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Frederick Trubee Davison (1896-1974) —
also known as F. Trubee Davison —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1922-26;
Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1926-32; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1932; president, American Museum of Natural
History, 1933-51; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; personnel
director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1951-52.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Skull
and Bones; American
Legion.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
14, 1974 (age 78 years, 280
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Pomeroy Davison and Kate (Trubee) Davison; married, April
16, 1920, to Dorothy Peabody. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 24,
1925 |
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Charles Harvey Denby (1830-1904) —
also known as Charles H. Denby —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Mt. Joy, Botetourt
County, Va., June 16,
1830.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1857; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1876,
1884;
U.S. Minister to China, 1885-98.
Episcopalian.
Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., January
13, 1904 (age 73 years, 211
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Steven Boghos Derounian (1918-2007) —
also known as Steven B. Derounian —
of Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria,
April
6, 1918.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1953-65 (2nd District 1953-63, 3rd
District 1963-65); defeated, 1964, 1966; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1969-81.
Episcopalian. Armenian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., April
17, 2007 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Charles Desmond (1887-1972) —
also known as Thomas C. Desmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., September
15, 1887.
Republican. Engineer;
president and chief engineer, Newburgh Ship
Yards; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1928,
1940;
member of New York
state senate, 1931-58 (27th District 1931-44, 32nd District
1945-54, 33rd District 1955-58).
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Grange;
Moose;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Redmen;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
6, 1972 (age 85 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Courken George Deukmejian (b. 1928) —
also known as George Deukmejian;
"Duke" —
of California.
Born in Menands, Albany
County, N.Y., June 6,
1928.
Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1963-67; member of California
state senate, 1967-79; California
state attorney general, 1979-83; Governor of
California, 1983-91.
Episcopalian. Member, Navy
League; American
Legion; Elks.
Still living as of 2014.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March
24, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Episcopalian. English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Phi
Mu Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel,
Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March
16, 1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Martin Dewey and Anne Louise 'Annie' (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis); nephew of Edmond
Otis Dewey; first cousin four times removed of David
Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Glasby Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Luther
Waterman and Joshua
Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Eastman
family; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Abbott
family of Salinas, California; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Herbert
Brownell, Jr. — Charles
C. Wing — Martin
T. Manton — Herman
Methfessel |
| | | The Thomas E. Dewey Thruway,
which runs through Westchester,
Rockland,
Orange,
Ulster,
Greene,
Albany,
Schenectady,
Montgomery,
Herkimer,
Oneida,
Madison,
Onondaga,
Cayuga,
Seneca,
Ontario,
Monroe,
Genesee,
Erie,
and Chautauqua
counties in New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M.
Stolberg, Fighting
Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E.
Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas
E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political
Leadership — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas
E. Dewey and His Times — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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John Addie Donald (1857-1922) —
also known as John A. Donald —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland,
July
24, 1857.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship
business; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1917-21.
Episcopalian. Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
13, 1922 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Hooker Austin Doolittle (1889-1966) —
also known as Hooker A. Doolittle —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Tangier, Morocco.
Born in Mohawk, Herkimer
County, N.Y., January
27, 1889.
Automobile
accessories business; U.S. Vice Consul in Tiflis, 1917-21; Madras, 1921-23; Marseille, 1923-26; U.S. Consul in Bilbao, 1926-32; Tangier, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in Rabat, as of 1943; Alexandria, as of 1947.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Nu.
Died,from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Tangier, Morocco,
November
30, 1966 (age 77 years, 307
days).
Interment at St. Andrew Graveyard, Tangier, Morocco.
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Silas Hamilton Douglas (1816-1890) —
also known as Silas H. Douglas; Silas H.
Douglass —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., October
27, 1816.
Physician;
university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1871-73.
Episcopalian.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August
26, 1890 (age 73 years, 303
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Marcus M. Drake (c.1835-1907) —
of New York.
Born about 1835.
Mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1882.
Episcopalian.
Died September
28, 1907 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1860 to Persis
L. Bennett; married 1867 to Mary
A. Ludlow. |
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Coert du Bois (1881-1960) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Stonington, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y., November
10, 1881.
Forester;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1919-20; Naples, 1920-21; Port Said, 1922; U.S. Consul General in Batavia, 1927-30; Genoa, 1931; Naples, 1931-35; Havana, as of 1938.
Episcopalian.
His two daughters, Jane and Betty, ages 20 and 23, in grief over the
deaths of two RAF airmen they had fallen in love with, killed
themselves by jumping together from a British plane in 1935.
Died, in Westerly Hospital,
Westerly, Washington
County, R.I., March 6,
1960 (age 78 years, 117
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Conn.
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James Clement Dunn (1890-1979) —
of New York.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
27, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; architect;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1946-52; France, 1952-53; Spain, 1953-55; Brazil, 1955-56.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1979
(age about
88 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lorenzo Thurston Durand (1849-1917) —
also known as Lorenzo T. Durand —
of Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Morehouseville, Hamilton
County, N.Y., December
9, 1849.
Democrat. Saginaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1879-82; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1902; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 10th Circuit, 1917.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died August
7, 1917 (age 67 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Norman Eddy (1810-1872) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Scipio, Cayuga
County, N.Y., December
10, 1810.
Democrat. Physician;
lawyer;
candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847; member of Indiana
state senate, 1849-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1853-55; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1855-57; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1871-72.
Episcopalian.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., January
28, 1872 (age 61 years, 49
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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William Alfred Eddy (1896-1962) —
also known as Bill Eddy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.; Beirut, Lebanon.
Born, to American parents, in Sidon, Syria (now Lebanon),
March
9, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; college
professor; president
of Hobart College and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y., 1936-42;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Minister to
Saudi Arabia, 1944-46; Middle East consultant, Arabian American
Oil
Company, 1947-62.
Episcopalian.
Died May 3,
1962 (age 66 years, 55
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Sidon, Lebanon.
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper
publisher; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1910; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian. Member, Union
League.
Died, from uremic
poisoning, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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Franklin Edson (1832-1904) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Chester, Windsor
County, Vt., April 5,
1832.
Democrat. Grain commission
merchant; president, New York Produce Exchange, 1866, 1873-74; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1883-84.
Episcopalian.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
24, 1904 (age 72 years, 172
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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William T. Elmer (1835-1907) —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Rome, Oneida
County, N.Y., November
6, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer; Middlesex
County State's Attorney, 1863-75, 1883-95; member of Connecticut
state senate 18th District, 1873; mayor
of Middletown, Conn., 1876; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1895; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1895-1904.
Episcopalian.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
11, 1907 (age 72 years, 5
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Lobbeus E. Elmer and Charlotte (Mudge) Elmer; married, May 21,
1862, to Catherine L. Camp. |
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Arthur O. Eve (b. 1933) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
23, 1933.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1967-2001 (143rd District 1967-82, 141st District
1983-2001); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972,
1976,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
candidate for mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1977.
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Amvets;
NAACP;
Urban
League; United
Auto Workers; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2001.
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April
30, 1842.
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust
Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad;
director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Robert Benjamin Fegan (b. 1877) —
also known as R. B. Fegan —
of Junction City, Geary
County, Kan.
Born in New York, May 15,
1877.
Republican. Telephone
company manager; rancher;
Kansas Highway Commissioner, 1929; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kansas, 1932.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Jesters;
Elks; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Wesler Fagan and Eliza (Weeks) Fagan; married 1910 to Marion
Lewis. |
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Henry James Feltus (1846-1926) —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
15, 1846.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster at Bloomington,
Ind., 1886-87.
Episcopalian. Member, Elks.
Died in Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind., January
12, 1926 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Entombed at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Ind.
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Edward Ridley Finch (b. 1873) —
also known as Edward R. Finch —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1873.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1902-04; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1915-34; appointed 1915;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1922-33; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1935-40.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Lucius Finch and Annie Ridley (Crane) Finch; married, January
18, 1913, to Mary Livingston Delafield. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Roy G. Finch (b. 1884) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Eagle Bridge, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., August
17, 1884.
Republican. Engineer;
New
York state engineer and surveyor, 1925-26.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
American
Society of Civil Engineers; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Nelson Finch and Helen (Hunt) Finch; married, October
19, 1909, to Jessie Lewis Weller. |
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Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
3, 1808.
Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly, 1834; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1843-45; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1848; defeated (Whig), 1846; Governor of
New York, 1849-51; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1851-57; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1869-77.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y., September
7, 1893 (age 85 years, 35
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Presumably named
for: Alexander
Hamilton |
| | | Relatives: Son of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833) and Elizabeth (Stuyvesant) Fish; married to
Julia Kean (great-granddaughter of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792)); father of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); uncle of Helen Neilson (who married David
Maitland Armstrong); grandfather of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); second great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; second great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; second great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); third great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin of Margaret Cornelia Winthrop (who
married George
Folsom); first cousin once removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792), Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of James
Jay, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836) and Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; second cousin twice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Guy
Vernor Henry and Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.; third cousin of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); third cousin once removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker, Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, John
Jay II and John
Jacob Astor III; third cousin twice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third cousin thrice removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; fourth cousin 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; fourth cousin once removed of John
Bubenheim Bayard, Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
Davis |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996) —
of Millbrook, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 3,
1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1969-95 (28th District 1969-73,
25th District 1973-83, 21st District 1983-93, 19th District 1993-95);
defeated, 1966; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1984.
Episcopalian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Grange;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 23,
1996 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Grace (Chapin) Fish; father of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; grandson of Alfred
Clark Chapin and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); grandnephew of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902); great-grandson of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second great-grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); second great-grandnephew of Chester
William Chapin; third great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); third great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); sixth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; sixth great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; descendant *** of Lewis
Morris; first cousin twice removed of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of Nicholas
Bayard, David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes
DePeyster, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin once removed of Charles
Mann Hamilton and Robert
Winthrop Kean; second cousin four times removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin of Thomas
Howard Kean; third cousin once removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and Arthur
Beebe Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, David
Edgerton and John
Jay II. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sue
W. Kelly |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Graham Newell Fitch (1809-1892) —
also known as Graham N. Fitch —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., December
5, 1809.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-37, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1849-53; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1857-61; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1868.
Episcopalian.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., November
28, 1892 (age 82 years, 359
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Ind.
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Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (1875-1962) —
also known as Roy G. Fitzgerald —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
25, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer;
director, Merchants National Bank;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1921-31.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American
Legion.
Died in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, November
16, 1962 (age 87 years, 83
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Frank H. Flood (b. 1851) —
of Varick, Seneca
County, N.Y.; Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Farmer, Seneca
County, N.Y., September
17, 1851.
Republican. Physician;
Seneca
County Coroner, 1879; Chemung
County Coroner, 1898-1900; mayor of
Elmira, N.Y., 1900-02.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Folsom (b. 1847) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Folsomdale, Wyoming
County, N.Y., December
5, 1847.
Journalist;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Sheffield, 1886-93.
Episcopalian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin R. Folsom and Mary (Rathbone) Folsom; married, October
11, 1893, to Ella Blanchard Howard. |
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Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot (1855-1943) —
also known as Nicholas V. V. Franchot —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
21, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
producer; vice-president, Exchange National Bank of
Olean; director Electric
Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1892,
1896,
1904;
mayor
of Olean, N.Y., 1894-98.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., May 6,
1943 (age 87 years, 258
days).
Interment at Hillington
Cemetery, Morris, N.Y.
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Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (b. 1946) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.; Morris Plains, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1946.
Republican. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1983-94; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1995-; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 2004,
2008.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kappa
Alpha Society.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian. French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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William Holt Gale (1864-1932) —
also known as William H. Gale —
of Washington,
D.C.; Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1864.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Plata, 1906-07; Malta, 1907-10; Colón, 1914-15; U.S. Consul General in Athens, 1910-14; Munich, 1915-17; Copenhagen, 1917-18; Hong Kong, 1920-24; Amsterdam, 1924-26; Budapest, 1926-29; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Greece, 1910.
Episcopalian. Member, Theta
Xi.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Rome, Italy,
April
27, 1932 (age 68 years, 92
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ralph Abernethy Gamble (1885-1959) —
also known as Ralph A. Gamble —
of Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.; St. Michaels, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), May 6,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1931-37; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1937-57 (25th District 1937-45,
28th District 1945-53, 26th District 1953-57).
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi; Lions.
Died in St. Michaels, Talbot
County, Md., March 4,
1959 (age 73 years, 302
days).
Interment at Hopewell
Cemetery, Port Deposit, Md.
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John Jewett Garland (1902-1968) —
also known as John J. Garland —
of San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
20, 1902.
Republican. Realtor;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Episcopalian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Phi.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
30, 1968 (age 66 years, 224
days).
Interment at San
Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, Calif.; cenotaph at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Fredonia, N.Y.
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Lindley Miller Garrison (1864-1932) —
also known as Lindley M. Garrison —
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., November
28, 1864.
Democrat. Lawyer; vice-chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1904-13; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1913-16; resigned 1916.
Episcopalian.
Died in Sea Bright, Monmouth
County, N.J., October
19, 1932 (age 67 years, 326
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Gerald Thomas Gentz (b. 1949) —
also known as Gerald T. Gentz —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; East Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
26, 1949.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, Jaycees;
Lions.
Still living as of 1993.
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Irene Hazard Gerlinger (1876-1960) —
also known as Irene Strang Hazard; Mrs. George T.
Gerlinger —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in New York, December
3, 1876.
Republican. Member of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1940-48.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April 5,
1960 (age 83 years, 124
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Goelet Gerry (1879-1957) —
also known as Peter G. Gerry —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1932;
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1917-29, 1935-47; defeated, 1928,
1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from Rhode Island, 1932-36.
Episcopalian.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
31, 1957 (age 78 years, 43
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Louisa Matilda (Livingston) Gerry and Elbridge
Thomas Gerry; married, May 26,
1910, to Mathilde Townsend (who later married Benjamin
Sumner Welles); married, October
22, 1925, to Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt;
great-grandson of Elbridge
Gerry, Ann
Gerry and Maturin
Livingston; great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847); second great-grandson of Morgan
Lewis; second great-grandnephew of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward
Livingston; third great-grandson of Francis
Lewis and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Robert
Walton Goelet and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin once removed of Peter
Goelet; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and John
Jacob Astor III; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin once removed of William
Waldorf Astor; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Gerrit
Smith and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; third cousin thrice removed of Levi
Lincoln, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler and Robert
Reginald Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alfred John Gilchrist (b. 1872) —
also known as Alfred J. Gilchrist —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 10th District, 1907-08, 1915-18.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1907 |
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Charles Ellsworth Goodell (1926-1987) —
also known as Charles E. Goodell —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., March
16, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in
the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer; chair of
Chautauqua County Republican Party, 1958-59; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-68 (43rd District 1959-63,
38th District 1963-68); delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1964;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968-71; defeated, 1970.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
21, 1987 (age 60 years, 311
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Janet Hill Gordon (1915-1990) —
also known as Janet Hill —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
11, 1915.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1942-46; Chenango
County Attorney, 1944-45; first
woman county attorney in New York State; member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1947-58; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948;
member of New York
state senate 46th District, 1959-62; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 35th District, 1962.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Daughters of the
American Revolution; Grange;
Gamma
Phi Beta; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died September
17, 1990 (age 75 years, 249
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Norwich, N.Y.
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John Clinton Gray (1843-1915) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
4, 1843.
Democrat. Lawyer; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1888-1913; appointed 1888.
Episcopalian.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 28,
1915 (age 71 years, 206
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Ernest Greenwood (1884-1955) —
of Bay Shore, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
November
25, 1884.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1951-53; defeated,
1952, 1954.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died June 15,
1955 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
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Jared Comstock Gregory (1828-1892) —
also known as Jared C. Gregory —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Butternuts, Otsego
County, N.Y., January
13, 1828.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Madison, Wis., 1873-74; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President); postmaster at Madison,
Wis., 1886-90.
Episcopalian.
Died February
17, 1892 (age 64 years, 35
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Hicks George Griffiths (1910-1996) —
also known as Hicks G. Griffiths —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Amsterdam, Montgomery
County, N.Y., July 9,
1910.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1949-50; probate judge in Michigan, 1950;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1952;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1953.
Episcopalian. Member, Eagles;
Maccabees.
Died in 1996
(age about
85 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001) —
also known as Andy Guest —
of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
29, 1939.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1973-99.
Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Rotary;
Izaak
Walton League; Ruritan.
Died, of cancer,
in Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., April 2,
2001 (age 61 years, 185
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Fletcher Hale (1883-1931) —
of Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
22, 1883.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1918; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1925-31; died in
office 1931.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; American Bar
Association.
Died in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
22, 1931 (age 48 years, 273
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.
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Henry Clay Hall (1860-1936) —
also known as Henry C. Hall —
of Paris, France;
Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Colorado Springs, Colo., 1905-07; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1914-28.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, in Ashfield, Franklin
County, Mass., November
9, 1936 (age 76 years, 311
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Leonard Wood Hall (1900-1979) —
also known as Leonard W. Hall —
of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
2, 1900.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1927-28, 1934-38;
Nassau
County Sheriff, 1929-31; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1939-52 (1st District 1939-45, 2nd
District 1945-52); delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952,
1956
(speaker);
Nassau
County Surrogate, 1952-57; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1953-57; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 2,
1979 (age 78 years, 243
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian. Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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Chauncey B. Hammond (b. 1882) —
of near Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira town, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
5, 1882.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Chemung County, 1935-39; resigned 1939;
member of New York
state senate, 1940-52 (41st District 1940-44, 46th District
1945-52).
Episcopalian. Member, Rotary;
Elks; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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Augustus Noble Hand (1869-1954) —
also known as Augustus N. Hand —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., July 26,
1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director, San Juan and Reio Pedras Railroad;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1914-27; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1927-53.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died October
28, 1954 (age 85 years, 94
days).
Interment somewhere
in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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Arthur Thomas Hannett (1884-1966) —
also known as Arthur T. Hannett —
of Gallup, McKinley
County, N.M.; Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y., February
17, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Mexico, 1912
(alternate), 1920;
mayor
of Gallup, N.M., 1918-22; Governor of
New Mexico, 1925-27; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Mexico, 1939-40.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died March
18, 1966 (age 82 years, 29
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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James Haughton (1836-1912) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Newport
News, Va.
Born in County Carlow, Ireland,
October
17, 1836.
Vice-Consul
for Portugal in Newport
News, Va., 1890-1912; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Norfolk,
Va., 1892-97; Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Newport
News, Va., 1898-1912; Vice-Consul
for Netherlands in Newport
News, Va., 1902-12; Vice-Consul
for Norway in Newport
News, Va., 1908-12.
Episcopalian.
Died in Newport
News, Va., August
23, 1912 (age 75 years, 311
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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Harry Franklin Hawley (b. 1880) —
also known as Harry F. Hawley —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., July 5,
1880.
U.S. Consul in Tokyo, 1917-18; Yokkaichi, 1918-19; Nagoya, 1919-25; Windsor, 1925-36; Oporto, as of 1938; Marseille, 1942; Bilbao, as of 1943.
Episcopalian.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Hawley and Sarah Jane (Daft) Hawley; married, January
22, 1910, to Agnes Sweet. |
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Kenneth William Hechler (1914-2016) —
also known as Ken Hechler —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born near Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
20, 1914.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 4th District, 1959-77;
defeated, 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West
Virginia, 1964,
1968,
1972,
1980,
1984;
secretary
of state of West Virginia, 1985-2000; defeated, 2004.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Civitan;
American
Political Science Association.
Died in Slanesville, Hampshire
County, W.Va., December
10, 2016 (age 102 years,
81 days).
Interment at Branch Mountain United Methodist Church Cemetery, Three
Churches, W.Va.
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Frank Wayland Higgins (1856-1907) —
also known as Frank W. Higgins —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., August
18, 1856.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1888;
member of New York
state senate, 1894-1902 (32nd District 1894-95, 50th District
1896-1902); Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1903-04; Governor of
New York, 1905-06.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., February
12, 1907 (age 50 years, 178
days).
Interment at Mt.
View Cemetery, Olean, N.Y.
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Edward Holland (1702-1756) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., 1702.
Mayor
of Albany, N.Y., 1733-41; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1747-56; died in office 1756.
Anglican. English
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1756 (age about 54
years).
Original interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Eleanor Holmes=Norton (b. 1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 13,
1937.
Democrat. Lawyer; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1972;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1991-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1996
(delegation chair), 2000,
2004,
2008.
Female.
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 2019.
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Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss (1856-1922) —
also known as Henry D. Hotchkiss —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 2,
1856.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1886; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 9th District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1912-22; died in office
1922; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme
Court, 1913-15.
Episcopalian. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1922 (age 65 years, 247
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Norwalk, Ohio.
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Amory Houghton (1899-1981) —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., July 27,
1899.
Republican. President (1930-41) and chairman (1941-61), Corning Glass Works;
director, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, Erie Railroad,
and National City Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948
(alternate), 1952,
1964;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1957-61; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1981
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Amory Houghton Jr. (b. 1926) —
also known as Amo Houghton —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., August
7, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
president, Corning Glass Works,
1961; director, New York Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1987-2003 (34th District 1987-93,
31st District 1993-2003, 29th District 2003); delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 2008.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2014.
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Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. (b. 1906) —
also known as Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., December
12, 1906.
Republican. Vice-president, Corning Glass Works,
1935-40; director, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1960.
Episcopalian. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Council on
Foreign Relations; Modern
Language Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur
Amory Houghton and Mabel (Hollister) Houghton; married to
Elizabeth Douglas McCall. |
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William Houstoun (1755-1813) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1755.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784-86; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March
17, 1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Chapel, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Austin Hoyt (b. 1915) —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Beacon, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April
26, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado,
1956.
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of
the Coif.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Edward Hull (1864-1938) —
also known as Harry E. Hull —
of Williamsburg, Iowa
County, Iowa.
Born near Belvidere, Allegany
County, N.Y., March
12, 1864.
Republican. Grain
business; mayor of Williamsburg, Iowa, 1889-1901; postmaster;
president, Williamsburg Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1915-25.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
16, 1938 (age 73 years, 310
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Iowa.
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Helen Huntington Hull (1893-1976) —
also known as Helen Dinsmore Huntington; Helen Huntington
Astor; Mrs. Lytle Hull —
of Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1893.
Republican. Philanthropist; benefactor of musical institutions in New
York and the Hudson Valley; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1924.
Female.
Episcopalian. Bisexual.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
11, 1976 (age 83 years, 246
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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William S. Hults Jr. (1906-1999) —
of Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 18,
1906.
Republican. Real
estate and insurance
business; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1943-44; member
of New
York state senate 3rd District, 1945-59.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Died in 1999
(age about
93 years).
Interment at Lake Worth Memory Gardens, Lake Worth Beach, Fla.
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Henry Thomas Hunt (1878-1956) —
also known as Henry T. Hunt; "Boy
Mayor" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, April
29, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1907; Hamilton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1908-11; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1912-13; major in the U.S. Army during World
War I.
Episcopalian.
Died in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., February
29, 1956 (age 77 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ward Hunt (1810-1886) —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., June 14,
1810.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County, 1839; mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1844; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1865-70; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1868-69; Member of the New
York Commission of Appeals, 1870-72; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-82.
Episcopalian. Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
24, 1886 (age 75 years, 283
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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William J. Hutchins (1813-1884) —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Fishkill, Dutchess
County, N.Y., March 3,
1813.
Merchant;
cotton mill
business; hotel
owner; banker;
co-founded Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway;
owner and president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway;
mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1861.
Episcopalian. English
ancestry.
Died in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., June 4,
1884 (age 71 years, 93
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Lewis Morris Iddings (1850-1921) —
also known as Lewis M. Iddings —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rome, Italy.
Born in Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April
23, 1850.
Republican. Worked at New York Tribune and New York Evening
Post newspapers,
1876-91; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1905-10; representative of American Red Cross in Italy
during World War I; director, American War Relief Clearing House in
Italy.
Episcopalian.
Died December
26, 1921 (age 71 years, 247
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis J. Iddings and Jane (Chesney) Iddings; married, October
29, 1887, to Louise A. Belden. |
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Verner M. Ingram (b. 1911) —
of Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., August
27, 1911.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1957-66 (St. Lawrence County 1957-65, 121st
District 1966).
Episcopalian. Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Ethel Mason. |
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Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892-1954) —
also known as Robert H. Jackson —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Spring Creek, Warren
County, Pa., February
13, 1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S. Solicitor General, 1938-40; U.S.
Attorney General, 1940-41; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-54; died in office 1954.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1954 (age 62 years, 238
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg, N.Y.
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John Jay (1745-1829) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1745.
Lawyer;
law partner of Robert
R. Livingston; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76, 1778-79; state
court judge in New York, 1777; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1779-82; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; received 9 electoral votes, 1789;
received 5 electoral votes, 1796;
received one electoral vote, 1800;
Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1789-90; Governor of
New York, 1795-1801; defeated, 1792.
Episcopalian. French
Huguenot and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 17,
1829 (age 83 years, 156
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Pierre 'Peter' Jay and Mary (Van Cortlandt) Jay; brother of James
Jay and Frederick
Jay; married to Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (daughter of William
Livingston; sister-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes; sister of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; niece of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; first cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston); father of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; grandfather of John
Jay II; grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt; second great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
P. Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, John
Cortlandt Parker, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Edward
Livingston, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Brockholst
Livingston, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Jay County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Jay (built 1941-42 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
J. Walbridge
— John
J. Jackson
— John
Jay Jackson, Jr.
— John
Jay Hart
— John J.
Good
— John
Jay Knox
— John
J. Kleiner
— John
J. Carton
— John
J. McCarthy
— John
J. Dorman
— John
Jay Hopkins
— John
J. McCloy
— John
Jay Justice
— John
Jay Pilar
— John
Jay Hooker
— John
Jay LaValle
— John
Jay Myers
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biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Jay: Walter Stahr, John
Jay : Founding Father — Phil Webster, Can
a Chief Justice Love God? The Life of John Jay |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1958) |
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Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
23, 1877.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1909-13; U.S. Minister to Salvador, 1920-21; Romania, 1921-25; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1925-26.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
18, 1933 (age 56 years, 56
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustus Jay and Emily Astor (Kane) Jay; married, March
16, 1909, to Susan Alexander McCook; great-grandson of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and Joseph
Pearson; great-grandnephew of William
Jay; second great-grandson of John
Jay and Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825); second great-grandnephew of James
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; third great-grandson of William
Livingston; third great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fourth great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh and Phillip
French; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin twice removed of John
Jay II; first cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; second cousin thrice removed 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); second cousin four times removed
of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin five times removed of Henry
Cruger; third cousin once removed of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; third cousin thrice removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
P. Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of Brockholst
Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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William F. Jenks (1831-1910) —
of New Berlin, Chenango
County, N.Y.; Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.; Southern Pines, Moore
County, N.C.
Born in Burlington, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
29, 1831.
Democrat. Lawyer; Chenango
County Judge and Surrogate, 1878-89.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Southern Pines, Moore
County, N.C., October
3, 1910 (age 79 years, 35
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1865.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Fairfield, 1923-24; director,
U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Oak
Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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David Howell Jerome (1829-1896) —
also known as David H. Jerome —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
17, 1829.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; hardware
merchant; lumber
business; member of Michigan
state senate, 1863-68 (27th District 1863-66, 26th District
1867-68); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1868;
member of Michigan
state constitutional commission 8th District, 1873; Governor of
Michigan, 1881-82; defeated, 1882.
Episcopalian.
Died in Watkins Glen, Schuyler
County, N.Y., April
23, 1896 (age 66 years, 158
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Saginaw Township, Saginaw County, Mich.
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Hallett C. Johnson (1888-1968) —
also known as Francis Hallett Johnson —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
26, 1888.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, as of 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1944-47.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Psi.
Died, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
11, 1968 (age 79 years, 259
days).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange, N.J.
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Mary Gardiner Jones (b. 1920) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1920.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, Federal Trade Commission, 1964-73.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Order of
the Coif; American
Arbitration Association.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Charles Herbert Jones and Anna Livingston (Short)
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Henry Lee Jost (1873-1950) —
also known as Henry L. Jost —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1912-16; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1923-25.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Died July 13,
1950 (age 76 years, 219
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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