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Congregationalist Politicians in New Jersey
(including United Church of Christ;
Evangelical and Reformed Church;
Congregational Christian Churches)

Arthur Melville Agnew (b. 1878) — also known as Arthur M. Agnew — of Grantwood, Cliffside Park, Bergen County, N.J. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., November 22, 1878. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1913-15; candidate for New Jersey state senate from Bergen County, 1916. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Elks; Moose; Freemasons; Kiwanis; Union League. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of James Agnew and Maria (McGovern) Agnew; married, October 20, 1910, to Elizabeth Johnston.   Nathaniel Davis (1925-2011) — of Hoboken, Hudson County, N.J. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., April 12, 1925. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Bulgaria, 1965-66; U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, 1968-71; Chile, 1971-73; Switzerland, 1975-77. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; American Historical Association. Died May 16, 2011 (age 86 years, 34 days). Burial location unknown.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier   James Fairman Fielder (1867-1954) — also known as James F. Fielder — of Hudson County, N.J.; Montclair, Essex County, N.J. Born in Jersey City, Hudson County, N.J., February 26, 1867. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1903-04; member of New Jersey state senate from Hudson County, 1908-13; Governor of New Jersey, 1913, 1914-17; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1916; vice-chancellor of New Jersey court of chancery, 1919-46. Episcopalian or Congregationalist. Dutch and English ancestry. Died, from a heart condition, in Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, Essex County, N.J., December 2, 1954 (age 87 years, 279 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N.J.   Relatives: Son of Eleanor A. (Brinkerhoff) Fielder and George Bragg Fielder; married, June 5, 1895, to Mabel Crowell Miller; nephew of William Brinkerhoff; grandson of James F. Fielder.   Political family: Fielder family of Jersey City, New Jersey.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Alphonso Alva Hopkins (1843-1918) — also known as Alphonso A. Hopkins; A. H. Linton — of Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Burlington Flats, Otsego County, N.Y., March 27, 1843. Editor, American Rural Home (weekly newspaper), 1871-84; lecturer; university professor; Prohibition candidate for U.S. Representative from New York, 1874 (30th District), 1876 (30th District), 1878 (30th District), 1900 (29th District), 1912 (15th District); Prohibition candidate for New York state comptroller, 1875; Prohibition candidate for secretary of state of New York, 1879; Prohibition candidate for Governor of New York, 1882; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Prohibition candidate for New York state senate 17th District, 1914; Prohibition candidate for delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914. Baptist; later Congregationalist. Died in Cliffside, Bergen County, N.J., September 25, 1918 (age 75 years, 182 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Alvah Hopkins and Mercy (Hale) Hopkins; married 1867 to Adelia R. Allyn; married, February 17, 1897, to Emma M. Santee (first cousin of Jerry E. B. Santee); third cousin once removed of Millard Fillmore and Orlando Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan Brace; fourth cousin of Rowland Case Kellogg and Frank Billings Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Kimberly Brace.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also OurCampaigns candidate detail   George Armistead Smathers (1913-2007) — also known as George A. Smathers; "Georgeous George" — of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade County), Fla. Born in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, N.J., November 14, 1913. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Representative from Florida 4th District, 1947-51; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1951-69; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1952 (alternate; member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business), 1956 (alternate), 1968; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960, 1968; lobbyist. Methodist; later United Church of Christ. Member, Jaycees; Elks; Kiwanis. Suffered a stroke, and subsequently died, in Indian Creek, Miami-Dade County, Fla., January 20, 2007 (age 93 years, 67 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of Franklin Smathers and Lura (Jones) Smathers; married, March 19, 1939, to Rosemary Townley; married, January 4, 1974, to Carolyn Hyder; father of Bruce Armistead Smathers; nephew of William Howell Smathers.   Political family: Smathers family of Miami, Florida.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Books about George Smathers: James C. Clark, Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary   Lloyd Thompson (b. 1879) — of Westfield, Union County, N.J. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 17, 1879. Republican. Lawyer; newspaper editor; town clerk of Westfield, N.J., 1903-09; real estate investor; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1910-11. Congregationalist. Member, Order of Heptasophs. Burial location unknown.

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