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Robert Adams Jr. (1849-1906) —
also known as Bertie Adams —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
26, 1849.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 6th District, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in
office 1906; drafted and introduced the declaration of war against
Spain, 1898.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of the War of 1812; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Despondent over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of
defeat at the polls, he killed
himself by pistol
shot, in his rooms at the Metropolitan Club, and died soon after
in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1906 (age 57 years, 95
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Eugene Cleophas Bonniwell (b. 1872) —
also known as Eugene C. Bonniwell —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
25, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Pennsylvania, 1914-39; Democratic candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1918, 1926, 1934 (primary); candidate for justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1921.
Catholic.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Sons
of Union Veterans; Society of the War of 1812; Knights
of Columbus; Moose.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Evander Berry Bonniwell and Elizabeth (Doherty) Bonniwell;
married, June 5,
1900, to Madeleine Helene Cahill; married, August
28, 1934, to Roberta Curry Ranck. |
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Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) —
also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
26, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president,
Aetna Life
Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884
(alternate), 1896;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1896;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Society of the War of 1812.
First
president of the National League of Professional Base
Ball Clubs in 1876.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Kenneth Frank Cramer (1894-1954) —
also known as Kenneth F. Cramer —
of Wethersfield, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., October
3, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; coal
business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Wethersfield, 1929-32; member
of Connecticut
state senate, 1933-37; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1936;
general in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Member, American
Legion; Purple
Heart; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of the War of 1812; Sons
of Union Veterans; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary.
Died, from a heart
attack, while hunting,
in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany,
February
20, 1954 (age 59 years, 140
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Asa Bird Gardiner (1839-1919) —
also known as Asa Bird Gardner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1839.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor for actions in Civil War War battles, but it was revoked
in 1917 when no evidence was found to support his award; law
professor; New
York County District Attorney, 1898-1900; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900;
removed
from office as District Attorney in December 1900, by Gov. Theodore
Roosevelt, over charges
that he had interfered
with the prosecution of election cases against Tammany Hall.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Society
of the Cincinnati; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society of the War of 1812; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., May 24,
1919 (age 79 years, 236
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Stella Bernice Haines (1876-1963) —
also known as Stella B. Haines —
of Augusta, Butler
County, Kan.
Born in Rose Hill, Butler
County, Kan., December
3, 1876.
Republican. Member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1926-30; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1940.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star; Daughters of the
American Revolution; Daughters of the War of 1812.
Died September
18, 1963 (age 86 years, 289
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Augusta, Kan.
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Carter Henry Harrison II (1860-1953) —
also known as Carter H. Harrison —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
23, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; real estate
business; newspaper
editor and publisher; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1897-1905, 1911-15; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1900,
1916,
1920,
1932,
1936;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 1st Illinois District,
1933-44.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Society
of Colonial Wars; Society of the War of 1812; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
25, 1953 (age 93 years, 246
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Carter
Henry Harrison and Sophonisba Grayson (Preston) Harrison; married
to Marguerite Stearns; married, December
14, 1887, to Edith Ogden; great-grandson of William
Russell (1758-1825); great-grandnephew of Alfred
William Grayson and Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell; second great-grandson of William
Russell (1735-1793) and William
Grayson; second great-grandnephew of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791), William
Cabell and William
Smallwood; third great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Carter
Bassett Harrison, William
Cabell Jr., William
Henry Cabell, William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; first cousin four times removed of Richard
Bland, Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775) and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin once removed of John
Cabell Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge and Benjamin
Earl Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Scott Harrison and Edward
Carrington Cabell; second cousin thrice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, George
Nicholas, Beverley
Randolph, James
Monroe (1758-1831), Wilson
Cary Nicholas, John
Nicholas and John
Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge, Henry
Skillman Breckinridge and Earle
Cabell; third cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, John
William Leftwich and Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857), Thomas
Bell Monroe, James
Monroe (1799-1870) and Stanley
Matthews; third cousin thrice removed of Burwell
Bassett and Samuel
Nicholls Smallwood; fourth cousin of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Russell
Benjamin Harrison, Henry
De La Warr Flood, John
Brady Grayson, Frederick
Madison Roberts and Joel
West Flood; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Victor
Monroe, Peter
Myndert Dox, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, Harry
Flood Byrd and William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
E. Burke |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Jefferson Monroe Levy (1852-1924) —
also known as Jefferson M. Levy —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1899-1901, 1911-15 (13th District
1899-1901, 1911-13, 14th District 1913-15).
Jewish.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of the War of 1812.
Inherited Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello, from his uncle; maintained and
preserved it for later generations.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1924 (age 71 years, 325
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Gaylord Patrick O'Connor (1916-1994) —
also known as Gaylord P. O'Connor; Pat
O'Connor —
of Louisiana, Pike
County, Mo.
Born in Louisiana, Pike
County, Mo., November
20, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; chair of
Pike County Democratic Party, 1949; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1952.
Member, Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Society of the War of 1812; Reserve
Officers Association; Elks; Freemasons.
Died, in Pike County Memorial Hospital,
Louisiana, Pike
County, Mo., December
26, 1994 (age 78 years, 36
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery, Near Louisiana, Pike County, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Vincent O'Connor and Clelia Emma (Ince) O'Connor; married,
June
19, 1943, to Martha Jeanne Wing. |
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Paul McDonald Robinett (1893-1975) —
also known as Paul M. Robinett —
of Mountain Grove, Wright
County, Mo.
Born in Mountain Grove, Wright
County, Mo., December
19, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in
the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Missouri, 1948.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of the War of 1812.
Died February
5, 1975 (age 81 years, 48
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery, Mountain Grove, Mo.
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Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867-1936) —
also known as Charles H. Sherrill —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Argentina, 1909-10; general in the U.S. Army during World War
I; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1932-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Society of the War of 1812.
Died in Paris, France,
June
25, 1936 (age 69 years, 73
days).
Interment at South
End Cemetery, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Milton William Shreve (1858-1939) —
also known as Milton W. Shreve —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.
Born in Venango
County, Pa., May 3,
1858.
Republican. Lawyer; Erie
County District Attorney; chair of
Erie County Republican Party, 1900; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1907-12; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1913-15, 1919-33 (25th District
1913-15, 1919-23, 29th District 1923-33).
Member, Society of the War of 1812.
Died December
23, 1939 (age 81 years, 234
days).
Interment at Erie
Cemetery, Erie, Pa.
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Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) —
also known as "Fighting Joe" —
of Wheeler, Lawrence
County, Ala.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1836.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; planter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 8th District, 1881-82, 1885-1900;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of the War of 1812.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
25, 1906 (age 69 years, 137
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Wheeler and Julia Knox (Hull) Wheeler; married, February
6, 1866, to Daniella Jones (granddaughter of Peter
Early); father of Thomas Harrison Wheeler. |
| | | Wheeler County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | Wheeler Dam
(built 1933-36), on the Tennessee River in Lauderdale
and Lawrence
counties, Alabama, and the Wheeler Lake
reservoir, which extends into Limestone,
Morgan,
and Madison
counties, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in America
(1906) |
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