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Roy Leslie Austin (b. 1939) —
also known as Roy L. Austin —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Kingstown, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, December
13, 1939.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 2001-09.
African
ancestry. Member, Skull and Bones.
Still living as of 2014.
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Henry de Forest Baldwin (1862-1947) —
of Pelham Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa, November
7, 1862.
Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull and Bones.
Died, following a stroke,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 18,
1947 (age 84 years, 192
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859-1910) —
also known as Lloyd W. Bowers —
of Winona, Winona
County, Minn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., March 9,
1859.
Lawyer;
general counsel, Chicago & North Western Railway,
1893-1909; U.S. Solicitor General, 1909-10; died in office 1910.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died, from a heart
attack, while suffering from bronchitis,
in the Touraine Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
9, 1910 (age 51 years, 184
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Lane Buckley (b. 1923) —
also known as James L. Buckley —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in an elevator at Women's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 9,
1923.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1971-77; defeated, 1968 (Conservative),
1976 (Republican); Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1980; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1985-96; took
senior status 1996.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull and Bones.
President, Radio Free
Europe/Radio
Liberty, 1982-85.
Still living as of 2018.
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William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull and Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author
and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brother
of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) — The
Reagan I Knew (2008) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe
McCarthy |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —
Lee Edwards, William
F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.
Bogus, Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American
Conservatism |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) —
also known as George Bush; "Poppy";
"Sheepskin";
"Timberwolf" —
of Midland, Midland
County, Tex.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 12,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1964, 1970; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative to United Nations, 1971-73; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1973-74; U.S. Liaison to China, 1974-75; director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
1976-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
Vice
President of the United States, 1981-89; President
of the United States, 1989-93; defeated, 1992.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Skull and Bones; Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., November
30, 2018 (age 94 years, 171
days).
Interment at George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College
Station, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Prescott
Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush; married, January
6, 1945, to Barbara
Pierce; father of George
Walker Bush (who married Laura
Lane Welch) and John
Ellis Bush; grandfather of George
Prescott Bush; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davis. |
| | | Political family: Bush
family of Texas and Massachusetts. |
| | | Cross-reference: Caspar
W. Weinberger — John
H. Sununu — Don
Evans — James
C. Oberwetter — Mary
McClure Bibby |
| | | The George Bush School of Government and
Public Service, at Texas A&M University,
College
Station, Texas, is named for
him. — George Bush High
School, in Richmond,
Texas, is named for
him. — George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary
School, in Addison,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by George H. W. Bush: All
The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
(1999) — Looking
Forward (1987) — A
World Transformed (1998) |
| | | Books about George H. W. Bush: John
Robert Greene, The
Presidency of George Bush — Tim O'Shei & Joe Marren,
George
H. W. Bush (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about George H. W. Bush:
Kevin Phillips, American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the
House of Bush — Kitty Kelly, The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty |
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George Walker Bush (b. 1946) —
also known as George W. Bush; "Dubya";
"Shrub"; "The Smirking Chimp";
"The Decider" —
of Midland, Midland
County, Tex.; Crawford, McLennan
County, Tex.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 6,
1946.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 19th District, 1978; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1988;
Governor
of Texas, 1995-2000; President
of the United States, 2001-09.
Methodist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull and Bones.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara
Bush; brother of John
Ellis Bush; married, November
5, 1977, to Laura Welch; married 1977 to Laura
Lane Welch; uncle of George
Prescott Bush; grandson of Prescott
Sheldon Bush; cousin *** of Elizabeth
Walker Field. |
| | | Political family: Bush
family of Texas and Massachusetts. |
| | | Cross-reference: Philip
J. Berg — Dan
Sullivan |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by George W. Bush: A
Charge to Keep (1999) — George
W. Bush on God and Country : The President Speaks Out About Faith,
Principle, and Patriotism (2004) — We
Will Prevail: President George W. Bush on War, Terrorism and
Freedom (2003) |
| | | Books about George W. Bush: J. H.
Hatfield et al, Fortunate
Son : George W. Bush and the Making of An American
President — Roger Simon, Divided
We Stand : How Al Gore Beat George Bush and Lost the
Presidency — Frank Bruni, Ambling
into History : The Unlikely Odyssey of George W.
Bush — Bryan Laberge, George
W. Bush : In the Whirlwind — Lou Dubose et al, Boy
Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph
of George W. Bush — Bill Sammon, Misunderestimated:
The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush
Haters — David Aikman, A
Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W.
Bush — Bob Woodward, Bush
at War — Bob Woodward, Plan
of Attack — Craig Unger, House
of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's
Two Most Powerful Dynasties — Stephen Mansfield, The
Faith of George W. Bush — Ronald Kessler, A
Matter of Character : Inside the White House of George W.
Bush — Paul Kengor, God
and George W. Bush : A Spiritual Life — Carolyn B.
Thompson & James W. Ware, The
Leadership Genius of George W. Bush: 10 Common Sense Lessons from the
Commander-in-Chief — Donald F. Kettl, Team
Bush : Leadership Lessons from the Bush White House —
Sandra J. Kachurek, George
W. Bush (for young readers) — Tim O'Shei & Joe Marren,
George
W. Bush (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about George W. Bush:
Molly Ivins, Shrub:
The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush —
David Corn, The
Lies of George W. Bush : Mastering the Politics of
Deception — Kevin Phillips, American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the
House of Bush — Kitty Kelly, The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty — John W.
Dean, Worse
Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W.
Bush — Ron Suskind, The
Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education
of Paul O'Neill — Robert C. Byrd, Losing
America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant
Presidency — Jack Huberman, The
Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of
the Past 100 Years — Ian Williams, Deserter
: George Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans, and His
Past — Dan Piraro, The
Three Little Pigs Buy the White House |
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Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) —
also known as Prescott S. Bush —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, May 15,
1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker;
director, Pan American Airways;
director, Columbia Broadcasting
System (CBS); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1948,
1956
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1964
(alternate); U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63; defeated, 1950.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Skull and Bones.
Died, of lung
cancer, in the Memorial Hospital
for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
8, 1972 (age 77 years, 146
days).
Interment at Putnam
Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn.
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Frederick Trubee Davison (1896-1974) —
also known as F. Trubee Davison —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1922-26;
Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1926-32; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1932; president, American Museum of Natural
History, 1933-51; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; personnel
director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1951-52.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Skull and Bones; American
Legion.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
14, 1974 (age 78 years, 280
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Pomeroy Davison and Kate (Trubee) Davison; married, April
16, 1920, to Dorothy Peabody. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 24,
1925 |
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
23, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary
of state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Society
of the Cincinnati; Skull and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Depew and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew; married, November
9, 1871, to Elise Hegeman; married, December
28, 1901, to May Palmer; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Sherman; second cousin twice removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; second cousin four times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Merton
William Fairbank; third cousin thrice removed of Reuben
Bostwick Heacock; fourth cousin of John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of John
Adams Dix, Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks, John
Stanley Addis and Archibald
Cox. |
| | | 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). |
| | | The village
of Depew, New
York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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Maxwell Evarts (1862-1913) —
of Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born November
15, 1862.
Lawyer;
counsel for the Union Pacific and other railroads;
banker;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1906.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died October
7, 1913 (age 50 years, 326
days).
Interment at Ascutney
Cemetery, Windsor, Vt.
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William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901) —
also known as William M. Evarts —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
6, 1818.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1860;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Attorney General, 1868-69; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1877-81; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1885-91.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
28, 1901 (age 83 years, 22
days).
Interment at Ascutney
Cemetery, Windsor, Vt.
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Dwight Foster (1828-1884) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in 1828.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1856; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1861-64; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1866-69.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died April
18, 1884 (age about 55
years).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Evan Griffith Galbraith (1928-2008) —
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, July 2,
1928.
Republican. U.S. Ambassador to France, 1981-85.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull and Bones.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
21, 2008 (age 79 years, 203
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (1910-2011) —
also known as S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr. —
of New York.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., July 12,
1910.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1959-61.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull and Bones.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., March 7,
2011 (age 100 years,
238 days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) —
also known as W. Averell Harriman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1891.
Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1943-46; Great Britain, 1946; , 1961, 1965-69; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1946-48; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Governor
of New York, 1955-59; defeated, 1958.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Skull and Bones.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died in Yorktown Heights, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 26,
1986 (age 94 years, 253
days).
Interment at Arden
Farm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Henry Harriman; married, September
21, 1915, to Kitty Lawrence; married, February
21, 1930, to Marie (Norton) Whitney (ex-wife of Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney); married, September
27, 1971, to Pamela
Hayward. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
B. Bingham |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Averell Harriman: Walter
Isaacson, The
Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made |
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Henry Baldwin Harrison (1821-1901) —
also known as Henry B. Harrison —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
11, 1821.
Member of Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1854; Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1857; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New Haven, 1865, 1873, 1884;
Speaker
of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1884; Governor of
Connecticut, 1885-87; defeated (Republican), 1874.
Member, Skull and Bones; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
29, 1901 (age 80 years, 48
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Thomas Hedge (1844-1920) —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 24,
1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1899-1907.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, November
28, 1920 (age 76 years, 157
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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George Chandler Holt (1843-1931) —
Born in Mexico, Oswego
County, N.Y., December
31, 1843.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1903-14;
retired 1914.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Nice, France,
January
26, 1931 (age 87 years, 26
days).
Interment somewhere
in Nice, France.
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David Sinton Ingalls (1899-1985) —
also known as David S. Ingalls —
of Hunting Valley, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
28, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1927-29; U.S. Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Aeronautics, 1929-32; director, City of Cleveland
Department of Public Health and Welfare, 1933-35; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1932; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio,
1940,
1952
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker),
1956;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1940; vice-president and general
manager, Pan American Air
Ferries, 1941-42; commander, Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station;
executive, Pan American World
Airways; newspaper
publisher.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Skull and Bones.
Died in Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April
26, 1985 (age 86 years, 88
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1865.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Fairfield, 1923-24; director,
U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Oak
Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Stephen Wright Kellogg (1822-1904) —
also known as Stephen W. Kellogg —
of Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn.; Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Shelburne, Franklin
County, Mass., April 5,
1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state senate 5th District, 1853; probate judge in Connecticut,
1854-60; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1856; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1860,
1868,
1876;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1869-75; defeated,
1876, 1892.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., January
27, 1904 (age 81 years, 297
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Poole Kellogg and Lucy (Wright) Kellogg; married, September
10, 1851, to Lucia Hosmer Andrews; father of Elizabeth Hosmer
Kellogg (who married Irving
Hall Chase); great-grandfather of Seth
Chase Taft; second cousin once removed of Clement
Phineas Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of George
Smith Catlin; second cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Abijah
Catlin and Theron
Ephron Catlin; third cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of George
Bradley Kellogg and Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918); fourth cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, John
Russell Kellogg, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903) and Orlo
Erland Wadhams. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Kent (1864-1928) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kentfield, Marin
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
29, 1864.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California, 1911-17 (2nd District 1911-13,
1st District 1913-17); delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1912.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Kentfield, Marin
County, Calif., March
13, 1928 (age 63 years, 350
days).
Cremated.
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John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) —
also known as John F. Kerry;
"Liveshot" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital,
Aurora, Adams
County, Colo., December
11, 1943.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1972; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-85; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-2013; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Catholic.
English
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull and Bones.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Rosemary Isabel (Forbes) Kerry and Richard John Kerry; married, May 23,
1970, to Julia Stimson Thorne; married, May 26,
1995, to Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz (widow of Henry
John Heinz III); second great-grandson of Robert
Charles Winthrop; third great-grandson of Thomas
Lindall Winthrop and Jeremiah
Mason; fourth great-grandnephew of George
Cabot; fifth great-grandson of James
Bowdoin; fifth great-grandnephew of Timothy
Pickering; sixth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); first cousin four times removed of David
Sears and Jane
Pierce; first cousin seven times removed of John
Alsop; second cousin twice removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; third cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of William
Cameron Forbes; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge, John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; fourth cousin of William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Francis Adams; eighth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; King-Hazard
family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman
family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Leslie
L. Farr II |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kerry: A
Call to Service : My Vision for a Better America
(2003) — The
New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
(1997) — Our
Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World, with
John Edwards (2004) |
| | | Books about John F. Kerry: Douglas
Brinkley, Tour
of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War — Michael
Kranish et al, John
F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best — Paul Alexander, The
Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White
House — George Butler, John
Kerry: A Portrait — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kerry:
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi, Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry — David N. Bossie, The
Many Faces of John Kerry |
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Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) —
also known as Robert A. Lovett —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., September
14, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; partner, Brown Brothers
Harriman; director of several railroad
companies; director, Presbyterian Hospital
of New York; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1951-53.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 7,
1986 (age 90 years, 235
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y.
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Sidney Catlin Partridge (1857-1930) —
also known as S. C. Partridge —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
1, 1857.
Republican. Episcopal Bishop of
Kyoto, Japan, 1900-11; Bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri,
1911-30; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., June 22,
1930 (age 72 years, 294
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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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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Kenneth Farrand Simpson (1895-1941) —
also known as Kenneth F. Simpson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 4,
1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; chair of
New York County Republican Party, 1935-40; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1936,
1940
(member, Arrangements
Committee); U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1941; died in office
1941.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Skull and Bones; American
Legion; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
25, 1941 (age 45 years, 266
days).
Interment at Hudson
City Cemetery, Hudson, N.Y.
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Potter Stewart (1915-1985) —
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., January
23, 1915.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1954-58; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1958-81; took senior status 1981.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Skull and Bones.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., December
7, 1985 (age 70 years, 318
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950) —
also known as Henry L. Stimson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1906-09;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1910; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1911-13, 1940-45; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920,
1932;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1927-29; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1929-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
20, 1950 (age 83 years, 29
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Charles Phelps Taft II (1897-1983) —
also known as Charles P. Taft —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
20, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Hamilton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1927-28; member, Cincinnati City
Council, 1938-42; Republican candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1952, 1958 (primary); mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955-57.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi; Skull and Bones; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Died June 24,
1983 (age 85 years, 277
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Henry Waters Taft (1859-1945) —
also known as Henry W. Taft —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 27,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
counsel, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad;
director, Central Savings Bank of
New York; trustee, Mutual Life
Insurance Company;; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1898; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1920,
1924.
Member, American Bar
Association; Skull and Bones; Psi
Upsilon.
Tripped and
fell on April 27, suffered a hip injury, and subsequently died as
a result, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
11, 1945 (age 86 years, 76
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1890-92; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1892-1900; resigned
1900; law
professor; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; resigned 1930.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull and Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft; half-brother of Charles
Phelps Taft; brother of Henry
Waters Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen
Louise Herron (daughter of John
Williamson Herron; sister-in-law of Henry
Frederick Lippitt; niece of William
Collins; aunt of Frederick
Lippitt; granddaughter of Ela
Collins); father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft III; second cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin; fourth cousin once removed of William
Warner Hoppin, John
Milton Thayer, Edward
M. Chapin and George
Franklin Chapin. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | The former community
of Taft, now part of Lincoln
City, Oregon, was named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in San
Antonio, Texas, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in Bronx, New
York (closed 2008), was named for
him. — Taft High
School, in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School (opened 1960; became charter school 2013-14), in Los
Angees, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft — Lewis L. Gould, The
William Howard Taft Presidency |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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Nelson Strobridge Talbott III (b. 1946) —
also known as Strobe Talbott —
of Ohio.
Born in 1946.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1993-94.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Still living as of 1994.
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James Samuel Wadsworth (1807-1864) —
also known as James S. Wadsworth —
of New York.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., October
30, 1807.
Republican. Candidate for Governor of
New York, 1862; general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died
of wounds received in the Battle of the Wilderness, in Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 8,
1864 (age 56 years, 191
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wadsworth and Naomi (Wolcott) Wadsworth; married, May 11,
1834, to Mary Craig Wharton; father of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth and James
Wolcott Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott; great-grandfather of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); second great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; first cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; first cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Daniel
Pitkin, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Lawson
Wooding Hall and Selden
Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fourth cousin of Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Theodore
Dwight, Timothy
Pitkin, Charles
Robert Sherman, Edmund
Holcomb, George
Catlin Woodruff, Lewis
Bartholomew Woodruff, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Chapman Williston, William
Fessenden Allen, Alfred
Clark Chapin, Franklin
Darius Hale, Adrian
Rowe Wadsworth, Sr., Frederick
Hobbes Allen and Clarence
Seymour Wadsworth. |
| | | 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). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1877-1952) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth, Jr. —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
12, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1905-10; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1906-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1915-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1933-51 (39th District 1933-45,
41st District 1945-51); delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grange;
United
Spanish War Veterans; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Union
League; Skull and Bones.
The U.S. Senate's leading opponent of woman suffrage and alcohol
prohibition.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1952 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Mary Louisa (Travers) Wadsworth; married,
September
30, 1902, to Alice Hay (daughter of John
Milton Hay); father of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Evelyn Wadsworth (who married William
Stuart Symington); nephew of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; grandson of James
Samuel Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; great-grandson of Reverdy
Johnson; great-grandnephew of Thomas
Fielder Bowie; second great-grandson of John
Johnson; second great-grandnephew of Robert
William Bowie (1787-1848); third great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott and Robert
William Bowie (1750-1818); third great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr., Benjamin
Mackall IV, Walter
Bowie and Thomas
Mackall; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Margaret
Taylor; second cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth cousin once removed of Eli
Coe Birdsey, George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine, June
1919 |
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George Peabody Wetmore (1846-1921) —
also known as George P. Wetmore —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in London, England,
of American parents, August
2, 1846.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1885-87; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-13.
Member, Skull and Bones.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
11, 1921 (age 75 years, 40
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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