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Oliver Ernesto Branch (b. 1847) —
also known as Oliver E. Branch —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Madison, Lake
County, Ohio, July 19,
1847.
Lawyer;
general counsel, Boston & Maine Railroad;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1887, 1889; U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1894-98.
English ancestry. Member, Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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John Fletcher Caples (1832-1908) —
also known as John F. Caples —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Ashland
County, Ohio, January
12, 1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1873; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Oregon; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, as of 1898.
Methodist.
English and German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 17,
1908 (age 76 years, 187
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Charles P. Cary (b. 1856) —
of Delavan, Walworth
County, Wis.
Born in Ohio, January
28, 1856.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; Brown
County Superintendent of Schools, 1886; Wisconsin
superintendent of public instruction, 1903-21.
German
and English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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John Adams Damon (1850-1926) —
also known as John A. Damon —
of Millington, Tuscola
County, Mich.; Weidman, Isabella
County, Mich.; Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Madison, Lake
County, Ohio, June 4,
1850.
Republican. Druggist; merchant;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Tuscola County 1st District,
1887-90; Isabella
County Treasurer, 1907-10; member of Michigan
state senate 25th District, 1915-18; candidate for mayor
of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 1920.
Scottish
and English ancestry.
Died in Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich., July 13,
1926 (age 76 years, 39
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
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George A. Dix (1885-1959) —
of near Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio.
Born in Delaware
County, Ohio, September
27, 1885.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Ohio, 1940.
Welsh,
English, and German
ancestry.
Died, in Marion General Hospital,
Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, August
10, 1959 (age 73 years, 317
days).
Interment at Radnor Cemetery, Radnor, Ohio.
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Chester A. Ferris (1885-1948) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Galion, Crawford
County, Ohio, April 5,
1885.
Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1923-24, 1947-48; defeated (Republican), 1944, 1948; died in office
1948; candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1932.
English and Irish
ancestry.
Died September
22, 1948 (age 63 years, 170
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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William Green (1872-1952) —
of Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio.
Born in Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio, March 3,
1872.
Democrat. Coal miner;
president,
Ohio District, United Mine Workers Union, 1906-10; member of Ohio
state senate, 1911-15; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Ohio, 1912,
1920
(alternate); president,
American Federation of Labor, 1924-52.
Baptist.
English ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from a heart
attack, November
21, 1952 (age 80 years, 263
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh Green and Jane (Oran) Green; married 1894 to Jennie
Mobley. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community
of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) —
also known as "Little Ben"; "Kid
Gloves" —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in North Bend, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
20, 1833.
Republican. Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1861-63, 1865-69; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1876; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1880;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1881-87; President
of the United States, 1889-93; defeated, 1892.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of pneumonia,
in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
13, 1901 (age 67 years, 205
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey (Irwin) Harrison; married, October
20, 1853, to Caroline
Harrison; married, April 6,
1896, to Mary Scott (Lord) Dimmick (sister-in-law of Joseph
Benjamin Dimmick); father of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; grandson of William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Anna
Harrison; grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); grandnephew of Carter
Bassett Harrison; great-grandson of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and John
Cleves Symmes; first cousin twice removed of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin twice removed of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; third cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Carter
Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley. |
| | | 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). |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
H. Swig
— Ben
H. Waigand
— Ben
DeHart
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| | | Campaign slogan: "Grandfather's hat
fits Ben." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Benjamin Harrison: Rita
Stevens, Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United States — Harry
J. Sievers, Benjamin
Harrison : Hoosier President: The White House and After,
1889-1901 — Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin
Harrison — Homer E. Socolofsky & Allan B. Spetter, The
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison — Susan Clinton, Benjamin
Harrison : Twenty-Third President of the United States (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Benjamin Harrison:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
or typhoid,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | | 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). |
| | | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Lucius Lee Hubbard (1849-1933) —
also known as Lucius L. Hubbard —
of Houghton, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
7, 1849.
Republican. Geologist;
Michigan state geologist, 1893-99; member of University
of Michigan board of regents; elected 1911, 1919, 1927.
English ancestry.
Died in 1933
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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John Clark Ketcham (1873-1941) —
also known as John C. Ketcham —
of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, January
1, 1873.
Republican. School
teacher; Barry
County School Commissioner, 1899-1907; postmaster at Hastings,
Mich., 1907-13; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 4th District, 1921-33; defeated,
1932.
English ancestry. Member, Grange.
Died in Hastings, Barry
County, Mich., December
4, 1941 (age 68 years, 337
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hastings, Mich.
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Lorin Andrews Lathrop (1858-1929) —
also known as Lorin A. Lathrop —
of Paris, France.
Born in Gambier, Knox
County, Ohio, June 11,
1858.
U.S. Consul in Bristol, 1882-89, 1891-1907; Cardiff, 1907-19; Nassau, 1919-24.
English and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Paris, France,
January
22, 1929 (age 70 years, 225
days).
Interment at Saint Germain-en-Laye New Communal Cemetery, Saint
Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.
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David Warner Leedy (1856-1937) —
also known as David W. Leedy —
of Scottville, Mason
County, Mich.
Born in Union, Montgomery
County, Ohio, November
16, 1856.
Republican. School
teacher; traveling
salesman; farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Mason County, 1921-24;
defeated in primary, 1924.
Dutch,
Swiss,
and English ancestry.
Died in Riverton Township, Mason
County, Mich., October
2, 1937 (age 80 years, 320
days).
Interment at Germantown Cemetery, Germantown, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Catherine H. (Warner) Leedy and Jacob Hart Leedy; married 1906 to Ida
Jane Hetzler; married 1931 to Martha
Jane Blaine. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Leland (1858-1934) —
of Fennville, Allegan
County, Mich.
Born in Painesville, Lake
County, Ohio, June 11,
1858.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Allegan County 2nd District,
1915-20; member of Michigan
state senate 8th District, 1923-34; died in office 1934;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
English ancestry.
Died, in Blodgett Hospital,
East Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., March
23, 1934 (age 75 years, 285
days).
Interment at Fennville
Cemetery, Fennville, Mich.
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George Alvin Loud (1852-1925) —
also known as George A. Loud —
of Au Sable, Iosco
County, Mich.; Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Bainbridge, Geauga
County, Ohio, June 18,
1852.
Republican. Lumber
business; staff member for Gov. Hazen
S. Pingree, 1897-1901; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 10th District, 1903-13, 1915-17;
defeated, 1912.
English ancestry.
Killed in an automobile
accident at Myrtle Point, Coos
County, Ore., November
13, 1925 (age 73 years, 148
days).
Interment at Au
Sable Cemetery, Oscoda, Mich.
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Joseph Edwin Lowes (1848-1905) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowes —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born near Brantford, Ontario,
July
25, 1848.
Republican. Physician;
president, Dayton Lighting
Company; led the building of streetcar
lines around Dayton; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1896
(alternate), 1900,
1904.
English ancestry.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 24,
1905 (age 56 years, 303
days).
Entombed at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Harold Carlton Mason (1888-1964) —
also known as Harold C. Mason —
of Blissfield, Lenawee
County, Mich.; Huntington, Huntington
County, Ind.; Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Born in Kunkle, Williams
County, Ohio, November
9, 1888.
School
teacher; minister;
Prohibition candidate for Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1914; bishop; college
professor; president,
Huntington College, 1932-39.
Free
Methodist. German,
Scottish,
English, and Welsh
ancestry.
Died, from a myocardial
infarction, in Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind., June 2,
1964 (age 75 years, 206
days).
Interment at Waldron
Cemetery, Waldron, Mich.
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Earl Cory Michener (1876-1957) —
also known as Earl C. Michener —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born near Attica, Seneca
County, Ohio, November
30, 1876.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
Lenawee
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1911-14; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1919-33, 1935-51;
defeated, 1932.
English and German
ancestry.
Died in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., July 4,
1957 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich.
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George Newton (1810-1883) —
of Volinia, Cass
County, Mich.
Born in Preble
County, Ohio, August
10, 1810.
Member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1858-59.
English ancestry.
Died in Volinia, Cass
County, Mich., January
23, 1883 (age 72 years, 166
days).
Interment at Crane Cemetery, Volinia, Mich.
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John S. Prince (1821-1895) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 7,
1821.
Democrat. Banker; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1860-63, 1865-67.
Catholic.
English ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., September
4, 1895 (age 74 years, 120
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lyman C. Root (b. 1852) —
of Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich.
Born in Lorain
County, Ohio, September
29, 1852.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Allegan County 1st District,
1915-18; defeated in primary, 1922.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Ellsworth Rudesill (b. 1863) —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born near Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, October
10, 1863.
Republican. Insurance
agent; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1903; mayor
of Charleston, W.Va., 1904-05.
Episcopalian.
German
and English ancestry. Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Alice Cromley. |
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John Allen Shauck (1841-1918) —
also known as John A. Shauck —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born near Johnsville, Morrow
County, Ohio, March
26, 1841.
Republican. Circuit judge in Ohio 2nd Circuit, 1885-95; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1895-1913.
Swiss,
English, and German
ancestry.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, January
3, 1918 (age 76 years, 283
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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John Marion Sheets (1854-1940) —
also known as John M. Sheets —
of Ottawa, Putnam
County, Ohio.
Born near Columbus Grove, Putnam
County, Ohio, May 26,
1854.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1894-99; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1896;
Ohio
state attorney general, 1900-04.
German
and English ancestry.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., December
29, 1940 (age 86 years, 217
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Thomas Spear (1834-1913) —
also known as William T. Spear —
Born in Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio, June 3,
1834.
Lawyer;
Trumbull
County Prosecuting Attorney; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1885-1901.
Scottish
and English ancestry.
Died in 1913
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Warren, Ohio.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1890-92; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1892-1900; resigned
1900; law
professor; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; resigned 1930.
Unitarian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull
and Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft; half-brother of Charles
Phelps Taft; brother of Henry
Waters Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen
Louise Herron (daughter of John
Williamson Herron; sister-in-law of Henry
Frederick Lippitt; niece of William
Collins; aunt of Frederick
Lippitt; granddaughter of Ela
Collins); father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft III; second cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin; fourth cousin once removed of William
Warner Hoppin, John
Milton Thayer, Edward
M. Chapin and George
Franklin Chapin. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | The former community
of Taft, now part of Lincoln
City, Oregon, was named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in San
Antonio, Texas, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in Bronx, New
York (closed 2008), was named for
him. — Taft High
School, in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School (opened 1960; became charter school 2013-14), in Los
Angees, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft — Lewis L. Gould, The
William Howard Taft Presidency |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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Edward Tiffin (1766-1829) —
of Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.); Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Carlisle, England,
June
19, 1766.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1801; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
Governor
of Ohio, 1803-07; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1807-09; resigned 1808; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1809-11; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1812-14; U.S. Surveyor-General for
Ohio-Indiana-Michigan, 1814-29.
Methodist.
English ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, August
9, 1829 (age 63 years, 51
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio.
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William Henry Vodrey Jr. (1873-1954) —
also known as William H. Vodrey —
of East Liverpool, Columbiana
County, Ohio.
Born in East Liverpool, Columbiana
County, Ohio, March 4,
1873.
Republican. Lawyer; Columbiana
County Prosecuting Attorney; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1932,
1944
(alternate), 1948.
Christian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American Bar
Association.
Died in 1954
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Col. William H. Vodrey and Elizabeth Jackman Vodrey; married, May 16,
1902, to Dorothy Kelley. |
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