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Lewis Morris Iddings (1850-1921) —
also known as Lewis M. Iddings —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rome, Italy.
Born in Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April
23, 1850.
Republican. Worked at New York Tribune and New York Evening
Post newspapers, 1876-91; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1905-10; representative of American Red Cross in Italy
during World War I; director, American War Relief Clearing House in
Italy.
Episcopalian.
Died December
26, 1921 (age 71 years, 247
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis J. Iddings and Jane (Chesney) Iddings; married, October
29, 1887, to Louise A. Belden. |
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John Nathaniel Ingersoll (1817-1881) —
also known as John N. Ingersoll —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich.; Corunna, Shiawassee
County, Mich.
Born in North Castle town, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 4,
1817.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1849, 1869-70 (Chippewa County
1849, Shiawassee County 1st District 1869-70); member of Michigan
state senate 28th District, 1861-62; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1868;
mayor of Corunna, Mich.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Corunna, Shiawassee
County, Mich., May 13,
1881 (age 64 years, 9
days).
Interment at Pine
Tree Cemetery, Corunna, Mich.
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Orange Jacobs (1827-1914) —
of Jacksonville, Jackson
County, Ore.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born near Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., May 2,
1827.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1869-75; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1875-79; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1879-80; member
Washington territorial council, 1885-87; superior court judge in
Washington, 1896-1900.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 21,
1914 (age 87 years, 19
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Meyer Jacobstein (1880-1963) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
25, 1880.
Democrat. University
professor; newspaper publisher; U.S.
Representative from New York 38th District, 1923-29; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924,
1928,
1932.
Jewish.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., April
18, 1963 (age 83 years, 83
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Amaziah Bailey James (1812-1883) —
also known as Amaziah B. James; A. B.
James —
of Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Stephentown, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., July 1,
1812.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1854-76; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1877-81.
Died in Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., July 6,
1883 (age 71 years, 5
days).
Interment at Ogdensburg
Cemetery, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
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Henry M. James (b. 1885) —
also known as Harry M. James —
of Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y., August
18, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1926-30; defeated, 1930;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1948,
1952,
1956.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) —
also known as Thomas L. James —
of Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., March
29, 1831.
Republican. Canal toll
collector; newspaper publisher; customs
inspector; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1873-81; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1881-82; bank
director; mayor
of Tenafly, N.J., 1896.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died, following several strokes of
apoplexy, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
11, 1916 (age 85 years, 166
days).
Entombed at Church
of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Eliot Janeway (1913-1993) —
also known as Eliot Jacobstein; "Calamity
Janeway" —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
1, 1913.
Democrat. Economist;
economic advisor to Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Lyndon
Johnson; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1948;
newspaper columnist.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from diabetes
and heart
problems, in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1993 (age 80 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Reuben Jelliff (1854-1936) —
also known as Fred R. Jelliff —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.
Born in Whitesboro, Oneida
County, N.Y., September
25, 1854.
Republican. Newspaper editor; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1904.
Died in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., September
17, 1936 (age 81 years, 358
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Fletcher Gould Jelliff and Mary White (Wilcox) Jelliff; married,
February
25, 1897, to Lillie C. Bassler. |
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Olive M. Johnson (1872-1954) —
also known as Olivin Malmberg —
of Illinois; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Topanga, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Lund, Sweden,
March
14, 1872.
Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for University
of Illinois trustee, 1904; editor, Socialist Labor
newspaper, The Weekly People, 1918-38; Socialist Labor
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1918; Socialist Labor candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1929, 1932; Socialist Labor candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934.
Female.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Malibu, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 16,
1954 (age 82 years, 94
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 1853.
Author;
poet;
Editor, Century Magazine, 1909-13; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1920-21.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
14, 1937 (age 84 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ambrose Latting Jordan (1789-1865) —
also known as Ambrose L. Jordan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.; Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Hillsdale, Columbia
County, N.Y., May 5,
1789.
Whig. Lawyer; Otsego
County Surrogate, 1815-18; Otsego
County District Attorney, 1818-20; newspaper editor;
member of New York
state assembly from Columbia County, 1825; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1826-29; resigned 1829; in September
1845, during a trial, he and the opposing counsel (New York Attorney
General John
Van Buren) came to
blows in the courtroom; both were sentenced
to 24 hours in jail; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846; New York
state attorney general, 1848-49.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 16,
1865 (age 76 years, 72
days).
Interment at Hudson
City Cemetery, Hudson, N.Y.
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Theron Preston Keator (1850-1917) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Rosendale, Ulster
County, N.Y., September
1, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; lecturer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1884.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 10,
1917 (age 66 years, 282
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Simon Peter Snyder Keator and Hannah (Coutant) Keator; married 1869 to
Frances Adelaide Marsh; second cousin once removed of Nathan
Keator; third cousin once removed of John
Frisbee Keator; fourth cousin of Thomas
Vincent Cator. |
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Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Milton Kelly (1818-1892) —
of Idaho.
Born in Onondaga
County, N.Y., September
9, 1818.
Member of Idaho
territorial House of Representatives, 1863-64; justice of
Idaho territorial supreme court, 1865-70; newspaper editor and
publisher.
Died April 9,
1892 (age 73 years, 213
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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James Murray Kempton (1917-1997) —
also known as Murray Kempton —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
16, 1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
newspaper columnist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1968;
received a Pulitzer
Prize for commentary in 1985.
Died May 5,
1997 (age 79 years, 140
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Branson Kempton and Sally (Ambler) Kempton. |
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article |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999) —
also known as John F. Kennedy, Jr.;
"John-John"; "The American
Son" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
25, 1960.
Democrat. Lawyer; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
founder, George magazine.
Catholic.
Killed, along with his wife and sister-in-law, in a plane
crash, near Martha's Vineyard, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, July 16,
1999 (age 38 years, 233
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline
Kennedy; married, September
21, 1996, to Carolyn Jeanne Bessette; nephew of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; grandson of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; great-grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; first cousin of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Robert
Francis Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967). |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Phineas M. Kent (1808-1888) —
of New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind.
Born in Whitesborough, Oneida
County, N.Y., October
20, 1808.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1851-52; postmaster at New
Albany, Ind., 1853; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Indiana, 1856.
Died in Brookston, White
County, Ind., November
21, 1888 (age 80 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in the St. Albans Naval Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
7, 1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper columnist;
radio
talk show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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Rufus King (1814-1876) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1814.
Republican. Civil
engineer; newspaper editor; delegate
to Wisconsin state constitutional convention, 1848; superintendent
of schools; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1856;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Papal States, 1863.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1876 (age 62 years, 261
days).
Interment at Grace
Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
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George Washington Kingsbury (1837-1925) —
also known as George W. Kingsbury —
of Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak.
Born in Lee, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
16, 1837.
Republican. Printer;
member
Dakota territorial council, 1863-67; Republican Presidential
Elector for South Dakota, 1892;
member of South
Dakota state senate 3rd District, 1895-96; newspaper
editor.
Died in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., January
28, 1925 (age 87 years, 43
days).
Interment at Yankton
Municipal Cemetery, Yankton, S.Dak.
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William Burnet Kinney (1799-1880) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Morris
County, N.J., September
4, 1799.
Whig. Newspaper editor; delegate to Whig National Convention
from New Jersey, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Sardinia, 1850-53.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1880 (age 81 years, 47
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Thomas Kinsella (1832-1884) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland,
December
31, 1832.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1864,
1876;
postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1866-67; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1871-73.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
11, 1884 (age 51 years, 42
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles McIlvaine Kinsolving Jr. (1927-2021) —
also known as Charles M. Kinsolving, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., 1927.
Democrat. Advertising
business; senior vice president, American Newspaper
Publishers Association; candidate for New York
state assembly, 1954 (New York County 9th District), 1998 (73rd
District); campaign manager, Paul
O'Dwyer for U.S. Senate, 1970, and Herman
Badillo for New York City mayor, 1973.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 2021
(age about
94 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Morton Koster (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard M. Koster; R. M.
Koster —
of Canal Zone (now part of Panama).
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1934.
Democrat. Novelist;
journalist; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Canal Zone, 1964,
1968,
1972;
member of Democratic National Committee from Canal Zone, 1967-76;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Democrats Abroad, 1988,
1992,
1996.
Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2013.
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David M. Kramer (born c.1920) —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born about 1920.
Democrat. Newspaper proofreader; member of New York
state assembly 26th District; elected 1986.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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