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Politician Writers in Virginia

  Norwood Francis Allman (1893-1987) — also known as Norwood F. Allman — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La.; Union Hall, Franklin County, Va.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Port Charlotte, Charlotte County, Fla. Born in Union Hall, Franklin County, Va., July 24, 1893. Lawyer; interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Antung, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Tientsin, 1918-19; Tsinanfu, as of 1919-21; Shanghai, 1921; Chungking, 1921; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1922-24. Member, Rotary. Died in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., February 28, 1987 (age 93 years, 219 days). Interment at Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vt.
  Relatives: Son of John Isaac Allman and Nannie Kate (English) Allman; married 1920 to Mary Louise Hamilton; married to Dorothy Dennis.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Julia Hoge Spencer Ardery (1889-1977) — also known as Julia Hoge Spencer; Mrs. W. B. Ardery — of Paris, Bourbon County, Ky. Born in Richmond, Va., September 16, 1889. Democrat. Kentucky historian; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1936 (alternate), 1956; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; member of Democratic National Committee from Kentucky, 1956-60. Female. Disciples of Christ. Member, Delta Delta Delta; Daughters of the American Revolution; Colonial Dames; American Legion Auxiliary. Died in March, 1977 (age 87 years, 0 days). Interment somewhere in Paris, Ky.
  Relatives: Daughter of Rev. Isaac J. Spencer and Sally Louise (Pendleton) Spencer; married, April 14, 1910, to William Breckinridge Ardery; mother of Philip Pendleton Ardery.
  Political family: Tweedy family.
  Ralph Hedrick Bader (1888-1939) — also known as Ralph H. Bader — of McGaheysville, Rockingham County, Va. Born in McGaheysville, Rockingham County, Va., June 8, 1888. Democrat. Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Teheran, 1912-18; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1918-20; Cairo, 1920-22; lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1928-30. Evangelical and Reformed Church. Member, Freemasons; Junior Order. Died in Harrisonburg, Va., June 7, 1939 (age 50 years, 364 days). Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, McGaheysville, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Arthur Samuel Bader and Margaret Elizabeth (Hedrick) Bader; married 1920 to Pearle Malvina Bacon.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Katharine Cooke Blow (1897-1965) — also known as Katharine C. Blow; Katharine Rowland Cooke; Mrs. George W. Blow — of Yorktown, York County, Va. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., April 21, 1897. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1948, 1956; candidate for Virginia state house of delegates, 1949; candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1950. Female. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, 1936-42. Died in Yorktown, York County, Va., March 25, 1965 (age 67 years, 338 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Daughter of George Joseph Cooke and Mary Elizabeth (Kerwin) Cooke; married, December 2, 1922, to George Waller Blow (grandson of George Blow Jr.).
  Political family: Blow family of Virginia.
  Flavius J. Chapman III (b. 1900) — of Baltimore, Md. Born in Salem, Va., March 23, 1900. Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Harbin, 1922-23; Hankow, 1923-25; Tientsin, 1925-29; U.S. Consul in Tientsin, 1929. Burial location unknown.
  Cynthia Noland Dunbar (b. 1964) — also known as Cynthia Dunbar — of Richmond, Fort Bend County, Tex.; Forest, Bedford County, Va. Born in Osage Beach, Camden County, Mo., June 27, 1964. Republican. Lawyer; author; member of Texas state board of education 10th District, 2007-10; member of Republican National Committee from Virginia, 2016-; candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia 6th District, 2018. Female. Still living as of 2018.
  See also Wikipedia article — Encyclopedia of American Loons
  Books by Cynthia Dunbar: One Nation Under God: How the Left is Trying to Erase What Made Us Great (2008)
  Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964) — of St. Louis, Mo.; Winchester, Franklin County, Tenn.; Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn.; Jackson, Jackson County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Oakland, Garrett County, Md.; Charlottesville, Va.; Stanardsville, Greene County, Va. Born in Halifax, Halifax County, Va., November 14, 1878. Democrat. Episcopal priest; rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, Barton Heights, Va., until 1908, when he resigned following a widely reported fist fight with his father-in-law, Rev. Dr. E. H. Pitt; composer; poet; translator; prolific writer of opinion pieces for newspapers, expressing moderate pacifist views, along with strong support for the League of Nations; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention, 1924 ; in 1928, he toured the country giving speeches in support of Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith; initially supported President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, but in the late 1930s turned toward isolationism and anti-Communism. Episcopalian. Died, from cerebral vascular accident, while suffering from chronic brain syndrome due to cerebral arteriosclerosis, in DeJarnette State Sanatorium, a mental hospital, in Augusta County, Va., December 21, 1964 (age 86 years, 37 days). Interment at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Ovid Americus Kinsolving and Roberta Elizabeth (Cary) Kinsolving; married, December 27, 1906, to Annie Laurie Pitt; granduncle of Charles McIlvaine Kinsolving Jr.; great-grandson of John Mathews; great-grandnephew of James William Mathews; second cousin once removed of Peter Johnston Otey; second cousin twice removed of Neal Arlon Kinsolving.
  Political family: Kinsolving-Mathews family of Virginia.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William August Klyver (c.1865-1933) — also known as William Klyver; Guillermo Klyver — of Norfolk, Va. Born in Denmark, about 1865. Naturalized U.S. citizen; translator; Vice-Consul for Argentina in Norfolk, Va., 1899-1914. Danish ancestry. Died August 11, 1933 (age about 68 years). Burial location unknown.
  Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841) — of Kentucky. Born in Orlean, Fauquier County, Va., 1760. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Fayette County, 1788; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1793-94, 1807-09; U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1795-1801. In 1809, he opposed Henry Clay's proposal to require all Kentucky legislators to wear domestic homespun instead of British broadcloth; this clash resulted in a duel in which both men were wounded. Author of the first history of Kentucky, published in 1812. Slaveowner. Died near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., July 3, 1841 (age about 81 years). Interment in private or family graveyard.
  Relatives: Father of Thomas Alexander Marshall; grandfather of Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872); first cousin and brother-in-law of John Marshall, James Markham Marshall and Alexander Keith Marshall (1770-1825); first cousin once removed and uncle by marriage of Edward Colston, Thomas Francis Marshall, Alexander Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Charles Alexander Marshall and Edward Colston Marshall.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Birney family of Danville, Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) — also known as Thomas N. Page — of Washington, D.C. Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover County, Va., April 23, 1853. Lawyer; author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19. Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover County, Va., November 1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Maj. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; married 1886 to Anne Seddon Bruce; married 1893 to Florence (Lathrop) Field.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier
  Thomas H. Steele (b. 1887) — of Statesville, Iredell County, N.C. Born in Virginia, August 26, 1887. Democrat. Writer; accountant; lecturer; member of North Carolina state senate 25th District, 1935. Baptist. Member, Rotary; Odd Fellows; Patriotic Order Sons of America. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John H. Steele and Julia (Hensley) Steele; married to Grace Vawter Bates.
  Henry Junior Taylor (1902-1984) — also known as Henry J. Taylor — of Virginia. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., September 2, 1902. Republican. Pulp and paper industry; trustee, Manhattan Savings Bank; director, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; author; newspaper correspondent; economist; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-61. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Sons of the American Revolution; Military Order of the World Wars; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sigma Delta Chi; Loyal Legion. Died in 1984 (age about 81 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Noble Taylor and Eileen Louise (O'Hare) Taylor; married, March 2, 1928, to Olivia Fay Kimbro; married, July 3, 1970, to Marion J. E. Richardson.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
  James Henry Webb Jr. (b. 1946) — also known as Jim Webb — of Falls Church, Va. Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., February 9, 1946. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer; author; screenwriter; journalist; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987-88; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 2007-13; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 2008; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2016. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Still living as of 2016.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — OurCampaigns candidate detail
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