (b. 1887) —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Putnam
County, Ill., July 27,
1887.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 12th District, 1935-37; member of
Illinois
state senate 12th District, 1937-41, 1943-53.
Methodist.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Noble Wishard Lee (1896-1978) —
also known as Noble W. Lee —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., August
27, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; law
professor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1938; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 5th District; elected 1940.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association; National
Lawyers Guild.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
8, 1978 (age 82 years, 42
days).
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Frank Kyle Lemon (b. 1875) —
also known as Frank K. Lemon —
of Clinton, DeWitt
County, Ill.
Born in Farmer City, DeWitt
County, Ill., March 6,
1875.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1920,
1924
(alternate), 1932
(alternate), 1936;
U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Illinois, 1931-35.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Knights
of Pythias; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard A. Lemon and Opha Ann (Kyle) Lemon; married, October
12, 1910, to Ruthelle Keys. |
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Jerris G. Leonard (1931-2006) —
also known as Jerris Leonard —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Washington,
D.C.; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
17, 1931.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Milwaukee County 19th District, 1957-60;
member of Wisconsin
state senate 4th District, 1961-68; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1968; administrator, Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration, 1971; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1984.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 27,
2006 (age 75 years, 191
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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David F. Levi (b. 1951) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
29, 1951.
Republican. Lawyer; clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin
C. Duniway, 1980-81, and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis
Powell, 1981-82; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1987-90; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 1990-2007.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
Still living as of 2007.
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Edward Hirsch Levi (1911-2000) —
also known as Edward H. Levi —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 26,
1911.
Lawyer; law
professor; president
of the University of Chicago, 1968-75; first
Jewish president of a major U.S. university; U.S.
Attorney General, 1975-77.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 7,
2000 (age 88 years, 255
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Theodore Levin (1897-1970) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
18, 1897.
Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1946-70;
died in office 1970.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died December
31, 1970 (age 73 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Hamilton Lewis (1863-1939) —
also known as J. Hamilton Lewis; "Pink
Whiskers" —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Danville,
Va., May 18,
1863.
Lawyer; member of Washington
territorial legislature, 1887-88; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1892; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice
President, 1896,
1900,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from Washington at-large, 1897-99; defeated
(People's), 1898; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1928,
1936;
Honorary Vice-President, 1904;
speaker, 1912;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1908, 1920 (Democratic); U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1913-19, 1931-39; defeated (Democratic),
1918; died in office 1939.
Died, of coronary
thrombosis, at Garfield Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1939 (age 75 years, 326
days).
Originally entombed at Abbey
Mausoleum (which no longer exists), Arlington, Va.; reinterment
to unknown location.
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Sidney Irving Lezak (1924-2006) —
also known as Sidney I. Lezak —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
8, 1924.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1961-82.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died April
24, 2006 (age 81 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Manny Lezak and Celia (Weiner) Lezak; married, June 26,
1949, to Muriel Elaine Deutsch. |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English
ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., August
1, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman
(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad
cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric
utility.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., July 25,
1926 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Cicero Jefferson Lindly (1857-1926) —
also known as Cicero J. Lindly —
of Greenville, Bond
County, Ill.
Born in St. Jacob Township, Madison
County, Ill., December
11, 1857.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1888,
1916;
member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1919; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 47th District,
1920-22.
Died in Greenville, Bond
County, Ill., September
23, 1926 (age 68 years, 286
days).
Interment at Montrose
Cemetery, Greenville, Ill.
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Park Livingston (b. 1906) —
of Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill.; La Grange, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Philip, Haakon
County, S.Dak., December
9, 1906.
Republican. Lawyer; vice-president and general counsel, Dean
Milk
Company, Chicago; University
of Illinois trustee, 1941-.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Theta
Chi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George H. Livingston and Grace (Sheehan) Livingston; married, December
19, 1936, to Elizabeth Murdock. |
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Carl Stanton Lloyd (b. 1894) —
also known as Carl S. Lloyd —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Waverly, Wood
County, W.Va., March
13, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; village
president of Winnetka, Illinois, 1952-56.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry B. Lloyd and Maude (Jones) Lloyd. |
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James Tilghman Lloyd (1857-1944) —
also known as James T. Lloyd —
of Monticello, Lewis
County, Mo.; Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.; Canton, Lewis
County, Mo.
Born in Canton, Lewis
County, Mo., August
28, 1857.
Democrat. Deputy
sheriff; lawyer; Shelby
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1889-93; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1897-1917; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1908.
Injured in an automobile
accident, and subsequently died as a result, in a nursing
home at Quincy, Adams
County, Ill., April 3,
1944 (age 86 years, 219
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Canton, Mo.
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Alfred Collins Lockwood (1875-1951) —
also known as Alfred C. Lockwood —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., July 20,
1875.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; superior court judge in Arizona, 1913-24;
justice
of Arizona state supreme court, 1925-43; chief
justice of Arizona Supreme Court, 1929-31, 1935-37, 1941-43.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
29, 1951 (age 76 years, 101
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880) —
also known as Stephen T. Logan —
of Barren
County, Ky.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., February
24, 1800.
Republican. Lawyer; Barren
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1822-32; circuit judge in Illinois,
1835-40; law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, 1841-44; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1843-47, 1855-56; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Sangamon County,
1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1860.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 24,
1880 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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John Looney (1865-1942) —
also known as Patrick John Looney —
of Rock Island, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., October
5, 1865.
Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; indicted
with others in 1897 over a scheme to defraud
the city of Rock Island in connection with a storm drain construction
project; convicted,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1900; created and led a crime
syndicate in northwest Illinois, with interests in gambling,
prostitution,
extortion,
and eventually bootlegging
and automobile
theft; indicted
in 1907 on 37 counts of bribery,
extortion,
and libel,
but acquitted; shot
and wounded by hidden snipers on two occasions in 1908; on February
22, 1909, he was shot
and wounded in a gunfight with business rival W. W. Wilmerton; on
March 22, 1912, after publishing
personal attacks on Rock Island Mayor Henry
M. Schriver, he was arrested,
brought to the police station, and severely
beaten by the mayor himself; subsequent rioting killed two men
and injured nine others; resumed control of the Rock Island rackets
in 1921; in 1922, he was indicted
for the murder
of saloon keeper William Gabel, who had provided evidence against
Looney to federal agents; arrested
in Belen, N.M., in 1924, and later convicted
of conspiracy and murder;
sentenced
to 5 years in prison
for conspiracy and 14 years for murder;
served 8 1/2 years.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a sanitarium
at El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., 1942
(age about
76 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Francis J. Loughran —
of Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Illinois
state senate 13th District, 1931-43; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1932
(alternate), 1948;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938-43.
Burial location unknown.
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John Arthur Love (1916-2002) —
also known as John A. Love —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Gibson City, Ford
County, Ill., November
29, 1916.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; member of Colorado
Republican State Central Committee, 1960; Governor of
Colorado, 1963-73; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Colorado, 1964.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
American
Legion; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Died January
21, 2002 (age 85 years, 53
days).
Cremated.
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Frank Orren Lowden (1861-1943) —
also known as Frank O. Lowden —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Oregon, Ogle
County, Ill.
Born in Sunrise, Chisago
County, Minn., January
26, 1861.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; law
professor; director, National Bank of
the Republic; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1900,
1904;
member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1904-12; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1906-11; Governor of
Illinois, 1917-21; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1920,
1928.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from rectal
cancer, in El Conquistador Hotel,
Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., March
20, 1943 (age 82 years, 53
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Frank Lowry (b. 1898) —
of Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo.
Born in Monticello, Piatt
County, Ill., October
14, 1898.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Cape Girardeau County,
1939-44.
Burial location unknown.
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Scott Wike Lucas (1892-1968) —
also known as Scott W. Lucas —
of Havana, Mason
County, Ill.
Born near Chandlerville, Cass
County, Ill., February
19, 1892.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948,
1952
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1956,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 20th District, 1935-39; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1939-51; defeated, 1950; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1944.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion.
Professional baseball
player, 3-I League, three years.
Died in Rocky Mount, Nash
County, N.C., February
22, 1968 (age 76 years, 3
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Havana, Ill.
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Patrick Joseph Lucey (b. 1873) —
also known as Patrick J. Lucey —
of Streator, La Salle
County, Ill.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., May 2,
1873.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Streator, Ill., 1903-07, 1909-11; Illinois
state attorney general, 1913-17.
Catholic.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Lucey and Joanna (Doud) Lucey; married, September
10, 1901, to Frances Gertrude Casey. |
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Horace Gray Lunt (b. 1847) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
13, 1847.
Republican. Lawyer; district judge in Colorado 4th District,
1895-99.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Orrington Lunt and Cornelia (Gray) Lunt; married, September
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George Alfred Luxford (b. 1876) —
also known as G. A. Luxford —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in La Salle, La Salle
County, Ill., November
16, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; county judge in Colorado, 1921-37;
district judge in Colorado, 1942-46; justice of
Colorado state supreme court, 1947-49.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas G. Lyons (b. 1931) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1931.
Democrat. Police
officer; lawyer; member of Illinois
state senate, 1965-67, 1971-73 (10th District 1965-67, 15th
District 1971-73); delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 15th District,
1969-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1980
(alternate), 1996.
Still living as of 1996.
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