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Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954) —
also known as "Deacon"; "Uncle
Charlie" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., August
2, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; mayor of
Quincy, Mass., 1897-99; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1936
(speaker).
Unitarian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 10,
1954 (age 87 years, 312
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Frances (Crowninshield) Adams;
married, April 3,
1899, to Frances Lovering (daughter of William
Croad Lovering); nephew of Brooks
Adams; grandson of Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandnephew of George
Washington Adams; great-grandson of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Benjamin
Williams Crowninshield, Louisa
Adams and David
Sears; great-grandnephew of Jacob
Crowninshield and Benjamin
Gorham; second great-grandson of John
Adams, Nathaniel
Gorham, Joshua
Johnson, Abigail
Adams and Jonathan
Mason; second great-grandnephew of Thomas
Johnson and Thomas
Lindall Winthrop; fifth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; sixth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649); first cousin once removed of William
Everett and Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cranch and Robert
Charles Winthrop; second cousin of Augustus
Peabody Gardner; second cousin once removed of William
Crowninshield Endicott, Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and George
Cabot Lodge; second cousin twice removed of Bradley
Tyler Johnson, William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of Samuel
Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
M. Chapin and John
Forbes Kerry. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Lafon Allen (1871-1952) —
of Glenview, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
2, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Kentucky, 1922-34; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kentucky, 1936.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died August
3, 1952 (age 81 years, 1
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Larz Anderson (1866-1937) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Paris, France
of American parents, August
15, 1866.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1911-12; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1912-13.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Loyal
Legion; Alpha Delta Phi; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., April
13, 1937 (age 70 years, 241
days).
Interment at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Russell Anderson Austin Jr. —
also known as Russell A. Austin, Jr. —
of Aberdeen, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Washington, 1968,
1972;
member of Washington
Republican State Committee, 1970-73.
Protestant.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives: Son
of Russell Anderson Austin and Amanda (Ficks) Austin; married, June 23,
1953, to Barbara Fortnum. |
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Silas Blake Axtell (born c.1885) —
also known as Silas B. Axtell —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ohio, about 1885.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 29th District, 1915, 1916.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Theodore Mead Bailey (1888-1949) —
also known as T. M. Bailey —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.
Born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), January
14, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 10th District, 1921-22;
member of South
Dakota state senate 10th District, 1925-26; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1940
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; American Bar
Association; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Minnehaha
County, S.Dak., January
28, 1949 (age 61 years, 14
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Sioux Falls, S.Dak.
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Edward Carleton Baker (b. 1882) —
also known as E. Carleton Baker —
of California.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., July 11,
1882.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Foochow, 1906-07; U.S. Vice Consul in Amoy, 1907-08; Foochow, 1908-09; U.S. Consul in Antung, 1909-11; Chungking, 1911-14; Nagasaki, 1914-16; Bombay, as of 1920; U.S. Consul General in Mukden, 1916-19.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of J. E. Baker and Caroline (Packard) Baker; married, December
11, 1909, to Jean Pedlar. |
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Harvey Almy Baker (1881-1951) —
also known as Harvey A. Baker —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Warwick, Kent
County, R.I., April
24, 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Rhode Island, 1914-20; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1928.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March
28, 1951 (age 69 years, 338
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Robert Raymond Barry (1915-1988) —
also known as Robert R. Barry —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 15,
1915.
Republican. President, Plumas Mining Co.;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-65 (27th District 1959-63,
25th District 1963-65); defeated, 1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Redwood City, San Mateo
County, Calif., June 14,
1988 (age 73 years, 30
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August
5, 1886.
Republican. Author; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Howard F. Baxter (1886-1969) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., June 8,
1886.
Republican. Telephone
engineer;
laundry
business; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of
Michigan
state house of representatives from Kent County 1st District,
1923-24; member of Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1925-28.
Episcopalian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Tau Beta
Pi; Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died in 1969
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred Baxter and Kate (Lockwood) Baxter; married, January
26, 1910, to Elizabeth Clapperton. |
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) —
also known as Carroll L. Beedy —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Phillips, Franklin
County, Maine, August
3, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1917-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
30, 1947 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Alfred Clark Chapin (1848-1936) —
also known as Alfred C. Chapin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in South Hadley, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 8,
1848.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1882-83; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1883; New York
state comptroller, 1884-87; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888-91; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1891-92.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Montreal, Quebec,
October
2, 1936 (age 88 years, 208
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Atlas Chapin and Josephine Jerusha (Clark) Chapin;
married, February
20, 1884, to Grace Stebbins; married, January
6, 1913, to Charlotte (Storrs) Montant; father of Grace Chapin
(who married Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991)); grandfather of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); grandnephew of Chester
William Chapin; great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish and Alexa
Fish Ward; second cousin four times removed of Daniel
Chapin (1761-1821); third cousin of Arthur
Beebe Chapin; third cousin twice removed of John
Strong, Elijah
Hunt Mills, John
Putnam Chapin and Milton
Prince Higgins; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Clesson Allen, Daniel
Chapin (1791-1878) and Graham
Hurd Chapin; fourth cousin of Zenas
Ferry Moody; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Strong, Joseph
Churchill Strong, Ebenezer
Strong, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Charles
James Folger, Jacob
Sloat Fassett, Arthur
Platt Howard and Edward
Stanley Kellogg. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Ray Park Chase (1880-1948) —
also known as Ray P. Chase —
of Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., March
12, 1880.
Republican. Minnesota
state auditor, 1921-31; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1930; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota at-large, 1933-35; member of Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1945-47.
Methodist
or Episcopalian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Alpha Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., September
18, 1948 (age 68 years, 190
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Anoka, Minn.
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John David Clifford Jr. (b. 1887) —
also known as John D. Clifford —
of Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine.
Born in Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine, May 15,
1887.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1915-16; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1933-47.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Alpha Delta Phi; Knights
of Columbus; Grange.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Dumas Clifford and Katherine (Sullivan) Clifford; married, July 14,
1915, to Lucille Smith. |
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Frederic Runyon Colie (1895-1974) —
also known as Frederic R. Colie —
of Millburn, Essex
County, N.J.; Short Hills, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in East Orange, Essex
County, N.J., May 4,
1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1941-48; superior
court judge in New Jersey, 1948-61.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons.
Died, in St. Barnabas Medical
Center, Livingston, Essex
County, N.J., May 30,
1974 (age 79 years, 26
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Martin Colie and Caroline (Runyon) Colie; married, November
11, 1922, to Rosalie Littell Hall. |
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Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (1880-1957) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., May 7,
1880.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1929.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn., December
21, 1957 (age 77 years, 228
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Patrick W. Cullinan (1851-1926) —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y., 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County 1st District, 1880-81; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900
(alternate), 1904,
1912
(alternate), 1920
(alternate); delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y., July 19,
1926 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Scriba town, Oswego County, N.Y.
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Dwight Filley Davis (1879-1945) —
also known as Dwight F. Davis —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., July 5,
1879.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1925-29; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1929-32.
Baptist.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Founder of the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
28, 1945 (age 66 years, 146
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Willets Davison (b. 1872) —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
25, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; Queens
County District Attorney, 1899; vice-president, Central Trust Co.;
director, Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Co., New York Municipal Railways
Co., Third Avenue Railway
Co., Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
Co., American Eagle Fire
Insurance Co.
Methodist.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert A. Davison and Emeline (Sealey) Davison; married, April
24, 1895, to Harriet R. Baldwin. |
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Edward Clayton Eicher (1878-1944) —
also known as Edward C. Eicher —
of Washington, Washington
County, Iowa; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Noble, Washington
County, Iowa, December
16, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1933-39; member, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1938-42; chair, U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission, 1941-42; Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1942.
Mennonite.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., November
30, 1944 (age 65 years, 350
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Washington, Iowa.
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William Harvey Johnson Ely (1891-1942) —
also known as William H. J. Ely —
of Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J., September
18, 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; district judge in New
Jersey, 1924-29; member of New
Jersey state senate from Bergen County, 1932-34; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1932
(alternate), 1940;
delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large;
elected 1933; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1938.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Lions;
Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J., March 2,
1942 (age 50 years, 165
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April
30, 1842.
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust
Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad;
director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Clarence Lyon Fisher (b. 1877) —
also known as Clarence L. Fisher —
of Lyons Falls, Lewis
County, N.Y.
Born in Lyons Falls, Lewis
County, N.Y., August
22, 1877.
Republican. Real estate
business; lumber and
timber business; member of New York
state assembly from Lewis County, 1925-29.
Member, Grange;
Alpha Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sons
of the Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hubbell Fisher and Mary (Lyon) Fisher; married, February
21, 1907, to Melissa Rachel Ingals. |
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Robert Garrett (b. 1875) —
of Roland Park, Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., June 24,
1875.
Republican. Banker;
candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1903, 1905; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1904, 1906, 1908;
member of Maryland
Republican State Central Committee, 1912; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1912.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Historical Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Harrison Garrett and Alice Dickinson (Whitridge) Garrett;
brother of John
Work Garrett; married, May 1,
1907, to Katharine Barker Johnson. |
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Horace Weldon Gilmore (1918-2010) —
also known as Horace W. Gilmore —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, April 4,
1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1956-80; appointed 1956;
candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1972; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1980-91;
took senior status 1991.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; NAACP.
Died January
25, 2010 (age 91 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Carroll Glover Jr. (b. 1888) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1888.
Republican. Investment
banker; delegate to Republican National Convention from District
of Columbia, 1924
(alternate), 1940;
member, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, 1928;
member, Resolutions Committee, 1940.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965) —
also known as Joseph C. Grew —
of Hancock, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Manchester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 27,
1880.
U.S. Deputy Consul General in Cairo, 1904-06; secretary to American delegation, Armistace
conference of Supreme War Council, Versailles, 1918; secretary
general with rank of Minister, American Commission to Negotiate
Peace, Paris, 1918-19; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1920-21; Switzerland, 1921-24; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1927-32; Japan, 1932-38.
Episcopalian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Navy
League.
One of five retired diplomats who co-signed an open letter in 1954
protesting U.S. Sen. Joe
McCarthy's attacks on the Foreign Service.
Died May 25,
1965 (age 84 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence Eugene Hancock (1885-1948) —
also known as Clarence E. Hancock —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., February
13, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1927-47 (35th District 1927-45,
36th District 1945-47); alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1928.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., January
3, 1948 (age 62 years, 324
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
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Andrew Isbell Henshaw (1825-1865) —
Born in Clarke
County, Ala., November
7, 1825.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1851-52; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., August
23, 1865 (age 39 years, 289
days).
Interment at McConnico Cemetery, Monroe County, Ala.
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D-Cady Herrick II (1908-1974) —
of Slingerlands, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March 5,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County 1st District, 1947-54.
Christian
Reformed. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Alpha Delta Phi; Pi
Delta Epsilon.
Died February
20, 1974 (age 65 years, 352
days).
Interment at North Chatham Cemetery, North Chatham, N.Y.
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Harry B. Hershey —
of Taylorville, Christian
County, Ill.
Born in Mifflin, Richland
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Lawyer; Christian
County State's Attorney, 1912-20; mayor
of Taylorville, Ill., 1922-26; member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938; Illinois
Democratic state chair, 1938-39; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1940,
1944
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1948;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1940; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1951-66 (2nd District 1951-63, 5th
District 1964-66).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Farm
Bureau.
Burial location unknown.
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John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill (1879-1941) —
also known as John Philip Hill —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., May 2,
1879.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Maryland, 1910-15; candidate for mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1915; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1916;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1921-27; defeated,
1908, 1928, 1930, 1936; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify 21st amendment 3rd District,
1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Moose; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 23,
1941 (age 62 years, 21
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) —
also known as Owen Johnson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1878.
Democrat. Author;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1936, 1938.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., January
27, 1952 (age 73 years, 153
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson; married, May 23,
1901, to Mary Galt Stockly; married, February
1, 1912, to Esther Ellen Cobb; married, July 2,
1917, to Cecile Denis de la Garde; married, January
20, 1921, to Catherine Sayre Burton; married, January
31, 1926, to Gertrude (Bovee) Le Boutillier. |
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Otto Kerner Jr. (1908-1976) —
of Glenview, Cook
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
15, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1947-54; county
judge in Illinois, 1954-60; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1960,
1964;
Governor
of Illinois, 1961-68; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1968-74; resigned
1974.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum; Military
Order of the World Wars; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of
over $300,000 in a stock deal which prosecutors later characterized
as bribery.
Convicted
in 1973 on 17 counts of bribery,
conspiracy, perjury,
and related charges; sentenced
to three years in federal prison
and fined
$50,000.
Died of cancer,
May
9, 1976 (age 67 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Goodwin Jess Knight (1896-1970) —
also known as Goodwin J. Knight —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Provo, Utah
County, Utah, December
9, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1935-46; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1947-53; Governor of
California, 1953-59; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1956
(speaker),
1960
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1958; candidate for Presidential Elector
for California.
Protestant.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Order of
Ahepa; Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Inglewood, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 22,
1970 (age 73 years, 164
days).
Originally entombed at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.; re-entombed in
1971 in mausoleum at Rose
Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Calif.
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George Van Ness Lothrop (1817-1897) —
also known as George V. N. Lothrop —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., August
8, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
state attorney general, 1848-51; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1856, 1860; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1860;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S. Minister
to Russia, 1885-88.
English
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in 1897
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Abbot Augustus Low (1889-1963) —
also known as A. Augustus Low; Gus Low —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Sabattis, Hamilton
County, N.Y.
Born in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
1, 1889.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; president,
Old Forge Electric
Company, 1928-37; president, Utica Gas and
Electric Company, 1934-36; executive vice-president, Brooklyn
Edison, and vice-president of its successor, Consolidated Edison
Company of New York, electric
utilities; chair of
Hamilton County Republican Party, 1930-55; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936,
1948,
1952;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 35th District, 1938;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, American
Legion; Sons of
the Revolution; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Alpha Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1963 (age 74 years, 115
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Hamilton County, N.Y.
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Spencer Miller Jr. (b. 1891) —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., July 2,
1891.
Village
president of South Orange, New Jersey, 1944; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; Alpha Delta Phi; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1928 to
Margaret Montague Geer. |
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Charles Hine Nettleton (b. 1850) —
of Shelton, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Derby, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., June 29,
1850.
Warden
(borough president) of Shelton, Connecticut, 1882-83; president,
New Haven Gas
Light Company; president, Birmingham National Bank;
general manager, Birmingham Water
Company.
Episcopalian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Union
League; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Nettleton and Ellen (Hine) Nettleton; married, November
11, 1874, to Katharine Arold. |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in
Connecticut (1908) |
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Jacob Van Vechten Olcott (1856-1940) —
also known as J. Van Vechten Olcott —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1905-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1912.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Alpha Delta Phi; Union
League.
Died June 1,
1940 (age 84 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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David Packard (1912-1996) —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo., September
7, 1912.
Republican. Co-founder and chief executive, Hewlett-Packard
electronics and computer
company; U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1969-71; director, Pacific
Gas &
Electric Co., Crocker-Citizens National Bank,
General Dynamics Corp., U.S. Steel Corp.,
Trans World Airways,
Standard Oil of
California, Caterpillar Tractor
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; philanthropist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Alpha Delta Phi; Tau Beta
Pi; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Stanford University Hospital,
Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., March
26, 1996 (age 83 years, 201
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Beaumont Parks (1868-1929) —
of Whiting, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
25, 1868.
Democrat. Superintendent, Standard Oil refinery;
mayor
of Whiting, Ind., 1910-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha Delta Phi.
Died February
25, 1929 (age 60 years, 62
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Willys Ruggles Peck (1882-1952) —
also known as Willys R. Peck —
Born in Tientsin, China,
of American parents, October
24, 1882.
U.S. Consul in Tsingtao, 1914, 1916, 1921; U.S. Vice Consul General in Hankow, 1914-15; U.S. Consul General in Nanking, 1931-32; U.S. Minister to Thailand, 1941.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in 1952
(age about
69 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Harting Percy (1919-2011) —
also known as Charles H. Percy —
of Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; Wilmette, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., September
27, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; President
and CEO, Bell & Howell, 1949-63; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1964,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1964; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1967-85; defeated, 1984.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died September
17, 2011 (age 91 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edgar Monsanto Queeny (1897-1968) —
also known as Edgar M. Queeny —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Kirkwood, St. Louis
County, Mo.; Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
29, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president
(1928-43) and chairman (1943-60), Monsanto Chemical
Company; board chairman, Barnes Hospital;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1940,
1956.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo., July 7,
1968 (age 70 years, 282
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Daniel Trowbridge Quirk (1903-1969) —
also known as Daniel T. Quirk; Dan T.
Quirk —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 8,
1903.
President and treasurer, Peninsular Paper
Company; mayor
of Ypsilanti, Mich., 1947-53.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died October
21, 1969 (age 66 years, 135
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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James Burton Reynolds (b. 1870) —
also known as James B. Reynolds —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Saratoga, Saratoga
County, N.Y., February
17, 1870.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; secretary of
Massachusetts Republican Party, 1896-1905; U.S. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, 1905-09; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1912-16; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1916.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John H. Reynolds and Sarah C. (Morgan) Reynolds. |
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Ellis Henry Roberts (1827-1918) —
also known as Ellis H. Roberts —
of Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., September
30, 1827.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1864,
1868;
member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County 2nd District, 1867; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1871-75 (21st District 1871-73,
22nd District 1873-75); defeated, 1874; banker;
Treasurer of the United States, 1897-1905.
Presbyterian.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Skull
and Bones; American
Historical Association.
Died in 1918
(age about
90 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
Republican candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed; later Episcopalian.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot
in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his
speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of
Anna L. Roosevelt (who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)) and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, December
2, 1886, to Edith
Kermit Carow (first cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; uncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt (who married Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; granduncle of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather of Susan
Roosevelt (who married William
Floyd Weld); great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Martin
Van Buren; fourth cousin once removed of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. — Asa
Bird Gardiner |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The minor
planet (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), is
named
for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Ted
Dalton
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action — Rick Marshall, Bully!:
The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than
250 Vintage Political Cartoons |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Julius Hubbell Seymour (b. 1855) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., October
30, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1901-02.
Member, Union
League; Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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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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James Garfield Stewart (b. 1881) —
also known as James G. Stewart —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio, November
17, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1938-47; resigned 1947; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1944; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1957.
Episcopalian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sweeney (b. 1903) —
also known as Tom Sweeney —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., November
18, 1903.
Republican. Insurance
business; candidate for West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1934; member
of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1939-42; candidate for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1940, 1946, 1954; delegate to
Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1948,
1956,
1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1968.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks;
Alpha Delta Phi; Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas B. Sweeney and Nelle Katherine (Zurmuehlen)
Sweeney. |
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Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) —
also known as Frank W. Taussig; "The American
Marshall" —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
28, 1859.
University
professor; economist;
chair, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1917-19.
Member, American
Economic Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
11, 1940 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Allen Towner Treadway (1867-1947) —
also known as Allen T. Treadway —
of Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., September
16, 1867.
Republican. Hotel
proprietor; director, Berkshire Trust Co.;
trustee, Stockbridge Savings
Bank; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1904; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1908-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1913-45; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1936.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Grange;
Elks; Royal
Arcanum; Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in 1947
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Somerville Pinkney Tuck Jr. (1891-1967) —
also known as S. Pinkney Tuck;
"Kippy" —
of New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., May 31,
1891.
Democrat. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Alexandria, as of 1916-17; U.S. Consul in Alexandria, as of 1919-21; Samsun, as of 1921; Vladivostok, 1922-23; Geneva, 1924-28; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, 1946.
Episcopalian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died, in the American Hospital,
Paris, France,
April
21, 1967 (age 75 years, 325
days).
Interment at St.
Barnabas Church Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
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George Underwood (1816-1859) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y., January
4, 1816.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Cayuga County 2nd District, 1851-52; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1854; resigned 1854.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., May 25,
1859 (age 43 years, 141
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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David Frederick Upton (b. 1921) —
also known as David F. Upton —
of St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich., November
13, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; business
executive; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Berrien County
1st District, 1961-62; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Berrien County 1st District,
1963-64; candidate for Michigan
state senate 22nd District, 1964; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1968;
member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1969; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1974, 1976.
Congregationalist.
Member, Rotary;
Alpha Delta Phi.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Stephen Upton (b. 1953) —
also known as Fred Upton —
of St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich., April
23, 1953.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1987-2003 (4th District 1987-93,
6th District 1993-2003).
Protestant.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Still living as of 2014.
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George Wadsworth II (1893-1958) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April 3,
1893.
University
professor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Nantes, 1917-19; Constantinople, 1919-20; Sofia, 1920; Alexandria, 1920-21; U.S. Consul in Cairo, 1922-24, 1928-31; U.S. Consul General in Bucharest, 1935; Jerusalem, 1936-40; Damascus, 1942-44; Beirut, 1942-44; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Syria, 1942-44; Lebanon, 1942-44; U.S. Minister to Lebanon, 1944-47; Syria, 1944-47; Iraq, 1946-48; Yemen, 1953-57; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1948-52; Czechoslovakia, 1952-53; Saudi Arabia, 1953-58.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Died, of cancer,
March
5, 1958 (age 64 years, 336
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Walker Wear (b. 1876) —
also known as Joseph W. Wear —
of Penllyn, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., November
27, 1876.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1940
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee).
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Doubles champion of U.S. in court tennis; racquet doubles champion of
U.S.; chair, Davis Cup committee.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hutchinson Wear and Nancy (Holliday) Wear; married, April
14, 1903, to Adaline Coleman Potter. |
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Bartow Sumter Weeks (1861-1922) —
also known as Bartow S. Weeks —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Round Hill, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., April
25, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of George
Gordon Battle and H.
Snowden Marshall; candidate for New York
state senate 15th District, 1898; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1913, 1914-22; appointed
1913; defeated, 1913; appointed 1914; died in office 1922.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Alpha Delta Phi; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., February
3, 1922 (age 60 years, 284
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Astor Weeks and Aletha (White) Weeks; married 1900 to
Antoinette Mataran; married 1901 to Emma
B. Sears; married 1918 to
Josephine (de Martigny) Smith. |
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Harvey Randall Wickes (1889-1974) —
also known as H. Randall Wickes —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., September
1, 1889.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; business
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1944.
Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Alpha Delta Phi; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., October
6, 1974 (age 85 years, 35
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry Tuthill Wickes and Fanny (Hamilton) Wickes; married, February
15, 1915, to Ruth Brady. |
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Rollin Robbins Winslow (b. 1893) —
also known as Rollin R. Winslow —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich., August
11, 1893.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Florence, 1920-21; Vladivostok, 1922-23; Batavia, 1923; Soerabaya, 1923-25; U.S. Consul in Soerabaya, 1925; Winnipeg, 1926-28; Trieste, 1930-34; Plymouth, 1934-35; Quebec City, as of 1940-43.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Bertrand Winslow and Cynthia Kelly (Robbins) Winslow;
married 1922 to Mary
Locke Macgowan. |
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John Quinby Wood (b. 1867) —
also known as John Q. Wood —
of Bucksport, Hancock
County, Maine.
Born in Bucksport, Hancock
County, Maine, June 24,
1867.
College
professor; lawyer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Milan, 1909-10; U.S. Consul in Venice, 1910; Tripoli, 1910-13; Chemnitz, 1914-17; Marseille, 1917; St. Michaels, 1917-19; Tiflis, 1919; Le Havre, 1919; Frankfort, 1921-22; Veracruz, 1922-26; Messina, as of 1929; Strasbourg, as of 1932; U.S. Consul General in Addis Ababa, 1913-14.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Wood and Mary (Farnham) Wood; married 1901 to
Harriet Goddard. |
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William Young (b. 1870) —
of Williamsport, Lycoming
County, Pa.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., April
23, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Lycoming County Republican Party, 1896-97; member of New York
state assembly, 1905-07 (New York County 21st District 1905-06,
New York County 17th District 1907).
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha Delta Phi; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John M. Young and Caroline (Van Patten) Young. |
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