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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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Richard Cutts (1771-1845) —
of Pepperell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, June 28,
1771.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-13 (at-large 1801-05,
14th District 1805-13); imprisoned
for debt,
1828.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 7,
1845 (age 73 years, 283
days).
Original interment at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.;
reinterment in 1857 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Isaac Smith Kalloch (1832-1887) —
also known as Isaac S. Kalloch —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 10,
1832.
Pastor;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1879-81.
Baptist.
Indicted
for adultery,
in East Cambridge, Mass., 1857; tried,
but the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. Shot and
wounded, on August 23, 1879, by newspaper editor Charles DeYoung.
A few months later, before DeYoung was to be tried for the shooting,
Kalloch's son, I. M. Kalloch, shot and killed DeYoung in his office.
Died, of diabetes,
in Whatcom (now part of Bellingham), Whatcom
County, Wash., December
9, 1887 (age 55 years, 152
days).
Interment at Bayview
Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash.
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Oakes Ames (1804-1873) —
of North Easton, Easton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., January
10, 1804.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1863-73.
He and his brother Oliver
Ames, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, prime movers in
construction of the first
transcontinental railroad
line, completed in 1869; he was as censured
by the House of Representatives in 1873 for his role in the Credit
Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., May 8,
1873 (age 69 years, 118
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument, Sherman, Wyo.
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William Adams Richardson (1821-1896) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Tyngsborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
2, 1821.
Republican. Probate judge in Massachusetts, 1856; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74; while Secretary of the
Treasury, he hired John D. Sanborn to collect unpaid taxes and
receive a commission, some of which went as a kickback
to Richardson himself; this arrangement caused an uproar,
and Richardson resigned
under fire; Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1874-96.
Unitarian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 1896 (age 74 years, 352
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Almar F. Dickson (1846-1915) —
of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.; East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., January
20, 1846.
Democrat. On August 1, 1874, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, in
response to the suspected
seduction of his wife and her two sisters, he and his
brother-in-law Caleb Smith were among a group of five men who, at
midnight during a storm, attempted to kidnap at
gunpoint Samuel K. Elliot, one of the supposed perpetrators, so
they could tar and
feather him; Elliot successfully defended himself from the group,
and during the affray, Caleb Smith was shot dead; Elliot was ruled to
have acted in self-defense, and denied any improper relations with
the women; the scandal
was widely publicized in the press; Dickson and his wife were
divorced soon after; U.S. Consul in Gaspé Basin, 1887-1908; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from East Haddam, 1910, 1912.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., April
17, 1915 (age 69 years, 87
days).
Interment at Moodus Cemetery, Moodus, East Haddam, Conn.
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Joseph Andrew Iasigi (1848-1917) —
also known as Joseph A. Iasigi —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, January
15, 1848.
Consular
Agent for France in Boston,
Mass., 1873-77; Consul-General
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1889-97; he failed to account for a trust fund, refused to
answer questions, and fled
to New York City; arrested
there in February 1897 and extradited
to Boston; charged
with embezzlement
of about $220,000; pleaded not guilty; tried and convicted
in November 1897; sentenced to 14-18 years in prison; pardoned
in 1909.
Armenian
and French
ancestry.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
24, 1917 (age 69 years, 9
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Charles Hall Adams (1853-1938) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
1853.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1885-94; Consul-General
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1894-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Boston,
Mass., 1899-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1905-07; in May 1909, he and another lawyer were charged
with conspiring to obtain
unclaimed deposits at Suffolk Savings Bank by inventing
fictitious heirs; pleaded not guilty.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1938 (age 85 years, 121
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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Joseph Santosuosso (1877-1968) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Taurasi, Italy,
July
18, 1877.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; physician;
lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928;
in 1933, he was attorney for General Equipment Corporation, in a
lawsuit against the city of Boston for damages caused by subway
constuction; he and others worked out a scheme in which Mayor James
M. Curley would obtain $85,000 from the city to settle the claim,
of which $50,000 was improperly
retained by Santosuosso and Curley; in 1937, the city
successfully sued
both men for the return of the $50,000.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March, 1968
(age 90
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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George T. Ashe (1905-1975) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
6, 1905.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fifteenth Middlesex District,
1935-40; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1940-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1940.
Catholic.
Indicted
on bribery
charges in March, 1942, in connection with sales of equipment and
supplies to the city through a dummy company; tried
and convicted
in October, and sentenced
to one year in jail; in December, he pleaded
guilty to a separate charge of accepting a $1,000 bribe
from a construction contractor, dropped his appeal of the other
conviction, and immediately went to jail.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., May, 1975
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at St.
Patrick's Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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James Michael Curley (1874-1958) —
also known as James M. Curley; "The Rascal
King" —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1874.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; president, Hibernia Savings Bank;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902-03; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1911-14, 1943-47 (10th
District 1911-13, 12th District 1913-14, 11th District 1943-47);
resigned 1914; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1914-18, 1922-26, 1930-34, 1946-50; defeated,
1917, 1937, 1941, 1949, 1951, 1955; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1935-37; defeated, 1924, 1938; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1936; member of Democratic
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-54; indicted
in federal court in 1943, with Donald
W. Smith and others, over his participation in Engineers Group,
Inc., which fraudulently
obtained war contracts; re-indicted
in 1944; tried in
1945-46 and convicted;
sentenced
to six to eighteen months in prison
and fined
$1,000; released in November 1947 when his sentence was commuted by
President Harry
Truman.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Eagles;
Moose;
Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
12, 1958 (age 83 years, 357
days).
Interment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale, Boston, Mass.
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Joseph Edward Casey (1898-1980) —
also known as Joseph E. Casey —
of Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass., December
27, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924
(alternate), 1932,
1940,
1944,
1948;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1935-43;
defeated, 1926, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1942.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Eagles;
American
Legion.
In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee investigated
transactions in which a group he led made enormous profits from the
purchase and re-sale of surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War
II; since federal law required that sales be made only to U.S.
citizens, his group allegedly set up several dummy
corporations purportedly under American ccontrol, and faked
financial statements for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of
shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. A federal indictment
against him, over these actions, was unsealed in February 1954, but
the charges were dismissed in September. Onassis, also indicted,
pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Died September
1, 1980 (age 81 years, 249
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward C. Peirce (c.1895-1955) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born about 1895.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1944,
1952;
mayor
of New Bedford, Mass., 1952-53; convicted
in 1953 on charges of conspiracy to
protect gambling, and sentenced
to four years in prison;
served twenty months.
Died, of cancer,
in a nursing
home at New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
31, 1955 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009) —
also known as Edward M. Kennedy; Ted Kennedy;
"Lion of the Senate" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born, in St. Margaret's Hospital,
Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
22, 1932.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009; died in office 2009;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1980;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Pleaded
guilty to leaving
the scene of an accident after his car plunged off the Dike
Bridge, on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing
passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, on July 18, 1969.
Died, from brain
cancer, in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
25, 2009 (age 77 years, 184
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Robert
Francis Kennedy and Jean
Kennedy Smith; married, November
30, 1958, to Virginia Joan Bennett (divorced 1982); married, July 3,
1992, to Victoria Anne Reggie (daughter of Edmund
M. Reggie); married, November
29, 1958, to Virginia
Joan Bennett (born 1936); father of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); uncle of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. and Mark
Kennedy Shriver; grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Murray
M. Chotiner |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Edward M. Kennedy: True
Compass: A Memoir (2009) |
| | | Books about Edward M. Kennedy: Adam
Clymer, Edward
M. Kennedy: A Biography — Richard E. Burke, The
Senator : My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy — Peter S.
Canellos, Last
Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy |
| | | Critical books about Edward M. Kennedy:
Bernard Goldberg, 100
People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is
#37) — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, The
Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print |
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George Rogers (b. 1933) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., August
22, 1933.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1965-70, 1999-; mayor
of New Bedford, Mass., 1970-71; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1972;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1975-78.
Convicted
of bribery
in 1978 and sentenced
to two years in prison.
Still living as of 1999.
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Gerry Eastman Studds (1937-2006) —
also known as Gerry E. Studds —
of Cohasset, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Mineola, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 12,
1937.
Democrat. Foreign Service officer; member of White House staff during
the administration of President John
F. Kennedy, 1962-63; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Harrison
A. Williams, 1964; state coordinator for U.S. Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy's presidential primary campaign, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1968,
1996;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1973-97 (12th District
1973-83, 10th District 1983-97).
Episcopalian.
Gay.
First
openly gay member of Congress. Censured
by the House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for having sexual
relations with a teenage House page ten years earlier.
Died, of respiratory
failure, in Boston Medical
Center, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
14, 2006 (age 69 years, 155
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Beryl W. Cohen (born c.1935) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born about 1935.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1964;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1965-70; won fame for his representation of
long-term residents of a Massachusetts institution for the mentally
retarded; censured
in 1983 and disciplined
in 1988 for attorney misconduct, over neglect
of probate matters.
Still living as of 2007.
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Barney Frank (b. 1940) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., March
31, 1940.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1973-80; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1981-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Gay.
Admitted
in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male
prostitute, for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal
assistant, and getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie
also used the congressman's apartment for prostitution. A move to expel
Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a
motion to censure
him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to reprimand
him by a vote of 408 to 18.
Still living as of 2014.
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Nicholas James Mavroules (1929-2003) —
also known as Nicholas Mavroules —
of Peabody, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Peabody, Essex
County, Mass., November
1, 1929.
Democrat. Mayor
of Peabody, Mass., 1967-78; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1976;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1979-93;
defeated, 1992.
Greek
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Rotary.
Pleaded
guilty in 1993 to charges
of tax
fraud and accepting
gratuities while in office; sentenced
to prison.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., December
25, 2003 (age 74 years, 54
days).
Interment at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Peabody, Mass.
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