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J. Edward Lajoie (b. 1894) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., December
1, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; candidate for mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1928; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1944.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Lajoie and Hermilinda (Belisle) Lajoie; married, June 22,
1922, to Cecile Laurent. |
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S. John Lamoureux (b. 1877) —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., April
30, 1877.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives First Berkshire District, 1906.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Stephen Lane (1910-1997) —
Born in Arlington, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
26, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; candidate for New
Jersey state senate, 1953; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1960-67; resigned 1967.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
23, 1997 (age 86 years, 301
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Joseph Lane (1898-1994) —
also known as Thomas J. Lane —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1927-38; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1939-41; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1941-63;
defeated, 1962; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1965-70.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., June 14,
1994 (age 95 years, 343
days).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, North Andover, Mass.
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Morris Edward Lasker (1917-2009) —
also known as Morris E. Lasker; Edward Morris
Lasker —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 17,
1917.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World
War II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1950; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1968-83;
took senior status 1983.
Died, of cancer,
in Mount Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
25, 2009 (age 92 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Lathrop (1835-1910) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
8, 1835.
Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1888-91; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1891-1906.
Died in 1910
(age about
75 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John T. Lathrop and Maria Margaretta (Long) Lathrop; married,
June
24, 1875, to Eliza Davis Parker. |
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Samuel Lathrop (1772-1846) —
of West Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in West Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., May 1,
1772.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1819-27 (5th District 1819-25,
8th District 1825-27); member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1829.
Died July 11,
1846 (age 74 years, 71
days).
Interment at Park
Street Cemetery, West Springfield, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Lathrop and Elizabeth (Dwight) Lathrop; married, November
4, 1797, to Mary McCracken; grandfather of Samuel
Lathrop Bronson; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin of Joshua
Coit, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Henry
Scudder, Ebenezer
Huntington, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Samuel
George Andrews, John
Hall Brockway, Waitman
Thomas Willey, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Coit Jr., Abial
Lathrop and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin thrice removed of William
Patrick Willey, Charles
A. Hungerford, Frederick
Dent Grant, Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr., William
Barret Ridgely, George
Harrison Hall, Clayton
Hyde Lathrop, William
Brainard Coit, Austin
Eugene Lathrop, Arthur
Eugene Parmelee and Hiram
Bingham; fourth cousin of Bela
Edgerton; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, William
Woodbridge, Isaac
Backus, Heman
Ticknor, Eli
Thacher Hoyt, Caleb
Scudder, Henry
Titus Backus, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Bailey
Frye Adams, Henry
Joel Scudder and Augustus
Frank. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Frank Joseph Lawler (b. 1863) —
also known as Frank J. Lawler —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in South Deerfield, Deerfield, Franklin
County, Mass., July 31,
1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1906.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Lawler and Margaret (Hafey) Lawler; married, October
4, 1899, to Annie C. Looney. |
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George Pelton Lawrence (1859-1917) —
also known as George P. Lawrence —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 19,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1885-94;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1895-97; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1897-1913.
Under stress as head of a World War I draft exemption board, he jumped
from an eighth-floor window and fell to his
death, at the Belmont Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., November
21, 1917 (age 58 years, 186
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, North Adams, Mass.
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Luther Lawrence (1778-1839) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
28, 1778.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1812-22; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1838-39; died in office 1839.
While showing a visitor around his woolen mill, he accidentally fell into
a wheel pit, hit his head, and died soon after, in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
17, 1839 (age 60 years, 201
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Lawrence and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence; brother of Abbott
Lawrence; married, June 19,
1805, to Lucy Bigelow; uncle of Amos
Adams Lawrence and Samuel
Abbott Green; second great-granduncle of Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; third great-granduncle of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Moore Bancroft; third cousin once removed of Alonzo
M. Garcelon; third cousin twice removed of John
Albion Andrew, Charles
Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer
Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield
Scott Holden and Alonzo
Marston Garcelon; third cousin thrice removed of John
Forrester Andrew, Henry
Hersey Andrew, Charles
Wayne Holden and Gordon
Woodbury. |
| | | Political families: Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph
family; Woodbury-Holden
family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton
family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Joseph M. Levenson (b. 1881) —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1916.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Levenson and Fannie (Heifetz) Levenson; married 1918 to
Frances Anna Hahn. |
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Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) —
also known as Alfred B. Lewis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 20,
1897.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; secretary
of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate
for Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1944; vice-president, later
president, Union Casualty insurance
company.
Episcopalian.
Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Federation of Teachers; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died about 1980 (age about 83
years).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield County, Conn.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first
Black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer; served
in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African
ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis; married, September
26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker. |
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Daniel Waldo Lincoln (b. 1882) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., September
2, 1882.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1916-17.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Waldo Lincoln and Fanny (Chandler) Lincoln; married, December
29, 1917, to Harriet Brayton Nichols. |
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Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) —
of Paris, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., December
28, 1788.
Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5th
District 1825-26); Governor of
Maine, 1827-29; died in office 1829.
Died October
8, 1829 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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Magnus Lipton (b. 1902) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., March
22, 1902.
Republican. Accountant;
lawyer; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1934; defeated,
1934.
Member, Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Amos R. Little (b. 1880) —
of Newton Center, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1880.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1913-14.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Mason Little and Helen (Beal) Little; married, December
6, 1934, to Phyllis Cleveland. |
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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) —
of Nahant, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1850.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880-81; Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1883; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1887-93; resigned
1893; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924; died in office 1924;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1916,
1920
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker),
1924.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, after a severe stroke,
at Charlesgate Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
9, 1924 (age 74 years, 181
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Edward Lawrence Logan (1875-1939) —
also known as Edward L. Logan —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
20, 1875.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1901-02; member of Massachusetts
state senate Sixth Suffolk District, 1906; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 6,
1939 (age 64 years, 167
days).
Interment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale, Boston, Mass.; statue at Logan International Airport Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Edward J. Logue (1921-2000) —
also known as Ed Logue —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born February
7, 1921.
Urban
planner; lawyer; candidate in primary for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1967.
Died January
27, 2000 (age 78 years, 354
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Davis Long (1838-1915) —
also known as John D. Long —
of Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Buckfield, Oxford
County, Maine, October
27, 1838.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1875-78; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1876-78; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1879-80; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1880-83; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1883-89; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1884,
1904,
1908,
1912
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902.
Died in Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass., August
28, 1915 (age 76 years, 305
days).
Interment at Hingham
Cemetery, Hingham, Mass.
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Stephen Longfellow (1775-1849) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 23,
1775.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1823-25; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1826.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
2, 1849 (age 74 years, 40
days).
Interment at Western
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Arthur Lord (1850-1925) —
of Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Port Washington, Ozaukee
County, Wis., September
2, 1850.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1885-86.
Member, American
Historical Association; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died April
10, 1925 (age 74 years, 220
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass.
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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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A. L. Lovejoy (b. 1811) —
of Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in Massachusetts, 1811.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Clackamas County,
1857.
Burial location unknown.
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George Henry Lowe (b. 1939) —
also known as George H. Lowe —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 1,
1939.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1978-82.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Still living as of 1994.
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Relatives: Son
of John Elmer Lowe and Mary Catherine (Mullin) Lowe; married, June 5,
1965, to Barbara Ann Blewitt. |
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John Lowell (1743-1802) —
also known as "The Old Judge" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., June 17,
1743.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1778, 1780-82; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1784-85; Judge, Massachusetts Court of Appeals,
1784-89; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1789-1801; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1801-02.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., May 6,
1802 (age 58 years, 323
days).
Original interment at Central
Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; reinterment in 1895 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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John B. Lowney (b. 1879) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., March
17, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Seventh Bristol District, 1904-06.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Luce (1862-1946) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December
2, 1862.
Republican. Lawyer; director, Boston Mutual Life
Insurance Company; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Seventh Middlesex District, 1899,
1901-08; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1912-13; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1919-35, 1937-41 (13th
District 1919-33, 9th District 1933-35, 1937-41); defeated, 1934,
1940.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Political Science Association; American
Economic Association; Exchange
Club.
Died April 7,
1946 (age 83 years, 126
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Konstantina Lukes —
also known as Konnie Lukes; Konstantina
Bequary —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Lawyer; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 2007-10; defeated, 1991, 1993, 1999, 2005,
2009, 2011.
Female.
Albanian
Orthodox. Albanian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2012.
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Henry Tilton Lummus (b. 1876) —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Swampscott, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., December
28, 1876.
Lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1903-21; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1921-32; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1932-55.
Universalist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lummus and Louisa Mitchell (Brown) Lummus; married, October
9, 1900, to Eleanor Stetson Tarbox. |
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George Hinckley Lyman (b. 1850) —
also known as George H. Lyman —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
13, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer; Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1895-96; member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1896-1900; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1898-1909.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1881 to
Caroline B. Amory. |
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Joseph Stebbins Lyman (1785-1821) —
of New York.
Born in Northfield, Franklin
County, Mass., February
14, 1785.
Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1819-21.
Died in Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y., March
21, 1821 (age 36 years, 35
days).
Interment at Federal
Street Cemetery, Greenfield, Mass.
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Samuel Lyman (1749-1802) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
25, 1749.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786-88; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1790-93; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts,
1791-1800; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1795-1800 (4th District
1795-97, at-large 1797-1800); resigned 1800.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 5,
1802 (age 53 years, 131
days).
Interment at Goshen Center Cemetery, Goshen, Conn.
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John Lynch (b. 1952) —
of Hopkinton, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
25, 1952.
Democrat. Lawyer; president and CEO of Knoll, Inc., furniture
manufacturer; Governor of
New Hampshire, 2005-13; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Hampshire, 2008.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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