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Paul Winfred Kear (1887-1965) —
also known as Paul W. Kear —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, November
2, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Virginia
Republican State Committee, 1920-36; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1921-31, 1932-33.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., November
2, 1965 (age 78 years, 0
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Wilbur Keblinger (b. 1875) —
of Staunton,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., November
8, 1875.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Consul
in Malta, 1914-19; Fiume, 1919-23; Bombay, 1923-30; Melbourne, 1930-31; Sydney, 1931-32; U.S. Consul General in Singapore, 1932-36; Victoria, 1936; Hamburg, 1938-39.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons; American
Society for International Law.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Caddis Maupin Keblinger and Mary Annette (Jackson) Keblinger;
married, December
20, 1904, to Harriet Louise Dabney; married, November
28, 1940, to Leni Dorothea Wilma Otten. |
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Sidney Severn Kellam (b. 1903) —
also known as Sidney S. Kellam —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born in Princess Anne County, Va. (now Virginia
Beach, Va.), July 6,
1903.
Democrat. Insurance
business; hotelier;
Princess Anne County Treasurer, 1931-50; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1952,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1964-67.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners;
Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abel E. Kellam and Clara O. (Eaton) Kellam; married, January
21, 1933, to Odie A. Butt. |
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James Preston Kem (1890-1965) —
also known as James P. Kem —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Macon, Macon
County, Mo., April 2,
1890.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Missouri, 1944,
1948;
speaker, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1947-53; defeated, 1952.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; Freemasons.
Died February
24, 1965 (age 74 years, 328
days).
Interment at Middleburg
Memorial Cemetery, Middleburg, Va.
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James Harvey Kemp (1871-1962) —
also known as J. H. Kemp —
of Fullerton, Nance
County, Neb.; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Page
County, Va., October
6, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Nebraska
state senate, 1913; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Nebraska, 1916;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1934.
Presbyterian.
Member, Lions; American Bar
Association; Freemasons; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Nebraska, February
19, 1962 (age 90 years, 136
days).
Interment at Fullerton
Cemetery, Fullerton, Neb.
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William Patton Kent (1857-1936) —
also known as William P. Kent —
of Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va.; Staunton,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., March 8,
1857.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; livestock
raiser; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Virginia, 1896;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Consul
General in Guatemala City, 1906-09; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1906; candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1909; U.S. Consul in Newchwang, 1910-14; Leipzig, as of 1916-17; Berne, as of 1919; Belfast, 1920-23; Hamilton, 1923-24.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from pneumonia,
in the Mount Alto Veterans Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March 3,
1936 (age 78 years, 361
days).
Interment at East
End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
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John Worth Kern (1849-1917) —
also known as John W. Kern —
of Kokomo, Howard
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Alto, Howard
County, Ind., December
20, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1870; Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1885-89; member of Indiana
state senate, 1893-97; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1900, 1904; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Indiana, 1904,
1908,
1912
(chair, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1916;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1908; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1911-17; defeated, 1916.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died of tuberculosis
and uremic
poisoning, in Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., August
17, 1917 (age 67 years, 240
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Botetourt County, Va.; reinterment
in 1929 at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Lambert (1790-1853) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in 1790.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Richmond, Va., 1840-53; died in office 1853.
Member, Freemasons.
Died March
24, 1853 (age about 62
years).
Original interment at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Church Hill, Richmond, Va.; reinterment
in 1892 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Edward Gardiner Latch (1901-1993) —
also known as Edward G. Latch —
of Washington,
D.C.; Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
14, 1901.
Minister;
offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1960 ; chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1966-78.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Rotary.
In 1971, he officiated at the marriage of President Richard
Nixon's daughter Patricia, to Edward Cox, in the White House.
Died in Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md., April 9,
1993 (age 92 years, 85
days).
Interment at Flint Hill Cemetery, Oakton, Va.
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Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) —
of Missouri.
Born near Ivy, Albemarle
County, Va., August
18, 1774.
Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1807-09; died in office 1809.
English
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Commanded expedition with William
Clark to Oregon, 1803-04.
Died from gunshot
wounds under mysterious
circumstances (murder or
suicide?)
at Grinder's Stand, an inn on
the Natchez Trace near Hohenwald, Lewis
County, Tenn., October
11, 1809 (age 35 years, 54
days).
Interment at Meriwether
Lewis Park, Near Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis; first cousin once
removed of Howell
Lewis, John
Walker, David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Francis
Walker and George
Rockingham Gilmer; first cousin five times removed of Arthur
Sidney Demarest; second cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; second cousin once removed of George
Washington, Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Thomas
Walker Gilmer, David
Shelby Walker and Reuben
Handy Meriwether; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Hubbard
T. Smith; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Robert
Brooke, Bushrod
Washington, George
Madison and Richard
Aylett Buckner; third cousin once removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Henry
St. George Tucker, John
Thornton Augustine Washington, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Taliaferro Helm and Aylette
Buckner; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Aylett
Hawes Buckner, Charles
John Helm, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Hubbard
Dozier Helm; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr., Key
Pittman, Claude
Pollard and Vail
Montgomery Pittman; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson. |
| | | Political families: Demarest-Meriwether-Lewis
family of New Jersey; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
F. Shannon |
| | | Lewis counties in Idaho, Ky., Mo., Tenn. and Wash. are
named for him; Lewis and Clark
County, Mont. is named partly for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Meriwether
Lewis Randolph
— Meriwether
Lewis Walker
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared (along with Clark's) on the $10 U.S. Note from 1898 to
1927. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Meriwether Lewis: Thomas C.
Danisi, Uncovering
the Truth About Meriwether Lewis — Donald Barr
Chidsey, Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure |
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Harrison Libbey (1843-1913) —
also known as Harry Libbey —
of Hampton,
Va.
Born in Wakefield, Carroll
County, N.H., November
22, 1843.
Republican. State court judge in Virginia, 1869; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1883-87; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1896;
postmaster at Hampton,
Va., 1907-13.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Hampton,
Va., September
30, 1913 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at St. John's Church Cemetery, Hampton, Va.
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James Hubert Lindsay (b. 1862) —
also known as J. H. Lindsay —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born near Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va., December
29, 1862.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Albemarle County
& Charlottesville city, 1901-02; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1920.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners;
Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Clarke Lindsay and Annie (Morgan) Lindsay; married, December
24, 1884, to Annie Sieg. |
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Ernest Lundeen (1878-1940) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Wayzata, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Beresford, Union
County, S.Dak., August
4, 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 42, 1911-14; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1912
(alternate), 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1917-19, 1933-37 (5th District
1917-19, at-large 1933-35, 3rd District 1935-37); defeated
(Independent), 1920; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1928; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1937-40; defeated, 1923 (Republican
primary), 1930 (Farmer-Labor); died in office 1940.
Methodist.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Delta
Sigma Rho; United
Spanish War Veterans.
One of 25 passengers and crew killed in the crash
of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines transport plane, bound from
Washington to Pittsburgh, during an intense
storm, near Lovettsville, Loudoun
County, Va., August
31, 1940 (age 62 years, 27
days).
Interment at Fort
Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Carter Manasco (1902-1992) —
of Jasper, Walker
County, Ala.
Born near Townley, Walker
County, Ala., January
3, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1931-34; secretary to U.S. Rep.
William
B. Bankhead, 1933-40; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1941-49; legislative
counsel, National Coal
Association, 1949-85.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
5, 1992 (age 90 years, 33
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
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John Otho Marsh Jr. (1926-2019) —
also known as John O. Marsh, Jr. —
of Strasburg, Shenandoah
County, Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., August
7, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1963-71; U.S.
Secretary of the Army, 1981-89.
Presbyterian.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association; Freemasons; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Raphine, Rockbridge
County, Va., February
4, 2019 (age 92 years, 181
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) —
also known as George C. Marshall —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., December
31, 1880.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1947-49; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1950-51.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Kappa
Alpha Order; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1953.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., October
16, 1959 (age 78 years, 289
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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Thomas Graham Matney (1889-1976) —
also known as T. G. Matney —
of Peterstown, Monroe
County, W.Va.
Born in Card, Buchanan
County, Va., April
19, 1889.
Democrat. Physician;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Monroe County, 1951-52,
1955-56, 1959-64; defeated, 1952, 1956.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Odd
Fellows; American Medical
Association.
Died June 11,
1976 (age 87 years, 53
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hedding Methodist Church Cemetery, Lillydale, W.Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Wise Matney and Annie (Muscroft) Matney; married, April
26, 1917, to Virgie Lee Burke. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1951 |
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Enoch McCarty (1783-1857) —
of Indiana.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., January
5, 1783.
Delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state senate, 1832-34; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1835-37; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Indiana; county judge in Indiana, 1838-45.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., December
12, 1857 (age 74 years, 341
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence Watson Meadows (1904-1961) —
also known as Clarence W. Meadows —
of Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.; Clifton Forge, Alleghany
County, Va.
Born in Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va., February
11, 1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Raleigh County, 1931-32;
Raleigh
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1933-36; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1937-42; circuit judge in West
Virginia, 1942-44; Governor of
West Virginia, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from West Virginia, 1948,
1952;
campaign manager for Claude
Pepper, in 1958 U.S. Senate campaign.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Alpha Delta; Alpha
Kappa Psi; Pi
Kappa Alpha; Freemasons; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Lions; Rotary.
Died, following a heart
attack in Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital,
Clifton Forge, Alleghany
County, Va., September
12, 1961 (age 57 years, 213
days).
Interment at Wildwood
Cemetery, Beckley, W.Va.
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John Francis Mercer (1759-1821) —
of Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., May 17,
1759.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-84; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1788-92, 1800-06; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1792-94 (at-large 1792-93, 2nd
District 1793-94); Governor of
Maryland, 1801-03.
Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
30, 1821 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Anne Arundel County, Md.
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James Monroe (1758-1831) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.; Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1758.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831 (age 73 years, 67
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at
New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February
16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth
Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George
Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph
Jones; uncle of Thomas
Bell Monroe and James
Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor
Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William
Grayson; second cousin of Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and John
Brady Grayson. |
| | | Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. — Mount
Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,
Virginia, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Monroe
— James
Monroe
— James
M. Pendleton
— James
M. Jackson
— James
Monroe Letts
— James
M. Ritchie
— James
M. Rosse
— James
M. Comly
— James
Monroe Buford
— James
M. Seibert
— J.
Monroe Driesbach
— James
M. Lown
— James
M. Miller
— James
Monroe Jones
— James
Monroe Hale
— James
Monroe Spears
— J.
M. Alford
— James
M. Lown, Jr.
— James
M. Miley
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and
1890s. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon,
James
Monroe: The Quest for National Identity |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Allen A. Moss (1854-1929) —
also known as A. A. Moss —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born December
3, 1854.
Mayor
of Newport News, Va., 1898-1904, 1916-20.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1929
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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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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Myer Myers (1793-1877) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born June 18,
1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; banker; Consul
for Netherlands in Norfolk,
Va., 1835-77; Consul
for Great Britain in Norfolk,
Va., 1856; Vice-Consul
for Brazil in Norfolk,
Va., 1864-77.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Died November
8, 1877 (age 84 years, 143
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Colin Neblett (1875-1950) —
of Tesuque, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., July 6,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; superintendent
of schools; district judge in New Mexico 6th District, 1911-17;
U.S.
District Judge for New Mexico, 1917-48; took senior status 1948.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Jesters;
Elks.
Suffered a stroke in
the Hilton Hotel
dining room, and died soon after in a hospital
at Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., May 7,
1950 (age 74 years, 305
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Edward Neblett (1818-1907) —
of Weaverville, Trinity
County, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Prince
George County, Va., July 18,
1818.
Whig. Hatter; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Trinity
County Sheriff, 1855-57; member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1858-59; banker; hardware
business; mayor
of Santa Rosa, Calif., 1876-78.
Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar.
Died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., January
19, 1907 (age 88 years, 185
days).
Interment at Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Calif.
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Thomas Nelson Jr. (1738-1789) —
of Virginia.
Born in Yorktown, York
County, Va., December
26, 1738.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77, 1779-80; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1781.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hanover
County, Va., January
4, 1789 (age 50 years, 9
days).
Interment at Grace
Churchyard, Yorktown, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Harry Whinna Nice (1877-1941) —
also known as Harry W. Nice —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
5, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1920;
member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee, 1936;
Governor
of Maryland, 1935-39; defeated, 1919, 1938; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grotto;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Junior
Order; Elks; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; Knights
of Khorassan.
Died in Richmond,
Va., February
25, 1941 (age 63 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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James Noble (1785-1831) —
of Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind.
Born near Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., December
16, 1785.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1813-14; member
Indiana territorial council, 1815; circuit judge in Indiana,
1815; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1816-31; died in office 1831.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1831 (age 45 years, 72
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Noah Noble (1794-1844) —
of Franklin
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., January
14, 1794.
Lawyer;
farmer;
merchant;
miller;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825; Governor of
Indiana, 1831-37.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
8, 1844 (age 50 years, 25
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Richard Dudley Obenshain (1935-1978) —
also known as Richard D. Obenshain —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., October
31, 1935.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1964; candidate for Virginia
state attorney general, 1969; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1972-73; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia 1978, but died before election.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons; Phi
Delta Phi.
Killed when his small plane
crashed during a nighttime landing at Chesterfield County Airport,
Chesterfield
County, Va., August
2, 1978 (age 42 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Latham Owen (1856-1947) —
also known as Robert L. Owen —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., February
2, 1856.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1892-96; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-25; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Cherokee
Indian ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Modern
Woodmen of America; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died July 19,
1947 (age 91 years, 167
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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George F. Parrish (1897-1971) —
of Keyser, Mineral
County, W.Va.
Born in Bristol,
Va., March
23, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; insurance
business; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mineral County, 1935-36;
resigned 1936.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; American
Legion.
Died September
22, 1971 (age 74 years, 183
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Kenneth Stuart Patton (1882-1960) —
also known as Kenneth S. Patton —
of University, Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Salem,
Va., July 22,
1882.
Democrat. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, 1909-12; Ceiba, 1912; Lisbon, 1912; U.S. Consul in Cognac, 1913-15; La Rochelle, 1915-16; Calais, 1916-19; Belgrade, 1919-26; Leipzig, as of 1929; U.S. Consul General in Batavia, as of 1932; Singapore, as of 1938; Calcutta, as of 1943; U.S. Minister to New Zealand, 1944-45.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1960
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Owen Bradford Pickett (1930-2010) —
also known as Owen B. Pickett —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., August
31, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer; accountant;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1972-86; Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1980-82; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1987-2001; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1996,
2000.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Rotary;
Lions;
Freemasons; Shriners.
Died in Virginia
Beach, Va., October
27, 2010 (age 80 years, 57
days).
Interment at Taylorsville Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Va.
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Joshua Pilcher (1790-1843) —
of Missouri.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., March
15, 1790.
Fur trader;
U.S. Consul in Chihuahua, 1825-27; Indian agent; Superintendent of Indian
Affairs.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of sickness resulting from exposure to
the elements, in St.
Louis, Mo., June 5,
1843 (age 53 years, 82
days).
Original interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; reinterment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Joshua Pilcher (1749-1810) and Nancy Pilcher. |
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Richard Harding Poff (1923-2011) —
of Radford,
Va.
Born in Radford,
Va., October
19, 1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1953-72; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1968;
justice
of Virginia state supreme court, 1972.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Nu Phi; Jaycees;
Lions;
Freemasons; Moose; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Tullahoma, Coffee
County, Tenn., June 28,
2011 (age 87 years, 252
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Pinckney Pope (1884-1966) —
also known as James P. Pope —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born near Jonesboro, Jackson
Parish, La., March
31, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Idaho, 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1928,
1936;
mayor
of Boise, Idaho, 1929-33; resigned 1933; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1933-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., January
23, 1966 (age 81 years, 298
days).
Interment at Lynnhurst
Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Thomas Lloyd Posey (1750-1818) —
also known as Thomas Posey —
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., July 9,
1750.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1805-06; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1806-08; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1812-13; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1813-16; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1816.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of typhus
fever in Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill., March
19, 1818 (age 67 years, 253
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Shawneetown, Ill.
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James Hubert Price (1878-1943) —
also known as James H. Price —
of Virginia.
Born in Greenbrier
County, W.Va., September
7, 1878.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1916-30; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1930-38; Governor of
Virginia, 1938-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1940.
Member, Freemasons; Shriners.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
22, 1943 (age 65 years, 76
days).
Interment at Thornrose
Cemetery, Staunton, Va.
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William Buchanan Price (b. 1865) —
also known as William B. Price —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., July 2,
1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Nebraska state insurance commissioner, 1896-1900; candidate for Nebraska
state auditor, 1908; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1916;
candidate for Nebraska
state attorney general, 1926.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Woodmen of
the World; Modern
Woodmen of America; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abner Clopton Price and Hester (Walker) Price. |
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Joseph Edwin Proffit (1876-1958) —
also known as Joseph E. Proffit —
of Floyd, Floyd
County, Va.
Born in Floyd, Floyd
County, Va., March
24, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
U.S. Consul in Pretoria, 1904-05; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1928,
1940
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1956;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1944-47, 1952-57.
Member, Freemasons; Elks; Kappa
Sigma.
Died February
27, 1958 (age 81 years, 340
days).
Interment at Jacksonville
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Patterson Proffit and Mary Anne 'Polly' (Via) Proffit;
married, April
26, 1916, to Anne Weston Simmons. |
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