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Matthew T. Abruzzo (1889-1971) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
30, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer; clerk to U.S. Judge Martin
T. Manton; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1936-66;
took senior status 1966; senior judge, 1966-71.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Potomac, Montgomery
County, Md., May 28,
1971 (age 82 years, 28
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual
misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape;
he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad
Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Md.
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Edgar Jacob Adams (1866-1944) —
also known as Edgar J. Adams —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Branch
County, Mich., August
6, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Kent County 1st District,
1897-1900; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1899-1900; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 16th District,
1907-08; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1920,
1924,
1928.
Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 23,
1944 (age 77 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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William Jackson Adams (1860-1934) —
also known as William J. Adams —
of Carthage, Moore
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham, Richmond
County, N.C., January
27, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1893; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1895; superior court judge in North
Carolina 13th District, 1908-21; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1927-34; died in office 1934.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from complications of surgery for a kidney
ailment, in the Brady Urological Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., May 20,
1934 (age 74 years, 113
days).
Interment somewhere
in Carthage, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. S. D. Adams and Mary (Jackson) Adams; married to Florence
Wall. |
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Bernard Ades (1903-1986) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Maryland, July 3,
1903.
Communist. Lawyer; accountant;
defense attorney for Euel Lee (alias "Orphan Jones") in his 1932-33
trial for the murder of the Davis family; during the trial, Ades was
attacked
and injured by a mob in Snow Hill, Maryland; later, he was disbarred
for casting
aspersions on the judicial system; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1934; fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War, 1937.
Jewish.
Died in New York, May 27,
1986 (age 82 years, 328
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Md.
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Jesse Corcoran Adkins (1879-1955) —
of Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., April
13, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer; law
professor; justice of
District of Columbia supreme court, 1930-36; U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1936-46; took senior
status 1946.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
29, 1955 (age 75 years, 350
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) —
also known as Spiro T. Agnew; Spiro Theodore
Anagnostopoulos; "Spiro T. Eggplant";
"Nixon's Nixon"; "The White
Knight" —
of Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
9, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; Baltimore
County Executive, 1962-66; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1964;
Governor
of Maryland, 1967-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1969-73.
Episcopalian.
Greek
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Order of
Ahepa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Was charged
with accepting bribes
and falsifying federal income
tax returns; pleaded no
contest to tax
evasion and resigned
as Vice-President, October 10, 1973; disbarred
by a Maryland court in 1974.
Died, of leukemia,
in Atlantic General Hospital,
Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., September
17, 1996 (age 77 years, 313
days).
Interment at Dulaney
Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, Md.
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Clarence Randolph Ahalt (1888-1962) —
also known as Clarence R. Ahalt —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.; Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Rockville, Montgomery
County, Md., May 28,
1888.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer; real estate
developer; candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia; secretary of
Virginia Republican Party, 1933-35; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1935-44; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1940,
1944;
vice-chair
of Virginia Republican Party, 1944-48.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., October
15, 1962 (age 74 years, 140
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Leesburg, Va.
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Talbot Jones Albert (1847-1919) —
also known as Talbot J. Albert —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
16, 1847.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Consul in Brunswick, 1897-1916; Hanover, 1916.
German
and English
ancestry.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., March
18, 1919 (age 72 years, 30
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Robert Alexander (c.1740-1805) —
of Maryland.
Born in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., about 1740.
Planter;
lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76.
Episcopalian.
When the Declaration of Independence was promulgated, fled
from Maryland to the British Fleet; in 1780, he was adjudged
guilty of high
treason, and his property was confiscated.
Died in London, England,
November
20, 1805 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Edward Lee Allen (1865-1951) —
also known as Robert E. Lee Allen —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in Lima, Tyler
County, W.Va., November
28, 1865.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1923-25;
defeated, 1924, 1926.
Baptist.
Died in Mountain Lake Park, Garrett
County, Md., January
28, 1951 (age 85 years, 61
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Kingwood, W.Va.
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Richard Henry Alvey (1826-1906) —
also known as Richard H. Alvey —
of Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md.
Born in St. Mary's
County, Md., March 2,
1826.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Maryland; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1867; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; circuit judge
in Maryland, 1867-83; Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1883-93; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1893-1905;
resigned 1905.
Died in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., September
14, 1906 (age 80 years, 196
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Md.
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Ephraim Foster Anderson (1838-1877) —
of Maryland.
Born in Bedford
County, Pa., 1838.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1865; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1868.
Crippled
by wounds received during the Civil War.
Died April 5,
1877 (age about 38
years).
Original interment at Presbyterian
Church (which no longer exists), Anderson, Md.; reinterment to
unknown location.
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August Herman Andresen (1890-1958) —
also known as August H. Andresen —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.
Born in Newark, Kendall
County, Ill., October
11, 1890.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Goodhue County Republican Party, 1916-20; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1925-33, 1935-58 (3rd District
1925-33, 1st District 1935-58); defeated, 1932; died in office 1958.
Lutheran.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
14, 1958 (age 67 years, 95
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn.
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William Noble Andrews (1876-1937) —
also known as William N. Andrews —
of Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md.
Born in Hurlock, Dorchester
County, Md., November
13, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; Dorchester
County State's Attorney, 1904-12; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1914; member of Maryland
state senate, 1918, 1931-33; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1919-21; defeated,
1920.
Methodist.
Died in Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md., December
27, 1937 (age 61 years, 44
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery, Hurlock, Md.
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Stevenson Archer (1827-1898) —
of Bel Air, Harford
County, Md.
Born near Churchville, Harford
County, Md., February
28, 1827.
Lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1854; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1867-75; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1868,
1876;
Maryland
state treasurer, 1886-90; Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1887-89.
In April, 1890, following an investigation
which revealed a shortage
of $132,000, he was arrested,
removed
from office as State Treasurer, and charged
with embezzlement.
He pleaded
guilty and wrote to the court: "No part of the State's money or
securities was ever used by me in gambling, stock speculation, or for
political purposes; nor have I at this time one dollar of it left."
Sentenced
to five years in prison.
Due to his failing health, was pardoned
by Gov. Frank
Brown in May 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died, in Baltimore City Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., August
2, 1898 (age 71 years, 155
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
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Alexander Armstrong (1877-1939) —
of Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., June 28,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; Washington
County State's Attorney, 1908-12; Maryland
state attorney general, 1919-23; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1923; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee); director, Potomac Edison electric
utility, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., Blue Ridge Fire
Insurance Co.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., November
20, 1939 (age 62 years, 145
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander Armstrong (1847-1905) and Elizabeth Key (Scott)
Armstrong; married, January
25, 1911, to Mary Rebekah Woods. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Baltimore Sun, September
18, 1923 |
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