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Percival Proctor Baxter (1876-1969) —
also known as Percival P. Baxter —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
22, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives from Cumberland County, 1905-06,
1917-20; member of Maine
state senate, 1909-10; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maine, 1920,
1924,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); Governor of
Maine, 1921-25.
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 12,
1969 (age 92 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) —
also known as Carroll L. Beedy —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Phillips, Franklin
County, Maine, August
3, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1917-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
30, 1947 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Charles Russell Clason (1890-1985) —
also known as Charles R. Clason —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Gardiner, Kennebec
County, Maine, September
3, 1890.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1937-49;
defeated, 1934, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956,
1960.
Methodist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., July 7,
1985 (age 94 years, 307
days).
Interment at Longmeadow
Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Selden Connor (1839-1917) —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Fairfield, Somerset
County, Maine, January
25, 1839.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Maine, 1876-79.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died, from nephritis,
in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 9,
1917 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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Richard Bradford Coolidge (1879-1957) —
also known as Richard B. Coolidge —
of West Medford, Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Deering, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
14, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, First National Bank of
Medford; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1920-22; mayor
of Medford, Mass., 1923-26; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Unitarian.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Exchange
Club.
Died in Deering, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
17, 1957 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Leslie Colby Cornish (b. 1854) —
also known as Leslie C. Cornish —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine, October
8, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1878; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1907-17; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1917-25; resigned 1925.
Unitarian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Colby Coombs Cornish and Pauline Bailey (Simpson) Cornish;
married, October
10, 1883, to Fannie Woodman Holmes. |
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George Allan England (b. 1877) —
also known as George A. England —
of Maine; Hampton, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Fort McPherson, Lincoln
County, Neb., February
9, 1877.
Socialist. Author;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1912.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. George Allen England and Hannah Pearl (Lyon)
England. |
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Robert S. Hale (1889-1976) —
also known as Robert Hale —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
29, 1889.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1923-30; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
30, 1976 (age 87 years, 1
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Horatio Collins King (1837-1918) —
also known as Horatio C. King —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
22, 1837.
Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Democratic candidate
for secretary
of state of New York, 1895; Independent Democratic candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1897; Progressive
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa.
Received Medal
of Honor for action near Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 29,
1865.
Died November
15, 1918 (age 80 years, 328
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Shepherd Linnell (1885-1968) —
also known as William S. Linnell —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Biddeford, York
County, Maine, July 21,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Portland Gas
Light Company; director, National Bank of
Commerce, Portland director, Bancroft & Martin Rolling
Mills Company; member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1925-28; member of Maine
Republican State Committee, 1928; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1936;
member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1937-40.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
14, 1968 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Franklin Linnell and Sarah C. (Shepherd) Linnell; married,
November
12, 1912, to Jessie E. Hopkinson. |
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Thomas Littlefield Marble (b. 1876) —
also known as Thomas L. Marble —
of Gorham, Coos
County, N.H.; Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December
24, 1876.
School
principal; lawyer;
superior court judge in New Hampshire, 1917-25; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1925-43; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1943-46; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Concord 9th
Ward, 1948.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Marble and Mercy (Littlefield) Marble; married, August
15, 1906, to Harriet E. Fuller. |
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James Theodore Marriner (1892-1937) —
also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted
Marriner —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 17,
1892.
U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Shot
and killed by
Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he had been denied a U.S.
visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937 (age 45 years, 148
days). The killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after.
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Marion E. Martin (b. 1900) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Kingman, Penobscot
County, Maine, January
14, 1900.
Republican. Member of Maine
state house of representatives from Penobscot County (1st),
1931-34; member of Maine
state senate, 1935-38; member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1936-47; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1948.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Alpha
Omicron Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Gamma.
Burial location unknown.
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996) —
also known as Edmund S. Muskie; "Mr.
Clean" —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Rumford, Oxford
County, Maine, March
28, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1947-51; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1952-54; Governor of
Maine, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1956,
1964;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1959-80; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1980-81.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Lions; Elks; Amvets;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March
26, 1996 (age 81 years, 364
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Edward Nelson (1874-1955) —
also known as John E. Nelson —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine; Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in China, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 12,
1874.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1922-33; defeated, 1932.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Zeta
Psi; Phi Beta Kappa; Rotary.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, April
11, 1955 (age 80 years, 273
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Waterville, Maine.
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David A. Nichols (1917-1997) —
of Lincolnville, Waldo
County, Maine.
Born in Lincolnville, Waldo
County, Maine, August
6, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1952;
member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1955-57; Maine
Republican state chair, 1960-64; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1977-88.
Member, Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Odd
Fellows; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died June 21,
1997 (age 79 years, 319
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Nichols and Flora E. (Pillsbury)
Nichols. |
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William Robinson Pattangall (1865-1942) —
also known as William R. Pattangall —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine; Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Pembroke, Washington
County, Maine, June 29,
1865.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1897, 1901, 1909-11; Democratic
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1904 (4th District), 1913 (3rd
District), 1914 (3rd District); member of Maine
Democratic State Committee, 1905-07; mayor
of Waterville, Maine, 1911-14; Maine
state attorney general, 1911-12, 1915-16; Maine
Democratic state chair, 1916, 1919; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1920,
1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); Democratic candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1922, 1924; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1926-30; appointed 1926; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1930-35; appointed 1930;
resigned 1935; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee); president, Depositors Trust Co..
Unitarian.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died October
21, 1942 (age 77 years, 114
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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John Andrew Peters (1864-1953) —
also known as John A. Peters —
of Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, August
13, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Maine, 1896-98; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1909-13; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1913; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1913-22; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1916;
U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1922.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in 1953
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.
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Donald Ward Philbrick (b. 1896) —
also known as Donald W. Philbrick —
of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine, March
16, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1935-40; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1939-40; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1944,
1952
(alternate).
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Interment somewhere
in Skowhegan, Maine.
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) —
also known as Nelson A. Rockefeller;
"Rocky" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bar Harbor, Hancock
County, Maine, July 8,
1908.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); Governor of
New York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1974-77.
Baptist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias.
Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died, of a massive heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1979 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rockefeller
Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby (Aldrich) Rockefeller;
brother of Winthrop
Rockefeller; married, June 23,
1930, to Mary Todhunter Clark; married, May 4,
1963, to Margaretta 'Happy' (Fitler) Murphy (great-granddaughter
of Edwin
Henry Fitler; third great-granddaughter of John
Sergeant); married 1963 to Happy
Murphy; nephew of Richard
Steere Aldrich and Winthrop
Williams Aldrich; uncle of John
Davison Rockefeller IV and Winthrop
Paul Rockefeller; grandson of Nelson
Wilmarth Aldrich; first cousin four times removed of Simon
S. Rockefeller; first cousin five times removed of Henry
Rockefeller; second cousin of David Hunter McAlpin (who married
Nina
Underwood); second cousin thrice removed of John
Phillips Rockefeller; fourth cousin once removed of Lewis
Kirby Rockefeller. |
| | | Political family: Rockefeller
family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Stewart
G. Anderson — John
H. Terry |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Nelson A. Rockefeller: Cary
Reich, The
Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller : Worlds to Conquer,
1908-1958 — Joseph H. Boyd, Oreos
and Dubonnet: Remembering Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller |
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George Otis Smith (1871-1944) —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, February
22, 1871.
Republican. Geologist;
director, U.S. Geological Survey, 1907-30 (except 1922-23); chair,
Federal Power Commission, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, American
Forestry Association; Phi Beta Kappa.
Suffered a heart
attack during a meeting
of the board of directors of the Central Maine Power Company, and
died soon after, in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
10, 1944 (age 72 years, 322
days).
Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
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Charles Wilbert Snow (1884-1977) —
also known as C. Wilbert Snow —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in White Head Island, Knox
County, Maine, April 6,
1884.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1945-46; Governor of
Connecticut, 1946-47; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
American
Legion.
Died September
28, 1977 (age 93 years, 175
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839-1927) —
also known as William W. Thomas, Jr. —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
26, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
brought Swedish colonists to northern Maine, 1870, founding community
of New Sweden; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1873-75; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1874-75; member of Maine
state senate, 1879; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maine, 1880;
U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1883-85, 1889-94, 1898-1905.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in 1927
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Earle Stanley Tyler (b. 1896) —
also known as Earle S. Tyler —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cherryfield, Washington
County, Maine, December
18, 1896.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1945-48; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956.
Baptist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel H. Tyler and Ida P. (Grant) Tyler; married, June 30,
1925, to Elizabeth Parker. |
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade Commission,
1969-70; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade
Commission; director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia,
in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March
28, 2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Scott Wilson (1870-1942) —
of Woodfords, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Falmouth, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
11, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; Maine
state attorney general, 1913-14; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1918-25; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1925-29; resigned 1929; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1929-40.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died October
22, 1942 (age 72 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Baker Wilson and Loemma Pearson (Leighton) Wilson;
married, December
24, 1895, to Elizabeth M. Bodge. |
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