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Joseph Scofield Ammerman (1924-1993) —
also known as Joseph S. Ammerman —
of Curwensville, Clearfield
County, Pa.
Born in Curwensville, Clearfield
County, Pa., July 14,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952,
1972
(alternate); Clearfield
County District Attorney, 1954-61; president, Curwensville State
Bank,
1958-61; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1961-63;
member of Pennsylvania
Democratic State Committee, 1968; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 34th District, 1971-77; resigned 1977; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1977-79;
defeated, 1978; common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1986-.
Methodist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died October
14, 1993 (age 69 years, 92
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Morgan Bane (1915-2004) —
also known as David M. Bane —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., September
12, 1915.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service
officer; U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1950-53; U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, 1965-69.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Mu; Alpha
Kappa Psi.
Died in 2004
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Arthur Laban Bates (1859-1934) —
also known as Arthur L. Bates —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., June 6,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1888
(alternate), 1924;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1901-13 (26th District 1901-03,
25th District 1903-13).
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Kiwanis;
Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., August
26, 1934 (age 75 years, 81
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Wilton Wendell Blancké (1908-1971) —
also known as W. Wendell Blancké —
of California; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 29,
1908.
Advertising
executive; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Hanoi, as of 1950; U.S. Consul General in Frankfort, 1957-60; U.S. Ambassador to Congo (Brazzaville), 1960-63; Central African Republic, 1960; Chad, 1960-61; Gabon, 1960-61.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, following a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., March
14, 1971 (age 62 years, 258
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Buffington (1855-1947) —
of Kittanning, Armstrong
County, Pa.
Born in Kittanning, Armstrong
County, Pa., September
5, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania,
1892-1906; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1906-38; took
senior status 1938.
Episcopalian.
Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., October
21, 1947 (age 92 years, 46
days).
Interment somewhere
in Kittanning, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Buffington and Margaret Chambers (Orr) Buffington;
married, January
29, 1885, to Mary Alice Simonton; married, January
1, 1931, to Mary Fullerton Jones. |
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William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) —
also known as William C. Bullitt —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
25, 1891.
Democrat. Newspaper
correspondent; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1933-36; France, 1936-40; candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1943.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Co-author,
with Sigmund Freud, of a psychological study of Woodrow
Wilson.
Died, of leukemia,
in Neuilly, France,
February
15, 1967 (age 76 years, 21
days).
Interment at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Charles Ernest Bunnell (1878-1956) —
also known as Charles E. Bunnell —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Dimock, Susquehanna
County, Pa., January
12, 1878.
Democrat. Candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1914; U.S.
District Judge for Alaska, 1914-21; first president
of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (later
University of Alaska), 1921-45.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, following a heart
attack, at a nursing
home in Burlingame, San Mateo
County, Calif., November
1, 1956 (age 78 years, 294
days).
Interment at Birch
Hill Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska; statue at University
of Alaska Campus, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Walton Bunnell and Ruth (Tingley) Bunnell; married, July 24,
1901, to Mary Anna Kline. |
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E. Wallace Chadwick (1884-1969) —
of Rose Valley, Wallingford, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., January
17, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, board of managers, Chester Hospital;
solicitor, Delaware County Hospital;
director, Delaware County National Bank;
orphan's court judge in Pennsylvania, 1945; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 7th District, 1947-49.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Rotary;
Union
League.
Died in Chester, Delaware
County, Pa., August
18, 1969 (age 85 years, 213
days).
Interment at Union
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rose Valley, Wallingford, Pa.
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Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (1901-1990) —
also known as Joseph S. Clark, Jr. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; served
in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1952-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69; defeated, 1968.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; American Bar
Association; United
World Federalists; Phi Beta Kappa; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
12, 1990 (age 88 years, 83
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.
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Ronald E. Coleman (b. 1917) —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Roulette, Potter
County, Pa., June 22,
1917.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Judge of New York Court
of Claims, 1961-64.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; American Bar
Association.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (1920-2017) —
also known as William T. Coleman, Jr. —
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 7,
1920.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77.
African
ancestry. Member, Trilateral
Commission; Alpha
Phi Alpha; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Alexandria,
Va., March
31, 2017 (age 96 years, 267
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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John E. Crynock (b. 1917) —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in New Salem, Fayette
County, Pa., February
8, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Monongalia County,
1957-58; defeated, 1960, 1964; candidate for West
Virginia state senate 14th District, 1958.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; Lions; American Bar
Association.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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William Smith Culbertson (1884-1966) —
also known as William S. Culbertson —
of Kansas; Charmian, Franklin
County, Pa.
Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August
5, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer; economist;
university
professor; member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1921-25; U.S. Minister
to Romania, 1925-28; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1928-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Phi Epsilon; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1966
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph H. Demmler (1904-1995) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born August
22, 1904.
Lawyer;
chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1953-55.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., December
23, 1995 (age 91 years, 123
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (1906-1983) —
also known as Thomas S. Gates, Jr. —
of Devon, Chester
County, Pa.
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
10, 1906.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1956;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1959-61; U.S. Liaison to China, 1976-79.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
25, 1983 (age 76 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Horwell Gerberich (1898-1965) —
also known as Albert H. Gerberich —
of Pennsylvania; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Williamstown, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
23, 1898.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1919-22; Bremerhaven, as of 1922-24; U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1924-25; college
professor.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1965 (age 67 years, 50
days).
Interment at Atglen
Methodist Cemetery, Atglen, Pa.
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Herbert Funk Goodrich (1889-1962) —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., July 29,
1889.
Democrat. Law
professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1940-62; died in
office 1962.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Philosophical Society; Order of
the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Alpha Delta; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Freemasons.
Died June 25,
1962 (age 72 years, 331
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Herbert Goodrich and Mary Ann (Funk) Goodrich; married to
Edith Eastman and Natalie E. Murphy; married, September
23, 1940, to Mary Dern Baxter. |
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Frederick Wilson Hall (1908-1984) —
of Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
22, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in New Jersey, 1953-59; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1959-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Law Institute; Phi Beta Kappa; Chi Psi.
Died July 7,
1984 (age 76 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter B. Hall and Rachel (Crispin) Hall; married, July 18,
1936, to Jane R. Armstrong. |
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James Denton Hancock (b. 1837) —
also known as James D. Hancock; "Nya Gua
Hai"; "Grizzy Bear" —
of Franklin, Venango
County, Pa.
Born in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne
County, Pa., June 9,
1837.
Democrat. University
professor; lawyer;
solicitor, Allegeny Valley Railroad,
1877-88; solicitor, New York and Philadelphia Railroad,
1878-88; general solicitor, Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad,
from 1888; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1892 (27th District), 1894
(at-large).
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa; American
Economic Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hancock and Mary (Perkins) Hancock. |
| | | Image source: The Book of Prominent
Pennsylvanians (1913) |
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William Henry Hastie (1904-1976) —
also known as William H. Hastie —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., November
17, 1904.
Lawyer;
law
professor; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1937-39; dean,
Howard University law school, 1939-46; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1946-49; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1949-71; took
senior status 1971.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Omega
Psi Phi; Freemasons;
American
Civil Liberties Union; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1943.
Died, at Suburban General Hospital,
East Norriton, Montgomery
County, Pa., April
14, 1976 (age 71 years, 149
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Montgomery Hathaway Jr. (b. 1874) —
also known as Charles M. Hathaway, Jr. —
of Olyphant, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Deposit, Delaware
County, N.Y., March
31, 1874.
U.S. Consul in Puerto Plata, 1911-13; Hull, 1914-17; Queenstown, 1917-20; Bombay, 1921-22; Dublin, 1922-24; U.S. Consul General in Dublin, 1924-27; Munich, as of 1927-38.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Montgomery Hathaway and Eliza (Grant) Hathaway; married 1904 to
Frances Elizabeth Warner (daughter of Adoniram
Judson Warner). |
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Richard McGarrah Helms (1913-2002) —
also known as Richard Helms —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in St. Davids, Delaware
County, Pa., March
30, 1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Director, U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, 1966-73; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1973-77; pleaded
guilty in 1977 to perjury
charges,
over his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Member, Chi Psi;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, of multiple
myeloma, in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 2002 (age 89 years, 206
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Narragansett Pier, Narragansett, Washington
County, R.I., October
1, 1890.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to
Greece, 1933-41; Iceland, 1941-42; South Africa, 1942-43; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1943-44; Greece, 1943-47; Portugal, 1948-52; Spain, 1952-53.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, in a nursing
home at Adelphi, Prince
George's County, Md., January
15, 1972 (age 81 years, 106
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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John Marshall (1755-1835) —
of Virginia.
Born in Germantown, Fauquier
County, Va., September
24, 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782-96; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1789; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1800-01; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-35; died in office 1835;
received 4 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1816.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 6,
1835 (age 79 years, 285
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall;
brother-in-law of William
McClung, George
Keith Taylor and Joseph
Hamilton Daviess; brother of James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, January
3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (daughter of Jacquelin
Ambler); father of Thomas
Marshall (1784-1835), Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin
Burwell Harvie) and James
Keith Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas
Alexander Marshall; uncle of Edward
Colston, Thomas
Francis Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander
Keith McClung, Charles
Alexander Marshall and Edward
Colston Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey
Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John
Augustine Marshall; great-grandfather of Lewis
Minor Coleman; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; great-granduncle of Hudson
Snowden Marshall, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey
Marshall (1760-1841); first cousin once removed of William
Marshall Anderson and Charles
Anderson; first cousin twice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John
Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith
Wilson and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Tuck-Claude
family of Annapolis, Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Marshall (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Marshall Stone
— John
Marshall Martin
— John
Marshall Harlan
— J.
Marshall Hagans
— John
M. Claiborne
— John
M. Hamilton
— John
M. Raymond
— John M.
Rose
— John
M. Slaton
— John
M. Wolverton
— John
M. Robsion
— John
Marshall Hutcheson
— John
M. Butler
— John
Marshall Harlan
— John
M. Robsion, Jr.
— John
Marshall Briley
— John
Marshall Lindley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s, and on the
$500 bill in the early 20th century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books about John Marshall: Jean Edward
Smith, John
Marshall : Definer of a Nation — Charles F. Hobson, The
Great Chief Justice : John Marshall and the Rule of
Law — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation
1815-1835 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction
1800-1815 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier,
Lawmaker — David Scott Robarge, A
Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia
to the Supreme Court — R. Kent Newmyer, John
Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936) —
also known as A. Mitchell Palmer; "The Fighting
Quaker" —
of Stroudsburg, Monroe
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Moosehead, Luzerne
County, Pa., May 4,
1872.
Democrat. Lawyer; bank
director; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 26th District, 1909-15; member
of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1912-20; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1912
(speaker),
1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1914; U.S. Alien Property Custodian,
1917-19; U.S.
Attorney General, 1919-21; target of assassination
attempts in 1919; instigator of the "Palmer Raids" in 1919-20, in
which over 10,000 legal immigrants were arrested and held for
deportation; most were eventually released; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1932.
Quaker.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, from a heart
condition following surgery for appendicitis,
in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 11,
1936 (age 64 years, 7
days).
Interment at Laurelwood
Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Pa.
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Dutton S. Peterson (b. 1894) —
of Enfield Center, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; near Odessa, Schuyler
County, N.Y.
Born in Costello, Potter
County, Pa., December
10, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; Methodist
minister; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; member of
New
York state assembly from Schuyler County, 1937-42; member of New York
state senate, 1953-64 (46th District 1953-54, 50th District
1955-64).
Methodist.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Marine
Corps League; Sons of
the American Revolution; Grange;
Rotary;
Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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James Kerr Pollock (1898-1968) —
also known as James K. Pollock —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in New Castle, Lawrence
County, Pa., May 25,
1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Washtenaw County
1st District, 1961-62.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Political Science Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Phi Beta Kappa;
Delta
Sigma Rho; Sigma
Delta Kappa.
Died October
4, 1968 (age 70 years, 132
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of James Kerr Pollock and Ella (Newton) Pollock; married to Agnes
Marie Haun. |
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Sylvester Baker Sadler (1876-1931) —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., September
29, 1876.
District judge in Pennsylvania 9th District, 1916-20; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1921-31; died in office 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 1,
1931 (age 54 years, 153
days).
Interment at Carlisle
Mausoleum, Carlisle, Pa.
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Anthony Savage (b. 1893) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa., December
25, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1928-34.
Catholic.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Order of
the Coif.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis B. Savage and Anna (Tamosz) Savage; married, September
11, 1915, to Florence Hopkins. |
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William Abraham Schnader (b. 1886) —
also known as William A. Schnader —
of Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Bowmansville, Lancaster
County, Pa., October
5, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1930-35; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1934; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Pennsylvania, 1936.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Chi Phi;
Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif; Freemasons;
Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles B. Schnader and Elizabeth (Renninger) Schnader; married,
June
9, 1915, to Ethel K. Heinitsh. |
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Lisa Bobbie Schreiber=Hughes (b. 1958) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in 1958.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Calgary, 1997; U.S. Ambassador to Suriname, 2006-.
Female.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2007.
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Herbert Bronson Shonk (1881-1930) —
also known as Herbert B. Shonk —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Plymouth, Luzerne
County, Pa., October
28, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1923-30;
died in office 1930.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, from pneumonia,
following a heart
attack, in White Plains Hospital,
White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
26, 1930 (age 48 years, 333
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Cemetery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
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William Cameron Sproul (1870-1928) —
also known as William C. Sproul —
of Chester, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Octoraro, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
16, 1870.
Republican. Farmer; manufacturer;
journalist;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 9th District, 1897-1919; resigned 1919; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1920,
1924;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1919-23; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1920.
Quaker.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Kappa Psi; Grange;
Freemasons;
Elks; Union
League; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died March
21, 1928 (age 57 years, 187
days).
Interment at Chester
Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hall Sproul and Deborah Dickinson (Slokom) Sproul;
married, January
21, 1892, to Emeline Wallace Roach. |
| | | Sproul Hall, a residence hall at Pennsylvania
State University,
University Park, State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The Sproul State
Forest, in Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
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Governors Association biography |
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John Kaye Tabor (1921-1999) —
also known as John K. Tabor —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., April
19, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Pennsylvania
secretary of internal affairs, 1967-68; Pennsylvania Secretary of
Labor and Industry, 1968-69; candidate for mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1969; U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce,
1973-75.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, following a stroke,
while also suffering from Parkinson's
disease, in the Woodbine Rehabilitation
and Healthcare Center, Alexandria,
Va., September
6, 1999 (age 78 years, 140
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Phillips Talbot (1915-2010) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 7,
1915.
Newspaper
reporter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died October
1, 2010 (age 95 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Irvin Troutman (1905-1971) —
also known as William I. Troutman —
of Shamokin, Northumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Shamokin, Northumberland
County, Pa., January
13, 1905.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania at-large, 1943-45; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 27th District, 1945; resigned 1945; common pleas
court judge in Pennsylvania, 1946-66.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma
Pi; Freemasons.
Died in Shamokin, Northumberland
County, Pa., January
27, 1971 (age 66 years, 14
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Shamokin, Pa.
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Bushrod Washington (1762-1829) —
of Alexandria,
Va.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 5,
1762.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Westmoreland County, 1788; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1798-1829; died in office 1829.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
26, 1829 (age 67 years, 174
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
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Cyrus E. Woods (1861-1938) —
of Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa.
Born in Clearfield, Clearfield
County, Pa., September
3, 1861.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 39th District, 1901-08; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1912-13; secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1915-21; resigned 1921; U.S.
Ambassador to Spain, 1921-23; Japan, 1923-24; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1929-30.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from uremic poisoning (kidney
failure), in Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
8, 1938 (age 77 years, 96
days).
Interment at St.
Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Pa.
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