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Bailey Aldrich (1907-2002) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
23, 1907.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1954-59; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1959-72; took
senior status 1972.
Member, American
Judicature Society; Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
25, 2002 (age 95 years, 155
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Larz Anderson (1866-1937) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Paris, France
of American parents, August
15, 1866.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1911-12; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1912-13.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Loyal
Legion; Alpha
Delta Phi; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., April
13, 1937 (age 70 years, 241
days).
Interment at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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William Amos Bancroft (b. 1855) —
also known as William Bancroft —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
26, 1855.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1883-85; mayor
of Cambridge, Mass., 1893-97; general in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; president, Boston Elevated Railway
from 1899.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles B. Bancroft; married 1878 to Mary
Shaw. |
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John Brooks (1752-1825) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 4,
1752.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1785-86; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1791; Adjutant
General of Massachusetts, 1812-16; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1816-23.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 1,
1825 (age 72 years, 301
days).
Interment at Salem
Street Burial Ground, Medford, Mass.
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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) —
also known as George Bush; "Poppy";
"Sheepskin";
"Timberwolf" —
of Midland, Midland
County, Tex.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 12,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1964, 1970; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative to United Nations, 1971-73; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1973-74; U.S. Liaison to China, 1974-75; director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
1976-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
Vice
President of the United States, 1981-89; President
of the United States, 1989-93; defeated, 1992.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Skull
and Bones; Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Society of the Cincinnati; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., November
30, 2018 (age 94 years, 171
days).
Interment at George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College
Station, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Prescott
Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush; married, January
6, 1945, to Barbara
Pierce; father of George
Walker Bush (who married Laura
Lane Welch) and John
Ellis Bush; grandfather of George
Prescott Bush; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davis. |
| | | Political family: Bush
family of Texas and Massachusetts. |
| | | Cross-reference: Caspar
W. Weinberger — John
H. Sununu — Don
Evans — James
C. Oberwetter — Mary
McClure Bibby |
| | | The George Bush School of Government and
Public Service, at Texas A&M University,
College
Station, Texas, is named for
him. — George Bush High
School, in Richmond,
Texas, is named for
him. — George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary
School, in Addison,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by George H. W. Bush: All
The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
(1999) — Looking
Forward (1987) — A
World Transformed (1998) |
| | | Books about George H. W. Bush: John
Robert Greene, The
Presidency of George Bush — Tim O'Shei & Joe Marren,
George
H. W. Bush (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about George H. W. Bush:
Kevin Phillips, American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the
House of Bush — Kitty Kelly, The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty |
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Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851) —
also known as Henry A. S. Dearborn —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., March 3,
1783.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1812-29; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of
Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1829; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1831-33;
defeated, 1832; mayor
of Roxbury, Mass., 1847-51.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 29,
1851 (age 68 years, 148
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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William Eustis (1753-1825) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 10,
1753.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1788-94; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-05, 1820-23 (at-large
1801-05, 1st District 1820-23); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1809-13; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1814-18; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1823-25; defeated, 1820, 1821, 1822; died in
office 1825.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
6, 1825 (age 71 years, 241
days).
Interment at Old
Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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William Heath (1737-1814) —
Born in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., March 7,
1737.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1791-92; probate judge in Massachusetts, 1793-1810.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., January
24, 1814 (age 76 years, 323
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; American
Philosophical Society.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Thomaston
Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine.
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Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at Terminal
Island, California; torpedoed and lost in the Indian
Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Paterson (1744-1808) —
of Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Lisle, Tioga County (now Broome
County), N.Y.
Born in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., 1744.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1775; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1792-93; Broome
County Judge, 1798, 1806; U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1803-05.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Lisle, Broome
County, N.Y., July 9,
1808 (age about 64
years).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Whitney Point, N.Y.; reinterment in 1892 at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Luzerne
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1745.
Farmer;
Essex
County Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state
legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1817-18.
Puritan;
later Unitarian.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Censured
by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction
of secrecy.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
29, 1829 (age 83 years, 196
days).
Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;
married, April 8,
1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle of John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; third great-granduncle of John
Lee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall, John
Lee Saltonstall Jr. and William
Amory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle of William
Lawrence Saltonstall and John
Forbes Kerry; ancestor *** of Susan
Walker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed of Charles
Sinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed of John
Albion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed of Isaac
Libbey, John
Forrester Andrew and Henry
Hersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed of Llewellyn
Libby and William
F. Nason; second cousin five times removed of Augustine
B. Libby, Albanah
Harvey Libby and Frederick
Edwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger; third cousin twice removed of Amos
Tuck; third cousin thrice removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse (1840-1907) and Hiram
Augustus Huse (1843-1902). |
| | | Political families: Rodney
family of Delaware; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish
family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Timothy Pickering: David
McLean, Timothy
Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution —
Gerald H. Clarfield, Timothy
Pickering and the American Republic |
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James Warren Sever (1797-1871) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born July 1,
1797.
Merchant marine ship
captain; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1853, 1856.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died January
16, 1871 (age 73 years, 199
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Winslow Warren (1838-1930) —
of Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Plymouth, Plymouth
County, Mass., March
20, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1876; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1894-98.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass., April 3,
1930 (age 92 years, 14
days).
Interment at Vine
Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass.
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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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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.
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