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John Mills Allen (1846-1917) —
also known as John M. Allen; "Private
John" —
of Tupelo, Lee
County, Miss.
Born in Tishomingo
County, Miss., July 8,
1846.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
District Attorney, 1st District, 1876-80; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1885-1901;
director, First State Bank,
People's Bank and
Trust Co., Tupelo Cotton Mills, Tupelo Fertilizer
Factory.
Died in Tupelo, Lee
County, Miss., October
30, 1917 (age 71 years, 114
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Tupelo, Miss.
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Gabriel Augustus Bodenheim (1873-1957) —
also known as G. A. Bodenheim;
"Bodie" —
of Longview, Gregg
County, Tex.
Born in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., August
13, 1873.
Democrat. Cotton buyer; insurance
business; mayor
of Longview, Tex., 1904-16, 1918-20; defeated, 1920; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Texas.
Died in Longview, Gregg
County, Tex., August
12, 1957 (age 83 years, 364
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Longview, Tex.
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Josiah Henry Brinker (1851-1920) —
of Sparta, Chickasaw
County, Miss.; West Point, Clay
County, Miss.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Houston, Chickasaw
County, Miss., October
2, 1851.
Democrat. Merchant;
cotton dealer; banker;
postmaster at West
Point, Miss., 1887; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Mississippi, 1892;
U.S. Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 1913.
Baptist.
Died in 1920
(age about
68 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Harrison Brinker and Kezziah A. (Kilgore) Brinker; married,
December
8, 1870, to Mary A. Montgomery; married, July 17,
1911, to Henrietta (Thomas) Greenwood. |
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William Henry Carroll (1842-1915) —
also known as William H. Carroll —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Panola
County, Miss., February
18, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
cotton dealer; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1876
(speaker),
1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); candidate for Presidential Elector
for Tennessee.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., April
14, 1915 (age 73 years, 55
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Richards Howe (1840-1884) —
of Como, Panola
County, Miss.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., January
1, 1840.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War;
cotton planter;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1868;
delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1868; Panola
County Treasurer, 1869; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1870-72; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 2nd District, 1873-75.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 1,
1884 (age 44 years, 152
days).
Interment at Brookfield
Cemetery, Brookfield, Mass.
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Benjamin F. Lacey (b. 1867) —
of Shiloh Plantation, Issaquena
County, Miss.
Born in Louisiana, 1867.
Republican. Cotton farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1908.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
cotton planter; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)
Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom
Harris Chappell); uncle of William
Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William
McKendree Robbins and Joseph
Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston
Ahi Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Lamar
family of Georgia. |
| | | Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are
named for him. |
| | | Lamar Hall,
at the University
of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar River,
in Yellowstone National Park, Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Lamar Boulevard,
in Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar Avenue,
in Memphis,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lamar School
(founded 1964), in Meridian,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Adolph Meyer (1842-1908) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., October
19, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
cotton and sugar planter; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1891-1908; died in
office 1908.
Jewish.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 8,
1908 (age 65 years, 141
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) —
also known as John M. Parker —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Washington, St. Landry
Parish, La., March
16, 1863.
Cotton business; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Louisiana, 1920;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1920-24; defeated (Progressive), 1916.
Presbyterian.
Died May 20,
1939 (age 76 years, 65
days).
Entombed at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer;
cotton and sugar planter;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of
Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Slaveowner.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison,
but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Madison Whittington (1878-1962) —
also known as William M. Whittington —
of Greenwood, Leflore
County, Miss.
Born in Little Springs, Franklin
County, Miss., May 4,
1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
cotton grower;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1916-20, 1924; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 3rd District, 1925-51; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1936,
1940,
1948.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Woodmen.
Died of a heart
attack in Greenwood, Leflore
County, Miss., August
20, 1962 (age 84 years, 108
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Greenwood, Miss.
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John Sharp Williams (1854-1932) —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., July 30,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
cotton planter;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1892,
1904
(Temporary
Chair; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; chair, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1912
(speaker),
1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1920;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1893-1909 (5th District
1893-1903, 8th District 1903-09); U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1911-23.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died near Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss., September
7, 1932 (age 78 years, 39
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Yazoo County, Miss.
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