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Frederick Bernard Lacey (b. 1920) —
also known as Frederick B. Lacey —
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., September
9, 1920.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1969-71; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1971-82.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Robert Lacey and Mary Agnes (Armstrong) Lacey; married,
May
20, 1944, to Mary C. Stoneham. |
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Nicholas St. John La Corte (1918-1966) —
of Cranford, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., March 8,
1918.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Cranford, N.J., 1962-63; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1964-66; died
in office 1966.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack during a dinner party at the home of Loree
Collins, and died soon after in the emergency room at Overlook Hospital,
Summit, Union
County, N.J., December
3, 1966 (age 48 years, 270
days).
Interment at St.
Gertrude's Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.
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Nicholas Sylvestre LaCorte (1911-1978) —
also known as Nicholas S. LaCorte —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Born January
22, 1911.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
lawyer; mayor
of Elizabeth, N.J., 1953-56; defeated, 1956; member of New
Jersey state senate District 9, 1968-70; resigned 1970; New
Jersey tax appeals judge, 1970.
Died in December, 1978
(age 67
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Wesley Leonard Lance (1908-2007) —
also known as Wesley L. Lance —
of Glen Gardner, Hunterdon
County, N.J.; Annandale, Hunterdon
County, N.J.
Born November
21, 1908.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1938-41;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Hunterdon County, 1942-43, 1954-61;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; common pleas court judge
in New Jersey, 1947; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Hunterdon
County, 1947; member of New Jersey
Republican State Committee, 1976.
Member, Grange.
Died August
25, 2007 (age 98 years, 277
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Stephen Lane (1910-1997) —
Born in Arlington, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
26, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; candidate for New
Jersey state senate, 1953; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1960-67; resigned 1967.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
23, 1997 (age 86 years, 301
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Mershon Lanning (1849-1912) —
also known as William M. Lanning —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Ewingville (now part of Ewing), Mercer
County, N.J., January
1, 1849.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; district judge in New Jersey, 1887-91; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1894; president,
Mechanics' National Bank of
Trenton, 1899; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1903-04; resigned
1904; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1904-09; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1909-12; died in
office 1912.
Presbyterian.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
16, 1912 (age 63 years, 46
days).
Interment at Ewing Church Cemetery, Ewing, N.J.
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Frederick Law —
also known as Fred Law —
of Kearny, Hudson
County, N.J.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Kearny, N.J., 1940; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1948,
1956.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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George Pelton Lawrence (1859-1917) —
also known as George P. Lawrence —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 19,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1885-94;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1895-97; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1897-1913.
Under stress as head of a World War I draft exemption board, he jumped
from an eighth-floor window and fell to his
death, at the Belmont Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., November
21, 1917 (age 58 years, 186
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, North Adams, Mass.
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Joseph Aaron Lazarow (1923-2008) —
also known as Joseph Lazarow —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Born December
17, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; mayor
of Atlantic City, N.J., 1976-82.
Jewish.
Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., January
3, 2008 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Beth
Kehillah Cemetery, Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, N.J.
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Edmund Bennett Leaming (1857-1932) —
also known as Edmund B. Leaming —
of Moorestown, Burlington
County, N.J.
Born in Seaville, Cape May
County, N.J., May 24,
1857.
Republican. Lawyer; vice-chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1906-27.
Baptist.
Died in Moorestown, Burlington
County, N.J., September
23, 1932 (age 75 years, 122
days).
Interment at First Baptist Cemetery, Cape May Court House, N.J.
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Sedgwick Rusling Leap (b. 1886) —
also known as S. Rusling Leap —
of Woodstown, Salem
County, N.J.
Born in Penns Grove, Salem
County, N.J., July 16,
1886.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Salem County, 1927-29; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Salem County, 1930-35.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Barrett Leary (b. 1931) —
also known as Thomas B. Leary —
of Michigan.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., July 15,
1931.
Republican. Lawyer; counsel for General
Motors, 1971-82; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1999-.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 2004.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Leary and Margaret (Barrett) Leary; married, December
18, 1954, to Stephanie Lynn Abbott. |
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Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (1876-1937) —
also known as Frederick R. Lehlbach —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1903-05; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1915-37 (10th District 1915-33,
12th District 1933-37); delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1924,
1928.
Died August
4, 1937 (age 61 years, 185
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Leon Leonard (b. 1909) —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Born March
11, 1909.
Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1941-47; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1947; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Atlantic
County, 1947.
Jewish.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur W. Lewis (b. 1904) —
of Riverton, Burlington
County, N.J.
Born September
22, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Burlington County, 1943-44;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Burlington County, 1945-48; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Burlington
County, 1947.
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary;
Union
League; American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1936 to
Lillian Alberta Hess. |
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Morton King Lexow (1885-1976) —
also known as Morton Lexow —
of Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in South Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., September
28, 1885.
Lawyer; Rockland
County District Attorney, 1922-32.
Died in Allendale, Bergen
County, N.J., February
3, 1976 (age 90 years, 128
days).
Interment at Brick
Church Cemetery, Spring Valley, N.Y.
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George Gordon Battle Liddy (1930-2021) —
also known as G. Gordon Liddy —
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., November
30, 1930.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; FBI
agent; lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1968; organized and
directed the burglaries
of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate
complex in May and June 1972; the resulting Watergate scandal
led to President Richard
Nixon's resignation in 1974; convicted
on charges of burglary
and wiretapping;
sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $40,000; released in 1977
after serving four and a half years; became a popular radio talk
show host.
Irish
and Italian
ancestry.
Died in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., March
30, 2021 (age 90 years, 120
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Milton C. Lightner (b. 1890) —
of Ridgewood, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April
11, 1890.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Bergen County,
1947.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edwin N. Lightner and Jane (Cass) Lightner. |
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Job Hilliard Lippincott (1842-1900) —
also known as Job H. Lippincott —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Vincentown, Burlington
County, N.J., December
12, 1842.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1886-87; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1893-1900.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 5,
1900 (age 57 years, 205
days).
Interment at Friends
Cemetery, Vincentown, N.J.
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William Livingston (1723-1790) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
30, 1723.
Lawyer; member of New York
colonial assembly, 1759-61; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; Governor of
New Jersey, 1776-90; died in office 1790; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1776-90; died in office 1790; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Presbyterian.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., July 25,
1790 (age 66 years, 237
days).
Originally entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; re-entombed in 1846 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catherine (Van Brugh)
Livingston; brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1716-1778); married 1745 to
Susannah French (granddaughter of Phillip
French); father of Susannah Livingston (who married John
Cleves Symmes), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John
Jay) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; uncle by marriage of James
Duane and William
Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas
Bayard) and Susanna Livingston (who married John
Kean (1756-1795)); grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; great-granduncle of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer (1805-1879), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; second great-grandfather of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); second great-granduncle of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; third great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Brockholst
Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; fourth great-granduncle of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), John
Cruger Jr., Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
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Francis V. D. Lloyd (b. 1896) —
of Ridgefield Park, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
26, 1896.
Lawyer; district judge in New Jersey 5th District, 1930-47; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Bergen County,
1947.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Austin Lloyd and Grace Morris (Van Duyne) Lloyd; married to
Evelyn M. Roth. |
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LeRoy W. Loder (b. 1883) —
of Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J., December
5, 1883.
Democrat. Lawyer; common pleas court judge in New Jersey,
1914-19; member of New
Jersey state senate from Cumberland County, 1932-34; member of New Jersey
Democratic State Committee, 1933.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Burial location unknown.
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Virginia Long (b. 1942) —
Born March 1,
1942.
Lawyer; superior court judge in New Jersey, 1978-99; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1999-2012.
Female.
Still living as of 2012.
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Relatives:
Married to Jonathan D. Weiner. |
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Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord (1906-1965) —
also known as Thorn Lord —
of Lawrence Township, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., August
24, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1943-45; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Mercer County,
1947; chair of
Mercer County Democratic Party, 1949-65; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1960; New Jersey
Democratic state chair, 1961-65; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Killed
himself by strangling
with an electric shaver cord, in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 16,
1965 (age 58 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Carroll Putnam Lord and Frances Roberts (Troy) Lord; married to
Margaret Eastburn and Nina
Underwood McAlpin. |
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French B. Loveland —
of Ocean City, Cape May
County, N.J.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1936,
1940.
Burial location unknown.
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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) —
also known as Allard K. Lowenstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
16, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1968,
1972;
U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1969-71; defeated,
1970, 1972 (primary), 1972 (Liberal), 1974, 1976, 1978 (primary).
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Dennis Sweeney, in his law
office in Rockefeller Center, and died about seven hours later,
in St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1980 (age 51 years, 58
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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Charles Francis Lynch (1884-1942) —
also known as Charles F. Lynch —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Franklin, Sussex
County, N.J., January
9, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1916-19; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1919-25.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died June 17,
1942 (age 58 years, 159
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick H. Lynch and Margaret (Crawley) Lynch. |
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John A. Lynch (1908-1978) —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., March
10, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer; Middlesex
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1941-46; mayor
of New Brunswick, N.J., 1951-55; member of New
Jersey state senate, 1956-77 (Middlesex County 1956-65, District
7 1966-73, 17th District 1974-77).
Died, of cancer,
in Whitestone Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March 3,
1978 (age 69 years, 358
days). The John A. Lynch Memorial Bridge, which takes Route 18
across the Raritan River, is named for
him.
Interment at Resurrection Burial Park, Piscataway, N.J.
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