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Frederick George Louis Beuhring (1791-1859) —
also known as Frederick G. L. Beuhring; F. G. L.
Beuhring; Frederik Georg Ludwig Bürhing —
of Cabell
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Scharmbeck, Germany,
March
31, 1791.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1822-23, 1829-30, 1835-36, 1844.
Lutheran.
German ancestry.
Died, of consumption (tuberculosis),
in Guayandotte, Va (now Guyandotte, Cabell
County, W.Va.), June 27,
1859 (age 68 years, 88
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.
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Hubert Anton Casimir Dilger (1836-1911) —
also known as Hubert Dilger —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Sangamon
County, Ill.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Sulgen, Germany,
March
5, 1836.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Adjutant
General of Illinois, 1869-73; appointed 1869.
German ancestry.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action in the Battle of Chancellorsville,
May 2, 1863.
Died in Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., May 4,
1911 (age 75 years, 60
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Emma M. Doak (1883-1951) —
also known as Emma Marie Cricher; Mrs. W. N.
Doak —
of Roanoke,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio, December
27, 1883.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Virginia, 1936.
Female.
German ancestry.
Died in Virginia, November
12, 1951 (age 67 years, 320
days).
Entombed at Black Lick Cemetery, Near Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Va.
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-2005) —
also known as Eugene J. McCarthy; "Clean
Gene" —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Watkins, Meeker
County, Minn., March
29, 1916.
Democrat. School
teacher; university
professor; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1949-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1952
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1992;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1968, 1976 (Independent).
Catholic.
Irish
and German ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Kappa Theta.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in the Georgetown Retirement
Residence, Washington,
D.C., December
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Woodville, Va.
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Robert Francis McDonnell (b. 1954) —
also known as Bob McDonnell —
of Glen Allen, Henrico
County, Va.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 15,
1954.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates 84th District, 1992-2005; Virginia
state attorney general, 2006-09; resigned 2009; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 2008
(delegation chair); Governor of
Virginia, 2010-14; he and his wife were indicted
in January 2014 for receiving improper
gifts; convicted
in September 2014; sentenced
to two years in prison; in June 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court
unanimously overturned his conviction.
Irish
and Alsatian ancestry.
Still living as of 2018.
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John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746-1807) —
of Virginia; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Trappe, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
12, 1746.
Democrat. Pastor;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1774; general in the Continental Army during
the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1789-91, 1793-95, 1799-1801
(at-large 1789-91, 1st District 1793-95, 1799-1801); delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1801; resigned 1801; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1802-07.
Lutheran;
later Episcopalian.
German ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
1, 1807 (age 60 years, 354
days).
Interment at Augustus
Lutheran Church Cemetery, Trappe, Pa.
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James Andrew Nighbert (1832-1898) —
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., July 23,
1832.
Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1863; merchant;
lumber and
timber business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
West Virginia, 1888.
German ancestry. Member, Knights
of Honor.
Died in Logan, Logan
County, W.Va., December
17, 1898 (age 66 years, 147
days).
Interment at Nighbert Family Cemetery, Logan County, W.Va.
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Emil Otto Nolting (1824-1893) —
also known as Emil O. Nolting —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Minden, Prussia (now Germany),
June
22, 1824.
Tobacco
exporter;
banker;
Consul
for Belgium in Richmond,
Va., 1852-93; business partner of Augustus
Kohler.
Lutheran.
German ancestry.
Died in Richmond,
Va., April
16, 1893 (age 68 years, 298
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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William Otto Nolting (1870-1909) —
also known as W. O. Nolting —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., September
16, 1870.
Consul
for Belgium in Richmond,
Va., 1893-1907.
German ancestry.
Died in Albemarle
County, Va., April 7,
1909 (age 38 years, 203
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Adolph Osterloh (1847-1901) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Bremen, Germany,
May
15, 1847.
Tobacco
exporter;
Consul
for Austria-Hungary in Richmond,
Va., 1879; Consul
for Germany in Richmond,
Va., 1885-1901.
Presbyterian;
later German Evangelical
Church. German ancestry.
Died, from dysentery
and peritonitis,
in Richmond,
Va., August
29, 1901 (age 54 years, 106
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Harrison Holt Riddleberger (1844-1890) —
also known as Harrison H. Riddleberger —
of Edinburg, Shenandoah
County, Va.; Woodstock, Shenandoah
County, Va.
Born in Edinburg, Shenandoah
County, Va., October
4, 1844.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1871-75; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; Shenandoah
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1876-80; member of Virginia
state senate, 1879-82; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1883-89.
German ancestry.
Died in Woodstock, Shenandoah
County, Va., January
24, 1890 (age 45 years, 112
days).
Interment at Cedarwood
Cemetery, Edinburg, Va.
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Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., March 2,
1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1932,
1936;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938.
Jewish.
German ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law.
Died in Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., March
16, 1940 (age 82 years, 14
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Wirt (1772-1834) —
of Virginia.
Born near Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., November
8, 1772.
Lawyer;
prosecuting attorney at the treason trial of Aaron
Burr, 1807; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1816-17; U.S.
Attorney General, 1817-29; Anti-Masonic candidate for President
of the United States, 1832.
Presbyterian.
German and Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1834 (age 61 years, 102
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Wirt and Henrietta Wirt; married, May 28,
1795, to Mildred 'Millie' Gilmer (niece of John
Walker and Francis
Walker; aunt of Thomas
Walker Gilmer); married, September
7, 1802, to Elizabeth Washington Gamble (sister-in-law of William
Henry Cabell); father of Catherine Gratten Wirt (who married Alexander
Randall); grandfather of John
Wirt Randall; great-grandfather of Hannah
Parker Randall (who married William
Bladen Lowndes). |
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W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Wirt
Adams
— William
Wirt Virgin
— William
Wirt Watkins
— William
Wirt Vaughan
— William
W. Warren
— William
Wirt Culbertson
— William
Wirt Herod
— William
W. Dixon
— William
Wirt Henderson
— William
W. Hastings
— W.
Wirt Courtney
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| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Wirt: Gregory Kurt
Glassner, Adopted
Son: The Life, Wit & Wisdom of William Wirt,
1772-1834 |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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