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Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
4, 1772.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1804-05, 1813-20; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1805-13; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1821-22; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1821-22; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1823-29; president,
Harvard College, 1829-45.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 1,
1864 (age 92 years, 148
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
15, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1887-88, 1890-91; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1888; Massachusetts
Democratic state chair, 1891-92, 1906; U.S. Assistant Secretary
of State, 1893; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1896-1900; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1901; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1917.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
8, 1919 (age 59 years, 328
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Phillips Quincy and Helen Frances 'Fanny' (Huntington)
Quincy; married, February
17, 1900, to Ellen Francs Krebs; married, November
1, 1905, to Mary Honey (daughter of Samuel
Robertson Honey); nephew of Samuel
Miller Quincy; grandson of Charles
Phelps Huntington and Josiah
Quincy Jr.; great-grandson of Josiah
Quincy (1772-1864) and Elijah
Hunt Mills; first cousin five times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin once removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Edward Phelps, William
Amory Gardner Minot and George
Cabot Lodge; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Sewall; second cousin four times removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Hunt Allen and Gouverneur
Morris; third cousin thrice removed of John
Strong, Abigail
Adams, Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Collins
Dwight Huntington, William
Fessenden Allen, George
Milo Huntington and Frederick
Hobbes Allen. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1902 |
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Samuel Miller Quincy (1832-1887) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 13,
1832.
Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1865.
Died in Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., March
24, 1887 (age 54 years, 284
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Francis J. Quirico (1911-1999) —
of Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
18, 1911.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1956-69; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1969-81.
Italian
ancestry.
Died October
11, 1999 (age 88 years, 235
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Maxwell Milton Rabb (1910-2002) —
also known as Maxwell M. Rabb —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
28, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer; administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1937-43, and U.S. Sen. Sinclair
Weeks, 1944; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1976,
1980;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
2002 (age 91 years, 254
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William I. Randall (b. 1915) —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
13, 1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1950; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1960.
Congregationalist.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Howard B. Randall and Helen (Rice) Randall; married, August
31, 1940, to Harriet Griswold. |
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Epaphroditus Ransom (1798-1859) —
of Vermont; Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Shelburne Falls, Shelburne, Franklin
County, Mass., March
24, 1798.
Lawyer; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1830; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1836-48; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1843-48; Governor of
Michigan, 1848-50; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1850-51; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Kalamazoo County 2nd
District, 1853-54.
Died in Fort Scott, Bourbon
County, Kan., November
9, 1859 (age 61 years, 230
days).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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John Marshall Raymond (b. 1852) —
also known as John M. Raymond —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., June 16,
1852.
Lawyer; president, Salem Mutual
Benefit Association; president, Salem Cooperative Bank;
director, Mercantile National Bank of
Salem; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1880; mayor of
Salem, Mass., 1886-89.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: John
Marshall |
| | | Relatives: Son of Alfred Augustus
Raymond and Sarah Slade (Buffum) Raymond; married 1879 to Anna
Belle Jackson; married 1893 to Jennie
Abbot Ward. |
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Milton Reed (1848-1932) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., October
1, 1848.
Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1884.
Died September
18, 1932 (age 83 years, 353
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Silas D. Reed (b. 1872) —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., June 25,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1897-1902; member of Massachusetts
state senate First Bristol District, 1905-06, 1918-22.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Elmer Reimer (1882-1969) —
also known as Arthur E. Reimer —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1882.
Socialist. Tailor;
lawyer; Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1912, 1916; Socialist Labor candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1913, 1914; jailed
in Butte, Montana, 1916, for making a radical
speech.
Died in 1969
(age about
87 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Clayton Reynolds (b. 1856) —
also known as Edward C. Reynolds —
of South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Braintree, Norfolk
County, Mass., November
15, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Register of Probate, 1889-97; member of Maine
state senate, 1897-99; mayor
of South Portland, Maine, 1899-1900.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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William Whitney Rice (1826-1896) —
also known as William W. Rice —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Deerfield, Franklin
County, Mass., March 7,
1826.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; Worcester
County Judge of Insolvency, 1858; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1860; defeated, 1858; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1868;
District Attorney, Middle District, 1869-74; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1875; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1877-87 (9th District 1877-83,
10th District 1883-87); bank
director.
Member, American
Antiquarian Society.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., March 1,
1896 (age 69 years, 360
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Alfred P. Richards (c.1886-1948) —
of Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Rockport, Knox
County, Maine, about 1886.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1919-23.
Died in Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass., March
18, 1948 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) —
also known as Albert G. Riddle —
of Geauga
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Monson, Hampden
County, Mass., May 28,
1816.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1848-50; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1861-63; U.S. Consul in
Matanzas, 1863-64.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 16,
1902 (age 85 years, 353
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Eleazar Wheelock Ripley (1782-1839) —
also known as Eleazar W. Ripley —
Born in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., April
15, 1782.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1807-12; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1812; general
in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1820; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1835-39; died in
office 1839.
Slaveowner.
Died in West
Feliciana Parish, La., March 2,
1839 (age 56 years, 321
days).
Interment at Locust Grove Cemetery, St. Francisville, La.
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James Wheelock Ripley (1786-1835) —
also known as James W. Ripley —
of Fryeburg, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., March
12, 1786.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;
lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1814-19; U.S.
Representative from Maine 5th District, 1826-30.
Died in Fryeburg, Oxford
County, Maine, June 17,
1835 (age 49 years, 97
days).
Interment at Fryeburg
Village Cemetery, Fryeburg, Maine.
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Ernest William Roberts (1858-1924) —
also known as Ernest W. Roberts —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in East Madison, Madison, Somerset
County, Maine, November
22, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1894-96; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1897-98; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1899-1917 (7th District
1899-1913, 9th District 1913-17); defeated, 1916.
Died in 1924
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Everett, Mass.
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Bernard Shandon Rodey (1856-1927) —
also known as Bernard S. Rodey —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in County Mayo, Ireland,
March
1, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New Mexico
territorial senate, 1889; delegate
to New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1890; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1901-05; defeated
(Independent Republican), 1904; U.S.
District Judge for Puerto Rico, 1906-10; U.S.
Attorney for the 2nd District of Alaska Territory, 1910-13.
Died March
10, 1927 (age 71 years, 9
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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George R. Roewer —
of Massachusetts.
Socialist. Lawyer; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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John Jacob Rogers (1881-1925) —
also known as John J. Rogers —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
18, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1913-25; died in
office 1925; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1924.
Congregationalist.
Sponsor and longtime advocate of legislation to reform the U.S.
foreign service, finally enacted in 1924.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1925 (age 43 years, 222
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Frank West Rollins (1860-1915) —
also known as Frank W. Rollins —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., February
24, 1860.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 10th District, 1895-96; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1899-1901.
Died, in the Hotel
Somerset, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
27, 1915 (age 55 years, 245
days).
Interment at Blossom
Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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John Henry Roraback (1870-1937) —
also known as J. Henry Roraback —
of North Canaan, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 5,
1870.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
Republican State Central Committee, 1901; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924
(speaker),
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Arrangements
Committee); Connecticut
Republican state chair, 1912-37; member of Republican
National Committee from Connecticut, 1920-32; president,
Connecticut Light and
Power Co., 1925-37; Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1932-36.
With his health compromised and activities limited by a severe streptococcus
infection, he killed
himself by gunshot,
while sitting in his
car near his hunting lodge, in Harwinton, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 19,
1937 (age 67 years, 44
days).
Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, North Canaan, Conn.
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Willard Andrew Roraback (1860-1928) —
of Torrington, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., March
12, 1860.
Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Torrington; elected 1894.
Died in Torrington, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
26, 1928 (age 67 years, 320
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander I. Rorke (d. 1967) —
of New York.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Lawyer; orator;
as assistant district attorney for New York County, 1916-21, he
prosecuted many cases against left wing political and labor union
leaders; Judiciary candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1935.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, in French Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
27, 1967.
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Malden, Mass.
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Lewis Eldoris Royal (1855-1921) —
also known as Lewis E. Royal —
of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Alford, Berkshire
County, Mass., June 8,
1855.
Lawyer; mayor
of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 1889-90; candidate for mayor
of Des Moines, Iowa, 1916.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, December
11, 1921 (age 66 years, 186
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Ambrose Royal and Mary Adelaide (Buchner) Royal; married to Laura
Almina Bugbee. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
16, 1834.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869-71; Labor Reform candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1871; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1883.
African
ancestry.
First
Black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1886 (age 51 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862-1938) —
also known as Arthur P. Rugg —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Sterling, Worcester
County, Mass., August
20, 1862.
Lawyer; law partner of John
R. Thayer; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1906-38; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1911-38.
Unitarian.
Died June 12,
1938 (age 75 years, 296
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Sterling, Mass.
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Charles B. Rugg —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester
County, Mass.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;
lawyer; Worcester
County District Attorney, 1926; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1932
(alternate), 1940
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1944.
Unitarian.
Burial location unknown.
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John Ruggles (1789-1874) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., October
8, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1823-31; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1825-29, 1831; state
court judge in Maine, 1831-34; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1835-41.
Died in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, June 20,
1874 (age 84 years, 255
days).
Interment at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine.
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Richard Manning Russell (1891-1977) —
also known as Richard M. Russell —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 3,
1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
mayor
of Cambridge, Mass., 1930-36; defeated, 1939; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1935-37;
defeated, 1936 (9th District), 1950 (6th District).
Member, American
Legion; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Essex, Essex
County, Mass., February
27, 1977 (age 85 years, 361
days).
Interment at Pine
Hill Cemetery, Tewksbury, Mass.
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William Eustis Russell (1857-1896) —
also known as William E. Russell —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1891-94; defeated, 1888, 1889.
Died suddenly, in a fishing
camp near Grand-Pabos (now Chandler), Quebec,
July
14, 1896 (age 39 years, 190
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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