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in alphabetical order
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William Wallace Atterbury (1866-1935) —
also known as William W. Atterbury; "The Railroad
General" —
of Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., January
31, 1866.
Republican. Railroad
superintendent; president, American Railway
Association; during World War I, he was called on to organize
organized U.S. military railroad
operations in France; he was designated Director-General of
Transportation for the American Expeditionary Forces; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920
(speaker);
President, Pennsylvania Railroad,
1925-35.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa., September
20, 1935 (age 69 years, 232
days).
Interment at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) —
also known as Edward D. Baker —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Oregon City, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in London, England,
February
24, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-40; member of Illinois
state senate, 1841-45; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1845-46, 1849-51 (7th District
1845-46, 6th District 1849-51); resigned 1846; colonel in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1860-61; died in office 1861; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Balls Bluff, Loudoun
County, Va., October
21, 1861 (age 50 years, 239
days).
Interment at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, April
27, 1831, to Mary A. Lee. |
| | | Baker County,
Ore. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Baker
City, Oregon, is named for
him. — Fort Baker (previously, Lime Point
Military Reservation; renamed Fort Baker in 1897; now part of Golden
Gate National Recreation
Area), in Marin
County, California, is named for
him. — Baker Street,
in San
Francisco, California, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1822.
Surveyor;
explorer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; led the experiment to
use camels in the U.S. Army; during the Mexican War, made six trips
between Washington, D.C. and the Pacific coast, relaying military
information; thought to be the courier who brought news to Washington
of the discovery of gold in California; Superintendent of Indian
Affairs for California and Nevada, 1853-56; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1876-77.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
22, 1893 (age 71 years, 77
days).
Interment at Chester
Rural Cemetery, Chester, Pa.
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Henry Louis Benning (1814-1875) —
also known as Henry L. Benning; "Old
Rock" —
of Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., April 2,
1814.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1853-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1860;
delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., July 10,
1875 (age 61 years, 99
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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Leonard Covington (1768-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Aquasco, Prince
George's County, Md., October
30, 1768.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1805-07; member of Maryland
state senate, 1807-09; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in the Battle of Chrysler's Field, and died in Frenchs
Mills (now Fort Covington), Franklin
County, N.Y., November
14, 1813 (age 45 years, 15
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Fort Covington, N.Y.; reinterment in 1820 at Mt.
Covington, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; cenotaph at Military
Post Cemetery, Sackets Harbor, N.Y.
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Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in North Hampton, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
23, 1751.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95,
1st District 1795-97); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 103
days).
Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834
at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment in 1848 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives:
Father of Henry
Alexander Scammell Dearborn. |
| | | Dearborn County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Dearborn,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The Dearborn River,
in Lewis &
Clark and Cascade
counties, Montana, is named for
him. — Mount Dearborn, a former military
arsenal on an island in the Catawba River, Chester
County, South Carolina, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1959) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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John Adams Dix (1798-1879) —
also known as John A. Dix —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boscawen, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 24,
1798.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of New York, 1833-39; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1842; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1845-49; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1860-61; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; U.S. Minister to France, 1866-69; Governor of
New York, 1873-75; defeated, 1848, 1874; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1876.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
21, 1879 (age 80 years, 271
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Presumably named
for: John
Adams |
| | | Relatives: Son-in-law of John
Jordan Morgan; son of Col. Timothy Dix, Jr. and Abigail (Wilkins)
Dix; married to Catharine Waine Morgan; first cousin thrice removed
of Roger
Sherman; second cousin once removed of Nathan
Read; third cousin once removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts, George
Frisbie Hoar, John
Hill Walbridge and Henry
E. Walbridge; third cousin twice removed of Aaron
Kellogg and Charles
Kirk Tilden; fourth cousin of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; fourth cousin once removed of Abel
Merrill, Samuel
Laning, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Amariah
Kibbe Jr., John
Lanning, Timothy
Merrill, Daniel
Putnam Tyler, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Fort Dix (established 1917 as Camp Dix; later
Fort Dix; now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), a U.S. Army
post in Burlington
County, New Jersey, is named for
him. — Dix Mountain,
in the Ardirondack Mountains, Essex
County, New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John A. Dix (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) was 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 |
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Henry Dodge (1782-1867) —
of Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.; Michigan; Dodgeville, Iowa
County, Wis.
Born near Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., October
12, 1782.
Democrat. General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; member
Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-33; Governor
of Wisconsin Territory, 1836-41, 1845-48; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Slaveowner.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 19,
1867 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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John Fairfield (1797-1847) —
of Saco, York
County, Maine.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
30, 1797.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1835-38 (3rd District 1835-37, 4th
District 1837-38); resigned 1838; Governor of
Maine, 1839-41, 1842-43; defeated, 1840; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1843-47; died in office 1847.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1847 (age 50 years, 328
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) —
of Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
10, 1783.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1815-16.
Died July 21,
1834 (age 50 years, 223
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) —
also known as John A. Logan; "Black Jack";
"Black Eagle of Illinois" —
of Benton, Franklin
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Murphysboro, Jackson
County, Ill., February
9, 1826.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1852; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1859-62, 1867-71 (9th District
1859-62, at-large 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1868,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1871-77, 1879-86; died in office 1886;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1884;
Republican candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1884.
Member, Freemasons.
Conceived the idea of Memorial Day and inaugurated the observance in
May 1868.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1886 (age 60 years, 320
days).
Entombed at U.S.
Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Madison (1751-1836) —
also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights" —
of Virginia.
Born in Port Conway, King George
County, Va., March
16, 1751.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th
District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801-09; President
of the United States, 1809-17.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days).
Interment at Montpelier
Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of William
Taylor Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolley
Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Mount
Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort Madison (1808-13), and the
subsequent city
of Fort
Madison, Iowa, were named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Madison (built 1942 at Houston,
Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
M. Buchanan
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
M. Edmunds
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
Turner
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison Mullen
— James
M. Candler
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
M. Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis
Ketcham, James
Madison : A Biography — Garry Wills, James
Madison — Robert Allen Rutland, The
Presidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Samuel
Kernell, ed., James
Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican
Government — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James
Madison and the Making of America |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Robert Bruce McCoy (1867-1926) —
also known as Robert McCoy —
of Sparta, Monroe
County, Wis.
Born in Kenosha, Kenosha
County, Wis., September
5, 1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; Monroe
County Judge; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the
U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1920.
Died, of pernicious
anemia, in Sparta, Monroe
County, Wis., January
5, 1926 (age 58 years, 122
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Sparta, Wis.
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James Monroe (1758-1831) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.; Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1758.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831 (age 73 years, 67
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at
New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February
16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth
Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George
Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph
Jones; uncle of Thomas
Bell Monroe and James
Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor
Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William
Grayson; second cousin of Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and John
Brady Grayson. |
| | | Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. — Mount
Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort Monroe (military installation
1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,
Virginia, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Monroe
— James
Monroe
— James
M. Pendleton
— James
M. Jackson
— James
Monroe Letts
— James
M. Ritchie
— James
M. Rosse
— James
M. Comly
— James
Monroe Buford
— James
M. Seibert
— J.
Monroe Driesbach
— James
M. Lown
— James
M. Miller
— James
Monroe Jones
— James
Monroe Hale
— James
Monroe Spears
— J.
M. Alford
— James
M. Lown, Jr.
— James
M. Miley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and
1890s. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon,
James
Monroe: The Quest for National Identity |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Moultrie (1730-1805) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., November
23, 1730.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1783-84; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1784; Governor of
South Carolina, 1785-87, 1792-94; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1787-92.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., September
27, 1805 (age 74 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Windsor Hill Plantation, North Charleston, S.C.; reinterment in
1977 at Fort
Moultrie National Monument, Sullivan's Island, S.C.; cenotaph at
St.
James Goose Creek Episcopal Churchyard, Goose Creek, S.C.
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Winfield Scott (1786-1866) —
also known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" —
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., June 13,
1786.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; candidate for
Whig nomination for President, 1839, 1844, 1848; general in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; candidate for President
of the United States, 1852.
Died in West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., May 29,
1866 (age 79 years, 350
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.;
statue erected 1874 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Scott and Anna (Mason) Scott; married 1817 to Mary
D. Mayo (granddaughter of John
De Hart); great-granduncle of Philip
C. Hanna; first cousin twice removed of Frank
Newsum Julian. |
| | | Political family: Scott-DeHart-Hanna
family of New Jersey and Alabama. |
| | | Scott County,
Iowa is named for him. |
| | | Fort Scott (military installation
1842-73), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Scott, Kansas, were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
S. Sherwood
— Winfield
Scott Featherston
— Winfield
S. Hancock
— Winfield
S. Cameron
— Winfield
S. Hanford
— Winfield
S. Smyth
— Winfield
S. Bird
— W. S.
Bell
— Winfield
S. Holden
— Winfield
S. Huntley
— Winfield
Scott Nay
— Winfield
S. Smith
— Winfield
S. Kerr
— Winfield
Scott Moore
— Winfield
S. Little
— Winfield
S. Choate
— Winfield
S. Holt
— Winfield
S. Pope
— Winfield
S. Watson
— Winfield
S. Keenholts
— Winfield
Scott Silloway
— Winfield
S. Vandewater
— Winfield
S. Braddock
— W. S.
Allen
— Winfield
S. Hammond
— Winfield
S. Phillips
— Winfield
S. Spencer
— Winfield
S. Rose
— Winfield
S. Schuster
— Winfield
Scott Allison
— Winfield
S. Boynton
— Winfield
S. Kenyon
— Winfield
S. Tibbetts
— Winfield
S. Withrow
— Winfield
S. Harrold
— Winfield
Scott Reed
— Winfield
S. Grove
— Winfield
S. Rogers
— Winfield
S. Brown
— Winfield
S. Pealer
— Winfield
S. Wallace, Jr.
— Winfield
S. Hinds
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| | | Epitaph: "History records his Eminent
Services as a Warrior, Pacificator, and General In Chief of the
Armies of the United States. Medals, and an Equestrian Statue ordered
by Congress in the Capital of his Country, are his Public Monuments.
This stone is a mark of the love and veneration of his Daughters.
Requiescat in Pace." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Winfield Scott: Timothy D.
Johnson, Winfield
Scott: The Quest for Military Glory |
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John Morris Sheppard (1875-1941) —
also known as Morris Sheppard —
of Texarkana, Bowie
County, Tex.
Born in Wheatville, Morris
County, Tex., May 28,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1902-13 (4th District 1902-03, 1st
District 1903-13); U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1913-41; died in office 1941.
Methodist.
Member, Woodmen of
the World; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in Walter
Reed Hospital, Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1941 (age 65 years, 316
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
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Dallas Burton Smith (1883-1936) —
also known as Dallas B. Smith —
of Opelika, Lee
County, Ala.
Born in Opelika, Lee
County, Ala., March 9,
1883.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1918; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Alabama, 1920;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1920.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons.
Died, in the Veterans Hospital,
Gulfport, Harrison
County, Miss., August
1, 1936 (age 53 years, 145
days).
Interment at Rosemere
Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.
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Floyd Davidson Spence (1928-2001) —
also known as Floyd Spence —
of Lexington, Lexington
County, S.C.
Born in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April 9,
1928.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1957-62; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1964,
1972
(delegation chair), 1988;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1967-70 (22nd District 1967-68, 7th
District 1969-70); resigned 1970; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 1971-2001; died
in office 2001.
Lutheran.
Member, Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Forty and
Eight; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, following surgery to remove a blood clot
from his brain, in St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., August
16, 2001 (age 73 years, 129
days).
Interment at St. Peters Lutheran Church Cemetery, Lexington, S.C.
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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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Thomas Sumter (1734-1832) —
of Statesburg, Sumter
County, S.C.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., August
14, 1734.
Democrat. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of South
Carolina state senate from District Eastward of Wateree River,
1781-82; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1789-93, 1797-1801 (at-large
1789-93, 1797-99, 4th District 1799-1801); U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1801-10; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1809-19.
Slaveowner.
Died near Statesburg, Sumter
County, S.C., June 1,
1832 (age 97 years, 292
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Relatives:
Grandfather of Thomas
De Lage Sumter. |
| | | Fort Sumter (built during 1829-61), in
Charleston,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — The Sumter National
Forest (established 1936), in Oconee,
Union,
Newberry,
McCormick,
Edgefield,
Abbeville,
Laurens,
Chester,
Fairfield,
Greenwood,
Saluda
counties, South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) —
also known as "Mad Anthony" —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., January
1, 1745.
Surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1774-80, 1784; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1791-92.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fort Presque Isle (now Erie), Erie
County, Pa., December
15, 1796 (age 51 years, 349
days).
Original interment at Garrison
Hill, Erie, Pa.; reinterment in 1809 at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Wayne (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Eddings) Wayne; married 1766 to Mary
Penrose; father of Isaac
Wayne (1772-1852). |
| | | Wayne counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa. and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort Wayne (1794), and the subsequent
city
of Fort
Wayne, Indiana, were named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Leonard Wood (1860-1927) —
Born in Winchester, Cheshire
County, N.H., October
9, 1860.
Republican. Physician;
received the Medal
of Honor in 1898 for his actions during an Indian war in 1886;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; commander of
the "Rough Riders"; Military Governor of Cuba, 1899-1902; major
general in the Philippine-American War, 1902-06; first Army Chief of
Staff; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1921-27; died in office 1927.
English
ancestry.
Died, following surgery for a brain
tumor, in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
7, 1927 (age 66 years, 302
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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