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in alphabetical order
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Michael J. Adanti (1940-2005) —
also known as "Red" —
of Ansonia, New Haven
County, Conn.; Shelton, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born June 23,
1940.
Democrat. Played football
for the Ansonia Black Knights of the Atlantic Coast League; school
teacher; mayor
of Ansonia, Conn., 1973-77; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1976; president,
Southern Connecticut State University, 1984-2003.
Killed in an automobile
accident, in Sardinia,
July
31, 2005 (age 65 years, 38
days).
Interment at Mt.
St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, Derby, Conn.
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George Ade (1866-1944) —
of Kentland, Newton
County, Ind.
Born in Kentland, Newton
County, Ind., February
9, 1866.
Republican. Author; humorist;
newspaper
columnist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1908.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Suffered a heart
attack, fell into a coma, and died, in Brook, Newton
County, Ind., May 16,
1944 (age 78 years, 97
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Kentland, Ind.
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Leon Joseph Albert (1840-1912) —
of Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo.
Born in 1840.
Democrat. Steamboat
builder; mayor
of Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1877-79, 1886-91.
Died in 1912
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915) —
also known as Nelson W. Aldrich; "General Manager of
the United States" —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Foster, Providence
County, R.I., November
6, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; grocer;
director, Roger Williams Bank;
president, First National Bank of
Providence; trustee, Providence, Hartford and Fishkill Railroad;
organizer and president, United Traction
and Electric
Company; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1875-77; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1876-77; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 1st District, 1879-81; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911; author of Aldrich-Vreeland
Currency Act and Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from an apoplectic
stroke, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1915 (age 73 years, 161
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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James Burrill Angell (1829-1916) —
also known as James B. Angell —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Scituate, Providence
County, R.I., January
7, 1829.
Editor of Sen. Henry
B. Anthony's newspaper,
Providence Journal, 1860-66; president,
University of Vermont, 1866-71; president,
University of Michigan, 1871-1909; U.S. Minister to China, 1880-81; Turkey, 1897-98.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., April 1,
1916 (age 87 years, 85
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906) —
also known as Benjamin W. Arnett —
of Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., March
16, 1838.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; ordained
minister; member of Ohio
state house of representatives from Greene County, 1886-87; first
Black state legislator elected to represent a majority white
constituency; bishop; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1896.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African,
Scottish,
American
Indian, and Irish
ancestry.
Lost a
leg due to a tumor in 1858.
Died, of uremia,
in Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio, October
7, 1906 (age 68 years, 205
days).
Interment at Wilberforce
Cemetery, Wilberforce, Ohio.
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Mark Evans Austad (1917-1988) —
also known as Marcus Jacob Austad; "Mark
Evans" —
of Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Ogden, Weber
County, Utah, April 1,
1917.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; radio
announcer, broadcast
newsman, and host of his own television
news show; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1975-77; Norway, 1981-84.
Mormon.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died in Arizona, October
20, 1988 (age 71 years, 202
days).
Interment at Washington Heights Memorial Park, South Ogden, Utah.
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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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John Bascom (1827-1911) —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Genoa, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
30, 1827.
College
professor; president,
University of Wisconsin, 1874-87; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1890 (12th District), 1896
(1st District), 1902 (1st District); Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
2, 1911 (age 84 years, 155
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Bascom and Laura (Woodbridge) Bascom; married 1853 to Abbie
Burt; married, January
8, 1856, to Emma Curtiss. |
| | | Bascom Hall,
on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Bascom (built 1942-43 at Panama
City, Florida; bombed and sank in the harbor at Bari,
Italy, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) —
also known as Kemp P. Battle —
of Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Louisburg, Franklin
County, N.C., December
19, 1831.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; president, Chatham
Railroad
during the Civil War; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1866-68; president,
University of North Carolina, 1876-91; historian.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
4, 1919 (age 87 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (1793-1874) —
also known as Robert E. B. Baylor —
Born in Lincoln
County, Ky., May 10,
1793.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1819-20; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1824; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1829-31; judge of Texas
Republic, 1841-45; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; district judge in
Texas, 1845-60.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
One of the founders,
in 1845, of Baylor University, and of Baylor Female College (now the
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor).
Slaveowner.
Died in Gay Hill, Washington
County, Tex., January
6, 1874 (age 80 years, 241
days).
Original interment at Old
Baylor University Campus, Independence, Tex.; reinterment in 1886
at University
of Mary Hardin-Baylor Campus, Belton, Tex.
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Frederick William Behmler (1895-1966) —
also known as Fred W. Behmler —
of Appleton, Swift
County, Minn.; Morris, Stevens
County, Minn.
Born in Jordan, Scott
County, Minn., February
2, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; physician;
surgeon;
member of Minnesota
state senate 48th District, 1955-58; defeated, 1958.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, American Medical
Association; American
Legion; Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from a myocardial
infarction, in Abbott Northwestern Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
6, 1966 (age 71 years, 277
days).
Interment at Summit Cemetery, Morris, Minn.
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William Burnett Benton (1900-1973) —
also known as William Benton —
of Southport, Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., April 1,
1900.
Democrat. Advertising
business; introduced sound effects into television commercials;
popularized the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio show; vice-president,
University of Chicago, 1937-45; publisher of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs,
1945-47; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1949-53; defeated, 1952; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1952
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1956,
1960,
1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Zeta
Psi.
Died, in the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1973 (age 72 years, 351
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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William Howard Berkey (1874-1952) —
also known as William H. Berkey —
of Cassopolis, Cass
County, Mich.
Born in Cambria
County, Pa., February
24, 1874.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920
(alternate), 1940;
member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1930-47; Dry candidate for delegate
to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Cass County,
1933.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
22, 1952 (age 78 years, 27
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Cassopolis, Mich.
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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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John Frederick Bohler (1885-1960) —
also known as J. Fred Bohler —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., April
14, 1885.
Athletic
coach; mayor
of Pullman, Wash., 1949-51.
Died in Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash., July 12,
1960 (age 75 years, 89
days).
Interment at Associated
Order of United Workers Cemetery, Pullman, Wash.
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James Williamson Bosler (1833-1883) —
also known as James W. Bosler —
of Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland
County, Pa., April 4,
1833.
Lawyer;
merchant;
real
estate agent; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1860;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1860; Republican candidate for Pennsylvania
state senate 32nd District, 1882.
German
ancestry.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., December
17, 1883 (age 50 years, 257
days).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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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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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) —
also known as Louis D. Brandeis —
of Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
13, 1856.
Lawyer;
law clerk to Justice Horace
Gray, 1879-80; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-39; took senior status 1939.
Jewish.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
5, 1941 (age 84 years, 326
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at University
of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Adolph Brandeis and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis; brother of
Fannie Brandeis (who married Charles
Nagel) and Alfred Brandeis (brother-in-law of Walter
M. Taussig); married, March
23, 1891, to Alice Goldmark. |
| | | Political family: Taussig
family of St. Louis, Missouri. |
| | | Cross-reference: Dean
Acheson — James
M. Landis — Calvert
Magruder |
| | | Brandeis University, in Waltham,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, in
Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Louis D. Brandeis: Lewis J.
Paper, Brandeis:
An Intimate Biography of One of America's Truly Great Supreme Court
Justices — Stephen W. Baskerville, Of
Laws and Limitations : An Intellectual Portrait of Louis Dembitz
Brandeis — Philippa Strum, Louis
D. Brandeis: Justice for the People — Robert A. Burt,
Two
Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land |
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George Nathaniel Briggs (1874-1952) —
also known as George N. Briggs —
of Lamoni, Decatur
County, Iowa.
Born in Tabor, Fremont
County, Iowa, May 10,
1874.
School
teacher; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1893-94; superintendent
of schools; president,
Philippine Normal School, 1909-10; president,
Graceland College (now Graceland University), 1915-44; Dry candidate
for delegate
to Iowa convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Member, American
Political Science Association.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, December
26, 1952 (age 78 years, 230
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa.
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Clark Louis Brody (1879-1961) —
also known as Clark L. Brody —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Fabius, St. Joseph
County, Mich., February
1, 1879.
Republican. Farmer;
county agricultural agent, 1915-21; executive with Farm Bureau;
member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1921-59; appointed 1921; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1956.
Methodist.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Alpha
Zeta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Kiwanis.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., October
12, 1961 (age 82 years, 253
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Martin Grove Brumbaugh (1862-1930) —
also known as Martin G. Brumbaugh; "Hercules of the
Educational World" —
of Huntingdon
County, Pa.; Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Penn Township, Huntingdon
County, Pa., April
14, 1862.
Republican. Huntingdon
County Superintendent of Schools, 1884-90; university
professor; president,
Juniata College, 1895-1906; Puerto Rico Commissioner of Education,
1900-02; Philadelphia superintendent of schools, 1906-15; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1915-19; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1916;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916.
Brethren.
German
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died in Pinehurst, Moore
County, N.C., March
14, 1930 (age 67 years, 334
days).
Interment at Valley
View Cemetery, McConnellstown, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of George Boyer Brumbaugh and Martha (Peightal) Brumbaugh; married 1884 to Anna
Konigmacher; married, January
29, 1916, to Flora Belle Parks. |
| | | Brumbaugh Hall, a residence hall at
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Martin Grove Brumbaugh:
Earl C. Kaylor, Jr., Martin
Grove Brumbaugh : A Pennsylvanian's Odyssey from Sainted Schoolman to
Bedeviled World War I Governor, 1862-1930 |
| | | Image source: Smull's Legislative Hand
Book and Manual 1916 |
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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) —
also known as George Bush; "Poppy";
"Sheepskin";
"Timberwolf" —
of Midland, Midland
County, Tex.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 12,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1964, 1970; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative to United Nations, 1971-73; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1973-74; U.S. Liaison to China, 1974-75; director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
1976-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
Vice
President of the United States, 1981-89; President
of the United States, 1989-93; defeated, 1992.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Skull
and Bones; Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., November
30, 2018 (age 94 years, 171
days).
Interment at George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College
Station, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Prescott
Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush; married, January
6, 1945, to Barbara
Pierce; father of George
Walker Bush (who married Laura
Lane Welch) and John
Ellis Bush; grandfather of George
Prescott Bush; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davis. |
| | | Political family: Bush
family of Texas and Massachusetts. |
| | | Cross-reference: Caspar
W. Weinberger — John
H. Sununu — Don
Evans — James
C. Oberwetter — Mary
McClure Bibby |
| | | The George Bush School of Government and
Public Service, at Texas A&M University, College
Station, Texas, is named for
him. — George Bush High
School, in Richmond,
Texas, is named for
him. — George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary
School, in Addison,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by George H. W. Bush: All
The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
(1999) — Looking
Forward (1987) — A
World Transformed (1998) |
| | | Books about George H. W. Bush: John
Robert Greene, The
Presidency of George Bush — Tim O'Shei & Joe Marren,
George
H. W. Bush (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about George H. W. Bush:
Kevin Phillips, American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the
House of Bush — Kitty Kelly, The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty |
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Charles Clarke Chapman (1853-1944) —
also known as Charles C. Chapman; "The Orange King of
California" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Fullerton, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Illinois, June 2,
1853.
Republican. Publishing
business; mayor
of Fullerton, Calif., 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1916,
1924.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died in Orange
County, Calif., March 5,
1944 (age 90 years, 277
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue at Chapman University Entrance, Orange, Calif.
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Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) —
also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr.
Greenbacks" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H., January
13, 1808.
Republican. Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1849-55, 1861; Governor of
Ohio, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1864-73; died in office 1873.
Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1873 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Ithamar Chase and Janette Chase; married to Eliza Ann Smith;
father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (who married William
Sprague); nephew of Dudley
Chase; cousin *** of Dudley
Chase Denison. |
| | | Political families: Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Chase
family of Vermont (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Chase County,
Kan. is named for him. |
| | | Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard
University Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Salmon P. Chase (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Chase
S. Osborn
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in
the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick
J. Blue, Salmon
P. Chase : A Life in Politics — John Niven, Salmon
P. Chase : A Biography — Albert B. Hart, Salmon
P. Chase — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888) —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 1,
1807.
Mining
engineer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1844-51; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War.
Among the founders
of the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland.
Bequeathed his home and land holdings to the state of South Carolina
for the purpose of establishing
an agricultural college, which went on to become Clemson University.
Died in Pickens
County, S.C., April 6,
1888 (age 80 years, 280
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton, S.C.
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Frances Cleveland (1864-1947) —
also known as Frances Clara Folsom —
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., July 21,
1864.
First
Lady of the United States, 1886-89, 1893-97.
Female.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
29, 1947 (age 83 years, 100
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Oscar Folsom and Emma (Harmon) Folsom; married, June 2,
1886, to Grover
Cleveland; married, February
10, 1913, to Thomas Jecks Preston; mother of Richard
Folsom Cleveland. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cleveland Hall
of Languages (built 1911), at Wells College, Aurora,
New York, is named for
her. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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William Thad Cochran (1937-2019) —
also known as Thad Cochran —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc
County, Miss., December
7, 1937.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1973-79; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1979-2018; resigned 2018; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 2004,
2008,
2012.
Baptist.
Member, Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, from renal
failure, in Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss., May 30,
2019 (age 81 years, 174
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace (Berry) Cochran; married 1964 to Rose
Clayton; married, May 23,
2015, to Kay Webber. |
| | | The Thad Cochran U.S.
Courthouse, in Jackson,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — The Thad Cochran Center building,
at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
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Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898) —
also known as Thomas M. Cooley —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.; Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Attica, Wyoming
County, N.Y., January
6, 1824.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; law partner of Charles
M. Croswell, 1855; reporter, Michigan Supreme Court, 1857-64; law
professor; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1865-85; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1868-69, 1876-77,
1884-85; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-92.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., September
12, 1898 (age 74 years, 249
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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William A. Craven (1921-1999) —
also known as Bill Craven —
of Oceanside, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 30,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; member of
California
state assembly, 1973-79; member of California
state senate, 1979-99.
Advocated and won the creation
of a California State University campus at San Marcos.
Died, of congestive
heart failure and complications of diabetes,
at the Villas de Carlsbad Health
Center, Carlsbad, San Diego
County, Calif., July 11,
1999 (age 78 years, 11
days).
Interment at Eternal
Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside, Calif.
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Michael Curb (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Curb —
of California; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
24, 1944.
Republican. Musician; record
company executive; race
car owner; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1977; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate for Governor of
California, 1982.
In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2014.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president,
Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college
professor; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish,
French,
Swedish,
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James H. Donovan (1923-1990) —
of Chadwicks, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Marcy, Oneida
County, N.Y., November
12, 1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
member of New York
state senate, 1966-90 (51st District 1966, 46th District 1967-82,
47th District 1983-90); died in office 1990; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1980.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus.
Represented Oneida County in the New York State Senate longer than
any other senator in the history of the county.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Chadwicks, Oneida
County, N.Y., August
31, 1990 (age 66 years, 292
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Clayville, N.Y.
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Francis Marion Drake (1830-1903) —
of Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born in Rushville, Schuyler
County, Ill., December
30, 1830.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; railroad
builder; philanthropist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1888;
Governor
of Iowa, 1896-98.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of diabetes,
in Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, November
20, 1903 (age 72 years, 325
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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Abel Elsworth Eaton (1834-1917) —
also known as A. E. Eaton —
of Union, Union
County, Ore.
Born in Conway, Carroll
County, N.H., May 20,
1834.
Woollen
manufacturer; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Oregon, 1910.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., January
15, 1917 (age 82 years, 240
days).
Interment at Union
Victorian Cemetery, Union, Ore.
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John Morton Eshleman (1876-1916) —
also known as John M. Eshleman; Jack
Eshleman —
of California.
Born in Villa Ridge, Pulaski
County, Ill., June 14,
1876.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly 52nd District; elected 1906; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1915-16; died in office 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a train
station at at Indio, Riverside
County, Calif., February
28, 1916 (age 39 years, 259
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Calif.
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William Nash Everett (1864-1928) —
of Rockingham, Richmond
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham, Richmond
County, N.C., December
29, 1864.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1917-18; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Richmond County,
1919-22; secretary
of state of North Carolina, 1923-28; died in office 1928.
Died of a heart
attack in his room at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel,
Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
7, 1928 (age 63 years, 40
days).
Interment at Everett
Cemetery, Rockingham, N.C.
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Wallace Rider Farrington (1871-1933) —
of Hawaii.
Born in Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 3,
1871.
Governor
of Hawaii Territory, 1921-29.
Congregationalist.
Died of heart
disease in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
6, 1933 (age 62 years, 156
days).
Interment at Oahu
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Rider Farrington (1830-1897) and Ellen Elizabeth (Holyoke)
Farrington; married, October
26, 1896, to Catharine McAlpine Crane; father of Joseph
Rider Farrington (1897-1954); second cousin of Edward
Silsby Farrington; fourth cousin once removed of Calvin
Frisbie. |
| | | Political family: Farrington
family of Honolulu, Hawaii (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Farrington High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. — Farrington Street
and Farrington Highway,
in Honolulu,
Hawaii, are named for
him. — Farrington Hall auditorium
(built 1930, demolished in the 1970s), at the University of
Hawaii, Honolulu,
Hawaii, was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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 Herman Faulkner, Sr. (1916-2008) —
also known as Jimmy Faulkner —
of Bay Minette, Baldwin
County, Ala.
Born in Lamar
County, Ala., March 1,
1916.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; insurance
agent; mayor of Bay Minette, Ala., 1941-43; member of Alabama
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1942; served in the U.S.
Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1948,
1952
(alternate); member of Alabama
state senate, 1950-54; owned a chain of seven radio
stations; bank
director.
Church
of Christ.
Died, in Oakwood Nursing
Home, Bay Minette, Baldwin
County, Ala., August
22, 2008 (age 92 years, 174
days).
Interment at Bay
Minette Cemetery, Bay Minette, Ala.
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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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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; founder and president,
Ferris Institute, later Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1924.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
23, 1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890) —
also known as Clinton B. Fisk —
of Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.; New Jersey.
Born in York, Livingston
County, N.Y., December
8, 1828.
Merchant;
miller;
banker;
insurance
business; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1888.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 9,
1890 (age 61 years, 213
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Henry Hammill Fowler (1908-2000) —
also known as Henry H. Fowler; Joe Fowler —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., September
5, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Falls
Church, Va., January
3, 2000 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Mack Johnson Fowler and Bertha (Browning) Fowler; married, October
19, 1938, to Trudye Pamela Hathcote. |
| | | Fowler House (office buiding, built 1940,
named for Fowler in the 1960s, renamed Connell House 2003), at
Harvard University Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Haines Frazier (1899-1978) —
also known as Robert H. Frazier —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., January
8, 1899.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Greensboro, N.C., 1951-55.
Quaker.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Society for International Law; Sons of
the American Revolution; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi; Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Died in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., August
21, 1978 (age 79 years, 225
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.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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Dean Anderson Gallo (1935-1994) —
also known as Dean A. Gallo —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Parsippany, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., November
23, 1935.
Republican. Realtor;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1976-84; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1985-94; died in
office 1994.
Methodist.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Denville, Morris
County, N.J., November
6, 1994 (age 58 years, 348
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ettie Garner (1869-1948) —
also known as Mariette Elizabeth Rheiner —
Born in Sabinal, Uvalde
County, Tex., July 17,
1869.
Democrat. Second Lady
of the United States, 1933-41.
Female.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Uvalde, Uvalde
County, Tex., September
17, 1948 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Uvalde
Cemetery, Uvalde, Tex.
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Edwin Peabody Gerry (1846-1911) —
also known as E. Peabody Gerry —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
2, 1846.
Republican. Physician;
candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1903.
Died in Phillipston, Worcester
County, Mass., June 22,
1911 (age 64 years, 232
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Don Lee Gevirtz (1928-2001) —
also known as Don L. Gevirtz —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 1,
1928.
Democrat. Venture capitalist and philanthropist; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1968
(alternate), 1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, 1995-97; Nauru, 1995-97; Tonga, 1995-97; Tuvalu, 1995-97.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., April
22, 2001 (age 73 years, 52
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Albert Waller Gilchrist (1858-1926) —
also known as Albert W. Gilchrist —
of Punta Gorda, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Greenwood, Greenwood
County, S.C., January
15, 1858.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; real estate
dealer; orange
grower; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1893-96, 1903-06; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1905; served in the
U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Florida, 1909-13; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1912
(speaker),
1924;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a tumor of the
thigh, in the Hospital
for the Ruptured and Crippled, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 15,
1926 (age 68 years, 120
days).
Interment at Indian
Spring Cemetery, Punta Gorda, Fla.
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Eugene Allen Gilmore (1871-1953) —
also known as Eugene A. Gilmore —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Brownville, Nemaha
County, Neb., July 4,
1871.
Lawyer;
law
professor; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1927, 1929; president,
University of Iowa, 1934-40.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa, November
4, 1953 (age 82 years, 123
days).
Cremated.
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Carter Glass (1858-1946) —
also known as George Carter Glass; "Father of the
Federal Reserve"; "Pluck" —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., January
4, 1858.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Virginia
state senate, 1899-1902; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Lynchburg city,
1901-02; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1902-18; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940,
1944;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1916-28; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1918-20; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1920-46; died in office 1946; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1920.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in his room at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1946 (age 88 years, 144
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) —
also known as John B. Gordon —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Upson
County, Ga., February
6, 1832.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1873-80, 1891-97; Governor of
Georgia, 1886-90.
Slaveowner.
Died in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., January
9, 1904 (age 71 years, 337
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) —
also known as Frank P. Graham —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., October
14, 1886.
Democrat. School
teacher; college
instructor; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; president
of the University of North Carolina, 1931-49; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1949-50; appointed 1949; defeated,
1950.
Presbyterian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., February
16, 1972 (age 85 years, 125
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Thomas Watt Gregory (1861-1933) —
also known as Thomas W. Gregory —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Crawfordsville (unknown
county), Miss., November
6, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1904
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President); U.S.
Attorney General, 1914-19.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Died, of pneumonia,
in his room at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
26, 1933 (age 71 years, 112
days).
Interment somewhere
in Austin, Tex.
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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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Charles Harold Haden II (1937-2004) —
also known as Charles H. Haden II —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va., April
16, 1937.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Monongalia County,
1963-64; defeated, 1964; candidate for West
Virginia state attorney general, 1968; West Virginia State Tax
Commissioner, 1969-72; judge of
West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1972-75; appointed 1972;
resigned 1975; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia,
1975-83; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia,
1975-2004; died in office 2004.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., March
20, 2004 (age 66 years, 339
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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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
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| | | 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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Lee Herbert Hamilton (b. 1931) —
also known as Lee H. Hamilton —
of Columbus, Bartholomew
County, Ind.
Born in Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., April
20, 1931.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1965-99; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1968,
1996;
received the Medal
of Freedom in 2015.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Trilateral
Commission; Rotary;
Jaycees;
Alpha
Tau Omega.
Inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2018.
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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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Dudley Chase Haskell (1842-1883) —
also known as Dudley C. Haskell —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., March
23, 1842.
Republican. Member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1872; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1877-83; died in office
1883.
Died December
16, 1883 (age 41 years, 268
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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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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John Williamson Herron (1827-1912) —
also known as John W. Herron —
of Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Shippensburg, Cumberland
County, Pa., May 10,
1827.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1873; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1889-94.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
5, 1912 (age 85 years, 87
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Philip Henderson Hoff (1924-2018) —
also known as Philip H. Hoff —
of Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Turners Falls, Montague, Franklin
County, Mass., June 29,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1961-62; Governor of
Vermont, 1963-69; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1970; member of Vermont
state senate, 1983-88.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Grange;
Eagles;
Moose.
Died, at The Residence at Shelburne Bay assisted
living facility, in Shelburne, Chittenden
County, Vt., April
26, 2018 (age 93 years, 301
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Alice Merrill Horne (1868-1948) —
also known as Alice Smith Merrill —
of Utah.
Born in Fillmore, Millard
County, Utah, January
2, 1868.
School
teacher; member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1898.
Female.
Mormon.
Died, of a heart
attack, October
7, 1948 (age 80 years, 279
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Robert Morton Hughes (1855-1940) —
also known as Robert M. Hughes —
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., September
10, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1902, 1904; member,
Virginia state board of education, 1930-35.
Died January
15, 1940 (age 84 years, 127
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Adolphus Humbles (1840-1926) —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Campbell
County, Va., October
17, 1840.
Republican. Merchant;
operated a toll road between Lynchburg and Rustberg; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1896,
1904.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Died, from endocarditis,
in Lynchburg,
Va., October
4, 1926 (age 85 years, 352
days).
Interment at Humbles Family Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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George Magoffin Humphrey (1890-1970) —
also known as George M. Humphrey —
of Mentor, Lake
County, Ohio.
Born in Cheboygan, Cheboygan
County, Mich., March 8,
1890.
Lawyer;
president, M.A. Hanna Company (mining and
processing iron and
nickel ores), 1929-52; chairman of Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal
Company; chairman, Executive Committee, National Steel
Corporation; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57.
Episcopalian.
Died, from heart
disease, in University Hospital,
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
20, 1970 (age 79 years, 318
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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James Baxter Hunt Jr. (b. 1937) —
also known as James B. Hunt, Jr.; Jim Hunt —
of North Carolina.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., May 16,
1937.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1973-77; Governor of
North Carolina, 1977-85, 1993-2001; candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1984; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2014.
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The James B. Hunt, Jr.
Library,
at the North Carolina State University Centennial Campus, Raleigh,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — Hunt Hall, a dormitory
at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, in Charlotte,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — The James B. Hunt Jr. Residence
Hall, at the North Carolina School
of Science and Mathematics, in Durham,
North Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about James B. Hunt: Wayne
Grimsley, James
B. Hunt: A North Carolina Progressive — Gary Pearce,
Jim
Hunt: A Biography |
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Claude Burton Hutchison (1885-1980) —
also known as Claude B. Hutchison —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo., April 9,
1885.
Botanist;
agricultural
economist; university
professor; mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1955-63.
Member, Alpha
Phi Omega.
Died August
25, 1980 (age 95 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Beauford Halbert Jester (1893-1949) —
also known as Beauford Jester —
of Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex.
Born in Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex., January
12, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Governor of
Texas, 1947-49; died in office 1949; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Texas, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Kappa
Sigma; Sigma
Delta Chi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Rotary;
Lions.
Died, aboard a Pullman railroad
car, near Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 11,
1949 (age 56 years, 180
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Corsicana, Tex.
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Herbert Warren Ladd (1843-1913) —
also known as Herbert W. Ladd —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., October
15, 1843.
Newspaper
reporter; dry goods
merchant; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1889-90, 1891-92.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Butler Hospital,
Providence, Providence
County, R.I., November
29, 1913 (age 70 years, 45
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)
Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom
Harris Chappell); uncle of William
Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William
McKendree Robbins and Joseph
Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston
Ahi Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Lamar
family of Georgia. |
| | | Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are
named for him. |
| | | Lamar Hall,
at the University of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar River,
in Yellowstone National Park, Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Lamar Boulevard,
in Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar Avenue,
in Memphis,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lamar School
(founded 1964), in Meridian,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) —
also known as Mirabeau B. Lamar —
of Texas.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1798.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1829-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836-38; President
of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.
Minister to Costa Rica, 1858-59; Nicaragua, 1858-59.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., December
19, 1859 (age 61 years, 125
days).
Interment at Morton
Cemetery, Richmond, Tex.
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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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Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) —
also known as Herbert H. Lehman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
28, 1878.
Democrat. Director, Consolidated Cotton Duck
Co., Imperial Cotton Co.,
U.S. Cotton
Duck Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World
War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1929-32; Governor of
New York, 1933-42; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Gamma Delta; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1963; inducted into the
Jewish-American Hall of
Fame in 1974.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
5, 1963 (age 85 years, 252
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Merit E. Leming (1862-1938) —
of Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo.
Born in Dearborn
County, Ind., March
14, 1862.
Republican. Lumber
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1900;
mayor
of Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1909-11.
Died, from coronary
occlusion and influenza,
in Cape Girardeau, Cape
Girardeau County, Mo., March 4,
1938 (age 75 years, 355
days).
Interment at Cape
County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of William Leming and Elizabeth (Rosecrans) Leming; married to
Eugenia R. Bouchman. |
| | | Leming Hall (built 1905, demolished 1972), one
of the first two dormitory buildings at Southeast Missouri State
University in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri, was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Asbury Francis Lever (1875-1940) —
also known as A. Frank Lever —
of Lexington, Lexington
County, S.C.; Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born near Springhill, Lexington
County, S.C., January
5, 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Rep. J.
William Stokes, 1897-1901; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Lexington County,
1900-01; resigned 1901; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 7th District, 1901-19.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Lexington
County, S.C., April
28, 1940 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Clemson, S.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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John Langeloth Loeb Jr. (b. 1930) —
also known as John L. Loeb, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 2,
1930.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1964;
U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, 1981-83.
Still living as of 1996.
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Richard Green Lugar (1932-2019) —
also known as Richard G. Lugar —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April 4,
1932.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1968-75; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1968,
1972;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1977-; defeated, 1974; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1996.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Pi
Delta Epsilon; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Beta
Theta Pi; Rotary;
Blue
Key.
Died in Annandale, Fairfax
County, Va., April
28, 2019 (age 87 years, 24
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Kenneth Leon Maddy (1934-2000) —
also known as Kenneth L. Maddy; Ken Maddy —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 22,
1934.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1971-78; candidate for Governor of
California, 1978; member of California
state senate, 1979-98; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1992.
Member, Rotary;
Sigma
Nu; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, of lung
cancer, at Sutter Memorial Hospital,
Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., February
19, 2000 (age 65 years, 273
days).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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David Parshall Mapes (1798-1890) —
also known as David P. Mapes —
of Roxbury, Delaware
County, N.Y.; Ripon, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Coxsackie, Greene
County, N.Y., January
10, 1798.
Steamboat
business; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1831; merchant;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin.
Principal founder
of Ripon College, 1850.
Died in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., May 18,
1890 (age 92 years, 128
days).
Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Ripon, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Mapes and Hannah (Brown) Mapes; married, April
14, 1822, to Ruth Frisbee; married, January
26, 1855, to Mary C. Frisbee; married, November
9, 1864, to Emeline (Huntsinger) Wilson; married, September
15, 1883, to Augusta R. Miles; father of Fannie
Mapes (who married Otto
Christian Neuman); first cousin once removed of Jonas
Mapes; third cousin once removed of George
Hammond Parshall; third cousin thrice removed of Irving
Anthony Jennings and Renz
L. Jennings; fourth cousin once removed of David
Gardiner and Bertha
Mapes. |
| | | Mapes Hall (built 1959), at Ripon
College, Ripon,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "In grateful recognition of
David P, Mapes, for his vision and valuable services as pioneer,
founder, benefactor and promoter of the City of Ripon and its
College, the citizens of Ripon dedicate this marker." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Clarence Daniel Martin (1886-1955) —
also known as Clarence D. Martin —
of Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash., June 29,
1886.
Democrat. Grain milling
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Washington, 1920,
1924,
1928
(alternate); mayor of Cheney, Wash., 1928-32; Governor of
Washington, 1933-41; defeated in primary, 1948; member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1944.
Died in Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash., August
11, 1955 (age 69 years, 43
days).
Entombed at Fairmount
Memorial Park, Spokane, Wash.
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Enoch Mather Marvin (1823-1877) —
also known as Enoch M. Marvin —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Warren
County, Mo., June 12,
1823.
Democrat. Methodist
bishop; chaplain of the Confederate Army during the Civil War; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1876.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died, of pneumonia,
in St.
Louis, Mo., November
26, 1877 (age 54 years, 167
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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George Mason (1725-1792) —
of Virginia.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., December
11, 1725.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1759; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1776-80, 1786-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787-88.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fairfax
County, Va., October
7, 1792 (age 66 years, 301
days).
Interment at Gunston
Hall Grounds, Near Lorton, Fairfax County, Va.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George Mason (1690-1735) and Ann (Thomson) Mason; brother of Thomson
Mason; married, April 4,
1750, to Ann Eilbeck; married, April
11, 1780, to Sarah Brent (aunt of George
Graham); uncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and John
Thomson Mason (1765-1824); grandfather of Thomson
Francis Mason and James
Murray Mason; granduncle of John
Thomson Mason (1787-1850), Armistead
Thomson Mason and John
Thomson Mason Jr.; great-grandfather of Fitzhugh
Lee; great-granduncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1811-1843); third great-grandfather of Charles
O'Conor Goolrick; fourth great-granduncle of Jerauld
Wright. |
| | | Political family: Mason
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mason counties in Ky. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | George Mason University, Fairfax,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Mason: Jeff
Broadwater, George
Mason : Forgotten Founder |
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Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.; Vansville, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Kennebunk, York
County, Maine, December
7, 1808.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1863-65; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1865-69, 1884-85.
Died in Vansville, Prince
George's County, Md., May 24,
1895 (age 86 years, 168
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh McCulloch (1773-1830) and Abigail (Perkins) McCulloch;
married, June 23,
1834, to Eunice Hardy; married, March
21, 1838, to Susan Maria Man. |
| | | McCulloch Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Hugh McCulloch (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on $20 U.S. national bank notes in 1902.
|
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Comptrollers
of the Currency |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Robert Ligon McWhorter (1891-1960) —
also known as Bob McWhorter —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Lexington, Oglethorpe
County, Ga., June 4,
1891.
Law
professor; mayor of
Athens, Ga., 1940-47; named to the College Football Hall of
Fame in 1954.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Chi Phi.
Died in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., June 29,
1960 (age 69 years, 25
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Andrew William Mellon (1855-1937) —
also known as Andrew W. Mellon —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March
24, 1855.
Republican. Banker; co-founder,
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which later became Carnegie
Mellon University; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1920,
1924
(speaker),
1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1932-33.
Episcopalian.
Died in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
26, 1937 (age 82 years, 155
days).
Original interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; subsequent interment at a
private or family graveyard, Fauquier County, Va.; reinterment at
Trinity
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Upperville, Va.; memorial monument at
Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Mellon and Sarah Jane (Negley) Mellon; married 1900 to Nora
McMullen; father of Ailsa Mellon (who married David
Kirkpatrick Este Bruce); uncle of William
Larimer Mellon; granduncle of Richard
Mellon Scaife. |
| | | Political family: Bruce-Mellon
family of Virginia. |
| | | Cross-reference: J.
McKenzie Moss |
| | | Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is partly named for
him. — Mellon Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Federal
Reserve History |
| | | Books about Andrew Mellon: David
Cannadine, Mellon
: An American Life |
| | | Image source: American Review of
Reviews, March 1922 |
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Robert Morris (1734-1806) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
31, 1734.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process.
Imprisoned
for debt from
February 1798 to August 1801.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1806 (age 72 years, 97
days).
Entombed at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Independence
National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at
Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Morris (1711-1750) and Elizabeth (Murphet) Morris; married,
March
2, 1769, to Mary White; father of Thomas
Morris and Henrietta 'Hetty' Morris (who married James
Markham Marshall); great-grandfather of John
Augustine Marshall. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Morris Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $10 silver certificate in the 1870s and
1880s. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert Morris: Charles
Rappleye, Robert
Morris: Financier of the American Revolution |
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Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (1834-1912) —
also known as Francis T. Nicholls —
of Napoleonville, Assumption
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La., August
20, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost an
arm in the battle of Winchester, Va.; lost a
foot at Chancellorsville; Governor of
Louisiana, 1877-80, 1888-92; chief
justice of Louisiana state supreme court, 1892-1904; appointed
1892; justice of
Louisiana state supreme court, 1904-11; resigned 1911.
Died near Thibodaux, Lafourche
Parish, La., January
4, 1912 (age 77 years, 137
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.
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Stephen Cornelius O'Connell (1916-2001) —
also known as Stephen C. O'Connell —
of Florida.
Born in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
22, 1916.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1955-67; appointed 1955; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1966-67; first
Catholic to win a statewide election in Florida, 1956; president,
University of Florida, 1967-73.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer,
in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April
13, 2001 (age 85 years, 81
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) —
also known as Jackie Onassis; Jaqueline Lee Bouvier;
Jacqueline Kennedy —
Born in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 28,
1929.
First
Lady of the United States, 1961-63.
Female.
Catholic.
Died, from non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 19,
1994 (age 64 years, 295
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet
Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III; married, September
12, 1953, to John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; brother of Jean
Kennedy Smith; grandson of John
Francis Fitzgerald); married 1968 to
Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High
School for International Careers, in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall,
at George Washington University, Washington,
D.C., is named for
her. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir,
in Central Park,
Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Gary M. Owen (b. 1944) —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Lawrence
County, Ala., September
9, 1944.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives 22nd District, 1973-88; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1983-88.
Baptist.
Member, Jaycees;
Phi
Delta Kappa.
Still living as of 1995.
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Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907-1991) —
also known as Ralph Paiewonsky —
of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands.
Born in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now Virgin
Islands), November
9, 1907.
Democrat. Manager or president of distillery,
movie
theaters, a liquor
store and a gift
shop; one of the organizers of the West Indies Bank and
Trust Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virgin
Islands, 1940,
1944
(member, Credentials
Committee; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1948,
1952
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1956,
1964,
1980;
member of Democratic National Committee from Virgin Islands, 1940-60;
Governor
of U.S. Virgin Islands, 1961-69.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in St. Thomas Hospital,
St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, November
9, 1991 (age 84 years, 0
days).
Entombed at Altona Jewish Cemetery, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands.
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John Rockey Park (1833-1900) —
also known as John R. Park —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Tiffin, Seneca
County, Ohio, May 7,
1833.
Republican. School
teacher; president,
University of Deseret (now University of Utah), 1869-92; Utah
superintendent of public instruction, 1895-1900; died in office
1900.
Mormon.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
29, 1900 (age 67 years, 145
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Relatives: Son
of John Park and Anna Elizabeth (Waggoner) Park. |
| | | The Park Building
at the University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is named for
him. — Draper Park School
(built 1912; converted to city hall 1972; sold 2017), in Draper,
Utah, was named for
him. — Draper Park Middle
School (built 2013), in Draper,
Utah, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John R. Park (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the English
Channel, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Salt Lake Herald,
September 30, 1900 |
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Edwin Wendell Pauley, Sr. (1903-1981) —
also known as Edwin W. Pauley —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Indiana, January
7, 1903.
Democrat. President, Fortuna Petroleum,
and involved in other oil
companies; Regent, University of California, 1938-72; Treasurer
of Democratic National Committee, 1944; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1944
(speaker),
1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1944-47; part owner of the
Los Angeles Rams football
team; director, Western Airlines.
Died July 28,
1981 (age 78 years, 202
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Austin Peay IV (1876-1927) —
also known as "The Maker of Modern
Tennessee" —
of Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn.
Born in Christian
County, Ky., June 1,
1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1901-05; Tennessee
Democratic state chair, 1905; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1916
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1924;
Governor
of Tennessee, 1923-27; died in office 1927.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, at the Governor's
Residence, Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., October
2, 1927 (age 51 years, 123
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Clarksville, Tenn.
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James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) —
also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Tyrrell
County, N.C., July 4,
1828.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Mortally wounded at the Battle of
Gettysburg, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, Berkeley
County, W.Va., July 17,
1863 (age 35 years, 13
days).
Original interment somewhere in Raleigh, N.C.; reinterment in 1865 at Pettigrew Family Cemetery, Tyrrell County, N.C.
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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) —
also known as "Young Hickory"; "Young
Hickory of the Granite Hills"; "The Fainting
General" —
of Hillsborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Hillsborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
23, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1829-33; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1832-33; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1837-42; U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1850; President
of the United States, 1853-57; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1856.
Episcopalian.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
8, 1869 (age 64 years, 319
days).
Interment at Old
North Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Pierce and Anna (Kendrick) Pierce; half-brother of Elizabeth
Andrews Pierce (who married John
McNeil Jr.); married, November
19, 1834, to Jane
Means Appleton; uncle of Anne McNeil (who married Tappan
Wentworth); cousin by marriage of David
Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin. |
| | | Political families: Wentworth-Pitman
family of New Hampshire; Merriam
family of Massachusetts; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Pierce counties in Ga., Neb., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Franklin Pierce University, Rindge,
New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Pierce (formerly called Bald Mountain; later, Mount Clinton; received
current name 1913), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Franklin
P. Saunders
— Frank
P. Woodbury
— Frank
P. Holland
— Frank
P. Dunwell
— Frank
Tyler
— F.
P. Combest
— F.
Pierce Mortimer
— Franklin
P. Owen
— Franklin
P. Stoy
— Frank
P. Alspaugh
— Franklin
P. Monfort
— Franklin
Pierce Lambert
— Franklin
Pierce McGowan
— Franklin
Pierce Huddle, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin Pierce: Roy
Nichols, Franklin
Pierce : Young Hickory of the Granite Hills — Larry
Gara, The
Presidency of Franklin Pierce |
| | | Critical books about Franklin Pierce:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John W. Porter (1931-2012) —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., August
13, 1931.
School
teacher; Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1969-79; first
African-American state school superintendent; president,
Eastern Michigan University, 1979-89.
United
Church of Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; Phi
Delta Kappa; NAACP.
Died June 27,
2012 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nick James Rajkovich (1910-1969) —
also known as Nick J. Rajkovich —
of Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.; Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich.
Born in Krispolje, Austria (now Krizpolje, Croatia),
February
8, 1910.
Republican. School
teacher; college
professor; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Grand Traverse
District, 1961-62; mayor
of Traverse City, Mich., 1969; died in office 1969.
Catholic.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Munson Hospital,
in Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich., November
11, 1969 (age 59 years, 276
days).
Interment at Oakwood Catholic Cemetery, Traverse City, Mich.
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Elmer Edwin Rasmuson (1909-2000) —
also known as Elmer E. Rasmuson —
of Alaska.
Born in Yakutat,
Alaska, February
15, 1909.
Republican. President, National Bank of
Alaska; regent, University of Alaska, 1950-69; philanthropist; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1964-67; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1968.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
1, 2000 (age 91 years, 290
days).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) —
also known as James Whitelaw Reid;
"Agate" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cedarville, Greene
County, Ohio, October
27, 1837.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; librarian;
cotton
planter;
U.S. Minister to France, 1889-92; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1892; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1905-12, died in office 1912.
Died in London, England,
December
15, 1912 (age 75 years, 49
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Roland Roger Renne (1905-1989) —
also known as Roland Renne —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Greenwich, Cumberland
County, N.J., December
12, 1905.
Democrat. Economist;
college
professor; president,
Montana State College, Bozeman, 1943-64; candidate for Governor of
Montana, 1964.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
Member, Rotary;
American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta.
Died August
30, 1989 (age 83 years, 261
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Mont.
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Bonny Kaslo Roberts (1907-1999) —
also known as B. K. Roberts —
of Florida.
Born in Sopchoppy, Wakulla
County, Fla., February
5, 1907.
Lawyer;
justice
of Florida state supreme court, 1949-76.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., August
4, 1999 (age 92 years, 180
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Roberts and Florida (Morrison) Roberts; married to Mary
Newman. |
| | | The B.K. Roberts Main Classroom Building, at
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee,
Florida, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Qualis vita, finis eta." / As
the quality of life is, so the end will be. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross (1838-1898) —
also known as Sul Ross —
of Texas.
Born in Benton, Ringgold
County, Iowa, September
27, 1838.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875; member of Texas
state senate, 1880; Governor of
Texas, 1887-91; president,
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M
University), 1891-98.
Died in College Station, Brazos
County, Tex., January
3, 1898 (age 59 years, 98
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Waco, Tex.; statue at Academic Plaza, College Station, Tex.
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Henry Rutgers (1745-1830) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1745.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1777-78, 1783-84, 1800-02,
1803-05, 1806-08; resigned 1778.
Dutch
Reformed.
Died February
17, 1830 (age 84 years, 133
days).
Original interment at Dutch
Church Burial Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1865 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hendrick Rutgers and Catharine (De Peyster) Rutgers; nephew of Johannes
DePeyster; grandson of Johannes
de Peyster; grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster; first cousin of Matthew
Clarkson; first cousin once removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin of Pierre
Van Cortlandt; second cousin once removed of Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, John
Stevens III and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin twice removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of William
Duer and Denning
Duer; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; second cousin five times removed of Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Rutgers University (founded 1766 as
Queens College; renamed 1825 as Rutgers College) in New
Brunswick, New Jersey, is named for
him. — Henry Street
and Rutgers Street,
in Manhattan,
New York, are both named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Antonin Gregory Scalia (1936-2016) —
also known as Antonin Scalia —
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
11, 1936.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1982-86; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1986-2016; died in office 2016.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Shafter, Presidio
County, Tex., February
13, 2016 (age 79 years, 339
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Finley Secchia (1937-2020) —
also known as Peter F. Secchia —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Ferrysburg, Ottawa
County, Mich.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., April
15, 1937.
Republican. Chief executive, Universal Forest
Products, 1971-89; owner of restaurants;
real
estate developer; member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1980-88; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1984,
2000
(alternate), 2004;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; U.S. Ambassador to
Italy, 1989-93.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from COVID-19
and other health issues, in East Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., October
21, 2020 (age 83 years, 189
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John S. R. Shad (1923-1994) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in 1923.
Investment
banker; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1981-87;
U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1987-89.
Died in 1994
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Smith (1719-1806) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Dublin, Ireland,
September
17, 1719.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1780.
Presbyterian.
Died in York, York
County, Pa., July 11,
1806 (age 86 years, 297
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Preston Earnest Smith (1912-2003) —
also known as Preston Smith —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born March 8,
1912.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1963-69; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1964,
1972;
Governor
of Texas, 1969-73.
Died October
18, 2003 (age 91 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) —
also known as Abraham O. Smoot; A. O.
Smoot —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Provo, Utah
County, Utah.
Born in Owenton, Owen
County, Ky., February
17, 1815.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1857-66; mayor of
Provo, Utah, 1868-81; banker; lumber
business.
Mormon.
Died in Provo, Utah
County, Utah, March 6,
1895 (age 80 years, 17
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washigton Smoot and Nancy Ann (Rowlett) Smoot; married, November
11, 1838, to Margaret Thompson McMeans; married, February
17, 1856, to Anna Kirstine Mauritzdatter; father of Abraham
Owen Smoot (1856-1911) and Reed
Owen Smoot; nephew of Daniel
Owen Rowlett and Joseph
Rowlett; grandfather of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot. |
| | | Political families: Bullock
family of Massachusetts; Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building
(opened 1962), at Brigham Young University, Provo,
Utah, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Sam Solon (1931-2001) —
also known as "Senator Sam" —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 25,
1931.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1971-72; member of Minnesota
state senate, 1973-2001; died in office 2001.
Eastern
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry.
Pleaded
guilty in 1995 to telecommunications fraud for letting his
ex-wife make $2,430 in calls on his State Senate telephone line; reprimanded
by the Senate in 1996.
Died, of liver
cancer, in St. Mary's Medical
Center, Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., December
28, 2001 (age 70 years, 186
days).
Burial location unknown.
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The Solon Campus Center
(built 1995, named 2001), at the University of Minnesota Duluth,
is named for
him. |
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William Cameron Sproul (1870-1928) —
also known as William C. Sproul —
of Chester, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Octoraro, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
16, 1870.
Republican. Farmer; manufacturer;
journalist;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 9th District, 1897-1919; resigned 1919; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1920,
1924;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1919-23; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1920.
Quaker.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Kappa Psi; Grange;
Freemasons;
Elks; Union
League; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died March
21, 1928 (age 57 years, 187
days).
Interment at Chester
Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa.
| | |
Relatives: Son
of William Hall Sproul and Deborah Dickinson (Slokom) Sproul;
married, January
21, 1892, to Emeline Wallace Roach. |
| | | Sproul Hall, a residence hall at Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The Sproul State
Forest, in Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography |
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Ronald B. Stafford (1935-2005) —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., June 29,
1935.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1966-2002 (48th District 1966, 42nd District
1967-72, 43rd District 1973-82, 45th District 1983-2002).
Died, of lung
cancer, in Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., June 24,
2005 (age 69 years, 360
days).
Entombed at Evergreen
Cemetery, Canton, N.Y.
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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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Walter William Stiern (1914-1988) —
also known as Walter W. Stiern —
of Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 8,
1914.
Democrat. Veterinarian;
member of California
state senate, 1959-86 (34th District 1959-66, 18th District
1967-86); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1960.
Died in Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif., February
21, 1988 (age 73 years, 350
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Bakersfield, Calif.
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William Alexis Stone (1846-1920) —
also known as William A. Stone —
of Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Delmar Township, Tioga
County, Pa., April
18, 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Tioga
County District Attorney, 1875-77; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1880-86; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1891-98; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1896;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1899-1903.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 1,
1920 (age 73 years, 318
days).
Interment at Wellsboro
Cemetery, Wellsboro, Pa.
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Isidor Straus (1845-1912) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Otterberg, Bavaria (now Germany),
February
6, 1845.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1894-95.
Jewish.
One of the owners of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in New
York.
Perished
in the wreck
of the steamship Titanic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, April
15, 1912 (age 67 years, 69
days); his body was subsequently recovered.
Originally entombed at Beth
El Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; later interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Straus
Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lazarus Straus and Sara (Straus) Straus; brother of Oscar
Solomon Straus; married, July 12,
1871, to Ida Blum; father of Jesse
Isidor Straus; uncle of Nathan
Straus Jr.; grandfather of Stuart
Scheftel; granduncle of Ronald
Peter Straus. |
| | | Political family: Straus
family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Straus Hall (built 1926), a dormitory at
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, is named for
him and his wife. — Straus Park
(established 1895 as Schuyler Square; renamed 1907 as Bloomingdale
Square; renamed 1915 as Straus Park), at Broadway and West End Avenue
in Morningside Heights, Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him and his wife. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isidor Straus: June Hall
McCash, A
Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus |
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) —
also known as Booth Tarkington —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 29,
1869.
Republican. Novelist;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1903-04.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize in fiction, 1919, for The Magnificent Ambersons and
in 1922 for Alice Adams.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 19,
1946 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevenson Tarkington and Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington;
brother-in-law of Ovid
Butler Jameson; married, June 18,
1902, to Laura Louisa Fletcher; married 1912 to
Susannah Kiefer Robinson; nephew of Newton
Booth; uncle of John
Tarkington Jameson and Donald
Ovid Butler Jameson; grandnephew of William
Clayborne Tarkington; first cousin of Fenton
Whitlock Booth. |
| | | Political family: Booth-Tarkington-Jameson
family of Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| | | Tarkington Hall, at Purdue University,
in West
Lafayette, Indiana, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Booth Tarkington: The
Gentleman from Indiana (1899) — In
The Arena : Stories of Political Life (1905) |
| | | Fiction by Booth Tarkington: The
Turmoil — Alice
Adams — Penrod
and Sam — The
Magnificent Ambersons — Penrod —
Seventeen —
Gentle
Julia — Ramsey
Milholland — The
Conquest of Canaan — The
Two Vanrevels — Harlequin
and Columbine — The
Beautiful Lady — Monsieur
Beaucaire — The
Gibson Upright — The
Guest of Quesnay — His
Own People — Women —
Beasley's
Christmas Party |
| | | Books about Booth Tarkington: James L.
Woodress, Booth
Tarkington : Gentleman from Indiana — Keith J.
Fennimore, Booth
Tarkington |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, December
21, 1925 |
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Elbert Lee Trinkle (1876-1939) —
also known as E. Lee Trinkle —
of Virginia.
Born in Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., March
12, 1876.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state senate 5th District, 1916-21; Governor of
Virginia, 1922-26; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1924,
1928.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
25, 1939 (age 63 years, 258
days).
Interment at East
End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
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Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) —
also known as "Give 'Em Hell Harry" —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Lamar, Barton
County, Mo., May 8,
1884.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; county judge in
Missouri, 1922-24, 1926-34; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1935-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1952,
1960;
Vice
President of the United States, 1945; President
of the United States, 1945-53; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; American
Legion; Eagles;
Elks; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group, Griselio Torresola
and Oscar Collazo, tried to shoot their way into Blair House,
temporary residence of the President, as part of an attempted
assassination, November 1, 1950. Torresola and a guard, Leslie
Coffelt, were killed. Collazo, wounded, was arrested, tried, and
convicted of murder.
Died at Research Hospital
and Medical Center, Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
26, 1972 (age 88 years, 232
days).
Interment at Truman
Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Mo.; statue at Independence
Square, Independence, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman; married, June 28,
1919, to Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Wallace and Elizabeth
Virginia Wallace (granddaughter of Benjamin
Franklin Wallace); grandnephew of James
C. Chiles. |
| | | Political family: Truman-Wallace
family of Independence, Missouri. |
| | | Cross-reference: Andrew
J. May — Milton
Lipson — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Stephen
J. Spingarn — James
M. Curley — George
E. Allen — George
E. Allen — Jonathan
Daniels |
| | | Truman State University, Kirksville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Truman College, Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — Harry S. Truman High
School, in Levittown,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: H.
Truman Chafin
— Harry
Truman Moore
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| | | Personal motto: "The Buck Stops
Here." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Harry S. Truman: The
Autobiography of Harry S. Truman |
| | | Books about Harry S. Truman: David
McCullough, Truman —
Alonzo L. Hamby, Man
of the People : A Life of Harry S. Truman — Sean J.
Savage, Truman
and the Democratic Party — Ken Hechler, Working
With Truman : A Personal Memoir of the White House
Years — Alan Axelrod, When
the Buck Stops With You: Harry S. Truman on
Leadership — Ralph Keyes, The
Wit and Wisdom of Harry S. Truman — William Lee
Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World —
Matthew Algeo, Harry
Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road
Trip — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America |
| | | Image source: Who's Who in United
States Politics (1950) |
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John Tyler (1790-1862) —
also known as "The Accidental
President" —
of Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Charles
City County, Va., March
29, 1790.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1811-16, 1823-25, 1839-40; served in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 23rd District, 1817-21; Governor of
Virginia, 1825-27; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1827-36; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Virginia, 1839 (Convention
Vice-President); Vice
President of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; President
of the United States, 1841-45; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Charles City, James City &
New Kent counties, 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
died in office 1862.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
A bill to impeach
him was defeated in the House of Representatives in January 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably from a stroke,
in a hotel
room at Richmond,
Va., January
18, 1862 (age 71 years, 295
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary (Armistead) Tyler; married, March
29, 1813, to Letitia
Tyler; married, June 26,
1844, to Julia
Tyler (daughter of David
Gardiner); father of David
Gardiner Tyler and Lyon
Gardiner Tyler; third cousin of George
Madison; third cousin once removed of Zachary
Taylor; third cousin twice removed of John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Aylett
Hawes Buckner; third cousin thrice removed of James
Francis Buckner Jr. and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Conkling-Seymour
family of Utica, New York; Mapes-Jennings-Denby-Harrison
family of New York and Arizona; Tyler
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Tappan |
| | | Tyler County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | John Tyler High
School, in Tyler,
Texas, is named for
him. — John Tyler Community College, in Chester,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
T. Rich
— John
T. Cutting
— John
Tyler Cooper
— John
Tyler Hammons
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John Tyler: Oliver P.
Chitwood, John
Tyler : Champion of the Old South — Norma Lois
Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — Jane C.
Walker, John
Tyler : A President of Many Firsts — Edward P. Crapol,
John
Tyler, the Accidental President — Gary May, John
Tyler: The 10th President, 1841-1845 — Donald Barr
Chidsey, And
Tyler Too |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) —
also known as Zebulon B. Vance —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., May 13,
1830.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1854; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1858-61; colonel
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Governor of
North Carolina, 1862-65, 1877-79; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1879-94; died in office 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1894 (age 63 years, 336
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.; statue at Union
Square, Raleigh, N.C.
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Lurleen Burns Wallace (1926-1968) —
also known as Lurleen B. Wallace; Lurleen Brigham
Burns —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., September
19, 1926.
Democrat. Governor of
Alabama, 1967-68; died in office 1968.
Female.
Methodist.
Died, of uterine
cancer, in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., May 7,
1968 (age 41 years, 231
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry Burns and Estelle (Burroughs) Burns; married, May 21,
1943, to George
Corley Wallace Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Wallace-Folsom
family of Montgomery, Alabama. |
| | | The Lurleen Wallace Tumor
Institute, at the University of Alabama Birmingham,
is named for
her. — Lurleen B. Wallace Community College
(established 1967 as Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College), with
campuses in Covington,
Butler,
and Crenshaw
counties, Alabama, is named for
her. — Lake
Lurleen, and Lake Lurleen State
Park, in Tuscaloosa
County, Alabama, are named for
her. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier |
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college
professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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Hezekiah Griffith Wells (1812-1885) —
also known as Hezekiah G. Wells —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, June 16,
1812.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 11th District, 1835;
Whig candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan at-large, 1837, 1838; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1856,
1872
(alternate); candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; member
of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1871-83; member of Michigan
state constitutional commission 4th District, 1873.
Episcopalian.
Died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., April 4,
1885 (age 72 years, 292
days).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married 1840 to Achsah
Strong. |
| | | Wells Hall (built 1877 as dormitory, burned
1905; rebuilt on same site 1907, converted to offices 1940s,
demolished 1966; rebuilt on different site 1960s as a major classroom
and office building, and expanded since) at Michigan State
University, East
Lansing, Michigan, is named for
him. |
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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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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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Wilson W. Wyatt (1905-1996) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
21, 1905.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1941-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1959-63; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1962; member of Democratic
National Committee from Kentucky, 1963.
Presbyterian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American Bar
Association; Rotary.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., June 11,
1996 (age 90 years, 203
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard H. Wyatt and Mary (Watkins) Wyatt; married, June 14,
1930, to Anne Kinnaird Duncan. |
| | | Wyatt Hall (built 1939, named 1995), which
houses the law school at the University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. — Wyatt Hall (including theaters
and an art
gallery), at Bellarmine University, Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Charles Emmett Yeater (1861-1943) —
also known as Charles E. Yeater —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.
Born in Osceola, St. Clair
County, Mo., April
24, 1861.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state senate 15th District, 1893-96; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1921; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Philippine Islands, 1928.
Died in Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo., July 20,
1943 (age 82 years, 87
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, Mo.
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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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