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Alex Abjornson (1924-2008) —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Seargantsville, Hunterdon
County, N.J.; Melbourne, Brevard
County, Fla.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 21,
1924.
Conservative. Candidate for New York
state senate 10th District, 1966.
Danish ancestry. Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died June 15,
2008 (age 83 years, 330
days).
Interment at Rosemont
Cemetery, Rosemont, N.J.
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Relatives:
Married to Celeste Montgomery. |
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Gilbert Leonard Anderberg (1890-1978) —
also known as Gilbert L. Anderberg —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., October
29, 1890.
Communist. Candidate for mayor
of Jamestown, N.Y., 1931; candidate for New York
state assembly from Chautauqua County 1st District, 1936.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in July, 1978
(age 87
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Phillip Anderson (1885-1977) —
also known as Edward P. Anderson —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; West Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Patterson, Putnam
County, N.Y., December
9, 1885.
Dentist;
Prohibition candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1914, 1916;
treasurer of Connecticut Prohibition Party, 1922-27.
Swedish ancestry.
Died May 10,
1977 (age 91 years, 152
days).
Interment at Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Charles Ulrick Bay (1888-1955) —
also known as Charles U. Bay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Rensselaer, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
5, 1888.
Founder, Bay Company, manufacturer
of medical supplies; partner, A. M. Kidder & Co., stockbrokers;
founder, Bay Petroleum
Corporation; stockholder and director, New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad;
director, First National Bank and
Trust Company of Bridgeport; also involved with the Connecticut Railway
and Lighting
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1946-53.
Episcopalian.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died, in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
31, 1955 (age 67 years, 117
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Sosthenes Behn (1884-1957) —
also known as Louis Richard Sosthenes Behn —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now Virgin
Islands), January
30, 1884.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; sugar
business; member of Republican National Committee from Puerto
Rico, 1912; delegate to Republican National Convention from Puerto
Rico, 1912;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; he and his brother
Hernand bought a telephone
company in Puerto Rico, and went on to establish International
Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), which rapidly expanded worldwide.
Danish, French,
and Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
6, 1957 (age 72 years, 342
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Arthur T. Berge (b. 1907) —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., February
22, 1907.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County 1st District, 1945-48;
defeated, 1940.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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John Oscar Ceder (1874-1948) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Burlington, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Finland,
August
16, 1874.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; farmer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Burlington, 1919-20.
Finnish ancestry.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
11, 1948 (age 74 years, 117
days).
Interment at Center Cemetery, Burlington, Conn.
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Relatives:
Married to Mabel Mercer. |
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John Cruger (1678-1744) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Germany,
1678.
Merchant;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1739-44; died in office 1744.
Dutch
Reformed; later Anglican.
Danish ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
13, 1744 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish,
French,
Swedish, and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Erland Gjessing (1869-1954) —
of New York.
Born in Schleswig, Germany,
March
16, 1869.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; bookkeeper;
stenographer;
interpreter;
U.S. Vice Consul in Copenhagen, 1918-38.
Danish ancestry.
Died in Glover, Orleans
County, Vt., October
28, 1954 (age 85 years, 226
days).
Interment at Westlook
Cemetery, Glover, Vt.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Eric Hass (1905-1980) —
of Oregon; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., 1905.
Socialist. Advertising
business; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1936; editor
of The Weekly People, 1938-68; Industrial Government candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1944; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949 (Industrial Government), 1957
(Socialist Labor), 1961 (Socialist Labor), 1965 (Socialist Labor);
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (Industrial Government), 1958 (Socialist Labor),
1962 (Socialist Labor); Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964; librarian.
German
and Danish ancestry.
Resigned or expelled from the Socialist Labor Party, 1969.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Community Hospital,
Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., October
2, 1980 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.), April 14,
1948 |
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Steny Hamilton Hoyer (b. 1939) —
also known as Steny H. Hoyer —
of Berkshire, Prince
George's County, Md.; Mechanicsville, St. Mary's
County, Md.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 14,
1939.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate District 4-C, 1967-78; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1978; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1981-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008
(speaker).
Baptist.
Danish ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Phyllis Kirk (1927-2006) —
also known as Phyllis Kirkegaard —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., September
18, 1927.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Danish ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
aneurysm, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
19, 2006 (age 79 years, 31
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Kristen Kristensen (born c.1889) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Denmark,
about 1889.
Republican. Insurance
broker; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1950-61; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1958.
Danish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Dutton S. Peterson (b. 1894) —
of Enfield Center, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; near Odessa, Schuyler
County, N.Y.
Born in Costello, Potter
County, Pa., December
10, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; Methodist
minister; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; member of
New
York state assembly from Schuyler County, 1937-42; member of New York
state senate, 1953-64 (46th District 1953-54, 50th District
1955-64).
Methodist.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Marine
Corps League; Sons of
the American Revolution; Grange;
Rotary;
Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Pieter Van Brugh (1666-1740) —
also known as Pieter Verbrugge —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in 1666.
Mayor
of Albany, N.Y., 1699-1700, 1721-23.
Dutch
and Norwegian ancestry.
Died in 1740
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Dutch
Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh and Trijntje (Roeloffs) Van Brugh;
married 1688 to
Sarah Cuyler; grandfather of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; great-grandfather of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; second great-grandfather of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); third great-grandfather of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; fourth great-grandfather of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fifth great-grandfather of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; sixth great-grandfather of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; seventh great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish, Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.. |
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family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
7, 1883.
Republican. Opera
singer; honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1936.
Danish ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Physicians' Hospital,
Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., September
12, 1953 (age 70 years, 36
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Westergaard (1931-2003) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born July 2,
1931.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state senate, 1960; campaign treasurer for Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, 1965-94; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1996.
Norwegian ancestry.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil fraud charges
against him in 2000; Paul
J. Curran volunteered to serve as defense counsel pro bono; in
2001, the fraud charges were withdrawn, and the case was settled with
no penalty.
Died, of prostate
cancer, at Calvary Hospice,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
31, 2003 (age 71 years, 213
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ebba M. Winslow (1865-1952) —
also known as Ebba M. Loewenmark —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Rosedale, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Gothenberg (Göteborg), Sweden,
November
5, 1865.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1932;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 4th District, 1921; member of
New York
Republican State Committee, 1930-36.
Female.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Hempstead, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 5,
1952 (age 86 years, 182
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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