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Mormon Politicians in Illinois
(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
Community of Christ)

James Adams (1783-1843) — of Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in Simsbury, Hartford County, Conn., January 24, 1783. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; one of the first nine men to receive the "Endowment" ordinance from Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church; participated in a long-running newspaper battle with Abraham Lincoln, over the transfer of a city lot; probate judge in Illinois, 1830; candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1834. Mormon. Member, Freemasons. Died, of cholera, in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Ill., August 11, 1843 (age 60 years, 199 days). Interment at Old Nauvoo Burial Grounds, Nauvoo, Ill.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Cecil Landau Heftel (1924-2010) — also known as Cecil Heftel — of Hawaii. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., September 30, 1924. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; owner of radio and television stations; candidate for U.S. Senator from Hawaii, 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1972; U.S. Representative from Hawaii 1st District, 1977-86; resigned 1986; candidate for Governor of Hawaii, 1986. Mormon. Member, Freemasons. Died in Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, February 4, 2010 (age 85 years, 127 days). Interment at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery, Kaneohe, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.   Relatives: Married to Joyce Edris Glasmann.   Epitaph: "When there is no vision people perish."   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books by Cecil Heftel: End Legalized Bribery (1998)   David Matthew Kennedy (1905-1996) — also known as David M. Kennedy — of Evanston, Cook County, Ill. Born in Randolph, Rich County, Utah, July 21, 1905. Economist; banker; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71; U.S. Ambassador to , 1971-73. Mormon. Member, American Economic Association; Pi Gamma Mu. Died, from a heart ailment, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, May 1, 1996 (age 90 years, 285 days). Interment at Randolph Cemetery, Randolph, Utah.   Relatives: Son of George Kennedy and Katherine Kennedy; married 1924 to Lenora Bingham.   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) — also known as John D. Lee — Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Ill., September 6, 1812. Member of Utah territorial House of Representatives, 1858. Mormon. Involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre on September 11, 1857, when a Mormon militia and Paiute Indian tribesmen slaughtered about 120 settlers who had been traveling through Utah by wagon train; indicted for murder almost twenty years later, and tried in 1875; the first trial ended in a hung jury; retried in 1876; convicted and sentenced to death; released for a time in order to settle his business affairs; executed by firing squad, at Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah, March 23, 1877 (age 64 years, 198 days). Interment at Panguitch Cemetery, Panguitch, Utah.   Relatives: Grandfather of Louise Lee (who married Levi Stewart Udall) and Lela Lee (who married Jesse Addison Udall); great-grandfather of Stewart Lee Udall, Morris King Udall, Lee Kenyon Udall and Rex Edwin Lee; second great-grandfather of Milan Dale Smith Jr., Thomas Stewart Udall, Mark E. Udall, Gordon Harold Smith and Michael Shumway Lee.   Political family: Udall family of Arizona.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Calvin Crane Pendleton (1811-1873) — also known as Calvin C. Pendleton — of Nauvoo, Hancock County, Ill.; Parowan, Iron County, Utah. Born in Hope, Knox County, Maine, August 25, 1811. Physician; probate judge in Utah, 1853-55; member of Utah territorial legislature, 1854; Iron County Recorder, 1855-65. Mormon. Died in Parowan, Iron County, Utah, April 21, 1873 (age 61 years, 239 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Job Pendleton and Betsey (Crane) Pendleton; married 1844 to Sally A. Seavey; married 1846 to Phebe Smith; married, November 14, 1849, to Sarah Ann Newberry; married, April 2, 1861, to Mary J. Coombs; great-grandnephew of Nathan Pendleton (1754-1841); first cousin twice removed of Nathan Pendleton (1779-1827); second cousin of Joseph Palmer Dyer; second cousin once removed of Charles Marsh Pendleton, James Monroe Pendleton and Cyrus Henry Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Daniel Burrows; third cousin of Edward Wheeler Pendleton, Charles Henry Pendleton, Harris Pendleton, Chauncey C. Pendleton, James Pendleton, Nathan William Pendleton and Eckford Gustavus Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Lorenzo Burrows, Cornelius Welles Pendleton and Claudius Victor Pendleton; fourth cousin of Enoch C. Chapman.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Isaac Albert Smoot (1880-1957) — also known as I. A. Smoot — of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Born in Provo, Utah County, Utah, November 3, 1880. Democrat. Member of Utah state house of representatives, 1928-32; postmaster at Salt Lake City, Utah, 1933-50 (acting, 1933-34); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952. Mormon. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., March 12, 1957 (age 76 years, 129 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911); brother of Abraham Owen Smoot III; half-nephew of Reed Owen Smoot; grandson of Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) and Isaac Bullock; grandnephew of Benjamin Kimball Bullock; great-grandnephew of Daniel Owen Rowlett and Joseph Rowlett; first cousin five times removed of Charles Clinton, De Witt Clinton, George Clinton Jr. and Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin six times removed of Charles De Witt; second cousin four times removed of George William Clinton.   Political families: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).

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