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Joshua Willis Alexander (1852-1936) —
also known as Joshua W. Alexander —
of Gallatin, Daviess
County, Mo.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
22, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1883-87; Speaker of
the Missouri State House of Representatives, 1887; mayor of
Gallatin, Mo., 1891-92; circuit judge in Missouri 7th Circuit,
1901-07; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 3rd District, 1907-19; resigned
1919; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1919-21; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention at-large, 1922-23.
Presbyterian;
later Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Gallatin, Daviess
County, Mo., February
27, 1936 (age 84 years, 36
days).
Interment at Brown
Cemetery, Gallatin, Mo.
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Thomas William Ludlow Ashley (1923-2010) —
also known as Thomas L. Ashley —
of Waterville, Lucas
County, Ohio; Leland, Leelanau
County, Mich.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, January
11, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1955-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1960,
1964.
Member, American
Legion; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Elks; Eagles;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Leland, Leelanau
County, Mich., June 15,
2010 (age 87 years, 155
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Andrew John Biemiller (1906-1982) —
also known as Andrew J. Biemiller —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio, July 23,
1906.
College
instructor; Socialist Party educational director for Milwaukee,
1933-36; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Milwaukee County 2nd District, 1937-42; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1945-47, 1949-51;
defeated (Democratic), 1946, 1950, 1952; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948,
1952
(alternate).
Quaker.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Eagles;
Elks;
Delta Kappa Epsilon; American
Federation of Teachers.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 3,
1982 (age 75 years, 254
days).
Interment at Ellicott
Family Cemetery, Ellicott City, Md.
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Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898) —
also known as Calvin S. Brice —
of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Denmark, Morrow
County, Ohio, September
17, 1845.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
active in railroad
law; president of railroad
companies; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1888;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Ohio, 1888; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1889-92; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1891-97.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
15, 1898 (age 53 years, 89
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Lima, Ohio.
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Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964) —
also known as Harold H. Burton —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho; East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 22,
1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
assistant attorney, Utah Power &
Light Company and Utah Light &
Traction
Company, 1914-16; attorney, Idaho Power
Company and Boise Valley Traction
Company, 1916-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member
of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1929; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1931-32, 1936-41; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1944;
speaker, 1936;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1941-45; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1945-58; took senior status 1958.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles;
Grange;
Rotary;
Kiwanis;
Exchange
Club.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
28, 1964 (age 76 years, 128
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Highland Hills, Ohio.
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Sherman Moorhead Granger (b. 1870) —
also known as Sherman M. Granger —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, June 16,
1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1912-16; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1912;
member of Ohio
Republican State Central Committee, 1912-14; vice-president,
Zanesville Telephone &
Telegraph Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Moorhead Granger and Mary Hoyt (Reese) Granger; married, February
7, 1900, to Wanda Dawson Follett. |
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James Webb Cook Hayes (1856-1934) —
also known as Webb C. Hayes —
of Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, March
20, 1856.
Co-founder and vice-president of National Carbon
Company, manufacturer of electric batteries; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; member of Ohio state legislature,
1910.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Loyal
Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1902 for action at Vigan, Luzon, Philippines,
December 4, 1899.
Died at Sawyer sanitarium,
Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, July 26,
1934 (age 78 years, 128
days).
Interment at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) —
also known as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" —
of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Stricken by a heart
attack at the railroad
station in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy
Webb Hayes; father of James
Webb Cook Hayes. |
| | | Political family: Hayes
family of Fremont, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leopold
Markbreit — James
M. Comly — Joseph
P. Bradley |
| | | Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Rutherford B. Hayes High
School, in Delaware,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The Presidente Hayes Department (province),
and its capital
city, Villa Hayes, in Paraguay,
are named for
him. — Hayes Hall
(built 1893), at Ohio State University,
Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: Ari
Hoogenboom, Rutherford
B. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse, Rutherford
B. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial
Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Samuel Furman Hunt (b. 1844) —
also known as Samuel F. Hunt —
of Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Springdale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, October
22, 1844.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1870-71; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1871; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1873; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1880; superior court judge
in Ohio, 1890-98.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Society
of Colonial Wars; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Randolph Hunt and Amanda (Baird) Hunt. |
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Francis Key Pendleton (1850-1930) —
also known as Francis K. Pendleton —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
3, 1850.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911-20; defeated, 1909;
appointed 1911; resigned 1920.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Injured in an automobile
accident on Riverside Drive, and died two months later as a
result, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 26,
1930 (age 80 years, 204
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Alicia (Key) Pendleton and George
Hunt Pendleton; married, December
20, 1890, to Elizabeth La Montagne (sister-in-law of Nicholas
Murray Butler); nephew of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859); grandson of Francis
Scott Key and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; grandnephew of Edward
Lloyd (1779-1834) and Edmund
Henry Pendleton; great-grandson of Edward
Lloyd (1744-1796) and Nathaniel
Pendleton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); second great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of John
Pendleton Jr. and Philip
Key; first cousin four times removed of Matthew
Tilghman; second cousin of Henry
Lloyd; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Carroll, Barrister, John
Penn, James
Joseph Tilghman and William
Tilghman; third cousin once removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, Joseph
Henry Pendleton and William
Welby Beverley; third cousin twice removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Frisby
Tilghman and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin of William
Barret Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Coleby
Chew, Tench
Tilghman, Edward
Tilghman Paca and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Walker Tayler (1852-1910) —
also known as Robert W. Tayler —
of Lisbon, Columbiana
County, Ohio.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, November
26, 1852.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
editor; lawyer; Columbiana
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1881; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1895-1903; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 1905.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died November
25, 1910 (age 57 years, 364
days).
Interment at Lisbon
Cemetery, Lisbon, Ohio.
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Francis Servis Wilson (1872-1951) —
also known as Francis S. Wilson —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, February
7, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; circuit judge in Illinois,
1920-27; Judge, Illinois Appellate Court, 1927-35; alternate delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1932;
justice
of Illinois state supreme court 7th District, 1935-51; died in
office 1951.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1951
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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