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Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) —
also known as H. Gardner Ackley —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 30,
1915.
University
professor; economist;
chair, U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, 1964-68; U.S. Ambassador to
Italy, 1968-69.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Delta Pi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Kappa Phi; Trilateral
Commission; American
Economic Association; American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Huron Woods nursing
home, Superior Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
12, 1998 (age 82 years, 227
days).
Cremated.
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James Alexander (1691-1756) —
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
May
27, 1691.
In Scotland, he joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, a revolt
that attempted to install James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old
Pretender") as king; to avoid prosecution
for treason,
he fled
to New York; surveyor;
lawyer;
member New York governor's council, 1721-32, 1737; Colonial
Attorney-General of New York, 1721-23.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in New York, April 2,
1756 (age 64 years, 311
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Harlan Page Amen (1853-1913) —
also known as Harlan P. Amen —
of Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Sinking Spring, Highland
County, Ohio, April
14, 1853.
Republican. School
teacher; principal, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., from
1895; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Hampshire, 1912.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association.
Died November
9, 1913 (age 60 years, 209
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Amen and Sarah J. (Barber) Amen. |
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William Wallace Atterbury (1866-1935) —
also known as William W. Atterbury; "The Railroad
General" —
of Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., January
31, 1866.
Republican. Railroad
superintendent; president, American Railway
Association; during World War I, he was called on to organize
organized U.S. military railroad
operations in France; he was designated Director-General of
Transportation for the American Expeditionary Forces; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920
(speaker);
President, Pennsylvania Railroad,
1925-35.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa., September
20, 1935 (age 69 years, 232
days).
Interment at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Charles Montague Bakewell (1867-1957) —
also known as Charles M. Bakewell —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., April
24, 1867.
Republican. University
professor; member of Connecticut
state senate 8th District, 1921-24; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1932
(alternate), 1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1933-35; defeated, 1934.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Freemasons;
Elks;
American Philosophical Society.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
19, 1957 (age 90 years, 148
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) —
also known as Simeon E. Baldwin —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
5, 1840.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1867; law
professor; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1897-1907; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1907-10; Governor of
Connecticut, 1911-15; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1912;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1914.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; American
Historical Association; American
Political Science Association; American Philosophical
Society; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died January
30, 1927 (age 86 years, 359
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Roger
Sherman Baldwin and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin; brother of Henrietta
Perkins (who married Dwight
Foster); married, October
19, 1865, to Susan Mears Winchester; uncle of Edward
Baldwin Whitney; grandson of Simeon
Baldwin; great-grandson of Roger
Sherman; fifth great-grandnephew of Thomas
Welles; first cousin once removed of Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts, George
Frisbie Hoar and Henry
de Forest Baldwin; second cousin of Roger
Sherman Greene, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts, Arthur
Outram Sherman, Thomas
Day Thacher and Roger
Kent; second cousin once removed of Roger
Sherman Hoar; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Gager and Archibald
Cox; third cousin once removed of Samuel
R. Gager, Samuel
Austin Gager, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew and John
Frederick Addis; third cousin twice removed of Josiah
Cowles and John
Stanley Addis; fourth cousin of John
Adams Dix; fourth cousin once removed of James
Doolittle Wooster, Daniel
Upson, Walter
Booth, George
Bailey Loring, Charles
Page, Erwin
J. Baldwin, Ernest
Harvey Woodford, Francis
Everett Baldwin and Clement
Phineas Kellogg. |
| | | 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). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edwin
Stark Thomas |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Wharton Barker (1846-1921) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 1,
1846.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; financier;
People's candidate for President
of the United States, 1900.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 9,
1921 (age 74 years, 343
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936) —
also known as James M. Beck —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 9,
1861.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1896-1900;
U.S. Solicitor General, 1921-25; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1927-34 (1st District 1927-33,
2nd District 1933-34); resigned 1934.
Member, American Philosophical Society; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
12, 1936 (age 74 years, 278
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895-1971) —
also known as Adolf A. Berle; A. A. Berle —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
29, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; economist;
law
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.
Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-46.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on
Foreign Relations; American Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a stroke,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 19
days).
Interment at Muddy Brook Cemetery, Great Barrington, Mass.
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David Harold Blackwell (1919-2010) —
also known as David Blackwell —
of Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Centralia, Marion
County, Ill., April
24, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1972.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Statistical Association; American Philosophical Society.
Died, in a hospital
at Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., July 8,
2010 (age 91 years, 75
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) —
also known as James M. Burns —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
3, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; author;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Received Pulitzer
Prize in history, 1971.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married 1942 to Janet
Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan
Simpson Meyers. |
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Republican. University
professor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1888;
President
of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928
(speaker),
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind
in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
24, 1832.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain, 1899-1905.
English
ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Bar
Association; Union
League.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1917 (age 85 years, 110
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) —
also known as Warren Christopher; "The
Cardinal" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Scranton, Bowman
County, N.Dak., October
27, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputy
U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1993-97.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of
the Coif; Council on
Foreign Relations; American Philosophical Society.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
Died, from kidney
and bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
18, 2011 (age 85 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (1901-1990) —
also known as Joseph S. Clark, Jr. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; served
in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1952-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69; defeated, 1968.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; American Bar
Association; United
World Federalists; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
12, 1990 (age 88 years, 83
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.
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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) —
also known as James B. Conant —
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
26, 1893.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chemist;
university
professor; President
of Harvard University, 1933-53; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1955-57.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Alpha
Chi Sigma; American Philosophical Society; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., February
11, 1978 (age 84 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April
10, 1862.
Democrat. University
professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1946.
Member, American Philosophical Society; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Lewis Williams Douglas (1894-1974) —
also known as Lewis W. Douglas —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Sonoita, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz.
Born in Bisbee, Cochise
County, Ariz., July 2,
1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1923-25; U.S.
Representative from Arizona at-large, 1927-33; director of the
U.S. Budget, 1933-34; vice-president and director, American Cyanamid
Co., 1934-38; president, Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, 1940-47; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1947-50.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Philosophical Society; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., March 7,
1974 (age 79 years, 248
days).
Cremated.
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Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976) —
also known as Paul H. Douglas —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., March
26, 1892.
Democrat. University
professor; economist;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1949-67; defeated, 1942, 1966.
Unitarian
or Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
24, 1976 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Pierre Samuel du Pont (1870-1954) —
also known as Pierre S. du Pont —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., January
15, 1870.
President (1915-19) and director of the Du Pont chemical
company; chairman (1915-29) and president (1920-23) of General
Motors; director, Pennsylvania Railroad;
member of Delaware
state board of education, 1919-21; delegate
to Delaware convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; Delaware
Liquor Commissioner, 1933-38.
Member, American Philosophical Society; Phi
Kappa Sigma.
Died in 1954
(age about
84 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons;
American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented
bifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| | | 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 |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical
Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
29, 2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Walter Sherman Gifford (1885-1966) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; North Castle town, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
10, 1885.
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1950-53.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
President of American Telephone
& Telegraph
Co.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1966 (age 81 years, 117
days).
Interment at Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, Bedford, N.Y.
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Herbert Funk Goodrich (1889-1962) —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., July 29,
1889.
Democrat. Law
professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1940-62; died in
office 1962.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Philosophical Society; Order of
the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Alpha Delta; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Freemasons.
Died June 25,
1962 (age 72 years, 331
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Herbert Goodrich and Mary Ann (Funk) Goodrich; married to
Edith Eastman and Natalie E. Murphy; married, September
23, 1940, to Mary Dern Baxter. |
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Historian;
president,
Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) —
also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April
13, 1743.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796.
Deist.
English
ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826 (age 83 years, 82
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph
at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father of Martha
Jefferson (who married Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who married John
Wayles Eppes); uncle of Dabney
Carr; grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Randolph, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle of Edith
Wilson; first cousin once removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed of John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden and Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden and Carter
Henry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed of Thomas
Theodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker and William
Segar Archer; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke and John
Augustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed of William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed of William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy — Joshua
Fry |
| | | Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Jefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), in Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Thomas
Jefferson Kennard
— Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
J. Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Word
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
J. Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— T.
J. Coghlan
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. McLain, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Brady
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— T.
J. Jarratt
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. O'Donnell
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
J. Graham
— T.
J. Martin
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Tom
Mangan
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
Jefferson Edmonds, Jr.
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, and
on the $2 bill since the 1860s. |
| | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants
is obedience to God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.
Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard
Sterne Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan
Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher
Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America — David Barton, The
Jefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed about
Thomas Jefferson — David Barton, The
Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About
Thomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American Philosophical Society.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Thomaston
Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine.
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Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at Terminal
Island, California; torpedoed and lost in the Indian
Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Laurens (1724-1792) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 6,
1724.
Merchant;
planter;
Vice-President
of South Carolina, 1776-77; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1777-80; member of
South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1785.
Member, Freemasons;
American Philosophical Society.
Died in Berkeley
County, S.C., December
8, 1792 (age 68 years, 277
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Seth Low (1850-1916) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1850.
Republican. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1882-85; president,
Columbia University, 1890-1900; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1902-03; defeated, 1897, 1903; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died in Bedford Hills, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
17, 1916 (age 66 years, 243
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; St. Georges, Bermuda;
Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., August
21, 1757.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor and publisher; acting president,
University of Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14;
Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
4, 1822 (age 65 years, 14
days).
Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1878
at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; married 1782 to Clara
Benjamin; father of Henry
Meigs and Clara Meigs (who married John
Forsyth); uncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather of Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; granduncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden
Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John
Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha
Hunt Allen, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur
Morris, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg and Charles
Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
H. Eastman, William
Fessenden Allen, Rush
Green Leaming, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, Alvred
Bayard Nettleton, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Charles
M. Hotchkiss, Frederick
Hobbes Allen, Allen
Clarence Wilcox and Carl
Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Meigs,
Georgia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
10, 1744.
Democrat. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75, 1782-84;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of Pennsylvania, 1788-90; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1790-99.
Lutheran.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American Philosophical Society.
Died in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., January
20, 1800 (age 56 years, 10
days).
Interment at Trinity
Lutheran Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa.
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Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) —
of Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex
County, Mass., February
3, 1748.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781-84; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1784; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1789-91; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
12, 1813 (age 65 years, 190
days).
Original interment at Brick
Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1856 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Wharton Pepper (1867-1961) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Devon, Chester
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
16, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer; law
professor; orator;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27; defeated in primary, 1926;
member of Republican
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1922-24; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1924,
1928,
1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker).
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Philosophical Society.
Died May 24,
1961 (age 94 years, 69
days).
Interment at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Charles Pettit (1736-1806) —
Born near Amwell (now Mt. Airy), Hunterdon
County, N.J., 1736.
Secretary
of state of New Jersey, 1776-78; resigned 1778; served in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1783-84; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1785-87; importer
and exporter.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
3, 1806 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Old
Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Samuel Powel (1738-1793) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
28, 1738.
Mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-76, 1789-90; member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1790-93.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died, from yellow
fever, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
29, 1793 (age 54 years, 336
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Dyneley Prince (1868-1945) —
also known as John D. Prince —
of Passaic
County, N.J.; Ringwood Manor, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
17, 1868.
University
professor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Passaic County, 1906,
1908-09; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1909; member of New
Jersey state senate from Passaic County, 1910-12; U.S. Minister
to Denmark, 1921-26; Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1926-29; Yugoslavia, 1929-33.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in 1945
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 8,
1732.
Astronomer;
mathematician;
financier;
clockmaker;
surveyor;
Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1777-89; first
director of the U.S. Mint.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 26,
1796 (age 64 years, 79
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Elihu Root (1845-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
15, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-85; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1899-1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904
(Temporary
Chair), 1912;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1909-15; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Union
League; American
Society for International Law; American Bar
Association; American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1937 (age 91 years, 358
days).
Interment at Hamilton
College Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y.
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Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) —
also known as "Father of American
Psychiatry" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Byberry Township (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
4, 1746.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
19, 1813 (age 67 years, 105
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, January
2, 1776, to Julia Stockton (daughter of Richard
Stockton); father of Richard
Rush. |
| | | Political family: Stockton
family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Rush County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | Rush Street,
in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Benjamin Rush: Alyn
Brodsky, Benjamin
Rush : Patriot and Physician — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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Carl Christian Schurz (1829-1906) —
also known as Carl Schurz —
of Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; St.
Louis, Mo.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Liblar (now part of Erfstadt), Germany,
March
2, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1857; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1860;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri,
1868
(Temporary
Chair; speaker);
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1869-75; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1877-81.
German
ancestry. Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 14,
1906 (age 77 years, 73
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; statue at Morningside
Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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The community
of Schurz,
Nevada, is named for
him. — Mount
Schurz, in Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Carl Schurz Park,
in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. — Carl Schurz High
School, in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — Schurz Elementary
School, in Watertown,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Carl Schurz Elementary
School, in New
Braunfels, Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Carl
S. Thompson
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
| | | Books about Carl Schurz: Hans Louis
Trefousse, Carl
Schurz: A Biography |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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George Frederick Seward (1840-1910) —
also known as George F. Seward —
of California; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., November
8, 1840.
U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1861-63; U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 1863-76; U.S. Minister to China, 1876-80; president, Fidelity and Casualty
Company of New York, 1893-1910.
Member, American Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
28, 1910 (age 70 years, 20
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Adam Seybert (1773-1825) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 16,
1773.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1809-15, 1817-19.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Paris, France,
May
2, 1825 (age 51 years, 351
days).
Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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William Cameron Sproul (1870-1928) —
also known as William C. Sproul —
of Chester, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Octoraro, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
16, 1870.
Republican. Farmer; manufacturer;
journalist;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 9th District, 1897-1919; resigned 1919; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1920,
1924;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1919-23; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1920.
Quaker.
Member, American Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Kappa Psi; Grange;
Freemasons;
Elks; Union
League; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died March
21, 1928 (age 57 years, 187
days).
Interment at Chester
Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hall Sproul and Deborah Dickinson (Slokom) Sproul;
married, January
21, 1892, to Emeline Wallace Roach. |
| | | Sproul Hall, a residence hall at Pennsylvania
State University,
University Park, State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The Sproul State
Forest, in Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography |
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John Stevens III (1749-1838) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 26,
1749.
Lawyer;
inventor;
New
Jersey state treasurer, 1776-79; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; successfully advocated for the first
U.S. patent law (1790); innovated steam-powered ships and
locomotives; built railroads
in New Jersey.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Bergen Township, Bergen County (part now in Hoboken, Hudson
County), N.J., March 6,
1838 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevens and Elizabeth (Alexander) Stevens; brother of Mary
Stevens (who married Robert
R. Livingston); married, October
17, 1782, to Rachel Cox; grandson of James
Alexander; great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster and Johannes
de Peyster; second great-granduncle of Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin of Philip
Peter Livingston; first cousin once removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
DePeyster, William
Duer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish, Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin once removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Matthew
Clarkson and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip
DePeyster. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Stevens (built 1942 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charlemagne Tower (1848-1923) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Duluth & Iron Range Railroad;
managing director, Minnesota Iron Co. (mining);
U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1897-99; U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1899-1902; Germany, 1902-08; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died February
24, 1923 (age 74 years, 313
days).
Original interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.; reinterment at Waterville
Cemetery, Waterville, N.Y.
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Samuel Matthews Vauclain (1856-1940) —
also known as Samuel M. Vauclain —
of Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 18,
1856.
Republican. Locomotive
manufacturer; inventor;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920.
French
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Philosophical
Society.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
4, 1940 (age 83 years, 262
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
19, 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical
Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., 1735.
Merchant;
President
of Pennsylvania, 1777-78; died in office 1778.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., May 22,
1778 (age about 42
years).
Entombed at Evangelical
Trinity Church, Lancaster, Pa.
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Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) —
also known as Andrew D. White —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., November
7, 1832.
Republican. University
professor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1864-67; co-founder and first president
of Cornell University, 1867-79 and 1881-85; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1872
(alternate), 1884,
1912;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1879-81; Russia, 1892-94; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1897-1902.
Member, American
Historical Association; American Philosophical Society.
Died in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., November
4, 1918 (age 85 years, 362
days).
Entombed at Sage
Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; statue at Arts
Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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Jonathan Williams (1750-1815) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 20,
1750.
Secretary to Benjamin
Franklin, 1770-75; first superintendent of the U.S. Military
Academy, 1802; engineer;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1815; died in
office 1815.
Member, American Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 16,
1815 (age 64 years, 361
days).
Original interment at Pine Street Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in 1862 at
Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Charles Woodruff Yost (1907-1981) —
also known as Charles W. Yost —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
6, 1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Alexandria, 1931-32; Warsaw, 1932-33; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Thailand, 1946; U.S. Minister to Laos, 1954-55; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1955-56; Syria, 1957-58; Morocco, 1958-61; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1969-71.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Society for International Law; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, from cancer,
in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 21,
1981 (age 73 years, 196
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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