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John Clayton Allen (1860-1939) —
also known as John C. Allen —
of McCook, Red Willow
County, Neb.; Monmouth, Warren
County, Ill.
Born in Hinesburg, Chittenden
County, Vt., February
14, 1860.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
secretary
of state of Nebraska, 1891-95; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 14th District, 1925-33; defeated,
1932, 1934; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1936.
Presbyterian.
Member, Loyal Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen.
Died in Monmouth, Warren
County, Ill., January
12, 1939 (age 78 years, 332
days).
Interment at Vermont
Cemetery, Vermont, Ill.
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Louis Henri Aymé (1855-1912) —
also known as Louis H. Aymé —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1855.
Republican. Ethnologist;
newspaper
correspondent; U.S. Consul in Mérida, 1880-84; Guadeloupe, 1898-99; Pará, 1903-06; U.S. Consul General in Lisbon, 1906-12, died in office 1912.
Member, Loyal Legion; Sons
of Veterans; American
Antiquarian Society; American
Society for International Law.
Died, from "locomotor ataxia" (presumably syphilis),
in Lisbon, Portugal,
May
16, 1912 (age 56 years, 353
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John Charles Black (1839-1915) —
also known as John C. Black —
of Danville, Vermilion
County, Ill.
Born in Lexington, Holmes
County, Miss., January
27, 1839.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1872; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1884;
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions, 1885-89; candidate for Democratic
nomination for Vice President, 1888;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1893-95; defeated, 1866,
1880, 1884; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1895-99; delegate
to Gold Democrat National Convention from Illinois, 1896; member,
U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1903-07.
Member, Loyal Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action at Prairie Grove, Ark., December 7,
1862.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
17, 1915 (age 76 years, 202
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Danville, Ill.
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Henry Sherman Boutell (1856-1926) —
also known as Henry S. Boutell —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
14, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1884; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1897-1911 (6th District 1897-1903,
9th District 1903-11); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1908;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1911-13; law
professor.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Loyal Legion.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Sanremo, Italy,
March
11, 1926 (age 69 years, 362
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Mass.
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Henry Skillman Breckinridge (1886-1960) —
also known as Henry Breckinridge; Henry
Breckenridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Fresh Meadows, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 25,
1886.
Democrat. Assistant Secretary of War, 1913-16; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; lawyer;
attorney for Charles A. Lindbergh, 1932; Constitutional candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Loyal Legion; Navy
League.
Died, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1960 (age 73 years, 344
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1921) and Louise Ludlow (Dudley)
Breckinridge; married, July 7,
1910, to Ruth (Bradley) Woodman; married, August
5, 1927, to Aida (de Acosta) Root; married, March
27, 1947, to Margaret Lucy Smith; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; grandson of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandnephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823), William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; great-grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; great-grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; second great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; second great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of Levin
Irving Handy and Desha
Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin twice removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd and George
Rogers Clark Floyd; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and Edward
Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John
William Leftwich, Stephen
Valentine Southall and Earle
Cabell; fourth cousin of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Howland Butler (1894-1967) —
also known as George H. Butler —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
6, 1894.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in La Paz, as of 1927-29; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1946-48.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in 1967
(age about
73 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Amasa Cobb (1823-1905) —
of Mineral Point, Iowa
County, Wis.; Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Palestine, Crawford
County, Ill., September
27, 1823.
Republican. Member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1855-56; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1860-61; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1863-71; mayor
of Lincoln, Neb., 1875-76; justice of
Nebraska state supreme court, 1878-92; chief
justice of Nebraska state supreme court, 1884-86, 1890-92.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 5,
1905 (age 81 years, 281
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Francis Marion Drake (1830-1903) —
of Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born in Rushville, Schuyler
County, Ill., December
30, 1830.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; railroad
builder; philanthropist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1888;
Governor
of Iowa, 1896-98.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of diabetes,
in Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, November
20, 1903 (age 72 years, 325
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant;
"Savior of the Union"; "Lion of
Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American
Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant";
"The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent
Soldier"; "The Silent General" —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont
County, Ohio, April
27, 1822.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; President
of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died of throat
cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 23,
1885 (age 63 years, 87
days).
Interment at General
Grant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; married, August
22, 1848, to Julia
Boggs Dent (sister-in-law of Alexander
Sharp; sister of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent); father of Frederick
Dent Grant and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (who married William
Pigott Cronan); first cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop, Abel
Huntington and William
Rush Merriam; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington and Henry
Scudder; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Theodore
Davenport, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Jesse
Monroe Hatch, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Warren
Delano Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
Porter — Ayres
Phillips Merrill — Robert
Martin Douglas — Thomas
L. Hamer — James
Arkell |
| | | Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Ulysses
G. Palmer
— Ulysses
S. G. Bieber
— Ulysses
G. Denman
— Ulysses
G. Crandell
— Ulysses
S. G. Blakely
— S. U.
G. Rhodes
— Ulysses
G. Borden
— U.
Grant Mengel
— Ulysses
G. Foster
— Ulysses
G. Byers
— U.
S. Grant Leverett
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appears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5
silver certificates in 1887-1927. |
| | | Personal motto: "When in doubt,
fight." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean
Edward Smith, Grant —
Frank J. Scaturro, President
Grant Reconsidered — William S. McFeely, Grant —
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — Brooks
D. Simpson, Let
Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and
Reconstruction, 1861-1868 — James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses
S. Grant — Michael Korda, Ulysses
S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero — Edward H. Bonekemper,
A
Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military
Genius — Harry J. Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — H. W. Brands, The
Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and
Peace — Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant's
Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year —
Joan Waugh, U.
S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth |
| | | Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt
Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant
Comes East — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never
Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Roger Sherman Greene (1840-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1840.
Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1870-79; chief
justice of Washington territorial supreme court, 1879-87;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1888; Prohibition candidate for
Governor
of Washington, 1890.
Baptist.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
17, 1930 (age 89 years, 65
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Johnson (1869-1957) —
of Hoquiam, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., March 5,
1869.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1913-33 (2nd District 1913-15,
3rd District 1915-33); defeated, 1932.
Member, Loyal Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in the American Lake veterans hospital,
Fort Lewis, Pierce
County, Wash., January
17, 1957 (age 87 years, 318
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park, Hoquiam, Wash.
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William Pitt Kellogg (1830-1918) —
also known as William P. Kellogg —
of Canton, Fulton
County, Ill.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Orwell, Addison
County, Vt., December
8, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; justice of
Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1861-65; chief
justice of Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1861-65; colonel
in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-68; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1868,
1880,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1868-72, 1877-83; Governor of
Louisiana, 1873-77; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1883-85.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
10, 1918 (age 87 years, 245
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Presumably named
for: William
Pitt |
| | | Relatives: Son of Rev. Sherman K.
Kellogg and Rebecca (Eaton) Kellogg; married, June 6,
1865, to Mary E. Wills; second cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Orsamus
Cook Merrill and Timothy
Merrill; second cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill and Henry
Theodore Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842) and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg, Alvan
Kellogg, John
Russell Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903) and Charles
Collins Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Arthur Paddock (1885-1964) —
also known as George A. Paddock —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill., March
24, 1885.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1941-43.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Loyal Legion; Delta
Tau Delta; Freemasons.
Died December
29, 1964 (age 79 years, 280
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) —
also known as John M. Schofield —
Born in Gerry, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1868-69.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at Wilsons Creek, Mo., August 10,
1861.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., March 4,
1906 (age 74 years, 156
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Junior Taylor (1902-1984) —
also known as Henry J. Taylor —
of Virginia.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
2, 1902.
Republican. Pulp and
paper industry; trustee, Manhattan Savings Bank;
director, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel;
author;
newspaper
correspondent; economist;
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-61.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Loyal Legion.
Died in 1984
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Fred W. Upham (1861-1925) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., January
29, 1861.
Republican. Lumber
business; president, City Fuel Company, coal
dealers; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1892,
1912,
1916,
1920
(chair, Arrangements
Committee), 1924;
member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1919; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1920-24; member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1924.
Member, Union
League; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Loyal Legion.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
15, 1925 (age 64 years, 17
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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