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John Adam Quackenbush (1828-1908) —
also known as John A. Quackenbush —
of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., October
15, 1828.
Republican. Farmer; lumber
business; member of New York
state assembly from Rensselaer County 2nd District, 1863; Rensselaer
County Sheriff, 1873-76; U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1889-93; defeated,
1892; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896
(alternate).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar.
Died in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., May 11,
1908 (age 79 years, 209
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Schaghticoke, N.Y.
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Manuel Luis Quezon (1878-1944) —
also known as Manuel L. Quezon —
of Lucena, Philippines;
Tayabas, Philippines.
Born in Baler, Tayabas Province, Philippines,
August
19, 1878.
Lawyer;
Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from the Phillipine Islands,
1909-16; resigned 1916; president, Philippine Islands, 1935-44.
Catholic.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Saranac Lake, Franklin
County, N.Y., August
1, 1944 (age 65 years, 348
days).
Originally entombed at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; reinterment at Manila
North Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
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Henry Brewer Quinby (1846-1924) —
also known as Henry B. Quinby —
of Gilford, Belknap
County, N.H.; Lakeport, Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Biddeford, York
County, Maine, June 10,
1846.
Republican. Iron
manufacturer; banker;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1887-88; member of New
Hampshire state senate 6th District, 1889-90; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1891-92; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1892;
Governor
of New Hampshire, 1909-11.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., February
8, 1924 (age 77 years, 243
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton and
sugar planter;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of
Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons; Scottish
Rite Masons.
Slaveowner.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison,
but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) —
also known as A. Philip Randolph —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., April
15, 1889.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1919;
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1924; organizer,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; vice-president,
AFL-CIO, 1957; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Elks; American Civil
Liberties Union; United
World Federalists.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.
Died May 16,
1979 (age 90 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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Charles Bernard Rangel (b. 1930) —
also known as Charles B. Rangel —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 11,
1930.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly 72nd District, 1967-70; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1971-2003 (18th District 1971-73,
19th District 1973-83, 16th District 1983-93, 15th District
1993-2003); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1980,
1984,
1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Trilateral
Commission; Alpha
Phi Alpha; NAACP.
Still living as of 2014.
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George Washington Ray (1844-1925) —
also known as George W. Ray —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Otselic, Chenango
County, N.Y., February
3, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
director, Norwich Furniture
Co.; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-85, 1891-1902 (21st District
1883-85, 26th District 1891-1902); U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of New York, 1902-08.
Baptist.
Member, American
Society for International Law; Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Redmen.
Died in 1925
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Norwich, N.Y.
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Thomas Read (1881-1962) —
of Shelby, Oceana
County, Mich.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., May 28,
1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Oceana County, 1915-20; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1919-20; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1921-24, 1935-36; defeated in primary,
1930, 1936, 1938, 1942; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1924, 1940; member of Michigan
state senate 26th District, 1927-28; defeated in primary, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; Michigan
state attorney general, 1939-40; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1940;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 1950.
Congregationalist.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Rotary.
Died in 1962
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Shelby, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Read (1841-1911) and Jane (Davidson) Read; married, March
20, 1915, to Ethel Katherine White. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1939 |
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John E. Redwood (b. 1864) —
of Bay Pond, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Brighton town, Franklin
County, N.Y., 1864.
Republican. Manager of game preserve at Bay Pond, N.Y., for William
Rockefeller; assistant manager of Bay Pond, Incorporated; member of
New
York state assembly from Franklin County, 1926-29.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Alden Reed (1875-1959) —
also known as Daniel A. Reed —
of Dunkirk, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Sheridan, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
15, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1919-59 (43rd District 1919-45,
45th District 1945-53, 43rd District 1953-59); died in office 1959.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons; Delta
Chi; Elks.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., February
19, 1959 (age 83 years, 157
days).
Interment at Sheridan
Cemetery, Sheridan, N.Y.
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George Leffingwell Reed (1885-1958) —
also known as George L. Reed —
of Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
4, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1929-32; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 15th District, 1933-36; defeated, 1936.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Kappa Sigma; Freemasons.
Died in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., October
8, 1958 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Edward Reed and Ella Frances (Leffingwell) Reed; married 1911 to Helen
Roberta Moorhead; second cousin four times removed of Matthew
Griswold and Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Herman
Arod Gager; third cousin twice removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport, James
Hillhouse, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Roger
Griswold, Samuel
H. Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Phineas
Lyman Tracy and Albert
Haller Tracy; fourth cousin once removed of William
Woodbridge, Isaac
Backus, Henry
Titus Backus, Thomas
Worcester Hyde and Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Stanley Forman Reed (1884-1980) —
also known as Stanley F. Reed —
of Maysville, Mason
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Minerva, Mason
County, Ky., December
31, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
counsel, Burley Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Association; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1912-16; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kentucky, 1920,
1936;
U.S. Solicitor General, 1935-38; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1938-57.
Protestant.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons; American Bar
Association; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Phi.
Died in Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 2,
1980 (age 95 years, 93
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Willis A. Reeve (b. 1860) —
of Patchogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Aquebogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
4, 1860.
Republican. Dentist;
explorer in Labrador and the Arctic; member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 1st District, 1902-05.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathan Reeve and Roxyana (Griffing) Reeve; married, April 9,
1902, to Mary J. Bailey. |
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Timothy Morgan Regan (1843-1919) —
also known as Timothy Regan —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born near Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
14, 1843.
Democrat. Mining
business; lumberman;
hotel
proprietor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Idaho, 1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1908.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar.
Died in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, October
7, 1919 (age 75 years, 327
days).
Interment at Morris
Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Relatives: Son
of Morgan Regan and Mary (Burke) Regan; married 1878 to Rose
Charlotte Blackinger; father of Lt. John M. Regan. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: History of Idaho
(1920) |
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Michael E. Reiburn (b. 1893) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1893.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 22nd District, 1921-22;
member of New York
state senate 20th District, 1923-26.
Member, Freemasons; Sigma
Alpha Mu; Delta
Sigma Rho; Modern
Woodmen.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Reich (born c.1894) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; jeweler;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1923-25; member of
New York
Democratic State Committee, 1936.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Order of the
Eastern Star; Freemasons; Grotto;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas M. Reynolds (b. 1950) —
of Clarence, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa., September
3, 1950.
Republican. Insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly 147th District, 1988-98; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1999-2004 (27th District 1999-2003,
26th District 2003-04).
Member, National Rifle
Association; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2014.
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William H. Reynolds (1868-1931) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1868.
Republican. Builder;
real
estate developer; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1894-95; indicted
by a grand jury in August 1917 for perjury,
over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the
city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he falsely
denied any personal
interest in the realty company which owned the property; also indicted
in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud
the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were
dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; village
president of Long Beach, New York, 1921-22; mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; indicted
on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for misappropriating
city funds in connection with a bond issue; tried in
June 1924, convicted,
sentenced
to six months in the county
jail, and automatically removed from
office as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division
reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the
indictment was dismissed in June 1927.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks;
Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1931 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to
Elise Guerrier. |
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Irving F. Rice (b. 1867) —
of Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Truxton town, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
17, 1867.
Republican. Farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Cortland County, 1919-33.
Member, Grange;
Farm
Bureau; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Rufus Richtmyer —
of Fultonville, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
hardware
business; coal
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Montgomery County, 1927-32; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1932.
Member, Freemasons; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Harold Riegelman (1892-1982) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, August
19, 1892.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for New York
state senate 15th District, 1922; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1936,
1952,
1956;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1938;
acting postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1953; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1953.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Zeta
Beta Tau; Freemasons; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died in 1982
(age about
89 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Riegelman and Bertha (Meyer) Riegelman; married, November
1, 1919, to Gladys B. Liebman. |
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William Gillett Ritch (1830-1904) —
also known as William G. Ritch —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Ulster
County, N.Y., May 4,
1830.
Ulster
County Clerk; served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1867; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin; newspaper
editor; secretary
of New Mexico Territory, 1880.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Engle, Sierra
County, N.M., September
14, 1904 (age 74 years, 133
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Donald Lawrence Ritter (b. 1940) —
also known as Don Ritter —
of Coopersburg, Lehigh
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1940.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 15th District, 1979-93;
defeated, 1992.
Member, Order of
Ahepa; Elks;
Freemasons.
Still living as of 2014.
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James Arthur Roberts (1847-1922) —
also known as James A. Roberts —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterboro, York
County, Maine, March 8,
1847.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1879-80 (Erie County 3rd District 1879, Erie
County 4th District 1880); New York
state comptroller, 1894-98; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
19, 1922 (age 75 years, 256
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Roberts and Alma (Roberts) Roberts; married, June 1,
1871, to Minnie Pineo; married, December
11, 1884, to Martha Dresser. |
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Fred B. Robertson (1871-1959) —
also known as Fred Robertson —
of Atwood, Rawlins
County, Kan.; Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Craigville, Orange
County, N.Y., July 2,
1871.
Democrat. Lawyer; Rawlins
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1899-03; member of Kansas
state senate 39th District, 1909-13; U.S.
Attorney for Kansas, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kansas, 1924;
Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1924-28.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons; Elks.
Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., November
1, 1959 (age 88 years, 122
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John M. Robertson and Nancy J. (Haley) Robertson; married, May 15,
1900, to Luella Jane Hotchkiss. |
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William Henry Robertson (1823-1898) —
also known as William H. Robertson —
of Katonah, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
10, 1823.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1849-50;
member of New York
state senate, 1854-55, 1872-81, 1888-91 (7th District 1854-55,
9th District 1872-79, 12th District 1880-81, 1888-91); Westchester
County Judge, 1856-67; U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1867-69; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1881-85; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1884,
1892,
1896.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Katonah, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
6, 1898 (age 75 years, 57
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Bedford, N.Y.
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George A. Robinson (1851-1908) —
of Sayville, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newmarket, Ontario,
January, 1851.
Republican. Physician;
naturalized U.S. citizen; volunteer
fire fighter; director, Sayville Electric
Light and Power Company; member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1901-02.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Foresters;
Royal
Arcanum.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., February
22, 1908 (age 57 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Islip, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Amelia A. Foster. |
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James R. Robinson (b. 1885) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., June 27,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1923-36.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners;
Eagles;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. James R. Robinson; married to Elsie L.
Williams. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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John J. Robison (b. 1824) —
of Sharon Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Phelps, Ontario
County, N.Y., August
23, 1824.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state senate 8th District, 1863-64; Washtenaw
County Clerk, 1869-72, 1883-86; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1872;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1874, 1876; member of
Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 3rd
District, 1879-80; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1886-87.
Scotch-Irish,
English,
and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Kirby Rockefeller (1875-1948) —
also known as Lewis K. Rockefeller —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., November
25, 1875.
Republican. Accountant;
Deputy New York State Tax Commissioner, 1915-21; Deputy New York
State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, 1921-33; chair of
Columbia County Republican Party, 1933-40; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1937-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Elks.
Died in Canaan, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
18, 1948 (age 72 years, 298
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Adolph Julius Rodenbeck (1862-1960) —
also known as Adolph J. Rodenbeck —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., 1862.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 2nd District, 1899-1901; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1902-03; Judge of New York Court of Claims,
1903-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1916-32; appointed 1916.
German
ancestry. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons; Odd
Fellows.
Died in 1960
(age about
98 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles T. Rodenbeck and Fredericka C. Rodenbeck. |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, December 1901 |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed; later Episcopalian.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Moose; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot
in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his
speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of
Anna L. Roosevelt (who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)) and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, December
2, 1886, to Edith
Kermit Carow (first cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; uncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt (who married Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; granduncle of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather of Susan
Roosevelt (who married William
Floyd Weld); great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Martin
Van Buren; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; 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). |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. — Asa
Bird Gardiner |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The minor
planet (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), is
named
for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Ted
Dalton
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action — Rick Marshall, Bully!:
The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than
250 Vintage Political Cartoons |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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William Warren Rose (1864-1931) —
also known as William W. Rose —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
12, 1864.
Architect;
mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1905-06, 1906; defeated, 1897 (Fusion),
1907 (Democratic); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1908,
1920.
Member, Freemasons.
An ouster
lawsuit was filed against him in 1905 over his refusal to
enforce the state's liquor
prohibition law; fined
$1,000 for contempt
by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1907 for trying to hold office as
mayor.
Died May 4,
1931 (age 67 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Robert Henry Roy (1866-1919) —
also known as Robert H. Roy —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1912; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1919; died in office 1919.
Congregationalist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Royal
Arcanum.
Died, from pleural
and mediastinal carcinoma, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
10, 1919 (age 52 years, 124
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Roy H. Rudd —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 20th District, 1937-44; member
of New
York state senate 9th District, 1945-46; defeated, 1946.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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J. Ward Russell (1879-1967) —
of Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Yates
County, N.Y., 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1920; mayor
of Glens Falls, N.Y., 1952-53, 1958-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1967
(age about
88 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lloyd A. Russell (b. 1921) —
of East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., July 4,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; dairy farmer;
member of New York
state assembly 149th District, 1967-72.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Grange;
American
Legion; Freemasons.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Margaret Bailey. |
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Spencer Booth Russell (1846-1913) —
also known as Spencer B. Russell —
of Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich.
Born in Jerusalem, Yates
County, N.Y., November
24, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; mayor
of Mt. Clemens, Mich., 1881-83.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar.
Died in Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich., November
22, 1913 (age 66 years, 363
days).
Interment at Clinton
Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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