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Abigail Adams (1744-1818) —
also known as Abigail Quincy Smith —
Born in Weymouth, Norfolk
County, Mass., November
22, 1744.
Second
Lady of the United States, 1789-97; First Lady
of the United States, 1797-1801.
Female.
Unitarian.
English ancestry.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
28, 1818 (age 73 years, 340
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa
Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur
Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel
Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen; second cousin twice removed of John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass and Emerson
Richard Boyles; third cousin of Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Caleb
Stetson, Oakes
Ames, Oliver
Ames Jr., Benjamin
W. Waite, Alfred
Elisha Ames, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph
Washburn Yates, Augustus
Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin
Fairbanks, Erskine
Mason Phelps, Arthur
Newton Holden, John
Alden Thayer, Irving
Hall Chase, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Giles
Russell Taggart. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith); married, July 26,
1797, to Louisa
Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua
Johnson; sister-in-law of John
Pope; niece of Thomas
Johnson); father of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin of William
Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph
Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr., George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
| | | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.
Nagel, John
Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — Lynn
Hudson Parsons, John
Quincy Adams — Robert V. Remini, John
Quincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan, Mr.
Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary
Post-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Ethan Allen (1738-1789) —
of Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Arlington, Bennington
County, Vt.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
12, 1738.
Farmer;
land
speculator; formed the Green Mountain Boys in 1770; captured Fort
Ticonderoga from the British in 1775; successfully advocated for the
formation of Vermont as a separate state from New Hampshire and New
York; served as judge under Vermont's Banishment Act, with authority
to confiscate the property of British loyalists.
Deist.
English ancestry.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., February
12, 1789 (age 51 years, 0
days).
Interment at Greenmount
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Allen and Mary (Baker) Allen; married 1762 to Mary
Brownson; married, February
16, 1784, to Frances Montresor 'Fanny' (Brush) Buchanan;
grandfather of Henry
Hitchcock. |
| | | Political family: Allen-Hitchcock
family of Burlington, Vermont. |
| | | Epitaph: "His spirit tried the mercies
of his God in whom alone he believed and strongly
trusted." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Robert Bacon (1860-1919) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1860.
Republican. Financier;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1909; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1909-12; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1916; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War I.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from infection
following surgery for mastoiditis,
in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1919 (age 58 years, 328
days).
Original interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Charles Duane Baker Jr. (b. 1956) —
also known as Charlie Baker —
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1956.
Governor
of Massachusetts, 2015-.
English ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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Theodore Cornelius Bates (b. 1843) —
of North Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in North Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., June 4,
1843.
Republican. Manufacturer;
proprietor, Worcester Corset Co.; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1879; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1883; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist.
English ancestry. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Elijah Bates and Sarah (Fletcher) Bates; married, December
24, 1868, to Emma Frances Duncan. |
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Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833-1911) —
also known as Cornelius N. Bliss —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., January
26, 1833.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; New York
Republican state chair, 1887-89; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1892-1904; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900,
1904;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1897-99.
English ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
9, 1911 (age 78 years, 256
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John Henry Bradbury (b. 1841) —
also known as John H. Bradbury —
of Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Webster, Worcester
County, Mass., December
12, 1841.
Republican. Woollen
manufacturer; wool and woolen
goods dealer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Old Lyme, 1903-06; defeated,
1910.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bradbury and Joanna (Perry) Bradbury; married to Josephine
Way. |
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Albert Edmund Brown (1874-1958) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; East Greenbush, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.; Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo.
Born in Derby, England,
December
9, 1874.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; singer;
music educator; director of community singing; performed, Republican National Convention, 1920 ;
dean, Ithaca Institute of Public School Music (later, Ithaca College
Music Department), 1924-36.
Christian
Scientist. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Denver,
Colo., December
7, 1958 (age 83 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Brown and Elizabeth (Frost) Brown; married, June 15,
1898, to Martha Elizabeth Taylor. |
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Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
24, 1832.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905.
English ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American Bar
Association; Union
League.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1917 (age 85 years, 110
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Waldo Colburn (1824-1885) —
of Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass., November
13, 1824.
Civil
engineer; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1853-54; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1870; superior court judge in Massachusetts,
1875-82; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-85; died in office 1885.
English ancestry.
Died in Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass., September
26, 1885 (age 60 years, 317
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) —
also known as John Calvin Coolidge; "Silent
Cal"; "Cautious Cal" —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Plymouth, Windsor
County, Vt., July 4,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907; mayor
of Northampton, Mass., 1910-11; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1912-15; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-19; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1919-21; Vice
President of the United States, 1921-23; President
of the United States, 1923-29.
Congregationalist.
English ancestry.
Died of coronary
thrombosis in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
5, 1933 (age 60 years, 185
days).
Interment at Plymouth
Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Vt.
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Presumably named
for: John
Calvin |
| | | Relatives: Son of John Calvin Coolidge
and Victoria Josephine (Moor) Coolidge; married, October
4, 1905, to Grace
Anna Goodhue; father of John Coolidge (son-in-law of John
Harper Trumbull); first cousin twice removed of Arthur
Brown; second cousin once removed of William
Wallace Stickney. |
| | | Political families: Coolidge
family of Plainville, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
W. Langley — Everett
Sanders — Robert
C. Lacey |
| | | Personal motto: "Do the day's
work." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1924): "Keep cool and
keep Coolidge." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Calvin Coolidge: The
Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929) |
| | | Books about Calvin Coolidge: Peter
Hannaford, ed., The
Quotable Calvin Coolidge : Sensible Words for the New
Century — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Presidency of Calvin Coolidge — Robert Sobel, Coolidge:
An American Enigma — David Greenberg, Coolidge —
Amity Shlaes, Coolidge |
| | | Critical books about Calvin Coolidge:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: "The Statesman," George
Wythe University, October 2012 |
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Samuel Etheridge (1788-1864) —
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., April
15, 1788.
Miller;
inventor;
member of Michigan
state senate 7th District, 1839-40.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Quincy, Branch
County, Mich., February
18, 1864 (age 75 years, 309
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Cynthia Maria Ingham. |
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Addison Loomis Green (1862-1942) —
also known as Addison L. Green —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
23, 1862.
Lawyer;
archaeologist;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1894; became
involved in the textile
business; vice-president, Association of Woolen
Manufacturers of America; studied archeological sites in Spain and
France with Charles
G. Dawes, 1930.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died June 24,
1942 (age 79 years, 244
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Jefferson Green and Alvira Eunice (Loomis) Green; married
1890 to
Maud Ingersoll Bennett; married 1911 to
Gertrude Metcalf; father of Addison Bennett Green (who married Margaret
A. Oldham) and Marshall
Green. |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Famed novelist
and short story writer;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne;
married, July 9,
1842, to Sophia Amelia Peabody (sister-in-law of Horace
Mann); great-grandfather of Olcott
Hawthorne Deming; second great-grandfather of Rust
Macpherson Deming; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Deming
family of Maryland and New York; Crowninshield-Adams
family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The borough
of Hawthorne,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The
House of Seven Gables — The
Scarlet Letter — Selected
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| | | Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne: Brenda
Wineapple, Hawthorne
: A Life — Luther S. Luedtke, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient — Raymona E.
Hull, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the English Experience, 1853-1864 |
| | | Image source: Project
Gutenberg |
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John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) —
also known as John F. Kerry;
"Liveshot" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital,
Aurora, Adams
County, Colo., December
11, 1943.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1972; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-85; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-2013; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Catholic.
English and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull
and Bones.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Rosemary Isabel (Forbes) Kerry and Richard John Kerry; married, May 23,
1970, to Julia Stimson Thorne; married, May 26,
1995, to Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz (widow of Henry
John Heinz III); second great-grandson of Robert
Charles Winthrop; third great-grandson of Thomas
Lindall Winthrop and Jeremiah
Mason; fourth great-grandnephew of George
Cabot; fifth great-grandson of James
Bowdoin; fifth great-grandnephew of Timothy
Pickering; sixth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); first cousin four times removed of David
Sears and Jane
Pierce; first cousin seven times removed of John
Alsop; second cousin twice removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; third cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of William
Cameron Forbes; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge, John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; fourth cousin of William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Francis Adams; eighth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; King-Hazard
family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman
family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Leslie
L. Farr II |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kerry: A
Call to Service : My Vision for a Better America
(2003) — The
New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
(1997) — Our
Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World, with
John Edwards (2004) |
| | | Books about John F. Kerry: Douglas
Brinkley, Tour
of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War — Michael
Kranish et al, John
F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best — Paul Alexander, The
Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White
House — George Butler, John
Kerry: A Portrait — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kerry:
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi, Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry — David N. Bossie, The
Many Faces of John Kerry |
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Levi J. Law (1854-1909) —
of Cadillac, Wexford
County, Mich.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., December
1, 1854.
Democrat. Clothing
merchant; mayor
of Cadillac, Mich., 1889-90; defeated, 1895; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1892;
postmaster at Cadillac,
Mich., 1894-98; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1899.
Presbyterian.
English and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum; Woodmen;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Maccabees.
Died in Cadillac, Wexford
County, Mich., 1909
(age about
54 years).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of George D. Law. |
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William Caleb Loring (1851-1930) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., August
24, 1851.
Lawyer;
solicitor, New York and New England Railroad,
1881-85; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1899-1919.
English ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Prides Crossing, Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., September
8, 1930 (age 79 years, 15
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Van Ness Lothrop (1817-1897) —
also known as George V. N. Lothrop —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., August
8, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
state attorney general, 1848-51; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1856, 1860; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1860;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S. Minister
to Russia, 1885-88.
English ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in 1897
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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William A. Mosman (1862-1948) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in West Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., November
24, 1862.
Insurance
agent; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Guatemala in Boston,
Mass., 1914-21; Honorary
Consul for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1920-48; Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Boston,
Mass., 1926-45.
German
and English ancestry.
Died in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
10, 1948 (age 85 years, 321
days).
Interment at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Anton Mosman and Adeline (Reynolds) Mosman. |
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William Franklin Nason (1897-1954) —
also known as William F. Nason; William Franklyn
Nason —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
13, 1897.
U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1921-24; Mukden, 1924-25; Kobe, as of 1926; Taihoku, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Kobe, as of 1932.
English ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 1,
1954 (age 56 years, 169
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Bradford A. Nason and Edith Jane (Appleton) Nason; married, January
20, 1932, to Ruth Wells Barron. |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1924) |
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Charles O. Newton —
of Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Republican. Merchant;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1896;
member of New York
state assembly from Cortland County, 1905, 1907.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Malcolm Edwin Nichols (1876-1951) —
also known as Malcolm E. Nichols —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 8,
1876.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907-09; member of Massachusetts
state senate Fifth Suffolk District, 1914, 1917-19; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue for Massachusetts, 1921-25; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1926-30; defeated, 1933, 1937, 1941.
Swedenborgian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
7, 1951 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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John Phillips (1770-1823) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
26, 1770.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1803; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1804; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1822-23.
English ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died May 29,
1823 (age 52 years, 184
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
29, 1811.
Lawyer;
abolitionist; orator;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1870 (Labor Reform), 1877 (Greenback).
English ancestry. Member, American
Anti-Slavery Society.
Died, from heart
disease, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
2, 1884 (age 72 years, 65
days).
Interment at Milton
Cemetery, Milton, Mass.; statue erected 1915 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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George Edward Reed (1846-1930) —
also known as "The Grand Old Man" —
of Willimantic, Windham
County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Brownville, Piscataquis
County, Maine, March
28, 1846.
Republican. Minister;
president,
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1889-1911; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1900.
Methodist.
English ancestry.
Died, in Polyclinic Hospital,
Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
7, 1930 (age 83 years, 316
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Edward Shippen (1639-1712) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Methley, Yorkshire, England,
March
5, 1639.
Merchant;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1701-03.
Quaker.
English ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
2, 1712 (age 73 years, 211
days).
Interment at Old
Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Samuel Shute (1662-1742) —
Born in England,
January
12, 1662.
Lawyer;
Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, 1716-23; Colonial
Governor of New Hampshire, 1716-23.
English ancestry.
Died April
15, 1742 (age 80 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Souther (1826-1891) —
of Ridgway, Elk
County, Pa.; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., March 5,
1826.
Republican. Lawyer; Elk
County Treasurer, 1847; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 18th District, 1856-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860,
1868;
county judge in Pennsylvania, 1871.
English ancestry.
Died in 1891
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Everett, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Souther and Hepsie (Armisted) Souther; married 1850 to
Letitia Patterson; second cousin thrice removed of Marc
Hubbard Souther. |
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Andrew Coolidge Stone (1839-1905) —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 16,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1880-82; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., February
26, 1905 (age 65 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Swift (b. 1794) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Massachusetts, 1794.
Candle
manufacturer; librarian;
mayor
of Lexington, Ky., 1855-58.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country"; "The
American Fabius" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to
the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January
6, 1759, to Martha
Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell
Bassett); step-father of John
Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod
Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; granduncle of John
Thornton Augustine Washington and George
Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Howell
Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand
Sutherland Ross and David
Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker
Peyton Conway, Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Henry Ball Jr., William
de Bruyn=Kops, Horace
Lee Washington, Edwin
McPherson Holden, Claude
C. Ball, Arthur
Wesley Holden and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Bullitt Churchill and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee
family; King
family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Mathews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. — The state
of Washington is named for
him. — Mount
Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— Joseph
George Washington Duncan
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
Washington Seabrook
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
W. Schuyler
— George
Washington Holman
— George
W. Greene
— George
W. Wolcott
— George
W. Paschal
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
W. Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
W. Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
W. Bemis
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington Clark
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. Martin
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George
W. Ray
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Bartch
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Paul
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Wagoner
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
W. Lovejoy
— George
W. Oakes
— George
W. Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— T.
G. W. Tarver
— George
W. Darden
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Mead
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Calkin
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill.
His portrait
also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,
The
Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential
Care — Wendie C. Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) —
also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the
Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack
County, N.H., January
18, 1782.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned
1827; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., October
24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280
days).
Interment at Winslow
Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail (Eastman) Webster; married, May 29,
1808, to Grace Fletcher; second cousin once removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse; second cousin twice removed of Edwin
George Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake and John
Leffingwell Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Rowell and Amos
Tuck. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster
family; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell
family; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Daniel
Webster Wilder
— Daniel
W. Mills
— Daniel
W. Jones
— Daniel
Webster Comstock
— Daniel
W. Waugh
— Daniel
W. Tallmadge
— Daniel
Webster Heagy
— Daniel
W. Whitmore
— Daniel
W. Hamilton
— Daniel
W. Allaman
— Webster
Turner
— Dan
W. Turner
— Daniel
W. Hoan
— Daniel
W. Ambrose, Jr.
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $10 U.S. note from the 1860s until the early 20th
century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Daniel Webster: Robert
Vincent Remini, Daniel
Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One
and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union —
Robert A. Allen, Daniel
Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current,
Daniel
Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism —
Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — John
F. Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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James Scollay Whitney (1811-1878) —
also known as James S. Whitney —
of Conway, Franklin
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in South Deerfield, Deerfield, Franklin
County, Mass., May 19,
1811.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1851, 1854; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856,
1860;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1860-61; steamship
business; member of Massachusetts
state senate First Norfolk District, 1872.
English ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
24, 1878 (age 67 years, 158
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) —
also known as William C. Whitney —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Conway, Franklin
County, Mass., July 5,
1841.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1885-89; established
the Naval War College, in Newport, R.I.; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 7th District, 1894.
English ancestry.
Died, from peritonitis,
following appendicitis
surgery, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
2, 1904 (age 62 years, 212
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Leonard Wood (1860-1927) —
Born in Winchester, Cheshire
County, N.H., October
9, 1860.
Republican. Physician;
received the Medal
of Honor in 1898 for his actions during an Indian war in 1886;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; commander of
the "Rough Riders"; Military Governor of Cuba, 1899-1902; major
general in the Philippine-American War, 1902-06; first Army Chief of
Staff; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1921-27; died in office 1927.
English ancestry.
Died, following surgery for a brain
tumor, in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
7, 1927 (age 66 years, 302
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) —
also known as Carroll D. Wright —
Born in Dunbarton, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 25,
1840.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate Sixth Middlesex District, 1872-73; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; chief, Massachusetts Bureau
of Statistics, 1873-88; in charge of the state census in 1875 and
1885, and the federal census for Massachusetts in 1880; U.S.
Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905; university
professor; president,
Clark College, Worcester, Mass., 1902.
Unitarian.
English and Scottish
ancestry. Member, American
Economic Association; American
Statistical Association; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died February
20, 1909 (age 68 years, 210
days).
Burial location unknown.
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