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Very incomplete list!   Boce William Barlow Jr. (1915-2005) — also known as Boce W. Barlow, Jr. — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Americus, Sumter County, Ga., August 8, 1915. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of Connecticut state senate; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1977. Congregationalist. Member, NAACP; Prince Hall Masons; Elks; Kappa Alpha Psi. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., January 31, 2005 (age 89 years, 176 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Boce William Barlow and Ethel (Green) Barlow; married to Catherine Swanson.   Boce Barlow Way, a street in Hartford, Connecticut, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961) — also known as J. W. Dobbs — of Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga. Born in Marietta, Cobb County, Ga., March 6, 1882. Republican. Co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League, 1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1948, 1952 (member, Resolutions Committee). African ancestry. Member, Prince Hall Masons. Died in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., August 30, 1961 (age 79 years, 177 days). Interment at South View Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.; statue at John Wesley Dobbs Plaza, Atlanta, Ga.   Presumably named for: John Wesley   Relatives: Married 1906 to Irene Ophelia Thompson; grandfather of Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr..   John Wesley Dobbs Avenue (formerly Houston Street), and Dobbs Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia, are named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Joseph E. Ousley (c.1850-1896) — of Eutaw, Bolivar County, Miss. Born in Mississippi, about 1850. Republican. Bolivar County Circuit Clerk; delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1896 (member, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee). African ancestry. Member, Prince Hall Masons. Died in Eutaw, Bolivar County, Miss., October 16, 1896 (age about 46 years). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married, December 22, 1881, to Jennie M. Williamson.   Louis B. Toomer (1842-1904) — of Savannah, Chatham County, Ga. Born in South Carolina, 1842. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1880. African ancestry. Member, Prince Hall Masons. Died in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., October 18, 1904 (age about 62 years). Burial location unknown.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932) — also known as Andy Young — of Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., March 12, 1932. Democrat. Ordained minister; one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. until his assassination; U.S. Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1973-77; defeated, 1970; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1977-79; mayor of Atlanta, Ga., 1982-90; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; candidate for Governor of Georgia, 1990. United Church of Christ. African ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Prince Hall Masons. Received the Spingarn Medal in 1978; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Still living as of 2021.   Presumably named for: Andrew Jackson   Relatives: Son of Andrew Jackson Young and Daisy (Fuller) Young; married 1954 to Jean Childs; married, March 24, 1996, to Carolyn Watson.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Image source: Library of Congress

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