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Harry Morgan Ayres (1881-1948) —
also known as Harry M. Ayres —
of Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Woodbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Montclair Heights, Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., October
6, 1881.
Democrat. University professor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Westport, 1923-24.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Modern
Language Association.
Died November
20, 1948 (age 67 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Morgan Willcox Ayres and Sarah Ella (Roe) Ayres; married, June 6,
1905, to Amy Wentworth Sawyer. |
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John Stothoff Badeau (1903-1995) —
also known as John S. Badeau —
of Jamesburg, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
24, 1903.
Minister;
missionary;
university professor; president,
American University in Cairo, 1945-53; U.S. Ambassador to United Arab Republic, 1961-64.
Christian
Reformed; later Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Tau
Kappa Alpha.
Died, from sepsis,
in Jamesburg, Middlesex
County, N.J., August
25, 1995 (age 92 years, 182
days).
Interment at Fernwood Cemetery, Jamesburg, N.J.
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Jill Biden (b. 1951) —
also known as Jill Tracy Jacobs —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Hammonton, Atlantic
County, N.J., June 3,
1951.
Democrat. School
teacher; college professor; Second Lady
of the United States, 2009-17; First Lady
of the United States, 2021-.
Female.
Italian,
Scottish,
and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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Mamie Bridgeforth —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Democrat. College professor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New Jersey.
Female.
Still living as of 2000.
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Philip Marshall Brown (1875-1966) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Washington,
D.C.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 31,
1875.
U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1908-10; university professor.
Episcopalian.
Member, Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died, in a nursing
home at Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 10,
1966 (age 90 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Republican. University professor; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1888;
President
of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928
(speaker),
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind
in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Edward Capps (1866-1950) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., December
21, 1866.
University professor; U.S. Minister to Greece, 1920.
Member, American
Association of University Professors; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in 1950
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Diamond
Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill.
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Wilfredo Caraballo (b. 1947) —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Yabucoa, Yabucoa
Municipio, Puerto Rico, January
1, 1947.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 29th District, 1996-2007; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1996,
2000;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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Peter Angelo Cavicchia (1879-1967) —
also known as Peter A. Cavicchia —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Italy,
May
22, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1931-37 (9th District 1931-33,
11th District 1933-37).
Presbyterian.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Elks; Moose; Eagles;
Freemasons;
Sons
of Italy.
Died in Belleville, Essex
County, N.J., September
11, 1967 (age 88 years, 112
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Alfred C. Clapp (b. 1903) —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in 1903.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947; member of New
Jersey state senate from Essex County, 1948-53; defeated, 1959;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1960.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Law Institute; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Woolsey Cole (1906-1978) —
also known as Charles W. Cole —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.; New York.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., February
8, 1906.
University professor; President
of Amherst College, 1946-60; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1961-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Association of University Professors; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Historical Association; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1978
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Royal Samuel Copeland (1868-1938) —
also known as Royal S. Copeland —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
7, 1868.
Homeopathic
physician; university professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901-03; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1923-38; died in office 1938; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1936;
candidate in Democratic primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1937.
Methodist.
English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American
Public Health Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 17,
1938 (age 69 years, 222
days).
Interment at Mahwah
Cemetery, Mahwah, N.J.
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Archibald Cox (1912-2004) —
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., May 17,
1912.
Lawyer;
law professor; U.S. Solicitor General, 1961-65; special
prosecutor in Watergate scandal, 1973.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Common
Cause.
Died in Brooksville, Hancock
County, Maine, May 29,
2004 (age 92 years, 12
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Marcus Daly (1908-1969) —
of Lincroft, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
18, 1908.
Republican. College professor; Director General,
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, 1958-61;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1964.
Catholic.
Member, Holy
Name Society.
Died, from bladder
cancer, in Monmouth Medical
Center, Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., July 25,
1969 (age 60 years, 310
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Winthrop More Daniels (b. 1867) —
also known as Winthrop M. Daniels —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Saybrook, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, September
30, 1867.
University professor; member, Interstate Commerce Commission,
1914-23; trustee of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
1935.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Rosenberry Erdman Jr. (1897-1984) —
also known as Charles R. Erdman, Jr. —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
25, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; college
professor; mayor
of Princeton, N.J., 1936-45, 1948-49; New Jersey
Republican state chair, 1958-61; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1960
(delegation chair).
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
15, 1984 (age 87 years, 51
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Livingston Farrand (1867-1939) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 14,
1867.
Physician;
anthropologist;
psychologist;
university professor; president,
University of Colorado, 1914-19; chairman, Central Committee of the
American Red Cross, 1919-21; president,
Cornell University, 1921-37; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, American
Public Health Association; American
Psychological Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1939 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Milton A. Feller (b. 1902) —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., September
21, 1902.
School
teacher; athletic
coach; lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1942-44;
district judge in New Jersey 1st District, 1944; law
professor; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Union County,
1947.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Augustus Garfield (1863-1942) —
also known as Harry A. Garfield; Hal
Garfield —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio, October
11, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
university professor; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1904;
president
of Williams College, 1908-34; U.S. Fuel Administrator, 1917-19.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., December
12, 1942 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
college professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Arthur R. Gemberling —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.; Woodstown, Salem
County, N.J.
Born in Selinsgrove, Snyder
County, Pa.
Republican. College teacher; real estate
broker; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1940;
delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Salem County,
1947.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Francis Goheen (1919-2008) —
also known as Robert F. Goheen —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born, of American parents, in Vengurla, India,
August
15, 1919.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; president,
Princeton University, 1957-72; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1977-80.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
31, 2008 (age 88 years, 229
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Rush D. Holt (b. 1948) —
of Hopewell Township, Cumberland
County, N.J.; Pennington, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Weston, Lewis
County, W.Va., October
15, 1948.
Democrat. College professor; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 12th District, 1999-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 2000,
2004,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 2013.
Protestant.
Still living as of 2014.
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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.
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Joseph Coerten Hornblower (1777-1864) —
also known as Joseph C. Hornblower —
of Belleville, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Belleville, Essex
County, N.J., May 6,
1777.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1832-46; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1844; law
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President).
Died in Belleville, Essex
County, N.J., June 11,
1864 (age 87 years, 36
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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William Churchill Houston (c.1746-1788) —
of Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Sumter District (now Sumter
County), S.C., about 1746.
College professor; served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1777-78; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1779-81, 1784-85; lawyer;
clerk, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1781-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Presbyterian.
Died of tuberculosis,
while lodging at an inn in
Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
12, 1788 (age about 42
years).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Nathan L. Jacobs (1905-1989) —
of Livingston, Essex
County, N.J.
Born February
28, 1905.
Lawyer;
law partner of Arthur
T. Vanderbilt, 1928-34; law professor; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1948, 1952-75;
superior court judge in New Jersey, 1948-52.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died January
25, 1989 (age 83 years, 332
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (1922-2012) —
also known as Nicholas de B. Katzenbach —
of North Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1965-66; general counsel for IBM,
1969-86; director, MCI Communications,
2002-04; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Skillman, Somerset
County, N.J., May 8,
2012 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Cremated.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author;
lecturer; arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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Horace Harmon Lurton (1844-1914) —
of Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., February
26, 1844.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1886-93; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1893-1909; law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1909-14; died in office 1914.
Episcopalian.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., July 12,
1914 (age 70 years, 136
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Clarksville, Tenn.
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Edward A. McGrath —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Lawyer;
district judge in New Jersey 1st District, 1924; common pleas court
judge in New Jersey, 1932; law professor; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Union County,
1947.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990) —
also known as Harold R. Medina —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
16, 1888.
Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1947-51; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1951-58; took
senior status 1958.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Westwood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
14, 1990 (age 102 years,
26 days).
Interment at Westhampton
Cemetery, Westhampton Beach, Long Island, N.Y.
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James Charles Monaghan (1857-1917) —
also known as James C. Monaghan —
of Rhode Island; New Jersey.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
11, 1857.
Newspaper
editor; university professor; U.S. Consul in Mannheim, 1885-90; Chemnitz, 1893-1900; Kingston, 1914-17, died in office 1917.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
12, 1917 (age 60 years, 32
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Cumberland, R.I.
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Edward Thomas Moore (b. 1881) —
also known as Edward T. Moore —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J., July 3,
1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Passaic County, 1909-10;
law professor; vice-chair of
New Jersey Republican Party, 1934-39.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Zeta
Psi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Martin Moore and Sarah (Wickham) Moore; married 1931 to
Lillian Ring. |
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Edward J. O'Mara (b. 1897) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., May 6,
1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member of New
Jersey state senate from Hudson County, 1941-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1944
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1948;
delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Hudson County,
1947.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter O'Mara and Margaret (Bailey) O'Mara; married, April 2,
1923, to Margaret McOsker. |
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Lawrence N. Park (b. 1907) —
of Glassboro, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born in Glassboro, Gloucester
County, N.J., April
17, 1907.
Lawyer;
law professor; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Gloucester
County, 1947.
Member, Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Rotary;
Phi
Alpha Delta.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Clarence J. Park and Lyda (Clouse) Park; married to Ruth
Lewis. |
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Alexander Hamilton Phillips (1866-1937) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Lawrenceville, Mercer
County, N.J., May 15,
1866.
Republican. University professor; geologist;
mayor
of Princeton, N.J., 1911-16.
Episcopalian.
Died January
20, 1937 (age 70 years, 250
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Dyneley Prince (1868-1945) —
also known as John D. Prince —
of Passaic
County, N.J.; Ringwood Manor, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
17, 1868.
University professor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Passaic County, 1906,
1908-09; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1909; member of New
Jersey state senate from Passaic County, 1910-12; U.S. Minister
to Denmark, 1921-26; Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1926-29; Yugoslavia, 1929-33.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in 1945
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roland Roger Renne (1905-1989) —
also known as Roland Renne —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Greenwich, Cumberland
County, N.J., December
12, 1905.
Democrat. Economist;
college professor; president,
Montana State College, Bozeman, 1943-64; candidate for Governor of
Montana, 1964.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
Member, Rotary;
American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta.
Died August
30, 1989 (age 83 years, 261
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Mont.
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Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (1909-2005) —
also known as Peter W. Rodino, Jr. —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 7,
1909.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 10th District, 1949-89; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1964,
1988;
law professor.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in West Orange, Essex
County, N.J., May 7,
2005 (age 95 years, 334
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover, N.J.
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Murray Sabrin (b. 1946) —
of Leonia, Bergen
County, N.J.; Fort Lee, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Bad Wörishofen, Germany,
December
21, 1946.
College professor; Libertarian candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1997; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 2000, 2008, 2014.
Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Hermann Schoenfeld (1861-1926) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oppeln, Prussia (now Opole, Poland),
January
21, 1861.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; university professor; U.S. Consul in
Riga, 1893-94; Consul-General
for Turkey in Washington,
D.C., 1899-1910.
German
ancestry.
Died in Wildwood Crest, Cape May
County, N.J., July 4,
1926 (age 65 years, 164
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1874-1932) —
also known as Wilfred H. Schoff —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Lower Merion Township, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Newtonville, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
27, 1874.
Lecturer; Honorary
Consul for Bolivia in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1898-1929; Honorary
Consul for Peru in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1898-1921; Vice-Consul
for Panama in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1904-22; secretary and treasurer of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Association; secretary of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum.
Killed when hit by a
car in Mt. Holly, Burlington
County, N.J., September
14, 1932 (age 57 years, 292
days); his body was not identified until almost three weeks later.
Original interment at Brotherhood Cemetery, Hainesport, N.J.; reinterment in 1932 at
Westminster
Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederic Schoff and Hannah (Kent) Schoff; married, June 20,
1900, to Ethelwyn McGeorge. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Courier-Post (Camden,
N.J.), October 3, 1932 |
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Austin Scott (1848-1922) —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, August
10, 1848.
College professor; president,
Rutgers College, 1891-1906; mayor
of New Brunswick, N.J., 1914-15.
Died in Granville, Hampden
County, Mass., August
15, 1922 (age 74 years, 5
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Austin Scott and Sarah (Remey) Scott; married 1882 to Anna
Prentiss Stearns. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Frank H. Sommer (b. 1872) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., September
3, 1872.
Lawyer;
law professor; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Ross Stevenson (1866-1939) —
also known as J. Ross Stevenson —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Baltimore,
Md.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Ligonier, Westmoreland
County, Pa., March 1,
1866.
Democrat. Pastor;
college professor; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912 ; president,
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1914-36.
Presbyterian.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
13, 1939 (age 73 years, 165
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) —
also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in
Politics" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Staunton,
Va., December
28, 1856.
Democrat. University professor; president
of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of
New Jersey, 1911-13; President
of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at Main Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson;
married, June 24,
1885, to Ellen
Wilson; married, December
18, 1915, to Edith
Wilson; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married William
Gibbs McAdoo); grandfather of Woodrow
Wilson Sayre. |
| | | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
C. Bullitt — Bainbridge
Colby — Joseph
E. Davies — Joseph
P. Tumulty — Thomas
H. Birch — Byron
R. Newton |
| | | Mount
Woodrow Wilson, in Fremont
County and Sublette
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Woodrow Wilson Plaza,
in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is is named for
him. — Wilson Dam
(built 1924), on the Tennessee River in Colbert
and Lauderdale
counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake
reservoir, which extends into Lawrence
county, are named for
him. — Rambla
Presidente Wilson, in Montevideo,
Uruguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Woodrow
W. Bean
— Woodrow
W. Jones
— Woodrow
W. Scott
— Tom
Woodrow Payne
— W.
W. Dumas
— Woodrow
Wilson Mann
— Woodrow
W. Lavender
— Woodrow
W. Baird
— Woodrow
W. Mathna
— Woodrow
W. Hulme
— Woodrow
W. Kline
— Woodrow
W. McDonald
— Woodrow
W. Hollan
— Woodrow
W. Carter
— Woodrow
W. Ferguson
— W.
Wilson Goode
— Woodrow
Wilson Storey
— Woodrow
W. Bean III
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appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued
in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out
of war." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis
Auchincloss, Woodrow
Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — John Milton Cooper, Reconsidering
Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and
Peace — A. Scott Berg, Wilson —
Anne Schraff, Woodrow
Wilson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:
Jim Powell, Wilson's
War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, and World War II |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1902 |
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John Hopkins Worcester Jr. (1845-1893) —
also known as John H. Worcester —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt., April 2,
1845.
Republican. Pastor,
Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, 1883-90; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888 ;
professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary,
1890-93.
Presbyterian.
Died in Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J., February
5, 1893 (age 47 years, 309
days).
Interment somewhere
in Burlington, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of John H. Worcester and Martha P. (Clark) Worcester; married, October
29, 1874, to Harriet Strong. |
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