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Clyde Lee Choate (1920-2001) —
also known as Clyde L. Choate —
of Anna, Union
County, Ill.
Born in West Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ill., June 28,
1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; received the
Medal
of Honor for action near Bruyeres, France, October 25, 1944.;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1947-79 (50th District 1947-57,
58th District 1957-67, 59th District 1967-79); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1956
(alternate), 1964,
1972.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Moose; Purple
Heart.
Died in Carbondale, Jackson
County, Ill., October
5, 2001 (age 81 years, 99
days).
Interment at Anna
Cemetery, Anna, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of James Isaac Choate and Grace Ellen (Brown) Choate; married to
Madonna Ross. |
| | | Choate Mental Health Center (state mental
hospital), in Anna,
Illinois, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Proudly Served the People of
the State of Illinois. Southern Illinois' Guardian
Angel." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John David Dingell Jr. (1926-2019) —
also known as John D. Dingell; "Big John";
"The Truck" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Trenton, Wayne
County, Mich.; Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., July 8,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1955-2003 (15th District 1955-65,
16th District 1965-2003, 15th District 2003); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1968,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Polish
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Polish
Legion of American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; National Rifle
Association.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., February
7, 2019 (age 92 years, 214
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Grace Blossom (Bigler) Dingell and John
David Dingell; married 1952 to Helen
Henebry; married 1981 to Deborah
Ann Insley; father of Christopher
D. Dingell. |
| | | Political family: Dingell
family of Detroit, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Doug
Ross |
| | | John Dingell Drive,
in Detroit Metro Airport,
Romulus,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center,
in Detroit,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The John D. Dingell Jr. Memorial Bridges,
which take Stadium Boulevard over State Street and the Ann Arbor
Railroad tracks, in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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Moses Fell Dunn (1842-1915) —
of Indiana.
Born in Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind., April
26, 1842.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1867-69; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1870.
Died October
21, 1915 (age 73 years, 178
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Bedford, Ind.
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Bert Fish (1875-1943) —
of DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla.
Born in Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind., October
8, 1875.
Superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
county judge in Florida, 1910-17, 1931-33; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1933-38; Saudi Arabia, 1939-41; Portugal, 1941-43, died in office 1943.
German
and English
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Nu.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
July
21, 1943 (age 67 years, 286
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, DeLand, Fla.
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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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Alonzo Barton Hepburn (1846-1922) —
also known as A. Barton Hepburn —
of Colton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Colton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., July 24,
1846.
Republican. Lawyer; timber
business; banker;
member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County 2nd District, 1875-79;
superintendent, New York State Banking Department, 1880-83; U.S.
Comptroller of the Currency, 1892-93; director, New York Life Insurance
Company, American Agricultural
Chemical
Company, Studebaker Corporation (automobile
manufacturer), and Great Northern Railway.
Hit by
a bus at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, injured, and died five
days later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
25, 1922 (age 75 years, 185
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Canton, N.Y.
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Walter Beaman Jones (1913-1992) —
also known as Walter B. Jones —
of Farmville, Pitt
County, N.C.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., August
19, 1913.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1955-59; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1965-66; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1966-92; died in
office 1992.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Moose;
Elks; Junior
Order.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., September
15, 1992 (age 79 years, 27
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Seymour Kettles (1930-2019) —
also known as Charles S. Kettles —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
9, 1930.
Republican. Engineer;
automobile
dealer; served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; following
his courageous actions as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in 1967,
which saved 44 lives, he received the Distinguished Service Cross; in
2016, that award was upgraded to a Medal
of Honor; candidate for mayor
of Ypsilanti, Mich., 1993.
Died in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
21, 2019 (age 89 years, 12
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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Robert Asa Packer (1842-1883) —
also known as R. A. Packer —
of Wysox, Bradford
County, Pa.
Born in Mauch Chunk (now part of Jim Thorpe), Carbon
County, Pa., November
18, 1842.
Democrat. President, Northern Division, Lehigh Valley Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1876,
1880.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
20, 1883 (age 40 years, 94
days).
Original interment at Tioga
Point Cemetery, Near Sayre, Bradford County, Pa.; reinterment in
1884 at Mauch
Chunk Cemetery, Jim Thorpe, Pa.
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Jerry Lyle Pettis (1916-1975) —
also known as Jerry L. Pettis —
of Loma Linda, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 18,
1916.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California, 1967-75 (33rd District 1967-75,
37th District 1975); died in office 1975.
Seventh-Day
Adventist.
Died in a plane
crash near Banning, Riverside
County, Calif., February
14, 1975 (age 58 years, 211
days).
Interment at Montecito
Memorial Park, Colton, Calif.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1944;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange;
Knights
of Pythias.
Led the nation through the Depression and World War II.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April
12, 1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.; memorial monument at Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt; married,
March
17, 1905, to Eleanor
Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; first cousin once removed of Helen
Lloyd Aspinwall (who married Francis
Emanuel Shober); first cousin twice removed of Elizabeth
Kortright; first cousin four times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who married
William
Phillips); second cousin once removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Jabez
Williams Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington, Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Samuel
Gager; third cousin twice removed of Philip
DePeyster and James
I. Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Sulifand
Sutherland Ross; fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses
Simpson Grant, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, Roger
Wolcott and Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919). |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet — Eliot
Janeway — Jonathan
Daniels — Ralph
Bellamy — Wythe
Leigh Kinsolving |
| | | The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge
(opened 1962), over Lubec Narrows, between Lubec,
Maine and Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, Canada, is named for
him. — The borough
of Roosevelt,
New Jersey (originally Jersey Homesteads; renamed 1945), is named for
him. — F. D. Roosevelt Airport,
on the Caribbean island of Sint
Eustatius, is named for
him. — The F. D. Roosevelt Teaching Hospital,
in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Frank
Garrison
— Franklin
D. Roosevelt Keesee
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. dime (ten cent coin). |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — H. W.
Brands, Traitor
to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Hazel Rowley, Franklin
and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage — Alan
Brinkley, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt — Stanley Weintraub, Young
Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and
Life — Karen Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth — Burton W. Folsom, New
Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged
America |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Richard Lowell Roudebush (1918-1995) —
also known as Richard L. Roudebush —
of Indiana.
Born near Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., January
18, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1960 ;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1961-71 (6th District 1961-67, 10th
District 1967-69, 5th District 1969-71); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1970.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., January
28, 1995 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Samuel Harvey Shapiro (1907-1987) —
also known as Samuel H. Shapiro; Israel
Shapiro —
of Kankakee, Kankakee
County, Ill.
Born in Estonia,
April
25, 1907.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1947-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
chair, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, chair, 1968;
speaker, 1968;
Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1961-68; Governor of
Illinois, 1968-69.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Amvets;
Moose;
Kiwanis;
Elks; B'nai
B'rith; Alpha
Epsilon Pi.
Died in Kankakee, Kankakee
County, Ill., March
16, 1987 (age 79 years, 325
days).
Interment at Jewish
Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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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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