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Ernest Robinson Ackerman (1863-1931) —
also known as Ernest R. Ackerman —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 17,
1863.
Republican. President, Lawrence Portland
Cement Company; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; member of New
Jersey state senate from Union County, 1906-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908,
1916;
member of New Jersey
state board of education, 1918-20; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1919-31; died in
office 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League.
He was elected to the American Philatelic Society Hall of
Fame in 2000.
Died, of heart
disease, in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., October
18, 1931 (age 68 years, 123
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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George Bethune Adams (1845-1911) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 3,
1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1901-11;
died in office 1911.
Member, Union League.
Died in Hague, Warren
County, N.Y., October
9, 1911 (age 66 years, 189
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mortimer Clark Addoms (1842-1930) —
also known as Mortimer C. Addoms —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 4,
1842.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1905; defeated, 1904;
appointed 1905; defeated, 1905.
Member, Union League.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
25, 1930 (age 87 years, 356
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Addoms and Mary Agnes (Clark) Addoms; married 1875 to Mary
Ann Baldwin. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Melville Agnew (b. 1878) —
also known as Arthur M. Agnew —
of Grantwood, Cliffside Park, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
22, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1913-15;
candidate for New
Jersey state senate from Bergen County, 1916.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks; Moose; Freemasons;
Kiwanis;
Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Agnew and Maria (McGovern) Agnew; married, October
20, 1910, to Elizabeth Johnston. |
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George Bliss Agnew (1868-1941) —
also known as George B. Agnew —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1868.
Republican. Stockbroker;
director of mining
companies and railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900
(alternate), 1904
(alternate), 1908;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 27th District, 1903-06;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1907-10.
Presbyterian.
English,
French
Huguenot, Scottish,
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Union League; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1941 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Gifford Agnew and Mary Hervey (Bliss) Agnew; married 1908 to Emily
D. Gruban. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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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
|
| | | 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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Joseph M. Aspinall (b. 1854) —
also known as Joseph Aspinwall —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1854.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1888-89, 1891;
member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1892-93; Kings
County Judge, 1896; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-24.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Theodore Bartlett (1841-1910) —
also known as Edward T. Bartlett —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y., June 14,
1841.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1891; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1894-1910; died in office 1910.
French
and English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Died, of heart
disease, in Albany Hospital,
Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 3,
1910 (age 68 years, 323
days).
Interment somewhere
in Skaneateles, N.Y.
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William Robert Bayes (1876-1964) —
also known as William R. Bayes —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wauseon, Fulton
County, Ohio, July 29,
1876.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Kings Highway Savings Bank;
president, Brooklyn National Life
Insurance Co.; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 8th District, 1915;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1922, 1933, 1940; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; justice,
New York City Court of Special Sessions, 1935-46.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Union League.
Died in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., November
28, 1964 (age 88 years, 122
days).
Interment at Willowbrook
Cemetery, Westport, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac E. Bayes and Fannie A. (Guilford) Bayes; married, September
7, 1904, to Mabel Ross. |
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Charles Goodwin Bennett (1863-1914) —
also known as Charles G. Bennett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
11, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1892, 1898; Secretary of the U.S. Senate, 1900-12.
Member, Union League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 25,
1914 (age 50 years, 165
days).
Interment at The
Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Berri (1848-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
12, 1848.
Republican. Carpet
merchant; printing
business; newspaper
publisher; officer or director of banks, electric
utilities, and the New York Telephone
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1916-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union League.
In 1911, he was arraigned
on a charge
of criminal
libel over an article he published in his newspaper, brought by
three candidates for Supreme Court, Herbert
T. Ketcham, Patrick
E. Callahan, and William
Willett, Jr.; the case was withdrawn a few days later when the
other two candidates discovered that Willett had indeed (as Berri
charged) paid bribes for his nomination.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 1917 (age 68 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Berri ; married 1869 to
Frances Williams Morris. |
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Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833-1911) —
also known as Cornelius N. Bliss —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., January
26, 1833.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; New York
Republican state chair, 1887-89; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1892-1904; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900,
1904;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1897-99.
English
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
9, 1911 (age 78 years, 256
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr. (1874-1949) —
also known as Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
13, 1874.
Republican. Business
executive; philanthropist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1916
(alternate), 1924,
1928
(speaker);
Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1916.
Member, Union League.
Died, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1949 (age 74 years, 357
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Charles Grosvenor Bond (1877-1974) —
also known as Charles G. Bond —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, May 29,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; Union League.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., January
10, 1974 (age 96 years, 226
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at West
Union Street Cemetery, Athens, Ohio.
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Frederic Holdrege Bontecou (1893-1959) —
also known as Frederic H. Bontecou —
of Millbrook, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., November
30, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; farmer; bank
director; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1932
(alternate), 1936
(alternate), 1944,
1952,
1956;
chair
of Dutchess County Republican Party, 1932-42; member of New York
state senate, 1934-38, 1943-47 (28th District 1934-38, 1943-44,
33rd District 1945-47); resigned 1947; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 28th District, 1938;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1938.
Member, American
Legion; Union League; Rotary.
Died in Millbrook, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
17, 1959 (age 65 years, 291
days).
Interment at Nine
Partners Burial Ground, Millbrook, N.Y.
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Robert William Bonynge (1863-1939) —
also known as Robert W. Bonynge —
of Denver,
Colo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
8, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1893-94; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1904-09; defeated,
1900.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union League.
Died, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
22, 1939 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Henry Colvin Brewster (1845-1928) —
also known as Henry C. Brewster —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., September
7, 1845.
Republican. Banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 31st District, 1895-99; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1900,
1904
(alternate).
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Died in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., January
29, 1928 (age 82 years, 144
days).
Originally entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.; reinterment to unknown location.
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Benjamin Helm Bristow (1832-1896) —
also known as Benjamin H. Bristow —
of Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elkton, Todd
County, Ky., June 20,
1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1863-65; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1866-70; law partner of John
M. Harlan, 1870; U.S. Solicitor General, 1870-72; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1874-76; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1876.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union League.
Died, from appendicitis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 22,
1896 (age 64 years, 2
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Cullen Bryant (1849-1905) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
1, 1849.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; Brooklyn Fire
Commissioner, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union League.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Dr. Cooley's Sanitarium,
Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., February
15, 1905 (age 55 years, 198
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Orrin N. Carter (b. 1854) —
of Morris, Grundy
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Jefferson
County, N.Y., January
22, 1854.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; Grundy
County Superintendent of Schools, 1880-82; Grundy
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1882-88; Cook
County Judge, 1894-1905; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1906-24.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benajah Carter and Isabel (Cole) Carter; married, August
1, 1881, to Nettie J. Steven. |
| | | Image source: Illinois Blue Book
1919 |
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Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
24, 1832.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American Bar
Association; Union League.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1917 (age 85 years, 110
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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John Proctor Clarke (1856-1932) —
also known as J. Proctor Clarke —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Florence (Firenze), Italy,
of American parents, April
23, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1900-26; appointed 1900;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1905-26.
Member, Union League; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Murray Hill Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 1932 (age 75 years, 264
days).
Interment somewhere
in Northampton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Edwards Clarke and Mary (Proctor) Clarke; married, June 25,
1884, to Sarah M. Parker; married, July 8,
1924, to Ida (Hatch) Cambell. |
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William Willets Cocks (1861-1932) —
also known as William W. Cocks; "The Quaker
Congressman" —
of Old Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Old Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 24,
1861.
Republican. Member of New York
state senate 2nd District, 1901-02; member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 3rd District, including Nassau
County, 1904; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910.
Quaker.
Member, Union League.
Died in Old Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 24,
1932 (age 70 years, 305
days).
Interment at Friends
Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
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Fred Pierce Corson (1896-1985) —
also known as Fred P. Corson —
of Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cornwall, Lebanon
County, Pa.
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., April
11, 1896.
Methodist
minister; president,
Dickinson College, 1934-44; Methodist Bishop of Philadelphia,
1944-68; offered prayer, Republican National Convention, 1948,
1952;
offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1948.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Union League; Rotary;
Kappa
Sigma; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage after a fall, in
St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., February
16, 1985 (age 88 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Corson and Mary (Payne) Corson; married 1922 to
Frances Blount Beaman. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Dickinson
College |
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George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) —
also known as George B. Cortelyou —
of Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 26,
1862.
Republican. School
principal; confidential stenographer to President Grover
Cleveland, 1895-96; Executive Clerk of the White House, 1896-98;
secretary to President William
McKinley, 1900-01; secretary to President Theodore
Roosevelt, 1901-03; financier;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-04; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1904-07; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1905-07; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09; president, Consolidated Gas
Company, New York, 1909-35; director, New York Life
Insurance Company; first president, Edison Electric Institute,
1933.
Member, Union League.
Died, following two heart
attacks, in Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
23, 1940 (age 78 years, 89
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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James G. Cutler (1848-1927) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April
24, 1848.
Republican. Architect;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1904-07.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union League.
Patented
the mail chute for tall buildings.
Died in 1927
(age about
79 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John N. Cutler and Mary E. (Goold) Cutler; married, September
27, 1871, to Anna K. Abbey. |
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
23, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary
of state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union League; Society
of the Cincinnati; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Depew and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew; married, November
9, 1871, to Elise Hegeman; married, December
28, 1901, to May Palmer; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Sherman; second cousin twice removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; second cousin four times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Merton
William Fairbank; third cousin thrice removed of Reuben
Bostwick Heacock; fourth cousin of John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of John
Adams Dix, Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks, John
Stanley Addis and Archibald
Cox. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Depew, New
York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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James A. Doughty (b. 1850) —
of Torrington, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Beekman, Dutchess
County, N.Y., 1850.
Republican. Brass
manufacturing executive; banker;
candidate for Connecticut
state senate 30th District, 1910.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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John Wilbur Dwight (1859-1928) —
also known as John W. Dwight —
of Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y., May 24,
1859.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1888,
1892,
1900,
1904,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1902-13 (26th District 1902-03,
30th District 1903-13); president, Virginia Blue Ridge Railway,
1913-28.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1928 (age 68 years, 240
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Ellis P. Earle (b. 1860) —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1860.
Republican. Member, New Jersey Board of Institutions and Agencies,
1918-22, 1930; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1924;
director, Chatham Phenix Bank and
Trust Company; director, Coronet Phosphate
Company; president, Georgia Peruvian Ochre Company; president,
Nipissing Mines
Company; director, Phillips Petroleum
Company.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper
publisher; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1910; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Union League.
Died, from uremic
poisoning, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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James Madison Edmunds (1810-1879) —
also known as James M. Edmunds —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Niagara
County, N.Y., August
23, 1810.
Dry goods
merchant; supervisor
of Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, 1838-39; member of Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1840-41; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County, 1846-47;
Whig candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1847; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850; lumber
business; Michigan
Republican state chair, 1855-61; Commissioner of the General Land
Office, 1861-66; postmaster at Washington,
D.C., 1869-79.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
14, 1879 (age 69 years, 113
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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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John Villiers Farwell (1825-1908) —
also known as John V. Farwell;
"Dutch" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Painted Post, Steuben
County, N.Y., July 29,
1825.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; mayor
of Lake Forest, Ill., 1871-72.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League.
Died in Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill., August
20, 1908 (age 83 years, 22
days).
Interment at Lake
Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Ill.
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Edward Ridley Finch (b. 1873) —
also known as Edward R. Finch —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1873.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1902-04; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1915-34; appointed 1915;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1922-33; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1935-40.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Lucius Finch and Annie Ridley (Crane) Finch; married, January
18, 1913, to Mary Livingston Delafield. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Curtiss E. Frank (1904-1990) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
13, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1944-49; resigned 1949; publishing
executive.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., February
3, 1990 (age 85 years, 82
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Scott Graham (1850-1931) —
also known as George S. Graham —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
13, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer; Philadelphia
County District Attorney, 1880-98; law
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1892,
1916
(alternate), 1924;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1913-31; died in
office 1931.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union League.
Died in Islip, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 4,
1931 (age 80 years, 294
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Albert Harbison (b. 1874) —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa., November
14, 1874.
Republican. Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Pollock Harbison and Emma Jane (Boyd) Harbison; married, November
2, 1911, to Harriet Virginia Euwer. |
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James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) —
also known as James G. Harbord —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March
21, 1866.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and
chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad;
director, Bankers Trust Co.;
director, National Broadcasting
Co.; director, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York
Life Insurance
Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924,
1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union League.
Died in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward Wingate Hatch (1852-1924) —
also known as Edward W. Hatch —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Friendship, Allegany
County, N.Y., November
26, 1852.
Republican. Blacksmith;
lawyer;
Erie
County District Attorney, 1881-86; Buffalo superior court judge,
1887-95; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 8th District, 1896-1903; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1896-1900; law partner of Alton
B. Parker, 1905-12, and William
F. Sheehan, 1905-15.
Member, Union League.
Died in Friendship, Allegany
County, N.Y., June 1,
1924 (age 71 years, 188
days).
Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Friendship, N.Y.
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William Hayward (1877-1944) —
of Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb., April
29, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
Otoe
County Judge, 1901-02; Nebraska
Republican state chair, 1907-09; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1908-12; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1921-25; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924.
Member, United
Spanish War Veterans; Sons of
the Revolution; American
Legion; Union League.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1944 (age 67 years, 167
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Loring Townsend Hildreth (1873-1915) —
also known as Loring T. Hildreth; Loring Thayer
Hildreth —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., July 24,
1873.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Siam in New
York, N.Y., 1902-07.
Member, Union League.
Died, in a private
sanitarium, at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1915 (age 41 years, 251
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Van Derveer Hodges (1878-1965) —
also known as William V. Hodges —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Westville, Otsego
County, N.Y., July 6,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1924,
1928,
1932;
member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, 1924;
speaker, 1924,
1928;
Convention Vice-President, 1928;
member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee, 1936;
Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1924-28.
Member, Delta
Psi; Union League.
Died in Denver,
Colo., 1965
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Relatives: Son
of George Lincoln Hodges and Ella (Van Derveer) Hodges; married, December
3, 1902, to Mabel E. Gilluly; married 1926 to
Catherine Lowndes. |
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James Robinson Howe (1839-1914) —
also known as James R. Howe —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
27, 1839.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1902; Kings
County Register of Deeds, 1900-02; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1900.
Member, Union League.
Died in North Salem, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
21, 1914 (age 75 years, 237
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., April
11, 1862.
Republican. Lawyer; law
professor; Governor of
New York, 1907-10; resigned 1910; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1908;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-16; resigned 1916; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-41; candidate for President
of the United States, 1916; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1921-25.
Baptist.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Epsilon; Union League.
Died in Osterville, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
27, 1948 (age 86 years, 138
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Denis Michael Hurley (1843-1899) —
also known as Denis M. Hurley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Limerick, Ireland,
March
14, 1843.
Republican. Carpenter;
building
contractor; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1881; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1895-99; defeated,
1898; died in office 1899; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1896.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Suffered a stroke of
paralysis on November 10, 1898, and died three months later, in
Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., February
26, 1899 (age 55 years, 349
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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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Martin Augustine Knapp (1843-1923) —
also known as Martin A. Knapp —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Spafford, Onondaga
County, N.Y., November
6, 1843.
Republican. Member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1891-1910; Judge
of U.S. Commerce Court, 1910-13; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1914-23; died in
office 1923.
Unitarian.
Member, Union League.
Died February
10, 1923 (age 79 years, 96
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Justus Norton Knapp and Polly (McKay) Knapp; married, December
29, 1869, to Marion Hotchkiss. |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in America
(1906) |
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Frederick John Henry Kracke (1868-1954) —
also known as Frederick J. H. Kracke —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 11,
1868.
Republican. Produce
merchant; cemetery
monument business; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1904,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1948,
1952;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1907, 1930; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1932; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grange;
Union League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
2, 1954 (age 86 years, 144
days).
Interment somewhere
in West Eaton, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Kracke and Henrietta (Hoffman) Kracke; married 1890 to
Florence Tayntor. |
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Almet Reed Latson (b. 1860) —
also known as Almet R. Latson —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1860.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1909; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 8th District, 1915.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union League; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Blakeslee Law (1872-1929) —
also known as Charles B. Law —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hannibal, Oswego
County, N.Y., February
5, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; state court judge in New York, 1916; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Union League.
Died while swimming
(presumably drowned)
at his summer home on Kattskill Bay, near Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., September
15, 1929 (age 57 years, 222
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Jordan, N.Y.
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John Edgar Leaycraft (1849-1916) —
also known as J. Edgar Leaycraft —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
15, 1849.
Republican. Real estate
business; New York State Tax Commissioner, 1899.
Methodist.
Member, Union League; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 3,
1916 (age 67 years, 110
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Warren Isbell Lee (1874-1955) —
also known as Warren I. Lee —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bartlett, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
5, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1906-10, 1920 (Kings County 18th District
1906-10, Kings County 21st District 1920); U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1910 (5th District), 1922 (6th District), 1924 (6th District).
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Union League.
Died December
25, 1955 (age 81 years, 323
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Seth Low (1850-1916) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1850.
Republican. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1882-85; president,
Columbia University, 1890-1900; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1902-03; defeated, 1897, 1903; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union League.
Died in Bedford Hills, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
17, 1916 (age 66 years, 243
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Clayton Riley Lusk (1872-1959) —
also known as Clayton R. Lusk —
of Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Lisle, Broome
County, N.Y., December
21, 1872.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; lawyer; law
partner of Rowland
L. Davis, 1902-15; member of New York
state senate 40th District, 1919-24.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks;
Union League; Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died in Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y., February
14, 1959 (age 86 years, 55
days).
Interment at Cortland
Rural Cemetery, Cortland, N.Y.
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Harold Whitney Mason (1895-1944) —
also known as Harold W. Mason —
of Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
21, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; boot and shoe
business; vice-president, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital;
director for power
companies, insurance
companies, the Central Vermont Railway,
and the Estey Organ
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1932;
Convention Secretary, 1940,
1944;
secretary, Arrangements Committee, secretary, 1940;
speaker, 1940;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; delegate
to Vermont convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; member of
Republican
National Committee from Vermont, 1936-44; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1937-44.
Member, American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union League; Sigma
Nu.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
3, 1944 (age 49 years, 196
days).
Interment at Morningside
Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lysander Mason and Margaret Etta (Matthews) Mason;
married, March
17, 1918, to Evelyn Hawley Dunham. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Official Report of the
22nd Republican National Convention (1940) |
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Chester B. McLaughlin (1856-1929) —
of Port Henry, Essex
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Moriah, Essex
County, N.Y., February
10, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; Essex
County Judge and Surrogate, 1891-95; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 21st District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1896-99, 1910-17; Justice
of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1898-99; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1917-26.
Member, Union League.
Died, in Albany Hospital,
Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 12,
1929 (age 73 years, 91
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Port Henry, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman McLaughlin and Harriet (Chapman) McLaughlin; married to Lucy
Warner. |
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Edward Mitchell (b. 1842) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
15, 1842.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1880;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1883, 1886; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1889-94.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Mitchell and Mary Penfold (Berrien) Mitchell; married, December
5, 1867, to Caroline Carson Woolsey. |
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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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Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) —
also known as Levi P. Morton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Shoreham, Addison
County, Vt., May 16,
1824.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; financier;
U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1879-81; defeated,
1876; U.S. Minister to France, 1881-85; Vice
President of the United States, 1889-93; Governor of
New York, 1895-97; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1896.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., May 16,
1920 (age 96 years, 0
days).
Interment at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy Jr. (c.1908-1985) —
also known as Grayson M. P. Murphy, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., about 1908.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League.
Died, of cancer,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 13,
1985 (age about 77
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Nast (1840-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Landau, Germany,
September
27, 1840.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; news
correspondent and cartoonist
for Harper's Weekly and other magazines
and newspapers;
noted for his creation of such icons as the Republican elephant and
Democratic donkey; instrumental in the downfall of New York City
political boss William
M. Tweed; U.S. Consul General in Guayaquil, 1902, died in office 1902.
German
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
December
7, 1902 (age 62 years, 71
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Guayaquil, Ecuador; reinterment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John A. Nichols (b. 1831) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., August
28, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Brooklyn Warehouse &
Storage Company; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1881.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Charles O'Brien (1860-1927) —
also known as Edward C. O'Brien —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fort Edward, Washington
County, N.Y., April
20, 1860.
Republican. Flour commission
business; U.S. Commissioner of Navigation, 1889-93; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
chairman, International Deep
Waterways Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, 1896; U.S. Minister to
Paraguay, 1905-09; Uruguay, 1905-09.
Member, Union League.
Died in Montevideo, Uruguay,
June
21, 1927 (age 67 years, 62
days).
Entombed at British Cemetery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Eugene Franklin O'Connor (1844-1928) —
also known as Eugene F. O'Connor —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
10, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; banker;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1886; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1888-89; candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1891.
Catholic.
Member, Union League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
29, 1928 (age 83 years, 140
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Jacob Van Vechten Olcott (1856-1940) —
also known as J. Van Vechten Olcott —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1905-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1912.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union League.
Died June 1,
1940 (age 84 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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James Otis (1836-1898) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
12, 1836.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1878; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1884-85.
Member, Union League.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 22,
1898 (age 61 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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August V. Pappert (b. 1874) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
28, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 3rd District, 1911-13.
German
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Will H. Parry (1864-1917) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 29,
1864.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; treasurer and manager, Moran Shipbuilding
Co., 1900-15; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-17; died in
office 1917.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union League.
Died, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1917 (age 52 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William M. Parry and Elizabeth (Gillette) Parry; married, January
15, 1891, to Harriet Phelps. |
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Herbert Parsons (1869-1925) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
28, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1905-11; defeated,
1900 (12th District), 1910 (13th District); delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1916-20; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
Presbyterian
or Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Union League.
Lost control of a motor
bicycle, fell,
suffered a ruptured
kidney, and died as a result, in House of Mercy Hospital,
Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., September
16, 1925 (age 55 years, 323
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Guy Ray Pelton (1824-1890) —
also known as Guy R. Pelton —
of New York.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
3, 1824.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1855-57; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Union League; Freemasons.
Died in Wyoming, July 24,
1890 (age 65 years, 355
days).
Interment at Mahaiwe
Cemetery, Great Barrington, Mass.
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Cornelius Welles Pendleton (1859-1936) —
also known as Cornelius W. Pendleton —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 71st District, 1893-96, 1899-1900; member of California
state senate, 1901-04; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1907-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks;
Union League.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
17, 1936 (age 77 years, 257
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Richard C. Perry (b. 1859) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1859.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1904-05.
Member, Union League; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Phelps Phelps (1897-1981) —
also known as Phelps von Rottenburg —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.; Wildwood, Cape May
County, N.J.
Born in Bonn, Germany,
May
4, 1897.
Member of New York
state assembly, 1924-28, 1937-38 (New York County 10th District
1924-28, New York County 3rd District 1937-38); delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936,
1948
(alternate); member of New York
state senate 13th District, 1939-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; Governor of
American Samoa, 1951-52; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1952-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Jersey, 1956,
1960,
1964
(alternate); delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1966.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Psi
Upsilon; Urban
League; Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union League; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in Wildwood, Cape May
County, N.J., June 10,
1981 (age 84 years, 37
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Horace Porter (1837-1921) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Huntingdon, Huntingdon
County, Pa., April
15, 1837.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor for action at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; executive
secretary to Pres. Ulysses
S. Grant, 1869-73; vice-president, Pullman Palace Car Co. (railroad
cars); president, New York West Shore & Buffalo Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1897-1905.
Member, Union League.
Died May 29,
1921 (age 84 years, 44
days).
Interment at Old
First Methodist Churchyard, West Long Branch, N.J.
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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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Elihu Root (1845-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
15, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-85; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1899-1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904
(Temporary
Chair), 1912;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1909-15; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Union League; American
Society for International Law; American Bar
Association; American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1937 (age 91 years, 358
days).
Interment at Hamilton
College Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y.
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William Frederick Morgan Rowland (1842-1883) —
also known as W. F. Rowland —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, May 10,
1842.
Coffee
importer;
U.S. Consul in Nice, 1883, died in office 1883.
Member, Union League.
Died in Thun, Switzerland,
August
3, 1883 (age 41 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Hazen Russell (1845-1912) —
also known as Charles H. Russell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., July 11,
1845.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1880-81; member of
New
York state senate 3rd District, 1882-83; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Union League.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1912 (age 66 years, 247
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) —
also known as Herbert L. Satterlee —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary for U.S. Senator William
M. Evarts, 1887-89; served in the U.S. Navy during the
Spanish-American War; counsel for Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad,
1898-1902; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1906-07; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union League; Navy
League; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1947 (age 83 years, 256
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George LeRoy Bowen Satterlee and Sarah Bradley (Wilcox) Satterlee;
married, November
15, 1909, to Louisa Pierpont Morgan (daughter of J. Pierpont
Morgan); second great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Walter
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin four times removed
of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Joel Scudder (1825-1886) —
also known as Henry J. Scudder —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Northport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
18, 1825.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1873-75; candidate for
New York City superior court judge, 1882.
Member, Union League.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
10, 1886 (age 60 years, 145
days).
Interment at Old Northport Cemetery, Northport, Long Island, N.Y.
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Julius Hubbell Seymour (b. 1855) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., October
30, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1901-02.
Member, Union League; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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James Rockwell Sheffield (1864-1938) —
also known as James R. Sheffield —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, August
13, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Sen. William
B. Allison; member of New York
state assembly, 1894, 1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1936;
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1924-27; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Saranac Inn, Franklin
County, N.Y., September
2, 1938 (age 74 years, 20
days).
Interment somewhere
in Utica, N.Y.
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George R. Sheldon —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1900,
1916.
Member, Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Elliott Fitch Shepard (1833-1893) —
also known as Elliott F. Shepard —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 25,
1833.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Theron
R. Strong, 1868-73; banker; newspaper
owner; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1892.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union League; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
24, 1893 (age 59 years, 242
days).
Entombed at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Charles Emory Smith (1842-1908) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., February
18, 1842.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1876;
U.S. Minister to Russia, 1890-92; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1898-1902.
Baptist.
Member, Union League; Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
19, 1908 (age 65 years, 335
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Edward Delafield Smith (1826-1878) —
also known as E. Delafield Smith —
of New York.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., May 8,
1826.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1861-65.
Member, Union League.
Died in Shrewsbury, Monmouth
County, N.J., April
12, 1878 (age 51 years, 339
days).
Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard, Shrewsbury, N.J.
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Isaac Townsend Smith (1813-1906) —
also known as Isaac T. Smith —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
12, 1813.
Republican. Banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Consul-General
for Siam in New
York, N.Y., 1887-1903.
Member, Union League.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
30, 1906 (age 93 years, 18
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Reynard Todd (c.1868-1945) —
also known as John R. Todd —
of Summit, Union
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Johnstown, Rock
County, Wis., about 1868.
Republican. Lawyer;
president of the Todd Robertson Todd construction
and engineering
firm; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1928,
1932,
1940.
Member, Union League.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 12,
1945 (age about 77
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Brodhead Van Buren (1824-1889) —
also known as Thomas B. Van Buren —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clermont, Columbia
County, N.Y., June 20,
1824.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1865; U.S.
Consul General in Kanagawa, 1874-85.
Member, Union League.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., October
13, 1889 (age 65 years, 115
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.; cenotaph at Ste. Marguerite Anglo-American Church, Nice, France.
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Samuel B. H. Vance (1814-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1814.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1874.
Member, Union League.
Died in Douglaston (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y., August
10, 1890 (age about 76
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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
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Byron Sylvester Waite (1852-1930) —
also known as Byron S. Waite —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Penfield, Monroe
County, N.Y., September
27, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1889-90, 1895-96; assistant
prosecuting attorney; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1899-1900; appointed 1899;
member, U.S. Board of General Appraisers, 1902-26; Judge
of U.S. Customs Court, 1926-30; retired 1930.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks;
Union League.
Died in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
31, 1930 (age 78 years, 95
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Bentley Weeks (1854-1935) —
also known as Frank B. Weeks —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1854.
Republican. Grain milling
business; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1909; Governor of
Connecticut, 1909-11; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1912,
1916.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Union League.
Died October
2, 1935 (age 81 years, 255
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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James Lucius Whitley (1872-1959) —
also known as James L. Whitley —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., May 24,
1872.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 2nd District, 1906-10; member
of New
York state senate 45th District, 1919-28; U.S.
Representative from New York 38th District, 1929-35; defeated,
1934.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Maccabees;
Woodmen
of the World; United
Spanish War Veterans; Sons
of Veterans; Union League.
Died in 1959
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947) —
also known as Charles S. Whitman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hanover, Sprague, New London
County, Conn., September
29, 1868.
Republican. New
York County District Attorney; Governor of
New York, 1915-19; defeated, 1918; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Union League.
Died March
29, 1947 (age 78 years, 181
days).
Interment at Westlawn
Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Fred C. Williams (1858-1920) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1858.
Republican. Journalist;
advertising
business; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1908.
Member, Union League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 14,
1920 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Hartman Woodin (1868-1934) —
also known as William H. Woodin; Will
Woodin —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Berwick, Columbia
County, Pa., May 27,
1868.
President, American Car and Foundry Company, manufacturer of railroad
freight cars; chairman, American Locomotive
Company; music
composer; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1933.
Presbyterian.
Member, Lions;
Union League.
Died, from a throat
infection and nephritis,
in the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1934 (age 65 years, 341
days).
Entombed at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Berwick, Pa.
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Franklin Woodruff (1832-1898) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Farmington, Hartford
County, Conn., April
29, 1832.
Republican. Candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1879; candidate for New York
state senate 3rd District, 1895.
Member, Union League.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
15, 1898 (age 65 years, 320
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Rollin Simmons Woodruff (1854-1925) —
also known as Rollin S. Woodruff —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 14,
1854.
Republican. President, C. S. Mersick & Co., wholesale iron
dealers; director, Connecticut Savings Bank and
Mechanics Bank;
president, Grace Hospital
of New Haven; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1903; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07; Governor of
Connecticut, 1907-09; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate), 1924.
English
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Died June 30,
1925 (age 70 years, 351
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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