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Jo Abbott (1840-1908) —
also known as Joseph Abbott —
of Hillsboro, Hill
County, Tex.
Born near Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala., January
15, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1869-71; district judge in Texas,
1879-84; U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1887-97.
Died in Hillsboro, Hill
County, Tex., February
11, 1908 (age 68 years, 27
days).
Interment at Old
Cemetery, Hillsboro, Tex.
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William J. Abrams (1829-1900) —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Cambridge, Washington
County, N.Y., March
19, 1829.
Democrat. Surveyor;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1864-67; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1868-69; mayor
of Green Bay, Wis., 1881-82, 1883-85.
Died in Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis., September
12, 1900 (age 71 years, 177
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Allouez, Wis.
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John Adair (1757-1840) —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., January
9, 1757.
Democrat. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-95, 1798, 1800-03, 1817; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1802-03; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1805-06; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; Governor of
Kentucky, 1820-24; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1831-33.
Slaveowner.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., May 19,
1840 (age 83 years, 131
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1872 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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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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Russell Alexander Alger (1836-1907) —
also known as Russell A. Alger —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin, Lafayette Township, Medina
County, Ohio, February
27, 1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; lumber
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1884,
1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee); Governor of
Michigan, 1885-86; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1888;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1897-99; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1902-07; appointed 1902; died in office
1907.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
24, 1907 (age 70 years, 331
days).
Entombed at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Ebenezer Allen (1804-1863) —
of Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Born in Newport, Sullivan
County, N.H., April 8,
1804.
Lawyer;
Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1844-45, 1845-46; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1844-45; Texas
state attorney general, 1850-52; railroad
promoter; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died in the Civil
War in Richmond,
Va., 1863
(age about
59 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866) —
of Texas; Louisiana.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., April
29, 1820.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Louisiana, 1864-65.
Presbyterian.
Died in Mexico City (Ciudad de México), Distrito
Federal, April
22, 1866 (age 45 years, 358
days).
Interment at Old
State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La.
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William Allen (1704-1780) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
5, 1704.
Merchant;
lawyer;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1735-36.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
6, 1780 (age 76 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Oakes Ames (1804-1873) —
of North Easton, Easton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., January
10, 1804.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1863-73.
He and his brother Oliver
Ames, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, prime movers in
construction of the first
transcontinental railroad
line, completed in 1869; he was as censured
by the House of Representatives in 1873 for his role in the Credit
Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., May 8,
1873 (age 69 years, 118
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, North Easton, Easton, Mass.; memorial monument at Oliver and Oakes Ames Monument, Sherman, Wyo.
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George Tobey Anthony (1824-1896) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Mayfield, Fulton
County, N.Y., June 9,
1824.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Kansas, 1877-79; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1885.
Died, of pneumonia,
Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., August
5, 1896 (age 72 years, 57
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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James Tillinghast Archer (1819-1859) —
also known as James T. Archer —
of Florida.
Born in Gillisonville, Jasper
County, S.C., May 15,
1819.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Florida, 1840; secretary
of state of Florida, 1845-48.
Died, of heart
disease, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., June 1,
1859 (age 40 years, 17
days).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) —
also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur;
"The Gentleman Boss"; "His
Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our
Chet"; "Dude President" —
of New York.
Born in Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Psi
Upsilon; Union
League.
Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once
removed of Benjamin
Franklin Flanders and Cassius
Montgomery Clay Twitchell. |
| | | Political families: Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders
family of New Hampshire; Fairbanks-Adams
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | The village of Arthur,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The village of Chester,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lake
Arthur, in Polk
County, Minnesota, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Chester
A. Heitman
— Chester
Arthur Pike
— Chester
A. Johnson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Chester A. Arthur: Thomas
C. Reeves, Gentleman
Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur — Justus D.
Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur — George Frederick Howe, Chester
A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics —
Zachary Karabell, Chester
Alan Arthur — Paul Joseph, Chester
Arthur (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) —
of New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Bath, Beaufort
County, N.C., March
24, 1725.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1795-98; candidate for Presidential Elector for
North Carolina.
Died in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., February
3, 1813 (age 87 years, 316
days).
Interment at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.; memorial monument at Pack Square Park, Asheville, N.C.
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David Rice Atchison (1807-1886) —
also known as David R. Atchison —
of Plattsburg, Clinton
County, Mo.; Platte City, Platte
County, Mo.
Born in Frogtown, Fayette
County, Ky., August
11, 1807.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1834, 1838; circuit judge in
Missouri, 1841; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1843-48, 1849-55.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
An organizer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Thought by some to have been president for one day in 1849, because
President Zachary
Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
Slaveowner.
Died near Gower, Clinton
County, Mo., January
26, 1886 (age 78 years, 168
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Plattsburg, Mo.; statue at Clinton
County Courthouse Grounds, Plattsburg, Mo.
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia,
in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin. |
| | | Austin County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | The city of Austin,
Texas, is named for
him. — Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, is named for
him. — Austin College,
Sherman,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Handbook
of Texas Online |
| | | Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg
Cantrell, Stephen
F. Austin : Empresario of Texas |
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Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) —
also known as Edward D. Baker —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Oregon City, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in London, England,
February
24, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-40; member of Illinois
state senate, 1841-45; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1845-46, 1849-51 (7th District
1845-46, 6th District 1849-51); resigned 1846; colonel in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1860-61; died in office 1861; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Balls Bluff, Loudoun
County, Va., October
21, 1861 (age 50 years, 239
days).
Interment at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, April
27, 1831, to Mary A. Lee. |
| | | Baker County,
Ore. is named for him. |
| | | The city of Baker
City, Oregon, is named for
him. — Fort
Baker (previously, Lime Point Military Reservation; renamed Fort
Baker in 1897; now part of Golden Gate National Recreation
Area), in Marin
County, California, is named for
him. — Baker Street,
in San
Francisco, California, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Bland Ballard (1761-1853) —
of Shelby
County, Ky.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., October
16, 1761.
Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1800-05; served in the U.S.
Army during the War of 1812.
Died September
5, 1853 (age 91 years, 324
days).
Original interment somewhere in Shelbyville, Ky.; reinterment in 1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) —
also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of
Humbugs" —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 5,
1810.
Republican. Grocer; auctioneer;
newspaper
publisher; Entrepreneur, impressario,
museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus,
known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1865-66, 1877-79; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1875-76.
Died, of heart
failure, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 7,
1891 (age 80 years, 276
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Seaside
Park, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Bethel Public Library Grounds, Bethel, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of Philo
Fairchild Barnum; married, November
8, 1829, to Charity Hallet; married, September
16, 1874, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of Andrew
Gould Chatfield; second cousin once removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington and Almon
Ferdinand Rockwell; third cousin of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; third cousin once removed of William
Henry Barnum; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Charles
William Barnum; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington and Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | — Barnum Avenue,
in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town of Barnum (incorporated 1887;
annexed 1896 to Denver,
Colorado), was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS P. T. Barnum (built 1943 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by P. T. Barnum: The
Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself |
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Francis Stebbins Bartow (1816-1861) —
also known as Francis S. Bartow —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
6, 1816.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1856; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; died
in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Killed
by rifle
shot, while rallying his men on the Henry House Hill, during the
first battle of Manassas,
Va., July 21,
1861 (age 44 years, 318
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodosius Bartow and Frances Louisa (Stebbins) Bartow; married,
April
18, 1844, to Louisa Green Berrien (daughter of John
Macpherson Berrien); first cousin twice removed of Theodosia
Bartow (who married Aaron
Burr). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd
family of New York; Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard
family of Charleston, South Carolina; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker
family of Connecticut; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr
family of New York; Berrien-Burr-Bartow-Biddle
family of Pennsylvania; Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Bartow County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | The city of Bartow,
Florida, is named for
him. — The town of Bartow,
Georgia, is named for
him. — The community of Bartow,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — Bartow Elementary
School (now Otis J. Brock Elementary School), in Savannah,
Georgia, was formerly named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Francis S. Bartow (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Armstrong Beattie —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Mayor
of St. Joseph, Mo., 1857-59, 1860-61, 1866-67, 1878-80.
Burial location unknown.
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Roswell Beebe (1795-1856) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Dutchess
County, N.Y., December
22, 1795.
Lawyer;
president, Cairo and Fulton Railroad
Company; mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1849-50.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1856 (age 60 years, 274
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-1898) —
also known as Peter H. Bell —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 12,
1812.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor of
Texas, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1853-57; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in Littleton, Halifax
County, N.C., March 8,
1898 (age 85 years, 300
days).
Original interment at City
Cemetery, Littleton, N.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds, Belton, Tex.
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August Belmont (1816-1890) —
also known as August Schönberg —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Alzei, Germany,
December
2, 1816.
Democrat. U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Netherlands, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1854-57; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1860-72; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1860,
1864,
1876;
speaker, 1868.
Jewish.
Fought a duel
with Edward Hayward, in Elkton, Md., 1840; both men were injured.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1890 (age 73 years, 357
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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Thomas Bennett (1781-1865) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., August
14, 1781.
Lumber
business; architect;
banker;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1804-06, 1808-18; Speaker of
the South Carolina State House of Representatives, 1814-18; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1812-13; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1819-20,
1836-40; Governor of
South Carolina, 1820-22.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., January
30, 1865 (age 83 years, 169
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Frederick H. Billings (1823-1890) —
Born in Royalton, Windsor
County, Vt., September
27, 1823.
Republican. Vermont
secretary of civil and military affairs, 1846-48; lawyer; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; president, Northern Pacific
Railway,
1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1880.
Died in Woodstock, Windsor
County, Vt., September
30, 1890 (age 67 years, 3
days).
Interment at River
Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Vt.
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William Bingham (1752-1804) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 8,
1752.
Banker;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1786-88; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-91; Speaker of
the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1791; member of
Pennsylvania
state senate, 1794-95; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1795-1801.
Died in Bath, England,
February
7, 1804 (age 51 years, 336
days).
Interment at Paris
Church, Bath, England.
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Redmond Black (1863-1937) —
of Reynolds
County, Mo.; Redmondville, Iron
County, Mo.; Shepard, Iron
County, Mo.
Born in Ellington, Reynolds
County, Mo., September
15, 1863.
Democrat. Farmer; Reynolds
County Assessor, 1898-1902; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Iron County, 1921-26, 1929-30.
Died in Ironton, Iron
County, Mo., December
18, 1937 (age 74 years, 94
days).
Interment at Ottery Cemetery, Near Belleview, Iron County, Mo.
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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) —
also known as James G. Blaine; "The Plumed
Knight"; "Belshazzar Blaine";
"Magnetic Man" —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in West Brownsville, Washington
County, Pa., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1859-62; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1863-76; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1869-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1876-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92; candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1893 (age 62 years, 362
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine
Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria Louise (Gillespie) Blaine; married,
June
30, 1850, to Harriet Stanwood; father of Harriet Blaine (who
married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| | | Blaine counties in Idaho, Mont., Neb. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Blaine, in Park
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The city of Blaine,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James G. Blaine (built 1942 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: J.
B. McLaughlin
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about James G. Blaine: Mark
Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Edward P. Crapol, James
G. Blaine : Architect of Empire — Richard B. Cheney &
Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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John Insley Blair (1802-1899) —
also known as John I. Blair —
of Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Warren
County, N.J., August
22, 1802.
Republican. Merchant;
postmaster;
manufacturer;
railroad
builder; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1860,
1868;
candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1868.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J., December
2, 1899 (age 97 years, 102
days).
Interment at Gravel
Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Blair and Rachel (Insley) Blair; married, September
20, 1826, to Nancy Ann Locke; father of Emma Elizabeth
Blair. |
| | | The township of Blairstown,
New Jersey, is named for
him. — The city of Blair,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The city of Blairstown,
Iowa, is named for
him. — Blair Hall, at Princeton University,
Princeton,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: King's Notable New
Yorkers of 1896-1899 |
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Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823) —
of Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J.
Born in Woodbridge, Middlesex
County, N.J., October
18, 1753.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1783-92; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; mayor
of Burlington, N.J., 1795-1800; Governor of
New Jersey, 1801-02, 1803-12; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1801-02, 1803-12; general in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1817-21.
Died in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., October
3, 1823 (age 69 years, 350
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Churchyard, Burlington, N.J.
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Ratliff Boon (1781-1844) —
of Boonville, Warrick
County, Ind.
Born in Franklin
County, N.C., January
18, 1781.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1814-15; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816-18; member of Indiana
state senate, 1818-19; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1819-22, 1822-24; Governor of
Indiana, 1822; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1825-27, 1829-39;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana.
Presbyterian.
Died in Louisiana, Pike
County, Mo., November
20, 1844 (age 63 years, 307
days).
Original interment at Lousiana
Cemetery, Louisiana, Mo.; reinterment at Riverview
Cemetery, Louisiana, Mo.
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Gail Borden Jr. (1801-1874) —
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., November
9, 1801.
School
teacher; surveyor;
delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; newspaper
publisher; Collector of Customs at Galveston for the Texas
Republic, 1837-38 and 1841-43; in 1849, he invented
a dehydrated beef product called a "meat biscuit", but it failed
commercially; in 1853, he invented
a process to make sweetened condensed
milk, which could be transported without refrigeration, and
developed sanitation practices to to prevent contamination.
Died in Borden, Colorado
County, Tex., January
11, 1874 (age 72 years, 63
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William C. Bouck (1786-1859) —
also known as "Old White Hoss of
Schoharie" —
of Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Born in Fultonham, Schoharie
County, N.Y., January
7, 1786.
Farmer;
sheriff;
member of New York
state assembly from Schoharie County, 1813-16, 1817-18; member of
New
York state senate Middle District, 1820-22; Governor of
New York, 1843-45; defeated, 1840; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846.
Died in Schoharie
County, N.Y., April
19, 1859 (age 73 years, 102
days).
Interment at Middleburgh
Cemetery, Middleburgh, N.Y.
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James Bowdoin (1726-1790) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
7, 1726.
Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1785-87; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788.
French
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, of consumption
(tuberculosis),
in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
6, 1790 (age 64 years, 91
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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William Bradford (1755-1795) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
14, 1755.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1780-91; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1791-94; U.S.
Attorney General, 1794-95; died in office 1795.
Presbyterian.
Died August
23, 1795 (age 39 years, 343
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Churchyard, Burlington, N.J.
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Gerard Chittocque Brandon (1788-1850) —
also known as Gerard C. Brandon —
of Mississippi.
Born near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., September
15, 1788.
Member of Mississippi
territorial House of Representatives, 1815-17; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1817-20, 1822-25; Governor of
Mississippi, 1825-26, 1826-32.
Died near Fort Adams, Wilkinson
County, Miss., March
28, 1850 (age 61 years, 194
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Wilkinson County, Miss.
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John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) —
also known as John C. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
16, 1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1849-51; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1851-55; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856;
Vice
President of the United States, 1857-61; Southern Democratic
candidate for President
of the United States, 1860; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1861; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1865.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Expelled
from the U.S. Senate on December 4, 1861 for his participation in the
Confederate
military. Fled
to Cuba at the end of the war, and lived in England and Canada until
1869.
Slaveowner.
Died, from lung
disease and liver
cirrhosis, in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., May 17,
1875 (age 54 years, 121
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Clay (Smith) Breckinridge and Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge; married 1840 to
Elizabeth Lucas; married, December
12, 1843, to Mary
Cyrene Burch; father of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge; great-grandson of John
Witherspoon; great-grandnephew of William
Preston and William
Cabell; first cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr., Francis
Smith Preston, William
Henry Cabell and James
Patton Preston; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich. |
| | | 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). |
| | | The city of Breckenridge,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city of Breckenridge,
Colorado, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Breckinridge (built 1943 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — BillionGraves
burial record — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John C. Breckinridge:
William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — Frank Hopkins Heck, Proud
Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875 — William
C. Davis, Breckinridge
: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol |
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Sidney Breese (1800-1878) —
of Carlyle, Clinton
County, Ill.
Born in Whitesborough, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 15,
1800.
Democrat. U.S.
Attorney for Illinois, 1827-29; circuit judge in Illinois 2nd
Circuit, 1835-41, 1855-57; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1841-43, 1857-78; died in office
1878; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1843-49; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851-52; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1851.
Died in Pinckneyville, Perry
County, Ill., June 27,
1878 (age 77 years, 347
days).
Interment at Carlyle
Cemetery, Carlyle, Ill.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally
wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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John Brooks (1752-1825) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 4,
1752.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1785-86; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1791; Adjutant
General of Massachusetts, 1812-16; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1816-23.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 1,
1825 (age 72 years, 301
days).
Interment at Salem
Street Burial Ground, Medford, Mass.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood
County), S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
5, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel
him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote,
but he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Broome (1738-1810) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., July 19,
1738.
Importer
and exporter; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1777; colonel in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1803-04; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1804-10; died in office 1810.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
8, 1810 (age 72 years, 20
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Jared L. Brush (1835-1913) —
of Greeley, Weld
County, Colo.
Born in Clermont
County, Ohio, July 6,
1835.
Republican. Member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1879-93; Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1895-99; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1912.
Died in Greeley, Weld
County, Colo., April
24, 1913 (age 77 years, 292
days).
Interment at Linn
Grove Cemetery, Greeley, Colo.
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John Alexander Bryan (1794-1864) —
also known as John A. Bryan —
of Ellicottville, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Menasha, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April
13, 1794.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Cattaraugus County, 1827; Ohio
auditor of state, 1833-39; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Peru, 1845.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Menasha, Winnebago
County, Wis., May 24,
1864 (age 70 years, 41
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wis.
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James Buchanan (1791-1868) —
also known as "The Sage of Wheatland";
"Buck"; "Old Buck" —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in a log
cabin near Mercersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., April
23, 1791.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-31 (3rd District 1821-23,
4th District 1823-31); U.S. Minister to Russia, 1832-33; Great Britain, 1853-56; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1834-45; resigned 1845; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1848,
1852;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1845-49; President
of the United States, 1857-61.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 1,
1868 (age 77 years, 39
days).
Interment at Woodward
Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; memorial monument at Meridian
Hill Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Buchanan (c.1761-1821) and Elizabeth (Speer)
Buchanan. |
| | | Cross-reference: David
Fullerton Robison — John
A. Quitman — John
Gallagher Montgomery |
| | | Buchanan counties in Iowa, Mo. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Buchanan,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Buchanan (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
B. Duke
— James
B. Cullison
— James
B. Holland
— James
Buchanan Siggins
— J.
B. Marcum
— James
B. Searcy
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Buchanan: Philip S.
Klein, President
James Buchanan: A Biography — Jean H. Baker, James
Buchanan — R. G. Horton, The
Life And Public Services Of James Buchanan: Late Minister To England
And Formerly Minister To Russia, Senator And Representative In
Congress, And Sec. Of State |
| | | Critical books about James Buchanan:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Otway Burns (c.1775-1850) —
of Swansboro, Onslow
County, N.C.; Beaufort, Carteret
County, N.C.
Born near Swansboro, Onslow
County, N.C., about 1775.
Ship
captain; privateer
during the War of 1812; shipbuilder;
planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1821-22, 1824-27, 1832; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1828-30, 1834; lighthouse
keeper at the Brant Island Shoal Light, 1835-50.
Died in Portsmouth, Carteret
County, N.C., August
25, 1850 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Old
Burying Ground, Beaufort, N.C.; statue at Town Square, Burnsville, N.C.
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James Burrill Jr. (1772-1820) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., April
25, 1772.
Rhode
Island state attorney general, 1797-1812; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1810; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1814-16; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1817-20; died in office 1820.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
25, 1820 (age 48 years, 244
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Wellington R. Burt (1831-1919) —
also known as "The Lone Pine of
Michigan" —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Pike, Wyoming
County, N.Y., August
26, 1831.
Lumber and
timber business; railroad
builder; mayor
of East Saginaw, Mich., 1867-68; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1872,
1880;
Fusion candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1888; member of Michigan
state senate 22nd District, 1893-94; defeated (Democratic), 1904,
1908; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 8th District, 1900; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1900,
1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); Democratic candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1903; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 22nd District,
1907-08.
Died, from stomach
trouble, in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., March 2,
1919 (age 87 years, 188
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
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Alexander Caldwell (1830-1917) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Drakes Ferry, Huntingdon
County, Pa., March 1,
1830.
Republican. Banker; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1871-73; resigned 1873.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 19,
1917 (age 87 years, 79
days).
Interment at Mt.
Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Kan.
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Benjamin Campbell (1826-1907) —
of Campbell, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Kentucky, 1826.
Sawmill
owner; postmaster at Campbell,
Calif., 1885-88.
Died in Santa Clara
County, Calif., 1907
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Mission
City Memorial Park, Santa Clara, Calif.
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Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) —
also known as Julian S. Carr; Jule Carr —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., October
12, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
co-owner and president of the company which made "Bull Durham" tobacco;
founder of the Durham Cotton
Manufacturing Company and Durham Hosiery
Mills; involved in railroads,
utilities,
and banking;
mayor
of Durham, N.C., 1873; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from North Carolina, 1888,
1904,
1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1900.
Methodist.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
29, 1924 (age 78 years, 200
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Wilburn Cartwright (1892-1979) —
of McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Georgetown, Meigs
County, Tenn., January
12, 1892.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1915-18; member of Oklahoma
state senate, 1919-22; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 3rd District, 1927-43; major in the
U.S. Army during World War II; secretary
of state of Oklahoma, 1947-51; Oklahoma
state auditor, 1951-55.
Baptist.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Acacia;
Lions;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Junior
Order.
Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., March
14, 1979 (age 87 years, 61
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Norman, Okla.
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Lewis Cass (1782-1866) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., October
9, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1806; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1813-31; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to France, 1836-42; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1852;
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1848; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1857-60.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 17,
1866 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth
Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married Henry
Brockholst Ledyard); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Cass Ballenger. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cass counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Neb. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town and village of Cassville,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The village of Cass City,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The village of Cassopolis,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The city of Cassville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Cass Lake,
and the adjoining city of Cass Lake,
Minnesota, are named for
him. — Cass Lake, in Oakland
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Cass River,
in Tuscola
and Saginaw
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Lewis Cass Building
(opened 1921 as the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951;
rebuilt and named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building
in 2020), in Lansing,
Michigan, was named for
him. — Cass Avenue,
Cass Park,
and Cass Technical High
School, in Detroit,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Lewis
Cass Wilmarth
— Lewis
C. Carpenter
— Lewis
C. Vandergrift
— Lewis
C. Tidball
— Lewis
Cass Wick
— Lewis
Cass Tidball II
— Lewis
C. Gabbert
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lewis Cass: Willard Carl
Klunder, Lewis
Cass and the Politics of Moderation — Frank Bury
Woodford, Lewis
Cass, the Last Jeffersonian |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Henry Champion (1751-1836) —
of Colchester, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Westchester, Colchester, New London
County, Conn., March
16, 1751.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; banker;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1806-17; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Colchester, 1820.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died July 13,
1836 (age 85 years, 119
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Champion and Deborah (Brainard) Champion; brother of Epaphroditus
Champion; married, October
10, 1781, to Abigail Tinker; father of Harriet Champion (who
married Joseph
Trumbull); first cousin four times removed of Charlotte
H. McMorran; second cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard; second cousin twice removed of Leveret
Brainard; second cousin four times removed of Asahel
Rowland DeWolf, Winthrop
Roger De Wolf and John
Anderson De Wolf Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Gates Dawes, Rufus
Cutler Dawes, Beman
Gates Dawes and Henry
May Dawes; third cousin of Daniel
Upson; third cousin twice removed of Chester
Ackley, Charles
Upson, Gad
Ely Upson, Christopher
Columbus Upson, Andrew
Seth Upson and Evelyn
M. Upson; third cousin thrice removed of Almar
F. Dickson. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dawes-Upson
family of Connecticut; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Champion,
New York, is named for
him. — The township of Champion,
Ohio, named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
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Andrew Gould Chatfield (1810-1875) —
also known as Andrew G. Chatfield —
of Addison, Steuben
County, N.Y.; Racine, Racine
County, Wis.; Belle Plaine, Scott
County, Minn.
Born in Butternuts, Otsego
County, N.Y., January
27, 1810.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Steuben County, 1839-41, 1846; justice of
Minnesota territorial supreme court, 1853-57.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Belle Plaine, Scott
County, Minn., October
3, 1875 (age 65 years, 249
days).
Interment at Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery, Belle Plaine,
Minn.
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Relatives: Son
of Enos Chatfield and Hannah (Starr) Chatfield; married, June 27,
1836, to Eunice Electa Clark Beeman; sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; first cousin thrice removed of Almon
Ferdinand Rockwell; second cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum and Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Truman
Hotchkiss; fourth cousin of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Benjamin
Pulaski Chatfield and Glover
Wheeler Cable; fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Nathan
Summers Beardslee and Hobart
Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city of Chatfield, in Fillmore
and Olmsted
counties, Minnesota, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Dudley Chipley (1840-1897) —
also known as W. D. Chipley —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., June 6,
1840.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
fought against Reconstruction
along with other members of the Ku Klux
Klan; he was among those implicated
in the murder
of George
W. Ashburn in in 1868; tried in
a military court, but Georgia's re-admission to the Union ended
military jurisdiction, so he and his co-defendants were released;
general manager of the Pensacola Railroad;
successfully promoted the construction of the Pensacola and Atlanta
Railroad
in 1881-83; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,
1884,
1892;
mayor
of Pensacola, Fla., 1887-88; member of Florida
state senate, 1895-97.
Died in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., December
1, 1897 (age 57 years, 178
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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Thomas Chittenden (1730-1797) —
of Williston, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., January
6, 1730.
Governor
of Vermont, 1778-89, 1790-97; died in office 1797.
Died in Williston, Chittenden
County, Vt., August
25, 1797 (age 67 years, 231
days).
Interment at Thomas
Chittenden Cemetery, Williston, Vt.; statue at State
House Grounds, Montpelier, Vt.; statue at Town
Green, Williston, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Chittenden and Mary (Johnson) Chittenden; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Meigs; father of Mary Chittenden (who married Jonas
Galusha), Beulah Chittenden (who married Matthew
Lyon) and Martin
Chittenden; grandfather of Chittenden
Lyon; first cousin twice removed of Josiah
C. Chittenden and Abel
Madison Scranton; first cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; second cousin twice removed of Jeduthun
Wilcox, Clark
S. Chittenden and Russell
Sage; second cousin thrice removed of Leonard
Wilcox and Edgar
Jared Doolittle; second cousin four times removed of Charles
H. Chittenden; third cousin once removed of Chauncey
Goodrich, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Elizur
Goodrich and Frederick
Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg and Eli
Coe Birdsey; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Frederick
Walker Pitkin and Roger
Wolcott; fourth cousin of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah
Meigs; fourth cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Elijah
Hunt Mills, Henry
Meigs and Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Chittenden
County, Vt. is named for him. |
| | | The town of Chittenden,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Men of Vermont
(1894) |
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Pierre Chouteau Jr. (1789-1865) —
also known as Pierre Cadet Chouteau —
of St.
Louis County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
19, 1789.
Merchant;
lead mining
business; fur trader; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from St. Louis
County, 1820.
Died September
6, 1865 (age 76 years, 230
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) —
also known as Stephen Grover Cleveland; "Uncle
Jumbo"; "The Veto Mayor"; "Grover
The Good"; "The Sage of Princeton";
"Dumb Prophet"; "Buffalo Hangman";
"The Veto President"; "Beast of
Buffalo"; "Big Steve" —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Tamworth, Carroll
County, N.H.
Born in Caldwell, Essex
County, N.J., March
18, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer; Erie
County Sheriff, 1870-73; mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1882; resigned 1882; Governor of
New York, 1883-85; President
of the United States, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1935.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 24,
1908 (age 71 years, 98
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; statue at City Hall Grounds, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; married,
June
2, 1886, to Frances Folsom and Frances
Clara Folsom; father of Richard
Folsom Cleveland (son-in-law of Thomas
Frank Gailor; brother-in-law of Frank
Hoyt Gailor); first cousin once removed of Francis
Landon Cleveland; second cousin of James
Harlan Cleveland; second cousin once removed of James
Harlan Cleveland Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Usher and Joseph
Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of John
Palmer Usher and Robert
Cleveland Usher; third cousin thrice removed of Ephraim
Safford and Isaiah
Kidder; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Lord and Rollin
Usher Tyler. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
T. Ellett — Wilson
S. Bissell — David
King Udall — Edward
S. Bragg — Thomas
F. Grady — Lyman
K. Bass — George
B. Cortelyou — J.
Hampton Hoge |
| | | Cleveland counties in Ark. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Cleveland, a volcano on Chuginadak
Island, Alaska, is named for
him. — The town of Grover,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — The Cleveland National
Forest (established 1908), in San
Diego, Riverside,
Orange
counties, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Grover
C. Cook
— Grover
C. Meyrs
— Grover
C. Talbot
— Grover
C. Helm
— Grover
C. Robertson
— G. C.
Cooley
— Grover
A. Whalen
— Grover
C. Taylor
— Grover
C. Winn
— Grover
C. Luke
— Grover
C. Albright
— Grover
Cleveland Welsh
— Grover
C. Belknap
— Grover
C. Worrell
— Grover
B. Hill
— Grover
C. Dillman
— Grover
C. Brenneman
— Grover
C. George
— Grover
C. Mitchell
— Grover
C. Ladner
— Grover
C. Hall
— Grover
C. Tye
— Grover
C. Cisel
— Grover
C. Hedrick
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Montgomery
— Grover
C. Farwell
— Grover
C. Gillingham
— Grover
C. Studivan
— Grover
C. Layne
— Grover
C. Hudson
— Grover
C. Combs
— Grover
C. Snyder
— Grover
C. Guernsey
— Grover
C. Henderson
— Grover
C. Smith
— Grover
C. Jackson
— Grover
C. Hunter
— Grover
C. Bower
— Grover
C. Land
— Grover
C. Moritz
— Grover
C. Gregg
— Grover
C. Richman, Jr.
— Grover
C. Anderson
— Grover
C. Chriss
— Grover
C. Criswell
— Grover
C. Brown
— Grover
C. Robinson III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 bill (1914-28), and on the $1,000 bill
(1928-46). |
| | | Campaign slogan (1884): "We love him
for the enemies he has made." |
| | | Opposition slogan (1884): "Ma, Ma,
Where's My Pa?" |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Grover Cleveland: Alyn
Brodsky, Grover
Cleveland : A Study in Character — H. Paul Jeffers, An
Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover
Cleveland — Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Henry F. Graff, Grover
Cleveland — Troy Senik, A
Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover
Cleveland — Jeff C. Young, Grover
Cleveland (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Grover Cleveland:
Matthew Algeo, The
President Is a Sick Man: the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland
Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous
Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth — Charles
Lachman, A
Secret Life : The Lies and Scandals of President Grover
Cleveland |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) —
also known as "Father of the Erie
Canal" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Napanoch, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 2,
1769.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
council of appointment, 1801; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1802-03; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1811-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 1812; Governor of
New York, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828.
Member, Freemasons.
Chief advocate for the Erie Canal,
completed 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died, from heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
11, 1828 (age 58 years, 346
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Clinton and Mary (De Witt) Clinton; half-brother of James
Graham Clinton; brother of Charles
Clinton, George
Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin; married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Livingston Jones; father of George
William Clinton; nephew of George
Clinton; first cousin of Jacob
Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin once removed of Charles
De Witt; first cousin five times removed of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot; second cousin once removed of Charles
D. Bruyn and Charles
Gerrit De Witt; second cousin twice removed of David
Miller De Witt. |
| | | Political families: Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Peter
Gansevoort |
| | | Clinton counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Mo. and Pa., and DeWitt County,
Ill., are named for him. |
| | | The township and city of DeWitt,
Michigan, are named for
him. — The city of De Witt,
Iowa, is named for
him. — The village of DeWitt,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city of De Witt,
Missouri, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: De
Witt C. Stevens
— DeWitt
C. Walker
— De
Witt C. Stanford
— De
Witt C. Littlejohn
— De Witt
C. Gage
— DeWitt
C. Clark
— De
Witt C. Leach
— Dewitt
C. West
— John
DeWitt Clinton Atkins
— DeWitt
C. Wilson
— De
Witt C. Morris
— D.
C. Giddings
— DeWitt
C. Hough
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— De
Witt C. Tower
— D.
C. Coolman
— DeWitt
Clinton Cregier
— DeWitt
C. Hoyt
— DeWitt
Clinton Senter
— De
Witt C. Rugg
— DeWitt
C. Allen
— DeWitt
C. Peck
— DeWitt
C. Richman
— Dewitt
C. Alden
— DeWitt
C. Cram
— De
Witt C. Bolton
— DeWitt
C. Huntington
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— DeWitt
C. Pond
— De Witt
C. Carr
— DeWitt
C. Pierce
— DeWitt
C. Middleton
— De
Witt C. Badger
— DeWitt
C. Dominick
— DeWitt
C. Becker
— De
Witt C. Titus
— De
Witt C. Winchell
— Dewitt
C. Turner
— Dewitt
C. Ruscoe
— DeWitt
C. Brown
— DeWitt
C. French
— De
Witt C. Flanagan
— DeWitt
C. Cole
— DeWitt
C. Talmage
— Dewitt
Clinton Chase
— De
Witt C. Poole, Jr.
— DeWitt
C. Cunningham
— Dewitt
C. Chastain
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1,000 note in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about De Witt Clinton: Evan
Cornog, The
Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience,
1769-1828 |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (1823-1885) —
also known as "The Christian Statesman";
"Smiler" —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
23, 1823.
Delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Indiana, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1855-69; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1863-69; Vice
President of the United States, 1869-73; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1872.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., January
13, 1885 (age 61 years, 296
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Washington Colfax and Hannah (Stryker) Colfax; married 1844 to Evelyn
Clark; married, November
18, 1868, to Ellen
Maria Wade (niece of Benjamin
Franklin Wade and Edward
Wade; first cousin of Decius
Spear Wade); father of Schuyler
Colfax III. |
| | | Political family: Wade-Colfax
family of Andover and Jefferson, Ohio. |
| | | Colfax counties in Neb. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Schuyler,
Nebraska, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Schuyler Colfax: Willard H.
Smith, Schuyler
Colfax : The changing fortunes of a political idol —
James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler
Colfax — Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax and the political upheaval of 1854-1855 —
Willard H. Smith, Schuyler
Colfax: a reappraisal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Abraham Bogart Conger (1814-1887) —
also known as Abraham B. Conger —
of Waldberg (now Congers), Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1852-53; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1864.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
1887 (age 72 years, 323
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Smith Conger and Sarah (Bogart) Conger; married, November
12, 1836, to Mary Rutgers McCrea Hedges; third cousin twice
removed of Hugh
Conger; fourth cousin once removed of James
Lockwood Conger, Anson
Griffith Conger, Harmon
Sweatland Conger, Omar
Dwight Conger, Moore
Conger, Frederick
Ward Conger, Chauncey
Stewart Conger and Charles
Franklin Conger. |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The community of Congers,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888) —
also known as "The Oneida Chieftan"; "My
Lord Roscoe" —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., October
30, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1858-59; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1859-63, 1865-67 (20th District
1859-63, 21st District 1865-67); U.S.
Senator from New York, 1867, 1869-81; resigned 1881; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1876;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1880.
Died, from mastoiditis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
18, 1888 (age 58 years, 171
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred
Conkling and Elizabeth 'Eliza' (Cockburn) Conkling; brother of Frederick
Augustus Conkling; married, June 25,
1855, to Julia Catherine Seymour (daughter of Henry
Seymour; sister of Horatio
Seymour; granddaughter of Moses
Seymour; first cousin once removed of Morris
Woodruff Seymour); uncle of Alfred
Conkling Coxe, Alfred
Ronalds Conkling and Howard
Conkling; granduncle of Alfred
Conkling Coxe Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Abel
Huntington. |
| | | Political family: Conkling-Seymour
family of Utica, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The community of Roscoe,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Roscoe
C. Chandley
— Roscoe
C. Patterson
— Roscoe
C. Waterbury
— Roscoe
C. McCulloch
— Roscoe
C. Marcum
— Roscoe
C. Emery
— Roscoe
Conkling Simmons
— Roscoe
Conkling Fitch
— Roscoe
C. Van Marter
— Roscoe
C. Summers
— Roscoe
C. Rowe
— Roscoe
C. Lennon
— Roscoe
C. Austin
— Roscoe
C. Hobbs
— Roscoe
C. Stacey
— Roscoe
C. Brown, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Roscoe Conkling: Donald
Barr Chidsey, The
gentleman from New York: A life of Roscoe
Conkling |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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William Cooper (1754-1809) —
of New York.
Born in a log
house, in Smithfield (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
2, 1754.
Merchant;
common pleas court judge in New York, 1791; U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1795-97, 1799-1801.
English
ancestry.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December
22, 1809 (age 55 years, 20
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Henry Winslow Corbett (1827-1903) —
also known as Henry W. Corbett —
of Oregon.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., February
18, 1827.
Republican. U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1867-73; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Oregon, 1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1868-72.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., May 31,
1903 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Erastus Corning (1794-1872) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., December
14, 1794.
Democrat. Mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1834-37; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1842-45; founder (1853) and first
president of the New York Central Railroad;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1857-59, 1861-63;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1860;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April 9,
1872 (age 77 years, 117
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Leonard Covington (1768-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Aquasco, Prince
George's County, Md., October
30, 1768.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1805-07; member of Maryland
state senate, 1807-09; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in the Battle of Chrysler's Field, and died in Frenchs
Mills (now Fort Covington), Franklin
County, N.Y., November
14, 1813 (age 45 years, 15
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Fort Covington, N.Y.; reinterment in 1820 at Mt.
Covington, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; cenotaph at Military
Post Cemetery, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.
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James Craig (1818-1888) —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Washington
County, Pa., February
28, 1818.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1857-61; defeated,
1880; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1860,
1880;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; president, Hannibal &
St. Joseph Railroad.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., October
22, 1888 (age 70 years, 237
days).
Interment at Mt.
Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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John Lovick Crawford (1816-1902) —
also known as John L. Crawford —
of Florida.
Born in Covington, Newton
County, Ga., April
17, 1816.
Physician;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1847; member of Florida
state senate, 1860; secretary
of state of Florida, 1881-1902; died in office 1902.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., January
24, 1902 (age 85 years, 282
days).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Daniel L. Crossman (1836-1901) —
also known as D. L. Crossman —
of Dansville, Ingham
County, Mich.; Williamston, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Cayuga
County, N.Y., November
4, 1836.
Republican. Postmaster;
miller;
banker;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1869; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1872;
clerk of the Michigan House of Representatives, 1873-91; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Royal
Arch Masons.
Died in Williamston, Ingham
County, Mich., March 7,
1901 (age 64 years, 123
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Fairview
Cemetery, Dansville, Mich.
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Charles Miller Croswell (1825-1886) —
also known as Charles M. Croswell —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., October
31, 1825.
Republican. Carpenter;
contractor;
lawyer;
Lenawee
County Register of Deeds, 1851-54; law partner of Thomas
M. Cooley, 1855; mayor of
Adrian, Mich., 1862-63; member of Michigan
state senate, 1863-66, 1867-68 (10th District 1863-66, 8th
District 1867-68); delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Lenawee County 4th District,
1873-74; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1873-74; Governor of
Michigan, 1877-80.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., December
13, 1886 (age 61 years, 43
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich.
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Shelby Moore Cullom (1829-1914) —
also known as Shelby M. Cullom —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Monticello, Wayne
County, Ky., November
22, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1856, 1860-61, 1872-74; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1861, 1873;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1865-71; Governor of
Illinois, 1877-83; resigned 1883; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1883-1913; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1884,
1892,
1904
(speaker),
1908.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1914 (age 84 years, 67
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Thomas Cushing (1725-1788) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1725.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-76; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1780-88; died in office 1788; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1785.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
28, 1788 (age 62 years, 341
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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John Alfred Cuthbert (1788-1881) —
also known as John A. Cuthbert —
of Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., June 3,
1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1811-13, 1817; member of Georgia
state senate, 1814-15; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1819-21; newspaper
editor and publisher.
Slaveowner.
Died in Mon Louis Island, Mobile
County, Ala., September
22, 1881 (age 93 years, 111
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Mobile County, Ala.
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Samuel Sam Dale (1772-1841) —
also known as Sam Dale —
of Alabama; Mississippi.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., 1772.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died near Daleville, Lauderdale
County, Miss., May 24,
1841 (age about 68
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Lauderdale County, Miss.;
reinterment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864) —
also known as George M. Dallas —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 10,
1792.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1828-29; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1829-31; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1831-33; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1833-35; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1837-39; Great Britain, 1856-61; Vice
President of the United States, 1845-49.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
31, 1864 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander
James Dallas and Arabella Maria (Smith) Dallas; brother of Sophia
Burrell Dallas (who married Richard
Bache Jr.); married, May 23,
1816, to Sophia
Chew Nicklin (granddaughter of Benjamin
Chew); uncle of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary Blechenden Bache
(who married Robert
John Walker), Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin) and George
Mifflin Dallas (1839-1917); granduncle of Robert
Walker Irwin; second great-granduncle of Claiborne
de Borda Pell; third great-granduncle of Daniel
Baugh Brewster. |
| | | Political families: Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York; Claiborne-Dallas
family of Virginia and Louisiana (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Dallas counties in Ark., Iowa, Mo. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Dallas,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: George
M. Condon
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Mifflin Dallas: John
M. Belohlavek, George
Mifflin Dallas : Jacksonian Patrician |
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William Darke (1736-1801) —
of Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Bucks
County, Pa., May 6,
1736.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Berkeley
County, 1788.
Died in Jefferson
County, Va (now W.Va.), November
26, 1801 (age 65 years, 204
days).
Interment at Darke-Engle-Ronemous Cemetery, Shenandoah Junction, W.Va.
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Andrew Duncan Davidson (1853-1916) —
also known as A. D. Davidson —
of Little Falls, Morrison
County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Glencoe, Ontario,
May
18, 1853.
Republican. President, Canadian Western Lumber
Company; vice-president, Columbia River Lumber
Company; land commissioner, Canadian Northern Railway;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee).
Died, from acute
stomach trouble, in the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., April
22, 1916 (age 62 years, 340
days).
Entombed at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) —
also known as Henry G. Davis —
of Piedmont, Mineral
County, W.Va.
Born near Woodstock, Howard
County, Md., November
16, 1823.
Democrat. Railroad
promoter; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Hampshire County, 1866;
member of West
Virginia state senate 10th District, 1869-71; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1871-83; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1872,
1880,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1916 (age 92 years, 116
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.; statue at Davis Park, Charleston, W.Va.
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William Crosby Dawson (1798-1856) —
also known as William C. Dawson —
of Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga.
Born in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., January
4, 1798.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1836-41; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1841; circuit judge in Georgia, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1849-55.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greensboro, Greene
County, Ga., May 5,
1856 (age 58 years, 122
days).
Interment at Greensboro
Cemetery, Greensboro, Ga.
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Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
16, 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1786-87, 1790,
1814-15; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1791-99; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1795-99; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1799-1805.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Arrested
in 1807 on charges
of conspiring with Aaron
Burr in treasonable
projects; gave bail and was released, but never brought to trial.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
9, 1824 (age 63 years, 359
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in North Hampton, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
23, 1751.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95,
1st District 1795-97); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 103
days).
Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834
at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment in 1848 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives:
Father of Henry
Alexander Scammell Dearborn. |
| | | Dearborn County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The city of Dearborn,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The Dearborn River,
in Lewis &
Clark and Cascade
counties, Montana, is named for
him. — Mount Dearborn, a former military
arsenal on an island in the Catawba River, Chester
County, South Carolina, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1959) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Columbus Delano (1809-1896) —
of Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio.
Born in Shoreham, Addison
County, Vt., June 4,
1809.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1845-47, 1865-67, 1868-69 (10th
District 1845-47, 13th District 1865-67, 1868-69); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1860;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1863; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1870-75.
Died in Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio, October
23, 1896 (age 87 years, 141
days).
Interment at Mound
View Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
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Mark Lindsey De Motte (1832-1908) —
also known as Mark L. De Motte —
of Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind.; Lexington, Lafayette
County, Mo.
Born in Rockville, Parke
County, Ind., December
28, 1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor and publisher; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 11th District, 1872, 1876; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1876;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1881-83; member of Indiana
state senate, 1887-89; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1888;
postmaster at Valparaiso,
Ind., 1890-94.
Methodist.
French
and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., September
23, 1908 (age 75 years, 270
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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William Dennison Jr. (1815-1882) —
of Ohio.
Born November
23, 1815.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1856;
Governor
of Ohio, 1860-62; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1864-66.
Died June 15,
1882 (age 66 years, 204
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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Harmar Denny (1794-1852) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., May 13,
1794.
Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1829-37 (16th District 1829-33,
22nd District 1833-37).
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., January
29, 1852 (age 57 years, 261
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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James William Denver (1817-1892) —
also known as James W. Denver —
Born near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., October
23, 1817.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state senate, 1852-53; killed newspaper editor Edward Gilbert in
a duel
on August 2, 1852; secretary
of state of California, 1853-55; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58, 1858, 1858; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1866.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
9, 1892 (age 74 years, 291
days).
Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
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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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Samuel Dexter (1761-1816) —
of Lunenburg, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 14,
1761.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1788-90; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1793-95; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1800; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1814, 1815, 1816.
Died in Athens, Greene
County, N.Y., May 4,
1816 (age 54 years, 356
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Samuel William Dexter (1792-1863) —
also known as Samuel W. Dexter —
of Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
18, 1792.
Newspaper
publisher; Washtenaw
County Judge, 1826-27; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1831.
Died in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
6, 1863 (age 70 years, 353
days).
Interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Dexter, Mich.
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Archibald Dixon (1802-1876) —
of Henderson, Henderson
County, Ky.
Born near Redhouse, Caswell
County, N.C., April 2,
1802.
Lawyer;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1844-48; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1851-55.
Slaveowner.
Died in Henderson, Henderson
County, Ky., April
23, 1876 (age 74 years, 21
days).
Interment at Fernwood
Cemetery, Henderson, Ky.
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William Polk Dobson (1793-1846) —
also known as William P. Dobson —
of Surry
County, N.C.
Born in Stokes
County, N.C., 1793.
Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1818-19, 1827, 1830-34, 1836, 1842 (Surry
County 1818-19, 1827, 1830-34, 43rd District 1836, 1842).
Died in Rockford, Surry
County, N.C., 1846
(age about
53 years).
Interment at Dobson
Family Cemetery, Near Rockford, Surry County, N.C.
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Henry Dodge (1782-1867) —
of Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.; Michigan; Dodgeville, Iowa
County, Wis.
Born near Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., October
12, 1782.
Democrat. General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; member
Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-33; Governor
of Wisconsin Territory, 1836-41, 1845-48; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Slaveowner.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 19,
1867 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Joseph Norton Dolph (1835-1897) —
also known as Joseph N. Dolph —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Schuyler
County, N.Y., October
19, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1865-68; member of Oregon
state senate, 1866-74; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1883-95.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March
10, 1897 (age 61 years, 142
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) —
of Liberty, Clay
County, Mo.; Richmond, Ray
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., July 9,
1808.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1836, 1840, 1854; in 1838, he
refused to obey an order to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormon
leaders, calling it "cold-blooded murder"; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; led Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico,
1846-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876.
Died in Richmond, Ray
County, Mo., August
8, 1887 (age 79 years, 30
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Liberty, Mo.; statue at County Courthouse Grounds, Richmond, Mo.
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Kelsey Harris Douglass (d. 1840) —
of Texas.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1840.
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.
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John Gately Downey (1827-1894) —
also known as John G. Downey —
of Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ireland,
June
24, 1827.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly 1st District, 1856-57; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1860; Governor of
California, 1860-62; defeated, 1863.
Died March 1,
1894 (age 66 years, 250
days).
Original interment at Old
Calvary Cemetery (which no longer exists), Los Angeles, Calif.;
reinterment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Jesse K. Dubois —
of Lawrence
County, Ill.
Republican. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1835-41, 1843-45; Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1857-64; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1868.
Burial location unknown.
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James Henry Duncan (1793-1869) —
also known as James H. Duncan —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
5, 1793.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1827, 1837-38, 1857; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1828-31; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1839; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1849-53.
Died in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., February
8, 1869 (age 75 years, 65
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Haverhill, Mass.
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George Harman Durand (1838-1903) —
also known as George H. Durand —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y., February
21, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of John
J. Carton; mayor of
Flint, Mich., 1873-75; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1875-77; defeated,
1876; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1892; appointed 1892; defeated,
1893; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Died in Flint, Genesee
County, Mich., June 8,
1903 (age 65 years, 107
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Flint, Mich.
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Theophilus Eaton (1590-1658) —
Born in Buckinghamshire, England,
1590.
Co-founder and first Governor of New Haven Colony, 1639-58.
Puritan.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., January
17, 1658 (age
about 67
years).
Original interment and cenotaph at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; cenotaph at Montowese Cemetery, North Haven, Conn.
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William Eaton (1764-1811) —
of Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt.; Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., February
23, 1764.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Clerk,
Vermont House of Representatives, 1791-92; U.S. Consul General in Tunis, 1797-1803; led multinational military force in North
Africa, 1804-05, in an effort to overthrow the Barbary pirates;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1807-08.
Died in Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 1,
1811 (age 47 years, 98
days).
Interment at Brimfield
Cemetery, Brimfield, Mass.
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Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Md., March
17, 1775.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1796-97; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1803; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1808; Governor
of Illinois Territory, 1809-18; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-24; Governor of
Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1832.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died of cholera,
in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., July 20,
1833 (age 58 years, 125
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Belleville, Ill.; reinterment in 1855 at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; statue at Ninian
Edwards Plaza, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Samuel Elbert (1740-1788) —
of Georgia.
Born in South Carolina, 1740.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784; Governor of
Georgia, 1785-86.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., November
1, 1788 (age about 48
years).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Stephen Benton Elkins (1841-1911) —
also known as Stephen B. Elkins —
of Messilla, Dona Ana
County, N.M.; Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.; Elkins, Randolph
County, W.Va.
Born near New Lexington, Perry
County, Ohio, September
26, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New Mexico
territorial House of Representatives, 1864-65; New
Mexico territory attorney general, 1867; U.S.
Attorney for New Mexico, 1867-70; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory, 1873-77; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1891-93; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1895-1911; died in office 1911.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
4, 1911 (age 69 years, 100
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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William Ellery (1727-1820) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., December
22, 1727.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; justice of
Rhode Island state supreme court, 1785.
Congregationalist.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., February
15, 1820 (age 92 years, 55
days).
Interment at Common
Burying Ground, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Powhatan Ellis (1790-1863) —
of Winchester, Wayne
County, Miss.
Born in Amherst
County, Va., January
17, 1790.
Democrat. Justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1823; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1825-26, 1827-32; federal
judge, 1832; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Mexico, 1836; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1839-42.
Died in Richmond,
Va., March
18, 1863 (age 73 years, 60
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., April
29, 1745.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1777-84; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1780-85, 1802-07; died in office 1807;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1785-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1789-96; received 11 electoral votes,
1796;
Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1796-1800; resigned 1800.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., November
26, 1807 (age 62 years, 211
days).
Interment at Palisado
Cemetery, Windsor, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of David Ellsworth and Jemima (Leavitt) Ellsworth; married 1772 to
Abigail Wolcott (grandniece of Roger
Wolcott); father of Delia Ellsworth (who married Thomas
Scott Williams), Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; second cousin once removed of Abijah
Blodget; second cousin twice removed of Harrison
Blodget, Elisha
Hunt Allen and Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin thrice removed of William
Fessenden Allen, Walter
Harrison Blodget and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Luther
Thomas Ellsworth; second cousin five times removed of Hallet
Thomas Ellsworth and Wayne
Lyman Morse; third cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold and Elisha
Phelps; third cousin twice removed of Hezekiah
Case, Oliver
Owen Forward, Walter
Forward, Abiel
Case, Chauncey
Forward, Edmund
Holcomb, Jairus
Case, Norman
A. Phelps, Anson
Levi Holcomb, George
Smith Catlin, John
Smith Phelps, William
Gleason Jr. and Allen
Jacob Holcomb; third cousin thrice removed of Parmenio
Adams, Oliver
Dwight Filley, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Dean Kellogg, Charles
Jenkins Hayden, Almon
Case, Noah
Webster Holcomb, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, William
Walter Phelps and Lafayette
Blanchard Gleason. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city of Ellsworth,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
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Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer (1793-1883) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Elmer —
of Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J., February
3, 1793.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Cumberland County, 1820-23;
Speaker
of the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1823; U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 1824-28; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 1st District, 1843-45; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1850-52; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1852-59, 1861-69.
Died in Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J., March
11, 1883 (age 90 years, 36
days).
Interment at Old
Broad Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Bridgeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer
Elmer and Hannah P. (Seeley) Elmer; married to Catharine Hay;
nephew of Jonathan
Elmer; first cousin once removed of Eli
Elmer and Joseph
H. Elmer; second cousin of Reuben
Fithian; second cousin once removed of Amos
Fithian Garrison Sr.; second cousin twice removed of Alexander
Robeson Fithian; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Grant Garrison, Lindley
Miller Garrison and James
Hampton Fithian; third cousin of Apollos
Morrell Elmer; third cousin once removed of John
Allen, Henry
Ward Beecher and George
Frederick Stone; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Chapin (1761-1821) and George
Buckingham Beecher; fourth cousin of Amaziah
Brainard, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875) and John
William Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Boardman, William
Bostwick, Daniel
Warner Bostwick, Daniel
Chapin (1791-1878), Chester
William Chapin, Graham
Hurd Chapin, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, George
Bradley Kellogg, Leveret
Brainard, Henry
Purdy Day, Edmund
Day, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918) and Allen
Jacob Holcomb. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The borough of Elmer, New
Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Evans (1814-1897) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Waynesville, Warren
County, Ohio, March 9,
1814.
Republican. Physician;
Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1862-65; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Colorado Territory, 1868
(member, Credentials
Committee; member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker).
Methodist.
One of the founders
of Northwestern University, and of the University of Denver.
Died in Denver,
Colo., July 3,
1897 (age 83 years, 116
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Edward Everett (1794-1865) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston,
Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April
11, 1794.
Unitarian
minister; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1825-35; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1836-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1841-45; president,
Harvard College, 1846-49; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1852-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1853-54; Constitutional Union
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1860; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Massachusetts.
Unitarian.
Delivered a lengthy speech immediately preceding Abraham
Lincoln's brief Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1865 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Charles Ewing (1780-1832) —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J., June 8,
1780.
Lawyer;
Federalist candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1815; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1824-32.
Died, from cholera,
in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
5, 1832 (age 52 years, 58
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Trenton, N.J.; cenotaph at Riverview
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852-1918) —
also known as Charles W. Fairbanks —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in a log
cabin near Unionville Center, Union
County, Ohio, May 11,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
general solicitor for Ohio Southern Railroad,
and for the Dayton and Ironton Railroad;
president, Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad;
director and general solicitor, Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1896
(Temporary
Chair; speaker;
chair, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1900,
1904,
1912;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1897-1905; resigned 1905; Vice
President of the United States, 1905-09; defeated, 1916;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916.
Died, from renal
failure, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 4,
1918 (age 66 years, 24
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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John Fairfield (1797-1847) —
of Saco, York
County, Maine.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
30, 1797.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1835-38 (3rd District 1835-37, 4th
District 1837-38); resigned 1838; Governor of
Maine, 1839-41, 1842-43; defeated, 1840; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1843-47; died in office 1847.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1847 (age 50 years, 328
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jacob Sloat Fassett (1853-1924) —
also known as J. Sloat Fassett —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Chemung
County District Attorney, 1879-80; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1880,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1884-91; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1888-92; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1891; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1891; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; banker; lumber
business.
Died in Vancouver, British
Columbia, April
21, 1924 (age 70 years, 160
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Pomeroy Fassett and Martha Ellen (Sloat) Fassett; married,
February
13, 1879, to Jennie L. Crocker (daughter of Edwin
Bryant Crocker; niece of Charles
Crocker); fourth cousin once removed of Zenas
Ferry Moody and Alfred
Clark Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Crocker-Whitehouse
family of Sacramento, California (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village of Fassett,
Quebec, Canada, is named for
him. — Fassett Elementary
School, in Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — Fassett Commons, a building
at Elmira College,
Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jacob Sloat Fassett (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Fenner (1771-1846) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
22, 1771.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1805-07; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1807-11, 1824-31, 1843-45; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Rhode Island; delegate
to Rhode Island state constitutional convention, 1842.
Died April
17, 1846 (age 75 years, 85
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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Reuben Eaton Fenton (1819-1885) —
also known as Reuben E. Fenton —
of Frewsburg, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Carroll, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 4,
1819.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1853-55, 1857-65 (33rd District
1853-55, 1857-63, 29th District 1863-65); delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1856;
Governor
of New York, 1865-69; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1869-75.
Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., August
25, 1885 (age 66 years, 52
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washington Fenton and Elsie (Owen) Fenton; married, February
5, 1840, to Jane Frew; married, June 12,
1844, to Elizabeth Scudder; second cousin once removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Desda
Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Peronneau
Finley Henderson; fourth cousin once removed of George
Champlin, John
Baldwin, Levi
Yale, Herschel
Harrison Hatch and Frank
P. Fenton. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Fenton,
New York, is named for
him. — The community of Fentonville,
New York, is named for
him. — Fenton Hall, at the State University
of New York at Fredonia,
is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1896 |
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Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) —
also known as "The Accidental
President" —
of East Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Cayuga
County, N.Y., January
7, 1800.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1833-35, 1837-43 (32nd District
1833-35, 1837-41, 38th District 1841-43); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1844; in 1846, he was one of the founders
of the University of Buffalo, originally a medical school; New York
state comptroller, 1848-49; Vice
President of the United States, 1849-50; President
of the United States, 1850-53; defeated, 1852, 1856.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry.
Died, after a series of strokes,
in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March 8,
1874 (age 74 years, 60
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe (Millard) Fillmore; married, February
5, 1826, to Abigail
Powers (1798-1853) and Abigail Powers (1798-1853); married, February
10, 1858, to Caroline (Carmichael) McIntosh; nephew of Calvin
Fillmore; third cousin of John
Leslie Russell; third cousin once removed of Jonathan
Brace, Bela
Edgerton, Heman
Ticknor, Leslie
Wead Russell, Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell, Alphonso
Alva Hopkins, Charles
Hazen Russell and John
Clarence Keeler; third cousin twice removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold; fourth cousin of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Charles
Henry Pendleton, Chauncey
C. Pendleton and Eckford
Gustavus Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of James
Kilbourne, Elijah
Abel, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Willard
J. Chapin, Russell
Sage and Samuel
Lount Kilbourne. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
H. Thompson |
| | | Fillmore counties in Minn. and Neb., and Millard County,
Utah, are named for him. |
| | | The city of Fillmore,
Utah, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Millard
F. Riley
— Millard
F. McCray
— Millard
F. Parker
— Millard
F. Dunlap
— Millard
F. Voies
— Millard
F. Cottrell
— Millard
F. Vores
— Millard
F. Saunders
— Millard
F. Tawes
— Millard
F. Caldwell, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Millard Fillmore: Robert J.
Raybach, Millard
Fillmore : Biography of a President — Elbert B. Smith,
The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Frank Putnam Flint (1862-1929) —
also known as Frank P. Flint —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in North Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass., July 15,
1862.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1896
(alternate), 1920,
1928;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of California, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from California, 1905-11.
While on a world tour, died on the
ocean liner President Polk, probably in the South China
Sea, while approaching Manila, Philippines, February
11, 1929 (age 66 years, 211
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Roswell Pettibone Flower (1835-1899) —
also known as Roswell P. Flower —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Theresa, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
7, 1835.
Democrat. Jeweler;
banker;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1881-83, 1889-91 (11th District
1881-83, 12th District 1889-91); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1888
(speaker),
1892,
1896;
Governor
of New York, 1892-95.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Eastport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 12,
1899 (age 63 years, 278
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.; statue at Washington Street Median, Watertown, N.Y.
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William Anson Floyd (1734-1821) —
also known as William Floyd —
of New York.
Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., December
17, 1734.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-77, 1778-83; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York
state senate, 1777-88, 1807-08 (Southern District 1777-88,
Western District 1807-08); member of New York
council of appointment, 1787; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1789-91; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Westernville, Oneida
County, N.Y., August
4, 1821 (age 86 years, 230
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Church Cemetery, Westernville, N.Y.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Theodore Foster (1752-1828) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., April
29, 1752.
Lawyer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1776, 1812-16; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1790-1803.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
13, 1828 (age 75 years, 259
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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James Gadsden (1788-1858) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 15,
1788.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Florida
state legislature, 1840; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1853-56.
Negotiated the treaty which led to the Gadsden Purchase, which added
30,000 square miles to the U.S. (parts of southern Arizona and New
Mexico).
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
25, 1858 (age 70 years, 224
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) —
also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin —
of Fayette
County, Pa.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
January
29, 1761.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
12, 1849 (age 88 years, 195
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin;
married 1789 to Sophie
Allègre; married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Davie
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
L. Dawson |
| | | Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Gallatin,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The village of Galatia,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The Gallatin River,
which flows through Gallatin
County, Montana, is named for
him. — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the
Arabian
Sea) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Albert
Galliton Harrison
— Albert
G. Jewett
— Albert
G. Hawes
— Albert
G. Wakefield
— Albert
Gallatin Talbott
— Albert
G. Dow
— Albert
G. Dole
— Albert
Gallatin Kellogg
— Albert
Gallatin Marchand
— Albert
G. Brown
— Albert
G. Brodhead, Jr.
— Albert
G. Allison
— Albert
G. Riddle
— Albert
Galiton Watkins
— Albert
G. Porter
— Albert
Gallatin Egbert
— Albert
Gallatin Jenkins
— Albert
Gallatin Calvert
— Albert
G. Lawrence
— Albert
G. Foster
— Albert
G. Simms
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Albert Gallatin: John
Austin Stevens, Albert
Gallatin: An American Statesman — L. B. Kuppenheimer,
Albert
Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability — Nicholas
Dungan, Gallatin:
America's Swiss Founding Father — Raymond Walters, Albert
Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Addison Gardiner (1797-1883) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rindge, Cheshire
County, N.H., March
19, 1797.
Democrat. Lawyer; Monroe
County District Attorney, 1825; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1845-47; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1847-55; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1854-55; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Died in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., June 5,
1883 (age 86 years, 78
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Henry Joseph Gardner (1819-1892) —
also known as Henry J. Gardner —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 14,
1819.
Dry goods
merchant; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1855-58; defeated (American), 1857.
Died in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 21,
1892 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Augustus Hill Garland (1832-1899) —
also known as Augustus H. Garland —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Tipton
County, Tenn., June 11,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Arkansas; delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 3rd District, 1862-64;
Senator
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1868;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1874-77; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1877-85; U.S.
Attorney General, 1885-89.
Slaveowner.
Died suddenly while arguing a case before the Supreme
Court, in the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1899 (age 66 years, 229
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Elbert Henry Gary (1846-1927) —
of Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill., October
8, 1846.
Lawyer;
banker;
DuPage
County Judge, 1882-90; mayor
of Wheaton, Ill., 1890-92; founder (1901) and president
(1901-11), U.S. Steel.
Died, from chronic
myocarditis, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
15, 1927 (age 80 years, 311
days).
Entombed at Wheaton
Cemetery, Wheaton, Ill.
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Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1744.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1776-80, 1782-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1789-93; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1810-12; defeated, 1801, 1812; Vice
President of the United States, 1813-14; died in office 1814.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
The word gerrymander ("Gerry" plus "salamander") was coined to
describe an oddly shaped Massachusetts senate district his party
created in 1811, and later came to mean any unfair districting.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1814 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Gerry and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Gerry; married, January
12, 1786, to Ann
Gerry; grandfather of Elbridge
Thomas Gerry; great-grandfather of Peter
Goelet Gerry; third cousin of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Elbridge,
New York, is named for
him. — The town of Gerry, New
York, is named for
him. — The town of Gerry (now Phillipston,
Massachusetts), was named for
him until 1812. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Elbridge
G. Baldwin
— Elbridge
G. Knowlton
— Elbridge
G. Creacraft
— Elbridge
G. Spaulding
— Elbridge
G. Gale
— Elbridge
Gerry
— Elbridge
G. Lapham
— Eldridge
Gerry Pearl
— Elbridge
G. Moulton
— Elbridge
G. Cracraft
— Elbridge
G. Kelley
— Elbridge
G. Haynes
— Elbridge
G. Brown
— Elbridge
G. Davis
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Elbridge Gerry: George
Athan Billias, Elbridge
Gerry, Founding Father and Republican Statesman |
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Moses Gill (1734-1800) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., January
18, 1734.
Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-1800; died in office 1800; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1799-1800; died in office 1800.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 20,
1800 (age 66 years, 122
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Joseph Glennon (1862-1946) —
also known as John J. Glennon —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Kinnegad, County Westmeath, Ireland,
June
14, 1862.
Democrat. Catholic
priest; Archbishop of St. Louis, 1903-46; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1904.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Dublin, Ireland,
March
9, 1946 (age 83 years, 268
days).
Entombed at Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.
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Thomas Pryor Gore (1870-1949) —
also known as Thomas P. Gore —
of Texas; Lawton, Comanche
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born near Embry, Webster
County, Miss., December
10, 1870.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1898; member
Oklahoma territorial council, 1903-05; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-21, 1931-37; defeated, 1920, 1936;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(speaker),
1928;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1912-16.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Woodmen;
Elks.
Blind
due to an accident suffered when he was a boy; first
blind member of the U.S. Senate.
Died March
16, 1949 (age 78 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Okla.; later interred in 1949 at
Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Asahel Gridley (1810-1881) —
of Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April
21, 1810.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; lawyer; merchant;
banker;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1840-42; member of Illinois
state senate 11th District, 1851-54.
Died in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., January
25, 1881 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
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James Wilson Grimes (1816-1872) —
also known as James W. Grimes —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Deering, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
20, 1816.
Member of Iowa
territorial legislature, 1838-43; member of Iowa state
legislature, 1852-54; Governor of
Iowa, 1854-58; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1859-69.
Congregationalist.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, February
7, 1872 (age 55 years, 110
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (1821-1891) —
also known as Josiah B. Grinnell —
of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa.
Born in New Haven, Addison
County, Vt., December
22, 1821.
Republican. Pastor;
abolitionist; member of Iowa
state senate, 1856-60; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1863-67; director, Rock
Island Railroad;
receiver, Iowa Central Railroad;
president, First National Bank of
Grinnell.
Congregationalist.
He claimed to be the original recipient of Horace
Greeley's famous advice to "Go West, young man.".
Died, from a throat
ailment and asthma,
in Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa, March
31, 1891 (age 69 years, 99
days).
Interment at Hazelwood
Cemetery, Grinnell, Iowa.
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Roger Griswold (1762-1812) —
of Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Lyme, New London
County, Conn., May 21,
1762.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1795-1805 (at-large 1795-1805,
4th District 1805); superior court judge in Connecticut, 1807-09; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1809-11; Governor of
Connecticut, 1811-12; died in office 1812.
Died in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., October
25, 1812 (age 50 years, 157
days).
Interment at Griswold
Cemetery at Black Hall, Old Lyme, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799) and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold; married to
Fanny Rogers; nephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); grandfather of Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); granduncle of John
William Allen and Henry
Titus Backus; second great-grandfather of Selden
Chapin; third great-grandfather of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; first cousin of James
Hillhouse, Oliver
Wolcott Jr. and Frederick
Wolcott; first cousin twice removed of James
Samuel Wadsworth, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); first cousin thrice removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, George
Frederick Stone, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; first cousin five times removed of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; first cousin six times removed of James
Wadsworth Symington; second cousin once removed of William
Pitkin, Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and Albert
Haller Tracy; second cousin twice removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen, George
Washington Wolcott and George
Griswold Sill; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Erastus
Clark Scranton, Sereno
Hamilton Scranton, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Fessenden Allen, Samuel
Lord (1831-1880) and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Joseph
Augustine Scranton, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler, Samuel
Lord (1859-1925), Henry
Augustus Wolcott and Joseph
Buell Ely; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Andrews Gager and Alexander
Royal Wheeler; third cousin of Daniel
Pitkin and Zina
Hyde Jr.; third cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Thomas
Hale Sill, Frederick
William Lord, Theodore
Sill and Thomas
Worcester Hyde; third cousin twice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Henry
Ward Beecher, Alexander
Hamilton Waterman, Augustus
Frank, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, John
Robert Graham Pitkin, Charles
Edward Hyde, Herman
Arod Gager, John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, Augustus
Brandegee, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin, Claude
Carpenter Pinney, Arthur
Evarts Lord and George
Leffingwell Reed; fourth cousin of Nathaniel
Merriam, Peter
B. Garnsey and James
Doolittle Wooster; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Abel, Calvin
Fillmore, Daniel
Greene Garnsey, Bela
Edgerton, Samuel
George Andrews and Roscius
R. Kennedy. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Griswold,
Connecticut, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article |
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Mariano Guadalupe=Vallejo (1808-1890) —
Born in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., July 7,
1808.
Rancher;
member of California
state senate, 1850.
Spanish
ancestry.
Died in Sonoma, Sonoma
County, Calif., January
18, 1890 (age 81 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma, Calif.
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Walter Smith Gurnee (1813-1903) —
also known as Walter S. Gurnee —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., March 9,
1813.
Democrat. Saddle and
harness maker; real estate
business; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1851-53.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
17, 1903 (age 90 years, 39
days).
Entombed at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Hailey (1835-1921) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Smith
County, Tenn., August
29, 1835.
Elected mayor of
Boise, Idaho 1871, but never took office; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Idaho Territory, 1873-75, 1885-87;
defeated, 1886; member
Idaho territorial council, 1880.
Died in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, April
10, 1921 (age 85 years, 224
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Thomas Lyon Hamer (1800-1846) —
also known as Thomas L. Hamer —
of Georgetown, Brown
County, Ohio.
Born in Northumberland
County, Pa., July, 1800.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1825, 1828-29; Speaker of
the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1829; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1833-39; general in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War.
Nominated Ulysses
S. Grant to be a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Died
in the military service, probably from dysentery,
at Monterrey, Nuevo
León, December
2, 1846 (age 46 years, 0
days).
Original interment somewhere
in near Monterrey, Nuevo León; reinterment at Old
Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Ohio; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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Paul Hamilton (1762-1816) —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, October
16, 1762.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1787; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1794; Governor of
South Carolina, 1804-06; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1809-12.
Died in Beaufort, Beaufort District (now Beaufort
County), S.C., June 30,
1816 (age 53 years, 258
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Beaufort County, S.C.
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Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) —
of Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine; Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, August
27, 1809.
Farmer;
surveyor;
compositor;
lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-41, 1847; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1837, 1839-40; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1840;
U.S.
Representative from Maine 6th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1848-57, 1857-61, 1869-81; Governor of
Maine, 1857; Vice
President of the United States, 1861-65; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864,
1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1881-82.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 4,
1891 (age 81 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine; statue at Kenduskeag Parkway, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Hamlin and Anna (Livermore) Hamlin; brother of Elijah
Livermore Hamlin; married, December
10, 1833, to Sarah Jane Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); married, September
25, 1856, to Ellen
Vesta Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); father of Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; granduncle of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; great-granduncle of Clarence
Cutting Stetson; first cousin once removed of John
Appleton; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Sumner Hamlin; third cousin once removed of David
Sears; fourth cousin of George
Pickering Bemis; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Fisk Janes, John
Mason Jr., William
Henry Harrison Stowell, Walter
S. Bemis and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hamlin County,
S.Dak. is named for him. |
| | | The town of Hamlin,
Maine, is named for
him. — The town of Hamlin,
New York, is named for
him. — The city of Hamlin,
Kansas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Hannibal Hamlin (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. — Hannibal Hamlin Hall,
at the University
of Maine, Orono,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Hannibal Hamlin: Charles
Eugene Hamlin, The
Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin — Mark Scroggins, Hannibal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) —
also known as "Savior of South
Carolina" —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
28, 1818.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1858; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
South Carolina, 1876-79; defeated, 1865; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1879-91; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1880;
U.S. Railroad Commissioner, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate
Veterans. Lost a
leg in an accident in 1878.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April
11, 1902 (age 84 years, 14
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade
Hampton (1791-1858) and Ann (FitzSimons) Hampton; married, October
10, 1838, to Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston (daughter of Francis
Smith Preston; sister of William
Campbell Preston); married 1858 to Mary
Singleton McDuffie (daughter of George
McDuffie); nephew of Caroline Martha Hampton (who married John
Smith Preston) and Susan Frances Hampton (who married John
Laurence Manning); grandson of Wade
Hampton (1752-1835). |
| | | Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hampton County,
S.C. is named for him. |
| | | The town of Hampton,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Wade Hampton High
School (built 1960, rebuilt 2006), in Greenville,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — The Wade Hampton State
Office Building (opened 1940), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Wade Hampton: Walter Brian
Cisco, Wade
Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative
Statesman |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The town of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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Charles Henry Hardin (1820-1892) —
also known as Charles H. Hardin —
of Missouri.
Born in Trimble
County, Ky., July 15,
1820.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state senate 9th District, 1873-74; Governor of
Missouri, 1875-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Missouri, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Mexico, Audrain
County, Mo., July 29,
1892 (age 72 years, 14
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Audrain County, Mo.; reinterment at
Jewell
Cemetery, Near Columbia, Boone County, Mo.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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James Harlan (1820-1899) —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa.
Born in Clark
County, Ill., August
26, 1820.
Republican. Iowa
superintendent of public instruction, 1847; president
of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1853-55, 1869-70; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1855-57, 1857-65, 1867-73; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1865-66; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1868.
Methodist.
Died in Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, October
5, 1899 (age 79 years, 40
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
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Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania
County, Va., January, 1765.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1790-95; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1795-1801 (2nd District 1795,
1st District 1795-97, at-large 1797-99, 1st District 1799-1801);
general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1816; received 3 electoral votes for
Vice-President, 1816;
received one electoral vote for Vice-President, 1820;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1819-20.
Slaveowner.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., January
14, 1825 (age about 60
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Samuel M. Harrington —
of Kent
County, Del.
Democrat. Chancellor
of Delaware court of chancery, 1857-65.
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
or typhoid,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
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| | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Eurotus P. Hastings (1791-1866) —
of Michigan.
Born July 20,
1791.
Whig. President of the Bank of
Michigan, 1825-39; Michigan
state auditor general, 1840-42.
Presbyterian.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 1,
1866 (age 74 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Famed novelist
and short story writer;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English
ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne;
married, July 9,
1842, to Sophia Amelia Peabody (sister-in-law of Horace
Mann); great-grandfather of Olcott
Hawthorne Deming; second great-grandfather of Rust
Macpherson Deming; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Deming
family of Maryland and New York; Crowninshield-Adams
family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The borough of Hawthorne,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The
House of Seven Gables — The
Scarlet Letter — Selected
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| | | Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne: Brenda
Wineapple, Hawthorne
: A Life — Luther S. Luedtke, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient — Raymona E.
Hull, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the English Experience, 1853-1864 |
| | | Image source: Project
Gutenberg |
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) —
also known as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" —
of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Stricken by a heart
attack at the railroad
station in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy
Webb Hayes; father of James
Webb Cook Hayes. |
| | | Political family: Hayes
family of Fremont, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leopold
Markbreit — James
M. Comly — Joseph
P. Bradley |
| | | Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Rutherford B. Hayes High
School, in Delaware,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The Presidente Hayes Department (province),
and its capital city, Villa Hayes, in Paraguay,
are named for
him. — Hayes Hall
(built 1893), at Ohio State University,
Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: Ari
Hoogenboom, Rutherford
B. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse, Rutherford
B. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial
Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Augustus George Hazard (1802-1868) —
also known as Augustus G. Hazard —
of Enfield, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in South Kingstown, Washington
County, R.I., April
28, 1802.
Democrat. Founder, Hazard Gunpowder Company; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1860.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1868 (age 66 years, 9
days).
Interment at Enfield
Street Cemetery, Enfield, Conn.
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Charles Belknap Henderson (1873-1954) —
also known as Charles B. Henderson —
of Elko, Elko
County, Nev.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 8,
1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Elko
County District Attorney, 1901-05; member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1905-07; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1918-21; appointed 1918; defeated, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1928,
1936;
president and director, Elko Telephone
and Telegraph Company; director, Western Pacific Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
8, 1954 (age 81 years, 153
days).
Interment at Elko
Cemetery, Elko, Nev.
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William Peters Hepburn (1833-1916) —
also known as William P. Hepburn —
of Marshalltown, Marshall
County, Iowa; Clarinda, Page
County, Iowa.
Born in Wellsville, Columbiana
County, Ohio, November
4, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860,
1888,
1896
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker);
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 8th District, 1881-87, 1893-1909.
Died February
7, 1916 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Interment at Clarinda
Cemetery, Clarinda, Iowa.
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Weldon Brinton Heyburn (1852-1912) —
also known as Weldon B. Heyburn —
of Wallace, Shoshone
County, Idaho.
Born in Chadds Ford Township, Delaware
County, Pa., May 23,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho Territory, 1888;
delegate
to Idaho state constitutional convention, 1889; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Idaho, 1892,
1900,
1904;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Idaho, 1898; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1903-12; died in office 1912; member of Republican
National Committee from Idaho, 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
17, 1912 (age 60 years, 147
days).
Interment at Lafayette
Cemetery, Chadds Ford, Pa.
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Isaac Hill (1789-1851) —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in West Cambridge (now Arlington), Middlesex
County, Mass., April 6,
1789.
Democrat. Member of New
Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1820-23, 1827-28; member of
New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1826; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1831-36; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1836-39; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1840.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
22, 1851 (age 61 years, 350
days).
Interment at Blossom
Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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Robert Roberts Hitt (1834-1906) —
also known as Robert R. Hitt —
of Mt. Morris, Ogle
County, Ill.
Born in Urbana, Champaign
County, Ohio, January
16, 1834.
Republican. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, 1881; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1882-1906 (5th District 1882-83,
6th District 1883-95, 9th District 1895-1903, 13th District 1903-06);
died in office 1906.
Died in Narragansett Pier, Narragansett, Washington
County, R.I., September
20, 1906 (age 72 years, 247
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Mt. Morris, Ill.
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Andrew J. Hoisington (1848-1907) —
of Great Bend, Barton
County, Kan.
Born near Quincy, Adams
County, Ill., July 12,
1848.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; postmaster at Great
Bend, Kan., 1875-77.
Died near Winterset, Madison
County, Iowa, February
25, 1907 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Interment at Jefferson-Goar Cemetery, Winterset, Iowa.
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (1826-1900) —
also known as Cyrus K. Holliday —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Cumberland
County, Pa., April 3,
1826.
Republican. Mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1859-60, 1867-68, 1869-70; first president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
1860-63; member of Kansas
state senate, 1861; Adjutant
General of Kansas, 1864-65; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1874.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., March
29, 1900 (age 73 years, 360
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Edward Dwight Holton (1815-1892) —
also known as Edward D. Holton —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., April
28, 1815.
Abolitionist; wheat
trader; Liberty candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1845; founder,
Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railroad;
banker;
Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1853; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin,
1856;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Milwaukee County 4th District, 1860.
Died, from malaria
and erysipelas,
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., April
21, 1892 (age 76 years, 359
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Relatives:
Married, October
14, 1845, to Lucinda Millard. |
| | | The city of Holton,
Kansas, is named for
him. — Holton Hall, at the University
of Wisconsin Milwaukee,
is named for
him. — Holton Street,
in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Philip Hone (1780-1851) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1780.
Whig. Merchant;
president, Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1826-27.
German
ancestry.
Kept a famous diary of New York life in the 19th century.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1851 (age 70 years, 192
days).
Interment at St.
Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Samuel Hooper (1808-1875) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., February
3, 1808.
Republican. Importing
business; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1851-53; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1858; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1861-75 (5th District 1861-63,
4th District 1863-75); died in office 1875.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1875 (age 67 years, 11
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Albert Howell Horton (1837-1902) —
also known as Albert H. Horton —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.
Born in Brookfield, Madison
County, N.Y., March
12, 1837.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kansas; U.S.
Attorney for Kansas, 1869-73; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1873; member of Kansas
state senate; elected 1876; chief
justice of Kansas state supreme court, 1877-95; resigned 1895.
Died, from heart
disease and liver
cancer, in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., September
2, 1902 (age 65 years, 174
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Relatives:
Father of Andrew
Jackson Houston; second great-grandfather of Jean Houston Baldwin
(who married Marion
Price Daniel); third great-grandfather of Marion
Price Daniel Jr.; cousin *** of David
Hubbard. |
| | | Political family: Daniel-Houston
family of Texas. |
| | | Houston counties in Minn., Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Houston,
Texas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ships SS Sam Houston (built 1941, at Houston,
Texas; torpedoed and sunk 1942 in the Atlantic
Ocean) and SS Sam Houston II (built 1943 at the same
shipyard; scrapped 1959) were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Houston
Justice
— Sam
H. Jones
— Sam
Houston Clinton, Jr.
— Sam
H. Melton, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Sam Houston: James L.
Haley, Sam
Houston — Marquis James, The
Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston — Randolph B.
Campbell, Sam
Houston and the American Southwest — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage — Jean Fritz, Make
Way for Sam Houston (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Church Howe (1838-1915) —
of Auburn, Nemaha
County, Neb.
Born December
13, 1838.
Republican. Banker;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 1st District, 1886; U.S. Consul in
Palermo, 1897; U.S. Consul General in Antwerp, as of 1903-06; mayor of
Auburn, Neb.; elected 1913.
Died October
7, 1915 (age 76 years, 298
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dudley Mays Hughes (1848-1927) —
also known as Dudley M. Hughes —
of Danville, Wilkinson
County, Ga.
Born in Jeffersonville, Twiggs
County, Ga., October
10, 1848.
Democrat. Farmer; railroad
president; member of Georgia
state senate, 1882-83; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1909-17 (3rd District 1909-13, 12th
District 1913-17).
Baptist.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
20, 1927 (age 78 years, 102
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Perry, Ga.
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Charles Humphrey (1792-1850) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Britain, Orange
County, N.Y., February
14, 1792.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 25th District, 1825-27; village
president of Ithaca, New York, 1828-29; Tompkins
County Surrogate, 1831-34; member of New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1834-36, 1842; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1835-36; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1843-47.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April
17, 1850 (age 58 years, 62
days).
Interment at Ithaca
City Cemetery, Ithaca, N.Y.
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David Humphreys (1752-1818) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Derby (part now in Ansonia), New Haven
County, Conn., July 10,
1752.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Minister to Portugal, 1791-97; Spain, 1796-1801; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1812-14.
Imported the Merino sheep to the U.S.
Died in his hotel
room, in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
21, 1818 (age 65 years, 226
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Frank Williams Hunt (1861-1906) —
also known as Frank W. Hunt —
of Lemhi
County, Idaho; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., December
16, 1861.
Democrat. Member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1892; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Idaho, 1901-03; defeated, 1902; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Idaho, 1904
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died, of pneumonia,
in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, November
25, 1906 (age 44 years, 344
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) —
also known as Henry E. Huntington —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y., February
27, 1850.
Republican. Owned and expanded the streetcar
and trolley system in Southern California; real estate
developer; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from kidney
disease and pneumonia,
in Lankenau Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 23,
1927 (age 77 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married 1873 to Mary
Alice Prentice; married 1913 to
Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington. |
| | | The city of Huntington
Beach, California, is named for
him. — The city of Huntington
Park, California, is named for
him. — Huntington Lake,
in Fresno
County, California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Hotel
(built 1907 as Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the
Huntington Hotel; demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington
hotel) in Pasadena,
California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Library,
Art
Museum, and Botanical
Gardens, on his former estate, in San
Marino, California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry E. Huntington (built 1943-44 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John James Ingalls (1833-1900) —
also known as John J. Ingalls —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.
Born in Middleton, Essex
County, Mass., December
29, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of Kansas
state senate, 1862; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1862, 1864; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1873-91.
Died in Las Vegas, San Miguel
County, N.M., August
16, 1900 (age 66 years, 230
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) —
also known as "Dietrich Knickerbocker";
"Jonathan Oldstyle"; "Geoffrey
Crayon" —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1783.
Essayist;
historian;
author
of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1842-46.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
28, 1859 (age 76 years, 239
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Irving (1731-1807) and Sarah (Sanders) Irving; brother of
William
Irving (1766-1821), Peter
Irving and John
Treat Irving; great-granduncle of Robert
Broadnax Glenn. |
| | | Political family: Irving
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
P. Duval |
| | | The city of Irving,
Texas, is named for
him. — The village of Irvington,
New York, is named for
him. — Washington Irving Elementary
School, in Edmond,
Oklahoma, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Washington
Irving Howard
— W.
Irving Babcock
— Washington
I. Wallace
— W.
I. Babb
— Washington
Irving Gadbois
— Washington
I. Smith
— W.
Irving Vanderpoel
— Washington
I. Kilpatrick
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| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Washington Irving: George
S. Hellman, Washington
Irving Esquire : Ambassador at Large from the New World to the
Old |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1940) |
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Clinton Fillmore Irwin (1854-1923) —
also known as Clinton F. Irwin —
of Oklahoma; Elgin, Kane
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin Grove, Lee
County, Ill., January
1, 1854.
Justice
of Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1899-1907; circuit judge
in Illinois 16th Circuit, 1913-19.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., November
4, 1923 (age 69 years, 307
days).
Interment at Bluff
City Cemetery, Elgin, Ill.
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Jared Irwin (1750-1818) —
of Georgia.
Born in Georgia, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1789, 1798; member of
Georgia state legislature, 1790; Governor of
Georgia, 1796-98, 1806-09.
Died March 1,
1818 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Irwin
Family Cemetery, Near Tennille, Washington County, Ga.
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Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (1791-1858) —
also known as Freeborn G. Jewett —
of Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
4, 1791.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County, 1826; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1831-33; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1847-53; resigned 1853; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1847-49.
Died in Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y., January
27, 1858 (age 66 years, 176
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Skaneateles, N.Y.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) —
also known as Lyndon B. Johnson; "L.B.J.";
"Landslide Lyndon"; "Preacher
Lyndon"; "The Accidental President";
"Volunteer"; "Light Bulb
Johnson" —
of Johnson City, Blanco
County, Tex.
Born near Stonewall, Gillespie
County, Tex., August
27, 1908.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 1937-49; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940,
1956;
U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1949-61; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1956,
1960,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1961-63; President
of the United States, 1963-69.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1980.
Died from a heart
attack, in Gillespie
County, Tex., January
22, 1973 (age 64 years, 148
days).
Interment at LBJ
Ranch, Stonewall, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Sam Ealy Johnson and Rebekah (Baines) Johnson; married, November
17, 1934, to Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor and Claudia
Alta Taylor; father of Lynda Bird Johnson (who married Charles
Spittal Robb). |
| | | Political family: Johnson
family of Stonewall, Texas. |
| | | Cross-reference: Roger
Kent — Irvine
H. Sprague — A.
W. Moursund — Eliot
Janeway — Barefoot
Sanders |
| | | Lake
LBJ (created as Lake Granite Shoals; renamed in 1965), in Burnet
and Llano
counties, Texas, is named for
him. — The village of Kampung LB Johnson, Malaysia,
is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1964): "All The Way
With L.B.J." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lyndon B. Johnson: Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon
Johnson and the American Dream — Robert Dallek, Flawed
Giant : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 — Sean
J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Robert A. Caro, The
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Mark
Updegrove, Indomitable
Will: LBJ in the Presidency — Nicholas deB.
Katzenbach, Some
of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ — Robert A.
Caro, The
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.
IV — Michael A. Schuman, Lyndon
B. Johnson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Lyndon B. Johnson:
Robert A. Caro, Years
of Lyndon Johnson : The Path to Power — Robert A.
Caro, Years
of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent — Robert A. Caro,
Years
of Lyndon Johnson : Master of the Senate — Lance
Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1973) |
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Willie Jones (1741-1801) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Surry
County, Va., May 25,
1741.
Delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1780.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., June 18,
1801 (age 60 years, 24
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Luther Martin Kennett (1807-1873) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Falmouth, Pendleton
County, Ky., March
15, 1807.
Whig. Mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1850-53; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1855-57.
Slaveowner.
Died in Paris, France,
April
12, 1873 (age 66 years, 28
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Edward Kent (1802-1877) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., January
8, 1802.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Bangor, Maine, 1836-37; Governor of
Maine, 1838-39, 1841-42; defeated, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1841; U.S.
Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1849-53; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1856
(speaker);
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1859-73.
Died of heart
failure, in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 19,
1877 (age 75 years, 131
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Richard C. Kerens (1842-1916) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Killberry, County Meath, Ireland,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; railroad
builder; member of Republican
National Committee from Missouri, 1884-1900; member, Arrangements Committee, Republican National
Convention, 1896 ; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1910-13.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Merion, Montgomery
County, Pa., September
4, 1916 (age about 74
years).
Entombed at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868) —
also known as Heber C. Kimball —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Sheldon, Franklin
County, Vt., June 14,
1801.
One of the original Twelve Apostles in the early Mormon Church; member
Utah territorial council, 1851-58.
Mormon.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Injured in a carriage
accident, and died soon after, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, June 22,
1868 (age 67 years, 8
days).
Interment at Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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William A. Kindred (c.1849-1891) —
of Fargo, Cass
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.).
Born in Morris
County, N.J., about 1849.
Civil
engineer; railroad
builder; banker; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1882-83.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1891 (age about 42
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Proctor Knott (1830-1911) —
also known as J. Proctor Knott —
of Lebanon, Marion
County, Ky.; Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.
Born in Raywick, Washington County (now Marion
County), Ky., August
29, 1830.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1857-58; Missouri
state attorney general, 1858-61; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1867-71, 1875-83; Governor of
Kentucky, 1883-87; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1891.
Presbyterian.
Died June 18,
1911 (age 80 years, 293
days).
Interment at Ryder
Cemetery, Lebanon, Ky.
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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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Sebastian Kronenwetter (1833-1902) —
of Mosinee, Marathon
County, Wis.
Born in Wurttemberg, Germany,
January
21, 1833.
Democrat. Hotelier;
lumber mill
business; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Marathon County, 1885-86.
German
ancestry.
Died in Mosinee, Marathon
County, Wis., April
27, 1902 (age 69 years, 96
days).
Interment at Mosinee Union Cemetery, Mosinee, Wis.
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Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886) —
also known as Amos A. Lawrence —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 31,
1814.
Owner, Ipswich Mills, maker of cotton and
woollen
goods; abolitionist; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1858 (American), 1860 (Constitutional Union).
Episcopalian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., August
22, 1886 (age 72 years, 22
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Amos Lawrence and Sarah (Richards) Lawrence; married, March
31, 1842, to Sarah Elizabeth Appleton (daughter of William
Appleton); father of Susan Mason Lawrence (who married William
Caleb Loring); nephew of Luther
Lawrence and Abbott
Lawrence; great-grandfather of Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; second great-grandfather of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; first cousin of Samuel
Abbott Green; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Moore Bancroft; fourth cousin of Alonzo
M. Garcelon; fourth cousin once removed of John
Albion Andrew, Charles
Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer
Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield
Scott Holden and Alonzo
Marston Garcelon. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Woodbury-Holden
family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish
family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city of Lawrence,
Kansas, is named for
him. — Lawrence University,
in Appleton,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Walter Daniel Leake (1762-1825) —
also known as Walter Leake —
of Mississippi.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., May 25,
1762.
Democrat. Judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1807; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1817-20; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1821; Governor of
Mississippi, 1822-25; died in office 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died in Mt. Salus, Hinds
County, Miss., November
17, 1825 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Hinds County, Miss.
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Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) —
of Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
10, 1783.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1815-16.
Died July 21,
1834 (age 50 years, 223
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Morgan Lewis (1754-1844) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
16, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1789-90, 1791-92 (New York County 1789-90,
Dutchess County 1791-92); New York
state attorney general, 1791-92; appointed 1791; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1792-1801; Governor of
New York, 1804-07; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1810-14; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1844 (age 89 years, 174
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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John Alexander Lillington (c.1725-1786) —
also known as Alexander Lillington —
Born in North Carolina, about 1725.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777; general in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Died in New Hanover County (part now in Pender
County), N.C., April, 1786
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Lillington Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English
ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) —
of Paris, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., December
28, 1788.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5th
District 1825-26); Governor of
Maine, 1827-29; died in office 1829.
Died October
8, 1829 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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Lewis Fields Linn (1796-1843) —
also known as Lewis F. Linn —
of Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
5, 1796.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; physician;
member of Missouri
state senate 3rd District, 1830-31; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1833-43; died in office 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died in Ste. Genevieve, Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo., October
3, 1843 (age 46 years, 332
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Nancy Ann (Hunter) Linn and Asahel Linn; half-brother of Henry
Dodge; married to Elizabeth Alexander Relfe (sister of James
Hugh Relfe); uncle of Augustus
Caesar Dodge. |
| | | Political family: Polk
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Linn counties in Iowa, Kan., Mo. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Linneus,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city of Linn,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city of West Linn,
Oregon, is named for
him. — The city of Linnton,
Oregon, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Crawford Linton (1795-1835) —
of Indiana.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., 1795.
Member of Indiana
state senate, 1828-31; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833.
Presbyterian.
Died of a heart
attack in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1835 (age about 39
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Edward Livingston (1764-1836) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Clermont, Columbia
County, N.Y., May 28,
1764.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1795-1801 (1st District 1795-99,
2nd District 1799-1801); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1801-03; U.S.
Attorney for New York, 1801-03; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1823-29; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1829-31; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1831-33; U.S. Minister to France, 1833-35.
Slaveowner.
Died May 23,
1836 (age 71 years, 361
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Columbia County, N.Y.; reinterment
somewhere
in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and Margaret (Beekman) Livingston;
brother of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan
Lewis) and Alida Livingston (who married John
Armstrong Jr.); married, April
10, 1788, to Mary McEvers; married, June 3,
1805, to Louisa D'Avezac=de=Castera (sister of Auguste
Davezac); uncle of Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (who married Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843)); grandson of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; granduncle of John
Jacob Astor III; great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Robert
Livingston the Younger; great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); great-granduncle of William
Waldorf Astor; second great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); second great-granduncle of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills and Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin
Livingston; second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston (1779-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William
Jay, Gerrit
Smith, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893) and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; second cousin twice removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, John
Jay II, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer; second cousin thrice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Winthrop Kean, Brockholst
Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Howard Kean, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; third cousin of Nicholas
Bayard and James
Parker; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825), George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of John
Sluyter Wirt and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler; fourth cousin of Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Livingston counties in Ill., Mich. and Mo. are
named for him. |
| | | The town of Livingston,
Guatemala, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Edward
L. Davis
— Edward
L. Martin
— Edward
L. Taylor, Jr.
— Edward
L. Robertson
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier |
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Jack Griffith London (1876-1916) —
also known as Jack London; John Griffith
Chaney —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
12, 1876.
Socialist. Novelist;
candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist).
Died in Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif., November
22, 1916 (age 40 years, 315
days).
Interment at Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery, Glen Ellen, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married 1900 to
Elizabeth May Maddern; married 1905 to
Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge. |
| | | Mount
London, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Haines
Borough, Alaska, is named for
him. — Jack London Square (entertainment and business
development),
and the surrounding Jack London District neighborhood, in Oakland,
California, are named for
him. — Jack London Lake
(Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London Nature
Park, in Magadan
Oblast, Russia, are named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jack London (built 1943 at Sausalito,
California; scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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James Madison (1751-1836) —
also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights" —
of Virginia.
Born in Port Conway, King George
County, Va., March
16, 1751.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th
District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801-09; President
of the United States, 1809-17.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days).
Interment at Montpelier
Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of William
Taylor Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolley
Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Mount
Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent city of Fort
Madison, Iowa, were named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Madison (built 1942 at Houston,
Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
M. Buchanan
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
M. Edmunds
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
Turner
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison Mullen
— James
M. Candler
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
M. Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis
Ketcham, James
Madison : A Biography — Garry Wills, James
Madison — Robert Allen Rutland, The
Presidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Samuel
Kernell, ed., James
Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican
Government — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James
Madison and the Making of America |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Laurence Manning (1816-1889) —
also known as John L. Manning —
of Fulton, Clarendon District (now Clarendon
County), S.C.
Born in Clarendon District (now Clarendon
County), S.C., January
29, 1816.
Democrat. Planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1842-46, 1865-67; member
of South
Carolina state senate, 1846-52, 1861-65, 1878 (Clarendon 1846-52,
1861-65, Clarendon County 1878); resigned 1852, 1865; candidate for
Presidential Elector for South Carolina; Governor of
South Carolina, 1852-54; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Clarendon, 1860-62;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1868.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Society
of the Cincinnati; Grange.
Slaveowner.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., October
29, 1889 (age 73 years, 273
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925) —
also known as Thomas R. Marshall —
of Columbia City, Whitley
County, Ind.
Born in North Manchester, Wabash
County, Ind., March
14, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Indiana, 1909-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1912,
1920;
Vice
President of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Moose; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Delta.
Coined the saying: "What this country needs is a good five-cent
cigar.".
Died, from the effects of a heart
attack, in his room at the Willard Hotel, Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1925 (age 71 years, 79
days).
Originally entombed at Estates
of Serenity, Marion, Ind.; re-entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Claude Matthews (1845-1898) —
of Indiana.
Born in Bath
County, Ky., December
14, 1845.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1876; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1891-93; Governor of
Indiana, 1893-97.
Suffered a stroke
while making a
speech in Veedersburg, Ind., and died three days later, April
28, 1898 (age 52 years, 135
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Clinton, Ind.
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J. J. McAlmont —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Mayor
of Little Rock, Ark., 1866.
Burial location unknown.
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Collin McKinney (1776-1861) —
of Texas.
Born April
17, 1776.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Red River, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Congress, 1830.
Died September
8, 1861 (age 85 years, 144
days).
Interment at Van
Alstyne Cemetery, Van Alstyne, Tex.
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Joseph McMinn (1758-1824) —
also known as "The Quaker Governor" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., June 27,
1758.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1796-98, 1805-12; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1805-11; Governor of
Tennessee, 1815-21.
Quaker.
Died October
17, 1824 (age 66 years, 112
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Presbyterian Cemetery, Calhoun, Tenn.
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Samuel Medary (1801-1864) —
also known as "The Wheel Horse of Ohio
Democracy" —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Montgomery Square, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
25, 1801.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1834; member of Ohio
state senate, 1836; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Ohio, 1844,
1856,
1864;
postmaster at Columbus,
Ohio, 1847-49, 1858; Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1858-59, 1859-60, 1860, 1860; candidate for
Governor
of Kansas, 1859.
Originated the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," calling for
aggressive action on the Oregon boundary dispute with Great Britain
in the 1840s; the American claim of all the land up to 54°40'
north latitude encompassed most of what is now British Columbia. Indicted
by a federal grand jury in 1864 for conspiracy
against the government; arrested;
released on bond; never tried.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, November
7, 1864 (age 63 years, 256
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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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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John Milton (c.1740-1817) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., about 1740.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1777-99; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; received 2 electoral votes, 1789;
mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1792.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in 1817
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
October
17, 1817.
Democrat. Banker;
president, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
1864-87; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1871-75 (1st District 1871-73, 4th
District 1873-75); defeated, 1868; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1887 (age 69 years, 184
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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James Monroe (1758-1831) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.; Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1758.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831 (age 73 years, 67
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at
New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February
16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth
Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George
Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph
Jones; uncle of Thomas
Bell Monroe and James
Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor
Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William
Grayson; second cousin of Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and John
Brady Grayson. |
| | | Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. — Mount
Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,
Virginia, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Monroe
— James
Monroe
— James
M. Pendleton
— James
M. Jackson
— James
Monroe Letts
— James
M. Ritchie
— James
M. Rosse
— James
M. Comly
— James
Monroe Buford
— James
M. Seibert
— J.
Monroe Driesbach
— James
M. Lown
— James
M. Miller
— James
Monroe Jones
— James
Monroe Hale
— James
Monroe Spears
— J.
M. Alford
— James
M. Lown, Jr.
— James
M. Miley
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and
1890s. |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon,
James
Monroe: The Quest for National Identity |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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James Turner Morehead (1797-1854) —
also known as James T. Morehead —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born near Shepherdsville, Bullitt
County, Ky., May 24,
1797.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1828; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1832-34; Governor of
Kentucky, 1834-36; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1841-47.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
28, 1854 (age 57 years, 218
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) —
also known as "Penman of the
Constitution" —
of Westchester
County, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., January
31, 1752.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1777; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1777-78; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Minister to France, 1792-94; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1800-03.
Episcopalian.
Died in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., November
6, 1816 (age 64 years, 280
days).
Interment at St.
Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
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Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) —
also known as Levi P. Morton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Shoreham, Addison
County, Vt., May 16,
1824.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; banker; financier;
U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1879-81; defeated,
1876; U.S. Minister to France, 1881-85; Vice
President of the United States, 1889-93; Governor of
New York, 1895-97; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1896.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Union
League.
Died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., May 16,
1920 (age 96 years, 0
days).
Interment at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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Henry Lowndes Muldrow (1837-1905) —
also known as Henry L. Muldrow —
of Starkville, Oktibbeha
County, Miss.
Born in Clay
County, Miss., February
8, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; district attorney,
6th District, 1869-71; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1875-76; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1877-85; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1890; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1892;
chancellor, 1st District, 1899-1905.
Died in Starkville, Oktibbeha
County, Miss., March 1,
1905 (age 68 years, 21
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Starkville, Miss.
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Eli Huston Murray (1843-1896) —
also known as Eli H. Murray —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Cloverport, Breckinridge
County, Ky., February
10, 1843.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1872;
Governor
of Utah Territory, 1880-86.
Died of diabetes,
in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., November
18, 1896 (age 53 years, 282
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Francis Nash (1742-1777) —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., 1742.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1764; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Welsh
ancestry.
During the Battle of Germanown, he was hit by cannonball
and musket
shot, was mortally
wounded, and died soon after, in Montgomery
County, Pa., October
7, 1777 (age about 35
years).
Interment at Towamencin
Mennonite Churchyard, Near Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pa.
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William Calhoun Newland (1860-1938) —
also known as William C. Newland; Will
Newland —
of Lenoir, Caldwell
County, N.C.
Born in Marion, McDowell
County, N.C., October
8, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1881-82; mayor of
Lenoir, N.C., 1887-88, 1901-02; resigned 1902; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Caldwell County,
1889-90, 1903-04; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1904; Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1909-13; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1912,
1928.
Methodist.
Died November
18, 1938 (age 78 years, 41
days).
Interment somewhere
in Lenoir, N.C.
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Daniel Newnan (c.1780-1851) —
of McDonough, Henry
County, Ga.
Born in Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C., about 1780.
Planter;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1831-33.
Slaveowner.
Died in Walker County (part now in Catoosa
County), Ga., January
16, 1851 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Newnan
Springs Churchyard, Newnan Springs, Ga.
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George Nicholas (1753-1799) —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., August
11, 1753.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1781; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Albemarle
County, 1788; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1789, 1793; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1792.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 25,
1799 (age 45 years, 348
days).
Interment at Old
Episcopal Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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George William Norris (1861-1944) —
also known as George W. Norris —
of McCook, Red Willow
County, Neb.
Born in Sandusky
County, Ohio, July 11,
1861.
Lawyer;
district judge in Nebraska 14th District, 1896-1903; resigned 1903;
U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 5th District, 1903-13; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1913-43; defeated (Independent), 1942;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1928.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in McCook, Red Willow
County, Neb., September
2, 1944 (age 83 years, 53
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, McCook, Neb.
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Relatives:
Married 1890 to Pluma
Lashley; married 1903 to Ella
Leonard; grandfather of Harvey
Frans Nelson Jr.. |
| | | Norris Dam
(built 1933-36), on the Clinch River, in Anderson
and Campbell
counties, Tennessee, and the Norris Lake
reservoir, which also extends into Claiborne,
Grainger,
and Union
counties, are named for
him. — The city of Norris,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS George W. Norris (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; wrecked and lost in the North
Pacific Ocean, 1946) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about George Norris: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1961) |
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Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950) —
also known as Ransom E. Olds —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Geneva, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, June 3,
1864.
Republican. Founder in 1897 of Olds Motor
Vehicle Company, maker of the first
commercially successful American-made automobile;
founder in 1905 of the REO Motor Car
Company (later, the Olds company became the Oldsmobile division of General
Motors, and Reo became part of truck
manufacturer Diamond Reo); owner of several hotels;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., August
26, 1950 (age 86 years, 84
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah (Whipple) Olds; married, June 5,
1889, to Metta Ursula Woodward; second cousin thrice removed of
Martin
Olds. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Olds Hall
(built 1917 for the College of Engineering, now used as offices),
Michigan State University,
East
Lansing, Michigan, is named for
him. — The city of Oldsmar,
Florida, is named for
him. — R. E. Olds Park,
on the waterfront in Oldsmar,
FLorida, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1765.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1796, 1803-05; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1803-05; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1797-1801; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1805; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts,
1814; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1817-22; Federalist candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1823; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1829-32.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 1848 (age 83 years, 20
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Allyne Otis and Elizabeth (Gray) Otis; married, May 31,
1790, to Sally Foster; grandfather of James
Otis (1836-1898); second great-grandfather of Robert
Helyer Thayer; second cousin once removed of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; second cousin thrice removed of Albert
Clinton Griswold; third cousin of Asahel
Otis; third cousin once removed of Oran
Gray Otis, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Asa H.
Otis, John
Otis, William
Shaw Chandler Otis, David
Perry Otis, Harris
F. Otis, James
Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison
Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin twice removed of Charles
Augustus Otis, Sr., George
Lorenzo Otis, John
Grant Otis, Norton
Prentiss Otis, Lauren
Ford Otis and Charles
Eugene Otis; fourth cousin of Chillus
Doty; fourth cousin once removed of James
Duane Doty, George
Bailey Loring and Abraham
Lansing. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Otis
family of Connecticut; Lansing
family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Harrison,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Harrison
Gray Otis Blake
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Thomas Oxnard (1860-1922) —
also known as Henry T. Oxnard —
of Oxnard, Ventura
County, Calif.; Upperville, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Marseille, France,
June
22, 1860.
Republican. President, later vice-president, American Beet Sugar
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1908.
Died, from a heart
attack, at the University Club, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 8,
1922 (age 61 years, 351
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Paterson (1745-1806) —
of New Jersey.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), December
24, 1745.
Delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1776; New
Jersey state attorney general, 1776-83; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1780, 1787; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1789-90; Governor of
New Jersey, 1790-93; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1790-93; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1793-1806; died in office 1806.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Injured in a horsedrawn
coach accident in 1803, and died from his wounds three years
later, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., September
9, 1806 (age 60 years, 259
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment
at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; cenotaph at Van
Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick, N.J.
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James N. Paul (1839-1922) —
of St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb.
Born in Beaver
County, Pa., September
23, 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; surveyor;
newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of Nebraska
state senate, 1885-86; district judge in Nebraska 11th District,
1901-17.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb., March 9,
1922 (age 82 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nicholas Jay Paul (1841-1921) —
also known as Nicholas J. Paul —
of St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb.
Born in Meigs
County, Ohio, July 27,
1841.
Probate judge in Nebraska, 1872-75; member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1877; Howard
County Treasurer, 1880-83; banker.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of apoplexy,
at his desk in his office,
in St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb., July 18,
1921 (age 79 years, 356
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Madison Stark Perry (1814-1865) —
also known as Madison S. Perry —
of Florida.
Born in Lancaster District (now Lancaster
County), S.C., 1814.
Democrat. Cotton planter; Governor of
Florida, 1857-61; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Died in Rochelle, Alachua
County, Fla., March, 1865
(age about
50 years).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Near Micanopy, Alachua County, Fla.
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Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966) —
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., July 19,
1872.
Republican. Sugar cane
planter;
engineer;
manufacturer;
bank
director; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1908.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Died October
28, 1966 (age 94 years, 101
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, New Iberia, La.
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Sir William Phips (1651-1695) —
Born in Nequasset (now Woolwich), Sagadahoc
County, Maine, February
2, 1651.
Shipbuilder;
hunter of sunken treasure; Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, 1692-94.
Died in February
18, 1695 (age
44 years,
16 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
25, 1746.
Lawyer;
law partner of Edward
Rutledge; planter;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1783-90; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-96,
1800-04; U.S. Minister to France, 1796-97; received one electoral vote, 1796;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1800; candidate for President
of the United States, 1804 (Federalist), 1808.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., August
16, 1825 (age 79 years, 172
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Church Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Xenophon Overton Pindall (1873-1935) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Middle Grove, Monroe
County, Mo., August
21, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1902-06; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1907-09; Governor of
Arkansas, 1907-09.
Member, Freemasons;
Kappa
Sigma.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., January
2, 1935 (age 61 years, 134
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.;
reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Polk City,
Florida, is named for
him. — The city of Polk City,
Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Henry Massey Rector (1816-1899) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 1,
1816.
Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state senate; elected 1848; member of Arkansas
state house of representatives; elected 1854; justice of
Arkansas state supreme court, 1859-60; Governor of
Arkansas, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; delegate
to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1874.
Slaveowner.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., August
12, 1899 (age 83 years, 103
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching
Hospital, in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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William Wallace Ross (1828-1889) —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Huron, Erie
County, Ohio, December
25, 1828.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1857; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1860;
mayor
of Topeka, Kan., 1865-66.
Died, of stomach
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
1889 (age 60 years, 162
days).
Original interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.; reinterment in 1924 at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk (1803-1857) —
also known as Thomas J. Rusk —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in South Carolina, December
5, 1803.
Democrat. Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Nacogdoches, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; general in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836, 1836-37; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1838-40; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-57; died in office 1857.
Slaveowner.
Killed
himself, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex., July 29,
1857 (age 53 years, 236
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; statue at Rusk
County Courthouse Grounds, Henderson, Tex.
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Anson Peacely Killen Safford (1830-1891) —
also known as A. P. K. Safford; "The Little
Governor"; "Father of Arizona Public
Schools" —
of California; Humboldt
County, Nev.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Hyde Park, Lamoille
County, Vt., February
14, 1830.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly 17th District, 1857-59; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1869-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arizona Territory, 1880.
Died in Tarpon Springs, Pinellas
County, Fla., December
15, 1891 (age 61 years, 304
days).
Interment at Cycadia
Cemetery, Tarpon Springs, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Warren Safford and Diantha (Little) Safford; married, July 24,
1869, to Jennie L. Tracy; married, December
12, 1878, to Marguerite F. Grijalva; married, September
10, 1881, to Soledad Bonillas; first cousin once removed of Ephraim
Safford; second cousin of John
Jay Walbridge, James
Safford and David
Safford Walbridge; second cousin once removed of Robert
Crawford Safford; second cousin twice removed of Cyrus
Packard Walbridge and Edward
L. Safford. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city of Safford,
Arizona, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Anson P. K. Safford (built 1943 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Pierce St. John (1833-1916) —
also known as John P. St. John —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.; Olathe, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., February
25, 1833.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Kansas
state senate, 1873; Governor of
Kansas, 1879-83; Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist;
later Christian
Scientist.
Died in Olathe, Johnson
County, Kan., August
31, 1916 (age 83 years, 188
days).
Interment at Olathe
Cemetery, Olathe, Kan.
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Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891) —
Born in Woodbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 15,
1823.
U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1861-69.
Died May 21,
1891 (age 67 years, 340
days).
Interment at Long
Hill Cemetery, Shelton, Conn.
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Jedediah Sanger (1751-1829) —
of Jaffrey, Cheshire
County, N.H.; Whitestown, Herkimer County (part now in New
Hartford, Oneida
County), N.Y.; New Hartford, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Sherborn, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
28, 1751.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; farmer; tavern
keeper; paper mill
business; member of New York
state assembly, 1793-95 (Herkimer County 1793-94, Herkimer and
Onondaga counties 1794-95); member of New York
state senate Western District, 1796-1804.
Died June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) —
also known as Henry R. Schoolcraft —
of Mackinac Island, Mackinac
County, Mich.
Born in Guilderland, Albany
County, N.Y., March
28, 1793.
Glassmaker;
geologist;
U.S. Indian Agent, 1822-41; member
Michigan territorial council from Brown, Chippewa, Crawford and
Michilimackinac counties, 1828-31.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
10, 1864 (age 71 years, 257
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Lawrence Schoolcraft and Margaret Anna Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft;
married, October
12, 1823, to Jane Johnston; married, January
12, 1847, to Mary Howard; uncle of John
Lawrence Schoolcraft and Richard
Updike Sherman; granduncle of James
Schoolcraft Sherman (who married Carrie
Babcock Sherman) and James
Teller Schoolcraft; first cousin once removed of Peter
P. Schoolcraft. |
| | | Political families: Seward
family of New York; Schoolcraft-Sherman
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Schoolcraft
County, Mich. is named for him. |
| | | The village of Schoolcraft,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry R. Schoolcraft (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; wrecked and scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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
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| | | 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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Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804) —
also known as Philip Schuyler —
of New York.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
20, 1733.
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1768; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775, 1777, 1779-80;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Western District, 1780-84, 1785-89, 1791-97;
member of New York
council of appointment, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1794; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1789-91, 1797-98.
Built the first flax mill
in America.
Slaveowner.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
18, 1804 (age 70 years, 364
days).
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment
at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue (now gone) at Albany
City Hall Grounds, Albany, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler;
brother of Stephen
John Schuyler; married, September
17, 1755, to Catherine Van Rensselaer; father of Elizabeth
Schuyler (who married Alexander
Hamilton), Margarita Schuyler (who married Stephen
Van Rensselaer) and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; uncle of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792); grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); grandfather of Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston; great-granduncle of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; third great-grandfather of John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third great-granduncle of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth great-granduncle of Brockholst
Livingston; first cousin of Stephanus
Bayard and Pierre
Van Cortlandt; first cousin once removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and James
Parker; first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer and John
Sluyter Wirt; second cousin of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
P. Schuyler, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Jay II and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jacob Astor III, Eugene
Schuyler, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Schuyler counties in Ill., Mo. and N.Y. are
named for him. |
| | | The village of Schuylerville,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Charles Scott (1739-1813) —
Born in Goochland
County, Va., 1739.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia state legislature, 1789; Governor of
Kentucky, 1808-12.
Died in Clark
County, Ky., October
22, 1813 (age about 74
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Winfield Scott (1786-1866) —
also known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" —
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., June 13,
1786.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for
Whig nomination for President, 1839, 1844, 1848; general in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; candidate for President
of the United States, 1852.
Died in West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., May 29,
1866 (age 79 years, 350
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.;
statue erected 1874 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Scott and Anna (Mason) Scott; married 1817 to Mary
D. Mayo (granddaughter of John
De Hart); great-granduncle of Philip
C. Hanna; first cousin twice removed of Frank
Newsum Julian. |
| | | Political family: Scott-DeHart-Hanna
family of New Jersey and Alabama. |
| | | Scott County,
Iowa is named for him. |
| | | Fort
Scott (military installation 1842-73), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Scott, Kansas, were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
Scott Featherston
— Winfield
S. Hancock
— Winfield
S. Cameron
— Winfield
S. Hanford
— Winfield
S. Smyth
— Winfield
S. Bird
— W. S.
Bell
— Winfield
S. Holden
— Winfield
S. Huntley
— Winfield
Scott Nay
— Winfield
S. Smith
— Winfield
S. Kerr
— Winfield
Scott Moore
— Winfield
S. Little
— Winfield
S. Choate
— Winfield
S. Holt
— Winfield
S. Pope
— Winfield
S. Watson
— Winfield
S. Keenholts
— Winfield
Scott Silloway
— Winfield
S. Vandewater
— Winfield
S. Braddock
— W. S.
Allen
— Winfield
S. Hammond
— Winfield
S. Phillips
— Winfield
S. Spencer
— Winfield
S. Rose
— Winfield
S. Schuster
— Winfield
Scott Allison
— Winfield
S. Boynton
— Winfield
S. Kenyon
— Winfield
S. Tibbetts
— Winfield
S. Withrow
— Winfield
S. Harrold
— Winfield
Scott Reed
— Winfield
S. Grove
— Winfield
S. Rogers
— Winfield
S. Brown
— Winfield
S. Pealer
— Winfield
S. Wallace, Jr.
— Winfield
S. Hinds
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| | | Epitaph: "History records his Eminent
Services as a Warrior, Pacificator, and General In Chief of the
Armies of the United States. Medals, and an Equestrian Statue ordered
by Congress in the Capital of his Country, are his Public Monuments.
This stone is a mark of the love and veneration of his Daughters.
Requiescat in Pace." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Winfield Scott: Timothy D.
Johnson, Winfield
Scott: The Quest for Military Glory |
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David Sears (1787-1871) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1787.
Merchant;
real
estate developer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1820; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1840; philanthropist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
14, 1871 (age 83 years, 98
days).
Entombed at Christ Church, Brookline, Mass.
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Juan Nepomucena Seguin (1806-1890) —
also known as Juan N. Seguin —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
27, 1806.
Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1838-40; mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1841, 1841-42.
Died in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas,
August
27, 1890 (age 83 years, 304
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1974 somewhere
in Seguin, Tex.
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Cato Hedden Sells (1859-1948) —
also known as Cato Sells —
of Vinton, Benton
County, Iowa; Washington,
D.C.; Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.
Born in Vinton, Benton
County, Iowa, October
6, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1888;
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, 1894-98; member of Democratic
National Committee from Texas, 1912; U.S. Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1924.
Died in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., December
30, 1948 (age 89 years, 85
days).
Interment at Cleburne
Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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William Henry Seward (1801-1872) —
also known as William H. Seward —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., May 16,
1801.
Lawyer;
co-founded (with Thurlow
Weed), the Albany Evening Journal newspaper
in 1830; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1831-34; Governor of
New York, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1849-61; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1861-69; as Secretary of State in 1867, he
made a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed
the territory "Seward's Folly".
Survived an assassination
attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same night Abraham
Lincoln was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes
Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was
arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
16, 1872 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Swayze Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward; married to Frances
Adeline Miller; father of Frederick
William Seward and William
Henry Seward Jr.; uncle of Caroline Cornelia Canfield (who
married John
Lawrence Schoolcraft) and George
Frederick Seward; granduncle of Frederick
Whittlesey Seward Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Seward
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
W. Jones — Samuel
J. Barrows — Frederick
W. Seward — Elias
P. Pellet |
| | | Seward counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | Seward Mountain,
in the Adirondack Mountains, Franklin
County, New York, is named for
him. — The city of Seward,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The town of Seward,
New York, is named for
him. — The city of Seward,
Alaska, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(300 acres on a forested peninsula, established 1911), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: W.
Seward Whittlesey
— W.
H. Seward Thomson
— William
S. Shanahan
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $50 U.S. Treasury note in the 1890s.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William H. Seward: Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Michael Burgan, William
Henry Seward : Senator and Statesman (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Horatio Seymour (1810-1886) —
also known as "The Great Decliner" —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga
County, N.Y., May 31,
1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County, 1842, 1844-45; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1845; mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1843; Governor of
New York, 1853-55, 1863-65; defeated, 1850, 1854, 1864; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1860;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1864;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1868; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York.
Episcopalian.
Died in Deerfield, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
12, 1886 (age 75 years, 257
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry
Seymour; brother of Julia Catherine Seymour (who married Roscoe
Conkling); married, May 31,
1835, to Mary Bleecker; nephew of Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857); uncle of Horatio
Seymour Jr. and Helen Lincklaen (who married Charles
Stebbins Fairchild); grandson of Moses
Seymour; first cousin of Origen
Storrs Seymour and George
Seymour; first cousin once removed of Edward
Woodruff Seymour, Joseph
Battell and Morris
Woodruff Seymour; second cousin of Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, McNeil
Seymour and Henry
William Seymour; second cousin once removed of Norman
Alexander Seymour; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Seymour; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Hezekiah
Cook Seymour; third cousin once removed of Silas
Seymour, William
Chapman Williston and Augustus
Sherrill Seymour; third cousin twice removed of Josiah
Cowles, Daniel
Pitkin and Orlo
Erland Wadhams; third cousin thrice removed of Dalton
G. Seymour; fourth cousin of David
Lowrey Seymour and Thomas
Henry Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Ela
Collins and Caleb
Seymour Pitkin. |
| | | 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). |
| | | Seymour Mountain,
in the Adirondack Mountains, Franklin
County, New York, is named for
him. — The city of Seymour,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article |
| | | Books about Horatio Seymour: Stewart
Mitchell, Horatio
Seymour of New York |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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Thomas Henry Seymour (1807-1868) —
also known as Thomas H. Seymour; Thomas Hart
Seymour —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
29, 1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
probate judge in Connecticut, 1836-38; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1843-45; colonel in
the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor of
Connecticut, 1850-53; defeated, 1863; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1853-58; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1864.
Died of typhoid
fever, in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
3, 1868 (age 60 years, 340
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Seymour (1754-1846) and Jane (Ellery) Seymour; married, September
17, 1827, to Henrietta Maria Stanley; grandson of Thomas
Seymour; second cousin twice removed of Moses
Seymour; third cousin of David
Lowrey Seymour; third cousin once removed of Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857), Henry
Seymour (1780-1837) and Caleb
Seymour Pitkin; third cousin thrice removed of Joshua
Coit; fourth cousin of Origen
Storrs Seymour, Horatio
Seymour (1810-1886), Hezekiah
Cook Seymour, George
Seymour, McNeil
Seymour and Henry
William Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Silas
Seymour, Edward
Woodruff Seymour, Augustus
Sherrill Seymour, Joseph
Battell, Morris
Woodruff Seymour, Horatio
Seymour Jr. and Norman
Alexander Seymour. |
| | | 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). |
| | | The town of Seymour,
Connecticut, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) —
Born in Frederick County (part now in Washington
County), Md., December
11, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1792-96, 1812-16; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died of a broken blood
vessel in the head, in Lincoln
County, Ky., July 18,
1826 (age 75 years, 219
days).
Interment at Shelby Traveller's Rest Burying Ground, Stanford, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Evan Shelby and Letitia 'Leddy' (Cox) Shelby; married, April
19, 1783, to Susannah Hart; father of Susanna Hart Shelby (who
married James
Shannon); grandfather of Anna Nelson Shelby (who married Beriah
Magoffin); great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Shannon-Shelby
family. |
| | | Shelby counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town of Shelby,
New York, is named for
him. — The city of Shelbyville,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city of Shelbyville,
Indiana, is named for
him. — The city of Shelbyville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac Shelby (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; mined and wrecked in the Tyrrhenian
Sea, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Roger Sherman (1721-1793) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
19, 1721.
Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793.
Congregationalist.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 23,
1793 (age 72 years, 95
days).
Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November
17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12,
1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married
Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel
Hoar); grandfather of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger
Sherman Greene, Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry
Sherman Boutell, Edward
Baldwin Whitney, Henry
de Forest Baldwin, Thomas
Day Thacher, Roger
Sherman Greene II, Roger
Sherman Hoar and Roger
Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew and John
Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald
Cox; third great-granduncle of John
Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George
Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John
Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace
Bemis and Lorin
Andrews Lathrop. |
| | | 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 town of Sherman,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town and village of Sherman,
New York, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta,
Georgia. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The community of Sherman,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Mount
Sherman, in Lake
and Park
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
|
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman |
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Charles Daniel Sherwood (1833-1895) —
also known as Charles D. Sherwood —
of Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minn.; Sherwood, Franklin
County, Tenn.
Born in New Milford, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
18, 1833.
Republican. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1859-61, 1863 (District 9
1859-60, District 14 1861, 1863); postmaster;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1864-66.
Drowned,
reportedly as a suicide,
in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, Illinois, July 2,
1895 (age 61 years, 226
days).
Interment at Mound
Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Ill.
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James Shields (1806-1879) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Rice
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo.
Born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), May 10,
1806.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1839-41; Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1841-43; in 1842, when the
Springfield paper published letters from "Aunt Becca" ridiculing him,
Shields demanded to know who wrote them; Abraham
Lincoln (then a Springfield lawyer) acknowledged responsibility,
and Shields challenged him to a duel,
which was averted only through the intervention of friends; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1843-45; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1849, 1849-55; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-59; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1868; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1874, 1879; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1879.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, June 1,
1879 (age 73 years, 22
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at Courthouse Grounds, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, Minn.
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Edward Shippen (1703-1781) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 9,
1703.
Merchant;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1744-45.
Died in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
25, 1781 (age 78 years, 78
days).
Interment at St.
James' Episcopal Churchyard, Lancaster, Pa.
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William Shirley (1694-1771) —
Born in Sussex, England,
December
2, 1694.
Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-49, 1753-56; Governor of the
Bahamas, 1760-68.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., March
24, 1771 (age 76 years, 112
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Laird Shoup (1836-1904) —
also known as George L. Shoup —
of Colorado; Lemhi
County, Idaho; Salmon, Lemhi
County, Idaho; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Kittanning, Armstrong
County, Pa., June 15,
1836.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
delegate
to Colorado state constitutional convention, 1864; Lemhi
County Treasurer; member of Idaho
territorial House of Representatives, 1874; member
Idaho territorial council, 1878; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Idaho Territory, 1880;
member of Republican
National Committee from Idaho Territory, 1880-84, 1888-90; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1889-90; member of Republican
National Committee from Idaho, 1890-92, 1896; Governor of
Idaho, 1890; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1890-1901.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, December
21, 1904 (age 68 years, 189
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Samuel Shute (1662-1742) —
Born in England,
January
12, 1662.
Lawyer;
Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, 1716-23; Colonial
Governor of New Hampshire, 1716-23.
English
ancestry.
Died April
15, 1742 (age 80 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891) —
also known as Henry H. Sibley —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Mendota, Dakota
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
20, 1811.
Democrat. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1848-49; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1849-53; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 6th District, 1855; Governor of
Minnesota, 1858-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
18, 1891 (age 79 years, 363
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Simpson (d. 1813) —
of Shelby
County, Ky.
Born in Virginia.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1806-11; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812.
Killed in the Battle
of River Raisin, in Frenchtown (now Monroe), Monroe
County, Mich., January
22, 1813.
Original interment somewhere in Monroe, Mich.; reinterment in 1834 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Slidell (1793-1871) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1793.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1829-33; member
of Louisiana state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1843-45; resigned
1845; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1853-61; Confederate
States Envoy to France, 1861.
Scottish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England,
July
29, 1871 (age about 78
years).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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John Sparks (1843-1908) —
also known as "Honest John" —
of Nevada.
Born in Winston
County, Miss., August
30, 1843.
Rancher;
Governor
of Nevada, 1903-08; died in office 1908.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., May 22,
1908 (age 64 years, 266
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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John Wilson Sprague (1817-1893) —
also known as John W. Sprague —
of Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in White Creek, Washington
County, N.Y., April 4,
1817.
Erie
County Treasurer, 1851-52; steamboat
business; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
received the Medal
of Honor (posthumously, in 1894) for actions at Decatur, Georgia,
in 1862; railroad
executive; mayor of
Tacoma, Wash., 1883.
Died in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., December
27, 1893 (age 76 years, 267
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) —
also known as "The Sugar King of Hawaii";
"His Royal Saccharinity" —
Born in Lamstedt, Germany,
July
9, 1828.
Republican. Sugar
magnate; candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
German
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
26, 1908 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) —
also known as Isaac I. Stevens —
of Washington.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March
25, 1818.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1853-57; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1857-61; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed at the Civil
War battle of Chantilly, Fairfax
County, Va., September
1, 1862 (age 44 years, 160
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Ox Hill Battlefield Park, Fairfax County, Va.
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Relatives:
Cousin *** of Charles
Abbot Stevens and Moses
Tyler Stevens. |
| | | Political family: Stevens-Woodhull
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Stevens counties in Minn. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a state
park) in Warrenton,
Oregon, was named for
him. — Fort
Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a park)
in Washington,
D.C., was named for
him. — The city (and lake)
of Lake
Stevens, Washington, is named for
him. — The town of Stevensville,
Montana, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(6,838 feet), in Shoshone
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(5,372 feet), in Bingham
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Upper Stevens Lake,
and Lower Stevens Lake,
in Shoshone
County, Idaho, are named for
him. — The Stevens Hall dormitory,
at Washington State University,
Pullman,
Washington, is named for
him. — Isaac I. Stevens Elementary
School (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001),
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Middle
School, in Port
Angeles, Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Junior
High School (now Middle School), in Pasco,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of
his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous
heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his
command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the
battle of Chantilly, Va." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:
Joseph Taylor Hazard, Companion
of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of
Washington |
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Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale (1825-1890) —
also known as Fletcher S. Stockdale —
of Port Lavaca, Calhoun
County, Tex.
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., 1825.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state senate, 1857-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Texas, 1860,
1872,
1880;
delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1863-65; Governor of
Texas, 1865; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875; member of Democratic
National Committee from Texas, 1876-80.
Died in Cuero, DeWitt
County, Tex., February
4, 1890 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Ky.
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Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866) —
also known as Robert F. Stockton —
of New Jersey.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
20, 1795.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; served in
the U.S. Navy during the Mexican War; Military
Governor of California, 1846-47; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1851-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
7, 1866 (age 71 years, 48
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard
Stockton (1764-1828); father of John
Potter Stockton; grandson of Richard
Stockton (1730-1781); grandfather of Richard
Stockton (c.1857-1929). |
| | | Political family: Stockton
family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city of Stockton,
California, is named for
him. — The city of Stockton,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The borough of Stockton,
New Jersey, is named for
him. — The city of Fort
Stockton, Texas, is named for
him. — Stockton Creek, a tidal
channel in Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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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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Matthew Talbot (1762-1827) —
of Georgia.
Born in Virginia, 1762.
Delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1798; member of Georgia
state senate, 1808; Governor of
Georgia, 1819.
Died September
17, 1827 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Smyrna
Cemetery, Wilkes County, Ga.
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Edward Tiffin (1766-1829) —
of Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.); Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Carlisle, England,
June
19, 1766.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1801; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
Governor
of Ohio, 1803-07; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1807-09; resigned 1808; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1809-11; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1812-14; U.S. Surveyor-General for
Ohio-Indiana-Michigan, 1814-29.
Methodist.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, August
9, 1829 (age 63 years, 51
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio.
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Robert Troup (1757-1832) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., August
19, 1757.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1785-86; U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1796-98.
Columbia classmate and close friend of Alexander
Hamilton.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1832 (age 74 years, 148
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Nathan Udell (1817-1903) —
of Unionville, Appanoose
County, Iowa; Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born in Susquehanna
County, Pa., February
18, 1817.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Iowa
state senate, 1854, 1860-66.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Denver,
Colo., March 6,
1903 (age 86 years, 16
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) —
also known as "The Little Magician"; "Old
Kinderhook"; "Red Fox of Kinderhook";
"Matty Van"; "American Talleyrand";
"Blue Whiskey Van" —
of Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
5, 1782.
Lawyer;
Columbia
County Surrogate, 1808-13; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1812-20; New York
state attorney general, 1815-19; appointed 1815; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1821-28; Governor of
New York, 1829; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1829-31; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Vice
President of the United States, 1833-37; President
of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840 (Democratic), 1848
(Free Soil); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died, reportedly due to asthma,
but more likely some kind of heart
failure, in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1862 (age 79 years, 231
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Van Buren and Maria (Hoes) Van Alen Van Buren;
half-brother of James
Isaac Van Alen; married to the sister-in-law of Moses
I. Cantine; married, February
21, 1807, to Hannah Hoes; father of John
Van Buren; second cousin of Barent
Van Buren; second cousin twice removed of Dirck
Ten Broeck, Cornelis
Cuyler and Thomas
Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of Harold
Sheffield Van Buren; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Roosevelt; fourth cousin of James
Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston and Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Cantine
family of Marbletown, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sanford
W. Smith — Jesse
Hoyt — Charles
Ogle |
| | | Van Buren
County, Ark., Van Buren
County, Iowa, Van Buren
County, Mich. and Van Buren
County, Tenn. are named for him. |
| | | The city of Van Buren,
Arkansas, is named for
him. — The town of Van Buren,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Van Buren, in Palmer
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Martin Van Buren High
School (opened 1955), in Queens Village, Queens,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Martin Van Buren (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; torpedoed and lost 1944 in the North
Atlantic Ocean) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: M.
V. B. Edgerly
— M.
V. B. Jefferson
— M.
V. B. Bennett
— Van
B. Wisker
— Martin
V. B. Rowland
— Martin
V. B. Ives
— Martin
V. B. Clark
— Martin
V. Godbey
|
| | | Opposition slogan (1840): "Van, Van, is
a used-up man." |
| | | 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 — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Martin Van Buren: Major L.
Wilson, The
Presidency of Martin Van Buren — Joel H. Silbey, Martin
Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular
Politics — Jerome Mushkat & Robert G. Rayback, Martin
Van Buren : Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology — John Niven, Martin
Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics —
Ted Widmer, Martin
Van Buren |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721-1814) —
of New York.
Born in Westchester
County, N.Y., January
10, 1721.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Southern District, 1777-78; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1778-95.
Died in Westchester
County, N.Y., May 1,
1814 (age 93 years, 111
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Westchester County, N.Y.;
reinterment at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Van Cortlandt (1683-1748) and Catherine (DePeyster) Van
Cortlandt; married, May 29,
1748, to Joanna Livingston (daughter of Gilbert
Livingston); father of Philip
Van Cortlandt (1749-1831), Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Anne De Peyster Van Cortlandt (who married
Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer); grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt and Abraham
de Peyster; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, Johannes
de Peyster and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; first cousin once removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Johannes
DePeyster, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Nicholas
Bayard, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and John
Cortlandt Parker; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; first cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton and John
Sluyter Wirt; first cousin five times removed of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John
Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson
Murray Cutting; first cousin six times removed of Brockholst
Livingston; second cousin of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, Matthew
Clarkson, Philip
P. Schuyler, Henry
Rutgers, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, John
Stevens III, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
DePeyster, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Jay II and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jacob Astor III, Eugene
Schuyler, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor, John
Kean, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Robert
Winthrop Kean and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cortland County,
N.Y. is named for him. |
| | | The city of Cortland,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William F. Vermilion (1830-1894) —
of Iowa.
Born in Kentucky, October
18, 1830.
Republican. Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Iowa
state senate, 1869-73.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, December
28, 1894 (age 64 years, 71
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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Robert John Walker (1801-1869) —
also known as Robert J. Walker —
of Madisonville, Madison
County, Miss.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Northumberland, Northumberland
County, Pa., July 19,
1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1835-45; resigned 1845; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1845-49; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1857; newspaper
publisher.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
11, 1869 (age 68 years, 115
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Reuben Hyde Walworth (1788-1867) —
also known as Reuben H. Walworth —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.; Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Bozrah, New London
County, Conn., October
26, 1788.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1821-23; Chancellor
of New York, 1828-47; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1848.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Antiquarian Society.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., November
27, 1867 (age 79 years, 32
days).
Interment at Greenridge
Cemetery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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John Wanamaker (1838-1922) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 11,
1838.
Republican. Merchant;
opened John Wanamaker & Company store in
1877 (forerunner of modern department
store); organizer and director, Merchants' Bank;
director, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad;
organizer (with others) and trustee, Presbyterian Hospital;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-93; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1912,
1916.
Presbyterian.
Alsatian
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
12, 1922 (age 84 years, 154
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country"; "The
American Fabius" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected to
the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married, January
6, 1759, to Martha
Dandridge Custis (aunt of Burwell
Bassett); step-father of John
Parke Custis; uncle of Bushrod
Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; granduncle of John
Thornton Augustine Washington and George
Corbin Washington; first cousin six times removed of Archer
Woodford; second cousin of Howell
Lewis; second cousin once removed of Meriwether
Lewis; second cousin twice removed of Howell
Cobb (1772-1818), Sulifand
Sutherland Ross and David
Shelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed of Walker
Peyton Conway, Howell
Cobb (1815-1868), Thomas
Reade Rootes Cobb, James
David Walker and David
Shelby Walker Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Thomas
Henry Ball Jr., William
de Bruyn=Kops, Horace
Lee Washington, Edwin
McPherson Holden, Claude
C. Ball, Arthur
Wesley Holden and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Rootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Bullitt Churchill and Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee
family; King
family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia; Washington-Walker
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Mathews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city of Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. — The state
of Washington is named for
him. — Mount
Washington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— Joseph
George Washington Duncan
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
Washington Seabrook
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
W. Schuyler
— George
Washington Holman
— George
W. Greene
— George
W. Wolcott
— George
W. Paschal
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
W. Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
W. Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
W. Bemis
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
W. Jones
— George
W. Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington Clark
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. Martin
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George
W. Ray
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Bartch
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Paul
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Wagoner
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
W. Lovejoy
— George
W. Oakes
— George
W. Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— T.
G. W. Tarver
— George
W. Darden
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Mead
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Calkin
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill.
His portrait
also appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,
The
Bulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's Providential
Care — Wendie C. Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Martha Washington (1731-1802) —
also known as Martha Dandridge; Martha Dandridge
Custis —
Born in New Kent
County, Va., June 13,
1731.
First
Lady of the United States, 1789-97.
Female.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fairfax
County, Va., May 22,
1802 (age 70 years, 343
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.
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Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) —
also known as "Mad Anthony" —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., January
1, 1745.
Surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1774-80, 1784; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1791-92.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fort Presque Isle (now Erie), Erie
County, Pa., December
15, 1796 (age 51 years, 349
days).
Original interment at Garrison
Hill, Erie, Pa.; reinterment in 1809 at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Wayne (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Eddings) Wayne; married 1766 to Mary
Penrose; father of Isaac
Wayne (1772-1852). |
| | | Wayne counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa. and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Wayne (1794), and the subsequent city of Fort
Wayne, Indiana, were named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James A. Weaver (1826-1898) —
of Sulphur Springs, Hopkins
County, Tex.
Born in Oglethorpe
County, Ga., July 15,
1826.
Democrat. Hopkins
County Sheriff; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1876.
Died in Hopkins
County, Tex., February
27, 1898 (age 71 years, 227
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Sulphur Springs, Tex.
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William Wheelwright (1798-1873) —
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., March
18, 1798.
Ship
captain; U.S. Consul in Guayaquil, 1825-28; built railroads
in South America; organized the Pacific Steamship
Navigation Company; created the first telegraph
lines in South America.
Died in London, England,
September
26, 1873 (age 75 years, 192
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) —
of Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
17, 1807.
Poet;
newspaper
editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835; Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1842.
Quaker.
Member, American
Anti-Slavery Society.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
7, 1892 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
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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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Westel Willoughby Jr. (1769-1844) —
of Herkimer
County, N.Y.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
20, 1769.
Democrat. Physician;
common pleas court judge in New York, 1805-21; member of New York
state assembly from Herkimer County, 1807-09; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1815-17.
Died in Newport, Herkimer
County, N.Y., October
3, 1844 (age 74 years, 318
days).
Interment at Newport
Cemetery, Newport, N.Y.
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Louis Dicken Wilson (1789-1847) —
also known as Louis D. Wilson —
of Edgecombe
County, N.C.
Born in Edgecombe
County, N.C., May 12,
1789.
Democrat. Notary
public; justice of the peace; merchant;
member of North
Carolina house of commons from Edgecombe County, 1815-19; member
of North
Carolina state senate, 1820, 1824-32, 1838-47 (Edgecombe County
1820, 1824-32, 15th District 1838-43, 10th District 1844-47); died in
office 1847; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1835;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from yellow
fever, while serving in the U.S. Army in the Mexican
War, in Veracruz, Veracruz,
August
12, 1847 (age 58 years, 92
days).
Original interment at Rocky Mount Memorial Park, Rocky Mount, N.C.; reinterment in
1904 at Tarboro Town Common, Tarboro, N.C.
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William Windom (1827-1891) —
of Winona, Winona
County, Minn.
Born in Belmont
County, Ohio, May 10,
1827.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1859-69 (at-large 1859-63, 1st
District 1863-69); member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1866-68; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1870-71, 1871-81, 1881-83; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1880;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1881, 1889-91; died in office 1891.
Quaker.
Fell dead, from heart
disease, at the annual
banquet of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, just
after finishing a speech, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
29, 1891 (age 63 years, 264
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Winston (1746-1815) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., June 17,
1746.
Democrat. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1790; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1793-95, 1803-07 (at-large
1793-95, 12th District 1803-05, at-large 1805-07).
Slaveowner.
Died near Germanton, Stokes
County, N.C., April
21, 1815 (age 68 years, 308
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Guilford
Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.
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Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., December
1, 1726.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-78, 1780-84;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; Governor of
Connecticut, 1796-97; died in office 1797.
Congregationalist.
Died in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., December
1, 1797 (age 71 years, 0
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Erastus
Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799)); married, January
21, 1755, to Laura Collins; father of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey
Goodrich) and Frederick
Wolcott; uncle of Roger
Griswold; great-grandfather of Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); great-granduncle of John
William Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; third great-granduncle of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-granduncle of James
Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Henry
Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander
Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William
Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Daniel
Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse and Timothy
Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Henry
Ward Beecher, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney and John
Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, George
Griswold Sill, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin and Claude
Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus
Brandegee, George
Frederick Stone, Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin, Harry
Kear Wolcott, Eldred
C. Pitkin, Henry
Merrill Wolcott, Frances
Payne Bolton and Harold
B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John
Arnold Rockwell and Oliver
Morgan Hungerford. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Wolcott,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
11, 1760.
Connecticut
state comptroller, 1788-90; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; banker; Governor of
Connecticut, 1817-27; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818.
Congregationalist.
Accused,
by political adversaries in 1800, of setting
fire to the State Department, and resigned
from the Cabinet in protest against the investigation.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1833 (age 73 years, 141
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver
Wolcott Sr. and Laura (Collins) Wolcott; brother of Mary Ann
Wolcott (who married Chauncey
Goodrich) and Frederick
Wolcott; nephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799)); grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); granduncle of Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third great-grandson of William
Leete; first cousin of Roger
Griswold; first cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); first cousin thrice removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; first cousin five times removed of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; first cousin six times removed of James
Wadsworth Symington; second cousin once removed of William
Pitkin, Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth; second cousin twice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, Collins
Dwight Huntington, William
Fessenden Allen, George
Milo Huntington and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Henry
Augustus Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of Alexander
Royal Wheeler; third cousin of Daniel
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Chittenden, Enoch
Woodbridge, James
Hillhouse, Joseph
Silliman (1756-1829) and Timothy
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Henry
Ward Beecher, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, Roger
Calvin Leete and John
Robert Graham Pitkin; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, George
Griswold Sill, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin and Claude
Carpenter Pinney; fourth cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Elizur
Goodrich, Martin
Chittenden, William
Woodbridge and Joseph
Silliman (c.1786-1850); fourth cousin once removed of Chittenden
Lyon, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Josiah
C. Chittenden, Clark
S. Chittenden, Abel
Madison Scranton, Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge and Joseph
Fitch Silliman. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The town of Wolcott,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: One Hundredth Anniversary
(1919) |
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George Wolf (1777-1840) —
of Easton, Northampton
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Allen Township, Northampton
County, Pa., August
12, 1777.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Easton,
Pa., 1802-03; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1824-29; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1829-35; defeated, 1835; comptroller of the U.S.
Treasury, 1836-38; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1838-40; died in office 1840.
German
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
11, 1840 (age 62 years, 212
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Maria Margaretta Wolf and George Wolf (1737-1808). |
| | | Wolf Township, in Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — Wolf Hall,
at Penn State University,
State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — Governor Wolf Elementary
School (built 1956), in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — George Wolf Elementary
School, in Bath,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The Governor Wolf Building
(built 1893, a former school converted to apartments), in Easton,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Tyler Wood (1795-1858) —
Born in Cuthbert, Randolph
County, Ga., March
12, 1795.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1837-38; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1841-42; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; member of Texas
state senate, 1846; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; Governor of
Texas, 1847-49; defeated, 1849, 1853.
Slaveowner.
Died in San Jacinto
County, Tex., September
3, 1858 (age 63 years, 175
days).
Interment at Robinson
Graveyard, Near Point Blank, San Jacinto County, Tex.
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William Woodbridge (1780-1861) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., August
20, 1780.
Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1807; member of Ohio
state senate, 1813-15; secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1815-28; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1819-20; resigned 1820;
justice
of Michigan territorial supreme court, 1828-32; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan at-large, 1835; member of Michigan
state senate 1st District, 1838-40; Governor of
Michigan, 1840-41; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1841-47.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
20, 1861 (age 81 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Dudley Woodbridge (1747-1823) and Lucy (Backus) Woodbridge;
married, June 29,
1806, to Julianna Trumbull; father of Julianna Trumbull
Woodbridge (who married Henry
Titus Backus (1809-1877)); third great-grandson of William
Leete; first cousin of Henry
Titus Backus (1809-1877); first cousin twice removed of George
Douglas Perkins; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; first cousin five times removed of George
Philip Kazen; second cousin of Isaac
Backus; second cousin once removed of Enoch
Woodbridge and Zina
Hyde Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; third cousin of Thomas
Worcester Hyde; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Joseph
Silliman (1756-1829), Samuel
H. Huntington, Timothy
Pitkin, Abel
Huntington, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge, Matthew
Griswold, Charles
Edward Hyde, John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit and James
Davenport; third cousin thrice removed of John
Foster Dulles, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Frederick
Wolcott, Dudley
Woodbridge (1782-1844), Henry
Meigs, Joseph
Silliman (c.1786-1850), Bela
Edgerton, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Heman
Ticknor, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Martin
Olds, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Charles
Phelps Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington and Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; fourth cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter, Samuel
Lathrop, Peter
Buell Porter, Theodore
Davenport, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Henry
Meigs Jr., John
Forsyth Jr., Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Edward
Green Bradford, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Joseph
Fitch Silliman, William
Clark Huntington, Henry
Stark Culver, Hiram
Bingham, John
Leffingwell Randolph and George
Leffingwell Reed. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The township of Woodbridge,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Woodbridge Street,
in downtown Detroit,
Michigan, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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George Wythe (1726-1806) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), December
3, 1726.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia,
1777; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788.
Episcopalian.
Apparently murdered
— poisoned
by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond,
Va., June 8,
1806 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Brigham Young (1801-1877) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Whitingham, Windham
County, Vt., June 1,
1801.
Leader of the Mormon Church 1841-1877; Governor
of Utah Territory, 1850-58.
Mormon.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of peritonitis
and appendicitis,
in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, August
29, 1877 (age 76 years, 89
days).
Interment at Mormon
Pioneer Memorial, Salt Lake City, Utah; statue at Temple
Square, Salt Lake City, Utah; statue at Heritage
Plaza, St. George, Utah.
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