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Engineer Politicians in Kansas

  Glenn Leslie Alt (1895-1971) — also known as Glenn L. Alt — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Denton, Doniphan County, Kan., March 24, 1895. Republican. Engineer; university professor; candidate for mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1945. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich., December 17, 1971 (age 76 years, 268 days). Interment at Washtenong Memorial Park, Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw County, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of John L. Alt and Sarah Anna (Black) Alt; married to Viola L. Feas.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Doraf Wilmot Blakeslee (1887-1975) — also known as Doraf W. Blakeslee — of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa. Born in Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kan., April 13, 1887. Socialist. Electrical engineer; candidate for Pennsylvania state house of representatives from Allegheny County 2nd District, 1934. Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., September, 1975 (age 88 years, 0 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Wilmot S. Blakeslee and Dora (Fowler) Blakeslee; married, June 1, 1924, to Margaret Kimley Steel; third cousin thrice removed of Luther Hotchkiss; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Asa Packer.
  Political families: Fairbanks-Adams family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Harry Darby (1895-1987) — of Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kan. Born in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kan., January 23, 1895. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; engineer; shipbuilder; member of Republican National Committee from Kansas, 1940-64; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956 (speaker), 1960; U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1949-50. Episcopalian. Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion; Forty and Eight; Military Order of the World Wars; Navy League; Freemasons; Shriners; Jesters; Rotary; Phi Delta Theta. Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kan., January 17, 1987 (age 91 years, 359 days). Interment at Highland Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
  Relatives: Son of Harry Darby and Florence Isabelle (Smith) Darby; married, December 17, 1917, to Edith Marie Cubbison.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887-1976) — Born in Parkerville, Morris County, Kan., April 17, 1887. Engineer; Major General, U.S. Army; Governor of Panama Canal Zone, 1940-44. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers; Phi Kappa Phi. Died in Washington, D.C., 1976 (age about 89 years). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John Edgar Edgerton and Alice (Green) Edgerton; married, December 8, 1914, to Cordelia Irene Hessin.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John White Geary (1819-1873) — also known as John W. Geary — of San Francisco, Calif. Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa., December 30, 1819. Civil engineer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at San Francisco, Calif., 1849; candidate for Governor of California, 1849; mayor of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor of Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of Pennsylvania, 1867-73. Methodist. Died after suffering a heart attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., February 8, 1873 (age 53 years, 40 days). Interment at Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
  Geary County, Kan. is named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier
  Veazle Winthrope O'Hara (b. 1891) — also known as V. Winthrope O'Hara — of Partridge, Reno County, Kan. Born in Partridge, Reno County, Kan., August 23, 1891. Engineer; life insurance business; U.S. Vice Consul in Bordeaux, 1917-18; Trieste, as of 1919. Burial location unknown.
  Harry James Stockman (b. 1919) — of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Calif. Born in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kan., May 15, 1919. Republican. Oil company engineer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; hotel operator; real estate developer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1960. Member, Rotary. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Harry Joseph Stockman and Mary Ellen (Lewis) Stockman; married, January 15, 1943, to Betty Bill Romigh.
  Rob Wallace (b. 1952) — of Florida. Born in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kan., May 8, 1952. Republican. Engineer; member of Florida state house of representatives 47th District, 1995-. Christian. Member, Jaycees; Kiwanis. Still living as of 1999.
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