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Post Office Politicians in Maryland

John Miller Baer (1886-1970) — of North Dakota. Born in Black Creek, Outagamie County, Wis., March 29, 1886. Civil engineer; farmer; cartoonist; postmaster; U.S. Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1917-21; defeated (Non-Partisan League), 1920. Congregationalist. Died in Washington, D.C., February 18, 1970 (age 83 years, 326 days). Interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) — also known as John B. Kimberly — of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton), Va. Born in Baltimore, Md., December 31, 1855. Republican. Merchant; hotel owner; steamship agent; postmaster; director of banks and electric railways; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924. Episcopalian. Member, Rotary. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly; married, October 28, 1888, to Leonora V. Allen.   Milton Stewart Lankford (b. 1873) — also known as Milton S. Lankford — of Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md. Born in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., October 4, 1873. Postmaster; accountant; U.S. Consular Agent in Caibarien, 1921-26. Burial location unknown.   John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) — also known as John P. Richmond — of Schuyler County, Ill. Born in Middletown, Frederick County, Md., August 11, 1811. Democrat. Physician; minister; in 1840, he officiated at the first Protestant wedding in what is now the state of Washington; in 1841, he delivered the first Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of Illinois state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1855-56; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention from Schuyler County, 1862; postmaster. Methodist. Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in South Dakota, August 28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17 days). Interment at Tyndall Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.   Relatives: Son of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond; married 1835 to America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty Gristy.   William A. Wallace (b. 1867) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Maryland, June 6, 1867. Democrat. Postal worker; land title worker; merchant; member of Illinois state senate 3rd District; elected 1938; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1940. African Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Member, Urban League; NAACP. Burial location unknown.

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