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William Alvord (1833-1904) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
3, 1833.
Hardware
dealer; banker; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1871-73; San Francisco Police
Commissioner, 1878-99.
Member, Loyal Legion; American
Forestry Association.
Died, of heart
failure due to bronchial
troubles, in San
Francisco, Calif., December
21, 1904 (age 71 years, 353
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) —
also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur;
"The Gentleman Boss"; "His
Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our
Chet"; "Dude President" —
of New York.
Born in Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal Legion; Psi
Upsilon; Union
League.
Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once
removed of Benjamin
Franklin Flanders and Cassius
Montgomery Clay Twitchell. |
| | | Political families: Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders
family of New Hampshire; Fairbanks-Adams
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | The village
of Arthur,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The village
of Chester,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lake
Arthur, in Polk
County, Minnesota, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Chester
A. Heitman
— Chester
Arthur Pike
— Chester
A. Johnson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Chester A. Arthur: Thomas
C. Reeves, Gentleman
Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur — Justus D.
Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur — George Frederick Howe, Chester
A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics —
Zachary Karabell, Chester
Alan Arthur — Paul Joseph, Chester
Arthur (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Louis Henri Aymé (1855-1912) —
also known as Louis H. Aymé —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1855.
Republican. Ethnologist;
newspaper
correspondent; U.S. Consul in Mérida, 1880-84; Guadeloupe, 1898-99; Pará, 1903-06; U.S. Consul General in Lisbon, 1906-12, died in office 1912.
Member, Loyal Legion; Sons
of Veterans; American
Antiquarian Society; American
Society for International Law.
Died, from "locomotor ataxia" (presumably syphilis),
in Lisbon, Portugal,
May
16, 1912 (age 56 years, 353
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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George Sherman Batcheller (1837-1908) —
also known as George S. Batcheller —
of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 25,
1837.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Saratoga County 2nd District, 1859, 1873-74,
1886, 1889; resigned 1889; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; judge, International Tribunal of Egypt, 1875-85, 1898; U.S.
Minister to Portugal, 1890-92.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died, from mouth
cancer, in Paris, France,
July
2, 1908 (age 70 years, 343
days).
Interment at Greenridge
Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Thomas Wilson Bradley (1844-1920) —
also known as Thomas W. Bradley —
of Walden, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
April
6, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
New
York state assembly from Orange County 1st District, 1876;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884
(alternate), 1892,
1896,
1900,
1908;
U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1903-13.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1896 for action at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.
Died in Walden, Orange
County, N.Y., May 30,
1920 (age 76 years, 54
days).
Interment at Wallkill
Valley Cemetery, Walden, N.Y.
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Henry Skillman Breckinridge (1886-1960) —
also known as Henry Breckinridge; Henry
Breckenridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Fresh Meadows, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 25,
1886.
Democrat. Assistant Secretary of War, 1913-16; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; lawyer;
attorney for Charles A. Lindbergh, 1932; Constitutional candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Loyal Legion; Navy
League.
Died, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1960 (age 73 years, 344
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1921) and Louise Ludlow (Dudley)
Breckinridge; married, July 7,
1910, to Ruth (Bradley) Woodman; married, August
5, 1927, to Aida (de Acosta) Root; married, March
27, 1947, to Margaret Lucy Smith; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; grandson of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandnephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823), William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; great-grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; great-grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; second great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; second great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of Levin
Irving Handy and Desha
Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin twice removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd and George
Rogers Clark Floyd; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and Edward
Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John
William Leftwich, Stephen
Valentine Southall and Earle
Cabell; fourth cousin of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) —
also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
26, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president,
Aetna Life
Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884
(alternate), 1896;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1896;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of the War of 1812.
First
president of the National League of Professional Base
Ball Clubs in 1876.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Milton John Daniels (1838-1914) —
also known as Milton J. Daniels —
of Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.; Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y., April
18, 1838.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; banker;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 14, 1883-86; member of
Minnesota
state senate 14th District, 1887-90; U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 1903-05.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion.
Died in Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif., December
1, 1914 (age 76 years, 227
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Park, Riverside, Calif.
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Henry Stewart Dean (1830-1915) —
also known as Henry S. Dean —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Lima, Livingston
County, N.Y., June 14,
1830.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; grocer; miller;
postmaster at Ann
Arbor, Mich., 1870-72; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1894-1907; appointed 1894;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Historical Association.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
18, 1915 (age 85 years, 126
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Frederick H. E. Ebstein (1847-1916) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Militsch, Prussia (now Milicz, Poland),
April
21, 1847.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; major in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1905.
German
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
8, 1916 (age 68 years, 293
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Jeanie V. Smith. |
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Joel Benedict Erhardt (1838-1909) —
also known as Joel B. Erhardt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Pottstown, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
21, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1888; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1889-91.
Member, Loyal Legion; Union
League; Sphinx;
Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
8, 1909 (age 71 years, 199
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Winsor Brown French (1832-1910) —
also known as Winsor B. French —
of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., July 28,
1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; postmaster at Saratoga
Springs, N.Y., 1899-1903.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., March
24, 1910 (age 77 years, 239
days).
Interment at Greenridge
Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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Asa Bird Gardiner (1839-1919) —
also known as Asa Bird Gardner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1839.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor for actions in Civil War War battles, but it was revoked
in 1917 when no evidence was found to support his award; law
professor; New
York County District Attorney, 1898-1900; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900;
removed
from office as District Attorney in December 1900, by Gov. Theodore
Roosevelt, over charges
that he had interfered
with the prosecution of election cases against Tammany Hall.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Society
of the Cincinnati; Loyal Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society
of the War of 1812; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., May 24,
1919 (age 79 years, 236
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) —
also known as Ulysses S. Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant;
"Savior of the Union"; "Lion of
Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of American
Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender Grant";
"The Galena Tanner"; "The Silent
Soldier"; "The Silent General" —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont
County, Ohio, April
27, 1822.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; President
of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died of throat
cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 23,
1885 (age 63 years, 87
days).
Interment at General
Grant Memorial, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; married, August
22, 1848, to Julia
Boggs Dent (sister-in-law of Alexander
Sharp; sister of George
Wrenshall Dent and Lewis
Dent); father of Frederick
Dent Grant and Ulysses
Simpson Grant Jr.; grandfather of Nellie Grant (who married William
Pigott Cronan); first cousin twice removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter
Buell Porter; second cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter
Buell Porter Jr. and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); second cousin four times removed of
Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Samuel
Lathrop, Abel
Huntington and William
Rush Merriam; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington and Henry
Scudder; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Theodore
Davenport, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Jesse
Monroe Hatch, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Warren
Delano Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
Porter — Ayres
Phillips Merrill — Robert
Martin Douglas — Thomas
L. Hamer — James
Arkell |
| | | Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Ulysses
G. Palmer
— Ulysses
S. G. Bieber
— Ulysses
G. Denman
— Ulysses
G. Crandell
— Ulysses
S. G. Blakely
— S. U.
G. Rhodes
— Ulysses
G. Borden
— U.
Grant Mengel
— Ulysses
G. Foster
— Ulysses
G. Byers
— U.
S. Grant Leverett
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $50 bill, and also appeared on $1 and $5
silver certificates in 1887-1927. |
| | | Personal motto: "When in doubt,
fight." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean
Edward Smith, Grant —
Frank J. Scaturro, President
Grant Reconsidered — William S. McFeely, Grant —
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 — Brooks
D. Simpson, Let
Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and
Reconstruction, 1861-1868 — James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses
S. Grant — Michael Korda, Ulysses
S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero — Edward H. Bonekemper,
A
Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military
Genius — Harry J. Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — H. W. Brands, The
Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and
Peace — Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant's
Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year —
Joan Waugh, U.
S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth |
| | | Critical books about Ulysses S. Grant:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Fiction about Ulysses S. Grant: Newt
Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant
Comes East — Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never
Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) —
also known as Winfield S. Hancock —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Montgomery
County, Pa., February
14, 1824.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1868,
1876;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1880.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal Legion.
Died in Governor's Island, New York
County, N.Y., February
9, 1886 (age 61 years, 360
days).
Interment at Montgomery
Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.; statue erected 1896 at Hancock
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Baldwin Harshaw (1842-1900) —
also known as Henry B. Harshaw —
of Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Argyle, Washington
County, N.Y., June 14,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster
at Oshkosh,
Wis., 1877-86; Wisconsin
state treasurer, 1887-91.
Member, Elks; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Wounded at the battle of Laurel Hill, Va., 1864, and lost his
left arm as a result.
Died, of tongue
cancer, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., December
25, 1900 (age 58 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Riverside
Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
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Charles Dewey Hilles (1867-1949) —
also known as Charles D. Hilles —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Belmont
County, Ohio, June 23,
1867.
Republican. Secretary to President William
Howard Taft, 1911-12; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1912-16; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1916
(member, Arrangements
Committee; speaker),
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Arrangements
Committee), 1940;
member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1920-38; Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1925; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two months later, in Speonk, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
27, 1949 (age 82 years, 65
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Hilles and Elizabeth (Lee) Hilles; married 1896 to Dollie
Bell Whiley. |
| | | Image source: Official Report of the
22nd Republican National Convention (1940) |
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Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836-1913) —
also known as Lucius F. Hubbard —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., January
26, 1836.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; grain
business; railroad
builder; member of Minnesota
state senate 16th District, 1872-75; Governor of
Minnesota, 1882-87; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1896; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., February
5, 1913 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn.
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Horatio Collins King (1837-1918) —
also known as Horatio C. King —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
22, 1837.
Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Democratic candidate
for secretary
of state of New York, 1895; Independent Democratic candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1897; Progressive
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks;
Loyal Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received Medal
of Honor for action near Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 29,
1865.
Died November
15, 1918 (age 80 years, 328
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Brinton McClellan (1865-1940) —
also known as George B. McClellan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dresden, Saxony (now Germany)
of American parents, November
23, 1865.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1895-1903; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1904-09; university
professor; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Loyal Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died November
30, 1940 (age 75 years, 7
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William McKinley Jr. (1843-1901) —
also known as "Idol of Ohio" —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, January
29, 1843.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District
1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District
1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884,
1888;
Governor
of Ohio, 1892-96; President
of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion; Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Knights
of Pythias; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Leon Czolgosz, at a reception
in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Originally entombed at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; re-entombed in 1907 at McKinley
Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas
County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William McKinley and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; married to
Ida
Saxton; first cousin of William
McKinley Osborne; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Prather Fletcher. |
| | | Political family: McKinley
family of Canton, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Albert
Halstead — Loran
L. Lewis — George
B. Cortelyou — John
Goodnow |
| | | McKinley County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Mount
McKinley (the highest peak in North America, now known by its
traditional name, Denali), in Denali
Borough, Alaska, was named for
him. — McKinley High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
McKinley Thomas
— William
McKinley Thomas
— William
M. Bell
— William
M. Branch
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 bill in 1928-46. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Full
Dinner Pail." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Advance
Agent of Prosperity." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William McKinley: Lewis L.
Gould, The
Presidency of William McKinley — Kevin Phillips, William
McKinley — H. Wayne Morgan, William
McKinley and His America |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Thomas Channing Moore (b. 1872) —
also known as T. Channing Moore —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., June 1,
1872.
Republican. Sales
manager; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1920-26,
1929.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; Loyal Legion; Phi
Delta Theta; Union
League; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. W. C. Moore; married 1907 to Bertha
Douglas Stone; grandson of Francis
Elias Spinner. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1924 |
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Henry Taylor Noyes (1838-1903) —
also known as Henry T. Noyes —
of Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Starkey, Yates
County, N.Y., August
10, 1838.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1890.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., October
2, 1903 (age 65 years, 53
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Watkins Glen, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Noyes and Harriet E. (Wickes) Noyes; married to Lucinda
Chamberlain. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Gibson Parkhurst (1824-1906) —
also known as John G. Parkhurst —
of Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Oneida Castle, Oneida
County, N.Y., April
17, 1824.
Democrat. Lawyer; insurance
business; Branch
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1852-55; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1860
(Convention
Secretary), 1888
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker);
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1868; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1872; candidate for Michigan
state treasurer, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1888-89; postmaster at Coldwater,
Mich., 1894-98.
Episcopalian.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; American Bar
Association.
Died in Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich., May 6,
1906 (age 82 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Parkhurst and Sally (Gibson) Parkhurst; married 1852 to Amelia
Noyes; married 1863 to Josie
B. Reeves; married 1874 to
Frances J. (Roberts) Fiske. |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary |
| | | Image source: History and Biographical
Record of Branch County (1906) |
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John Raines (1840-1909) —
of Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., May 6,
1840.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; insurance
agent; member of New York
state assembly from Ontario County, 1881-82, 1885; member of New York
state senate, 1886-89, 1895-1909 (28th District 1886-89, 26th
District 1895, 42nd District 1896-1909); U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1889-93; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1896
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker),
1900
(alternate), 1904,
1908
(alternate).
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., December
16, 1909 (age 69 years, 224
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Canandaigua, N.Y.
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William Gorham Rice (b. 1856) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December
23, 1856.
Democrat. Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1895-98; candidate
for mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1903; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
York; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1914.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal Legion; Sons of
the Revolution.
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William A. Rice and Hannah (Seely) Rice; married, February
10, 1892, to Harriet Langdon Pruyn. |
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John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) —
also known as John M. Schofield —
Born in Gerry, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1868-69.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at Wilsons Creek, Mo., August 10,
1861.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., March 4,
1906 (age 74 years, 156
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Henry Seward Jr. (1839-1920) —
also known as William H. Seward, Jr. —
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., June 18,
1839.
Republican. Banker;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
29, 1920 (age 80 years, 316
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal Legion.
In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta,
Georgia. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The community
of Sherman,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Mount
Sherman, in Lake
and Park
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
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| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman |
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Isaac Ruth Sherwood (1835-1925) —
also known as Isaac R. Sherwood —
of Bryan, Williams
County, Ohio; Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
13, 1835.
Democrat. Probate judge in Ohio, 1860; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; secretary
of state of Ohio, 1869-73; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1873-75, 1907-21, 1923-25 (6th District
1873-75, 9th District 1907-21, 1923-25); defeated, 1920, 1924;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Member, Loyal Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Leading advocate of the $1/day pension for Union Civil War veterans.
Voted against U.S. entry into World War I.
Died in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, October
15, 1925 (age 90 years, 63
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Julius H. Stahel (1827-1912) —
also known as Julius H. Stahel-Számwald —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Szeged, Hungary,
November
5, 1827.
Newspaper
editor; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action at the Battle of Piedmont, June 5,
1864; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, 1866-69; Osaka, 1877-84; Hiogo, 1877-84; mining engineer;
U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 1884-85; insurance
executive.
Hungarian
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion.
Died, from angina
pectoris, in the Hotel St.
James, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
4, 1912 (age 85 years, 29
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1877-1952) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth, Jr. —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
12, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1905-10; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1906-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1915-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1933-51 (39th District 1933-45,
41st District 1945-51); delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal Legion; Grange;
United
Spanish War Veterans; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Union
League; Skull
and Bones.
The U.S. Senate's leading opponent of woman suffrage and alcohol
prohibition.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1952 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Mary Louisa (Travers) Wadsworth; married,
September
30, 1902, to Alice Hay (daughter of John
Milton Hay); father of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Evelyn Wadsworth (who married William
Stuart Symington); nephew of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; grandson of James
Samuel Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; great-grandson of Reverdy
Johnson; great-grandnephew of Thomas
Fielder Bowie; second great-grandson of John
Johnson; second great-grandnephew of Robert
William Bowie (1787-1848); third great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott and Robert
William Bowie (1750-1818); third great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr., Benjamin
Mackall IV, Walter
Bowie and Thomas
Mackall; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Margaret
Taylor; second cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth cousin once removed of Eli
Coe Birdsey, George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine, June
1919 |
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Stuyvesant Wainwright II (1921-2010) —
of Wainscott, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1953-61; defeated,
1960; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1956.
Member, Loyal Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi; Chi Psi.
Died in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March 6,
2010 (age 88 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Post Wheeler (1869-1956) —
also known as Post Wheeler —
Born in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., August
6, 1869.
Newspaper
editor; mining
business; author;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1930-33; Albania, 1933-34; poet.
Member, Loyal Legion; Freemasons.
Died in 1956
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.
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William Halsted Wiley (1842-1925) —
also known as William H. Wiley —
of East Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 10,
1842.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; engineer;
publisher
of scientific works; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 8th District, 1903-07, 1909-11.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in 1925
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange, N.J.
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Stewart Lyndon Woodford (1835-1913) —
also known as Stewart L. Woodford —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
3, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1867-68; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1870; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1872,
1880
(alternate), 1908;
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1873-74; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1877-83; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1897-98.
Member, Delta
Psi; Loyal Legion.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1913 (age 77 years, 164
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
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John Blackburne Woodward (1835-1896) —
also known as John B. Woodward —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 31,
1835.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; leather
business; importer
and exporter; Independent candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1885.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 7,
1896 (age 60 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Woodward and Mary Barrow (Blackburne) Woodward; married, May 31,
1870, to Elizabeth Cook Blackburne. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: John B. Woodward: a
biographical memoir (1897) |
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Robert John Wynne (1851-1922) —
also known as Robert J. Wynne —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1851.
Telegrapher;
journalist;
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1904-05; U.S. Consul General in London, 1905-10; insurance
executive.
Catholic.
Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1922 (age 70 years, 113
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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