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Brooks Rynd Aitchison (1891-1936) —
also known as Brooks R. Aitchison —
of Mt. Pulaski, Logan
County, Ill.
Born in Nauvoo, Hancock
County, Ill., September
21, 1891.
Republican. Bank
cashier; mayor of Mt. Pulaski, Ill.; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1936.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Mt. Pulaski, Logan
County, Ill., March
30, 1936 (age 44 years, 191
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pulaski Cemetery, Mt. Pulaski, Ill.
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George T. Brown (1820-1880) —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Scotland,
1820.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Alton, Ill., 1846-47; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Madison County,
1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee).
Scottish ancestry.
Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate 1861-69; served the impeachment
summons on President Andrew
Johnson.
Died in Alton, Madison
County, Ill., June 10,
1880 (age about 59
years).
Interment at Alton
Cemetery, Alton, Ill.
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Augustus Caesar Dodge (1812-1883) —
also known as Augustus C. Dodge —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., January
2, 1812.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; register
of U.S. Land Office at Burlington, Iowa, 1838-40; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Iowa Territory, 1840-46; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1848-55; resigned 1855; first
U.S. Senator who was born west of the Mississippi River; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1855-59; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1859; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa,
1860;
mayor
of Burlington, Iowa, 1874-75.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, November
20, 1883 (age 71 years, 322
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, 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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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
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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Walter Smith Gurnee (1813-1903) —
also known as Walter S. Gurnee —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., March 9,
1813.
Democrat. Saddle and
harness maker; real estate
business; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1851-53.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
17, 1903 (age 90 years, 39
days).
Entombed at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Grover Cleveland Helm (1884-1955) —
also known as Grover C. Helm —
of Mackinaw, Tazewell
County, Ill.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Born in Streator, La Salle
County, Ill., November
2, 1884.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
mayor of Mackinaw, Ill., 1912.; wholesale
produce business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1952.
Christian.
Scottish ancestry. Member, American
Bankers Association; Union
League.
Died in 1955
(age about
70 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Grover
Cleveland |
| | | Relatives: Son of Alexander Helm and
Marguerite (Rankin) Helm; married to Anna Puterbaugh. |
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Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) —
also known as Harold L. Ickes —
of Hubbard Woods, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.; Olney, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., March
15, 1874.
Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940,
1944;
newspaper
columnist.
Presbyterian.
Scottish and German
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1952 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Sandy Spring Friends Cemetery, Sandy Spring, Md.
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John Hume Kedzie (1815-1903) —
also known as John H. Kedzie —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Stamford, Delaware
County, N.Y., September
8, 1815.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
developer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 7th District, 1877-78.
Congregationalist.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 9,
1903 (age 87 years, 213
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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William Lorimer (1861-1934) —
also known as "The Blond Boss" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Manchester, England,
April
27, 1861.
Republican. Real estate
business; contractor;
brick
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1895-1901, 1903-09 (2nd District
1895-1901, 6th District 1903-09); delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1896,
1904,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1909-12.
Scottish ancestry.
He was accused
of bribery
in winning election to the Senate; in 1912, the Senate invalidated
his election.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
13, 1934 (age 73 years, 139
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
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Albert Joseph McCartney (1878-1965) —
of Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Logan
County, Ohio, July 3,
1878.
Republican. Minister;
pastor, Covenant-First Presbyterian Church (later National
Presbyterian Church), 1930-50; offered prayer, Republican National
Convention, 1936,
1940;
commander, U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., August
20, 1965 (age 87 years, 48
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David M. Ralston (b. 1870) —
of Trinidad, Las Animas
County, Colo.
Born in Illinois, 1870.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Trinidad, Colo., 1937.
Scottish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Gavan Ralston. |
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John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) —
also known as John P. Richmond —
of Schuyler
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Frederick
County, Md., August
11, 1811.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
in 1840, he officiated at the first
Protestant wedding in what is now the state of Washington; in 1841,
he delivered the first
Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of Illinois
state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1855-56; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Illinois; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Schuyler County,
1862; postmaster.
Methodist.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Dakota, August
28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Tyndall
Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond;
married 1835 to
America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty
Gristy. |
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