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Charles H. Ambler (b. 1876) —
of Pleasants
County, W.Va.; Ashland, Hanover
County, Va.; Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in Ohio, August
12, 1876.
Democrat. School teacher; Pleasants
County Sheriff, 1900-01; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Monongalia County, 1951-54.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Maccabees;
Sigma
Nu; Phi
Beta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lutellis Ambler and Ella Rebecca (Wells) Ambler; married, September
4, 1920, to Helen Mary Carle. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1951 |
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Richard Preston Bell (b. 1946) —
also known as Richard P. Bell; Dickie Bell —
of Staunton,
Va.
Born October
26, 1946.
Republican. School teacher; member of Virginia
state house of delegates 20th District, 2010-15.
Still living as of 2015.
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John Black (1800-1854) —
of Monroe, Franklin
County, Miss.; Winchester,
Va.
Born in Virginia, August
11, 1800.
School teacher; lawyer; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1826-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1832-33, 1833-38; resigned 1838; sugar cane
planter.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
29, 1854 (age 54 years, 18
days).
Interment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Innis, La.
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William T. Blankenship (b. 1904) —
also known as Bill Blankenship —
of Eckman, McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born in Raven, Tazewell
County, Va., July 23,
1904.
Democrat. School teacher; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from McDowell County, 1941-44.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Patton Blankenship and Ida (Davis) Blankenship; married, June 3,
1939, to Helen Louise Aldish. |
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Mary C. Booze (1878-1955) —
also known as Mary Cordelia Montgomery —
of Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss.
Born in Warren
County, Miss., March, 1878.
Republican. Bookkeeper;
school teacher; member of Republican
National Committee from Mississippi, 1924-55; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944.
Female.
First
African-American woman to be on the Republican National Committee.
Died in Hampton,
Va., May 17,
1955 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone (1895-1983) —
also known as Reva Beck Bosone; Reva Zilpha
Beck —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in American Fork, Utah
County, Utah, April 2,
1895.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer;
member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1933-35; municipal judge in Utah,
1936-48; U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1949-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952,
1956.
Female.
Member, Utah Hall of
Fame.
Died in Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va., July 21,
1983 (age 88 years, 110
days).
Interment at American
Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah.
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Charles Pinckney Brown (1823-1864) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in South Carolina, May, 1823.
School teacher; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from St. James, Goose
Creek, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Drewrys Bluff, Chesterfield
County, Va., May 14,
1864 (age about 41
years).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) —
also known as Blanche K. Bruce —
of Floreyville (unknown
county), Miss.
Born in slavery
near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., March 1,
1841.
Republican. School teacher; planter; Bolivar
County Sheriff and Tax Collector, 1872-75; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1875-81; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Mississippi, 1880,
1884;
Register of the U.S. Treasury, 1881, 1897-98; District of Columbia
Recorder of Deeds, 1891-93.
African
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
17, 1898 (age 57 years, 16
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Dean E. Brundage (born c.1924) —
Born about 1924.
School teacher; delegate
to Virginia limited constitutional convention 28th District, 1956.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Malone Bugg (1805-1887) —
also known as Robert M. Bugg —
of Lynnville, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born in Boydton, Mecklenburg
County, Va., January
20, 1805.
School teacher; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1853-55; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1871-72.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lynnville, Giles
County, Tenn., February
18, 1887 (age 82 years, 29
days).
Interment at McLaurine
Cemetery, Near Lynnville, Giles County, Tenn.
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Parker Wilson Buhrman (b. 1885) —
also known as Parker W. Buhrman —
of Botetourt
County, Va.
Born in Botetourt
County, Va., September
5, 1885.
School teacher; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Malmo, 1918; Helsingfors, 1919-20; Ceiba, 1920-21; Soerabaya, 1921-23; Aleppo, 1923-25; Berlin, 1928-29; Casablanca, 1930-34; Cologne, 1935; U.S. Consul General in Lisbon, 1935; Sydney, as of 1938; Belfast, 1939-43.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Delta Phi; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Blaine Buhrman and Sarah Elizabeth (Lemon) Buhrman;
married, August
30, 1935, to Helmi Ranta. |
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Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) —
also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones;
Mary Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Moscow, Russia.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., December
26, 1882.
Communist. School teacher; joined the Communist party in 1926;
used the pseudonym "Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration
to the New York City Board of Education, and as a result, she was fired
from her teaching job; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for the
English-language broadcasts of Radio
Moscow, 1937-45.
African
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in the Staten Island Area Hospital,
Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., December
24, 1945 (age 62 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1909 to
Charles Burroughs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Daily Worker, October
1933 |
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Roy A. Cole (b. 1896) —
of Montcalm, Mercer
County, W.Va.
Born in Shawsville, Montgomery
County, Va., April
21, 1896.
Republican. School teacher; funeral
director; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mercer County, 1927-30;
defeated, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
West Virginia Blue Book 1929 |
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Lewis Minor Coleman (b. 1861) —
also known as Lewis M. Coleman —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.
Born in University, Charlottesville,
Va., May 20,
1861.
Democrat. School principal; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1913-17.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Chi.
Burial location unknown.
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Clement Cabell Dickinson (1849-1938) —
also known as Clement C. Dickinson —
of Clinton, Henry
County, Mo.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., December
6, 1849.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; Henry
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1876-82; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Missouri; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Henry County, 1901-02; member
of Missouri
state senate 16th District, 1903-06; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1910-21, 1923-29, 1931-35 (6th
District 1910-21, 1923-29, 1931-33, at-large 1933-35); defeated,
1920, 1928; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,
1928.
Died in Clinton, Henry
County, Mo., January
14, 1938 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Interment at Englewood
Cemetery, Clinton, Mo.
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Willoughby Barrett Dobbs (1861-1931) —
also known as Willoughby B. Dobbs —
of Scottsville, Allen
County, Ky.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Portsmouth,
Va., 1861.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; chair of
Allen County Democratic Party, 1891-92; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 32nd District, 1907.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arcanum; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, in Sherman Square Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 6,
1931 (age about 69
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Charles Edwin Willoughby Dobbs and Mary Elizabeth (Barrett)
Dobbs; married, June 7,
1884, to Mary Ready Ragland. |
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Elizabeth Simpson Drewry (1887-1979) —
also known as Elizabeth Drewry; Elizabeth
Simpson —
of Northfork, McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born in Motley, Pittsylvania
County, Va., September
22, 1887.
Democrat. School teacher; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from McDowell County, 1951-64.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Delta
Sigma Theta; National
Education Association; NAACP.
Died in September, 1979
(age about
92 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of H. Grant Simpson and Katherine (Douglass) Simpson;
married to William H. Drewry. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1951 |
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Littleberry Stainback Foster (1856-1942) —
of Mathews
County, Va.; Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Mathews
County, Va., February
23, 1856.
Democrat. Physician;
superintendent of schools; bank
director; chair of
Mathews County Democratic Party, 1892-99; superintendent, Eastern
State Hospital at Williamsburg, 1899.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Williamsburg,
Va., September
23, 1942 (age 86 years, 212
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Foster and Nancy Jane (Holmes) Foster; married, December
21, 1881, to Agnes Virginia Dixon. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in Virginia
(1906) |
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Abram Fulkerson (1834-1902) —
of Bristol,
Va.
Born in Washington
County, Va., May 13,
1834.
Democrat. School teacher; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Washington County, 1871-75,
1885-87; member of Virginia
state senate, 1877-81; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1881-83; delegate to
Gold Democrat National Convention from Virginia, 1896.
Died in Bristol,
Va., December
17, 1902 (age 68 years, 218
days).
Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, Va.
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Jaime R. Harrison (b. 1976) —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Orangeburg, Orangeburg
County, S.C., February
5, 1976.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 2008;
South
Carolina Democratic state chair, 2013-17; candidate for U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 2020; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 2021-.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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William Wilson Lamb (1803-1874) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born December
8, 1803.
Lawyer;
superintendent of schools; mayor
of Norfolk, Va., 1858-63, 1866; removed 1863.
Died August
6, 1874 (age 70 years, 241
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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William Lenoir (1751-1839) —
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., May 8,
1751.
School teacher; surveyor;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1781-95; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died May 6,
1839 (age 87 years, 363
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Caldwell County, N.C.
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Moroni O. Litz (1874-1955) —
also known as M. O. Litz —
of Welch, McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born in Tazewell
County, Va., August
13, 1874.
Republican. School principal; lawyer; judge of
West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1923-36; appointed 1923;
defeated, 1936.
Died December
1, 1955 (age 81 years, 110
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Tazewell, Va.
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Richard Barrett Lowe (1902-1972) —
Born in Madison, Lake
County, S.Dak., July 8,
1902.
School teacher; superintendent of schools; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War II; Governor of
American Samoa, 1953-56; Governor of
Guam, 1956-59.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., April
16, 1972 (age 69 years, 283
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Madison, S.Dak.
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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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James Henry Miller (b. 1856) —
also known as James H. Miller —
of Hinton, Summers
County, W.Va.
Born in Greenbrier
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
29, 1856.
Democrat. School teacher; lawyer; bank
director; Summers
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1885-1900; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1896;
West
Virginia Democratic state chair, 1900-04; candidate for West
Virginia state auditor, 1900; circuit judge in West Virginia,
1905.
Burial location unknown.
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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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George Campbell Peery (1873-1952) —
also known as George C. Peery —
of Tazewell, Tazewell
County, Va.
Born in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell
County, Va., October
28, 1873.
Democrat. School principal; lawyer;
vice-president, Norton Hardware
Company; director of coal mining
companies and a railroad;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1923-29; Governor of
Virginia, 1934-38; delegate
to Virginia limited constitutional convention 18th District, 1945.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Richlands, Tazewell
County, Va., October
14, 1952 (age 78 years, 352
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Tazewell, Va.
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De Witt W. Perdue (b. 1870) —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born in Big Spring, Montgomery
County, Va., January
9, 1870.
School teacher; real estate
business; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in St. Thomas, 1911-14.
Burial location unknown.
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Jared Peyton (1777-1851) —
of Clay
County, Ind.
Born in Amherst
County, Va., June 16,
1777.
School teacher; farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1831-33; probate judge in
Indiana, 1834-38.
Baptist.
Died in Clay
County, Ind., September, 1851
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900) —
also known as Richard W. Thompson —
of Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Culpeper Court House, Culpeper
County, Va., June 9,
1809.
School teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1834-36; member of Indiana
state senate, 1836-38; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Indiana, 1839; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1841-43, 1847-49 (2nd District
1841-43, 7th District 1847-49); candidate for Presidential Elector
for Indiana; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 7th Indiana
District, 1864-66; circuit judge in Indiana, 1867-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1876,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1877-80; chairman of the American
Committee of the Panama
Canal Company, 1881; director of the Panama Railroad
Company, 1881-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., February
9, 1900 (age 90 years, 245
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (1891-1943) —
also known as N. J. Webb —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in Prince
George County, Va., April
25, 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; athletic
coach; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1936-39.
Methodist.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Isle of
Wight County, Va., July 18,
1943 (age 52 years, 84
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James Duncan Webb and Helen Howerton (Rives) Webb; married to
Lalie Lett (niece of Robert
Walker Perkins). |
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Junius Edgar West (1866-1947) —
also known as Junius E. West —
of Waverly, Sussex
County, Va.; Suffolk,
Va.
Born near Waverly, Sussex
County, Va., July 12,
1866.
Democrat. Superintendent of schools; insurance
business; lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1896,
1936;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Nansemond County, 1910-11; member
of Virginia
state senate 30th District, 1912-21; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1922-30.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Rotary;
Junior
Order; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, of cancer,
in a hospital
at Richmond,
Va., January
1, 1947 (age 80 years, 173
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
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