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in alphabetical order
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Aris Tee Allen (1910-1991) —
also known as Aris T. Allen —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
27, 1910.
Republican. Physician;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1967-74, 1991; died in office 1991;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1972
(delegation chair); Maryland
Republican state chair, 1977-79; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1978; member of Maryland
state senate 30th District, 1979-81.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Medical
Association; American
Legion; NAACP.
Following a diagnosis of cancer,
he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his parked rental
car, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
5, 1991 (age 80 years, 40
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Glenn Malcolm Anderson (1913-1994) —
also known as Glenn M. Anderson —
of Hawthorne, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Harbor City, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San Pedro, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
21, 1913.
Democrat. Merchant;
mayor
of Hawthorne, Calif., 1940-42; served in the U.S. Army during
World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1943-50; chair of
Los Angeles County Democratic Party, 1948-50; California
Democratic state chair, 1950-52; candidate for California
state senate, 1950; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1988;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1959-67; U.S.
Representative from California, 1969-93 (17th District 1969-73,
35th District 1973-75, 32nd District 1975-93).
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Amvets;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Redmen;
Native
Sons of the Golden West; Toastmasters.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, at San Pedro Peninsula Hospital
Pavilion, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
13, 1994 (age 81 years, 295
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
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John Judson Bagley (1832-1881) —
also known as John J. Bagley —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Medina, Orleans
County, N.Y., July 24,
1832.
Republican. Cigar
manufacturer; president, Michigan Mutual Life
Insurance Company, 1867-72; bank
director; Governor of
Michigan, 1873-76.
Unitarian.
Died, from tuberculosis,
in San
Francisco, Calif., July 27,
1881 (age 49 years, 3
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Bernard Nadal Baker (1854-1918) —
also known as Bernard N. Baker —
of Catonsville, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 11,
1854.
Democrat. Glass
manufacturing business; established Atlantic Transport Line,
operating steamships,
shipping freight and passengers from Baltimore and Philadelphia to
Europe; also had lighterage
and cold
storage enterprises; philanthropist; member, U.S. Shipping Board,
1917; resigned 1917.
Died in Cottage Hospital,
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., December
20, 1918 (age 64 years, 223
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1925-2014) —
also known as Howard H. Baker —
of Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn.
Born in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., November
15, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1967-85; defeated, 1964; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Tennessee, 1972;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
White House Chief of Staff, 1987-88; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Tennessee; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 2001-05.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Pi
Kappa Phi.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1984.
Died in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., June 26,
2014 (age 88 years, 223
days).
Interment at Mossop Cemetery, Huntsville, Tenn.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Irene
Bailey Baker; son of Dora (Ladd) Baker and Howard
Henry Baker; married, December
22, 1951, to Joy Dirksen (daughter of Everett
McKinley Dirksen); married, December
7, 1996, to Nancy
Landon Kassebaum (daughter of Alfred
Mossman Landon). |
| | | Political family: Baker-Dirksen
family of Huntsville and Alcoa, Tennessee. |
| | | Cross-reference: Victor
Ashe |
| | | Howard Baker Jr. Avenue,
in Knoxville,
Tennessee, 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 |
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Boce William Barlow Jr. (1915-2005) —
also known as Boce W. Barlow, Jr. —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., August
8, 1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of Connecticut
state senate; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 1968;
member of Connecticut
Democratic State Central Committee, 1977.
Congregationalist.
Member, NAACP; Prince
Hall Masons; Elks; Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., January
31, 2005 (age 89 years, 176
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) —
also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of
Humbugs" —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 5,
1810.
Republican. Grocer; auctioneer;
newspaper
publisher; Entrepreneur, impressario,
museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus,
known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1865-66, 1877-79; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1875-76.
Died, of heart
failure, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 7,
1891 (age 80 years, 276
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Seaside
Park, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Bethel Public Library Grounds, Bethel, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of Philo
Fairchild Barnum; married, November
8, 1829, to Charity Hallet; married, September
16, 1874, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of Andrew
Gould Chatfield; second cousin once removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington and Almon
Ferdinand Rockwell; third cousin of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; third cousin once removed of William
Henry Barnum; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Charles
William Barnum; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington and Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | — Barnum Avenue,
in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town
of Barnum (incorporated 1887; annexed 1896 to Denver,
Colorado), was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS P. T. Barnum (built 1943 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by P. T. Barnum: The
Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself |
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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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Truxtun Beale (1856-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March 6,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1891-92; Greece, 1892-93; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1912;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland,
1920.
Died near Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., June 2,
1936 (age 80 years, 88
days).
Interment at Bruton
Parish Churchyard, Williamsburg, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Fitzgerald Beale and Mary (Edwards) Beale; married, April
30, 1894, to Harriet 'Hattie' Blaine (daughter of James
Gillespie Blaine); married, April
23, 1903, to Marie Oge. |
| | | Political family: Beale-Blaine-Edwards
family of Chester, Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Truxtun Avenue
and Beale Avenue,
in Bakersfield,
California, are named for
him. — Beale Park,
in Bakersfield,
California, is named for
him. |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Manning Bigelow (1850-1916) —
also known as E. M. Bigelow; "Father of Pittsburgh's
Parks" —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
6, 1850.
Republican. Civil
engineer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Pennsylvania, 1888;
Pittsburgh city engineer, 1880-88; chief of public works, city of
Pittsburgh, 1888-1900; Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Highway
Department, 1911-15.
Presbyterian.
Died, from colon
cancer, in Allegheny Hospital,
Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., December
6, 1916 (age 66 years, 30
days).
Interment at Homewood
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.; statue at Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Wyatt Tate Brady (1870-1925) —
also known as W. Tate Brady —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Forest City, Holt
County, Mo., January
20, 1870.
Democrat. Hotelier;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1907.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan; Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., August
29, 1925 (age 55 years, 221
days).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla.
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John Broome (1738-1810) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., July 19,
1738.
Importer
and exporter; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1777; colonel in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1803-04; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1804-10; died in office 1810.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
8, 1810 (age 72 years, 20
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Henry Bruckner (1871-1942) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y., June 17,
1871.
Democrat. President, Bruckner Beverages;
director, Milton Realty
Co.; director, American Metal Cap Co.; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 35th District, 1901; New York
City Commissioner of Public Works, 1902-06; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1924,
1932
(alternate); U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1913-17; resigned
1917; borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1918-33.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Elks.
In 1932, the Seabury investigating committee, looking into corruption
in New York City, called him to testify about the wealth he had
accumulated; at the conclusion of the investigation, the committee called for
his removal as Borough President.
Died, from chronic
nephritis, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April
14, 1942 (age 70 years, 301
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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James Calhoun (1743-1816) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born April
17, 1743.
Orphan's court judge in Maryland, 1791; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1794-1804.
Died August
14, 1816 (age 73 years, 119
days).
Interment at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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Lewis Cass (1782-1866) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., October
9, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1806; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1813-31; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to France, 1836-42; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1852;
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1848; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1857-60.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 17,
1866 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth
Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married Henry
Brockholst Ledyard); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Cass Ballenger. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cass counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Neb. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
and village
of Cassville,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The village
of Cass
City, Michigan, is named for
him. — The village
of Cassopolis,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The city
of Cassville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Cass Lake,
and the adjoining city
of Cass
Lake, Minnesota, are named for
him. — Cass Lake, in Oakland
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Cass River,
in Tuscola
and Saginaw
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Lewis Cass Building
(opened 1921 as the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951;
rebuilt and named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building
in 2020), in Lansing,
Michigan, was named for
him. — Cass Avenue,
Cass Park,
and Cass Technical High
School, in Detroit,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Lewis
Cass Wilmarth
— Lewis
C. Carpenter
— Lewis
C. Vandergrift
— Lewis
C. Tidball
— Lewis
Cass Wick
— Lewis
Cass Tidball II
— Lewis
C. Gabbert
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lewis Cass: Willard Carl
Klunder, Lewis
Cass and the Politics of Moderation — Frank Bury
Woodford, Lewis
Cass, the Last Jeffersonian |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Anton Josef Cermak (1873-1933) —
also known as Anton J. Cermak; "Pushcart
Tony" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kladno, Bohemia (now Czechia),
May
9, 1873.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1910; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1931-33; died in office 1933.
Bohemian
ancestry.
On February 15, 1933, while he was standing on the running board of
an open
car from which president-elect Franklin
D. Roosevelt had just given a speech, was shot and
badly
wounded by Italian-American bricklayer Guiseppe Zangara, who had
aimed for Roosevelt; over the next month, the wound became infected,
and he died, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March 6,
1933 (age 59 years, 301
days).
Entombed at Bohemian
National Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Bertram Thomas Combs (1911-1991) —
also known as Bert T. Combs —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born in Manchester, Clay
County, Ky., August
13, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1951-55; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1957-59; Governor of
Kentucky, 1959-63; defeated, 1955, 1971; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Kentucky, 1966; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1967-70.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Order of
the Coif; Phi
Delta Phi.
Drowned
when his automobile
was washed from the roadway into the Red River, during a flood, near
Rosslyn, Powell
County, Ky., December
4, 1991 (age 80 years, 113
days).
Interment at Beech
Creek Cemetery, Manchester, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Gibson Combs and Martha (Jones) Combs; married, June 15,
1937, to Mabel Hall. |
| | | The Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway,
which runs through Clark,
Powell,
Wolfe,
Morgan,
and Magoffin
counties in Kentucky, is named for
him. — Bert T. Combs Lake,
in Clay
County, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier |
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Douglas Conner —
of Starkville, Oktibbeha
County, Miss.
Democrat. Physician;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1996.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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William Gordon Cooke (1808-1847) —
of Texas.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., March
26, 1808.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1844-45; Texas
Republic Secretary of War and Marine, 1845-46; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1846; Adjutant
General of Texas, 1846-47; died in office 1847.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of tuberculosis,
at Seguin, Guadalupe
County, Tex., December
24, 1847 (age 39 years, 273
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Geronimo, Tex.; reinterment in 1937 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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George Henry Corliss (1817-1888) —
also known as George H. Corliss —
of North Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Easton, Washington
County, N.Y., June 2,
1817.
Republican. Mechanical
engineer; inventor;
developed the Corliss steam engine; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1868-70; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Rhode Island.
Congregationalist.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., February
21, 1888 (age 70 years, 264
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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William Ashmead Courtenay (1831-1908) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.; Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
4, 1831.
Book
publisher; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
mayor
of Charleston, S.C., 1879-87.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., March
17, 1908 (age 77 years, 42
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April
10, 1862.
Democrat. University
professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1946.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March
24, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Episcopalian.
English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Phi
Mu Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel,
Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March
16, 1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Martin Dewey and Anne Louise 'Annie' (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis); nephew of Edmond
Otis Dewey; first cousin four times removed of David
Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Glasby Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Luther
Waterman and Joshua
Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Eastman
family; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Abbott
family of Salinas, California; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Herbert
Brownell, Jr. — Charles
C. Wing — Martin
T. Manton — Herman
Methfessel |
| | | The Thomas E. Dewey Thruway,
which runs through Westchester,
Rockland,
Orange,
Ulster,
Greene,
Albany,
Schenectady,
Montgomery,
Herkimer,
Oneida,
Madison,
Onondaga,
Cayuga,
Seneca,
Ontario,
Monroe,
Genesee,
Erie,
and Chautauqua
counties in New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M.
Stolberg, Fighting
Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E.
Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas
E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political
Leadership — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas
E. Dewey and His Times — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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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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John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961) —
also known as J. W. Dobbs —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., March 6,
1882.
Republican. Co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League, 1946;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
African
ancestry. Member, Prince
Hall Masons.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
30, 1961 (age 79 years, 177
days).
Interment at South View Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.; statue at John Wesley Dobbs Plaza, Atlanta, Ga.
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Neal Dow (1804-1897) —
also known as "Napoleon of Temperance";
"Father of Prohibition"; "Grand Old Man in
the Temperance Cause" —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
20, 1804.
Tanning
business; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1851, 1855; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1858-59; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1868;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1880.
Quaker.
During the Civil War was captured by Confederate forces, imprisoned,
and eventually exchanged for Confederate Gen. William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee, who was a Union prisoner.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
2, 1897 (age 93 years, 196
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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William Grant Edens (1863-1957) —
also known as William G. Edens —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., November
27, 1863.
Republican. Railway
conductor; banker;
president, Illinois Highway Improvement Association, 1912-20; leading
advocate for construction of hard surface roads; campaign manager for
U.S. Sen William
B. McKinley, 1920 and 1926; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1934.
Methodist.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; American
Bankers Association; Knights
of Pythias; Moose.
Died, in the Villa St. Cyril old
age home, Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., November
14, 1957 (age 93 years, 352
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus (1882-1949) —
also known as J. C. B. Ehringhaus —
of Elizabeth City, Pasquotank
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank
County, N.C., February
5, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1905-08; Solicitor, 1st
District, 1910-22; Governor of
North Carolina, 1933-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his suite at the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., July 31,
1949 (age 67 years, 176
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Elizabeth City, N.C.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II; president
of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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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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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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John Francis Fitzgerald (1863-1950) —
also known as John F. Fitzgerald; "Honey
Fitz" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
11, 1863.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1893-94; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1895-1901, 1919 (9th District
1895-1901, 10th District 1919); mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1906-08, 1910-14; defeated, 1907; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1912
(speaker),
1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1916; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1922; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts.
Catholic.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1950 (age 87 years, 233
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Fitzgerald and Rosanna (Cox) Fitzgerald; married, September
18, 1889, to Josephine Mary Hannon; father of Rose Elizabeth
Fitzgerald (who married Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.); grandfather of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (who married Jaqueline
Lee Bouvier), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; great-grandfather of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | The John F. Fitzgerald Expressway
(also known as the Central Artery, Interstate 93, U.S. Highway 1, and
Route 3), in Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913-2006) —
also known as Gerald R. Ford; Jerry Ford; Leslie
Lynch King Jr.; "Passkey" —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., July 14,
1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1949-73; resigned
1973; member, President's Commission on the Assassination of
President KNDY, 1963-64; Vice
President of the United States, 1973-74; President
of the United States, 1974-77; defeated, 1976.
Episcopalian.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Forty and
Eight; Jaycees;
Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Humane
Society; Elks; American Bar
Association.
Shot
at in two separate incidents in San Francisco in September 1975.
On September 5, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, follower of murderous cult
leader Charles Manson, got close to the President with a loaded
pistol, and squeezed the trigger at close range; the gun misfired.
On September 22, Sara Jane Moore fired a
shot at him, but a bystander deflected her aim. Both women were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1999.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., December
26, 2006 (age 93 years, 165
days).
Interment at Gerald
R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Gerald Rudolph Ford, Sr.; son of Leslie Lynch King, Sr.
and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King Ford; half-brother of Thomas
G. Ford Sr.; married, October
15, 1948, to Betty
Warren. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Richard
M. Nixon — L.
William Seidman |
| | | The Gerald R. Ford Freeway
(I-196), in Kent,
Ottawa,
and Allegan
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford International
Airport (opened 1963, given present name 1999), near Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford Federal
Building and U.S.
Courthouse, in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Gerald R. Ford: A
Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(1983) |
| | | Books about Gerald R. Ford: John Robert
Greene, The
Presidency of Gerald R. Ford — Edward L. Schapsmeier,
Gerald
R. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography —
James Cannon, Time
and Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History —
Douglas Brinkley, Gerald
R. Ford |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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Harry T. Gast Jr. (b. 1920) —
also known as Harry Gast —
of St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich., September
19, 1920.
Republican. Supervisor
of Lincoln Township, Michigan, 1960; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 43rd District, 1971-78; member of
Michigan
state senate, 1978-99 (22nd District 1978-94, 20th District
1995-99).
Baptist.
Member, Farm
Bureau.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921-2016) —
also known as John Glenn —
of New Concord, Muskingum
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, July 18,
1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; Astronaut;
in February 1962, first
American to orbit the earth; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1964,
1996,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1975-99; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1984;
received the Medal
of Freedom in 2012; also inducted to the International Air &
Space Hall of
Fame, the National Aviation Hall of
Fame, the International Space Hall of
Fame, and the U.S. Astronaut Hall of
Fame.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, December
8, 2016 (age 95 years, 143
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Married 1943 to Anna
Margaret Castor. |
| | | The John Glenn Columbus International
Airport (Port Columbus International Airport until 2016), in Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in New
Concord, Ohio, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Westland,
Michigan, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Bay City,
Michigan, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Walkerton,
Indiana, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Norwalk,
California, is named for
him. — John Glenn Middle
School, in San
Angelo, Texas, is named for
him. — Colonel Glenn Road,
in Little
Rock, Arkansas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by John Glenn: John
Glenn: A Memoir (1999) |
| | | Books about John Glenn: Robert Green,
John
Glenn : Astronaut and U.S. Senator (for young
readers) |
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Alexander Joseph Groesbeck (1873-1953) —
also known as Alex J. Groesbeck —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Warren Township (now Warren), Macomb
County, Mich., November
7, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; Michigan
Republican state chair, 1913; Michigan
state attorney general, 1917-20; Governor of
Michigan, 1921-26; defeated in primary, 1914, 1926, 1930, 1934;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1924,
1944.
Dutch
and French
ancestry.
Died March
10, 1953 (age 79 years, 123
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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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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Thomas Hardeman Jr. (1825-1891) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., January
12, 1825.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853-57, 1863-64, 1874; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1859-61, 1883-85 (3rd District
1859-61, at-large 1883-85); colonel in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; postmaster at Macon,
Ga., 1885-90.
Slaveowner.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., March 6,
1891 (age 66 years, 53
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community
of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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William Hasson (1833-1923) —
of Oil City, Venango
County, Pa.
Born in Shippenville, Clarion
County, Pa., March
17, 1833.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; oil
business; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1872,
1904,
1912;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Venango County, 1875-76,
1883-84, 1899-1900.
Died in Oil City, Venango
County, Pa., May 15,
1923 (age 90 years, 59
days).
Interment at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Oil City, Pa.
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Joshua Taylor Heald (1821-1887) —
also known as Joshua T. Heald —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., May 26,
1821.
Republican. Bookbinder;
real
estate developer; bank
director; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Delaware, 1860,
1868;
President of the Wilmington City Railway Company, which built the
city's first trolley
line; later, he was president of the Wilmington and Western Railroad;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Delaware, 1870.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., July 23,
1887 (age 66 years, 58
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) —
of New York.
Born in Zagare, Lithuania,
March
23, 1887.
President,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), and one of the founders of
the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); New York American
Labor Party state chair, 1945.
Jewish.
Died in Point Lookout, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 10,
1946 (age 59 years, 109
days).
Entombed at Westchester
Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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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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John Edward Hopley (1850-1927) —
also known as John E. Hopley —
of Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio.
Born in Elkton, Todd
County, Ky., August
25, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
campaign manager and then private secretary to U.S. Rep. Stephen
R. Harris, 1895-97; U.S. Consul in Southampton, 1898-1903; Montevideo, 1903-05; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1914.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Royal
and Select Masters; Order of the
Eastern Star; Knights
Templar; Elks.
As a bedridden invalid, smoking a pipe, he accidentally dropped the
pipe, his clothes caught
fire, and he was badly burned; his burns became infected,
leading to his death a few days later, in Bucyrus, Crawford
County, Ohio, July 10,
1927 (age 76 years, 319
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio.
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Cordell Hull (1871-1955) —
also known as "Father of the United
Nations" —
of Carthage, Smith
County, Tenn.
Born in a log
cabin at Olympus, Overton County (now Pickett
County), Tenn., October
2, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1893-97; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1903-07;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 4th District, 1907-21, 1923-31;
defeated, 1920; member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1914-24; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1921-24; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1928,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1931-33; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1933-44; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1936.
Baptist;
later Episcopalian.
Received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1945.
Died, of heart
disease and sarcoidosis,
at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., July 23,
1955 (age 83 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hull and Elizabeth (Riley) Hull. |
| | | Cross-reference: Thomas
K. Finletter |
| | | Cordell Hull Dam
on the Cumberland River, and its impoundment, Cordell Hull Lake,
in Smith
and Jackson
counties, Tennessee, are named for
him. — The Cordell Hull State
Office Building (built 1952-54), in Nashville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Cordell Hull Highway,
in Barren
and Monroe
counties, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Cordell Hull: The
Memoirs of Cordell Hull |
| | | Books about Cordell Hull: Julius
William Pratt, Cordell
Hull, 1933-44 |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1963) |
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John Francis Hylan (1868-1936) —
also known as John F. Hylan; "Red
Mike" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hunter, Greene
County, N.Y., April
20, 1868.
Democrat. Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1918-25; defeated in primary, 1925.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died of a heart
attack in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
12, 1936 (age 67 years, 267
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Leslie Jensen (1892-1964) —
of Hot Springs, Fall River
County, S.Dak.
Born in Hot Springs, Fall River
County, S.Dak., September
15, 1892.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for South Dakota, 1921-34;
president, People's Telephone
and Telegraph Co.; Governor of
South Dakota, 1937-39; candidate for U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1938; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American
Legion.
Suffered a head injury in an automobile
accident, and died three days later, in St. Johns-McNamara Hospital,
Rapid City, Pennington
County, S.Dak., December
14, 1964 (age 72 years, 90
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Hot Springs, S.Dak.
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John Hume Kedzie (1815-1903) —
also known as John H. Kedzie —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Stamford, Delaware
County, N.Y., September
8, 1815.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
developer; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 7th District, 1877-78.
Congregationalist.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 9,
1903 (age 87 years, 213
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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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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Thomas F. Larkin (c.1872-1928) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1872.
Democrat. Contractor;
business partner of James
J. Lynch; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1928; died in office 1928; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928.
Died, of apoplexy,
while playing
golf, at the 13th tee of the Briarcliff Lodge golf course, in
Briarcliff Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 25,
1928 (age about 56
years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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John Christian Lodge (1862-1950) —
also known as John C. Lodge —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
12, 1862.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lumber
business; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1909-10; mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1922-23, 1924, 1928-30; defeated, 1929.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died February
6, 1950 (age 87 years, 178
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) —
also known as Huey P. Long; Hugh Pierce Long;
"The Kingfish" —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., August
30, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1928;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1928-32; member of Democratic
National Committee from Louisiana, 1928; impeached
by the Louisiana House in 1929 over multiple charges including his
attempt to impose an oil tax and his unauthorized demolition of the
governor's mansion, but not convicted by the Senate; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1932-35; died in office 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Dr. Carl Weiss (who was immediately killed at the
scene), in the Louisiana State
Capitol Building, September 8, 1935, and died two days later at
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital,
Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., September
10, 1935 (age 42 years, 11
days).
Interment at State
Capitol Grounds, Baton Rouge, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh Pierce Long and Caledonia Palestine (Tison) Long; brother of
George
Shannon Long and Earl
Kemp Long (who married Blanche
B. Revere); married, April
12, 1913, to Rose
McConnell; father of Russell
Billiu Long; second cousin once removed of Gillis
William Long and Speedy
Oteria Long. |
| | | Political family: Long
family of Louisiana. |
| | | Cross-reference: Cecil
Morgan — John
H. Overton — Harvey
G. Fields — Gerald
L. K. Smith |
| | | The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge
(opened 1940), which carries U.S. Highway 190 and a rail line over
the Mississippi River, between East Baton
Rouge Parish and West Baton
Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is partly named for
him. — Senador Huey Pierce Long, a street
in Asunsion,
Paraguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Every Man a
King." |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Share Our
Wealth." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Huey P. Long: Every
Man a King : The Autobiography of Huey P. Long |
| | | Books about Huey P. Long: T. Harry
Williams, Huey
Long — Harnett T. Kane, Huey
Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship
1928-1940 — Richard D. White, Kingfish:
The Reign of Huey P. Long — David R. Collins, Huey
P. Long : Talker and Doer (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: KnowLA Encyclopedia of
Louisiana |
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor;
leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 2008.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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William T. Martin (d. 1866) —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Bedford
County, Pa.
Mayor
of Columbus, Ohio, 1824-26.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, February
19, 1866.
Burial location unknown.
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Martin Anthony Matich (1927-2008) —
also known as Martin A. Matich —
of Colton, San
Bernardino County, Calif.; San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Loma Linda, San
Bernardino County, Calif., September
6, 1927.
Engineer;
grading
contractor; his company built over 1,000 miles of roads,
including major expressways and interchanges, as well as airport
runways, flood control channels, landfills, and major buildings; mayor of
Colton, Calif., 1958-60; director, San Bernardino Community Hospital.
Catholic.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Navy
League; American
Arbitration Association; Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died in San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif., April
19, 2008 (age 80 years, 226
days).
Interment at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery, Colton, Calif.
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William Sumner Maynard (1802-1866) —
also known as William S. Maynard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April
25, 1802.
Merchant;
village
president of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1836-38, 1839-40; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1856-58, 1865-66.
Congregationalist.
Suffering from severe depression, he killed
himself by an overdose
of morphine or laudanum, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 18,
1866 (age 64 years, 54
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Joseph Meharry Medill (1823-1899) —
also known as Joseph Medill —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Saint John, New
Brunswick, April 6,
1823.
Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune newspaper;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 59th District,
1869-70; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1871-73.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., March
16, 1899 (age 75 years, 344
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; cenotaph at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
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Schuyler Merritt (1853-1953) —
of Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
16, 1853.
Republican. Manufacturer;
banker;
delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1902; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1908
(alternate), 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1917-31, 1933-37;
defeated, 1930, 1936.
Episcopalian.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 1,
1953 (age 99 years, 106
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
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Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) —
also known as Thomas T. Minor —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), February
20, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory,
1880;
mayor
of Port Townsend, Wash., 1880-83; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1887-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island, with others, on a duck huting
trip, and was never
heard from again; presumed drowned
in a watercraft
accident, in Puget
Sound, December
2, 1889 (age 45 years, 285
days). His canoe was recovered, but his remains were not
found.
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Relatives: Son
of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor; married, August
20, 1872, to Sarah Montgomery; grandfather of Thomas
Minor Pelly. |
| | | Political family: Moriarty-Minor
family of Seattle, Washington. |
| | | The T.T. Minor School
(built 1890, demolished 1940, rebuilt 1941, closed 2010, renovated
and reopened 2016), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Minor Avenue,
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Andrew Mucci (1911-1997) —
also known as Henry A. Mucci; "Hero of
Cabanatuan" —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 4,
1911.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; led famed
raid in 1945 on a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines which
rescued the survivors of the Bataan Death March; automobile
dealer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1946.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of a stroke,
in Melbourne, Brevard
County, Fla., April
20, 1997 (age 86 years, 47
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894) —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., February
5, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; chair of
Anderson County Democratic Party, 1878-90; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1878-84; involved in a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson
County, which he supported; on September 15, 1885, in the public
square of Anderson, S.C., he was shot
at by John
Brown Moore, and fired
back, injuring Moore; charges
against him were dismissed; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1886-90.
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Drowned
while rescuing his daughter in a swimming pond, Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C., July 7,
1894 (age 40 years, 152
days).
Interment at Silver Brook Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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William Huston Natcher (1909-1994) —
also known as William H. Natcher —
of Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky.
Born in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., September
11, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer; Warren
County Attorney, 1938-50; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1940;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; commonwealth attorney,
8th District, 1951-53; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1953-94; died in
office 1994.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Kiwanis;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March
29, 1994 (age 84 years, 199
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of J. M. Natcher and Blanche (Hays) Natcher; married, June 17,
1937, to Virginia Reardon. |
| | | The William H. Natcher Federal
Building and U.S.
Courthouse, in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, is named for
him. — The William H. Natcher Parkway
(opened 1972 as the Green River Parkway; renamed 1994; redesignated
2018 as Interstate 165, without the Natcher name), which ran through
Warren,
Butler,
Ohio,
and Daviess
counties, Kentucky, was named for
him. — The William H. Natcher Bridge
(opened 2002), which takes U.S. Highway 231 over the Ohio River,
between Daviess
County, Kentucky and Spencer
County, Indiana, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
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Tasker Lowndes Oddie (1870-1950) —
also known as Tasker L. Oddie —
of Nye
County, Nev.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
20, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
business; mining
business; Nye
County District Attorney, 1900-02; member of Nevada
state senate, 1904-08; Governor of
Nevada, 1911-15; defeated, 1914, 1918; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1921-33; defeated, 1932, 1938; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1924,
1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1932,
1940
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1950 (age 79 years, 120
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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William Butler Ogden (1805-1877) —
also known as William B. Ogden —
of Delaware
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York, New York County (part now in Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y.
Born in Walton, Delaware
County, N.Y., June 15,
1805.
Member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1835; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1837-38; member of Illinois
state senate 1st District, 1861-62; president, Union Pacific Railroad,
1862-63.
Died in New York, New York County (part now in Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., August
3, 1877 (age 72 years, 49
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Henry Kemble Oliver —
also known as Henry K. Oliver —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1861-66; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1873; mayor of
Salem, Mass., 1877-80.
Burial location unknown.
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John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) —
also known as John J. Pershing; "Black
Jack" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laclede, Linn
County, Mo., September
13, 1860.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920;
his autobiography won the Pulitzer
Prize for history in 1932.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 15,
1948 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Marion L. Pillsbury (1902-1983) —
also known as Pill Pillsbury —
of Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Metz, Steuben
County, Ind., January
7, 1902.
Played professional basketball
for the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (now the Detroit Pistons); automobile
dealer; mayor
of Coldwater, Mich., 1966-70.
Member, Freemasons;
Exchange
Club; Farm
Bureau.
Died in the Community Health
Center of Branch County, Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich., January
2, 1983 (age 80 years, 360
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
29, 1908.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1945-71 (22nd District 1945-53,
16th District 1953-63, 18th District 1963-71); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1952,
1960,
1964;
cited
for contempt
of court in 1966 for refusing to pay damages in a lawsuit against
him; on February 28, 1967, he was expelled
from the House of Representatives on charges
of unbecoming
conduct and misusing
public funds; the Supreme Court overturned the expulsion in 1969.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; Elks.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., April 4,
1972 (age 63 years, 127
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Bahamas.
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Relatives: Son
of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie (Fletcher) Powell; married, March 8,
1933, to Isabel Washington; married, August
1, 1945, to Hazel Scott; married, December
15, 1960, to Yvette Marjorie Diago (Flores) Powell; father of Adam
Clayton Powell IV. |
| | | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
(formerly part of Seventh Avenue), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. — The Adam Clayton Powell State
Office Building (opened 1974 as the Harlem State Office Building;
renamed 1983), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.: Adam
by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Books about Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.:
Tisha Hamilton, Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American
Dilemma — Wil Haygood, King
of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Epaphroditus Ransom (1798-1859) —
of Vermont; Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Shelburne Falls, Shelburne, Franklin
County, Mass., March
24, 1798.
Lawyer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1830; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1836-48; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1843-48; Governor of
Michigan, 1848-50; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1850-51; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Kalamazoo County 2nd
District, 1853-54.
Died in Fort Scott, Bourbon
County, Kan., November
9, 1859 (age 61 years, 230
days).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) —
also known as "Father of American
Psychiatry" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Byberry Township (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
4, 1746.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
19, 1813 (age 67 years, 105
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, January
2, 1776, to Julia Stockton (daughter of Richard
Stockton); father of Richard
Rush. |
| | | Political family: Stockton
family of Princeton, New Jersey (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Rush County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | Rush Street,
in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Benjamin Rush: Alyn
Brodsky, Benjamin
Rush : Patriot and Physician — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush — David Barton, Benjamin
Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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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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James W. Shocknessy (1906-1976) —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born November
26, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
chairman, Ohio Turnpike Commission, 1949-76; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1956,
1960,
1964.
Died July 15,
1976 (age 69 years, 232
days).
Burial location unknown.
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The James W. Shocknessy
Ohio Turnpike
(built 1949-55; given its current name 1976), in Mahoning,
Trumbull,
Portage,
Summit,
Cuyahoga,
Lorain,
Erie,
Sandusky,
Ottawa,
Wood,
Lucas,
Fulton,
and Williams
counties, Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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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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Marion Eugene Snyder (1928-2007) —
also known as Gene Snyder —
of Brownsboro Farms, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
26, 1928.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1963-65, 1967-87 (3rd District
1963-65, 4th District 1967-87); defeated, 1964.
Lutheran.
Member, Optimist
Club.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., February
16, 2007 (age 79 years, 21
days).
Interment at Duncan
Memorial, Oldham County, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Marion Hustavus Snyder and Lois E. Snyder; married 1961 to Mary
Louise Hodges. |
| | | The Gene Snyder U.S.
Courthouse and Custom
House (opened 1932, renamed 1986), in Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. — The Gene Snyder Freeway
(I-265 and Ky-841), in Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. — The Gene Snyder Airport
(general aviation), in Pendleton
County, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
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Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) —
also known as "The Sugar King of Hawaii";
"His Royal Saccharinity" —
Born in Lamstedt, Germany,
July
9, 1828.
Republican. Sugar
magnate; candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
German
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
26, 1908 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. (1904-1972) —
of Colorado; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Las Animas, Bent
County, Colo., August
24, 1904.
Accountant;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Colombo, 1929-32; Geneva, 1933-36; U.S. Consul in Geneva, 1937-38; Moscow, 1941-43; U.S. Ambassador to Austria, 1952-57; Soviet Union, 1957-62, 1966-69; , 1962-66.
Died of cancer,
in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
6, 1972 (age 67 years, 166
days).
Interment at Las
Animas Cemetery, Las Animas, Colo.
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Mangle Minthorne Tompkins (1807-1881) —
also known as Minthorne Tompkins —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Westchester
County, N.Y., December
26, 1807.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1833-34; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1840-41; resigned 1841; Free Soil
Democratic candidate for Governor of
New York, 1852; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 5,
1881 (age 73 years, 161
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Roy Joseph Turner (1894-1973) —
also known as Roy J. Turner —
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Kendrick, Lincoln
County, Okla., November
6, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
business; oil
producer; rancher;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1947-51.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., June 11,
1973 (age 78 years, 217
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849-1918) —
also known as Robert A. Van Wyck —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 20,
1849.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1898-1901; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in Paris, France,
November
30, 1918 (age 69 years, 133
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William A. Walsh —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1926-27.
Burial location unknown.
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John Wentworth (1815-1888) —
also known as "Long John" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Sandwich, Carroll
County, N.H., March 5,
1815.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1843-51, 1853-55, 1865-67 (4th
District 1843-51, 2nd District 1853-55, 1st District 1865-67); mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1857-58, 1860-61; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Cook County,
1862.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
16, 1888 (age 73 years, 225
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John R. Williams (1782-1854) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 4,
1782.
Merchant;
banker;
mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1824-25, 1829-30, 1844-46; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
20, 1854 (age 72 years, 169
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) —
also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in
Politics" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Staunton,
Va., December
28, 1856.
Democrat. University
professor; president
of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of
New Jersey, 1911-13; President
of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at Main Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson;
married, June 24,
1885, to Ellen
Wilson; married, December
18, 1915, to Edith
Wilson; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married William
Gibbs McAdoo); grandfather of Woodrow
Wilson Sayre. |
| | | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
C. Bullitt — Bainbridge
Colby — Joseph
E. Davies — Joseph
P. Tumulty — Thomas
H. Birch — Byron
R. Newton |
| | | Mount
Woodrow Wilson, in Fremont
County and Sublette
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Woodrow Wilson Plaza,
in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is is named for
him. — Wilson Dam
(built 1924), on the Tennessee River in Colbert
and Lauderdale
counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake
reservoir, which extends into Lawrence
county, are named for
him. — Rambla
Presidente Wilson, in Montevideo,
Uruguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Woodrow
W. Bean
— Woodrow
W. Jones
— Woodrow
W. Scott
— Tom
Woodrow Payne
— W.
W. Dumas
— Woodrow
Wilson Mann
— Woodrow
W. Lavender
— Woodrow
W. Baird
— Woodrow
W. Mathna
— Woodrow
W. Hulme
— Woodrow
W. Kline
— Woodrow
W. McDonald
— Woodrow
W. Hollan
— Woodrow
W. Carter
— Woodrow
W. Ferguson
— W.
Wilson Goode
— Woodrow
Wilson Storey
— Woodrow
W. Bean III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued
in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out
of war." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis
Auchincloss, Woodrow
Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — John Milton Cooper, Reconsidering
Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and
Peace — A. Scott Berg, Wilson —
Anne Schraff, Woodrow
Wilson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:
Jim Powell, Wilson's
War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, and World War II |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1902 |
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William Woodbridge (1780-1861) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., August
20, 1780.
Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1807; member of Ohio
state senate, 1813-15; secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1815-28; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, 1819-20; resigned 1820;
justice
of Michigan territorial supreme court, 1828-32; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan at-large, 1835; member of Michigan
state senate 1st District, 1838-40; Governor of
Michigan, 1840-41; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1841-47.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
20, 1861 (age 81 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Dudley Woodbridge (1747-1823) and Lucy (Backus) Woodbridge;
married, June 29,
1806, to Julianna Trumbull; father of Julianna Trumbull
Woodbridge (who married Henry
Titus Backus (1809-1877)); third great-grandson of William
Leete; first cousin of Henry
Titus Backus (1809-1877); first cousin twice removed of George
Douglas Perkins; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; first cousin five times removed of George
Philip Kazen; second cousin of Isaac
Backus; second cousin once removed of Enoch
Woodbridge and Zina
Hyde Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; third cousin of Thomas
Worcester Hyde; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Joseph
Silliman (1756-1829), Samuel
H. Huntington, Timothy
Pitkin, Abel
Huntington, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge, Matthew
Griswold, Charles
Edward Hyde, John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit and James
Davenport; third cousin thrice removed of John
Foster Dulles, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Frederick
Wolcott, Dudley
Woodbridge (1782-1844), Henry
Meigs, Joseph
Silliman (c.1786-1850), Bela
Edgerton, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Heman
Ticknor, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Martin
Olds, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Charles
Phelps Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington and Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; fourth cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter, Samuel
Lathrop, Peter
Buell Porter, Theodore
Davenport, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Henry
Meigs Jr., John
Forsyth Jr., Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Edward
Green Bradford, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Joseph
Fitch Silliman, William
Clark Huntington, Henry
Stark Culver, Hiram
Bingham, John
Leffingwell Randolph and George
Leffingwell Reed. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The township
of Woodbridge,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Woodbridge Street,
in downtown Detroit,
Michigan, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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George Wythe (1726-1806) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), December
3, 1726.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1758-68; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in Virginia,
1777; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788.
Episcopalian.
Apparently murdered
— poisoned
by his grandnephew — and died two weeks later, in Richmond,
Va., June 8,
1806 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892) —
of Massillon, Stark
County, Ohio; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Washington
County, Md., November
30, 1810.
Republican. Carpenter;
millwright;
mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1874-75, 1885-86.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
16, 1892 (age 82 years, 16
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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