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Silas Walter Bond (1864-1939) —
also known as Silas W. Bond —
of Houghton, Allegany
County, N.Y.; Miltonvale, Cloud
County, Kan.; Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Nora, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
13, 1864.
Minister;
professor,
Houghton Seminary, Houghton, N.Y.; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1904;
president, Miltonvale Wesleyan College, Miltonvale, Kan.;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1914; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Wesleyan
Methodist.
Died in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., December
3, 1939 (age 75 years, 324
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Williams Bond and Matilda (Shaw) Bond; married, August
11, 1896, to Harriet 'Hattie' West; married, November
26, 1931, to Jessie LaVinia Ward. |
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Abner McDonald Bryant (1838-1896) —
also known as A. M. Bryant —
of Fort Branch, Gibson
County, Ind.; Wahoo, Saunders
County, Neb.; Gettysburg, Graham
County, Kan.; Republican City, Harlan
County, Neb.; Falls City, Polk
County, Ore.
Born in Ohio
County, Ky., March 1,
1838.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; minister;
school
teacher and principal; superintendent
of schools; member of Nebraska
state senate 16th District, 1877; president, McPherson
Normal College, Republican City, Neb., 1886-87.
Presbyterian.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, of asthma,
in Falls City, Polk
County, Ore., June 4,
1896 (age 58 years, 95
days).
Interment at Falls
City Cemetery, Falls City, Ore.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II;
president of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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Milton Stover Eisenhower (1899-1985) —
also known as Milton S. Eisenhower —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Abilene, Dickinson
County, Kan., September
15, 1899.
Republican. President of Kansas State University, 1943-50;
Pennsylvania State University, 1950-56; and Johns Hopkins University,
1956-67 and 1971-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1964.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died, of cancer,
in Baltimore,
Md., May 2,
1985 (age 85 years, 229
days).
Interment at Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Pa.
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John Andrew Gregg (1877-1953) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Eureka, Greenwood
County, Kan., February
18, 1877.
Republican. Pastor; missionary;
president, Edward Waters College, 1913-20; president,
Wilberforce University, 1920-24; bishop; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1940.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
17, 1953 (age 75 years, 365
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Herbert Spencer Hadley (1872-1927) —
also known as Herbert S. Hadley —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.
Born in Olathe, Johnson
County, Kan., February
20, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; Jackson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1901-03; Missouri
state attorney general, 1905-09; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Missouri, 1908,
1912,
1916;
Governor
of Missouri, 1909-13; law
professor; Chancellor, Washington University, 1923-27.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., December
1, 1927 (age 55 years, 284
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Charles Abner Howard (b. 1881) —
also known as Charles A. Howard —
of Monmouth, Polk
County, Ore.
Born in Greenwood
County, Kan., February
17, 1881.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; school
principal; Oregon
superintendent of public instruction, 1927-37; resigned 1937;
president, Eastern Oregon College of Education, 1937-39;
president, Oregon College of Education, from 1939.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abner Howard and Catherine Mary (Lough) Howard; married, August
11, 1909, to Cora DeFontaigne Shaw. |
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William Marion Jardine (1879-1955) —
also known as William M. Jardine —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Oneida
County, Idaho, January
16, 1879.
College
professor; agronomist;
president, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1918-25; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1930; Kansas
state treasurer, 1933-34; appointed 1933; resigned 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Beta
Theta Pi; Alpha
Zeta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Gamma
Sigma Delta; Freemasons;
Rotary;
American
Forestry Association; Farm
Bureau.
Died January
17, 1955 (age 76 years, 1
days).
Interment at Logan
City Cemetery, Logan, Utah.
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Frank Nelson (b. 1865) —
of Kansas; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Andover, Henry
County, Ill., December
14, 1865.
Republican. Kansas
superintendent of public instruction, 1899-1903;
president, Minnesota College, from 1907; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1920.
Lutheran.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles M. Nelson and Caroline Nelson; married, August
7, 1895, to Emelia S. Morgan. |
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