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Frank Ernest Gannett (1876-1957) —
also known as Frank E. Gannett —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Bristol, Ontario
County, N.Y., September
15, 1876.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; founder of Gannett
newspaper chain; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1936; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1940;
Vice-Chair
of Republican National Committee, 1942.
Unitarian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Society
of the Cincinnati; Elks; Rotary.
Died December
3, 1957 (age 81 years, 79
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Guy Patterson Gannett (1881-1954) —
also known as Guy P. Gannett —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine; Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, November
27, 1881.
Republican. Publisher of newspapers and owner of radio
stations; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine,
1916;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1917-18; member of Maine
state senate 7th District, 1919-20; member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1920-28.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
24, 1954 (age 72 years, 148
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Barent Gardenier (1776-1822) —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 28,
1776.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1807-11 (7th District 1807-09, 5th
District 1809-11); district attorney, 1813-15; newspaper
publisher.
Died in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., January
10, 1822 (age 45 years, 166
days).
Interment at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Seth Merrill Gates (1800-1877) —
also known as Seth M. Gates —
of Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y.; Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y.
Born in Winfield, Herkimer
County, N.Y., October
10, 1800.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Genesee County, 1832; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1839-43; Free Soil
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1848; lumber and
hardware
merchant; postmaster.
Died in Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y., August
24, 1877 (age 76 years, 318
days).
Interment at Warsaw
Cemetery, Warsaw, N.Y.
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James William Gazlay (1784-1874) —
also known as James W. Gazlay —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 23,
1784.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1823-25; newspaper
editor.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 8,
1874 (age 89 years, 320
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Henry George Jr. (1862-1916) —
of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
3, 1862.
Democrat. Newspaper work; Jeffersonian Democratic candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1897; Democratic candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York, 1900;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1911-15 (17th District 1911-13,
21st District 1913-15).
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
14, 1916 (age 54 years, 11
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Edward Gilbert (c.1819-1852) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Cherry Valley, Otsego
County, N.Y., about 1819.
Democrat. Printer;
newspaper editor; delegate
to California state constitutional convention from San Francisco
District, 1849; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Killed
in a duel with
Col. James W. Denver, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., August
2, 1852 (age about 33
years).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Robert Henry Gittins (1869-1957) —
also known as Robert H. Gittins —
of Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Sloatsburg, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y., December
14, 1869.
Democrat. Coal,
grain,
and lumber
dealer; lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 47th District, 1911-12; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912;
U.S.
Representative from New York 40th District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; newspaper publisher; postmaster at Niagara
Falls, N.Y., 1916-20 (acting, 1916-17).
Died, in Tuxedo Memorial Hospital,
Tuxedo, Orange
County, N.Y., December
25, 1957 (age 88 years, 11
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Oakwood
Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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Martin Henry Glynn (1871-1924) —
also known as Martin H. Glynn —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Valatie, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
27, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster;
owner and editor of Albany Times-Union newspaper; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1899-1901; defeated,
1900; New York
state comptroller, 1907-08; defeated, 1908; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1913; Governor of
New York, 1913-15; defeated, 1914; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1916
(Temporary
Chair; speaker),
1924.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
First
Catholic governor of New York State; brokered peace and independence
for Ireland in 1921.
Killed
himself, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December
14, 1924 (age 53 years, 78
days).
Entombed at St.
Agnes Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Elnathan O'Meara Goodrich (1824-1881) —
also known as E. O'Meara Goodrich —
of Towanda, Bradford
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Columbia Township, Bradford
County, Pa., June 23,
1824.
Newspaper publisher; Bradford
County Prothonotary, 1860-66; U.S.
Surveyor of Customs at Philadelphia, Pa., Pennsylvania, 1869-81;
died in office 1881.
Died in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., January
28, 1881 (age 56 years, 219
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Towanda, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Achsah (Parsons) Goodrich and Elisha Sheldon
Goodrich. |
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George Congdon Gorham (1832-1909) —
also known as George C. Gorham —
of Marysville, Yuba
County, Calif.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Greenport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 5,
1832.
Newspaper editor; Union candidate for Governor of
California, 1867; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1868-.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
11, 1909 (age 76 years, 221
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1873-1918) —
also known as Alfred L. M. Gottschalk —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1873.
Newspaper correspondent; sugar grower;
U.S. Consul in Callao, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in Callao, 1905-06; Mexico City, 1906-08; , 1908-11; Rio de Janeiro, 1916-18, died in office 1918.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship
Cyclops, during World
War I, he was one of 306 sailors and passengers who perished
when the ship sank, in
the North
Atlantic Ocean, March, 1918
(age 45
years, 0 days). The wreckage was never
found.
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Relatives: Son
of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher)
Gottschalk. |
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James Lorimer Graham (c.1832-1876) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1832.
Editor, Putnam's magazine; librarian;
U.S. Consul in Florence, 1869-76.
Died April
30, 1876 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Porta
a Pinti or English Cemetery, Firenze, Italy.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathan Burr Graham, Jr. and Marie Antoinette (McCoskry)
Graham. |
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Young Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Anthony Jerome Griffin (1866-1935) —
also known as Anthony J. Griffin;
"Altair" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1911-14; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1915;
U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1918-35; died in
office 1935.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of heart
disease, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
13, 1935 (age 68 years, 287
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; writer; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1968,
1972;
Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska, 1972
(on behalf of George
McGovern and R.
Sargent Shriver, Jr.).
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Henry Anatole Grunwald (1922-2005) —
also known as Henry Grunwald; Heinz Anatol
Grunwald —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
December
3, 1922.
Editor-in-chief of Time magazine; U.S. Ambassador to Austria, 1987-90.
Jewish.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
26, 2005 (age 82 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin F. Gue (1828-1904) —
of Scott
County, Iowa; Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Greene
County, N.Y., December
25, 1828.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1858-62; member of Iowa
state senate, 1862-66; postmaster at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, 1865; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1866-68.
Died in Polk
County, Iowa, June 4,
1904 (age 75 years, 162
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971) —
also known as Harry F. Guggenheim —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in West End, Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., August
23, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining and
smelting
business; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-33; co-founder, with his wife Alicia, of
Newsday, the daily newspaper of Long Island, New York.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer,
in Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1971 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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