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Scotch-Irish ancestry Politicians in Ohio

  James R. Barr (1854-1934) — of Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio. Born near Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, April 15, 1854. Republican. School teacher; druggist; Guernsey County Clerk of Courts, 1881-87; mayor of Cambridge, Ohio, 1890-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1896; postmaster at Cambridge, Ohio, 1897-1910; insurance and real estate business; member of Ohio state senate 18th-19th District, 1921-22. Presbyterian. Scottish and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Knights Templar. Injured in a fall on slippery pavement, broke his hip, and died several weeks later, in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio, January 2, 1934 (age 79 years, 262 days). Interment at Northwood Cemetery, Cambridge, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel C. Barr and Mary (Dunning) Barr; married, April 7, 1880, to Adreanna Ferguson.
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  Oscar Taylor Corson (1857-1928) — also known as Oscar T. Corson — of Ohio. Born near Camden, Preble County, Ohio, May 3, 1857. Republican. School teacher and principal; Ohio commissioner of common schools, 1892-98. Presbyterian. Dutch and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Died suddenly while addressing a conference at Ohio State University, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, April 14, 1928 (age 70 years, 347 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Corson and Elizabeth (McBurney) Corson; married, August 2, 1881, to Ella M. Jacoby.
  Arthur Stanley Coutant (b. 1854) — also known as A. S. Coutant — of Greenville, Montcalm County, Mich.; Mt. Pleasant, Isabella County, Mich. Born in Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, December 11, 1854. Republican. Newspaper publisher; member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1896-1900; postmaster at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 1897-1902. French, Dutch, Scotch-Irish, and German ancestry. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Newton Coutant and Anne (Oglevee) Coutant; married, December 29, 1881, to Anna M. Saterlee.
  Harry Micajah Daugherty (1860-1941) — also known as Harry M. Daugherty — of Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Born in Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, January 26, 1860. Republican. Lawyer; Fayette County Prosecuting Attorney; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1890-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1924; U.S. Attorney General, 1921-24. Methodist. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Subject of a Senate investigation of his conduct as Attorney General; resigned under fire; indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, but acquitted in 1927. Died in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, October 12, 1941 (age 81 years, 259 days). Interment at Washington Cemetery, Washington Court House, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of John H. Daugherty and Jane A. (Draper) Daugherty; married, September 3, 1884, to Lucie Walker.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books by Harry M. Daugherty: Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy (1932)
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Durant Lathrop and Sarah Burrows (McElroy) Lathrop; married, October 23, 1890, to Annie Wakeman; married, April 1, 1913, to Edith May Tolerton; first cousin thrice removed of Jeremiah Mason; second cousin five times removed of Roger Sherman; third cousin of Herschel Harrison Hatch; third cousin once removed of Jethro Ayers Hatch; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel Garrison; fourth cousin once removed of Julius Levi Strong and Edward Wingate Hatch.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Garrison-Fithian-Hires-Sayers family of New Jersey; DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
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  Emlin McClain (1851-1915) — of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa; Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Born in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, November 25, 1851. Republican. Lawyer; private secretary to U.S. Sen. George G. Wright, 1875-77; law professor; justice of Iowa state supreme court, 1901-12; chief justice of Iowa state supreme court, 1906-12. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Delta Phi; American Bar Association. Died suddenly, of apoplexy, in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, May 25, 1915 (age 63 years, 181 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
  Relatives: Son of William McClain; married, February 19, 1879, to Ellen Griffiths.
William McKinley William McKinley Jr. (1843-1901) — also known as "Idol of Ohio" — of Canton, Stark County, Ohio. Born in Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio, January 29, 1843. Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District 1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District 1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884, 1888; Governor of Ohio, 1892-96; President of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901. Methodist. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion; Freemasons; Grand Army of the Republic; Knights of Pythias; Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Shot by the assassin Leon Czolgosz, at a reception in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., September 14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228 days). Originally entombed at West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; re-entombed in 1907 at McKinley Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of William McKinley and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; married to Ida Saxton; first cousin of William McKinley Osborne; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Prather Fletcher.
  Political family: McKinley family of Canton, Ohio.
  Cross-reference: Albert Halstead — Loran L. Lewis — George B. Cortelyou — John Goodnow
  McKinley County, N.M. is named for him.
  Mount McKinley (the highest peak in North America, now known by its traditional name, Denali), in Denali Borough, Alaska, was named for him.  — McKinley High School, in Honolulu, Hawaii, is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: William McKinley ThomasWilliam McKinley ThomasWilliam M. BellWilliam M. Branch
  Coins and currency: His portrait appeared on the U.S. $500 bill in 1928-46.
  Campaign slogan (1896): "The Full Dinner Pail."
  Campaign slogan (1896): "The Advance Agent of Prosperity."
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about William McKinley: Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of William McKinley — Kevin Phillips, William McKinley — H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, October 1901
  Joseph Meharry Medill (1823-1899) — also known as Joseph Medill — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born near Saint John, New Brunswick, April 6, 1823. Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune newspaper; delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention 59th District, 1869-70; mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1871-73. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Died in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., March 16, 1899 (age 75 years, 344 days). Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; cenotaph at West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of William Medill and Margaret (Corbett) Medill; married, September 2, 1852, to Katherine Patrick; father of Katherine Van Etta Medill (daughter-in-law of Cyrus Hall McCormick; who married Robert Sanderson McCormick); grandfather of Joseph Medill McCormick (who married Ruth Hanna), Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick; great-grandfather of Alicia Patterson (who married Harry Frank Guggenheim); second great-grandfather of Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (who married Madeleine Korbel).
  Political family: McCormick-Guggenheim-Morton-Medill family of Illinois and New York.
  Medill Avenue, in Chicago, Illiois, is named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
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