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Politician members in Massachusetts

  Sewall Wester Abbott (1859-1943) — also known as Sewall W. Abbott — of Wolfeboro, Carroll County, N.H. Born in Tuftonboro, Carroll County, N.H., April 11, 1859. Republican. Lawyer; president, Wolfeboro Woolen Mills; probate judge in New Hampshire, 1889-1921; member of New Hampshire state senate, 1923-25; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1924 (member, Credentials Committee). Unitarian. Member, American Bar Association; Delta Upsilon; Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Knights Templar; Order of the Eastern Star; Odd Fellows; Grange; Redmen; Grand Army of the Republic; Sons of the American Revolution. Died in Wolfeboro, Carroll County, N.H., January 3, 1943 (age 83 years, 267 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of George Abbott and Phebe Jane (Graves) Abbott; married, June 10, 1893, to Elma (King) Hodgdon.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Charles E. Adams Charles Edward Adams (1867-1936) — also known as Charles E. Adams; Charlie Adams — of Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 1, 1867. Superintendent of schools; lawyer; member of Minnesota state senate 57th District, 1915-36; died in office 1936; Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, 1929-31. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Delta Theta; Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons. Died in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn., October 6, 1936 (age 69 years, 5 days). Interment at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
  Relatives: Son of Emaline (Twitchell) Adams and Isaac Milton Adams; married, May 14, 1902, to Grace Tennant; fourth cousin of Ira George Ormsbee; fourth cousin once removed of William B. Ormsbee.
  Political family: Ormsbee family of Michigan and Massachusetts.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial — Minnesota Legislator record
  Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917
Everett C. Benton Everett Chamberlin Benton (1862-1924) — also known as Everett C. Benton — of Belmont, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Guildhall, Essex County, Vt., September 25, 1862. Republican. Insurance business; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1896, 1900, 1904; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1912. Universalist. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Royal Arch Masons; Knights Templar; Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of the Revolution. Died in 1924 (age about 61 years). Interment at Belmont Cemetery, Belmont, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Emerson Benton and Adda (Chamberlin) Benton; married, January 24, 1885, to Willena Blanche Rogers; father of Jay Rogers Benton; fourth cousin once removed of Bennet Bicknell, Charles Phelps Huntington and Charles Edward Phelps.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Library of Congress
  Mortimer Y. Ferris (b. 1881) — of Ticonderoga, Essex County, N.Y. Born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., March 29, 1881. Republican. Civil engineer; member of New York state senate 33rd District, 1919-26; member of New York Republican State Committee, 1927-30; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928; chair of Essex County Republican Party, 1930-39. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Shriners; Elks; Sons of the American Revolution. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Edward M. Ferris and Marion Eliza (Yale) Ferris; married, February 14, 1905, to Elizabeth Leavitt.
  Richard Nelson Gardner (1881-1953) — also known as Richard N. Gardner; Dick Gardner — of Staples, Todd County, Minn. Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., 1881. Lawyer; member of Minnesota state senate 51st District, 1931-43; resigned 1943. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Royal Arch Masons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Rotary; Royal League; Knights of Pythias. Died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., December 4, 1953 (age about 72 years). Burial location unknown.
  See also Minnesota Legislator record
  Gurdon Wright Gordon (b. 1871) — also known as Gurdon W. Gordon — of Springfield, Hampden County, Mass. Born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., November 26, 1871. Republican. Lawyer; insurance executive; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1912; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1913-16; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1920 (alternate), 1928. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Phi Gamma Delta; Phi Delta Phi. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Nelson E. Gordon and Caroline Augusta (Wright) Gordon; married, November 3, 1903, to Ellen Beekman Walsh.
Sinclair Weeks Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) — also known as Sinclair Weeks — of Newton, Middlesex County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., June 15, 1893. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker; mayor of Newton, Mass., 1930-35; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956; Massachusetts Republican state chair, 1936-38; member of Republican National Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-53; Treasurer of Republican National Committee, 1941-44; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1944; appointed 1944; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1953-58. Unitarian. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; American Legion; Sons of the American Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati. Died, in the Rivercrest Nursing Home, Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., February 7, 1972 (age 78 years, 237 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery, Lancaster, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of Martha (Sinclair) Weeks and John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); married, December 4, 1915, to Beatrice Lee Dowse; married, January 3, 1948, to Jane (Tompkins) Rankin; married, August 22, 1968, to Alice Pauline (Requa) Low; grandson of John G. Sinclair; great-grandnephew of John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin four times removed of Timothy Pickering; third cousin twice removed of Dudley Leavitt Pickman; third cousin thrice removed of Nathan Read.
  Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Maxwell M. Rabb
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Eminent Americans (1954)
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