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Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (1843-1918) —
also known as J. Frederick C. Talbott —
of Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.; Lutherville, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born near Lutherville, Baltimore
County, Md., July 29,
1843.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; Baltimore
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1871-75; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maryland, 1876
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1908,
1912,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1879-85, 1893-95,
1903-18; defeated, 1894, 1900; died in office 1918; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maryland, 1907-18.
Episcopalian.
Died in Lutherville, Baltimore
County, Md., October
5, 1918 (age 75 years, 68
days).
Interment at Sherwood
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cockeysville, Md.
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Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) —
also known as Roger B. Taney —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., March
17, 1777.
Lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1799-1800; bank
director; member of Maryland
state senate, 1816-21; Maryland
state attorney general, 1827-31; U.S.
Attorney General, 1831-33; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-34; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-64; died in office 1864.
Catholic.
First
Catholic to hold a U.S. cabinet position.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
12, 1864 (age 87 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; statue at State
House Grounds, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Taney and Monica (Brooke) Taney; married, January
7, 1806, to Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (sister of Francis
Scott Key; niece of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); aunt of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859)). |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Merryman |
| | | Taney County,
Mo. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "He was a profound and able
lawyer, an upright and fearless judge, a pious and exemplary
Christian." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books by Roger Taney: Memoir
of Roger Brooke Taney : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.
S. |
| | | Books about Roger Taney: Bernard
Christian Steiner, Life
of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court — Charles Smith, Roger
B. Taney : Jacksonian Jurist — Suzanne Freedman, Roger
Taney : The Dred Scott Legacy (for young readers) |
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Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) —
of Alabama.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
21, 1851.
Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97.
Author
of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1922 (age 71 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war;
lawyer; director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation
Administration, 1981-83; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Florida; as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the
Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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E. Paul Tenney (b. 1906) —
of Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
28, 1906.
Lawyer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hamburg, 1935-36; Kobe, 1937; Tokyo, 1937; Shanghai, 1938-40; U.S. Consul General in Santiago, as of 1949.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Elmer Seth Tenney and Grace Mary (MacInnis) Tenney; married, October
13, 1937, to Louise Edwards Jenkins. |
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Craig Lyle Thomas (1933-2007) —
also known as Craig Thomas —
of Wyoming.
Born in Cody, Park
County, Wyo., February
17, 1933.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1985-88; U.S.
Representative from Wyoming at-large, 1989-95; U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1995-2007; died in office 2007.
Methodist.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Rotary;
Delta
Chi.
Died, of leukemia,
in the Naval
Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 4,
2007 (age 74 years, 107
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Cody, Wyo.
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John Lewis Thomas Jr. (1835-1893) —
also known as John L. Thomas, Jr. —
of Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 20,
1835.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1863-64; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1865-67; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1869-73, 1877-82.
Methodist.
French
and German
ancestry.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
15, 1893 (age 58 years, 148
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Phillip Francis Thomas (1810-1890) —
also known as Phillip F. Thomas —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Easton, Talbot
County, Md., September
12, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Maryland internal improvements convention, 1836; member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Talbot County, 1838, 1843-45, 1867,
1878; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1839-41, 1875-77 (2nd District
1839-41, 1st District 1875-77); Governor of
Maryland, 1848-51; Maryland
state comptroller, 1851-53; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1853-57; U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1860-61; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1860-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maryland, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President).
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
2, 1890 (age 80 years, 20
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Easton, Md.
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William Tilghman (1756-1827) —
of Talbot
County, Md.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Talbot
County, Md., August
12, 1756.
Lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1788-90; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Maryland; member of Maryland
state senate, 1791-93; Chief Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the
3rd Circuit, 1801-02; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1806-27; died in
office 1827; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1811.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
29, 1827 (age 70 years, 260
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Richard Wellington Townshend (1840-1889) —
also known as Richard W. Townshend —
of Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., April
13, 1840.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1877-89; died in
office 1889.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1889
(age about
49 years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William W. Travers (1902-1979) —
of Wicomico
County, Md.
Born in Nanticoke, Wicomico
County, Md., February
12, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland
state senate from Wicomico County, 1947; resigned 1947; circuit
judge in Maryland, 1964-72.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Salisbury, Wicomico
County, Md., May 27,
1979 (age 77 years, 104
days).
Interment at Wicomico Memorial Park, Salisbury, Md.
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Somerville Pinkney Tuck (1848-1923) —
of Mansourah (Mansoura), Egypt;
Cairo, Egypt;
Alexandria, Egypt;
Menton, France.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., September
24, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; judge, International Court of First
Instance, Egypt, 1894-1908; judge International Court of Appeals,
1908-11.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Menton, France,
April
14, 1923 (age 74 years, 202
days).
Interment at St.
Barnabas Church Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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William Hallam Tuck (1808-1884) —
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
20, 1808.
Lawyer; bank
director; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1836-43; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1837; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1851; Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1851-61; member of Maryland
state senate, 1872-75.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March
17, 1884 (age 75 years, 118
days).
Interment at St.
Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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Joseph Patrick Tumulty (1879-1954) —
also known as Joseph P. Tumulty —
of Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., May 5,
1879.
Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1907-10;
private secretary to Woodrow
Wilson, as governor in 1911-12, and as president in 1913-21.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in 1954
(age about
75 years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Md.
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Relatives:
Married 1904 to Mary
Byrne. |
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Millard Evelyn Tydings (1890-1961) —
also known as Millard E. Tydings —
of Havre de Grace, Harford
County, Md.
Born in Havre de Grace, Harford
County, Md., April 6,
1890.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1916-17, 1920; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1920; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I; member of Maryland
state senate, 1922-24; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1923-27; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1927-51; defeated, 1950; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Havre de Grace, Harford
County, Md., February
9, 1961 (age 70 years, 309
days).
Interment at Angel
Hill Cemetery, Havre de Grace, Md.
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Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Northampton
County, Va., June 17,
1790.
Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in
Virginia, 1826-41; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1874 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Milton George Urner (1839-1926) —
also known as Milton G. Urner —
of Frederick, Frederick
County, Md.
Born in Frederick
County, Md., July 29,
1839.
Republican. Lawyer; Frederick
County State's Attorney, 1871-75; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1879-83; member of Maryland
state senate, 1888-90.
Methodist.
Died in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., February
9, 1926 (age 86 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
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James Boyd Utt (1899-1970) —
also known as James B. Utt —
of Santa Ana, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Tustin, Orange
County, Calif., March
11, 1899.
Republican. Appraiser;
lawyer; member of California
state assembly, 1933-36; U.S.
Representative from California, 1953-70 (28th District 1953-63,
35th District 1963-70); died in office 1970; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1956.
Presbyterian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Izaak
Walton League; Lions; Native
Sons of the Golden West; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Suffered a heart
attack during religious
services at a church
in Washington, D.C., and died soon after at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March 1,
1970 (age 70 years, 355
days).
Interment at Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana, Calif.
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Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (b. 1959) —
also known as Chris Van Hollen —
of Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan,
of American parents, January
10, 1959.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1990-94; member of Maryland
state senate, 1994-2002; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 2003-17; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 2004,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 2017-.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2018.
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Deborah A. Vollmer (b. 1948) —
of California; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born January
15, 1948.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 21st District, 1992, 1996;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1998, 2000, 2002.
Female.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 2002.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Erwin P. Vollmer and Aline Fruhauf
Vollmer. |
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