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Thomas A. Burke (1898-1971) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, October
30, 1898.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1946-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1952
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1956,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1953-54.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Phi Alpha Delta.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
5, 1971 (age 73 years, 36
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Cleveland, 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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James Clement Cain (b. 1925) —
also known as James C. Cain —
of Bluefield, Mercer
County, W.Va.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, April
13, 1925.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mercer County, 1965-68.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Jaycees.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Emmett Alexander Cain and Wilhelmina (Hessee) Cain; married, September
11, 1950, to Nancy Lee Caldwell. |
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Lee I. Fisher (b. 1951) —
of Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August
7, 1951.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1981-82; member of Ohio
state senate, 1982-90; Ohio
state attorney general, 1991-95; defeated, 1994; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1996,
2008;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1998; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 2007-.
Jewish.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert Elliott Freer (b. 1896) —
also known as Robert E. Freer —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Westmoreland Hills, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Madisonville, Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
30, 1896.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1935-48; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1939, 1944,
1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Order of
the Coif; Sons of
the Revolution; Phi Alpha Delta.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Guy Metcalf Freer and May (Dunlap) Freer; married, October
27, 1919, to Hazel Louise Davis; married, April
12, 1925, to Olive Roberts. |
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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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Harry B. Hershey —
of Taylorville, Christian
County, Ill.
Born in Mifflin, Richland
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Lawyer; Christian
County State's Attorney, 1912-20; mayor
of Taylorville, Ill., 1922-26; member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938; Illinois
Democratic state chair, 1938-39; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1940,
1944
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1948;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1940; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1951-66 (2nd District 1951-63, 5th
District 1964-66).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Farm
Bureau.
Burial location unknown.
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Carl West Rich (1898-1972) —
also known as Carl W. Rich —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
12, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1947, 1951-53, 1954; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1963-65.
Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi Alpha Delta; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Eagles.
Chairman and president of the Cincinnati Royals professional basketball
team.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 26,
1972 (age 73 years, 288
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 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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Charles Tatgenhorst Jr. (1883-1961) —
of Cleves, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
19, 1883.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1927-29; Judge, Ohio Court
of Appeals, 1936.
Methodist.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Freemasons.
Died January
13, 1961 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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