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George Abernethy (1807-1877) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1807.
Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1845-49; newspaper
publisher.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March 2,
1877 (age 69 years, 146
days).
Original interment somewhere in Vancouver, Wash.; reinterment in 1883 at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa
Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur
Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel
Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen; second cousin twice removed of John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass and Emerson
Richard Boyles; third cousin of Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Caleb
Stetson, Oakes
Ames, Oliver
Ames Jr., Benjamin
W. Waite, Alfred
Elisha Ames, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph
Washburn Yates, Augustus
Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin
Fairbanks, Erskine
Mason Phelps, Arthur
Newton Holden, John
Alden Thayer, Irving
Hall Chase, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Giles
Russell Taggart. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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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 John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Samuel Adams (1722-1803) —
also known as "The Tribune of the People";
"The Cromwell of New England";
"Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer";
"Amendment Monger"; "American
Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
27, 1722.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph
Allen; granduncle of Charles
Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married
Alfred
Cumming) and William
Vincent Wells; second cousin of John
Adams; second cousin once removed of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Chapin, Arthur
Laban Bates, Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass, Emerson
Richard Boyles and Thomas
Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel
H. Huntington and Caleb
Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Erastus
Fairbanks, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Charles
Adams Jr., James
Brooks and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso
Taft, Benjamin
W. Waite, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Franklin
Fairbanks, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Edgar
Weeks and Arthur
Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John
Quincy Adams (1848-1911). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mount
Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr
Chidsey, The
World of Samuel Adams |
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Jane Addams (1860-1935) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cedarville, Stephenson
County, Ill., September
6, 1860.
Progressive. Social
worker; sociologist;
lecturer;
woman suffrage activist; pacifist; delegate to Progressive National
Convention from Illinois, 1912; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Illinois; received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931.
Female.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Lesbian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Civil
Liberties Union; Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; NAACP.
Died, from cancer,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 21,
1935 (age 74 years, 257
days).
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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George Ade (1866-1944) —
of Kentland, Newton
County, Ind.
Born in Kentland, Newton
County, Ind., February
9, 1866.
Republican. Author; humorist;
newspaper
columnist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1908.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Suffered a heart
attack, fell into a coma, and died, in Brook, Newton
County, Ind., May 16,
1944 (age 78 years, 97
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Kentland, Ind.
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John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902) —
also known as John P. Altgeld —
of Andrew
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Hesse, Germany,
December
30, 1847.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Andrew
County State's Attorney, 1875; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1884; superior court judge in
Illinois, 1886-91; Governor of
Illinois, 1893-97; Independent candidate for mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1899.
German
ancestry.
Pardoned the surviving protesters of the Haymarket incident in
Chicago, and refused to send troops against the Pullman railway
strikers. These actions were not popular at the time, and he never
won another election.
As he finished a speech
at the Joliet Opera
House, he suffered a stroke,
was carried across the street to the Hotel
Monroe, and died the next morning, in Joliet, Will
County, Ill., March
12, 1902 (age 54 years, 72
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; statue at Lincoln
Park, Chicago, Ill.
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John Armstrong Jr. (1758-1843) —
also known as "Old Soldier"; "Monsieur
Tombo" —
of Pennsylvania; Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
25, 1758.
Republican. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1783-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1787-88; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1800-02, 1803-04; U.S. Minister to France, 1804-10; general in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1813-14; blamed
for the British capture of Washington, D.C. in August 1814, and forced to
resign; member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1825.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Red Hook, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 1,
1843 (age 84 years, 127
days).
Entombed at Rhinebeck
Cemetery, Rhinebeck, N.Y.
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John Baptista Ashe (1748-1802) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., 1748.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1784-86; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1787; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1789; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93; elected Governor of
North Carolina 1802, but died before taking office.
Slaveowner.
Died in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
27, 1802 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Churchyard
Cemetery, Halifax, N.C.; cenotaph at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
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Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) —
of New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Bath, Beaufort
County, N.C., March
24, 1725.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1795-98; candidate for Presidential Elector for
North Carolina.
Died in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., February
3, 1813 (age 87 years, 316
days).
Interment at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.; memorial monument at Pack Square Park, Asheville, N.C.
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James Benjamin Aswell (1869-1931) —
also known as James B. Aswell —
of Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La.
Born in Jackson
Parish, La., December
23, 1869.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; Louisiana
superintendent of public instruction, 1904-08; Chancellor,
University of Mississippi, 1907; president,
Louisiana State Normal College, 1908-11; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1913-31; died in
office 1931.
Baptist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
16, 1931 (age 61 years, 83
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Edmund Badger (1795-1866) —
also known as George E. Badger —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., April
17, 1795.
Lawyer;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1816; superior court
judge in North Carolina, 1820-25; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1846-55; delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., May 11,
1866 (age 71 years, 24
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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George Luis Baker (1868-1941) —
also known as George L. Baker —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in The Dalles, Wasco
County, Ore., August
23, 1868.
Republican. Mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1917-33.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., May 16,
1941 (age 72 years, 266
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Wilhelm's Portland Memorial, Portland, Ore.
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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
22, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
One of the founders,
and first president,
of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1807 (age 52 years, 102
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield
Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Henry Baldwin (1780-1844) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., January
14, 1780.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1817-22; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1830-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
21, 1844 (age 64 years, 98
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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George Bancroft (1800-1891) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
3, 1800.
Democrat. U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1832-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1844;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1844; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1845-46; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1846-49; Prussia, 1867-71; Germany, 1871-74.
Congregationalist.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1910.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
17, 1891 (age 90 years, 106
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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James Barbour (1775-1842) —
of Barboursville, Orange
County, Va.
Born near Gordonsville, Orange
County, Va., June 10,
1775.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1798-1812; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1809; Governor of
Virginia, 1812-14; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1815-25; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1828-29; delegate to Whig National Convention
from Virginia, 1839 (Convention President; speaker).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Barboursville, Orange
County, Va., June 7,
1842 (age 66 years, 362
days).
Interment at Barboursville
Vineyards and Winery, Barboursville, Va.
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Henry Barnard (1811-1900) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., January
24, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1837-39; secretary
to the Connecticut Commissioners of Common Schools, 1838-42; Rhode
Island commissioner of public schools, 1845-49; Connecticut
Superintendent of Common Schools, 1851-55; chancellor,
University of Wisconsin, 1859-60; president,
St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, 1866; U.S. Commissioner of
Education, 1867-70; editor, American Journal of Education.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., July 5,
1900 (age 89 years, 162
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) —
also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of
Humbugs" —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 5,
1810.
Republican. Grocer; auctioneer;
newspaper
publisher; Entrepreneur, impressario,
museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus,
known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1865-66, 1877-79; mayor
of Bridgeport, Conn., 1875-76.
Died, of heart
failure, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 7,
1891 (age 80 years, 276
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Seaside
Park, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Bethel Public Library Grounds, Bethel, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of Philo
Fairchild Barnum; married, November
8, 1829, to Charity Hallet; married, September
16, 1874, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of Andrew
Gould Chatfield; second cousin once removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington and Almon
Ferdinand Rockwell; third cousin of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; third cousin once removed of William
Henry Barnum; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Charles
William Barnum; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington and Rhamanthus
Menville Stocker. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | — Barnum Avenue,
in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town
of Barnum (incorporated 1887; annexed 1896 to Denver,
Colorado), was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS P.
T. Barnum (built 1943 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by P. T. Barnum: The
Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself |
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Francis Stebbins Bartow (1816-1861) —
also known as Francis S. Bartow —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
6, 1816.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1856; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; died
in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Killed
by rifle
shot, while rallying his men on the Henry House Hill, during the
first battle of Manassas,
Va., July 21,
1861 (age 44 years, 318
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodosius Bartow and Frances Louisa (Stebbins) Bartow; married,
April
18, 1844, to Louisa Green Berrien (daughter of John
Macpherson Berrien); first cousin twice removed of Theodosia
Bartow (who married Aaron
Burr). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd
family of New York; Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard
family of Charleston, South Carolina; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker
family of Connecticut; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr
family of New York; Berrien-Burr-Bartow-Biddle
family of Pennsylvania; Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Bartow County,
Ga. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Bartow,
Florida, is named for
him. — The town
of Bartow,
Georgia, is named for
him. — The community
of Bartow,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — Bartow Elementary
School (now Otis J. Brock Elementary School), in Savannah,
Georgia, was formerly named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Francis S. Bartow (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Bascom (1827-1911) —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Genoa, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
30, 1827.
College
professor; president,
University of Wisconsin, 1874-87; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1890 (12th District), 1896
(1st District), 1902 (1st District); Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
2, 1911 (age 84 years, 155
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Bascom and Laura (Woodbridge) Bascom; married 1853 to Abbie
Burt; married, January
8, 1856, to Emma Curtiss. |
| | | Bascom Hall,
on the campus of the University
of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Bascom (built 1942-43 at Panama
City, Florida; bombed and sank in the harbor at Bari,
Italy, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Asheton Bayard Sr. (1767-1815) —
also known as "The Chevalier"; "The Goliath
of His Party"; "High Priest of the
Constitution" —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 28,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1797-1803; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1804-13.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., August
6, 1815 (age 48 years, 9
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Cecil County, Md.; reinterment in
1842 at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Hiram Iddings Bearss (1875-1938) —
also known as Hiram I. Bearss —
of Peru, Miami
County, Ind.
Born in Peru, Miami
County, Ind., April
13, 1875.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during Spanish-American
War; received the Medal
of Honor for his actions in the Philippine Islands, 1901-02;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1920,
1936.
Died in an automobile
accident, in Columbia City, Whitley
County, Ind., August
28, 1938 (age 63 years, 137
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Peru, Ind.
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John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (1869-1940) —
also known as J. C. W. Beckham —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., August
5, 1869.
Democrat. School
principal; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1894-98; Speaker of
the Kentucky State House of Representatives, 1898; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1900; Governor of
Kentucky, 1900-07; defeated, 1927; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1900,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1908,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1920,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1915-21; defeated, 1920, 1936.
Presbyterian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
9, 1940 (age 70 years, 157
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 24,
1813.
Republican. Minister;
orator;
abolitionist; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867;
in 1872, he was accused
of an adulterous
affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his;
Beecher's church conducted an investigation
and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband
Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial
took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1887 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe; married, August
3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George
Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen, Frederick
Wolcott, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Chapin and Oliver
Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer and George
Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss, John
William Allen, Julius
Hotchkiss, Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles
Francis Chidsey, Ernest
Harvey Woodford and Samuel
Russell Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
W. Beecher |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Martin Behrman (1864-1926) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
14, 1864.
Democrat. Delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898, 1921; Louisiana
state auditor, 1904-05; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1904-20, 1925-26; defeated, 1920; died in
office 1926; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1908,
1912,
1916
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1924;
Louisiana
Democratic state chair, 1925.
German
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, of heart
disease, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
12, 1926 (age 61 years, 90
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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John Bell (1796-1869) —
also known as "The Great Apostate" —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
18, 1796.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1817; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1827-41; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1834-35; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1841; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1847; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1847-59; Constitutional Union candidate
for President
of the United States, 1860.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died near Cumberland Furnace, Dickson
County, Tenn., September
10, 1869 (age 73 years, 204
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Henry Louis Benning (1814-1875) —
also known as Henry L. Benning; "Old
Rock" —
of Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., April 2,
1814.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1853-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1860;
delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died in Columbus, Muscogee
County, Ga., July 10,
1875 (age 61 years, 99
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Columbus, Ga.
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George Mortimer Bibb (1776-1859) —
also known as George M. Bibb —
of Yellow Banks (now Owensboro), Daviess
County, Ky.
Born in Prince
Edward County, Va., October
30, 1776.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1806, 1817; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1807-08, 1819-24; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1808-10, 1828; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1811-14, 1829-35; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1844-45.
Slaveowner.
Died in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1859 (age 82 years, 166
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Bidwell (1819-1900) —
of Chico, Butte
County, Calif.
Born in Chautauqua
County, N.Y., August
5, 1819.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state senate, 1849-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from California 3rd District, 1865-67; candidate
for Governor of
California, 1875 (Independent), 1890 (Prohibition); Prohibition
candidate for President
of the United States, 1892.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Chico, Butte
County, Calif., April 4,
1900 (age 80 years, 242
days).
Interment at Chico
Cemetery, Chico, Calif.
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Horace Binney (1780-1875) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Northern Liberties (now part of Philadelphia), Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
4, 1780.
Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1806-07; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1833-35.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
12, 1875 (age 95 years, 220
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857) —
also known as James G. Birney —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Lower Saginaw, Saginaw County (now Bay City, Bay
County), Mich.
Born in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., February
4, 1792.
Lawyer;
studied law in the office of Alexander
J. Dallas in Philadelphia; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1816-18; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819-20; solicitor general of
Alabama, 1823-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1829; abolitionist; Liberty candidate for President
of the United States, 1840, 1844; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1843, 1845.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Anti-Slavery Society.
While traveling in 1845, the horse he
was riding bucked; he fell and
was injured; his condition worsened over time, leading to tremors and
paralysis, and he died as a result, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., November
25, 1857 (age 65 years, 294
days).
Interment at Williamsburgh
Cemetery, Groveland, N.Y.
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Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) —
also known as Jeremiah S. Black —
of Somerset, Somerset
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.; York, York
County, Pa.
Born in Stonycreek Township, Somerset
County, Pa., January
10, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Pennsylvania, 1842-51; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1851-54; U.S.
Attorney General, 1857-60; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1860-61; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1873.
Disciples
of Christ. Scotch-Irish
and German
ancestry.
Died in York, York
County, Pa., August
19, 1883 (age 73 years, 221
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.
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Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (1838-1918) —
also known as Joseph C. S. Blackburn —
of Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky.
Born near Spring Station, Woodford
County, Ky., October
1, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871-75; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1875-85; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1885-97, 1901-07; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1896,
1900,
1904
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
12, 1918 (age 79 years, 346
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Mitchell Blackburn and Lavinia St. Clair (Bell) Blackburn;
brother of Luke
Pryor Blackburn; married, February
10, 1858, to Therese Graham; married, December
11, 1901, to Mary E. Blackburn; father of Corinne Blackburn (who
married William
Holt Gale); granduncle of Smith
Alford Blackburn; great-granduncle of Charles
Milton Blackburn; first cousin twice removed of Gabriel
Slaughter; third cousin of Charles
Rice Slaughter; third cousin once removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry and Gustavus
Adolphus Henry. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mount
Blackburn, the highest peak of the Wrangell Mountains, in the Copper
River Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS Joe
C. S. Blackburn (built 1943 at Brunswick,
Georgia; sold for scrap 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) —
also known as James G. Blaine; "The Plumed
Knight"; "Belshazzar Blaine";
"Magnetic Man" —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in West Brownsville, Washington
County, Pa., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1859-62; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1861-62; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1863-76; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1869-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1876,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1876-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92; candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Congregationalist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1893 (age 62 years, 362
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1920 at Blaine
Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Lyon Blaine and Maria Louise (Gillespie) Blaine; married,
June
30, 1850, to Harriet Stanwood; father of Harriet Blaine (who
married Truxtun
Beale); nephew of Ellen Blaine (who married John
Hoge Ewing); grandfather of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political family: Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| | | Blaine counties in Idaho, Mont., Neb. and Okla. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Blaine, in Park
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The city
of Blaine,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
James G. Blaine (built 1942 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: J.
B. McLaughlin
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about James G. Blaine: Mark
Wahlgren Summers, Rum,
Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President,
1884 — Edward P. Crapol, James
G. Blaine : Architect of Empire — Richard B. Cheney &
Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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John Blair Jr. (1732-1800) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., 1732.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1766-71; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Virginia
Governor's Council, 1776-78; state court judge in Virginia,
1777-78; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1779-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1789; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795.
Presbyterian
or Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Williamsburg,
Va., August
31, 1800 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Bruton
Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
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Henry Goode Blasdel (1825-1900) —
also known as Henry G. Blasdel —
of Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
29, 1825.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
riverboat
captain; miller; mining
business; Governor of
Nevada, 1864-71.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., July 22,
1900 (age 75 years, 174
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Samuel M. Blatchford (1820-1893) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 9,
1820.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1867-78; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1878-82; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-93; died in office 1893.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 7,
1893 (age 73 years, 120
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Henry Hooper Blood (1872-1942) —
also known as Henry H. Blood —
of Utah.
Born in Kaysville, Davis
County, Utah, October
1, 1872.
Democrat. Davis
County Treasurer, 1898-1901; school
teacher; bank
director; member, Utah Public Utilities Commission, 1917-21;
member, Utah State Road Commission, 1922-32; Governor of
Utah, 1933-41.
Mormon.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, June 19,
1942 (age 69 years, 261
days).
Interment at Kaysville
City Cemetery, Kaysville, Utah.
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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) —
also known as George S. Boutwell —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
28, 1818.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1842-50; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1851-53; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864
(alternate); first
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1863-69 (7th District 1863-69,
9th District 1869); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1869-73; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1873-77.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
27, 1905 (age 87 years, 30
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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James Bowdoin (1726-1790) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
7, 1726.
Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1785-87; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788.
French
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, of consumption
(tuberculosis),
in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
6, 1790 (age 64 years, 91
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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John Green Brady (1848-1918) —
also known as John G. Brady —
of Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 25,
1848.
Republican. Missionary;
co-founder
of the school that later became Sheldon Jackson College, in Sitka,
Alaska; merchant;
Governor
of Alaska District, 1897-1906; forced to
resign as governor in 1906, after an inquiry
about his involvement with the Reynolds-Alaska Development Company.
Presbyterian.
Ill with diabetes,
he suffered a stroke
and died in Sitka,
Alaska, December
17, 1918 (age 70 years, 206
days).
Interment at Sitka
National Cemetery, Sitka, Alaska.
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John Branch Jr. (1782-1863) —
of Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
4, 1782.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811, 1813-17, 1834; Governor of
North Carolina, 1817-20; federal
judge, 1822; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1823-29; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1831-33; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1844-45.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., January
4, 1863 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Enfield, N.C.
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John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) —
also known as John C. Breckinridge —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
16, 1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1849-51; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1851-55; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1856;
Vice
President of the United States, 1857-61; Southern Democratic
candidate for President
of the United States, 1860; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1861; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1865.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Expelled
from the U.S. Senate on December 4, 1861 for his participation in the
Confederate
military. Fled
to Cuba at the end of the war, and lived in England and Canada until
1869.
Slaveowner.
Died, from lung
disease and liver
cirrhosis, in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., May 17,
1875 (age 54 years, 121
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Clay (Smith) Breckinridge and Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge; married 1840 to
Elizabeth Lucas; married, December
12, 1843, to Mary
Cyrene Burch; father of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandson of John
Breckinridge; great-grandson of John
Witherspoon; great-grandnephew of William
Preston and William
Cabell; first cousin of Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of William
Cabell Jr., Francis
Smith Preston, William
Henry Cabell and James
Patton Preston; second cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of William
Campbell Preston, James
McDowell, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Buchanan Floyd, John
Smith Preston, George
Rogers Clark Floyd, Edward
Carrington Cabell, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell; third cousin of John
William Leftwich. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Breckenridge,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Breckenridge,
Colorado, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John C. Breckinridge (built 1943 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — BillionGraves
burial record — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about John C. Breckinridge:
William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — Frank Hopkins Heck, Proud
Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875 — William
C. Davis, Breckinridge
: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol |
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Andrew Broaddus (1900-1972) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 15,
1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; laundry
business; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1953-57.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
7, 1972 (age 72 years, 115
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Socialist. Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930; founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Albert Gallatin Brown (1813-1880) —
also known as Albert G. Brown —
of Terry, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Chester District (now Chester
County), S.C., May 31,
1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1835-39; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1839-41, 1847-53 (at-large
1839-41, 4th District 1847-53); circuit judge in Mississippi,
1842-43; Governor of
Mississippi, 1844-48; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1854-61; served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Senator
from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died near Terry, Hinds
County, Miss., June 12,
1880 (age 67 years, 12
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) —
also known as Henry B. Brown —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in South Lee, Lee, Berkshire
County, Mass., March 2,
1836.
Lawyer;
circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1868; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1875-90; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1890-1906; resigned 1906.
Congregationalist.
Died in Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
4, 1913 (age 77 years, 186
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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John William Brown (c.1867-1941) —
also known as John W. Brown —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.; Woolwich, Sagadahoc
County, Maine.
Born in Canada,
about 1867.
Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; carpenter;
labor
organizer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1904; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1907; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1910; newspaper
columnist.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
While working on his hunting
rifle, it accidentally
discharged, and he died soon after, in Woolwich, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, June 19,
1941 (age about 74
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Buchanan (1791-1868) —
also known as "The Sage of Wheatland";
"Buck"; "Old Buck" —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in a log
cabin near Mercersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., April
23, 1791.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1821-31 (3rd District 1821-23,
4th District 1823-31); U.S. Minister to Russia, 1832-33; Great Britain, 1853-56; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1834-45; resigned 1845; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1848,
1852;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1845-49; President
of the United States, 1857-61.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 1,
1868 (age 77 years, 39
days).
Interment at Woodward
Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; memorial monument at Meridian
Hill Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Buchanan (c.1761-1821) and Elizabeth (Speer)
Buchanan. |
| | | Cross-reference: David
Fullerton Robison — John
A. Quitman — John
Gallagher Montgomery |
| | | Buchanan counties in Iowa, Mo. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Buchanan,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
James Buchanan (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
B. Duke
— James
B. Cullison
— James
B. Holland
— James
Buchanan Siggins
— J.
B. Marcum
— James
B. Searcy
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Buchanan: Philip S.
Klein, President
James Buchanan: A Biography — Jean H. Baker, James
Buchanan — R. G. Horton, The
Life And Public Services Of James Buchanan: Late Minister To England
And Formerly Minister To Russia, Senator And Representative In
Congress, And Sec. Of State |
| | | Critical books about James Buchanan:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Aedanus Burke (1743-1802) —
also known as "Cassius" —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in County Galway, Ireland,
June
16, 1743.
Circuit judge in South Carolina, 1778; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1778-79, 1787-88; served
in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
U.S.
Representative from South Carolina at-large, 1789-91.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
30, 1802 (age 58 years, 287
days).
Interment at Burnt
Church Burial Ground, Jacksonboro, S.C.
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John Burke (1859-1937) —
of Devils Lake, Ramsey
County, N.Dak.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.; Bismarck, Burleigh
County, N.Dak.
Born in Sigourney, Keokuk
County, Iowa, February
25, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1891; member of North
Dakota state senate, 1893-97; Governor of
North Dakota, 1907-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for
Vice President, 1912;
Treasurer of the United States, 1913-21; candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1916; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Dakota, 1924;
justice
of North Dakota state supreme court, 1925-37; chief
justice of North Dakota state supreme court, 1935-36.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died May 14,
1937 (age 78 years, 78
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Bismarck, N.Dak.; statue at State Capitol Grounds, Bismarck, N.Dak.
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Albert Sidney Burleson (1863-1937) —
also known as Albert S. Burleson —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in San Marcos, Hays
County, Tex., June 7,
1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1899-1913 (9th District 1899-1903,
10th District 1903-13); alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1913-21.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., November
24, 1937 (age 74 years, 170
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Otway Burns (c.1775-1850) —
of Swansboro, Onslow
County, N.C.; Beaufort, Carteret
County, N.C.
Born near Swansboro, Onslow
County, N.C., about 1775.
Ship
captain; privateer
during the War of 1812; shipbuilder;
planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1821-22, 1824-27, 1832; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1828-30, 1834; lighthouse
keeper at the Brant Island Shoal Light, 1835-50.
Died in Portsmouth, Carteret
County, N.C., August
25, 1850 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Old
Burying Ground, Beaufort, N.C.; statue at Town Square, Burnsville, N.C.
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Pierce Butler (1744-1822) —
of South Carolina.
Born in County Carlow, Ireland,
July
11, 1744.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1778-89; Adjutant
General of South Carolina, 1779; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1787; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1789-96, 1802-04.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
15, 1822 (age 77 years, 219
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; cenotaph at St.
Michael's Church Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) —
also known as John C. Calhoun —
of Pickens District (now Pickens
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (part now in McCormick
County), S.C., March
18, 1782.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1808; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1817-25; Vice
President of the United States, 1825-32; resigned 1832; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office
1850; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1844-45.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1850 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Marion
Park, Charleston, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who
married Thomas
Green Clemson); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married Armistead
Burt); great-granduncle of John
Temple Graves; first cousin of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802) and Joseph
Calhoun; first cousin once removed of Andrew
Pickens; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann
Calhoun (who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The John C. Calhoun State
Office Building (opened 1926), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Lake
Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; destroyed in cargo explosion at Finchhafen,
Papua New Guinea, 1944) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
C. Johnson
— John
Calhoun Nicholls
— John
Calhoun Cook
— John
C. Sheppard
— John C.
Bell
— John
C. C. Mayo
— John
C. Phillips
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes
(1862). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than
union." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret
L. Coit, John
C. Calhoun : American Portrait — Clyde N. Wilson, John
C. Calhoun — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Warren
Brown, John
C. Calhoun (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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George Washington Campbell (1769-1848) —
also known as George W. Campbell —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Scotland,
February
9, 1769.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1803-09; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1809; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1811-14, 1815-18; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1818-20.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1848 (age 79 years, 8
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) —
also known as John A. Campbell —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., June 24,
1811.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1837; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-61; Confederate States
Assistant Secretary of War, 1861-65; at the end of the Civil War, he
was suspected
of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln; arrested
in May 1865; held in detention for five months, but never charged;
released in October 1865.
Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., March
12, 1889 (age 77 years, 261
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Griffin Carlisle (1835-1910) —
also known as John G. Carlisle —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Campbell County (part now in Kenton
County), Ky., September
5, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Charles
D. Foote; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1859-61; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1866-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1868;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1871-75; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1877-90; resigned
1890; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1883-89; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1884;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1890-93; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97.
Died, reportedly from intestinal
trouble and heart
disease, in the Hotel
Wolcott, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 31,
1910 (age 74 years, 329
days).
Interment at Linden
Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ky.
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John Catron (1786-1865) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Virginia, January
7, 1786.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1824-34; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1837-65; died in office 1865.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died May 30,
1865 (age 79 years, 143
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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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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George Earle Chamberlain (1854-1928) —
also known as George E. Chamberlain —
of Albany, Linn
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., January
1, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1880-84; Oregon
state attorney general, 1891-95; appointed 1891; Governor of
Oregon, 1903-09; resigned 1909; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Oregon, 1904
(speaker),
1924
(alternate); U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1909-21; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1912;
member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1921-23.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1928 (age 74 years, 190
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Chandler (1762-1841) —
of Monmouth, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Epping, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
1, 1762.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1803-05; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 17th District, 1805-09; Kennebec
County Sheriff, 1808; served in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1819; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819-20; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1820-29; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1829-37.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, September
25, 1841 (age 79 years, 236
days).
Interment at Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) —
also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr.
Greenbacks" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H., January
13, 1808.
Republican. Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1846; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1849-55, 1861; Governor of
Ohio, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1864-73; died in office 1873.
Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1873 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Ithamar Chase and Janette Chase; married to Eliza Ann Smith;
father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (who married William
Sprague); nephew of Dudley
Chase; cousin *** of Dudley
Chase Denison. |
| | | Political families: Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Chase
family of Vermont (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Chase County,
Kan. is named for him. |
| | | Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard
University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Salmon P. Chase (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: Chase
S. Osborn
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in
the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick
J. Blue, Salmon
P. Chase : A Life in Politics — John Niven, Salmon
P. Chase : A Biography — Albert B. Hart, Salmon
P. Chase — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham
Lincoln |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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George Campbell Childress (1804-1841) —
also known as George C. Childress —
of Texas.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
8, 1804.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Milam, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Killed
himself with a Bowie
knife, in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., October
6, 1841 (age 37 years, 271
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; statue at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.
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Abraham Clark (1726-1794) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born near Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth Union
County), N.J., February
15, 1726.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776-78, 1779-83,
1787-89; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1776, 1783-85;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1791-94; died in office
1794.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rahway, Union
County, N.J., September
15, 1794 (age 68 years, 212
days).
Interment at Rahway
Cemetery, Rahway, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Alexander Stephens Clay (1853-1910) —
also known as Alexander S. Clay —
of Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga.
Born near Powder Springs, Cobb
County, Ga., September
25, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1884-87, 1889-90; member of Georgia
state senate, 1892-94; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1897-1910; died in office 1910.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
13, 1910 (age 57 years, 49
days).
Interment at Marietta
City Cemetery, Marietta, Ga.
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Henry Clay (1777-1852) —
also known as "The Sage of Ashland"; "The
Great Compromiser" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., April
12, 1777.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1803; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1806-07, 1810-11, 1831-42, 1849-52; died
in office 1852; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1811-14, 1815-21, 1823-25 (5th
District 1811-13, at-large 1813-14, 2nd District 1815-21, 3rd
District 1823-25); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1811-14, 1815-20, 1823-25; candidate for President
of the United States, 1824, 1832 (National Republican), 1844
(Whig); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1825-29; candidate for Whig nomination for
President, 1839.
Member, Freemasons.
In 1809, he fought a duel
with Humphrey
Marshall, in which both men were wounded. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 29,
1852 (age 75 years, 78
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Clay and Elizabeth (Hudson) Clay; brother of Porter
Clay; married, April
11, 1799, to Lucretia (Hart) Erwin; father of Thomas
Hart Clay, Henry
Clay Jr. and James
Brown Clay; grandfather of Henry
Clay (1849-1884); granduncle of Ellen Hart Ross (who married James
Reily); first cousin once removed of Matthew
Clay (1754-1815) and Green
Clay; second cousin of Matthew
Clay (c.1795-1827), Brutus
Junius Clay (1808-1878) and Cassius
Marcellus Clay; second cousin once removed of Brutus
Junius Clay (1847-1932); second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Carroll Clay; second cousin four times removed of Archer
Woodford; third cousin of Clement
Comer Clay; third cousin once removed of Clement
Claiborne Clay Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Clay
family of Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Clay counties in Ala., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kan., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Clay (also called Mount Reagan), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry Clay (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Henry
Clay Longnecker
— Henry
Clay Dean
— H.
Clay Dickinson
— Henry
C. Brockmeyer
— H.
Clay Cockerill
— Henry
Clay Ewing
— Henry
Clay Caldwell
— Henry
Clay Hall
— Henry
Clay Gooding
— Henry
Clay Naill
— Henry
C. Myers
— Henry
C. Cole
— H.
Clay Harris
— Henry
C. Miner
— Henry
C. Warmoth
— Henry
Clay Cleveland
— H.
Clay Evans
— Henry
C. Payne
— Henry
C. Bates
— H.
Clay Foster
— Henry
C. McCormick
— Henry
C. Ide
— Henry
Clay Williams
— Henry
C. Simms
— Henry
Clay Ferguson
— Henry
C. Glover
— H.
Clay Park
— Henry
C. Hansbrough
— Henry
C. Snodgrass
— H.
Clay Maydwell
— Henry
C. Gleason
— Henry
C. Loudenslager
— H.
Clay Van Voorhis
— Henry
C. Clippinger
— H.
Clay Crawford
— H.
Clay Bascom
— H.
Clay Michie
— H.
Clay Chisolm
— H.
Clay Howard
— Henry
C. Hall
— Henry
Clay McDowell
— H.
Clay Jones
— H.
Clay Day
— Henry
Clay Hines
— H.
Clay Heather
— Henry
Clay Meacham
— Henry
Clay Calloway
— H.
Clay Suter
— H.
Clay Hall
— H.
Clay Warth
— Henry
Clay Elwood
— H.
Clay Kennedy
— H.
Clay Davis
— H.
Clay Needham
— Henry
Clay Etherton
— H.
Clay Mace
— H.
Clay Armstrong
— H.
Clay Baldwin
— H.
Clay Haynes
— H.
Clay Burkholder
— Mrs.
H. Clay Kauffman
— H.
Clay Bentley
— Henry
C. Greenberg
— H.
Clay Gardenhire, Jr.
— Henry
Clay Cox
— H.
Clay Myers, Jr.
— H.
Clay Johnson
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on some U.S. currency issued in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Henry Clay: Robert Vincent
Remini, Henry
Clay: Statesman for the Union — Maurice G. Baxter, Henry
Clay the Lawyer — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney,
Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry
Clay: The Essential American — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's
Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That
Preserved the Union |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856) —
also known as John M. Clayton —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.; New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Dagsboro, Sussex
County, Del., July 24,
1796.
Lawyer;
member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Kent County, 1824; secretary
of state of Delaware, 1826-28; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1829-36, 1845-49, 1853-56; resigned 1836,
1849; died in office 1856; justice of
Delaware state supreme court, 1837-39; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1849-50.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., November
9, 1856 (age 60 years, 108
days).
Interment at Old
Presbyterian Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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James Merritt Clements (1849-1921) —
also known as James M. Clements —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.; Nome, Nome
census area, Alaska.
Born in Ohio, October
1, 1849.
Lawyer;
Lewis
and Clark County Probate Judge, 1887-88; People's candidate for
justice
of Montana state supreme court, 1896, 1898; district judge in
Montana, 1901-16; U.S.
Attorney for the 2nd District of Alaska Territory, 1919-21;
resigned 1921.
Died in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., September
1, 1921 (age 71 years, 335
days).
Interment at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Relatives: Son
of John R. Clements and Belinda (Ramage) Clements; married to Alta D.
Cook. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
James M. Clements (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Butte (Mont.) Miner,
September 2, 1921 |
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George Clymer (1739-1813) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
16, 1739.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania at-large, 1789-91.
Episcopalian.
Died in Morrisville, Bucks
County, Pa., January
23, 1813 (age 73 years, 313
days).
Interment at Friends
Graveyard, Trenton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Howell Cobb (1815-1868) —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ga., September
7, 1815.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1843-51, 1855-57 (at-large 1843-45,
6th District 1845-51, 1855-57); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1849-51; Governor of
Georgia, 1851-53; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1857-60; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
9, 1868 (age 53 years, 32
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Isaac Coles (1747-1813) —
of Halifax
County, Va.; Pittsylvania
County, Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., March 2,
1747.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; planter;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Halifax County, 1780-81, 1783-88;
delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Halifax
County, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-91, 1793-97 (at-large 1789-91,
6th District 1793-97).
Slaveowner.
Died near Chatham, Pittsylvania
County, Va., June 3,
1813 (age 66 years, 93
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Pittsylvania County, Va.
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Novelist;
U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Henry Winslow Corbett (1827-1903) —
also known as Henry W. Corbett —
of Oregon.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., February
18, 1827.
Republican. U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1867-73; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Oregon, 1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1868-72.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., May 31,
1903 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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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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George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) —
also known as George B. Cortelyou —
of Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 26,
1862.
Republican. School
principal; confidential stenographer to President Grover
Cleveland, 1895-96; Executive Clerk of the White House, 1896-98;
secretary to President William
McKinley, 1900-01; secretary to President Theodore
Roosevelt, 1901-03; financier;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-04; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1904-07; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1905-07; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-09; president, Consolidated Gas
Company, New York, 1909-35; director, New York Life
Insurance Company; first president, Edison Electric Institute,
1933.
Member, Union
League.
Died, following two heart
attacks, in Huntington Bay, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
23, 1940 (age 78 years, 89
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Jesse Samuel Cottrell (1878-1944) —
also known as Jesse S. Cottrell —
of Tennessee; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., October
23, 1878.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1907-09; secretary to U.S. Sen.
Newell
Sanders, 1910-11; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1921-28.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Died March
24, 1944 (age 65 years, 153
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Walker Crawford (1798-1872) —
of Georgia.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., December
22, 1798.
Georgia
state attorney general, 1827; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843; Governor of
Georgia, 1843-47; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1849-50; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., July 27,
1872 (age 73 years, 218
days).
Interment at Summerville
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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John Jordan Crittenden (1787-1863) —
also known as John J. Crittenden —
of Illinois; Russellville, Logan
County, Ky.; Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born near Versailles, Woodford
County, Ky., September
10, 1787.
Lawyer;
Illinois
territory attorney general, 1809-10; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1811-17, 1825-29; served in the
U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1817-19, 1835-41, 1842-48, 1855-61;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1827-29; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1834-35; U.S.
Attorney General, 1841, 1850-53; Governor of
Kentucky, 1848-50; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1861-63.
Two of his sons were generals on opposite sides in the Civil War; a
grandson of his was killed in Gen. Custer's expedition against the
Sioux in 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., July 26,
1863 (age 75 years, 319
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Albert Baird Cummins (1850-1926) —
also known as Albert B. Cummins —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born, in a log
house, near Carmichaels, Greene
County, Pa., February
15, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1888; member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1896-1900; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1896,
1904,
1924;
Governor
of Iowa, 1902-08; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1908-26; died in office 1926; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1912,
1916.
Congregationalist.
Died of a heart
attack, in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, July 30,
1926 (age 76 years, 165
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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George Law Curry (1820-1878) —
also known as George L. Curry —
of Oregon.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 2,
1820.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; jeweler;
member of Oregon
territorial legislature, 1848-49, 1851-52; secretary
of Oregon Territory, 1853-55; Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1853, 1854, 1854-59; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1860.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 28,
1878 (age 58 years, 26
days).
Interment at Lone
Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president,
Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college
professor; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., May 13,
1742.
Ordained
minister; physician;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1801-05.
Congregationalist.
Died in Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass., July 28,
1823 (age 81 years, 76
days).
Interment at Hamilton
Cemetery, Hamilton, Mass.
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Samuel Sam Dale (1772-1841) —
also known as Sam Dale —
of Alabama; Mississippi.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., 1772.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1836.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died near Daleville, Lauderdale
County, Miss., May 24,
1841 (age about 68
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Lauderdale County, Miss.;
reinterment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817) —
also known as Alexander J. Dallas —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica,
June
21, 1759.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1791-1801; resigned 1801; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1801-14; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., January
16, 1817 (age 57 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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George Davis (1820-1896) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Porter's Neck, Pender
County, N.C., March 1,
1820.
Lawyer;
Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; Confederate
Attorney General, 1864-65.
Episcopalian.
At the end of the Civil War, with other Confederate
officials, attempted
to flee overseas, but turned
himself in at Key West, Fla.; spent several months in prison
at Fort Hamilton; pardoned
in 1866.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., February
23, 1896 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; statue erected 1911 at Third
and Market Streets, Wilmington, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Frederick Davis and Sarah Isabella (Eagles) Davis;
half-brother and fourth cousin of Horatio
Davis; married, November
17, 1842, to Mary Adelaide Polk (first cousin once removed of Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin once removed of James
Knox Polk and William
Hawkins Polk; third cousin of Marshall
Tate Polk); married, May 9,
1866, to Monimia Fairfax; great-grandnephew of Samuel
Ashe; cousin four different ways of John
Baptista Ashe (1748-1802), John
Baptista Ashe (1810-1857), Thomas
Samuel Ashe and William
Shepperd Ashe; cousin three different ways of Alfred
Moore Waddell; second cousin twice removed of William
Henry Hill. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
George Davis (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Jefferson Finis Davis (1808-1889) —
also known as Jefferson Davis —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, Miss.; Warren
County, Miss.
Born in a log
cabin, Fairview, Christian County (now Todd
County), Ky., June 3,
1808.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War;
candidate for Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1843; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Mississippi; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1845-46; served in the
U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-51, 1857-61; candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, 1851; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1853-57; President
of the Confederacy, 1861-65.
Captured
by Union
forces in May 1865 and imprisoned
without trial for about two years.
Slaveowner.
Died of bronchitis
and malaria
in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
6, 1889 (age 81 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1893 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.; memorial monument at Memorial Avenue, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Emory Davis and Jane (Cook) Davis; married, June 17,
1835, to Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter of Zachary
Taylor and Margaret
Taylor); married, February
25, 1845, to Varina Howell (granddaughter of Richard
Howell); uncle of Mary Bradford (who married Richard
Brodhead); granduncle of Jefferson
Davis Brodhead and Frances Eileen Hutt (who married Thomas
Edmund Dewey). |
| | | Political families: Taylor-Brodhead
family of Easton, Pennsylvania; Davis-Howell-Morgan-Agnew
family of New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana (subsets of the
Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jesse
D. Bright — John
H. Reagan — Horace
Greeley — Solomon
Cohen — George
W. Jones — Samuel
A. Roberts — William
T. Sutherlin — Victor
Vifquain — Charles
O'Conor |
| | | Jeff Davis
County, Ga., Jefferson Davis
Parish, La., Jefferson Davis
County, Miss. and Jeff Davis
County, Tex. are named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Jefferson Davis (built 1942 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: J.
Davis Brodhead
— Jefferson
D. Hostetter
— Jefferson
D. Blount
— Jefferson
Davis Carwile
— Jeff
Davis
— Jefferson
D. Helms
— Jefferson
Davis Wiggins
— Jefferson
Davis Parris
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appeared on Confederate States 50 cent notes in 1861-64.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Jefferson Davis: The
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(1881) |
| | | Books about Jefferson Davis: William J.
Cooper, Jr., Jefferson
Davis, American : A Biography — Varina Davis, Jefferson
Davis : Ex-President of the Confederate States of America : A Memoir
by His Wife — William C. Davis, An
Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate
Government — James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald
Kennedy, Was
Jefferson Davis Right? — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson
Davis Gets His Citizenship Back — Herman Hattaway &
Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson
Davis, Confederate President — Felicity Allen, Jefferson
Davis: Unconquerable Heart — Clint Johnson, Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of
Confederate President Jefferson Davis |
| | | Image source: Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861 |
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John Wesley Davis (1799-1859) —
also known as John W. Davis —
of Carlisle, Sullivan
County, Ind.
Born in New Holland, Lancaster
County, Pa., April
16, 1799.
Democrat. Candidate for Indiana
state senate, 1828; state court judge in Indiana, 1829-31; member
of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1831-33, 1841-43, 1851-52, 1857;
Speaker
of the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42,
1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1835-37, 1839-41, 1843-47 (2nd
District 1835-37, 1839-41, 6th District 1843-47); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1845-47; U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to China, 1848-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1852;
Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1853-54.
Died in Carlisle, Sullivan
County, Ind., August
22, 1859 (age 60 years, 128
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Carlisle, Ind.
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Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in North Hampton, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
23, 1751.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95,
1st District 1795-97); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 103
days).
Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834
at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment in 1848 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives:
Father of Henry
Alexander Scammell Dearborn. |
| | | Dearborn County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Dearborn,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The Dearborn River,
in Lewis &
Clark and Cascade
counties, Montana, is named for
him. — Mount Dearborn, a former military
arsenal on an island in the Catawba River, Chester
County, South Carolina, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1959) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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John Deere (1804-1886) —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., February
7, 1804.
Blacksmith;
inventor
of the first successful steel plow; founder of John Deere &
Company, manufacturers of farm
implements; president, National Bank of
Moline; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1873-75.
Died in Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 17,
1886 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Moline, Ill.; statue at John
Deere Historic Site, Grand Detour, Ill.
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James William Denver (1817-1892) —
also known as James W. Denver —
Born near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., October
23, 1817.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state senate, 1852-53; killed newspaper editor Edward Gilbert in
a duel
on August 2, 1852; secretary
of state of California, 1853-55; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1857-58, 1858, 1858; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1866.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
9, 1892 (age 74 years, 291
days).
Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
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George Henry Dern (1872-1936) —
also known as George H. Dern —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Dodge
County, Neb., September
8, 1872.
Democrat. General Manager of the Mercur Gold Mining and
Milling Company; joint inventor,
with Theodore P. Holt, of the Holt-Dern ore roaster; member of Utah
state senate, 1915-23; Governor of
Utah, 1925-33; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1933-36; died in office 1936; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, in a hospital,
of influenza
and kidney
failure, August
27, 1936 (age 63 years, 354
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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James De Wolf (1764-1837) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
18, 1764.
Democrat. Slave
trader; built an early cotton
mill; manufacturer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1800; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1819-21; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1821-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
21, 1837 (age 73 years, 278
days).
Original interment at De
Wolf Family Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.; reinterment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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Michael Henry de Young (1849-1925) —
also known as M. H. de Young —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
30, 1849.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; in 1879, his brother Charles de Young (1846-1880),
then editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, shot and wounded San
Francisco mayor Isaac
S. Kalloch; a few months later, Charles was shot to death in his
office by the mayor's son; on November 19, 1884, he was shot and
seriously wounded by Adolph
B. Spreckels, who had been angered by an article in the
Chronicle; Spreckels, who pleaded temporary insanity, was
tried and found not guilty; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1888,
1892,
1908,
1920.
Catholic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
15, 1925 (age 75 years, 138
days).
Entombed at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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John Dickinson (1732-1808) —
also known as "Penman of the
Revolution" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born near Trappe, Talbot
County, Md., November
13, 1732.
Planter;
lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-76; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1779; member of Delaware
state legislative council from New Castle County, 1781; President
of Delaware, 1781-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1782-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Delaware
state senate from New Castle County, 1793.
Quaker;
later Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February
14, 1808 (age 75 years, 93
days).
Interment at Friends
Burial Ground, Wilmington, Del.
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John Adams Dix (1798-1879) —
also known as John A. Dix —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boscawen, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 24,
1798.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of New York, 1833-39; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1842; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1845-49; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1860-61; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; U.S. Minister to France, 1866-69; Governor of
New York, 1873-75; defeated, 1848, 1874; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1876.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
21, 1879 (age 80 years, 271
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Presumably named
for: John
Adams |
| | | Relatives: Son-in-law of John
Jordan Morgan; son of Col. Timothy Dix, Jr. and Abigail (Wilkins)
Dix; married to Catharine Waine Morgan; first cousin thrice removed
of Roger
Sherman; second cousin once removed of Nathan
Read; third cousin once removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts, George
Frisbie Hoar, John
Hill Walbridge and Henry
E. Walbridge; third cousin twice removed of Aaron
Kellogg and Charles
Kirk Tilden; fourth cousin of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; fourth cousin once removed of Abel
Merrill, Samuel
Laning, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Amariah
Kibbe Jr., John
Lanning, Timothy
Merrill, Daniel
Putnam Tyler, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Fort Dix (established 1917 as Camp Dix; later
Fort Dix; now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), a U.S.
Army post in Burlington
County, New Jersey, is named for
him. — Dix Mountain,
in the Ardirondack Mountains, Essex
County, New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John A. Dix (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; sold 1947, scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Francis Dockweiler (1895-1943) —
also known as John F. Dockweiler —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
19, 1895.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1933-39; candidate
for Governor of
California, 1938; Los
Angeles County District Attorney, 1940-43.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
31, 1943 (age 47 years, 134
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Philip Doddridge (1773-1832) —
of Virginia.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., May 17,
1773.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 18th District, 1829-32; died in
office 1832.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
19, 1832 (age 59 years, 186
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916) —
also known as Grenville M. Dodge —
of Iowa.
Born in Danvers, Essex
County, Mass., April
12, 1831.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1867-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee); member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1872-74.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Chief engineer
of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Died in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa, January
3, 1916 (age 84 years, 266
days).
Entombed at Walnut
Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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Henry Dodge (1782-1867) —
of Ste.
Genevieve County, Mo.; Michigan; Dodgeville, Iowa
County, Wis.
Born near Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., October
12, 1782.
Democrat. General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention from Ste. Genevieve
County, 1820; member
Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-33; Governor
of Wisconsin Territory, 1836-41, 1845-48; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Slaveowner.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 19,
1867 (age 84 years, 250
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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John Addie Donald (1857-1922) —
also known as John A. Donald —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland,
July
24, 1857.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship
business; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1917-21.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
13, 1922 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Alexander William Doniphan (1808-1887) —
of Liberty, Clay
County, Mo.; Richmond, Ray
County, Mo.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., July 9,
1808.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1836, 1840, 1854; in 1838, he
refused to obey an order to execute Joseph Smith and other Mormon
leaders, calling it "cold-blooded murder"; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; led Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico,
1846-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876.
Died in Richmond, Ray
County, Mo., August
8, 1887 (age 79 years, 30
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Liberty, Mo.; statue at County Courthouse Grounds, Richmond, Mo.
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Ignatius Loyola Donnelly (1831-1901) —
also known as Ignatius L. Donnelly —
of Nininger, Dakota
County, Minn.; Hastings, Dakota
County, Minn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
3, 1831.
Lawyer;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1860-63; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1863-69; defeated,
1868, 1870; member of Minnesota
state senate, 1874-78, 1891-94 (20th District 1874-78, 24th
District 1891-94); member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1887-88, 1897-98 (District 25
1887-88, District 24 1897-98); People's candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1892; People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1900.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., January
1, 1901 (age 69 years, 59
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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James Duane Doty (1799-1865) —
also known as James D. Doty —
of Neenah, Winnebago
County, Wis.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Salem, Washington
County, N.Y., November
5, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer; federal
judge, 1828-32; member
Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1834-35; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1839-41; Governor
of Wisconsin Territory, 1841-44; delegate
to Wisconsin state constitutional convention, 1846; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1849-53; Governor
of Utah Territory, 1863-65; died in office 1865.
Presbyterian.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, June 13,
1865 (age 65 years, 220
days).
Interment at Fort
Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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John Drayton (1766-1822) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 22,
1766.
Lawyer;
author;
botanist;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1792-96, 1798, 1802-04;
Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1798-1800; Governor of
South Carolina, 1800-02, 1808-10; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1803-04; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1805-08; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1812-22.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., November
27, 1822 (age 56 years, 158
days).
Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, S.C.
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Josiah Hayden Drummond (1827-1902) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
30, 1827.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1857-58, 1869; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1858; member of Maine
state senate, 1859-60; Maine
state attorney general, 1860-63; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1864,
1884.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
25, 1902 (age 75 years, 56
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925) —
also known as James B. Duke; "Buck";
"Tobacco King" —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born near Durham, Durham
County, N.C., December
23, 1856.
Republican. Organizer and president, American Tobacco
Company, which monopolized the tobacco
industry until it was broken up in 1911; organizer of electric
power companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1904.
Left a large trust fund which supported Duke University.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1925 (age 68 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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Henry Durant (1802-1875) —
of Byfield, Newbury, Essex
County, Mass.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Acton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 18,
1802.
Pastor;
founder,
College of California; first president,
University of California, 1870-72; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1875 (age 72 years, 218
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Gabriel Duvall (1752-1844) —
of Maryland.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., December
6, 1752.
Member of Maryland state legislature, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1794-96; state court
judge in Maryland, 1796-1802; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Maryland; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1811-35.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Prince
George's County, Md., March 6,
1844 (age 91 years, 91
days).
Interment at Duvall
Memorial Garden, Marietta House, Glenn Dale, Md.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Republican. Inventor;
founder, Eastman Kodak Company; philanthropist; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March
14, 1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide
note was just six words: "My work is done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washington Eastman and Maria (Kilbourn) Eastman; first
cousin of Harvey
Gridley Eastman; third cousin of Frederick
Walker Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of James
Kilbourne and Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875); fourth cousin once removed of Silas
Condict, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Harrison
Blodget, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
George Eastman (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1977) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Eastman: Carl W.
Ackerman, George
Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography
Business — Elizabeth Brayer, George
Eastman: A Biography — Lynda Pflueger, George
Eastman: Bringing Photography to the People (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, March 31,
1924 |
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John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) —
also known as John H. Eaton —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born near Scotland Neck, Halifax
County, N.C., June 18,
1790.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1815-16; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1818-21, 1821-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1829-31; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1834-36; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1836-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Resigned
from Cabinet in 1831 during the scandal
(called the "Petticoat Affair") over past infedelities
of his second wife, Peggy Eaton.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
17, 1856 (age 66 years, 152
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Eaton (1764-1811) —
of Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt.; Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., February
23, 1764.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Clerk,
Vermont House of Representatives, 1791-92; U.S. Consul General in Tunis, 1797-1803; led multinational military force in North
Africa, 1804-05, in an effort to overthrow the Barbary pirates;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1807-08.
Died in Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 1,
1811 (age 47 years, 98
days).
Interment at Brimfield
Cemetery, Brimfield, Mass.
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Morris Michael Edelstein (1888-1941) —
also known as M. Michael Edelstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Meseritz (Międzyrzec), Poland,
February
5, 1888.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1940-41; died in
office 1941.
Jewish.
Completed delivery of a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, and then died nearby in the House cloakroom, in
the U.S.
Capitol Building, Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1941 (age 53 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, N.Y.
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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (1791-1858) —
also known as Henry L. Ellsworth; "Father of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture" —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., November
10, 1791.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1830; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1835; resigned 1835; commissioner of the U.S.
Patent Office, 1835-45.
Died in Fair Haven, New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
28, 1858 (age 67 years, 48
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver
Ellsworth and Abigail (Wolcott) Ellsworth; married, June 22,
1813, to Nancy Allen Goodrich (daughter of Elizur
Goodrich); married to Marietta Mariana Bartlett and Catherine
Smith; great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); fourth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; fourth great-grandnephew of Robert
Treat; first cousin twice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin once removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin twice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Samuel
Clesson Allen and Abijah
Blodget; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Daniel
Pitkin, Harrison
Blodget, John
William Allen, Elisha
Hunt Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Gouverneur
Morris, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Fessenden Allen, Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Walter
Harrison Blodget, Alfred
Wolcott and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; third cousin thrice removed of Robert
Treat Paine, Judson
H. Warner, Luther
Thomas Ellsworth, Henry
Augustus Wolcott, James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of James
Hillhouse, Timothy
Pitkin, Gaylord
Griswold, Elisha
Phelps and Gideon
Hard; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Hezekiah
Case, Gershom
Birdsey, Benjamin
Hard, Oliver
Owen Forward, Walter
Forward, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Abiel
Case, Chauncey
Forward, Albert
Haller Tracy, Israel
Coe, Eli
Coe Birdsey, Edmund
Holcomb, Jairus
Case, Norman
A. Phelps, Anson
Levi Holcomb, George
Smith Catlin, John
Smith Phelps, William
Gleason Jr., John
Robert Graham Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin and Allen
Jacob Holcomb; twin brother of William
Wolcott Ellsworth. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry L. Ellsworth (built 1943 at New
Orleans, Louisiana; scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Evans (1814-1897) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Waynesville, Warren
County, Ohio, March 9,
1814.
Republican. Physician;
Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1862-65; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Colorado Territory, 1868
(member, Credentials
Committee; member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker).
Methodist.
One of the founders
of Northwestern University, and of the University of Denver.
Died in Denver,
Colo., July 3,
1897 (age 83 years, 116
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Henry Failing (1834-1898) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1834.
Republican. Mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1864-65, 1873-75.
Died November
8, 1898 (age 64 years, 295
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Fairfield (1797-1847) —
of Saco, York
County, Maine.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
30, 1797.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1835-38 (3rd District 1835-37, 4th
District 1837-38); resigned 1838; Governor of
Maine, 1839-41, 1842-43; defeated, 1840; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1843-47; died in office 1847.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1847 (age 50 years, 328
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jacob Sloat Fassett (1853-1924) —
also known as J. Sloat Fassett —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Chemung
County District Attorney, 1879-80; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1880,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1884-91; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1888-92; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1891; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1891; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; banker; lumber
business.
Died in Vancouver, British
Columbia, April
21, 1924 (age 70 years, 160
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Pomeroy Fassett and Martha Ellen (Sloat) Fassett; married,
February
13, 1879, to Jennie L. Crocker (daughter of Edwin
Bryant Crocker; niece of Charles
Crocker); fourth cousin once removed of Zenas
Ferry Moody and Alfred
Clark Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Crocker-Whitehouse
family of Sacramento, California (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Fassett,
Quebec, Canada, is named for
him. — Fassett Elementary
School, in Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — Fassett Commons, a building
at Elmira College,
Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Jacob Sloat Fassett (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Buchanan Floyd (1806-1863) —
also known as John B. Floyd —
of Virginia.
Born in Smithfield, Isle of
Wight County, Va., June 1,
1806.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1847-48; Governor of
Virginia, 1849-52; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1857-60; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Died near Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., August
26, 1863 (age 57 years, 86
days).
Interment at Sinking
Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Va.
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Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880) —
also known as Henry S. Foote; "Hangman
Foote" —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., February
28, 1804.
Lawyer;
co-founder
of LaGrange College, which later became the University of North
Alabama; fought four duels;
fled
Alabama in 1830 to escape
prosecution for dueling;
U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1847-52; exchanged blows with Thomas
Hart Benton on the floor of the U.S. Senate; Governor of
Mississippi, 1852-54; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; expelled
from the Confederate Congress in early 1865 for going North on an unauthorized
peace mission; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., May 19,
1880 (age 76 years, 81
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Abiel Foster (1735-1806) —
of Canterbury, Rockingham County (now Merrimack
County), N.H.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
8, 1735.
Pastor;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1783-85; common pleas
court judge in New Hampshire, 1784-88; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1789-91, 1795-1803;
member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1792-95 (Rockingham County 1792-94, 4th
District 1794-95).
Died in Canterbury, Merrimack
County, N.H., February
6, 1806 (age 70 years, 182
days).
Interment at Center
Cemetery, Canterbury, N.H.
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John Watson Foster (1836-1917) —
also known as John W. Foster —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pike
County, Ind., March 2,
1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1868;
postmaster at Evansville,
Ind., 1869-73; Indiana
Republican state chair, 1872; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1873-80; Russia, 1880-81; Spain, 1883-85; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1892-93.
Presbyterian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
15, 1917 (age 81 years, 258
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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John Pollard Gaines (1795-1857) —
Born in Augusta
County, Va., September
22, 1795.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Kentucky
state legislature, 1830; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1847-49; Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1850-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., December
9, 1857 (age 62 years, 78
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Salem, Ore.
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George Gale (1756-1815) —
of Maryland.
Born in Somerset
County, Md., June 3,
1756.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1784; member of Maryland
state senate, 1784-90; state court judge in Maryland, 1785-86; U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1789-91.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Cecil
County, Md., January
2, 1815 (age 58 years, 213
days).
Interment at St.
Mark's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Aiken, Md.
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Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) —
also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin —
of Fayette
County, Pa.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
January
29, 1761.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of
Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
12, 1849 (age 88 years, 195
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin;
married 1789 to Sophie
Allègre; married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Davie
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: John
L. Dawson |
| | | Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Gallatin,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The village
of Galatia,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The Gallatin River,
which flows through Gallatin
County, Montana, is named for
him. — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the
Arabian
Sea) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Albert
Galliton Harrison
— Albert
G. Jewett
— Albert
G. Hawes
— Albert
G. Wakefield
— Albert
Gallatin Talbott
— Albert
G. Dow
— Albert
G. Dole
— Albert
Gallatin Kellogg
— Albert
Gallatin Marchand
— Albert
G. Brown
— Albert
G. Brodhead, Jr.
— Albert
G. Allison
— Albert
G. Riddle
— Albert
Galiton Watkins
— Albert
G. Porter
— Albert
Gallatin Egbert
— Albert
Gallatin Jenkins
— Albert
Gallatin Calvert
— Albert
G. Lawrence
— Albert
G. Foster
— Albert
G. Simms
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Albert Gallatin: John
Austin Stevens, Albert
Gallatin: An American Statesman — L. B. Kuppenheimer,
Albert
Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability — Nicholas
Dungan, Gallatin:
America's Swiss Founding Father — Raymond Walters, Albert
Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Jacob Harold Gallinger (1837-1918) —
also known as Jacob H. Gallinger —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Cornwall, Ontario,
March
28, 1837.
Republican. Physician;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1872-73, 1891; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1876; member of
New
Hampshire state senate, 1878-80 (4th District 1878-79, 10th
District 1879-80); New Hampshire
Republican state chair, 1882-90, 1898-1907; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1885-89; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1888,
1900,
1904,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1891-1918; died in office 1918;
member of Republican
National Committee from New Hampshire, 1902-04.
Died in Franklin, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
17, 1918 (age 81 years, 142
days).
Interment at Blossom
Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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Harry Augustus Garfield (1863-1942) —
also known as Harry A. Garfield; Hal
Garfield —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio, October
11, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer; university
professor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1904;
president
of Williams College, 1908-34; U.S. Fuel Administrator, 1917-19.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., December
12, 1942 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Henry George (1839-1897) —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
2, 1839.
Economist;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886 (United Labor); candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1887.
Author
of Progress and Poverty.
Died October
29, 1897 (age 58 years, 57
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Goode Jr. (1829-1909) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born near Liberty (now Bedford), Bedford
County, Va., May 27,
1829.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1851; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Bedford County, 1861;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; member of
Virginia state legislature, 1866; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 1868,
1892;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1875-81; member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1876; U.S. Solicitor General,
1885-86; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Bedford County,
1901-02.
Slaveowner.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., July 14,
1909 (age 80 years, 48
days).
Interment at Longwood
Cemetery, Bedford, Va.
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John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) —
also known as John B. Gordon —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Upson
County, Ga., February
6, 1832.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1873-80, 1891-97; Governor of
Georgia, 1886-90.
Slaveowner.
Died in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., January
9, 1904 (age 71 years, 337
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Gorrie (1803-1855) —
of Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla.
Born in Nevis,
October
3, 1803.
Physician;
postmaster at Apalachicola,
Fla., 1834-38; mayor
of Apalachicola, Fla., 1837-38; banker; inventor
of the first ice-making machine, patented in 1851.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla., June 29,
1855 (age 51 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Apalachicola, Fla.; reinterment at Gorrie Square, Apalachicola, Fla.
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Relatives:
Married 1838 to
Caroline Frances Myrick. |
| | | The John Gorrie Memorial Bridge
(built 1935; rebuilt 1988), which carries U.S. highways 98 and 319
across Apalachicola Bay, from Apalachicola to Eastpoint, in Franklin
County, Florida, is named for
him. — John Gorrie Junior
High School (built 1923; closed 1997; now an apartment
building called The John Gorrie), in Jacksonville,
Florida, was named for
him. — Gorrie Elementary
School (built 1889 as Hyde Park School; renamed 1915), in Tampa,
Florida, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Gorrie (built 1942-43 at Jacksonville,
Florida; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Palm Beach (Fla.) Post,
October 17, 1993 |
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Horace Gray (1828-1902) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1828.
Lawyer;
justice
of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902; died in office 1902.
Unitarian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., September
15, 1902 (age 74 years, 175
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
|
| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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James Wilson Grimes (1816-1872) —
also known as James W. Grimes —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Deering, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
20, 1816.
Member of Iowa
territorial legislature, 1838-43; member of Iowa state
legislature, 1852-54; Governor of
Iowa, 1854-58; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1859-69.
Congregationalist.
Died in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, February
7, 1872 (age 55 years, 110
days).
Interment at Aspen
Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Iowa.
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Mariano Guadalupe=Vallejo (1808-1890) —
Born in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., July 7,
1808.
Rancher;
member of California
state senate, 1850.
Spanish
ancestry.
Died in Sonoma, Sonoma
County, Calif., January
18, 1890 (age 81 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mountain Cemetery, Sonoma, Calif.
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James McClurg Guffey (1839-1930) —
also known as James M. Guffey —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., January
19, 1839.
Democrat. Oil
producer; at one point was the largest individual oil, coal and
gas land owner in the world; his company later merged with others to
form the Gulf Oil Corporation; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1897; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1900,
1904.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March
20, 1930 (age 91 years, 60
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander Guffey and Jane (Campbell) Guffey; married, February
16, 1888, to Nancy Elizabeth (Over) Cook. |
| | | The World War I Navy tanker SS J.M.
Guffey (built 1902 at Camden,
New Jersey; used by the British Ministry of War Transport, and
then the U.S. Navy, for transporting oil supplies during World War I;
returned to private owners after the war; renamed Meloria in
1926; scrapped in 1935) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Gunn (1753-1801) —
of Georgia.
Born in Virginia, March
13, 1753.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1789-1801.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., July 30,
1801 (age 48 years, 139
days).
Interment at Revolutionary
War Cemetery, Louisville, Ga.
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James Guthrie (1792-1869) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born near Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., December
5, 1792.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1827-29; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1831-40; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1853-57; president, Louisville and
Nashville Railroad,
1860-68; president,
University of Louisville; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1860;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1864;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1865-68.
Slaveowner.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., March
13, 1869 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Paul Hamilton (1762-1816) —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, October
16, 1762.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1787; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1794; Governor of
South Carolina, 1804-06; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1809-12.
Died in Beaufort, Beaufort District (now Beaufort
County), S.C., June 30,
1816 (age 53 years, 258
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Beaufort County, S.C.
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Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) —
of Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine; Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, August
27, 1809.
Farmer;
surveyor;
compositor;
lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-41, 1847; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1837, 1839-40; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1840;
U.S.
Representative from Maine 6th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1848-57, 1857-61, 1869-81; Governor of
Maine, 1857; Vice
President of the United States, 1861-65; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864,
1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1881-82.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 4,
1891 (age 81 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine; statue at Kenduskeag Parkway, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Hamlin and Anna (Livermore) Hamlin; brother of Elijah
Livermore Hamlin; married, December
10, 1833, to Sarah Jane Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); married, September
25, 1856, to Ellen
Vesta Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); father of Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; granduncle of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; great-granduncle of Clarence
Cutting Stetson; first cousin once removed of John
Appleton; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Sumner Hamlin; third cousin once removed of David
Sears; fourth cousin of George
Pickering Bemis; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Fisk Janes, John
Mason Jr., William
Henry Harrison Stowell, Walter
S. Bemis and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hamlin County,
S.Dak. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hamlin,
Maine, is named for
him. — The town
of Hamlin,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Hamlin,
Kansas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Hannibal Hamlin (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. — Hannibal Hamlin Hall,
at the University
of Maine, Orono,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Hannibal Hamlin: Charles
Eugene Hamlin, The
Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin — Mark Scroggins, Hannibal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining engineer;
worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;
in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt
to overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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George Handley (1752-1793) —
of Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England,
February
9, 1752.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; Governor of
Georgia, 1788-89; Richmond
County Sheriff, 1790-93.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
17, 1793 (age 41 years, 220
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) —
also known as Marcus A. Hanna; Mark Hanna;
"Dollar Mark" —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, September
24, 1837.
Republican. Partner in wholesale
grocery; head of M. A. Hanna and Co., coal
dealers; director, Globe Ship
Manufacturing Co.; president, Union National Bank;
president, Cleveland City Railroad
Co. president, Chapin Mining Co.;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1896-1904; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker);
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1897-1904; died in office 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1904 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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John Hanson (1721-1783) —
of Maryland.
Born near Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., April
14, 1721.
Planter;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1757-73; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1779-82; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Oxon Hill, Prince
George's County, Md., November
22, 1783 (age 62 years, 222
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.; statue
at Frederick County Courthouse Grounds, Frederick, Md.
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James Harlan (1820-1899) —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa.
Born in Clark
County, Ill., August
26, 1820.
Republican. Iowa
superintendent of public instruction, 1847; president
of Iowa Wesleyan College, 1853-55, 1869-70; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1855-57, 1857-65, 1867-73; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1865-66; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1868.
Methodist.
Died in Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa, October
5, 1899 (age 79 years, 40
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
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John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Boyle
County, Ky., June 1,
1833.
Republican. Lawyer;
county judge in Kentucky, 1858-59; U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1861-63; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1861-65; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1871; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1876
(delegation chair); Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1877-1911.
Presbyterian.
Died October
14, 1911 (age 78 years, 135
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Judson Harmon (1846-1927) —
of Wyoming, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Newtown, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
3, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1876-77; superior court judge in
Ohio, 1878-87; U.S.
Attorney General, 1895-97; receiver of bankrupt railways,
1905-09; Governor of
Ohio, 1909-13; candidate for Democratic nomination for President,
1912;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Baptist.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
22, 1927 (age 81 years, 19
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John Hart (c.1713-1779) —
also known as "Honest John" —
of Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer
County), N.J.
Born about 1713.
Hunterdon
County Judge, 1768-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1776-78; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1776-78.
Died, from kidney
failure, in Hopewell, Hunterdon County (now Mercer
County), N.J., May 11,
1779 (age about 66
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Mercer County, N.J.; reinterment in
1865 at First
Baptist Church Cemetery, Hopewell, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Hathorn (1749-1825) —
of Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., January
9, 1749.
Member of New York
state assembly from Orange County, 1777-78, 1779-80, 1781-85,
1794-95, 1804-05; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1786-89, 1799-1803; member of New York
council of appointment, 1787, 1789; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1789-91, 1795-97.
Slaveowner.
Died February
19, 1825 (age 76 years, 41
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Warwick
Cemetery, Warwick, N.Y.
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John Milton Hay (1838-1905) —
also known as John Hay —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Salem, Washington
County, Ind., October
8, 1838.
Private secretary and assistant to President Abraham
Lincoln; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1893-98; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1898-1905; died in office 1905.
Died in Newbury, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 1,
1905 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Helen (Leonard) Hay and Dr. Charles Hay; married, February
4, 1874, to Clara Louise Stone; father of Adelbert
Stone Hay and Alice Evelyn Hay (who married James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.); grandfather of John
Hay Whitney and James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; second cousin thrice removed of James
Hodges; third cousin twice removed of James
Leonard Hodges; fourth cousin once removed of William
Dean Kellogg and Marcus
Morton. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Morton
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Spencer
F. Eddy |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Hay (built 1943 at Panama
City, Florida; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "The Fruit of Righteousness is
sown in peace of they that make peace." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about John Milton Hay: Michael
Burlingame, ed., At
Lincoln's Side : John Hay's Civil War Correspondence and Selected
Writings — Robert L. Gale, John
Hay — Howard I. Kushner, John
Milton Hay : The Union of Poetry and Politics —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — John Taliaferro, All
the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to
Roosevelt |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine,
October 1903 |
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Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Lierbyen, Norway,
December
21, 1829.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; abolitionist; Wisconsin
state prison commissioner, elected 1859; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Suffered wounds in battle,
and died the next day, at Chickamauga, Walker
County, Ga., September
20, 1863 (age 33 years, 273
days).
Interment at Norway
Lutheran Cemetery, Wind Lake, Wis.; statue at State Capitol Grounds, Madison, Wis.
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Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) —
of North Carolina; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mocksville, Davie
County, N.C., December
27, 1829.
Author and publisher of The Impending Crisis of the South
(1857), an attack on the institution of slavery as holding the South
back economically; the book caused a furor, and was banned in the
South; U.S. Consul in Buenos Aires, 1861-66.
Killed
himself with illuminating
gas, in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1909 (age 79 years, 72
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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James Pinckney Henderson (1808-1858) —
also known as J. Pinckney Henderson —
of Marshville (unknown
county), Tex.
Born in Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., March
31, 1808.
Lawyer;
general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836-37; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1837; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; Governor of
Texas, 1846-47; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1857-58; died in office 1858.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 4,
1858 (age 50 years, 65
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Henry (1750-1798) —
of Maryland.
Born in Dorchester
County, Md., November, 1750.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1777-80; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1778-80, 1785-86; member
of Maryland
state senate, 1780-90; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1789-97; received 2 electoral votes, 1796;
Governor
of Maryland, 1797-98.
Episcopalian.
Died in Dorchester
County, Md., December
16, 1798 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Interment at Christ
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cambridge, Md.
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Hilary Abner Herbert (1834-1919) —
also known as Hilary A. Herbert —
of Greenville, Butler
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laurensville, Laurens District (now Laurens, Laurens
County), S.C., March
12, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1877-93; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1893-97.
Slaveowner.
Died March 6,
1919 (age 84 years, 359
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903) —
also known as Abram S. Hewitt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 31,
1822.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
early manufacturer of wrought
iron; U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1875-79, 1881-87; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1876-77; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1876;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1880; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1887-88.
English
and French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Ringwood, Passaic
County, N.J., January
18, 1903 (age 80 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (1859-1934) —
also known as Gilbert M. Hitchcock —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., September
18, 1859.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 2nd District, 1903-05, 1907-11; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1911-23; defeated, 1922, 1930; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Nebraska, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President; speaker),
1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1932;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1920.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1934 (age 74 years, 138
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906) —
also known as Jim Hogg —
of Wood
County, Tex.
Born in a log
cabin, near Rusk, Cherokee
County, Tex., March
24, 1851.
Democrat. Wood
County Attorney, 1878-80; District Attorney, 7th District,
1880-84; Texas
state attorney general, 1886-90; Governor of
Texas, 1891-95.
Died March 3,
1906 (age 54 years, 344
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (1826-1900) —
also known as Cyrus K. Holliday —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Cumberland
County, Pa., April 3,
1826.
Republican. Mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1859-60, 1867-68, 1869-70; first president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
1860-63; member of Kansas
state senate, 1861; Adjutant
General of Kansas, 1864-65; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1874.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., March
29, 1900 (age 73 years, 360
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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John Holmes (1773-1843) —
of Alfred, York
County, Maine.
Born in Kingston, Plymouth
County, Mass., March
14, 1773.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1802-03, 1812; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1813-14; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1817-20; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1820-27, 1829-33; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-37; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1841-43; died in office 1843.
Died July 7,
1843 (age 70 years, 115
days).
Entombed at Eastern
Cemetery, Portland, Maine; cenotaph at Parish Cemetery, Alfred, Maine.
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Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863-1941) —
also known as Alanson B. Houghton —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
10, 1863.
Republican. President, Corning Glass Works,
1910-18; vice-president, Ephraim Creek Coal and
Coke Company; director, Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1912,
1924,
1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1919-22; U.S.
Ambassador to Germany, 1922-25; Great Britain, 1925-29; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1928.
Died in South Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Bristol
County, Mass., September
15, 1941 (age 77 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hope
Cemetery Annex, Corning, N.Y.
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Relatives:
Father of Andrew
Jackson Houston; second great-grandfather of Jean Houston Baldwin
(who married Marion
Price Daniel); third great-grandfather of Marion
Price Daniel Jr.; cousin *** of David
Hubbard. |
| | | Political family: Daniel-Houston
family of Texas. |
| | | Houston counties in Minn., Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Houston,
Texas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ships SS
Sam Houston (built 1941, at Houston,
Texas; torpedoed and sunk 1942 in the Atlantic
Ocean) and SS Sam Houston II (built 1943 at the same
shipyard; scrapped 1959) were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Houston
Justice
— Sam
H. Jones
— Sam
Houston Clinton, Jr.
— Sam
H. Melton, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Sam Houston: James L.
Haley, Sam
Houston — Marquis James, The
Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston — Randolph B.
Campbell, Sam
Houston and the American Southwest — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage — Jean Fritz, Make
Way for Sam Houston (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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John Wesley Hoyt (1831-1912) —
also known as John W. Hoyt —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born near Worthington, Franklin
County, Ohio, October
13, 1831.
Wisconsin
railroad commissioner, 1874-76; Governor
of Wyoming Territory, 1878-82.
Methodist.
Died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., May 23,
1912 (age 80 years, 223
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) —
also known as Henry E. Huntington —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y., February
27, 1850.
Republican. Owned and expanded the streetcar
and trolley system in Southern California; real estate
developer; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from kidney
disease and pneumonia,
in Lankenau Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 23,
1927 (age 77 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married 1873 to Mary
Alice Prentice; married 1913 to
Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington. |
| | | The city
of Huntington
Beach, California, is named for
him. — The city
of Huntington
Park, California, is named for
him. — Huntington Lake,
in Fresno
County, California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Hotel
(built 1907 as Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the
Huntington Hotel; demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington
hotel) in Pasadena,
California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Library,
Art
Museum, and Botanical
Gardens, on his former estate, in San
Marino, California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry E. Huntington (built 1943-44 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John James Ingalls (1833-1900) —
also known as John J. Ingalls —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.
Born in Middleton, Essex
County, Mass., December
29, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of Kansas
state senate, 1862; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1862, 1864; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1873-91.
Died in Las Vegas, San Miguel
County, N.M., August
16, 1900 (age 66 years, 230
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1749.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1780-81; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1791-1800, 1811-16; U.S.
Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1800-01; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1812; district judge in
Pennsylvania, 1821-22.
Presbyterian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
31, 1822 (age 73 years, 7
days).
Interment at Old
Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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James Iredell (1751-1799) —
of North Carolina.
Born in England,
October
5, 1751.
State court judge in North Carolina, 1778; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1779-82; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1790-99; received 3 electoral
votes, 1796.
Episcopalian.
Died October
20, 1799 (age 48 years, 15
days).
Interment at Johnston
Burial Ground, Edenton, N.C.
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John Ireland (1827-1896) —
also known as "Oxcart John" —
of Texas.
Born near Millerstown, Grayson
County, Ky., January
21, 1827.
Democrat. Mayor of
Seguin, Tex., 1858; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1866; district judge in
Texas, 1866-67; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1870; member of Texas
state senate, 1870; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1875-76; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1878; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Governor of
Texas, 1883-87.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died March 5,
1896 (age 69 years, 44
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832-1895) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Paris, Henry
County, Tenn., April 8,
1832.
Democrat. State court judge in Tennessee, 1875; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1880; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1881-86; federal
judge, 1886; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Baptist.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
8, 1895 (age 63 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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James Jackson (1757-1806) —
of Georgia.
Born in Devon, England,
September
21, 1757.
Delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-91; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1793-95, 1801-06; died in office 1806; Governor of
Georgia, 1798-1801.
Killed George
Wells in a duel
in 1780; injured in both knees.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1806 (age 48 years, 179
days).
Original interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1832 at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Jay (1745-1829) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1745.
Lawyer;
law partner of Robert
R. Livingston; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76, 1778-79; state
court judge in New York, 1777; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1779-82; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; received 9 electoral votes, 1789;
received 5 electoral votes, 1796;
received one electoral vote, 1800;
Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1789-90; Governor of
New York, 1795-1801; defeated, 1792.
Episcopalian.
French
Huguenot and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 17,
1829 (age 83 years, 156
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Pierre 'Peter' Jay and Mary (Van Cortlandt) Jay; brother of James
Jay and Frederick
Jay; married to Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (daughter of William
Livingston; sister-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes; sister of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; niece of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; first cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston); father of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; grandfather of John
Jay II; grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt; second great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
P. Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, John
Cortlandt Parker, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Edward
Livingston, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); second cousin four times removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); second cousin five times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Bronson
Murray Cutting, Brockholst
Livingston, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Jay County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Jay (built 1941-42 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
J. Walbridge
— John
J. Jackson
— John
Jay Jackson, Jr.
— John
Jay Hart
— John J.
Good
— John
Jay Knox
— John
J. Kleiner
— John
J. Carton
— John
J. McCarthy
— John
J. Dorman
— John
Jay Hopkins
— John
J. McCloy
— John
Jay Justice
— John
Jay Pilar
— John
Jay Hooker
— John
Jay LaValle
— John
Jay Myers
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John Jay: Walter Stahr, John
Jay : Founding Father — Phil Webster, Can
a Chief Justice Love God? The Life of John Jay |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1958) |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
School
principal; author; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09; university
professor.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma
Pi Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Washington Julian (1817-1899) —
also known as George W. Julian —
of Centerville, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born near Centerville, Wayne
County, Ind., May 5,
1817.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1849-51, 1861-71 (4th District
1849-51, 5th District 1861-69, 4th District 1869-71); Free Soil
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1852; received 5 electoral votes
for Vice-President, 1872.
Died July 7,
1899 (age 82 years, 63
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Joseph Warren Keifer (1836-1932) —
also known as J. Warren Keifer —
of Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio.
Born in Bethel Township, Clark
County, Ohio, January
30, 1836.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Ohio
state senate, 1868-69; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1876,
1908;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-85, 1905-11 (8th District 1877-79,
4th District 1879-81, 8th District 1881-85, 7th District 1905-11);
defeated, 1910; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1881-83; general in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; United
Spanish War Veterans.
Died April
22, 1932 (age 96 years, 83
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.
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James Kerr Kelly (1819-1903) —
also known as James K. Kelly —
of Clackamas
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Blanchard, Centre
County, Pa., February
16, 1819.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
member of Oregon
territorial legislature, 1853; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Clackamas County,
1857; member of Oregon
state senate, 1860; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1860-62; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1871-77; member of Democratic
National Committee from Oregon, 1876; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; chief
justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1888.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
15, 1903 (age 84 years, 211
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Benjamin Kendrick (1857-1933) —
also known as John B. Kendrick —
of Sheridan, Sheridan
County, Wyo.
Born near Jacksonville, Cherokee
County, Tex., September
6, 1857.
Democrat. Rancher;
member of Wyoming
state senate, 1910; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Wyoming, 1916,
1924;
Honorary Vice-President, 1912;
member, Platform and Resolutions Committee, 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Wyoming, 1915-17; U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1917-33; died in office 1933.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Sheridan, Sheridan
County, Wyo., November
3, 1933 (age 76 years, 58
days).
Interment at Sheridan
Municipal Cemetery, Sheridan, Wyo.
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Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881) —
also known as Judson Kilpatrick;
"Kilcavalry" —
of New Jersey.
Born near Deckertown (now Sussex), Sussex
County, N.J., January
14, 1836.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Minister to Chile, 1866-70, 1881, died in office 1881; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1880.
Died of a kidney
ailment, in Santiago, Chile,
December
2, 1881 (age 45 years, 322
days).
Interment at United States Military Academy Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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James Gore King (1791-1853) —
also known as James G. King —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 8,
1791.
Whig. Banker;
president, Erie Railroad,
1835-37; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1849-51.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Weehawken, Hudson
County, N.J., October
3, 1853 (age 62 years, 148
days).
Interment at Grace
Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
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John Henry Kinkead (1826-1904) —
also known as John H. Kinkead —
of Carson
City, Nev.; Sitka,
Alaska; Unionville, Pershing
County, Nev.
Born in Smithfield, Somerset
County, Pa., December
10, 1826.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; treasurer
of Nevada Territory, 1862-64; delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; postmaster at Sitka,
Alaska, 1867-69; Governor of
Nevada, 1879-83; Governor
of Alaska District, 1884-85.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., August
15, 1904 (age 77 years, 249
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Philosophical Society.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Thomaston
Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine.
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Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at Terminal
Island, California; torpedoed and lost in the Indian
Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Philander Chase Knox (1853-1921) —
also known as Philander C. Knox —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., May 6,
1853.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of James
H. Reed, 1877-1902; U.S.
Attorney General, 1901-04; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1904-09, 1917-21; resigned 1909; died
in office 1921; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1909-13; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Washington,
D.C., October
12, 1921 (age 68 years, 159
days).
Interment at Washington
Memorial Cemetery, Valley Forge, Pa.
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Harry Lane (1855-1917) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore., August
28, 1855.
Democrat. Mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1913-17; died in office 1917.
Died May 23,
1917 (age 61 years, 268
days).
Interment at Lone
Fir Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Henry Smith Lane (1811-1881) —
also known as Henry S. Lane —
of Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind.
Born near Sharbsburg, Bath
County, Ky., February
24, 1811.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1837-38; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1840-43; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Indiana; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1856
(Permanent
Chair; speaker),
1868;
Governor
of Indiana, 1861; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1861-67.
Methodist.
Died in Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind., June 18,
1881 (age 70 years, 114
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Ind.
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James Henry Lane (1814-1866) —
also known as James H. Lane; "Liberator of
Kansas"; "Fighting Jim" —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., June 22,
1814.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1855, 1857; Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1855; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1861-66; died in office 1866; general in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Freemasons.
Deranged, and charged
with financial irregularities, he was mortally wounded by a self-inflicted
gunshot
on July 1, 1866, and died ten days later, near Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., July 11,
1866 (age 52 years, 19
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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John Langdon (1741-1819) —
of Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., June 26,
1741.
Democrat. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775-76, 1787; served
in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New
Hampshire state senate from Rockingham County, 1784-85; President
of New Hampshire, 1785-86, 1788-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1789-1801; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1805-09, 1810-12; received 9 electoral votes for
Vice-President, 1808.
Congregationalist.
Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
18, 1819 (age 78 years, 84
days).
Entombed at North
Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H.
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John Laurance (1750-1810) —
of New York.
Born near Falmouth, England,
1750.
Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1785-87; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1787-89; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1789-93; U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1794-96; resigned 1796; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1796-1800.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1810 (age about 60
years).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843) —
also known as Hugh S. Legaré —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., January
2, 1797.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1820-21, 1824-30; South
Carolina state attorney general, 1830-32; U.S. Charge d'Affaires
to Belgium, 1832-36; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 5th District, 1837-39; U.S.
Attorney General, 1841-43; died in office 1843.
Scottish
and French
Huguenot ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 20,
1843 (age 46 years, 169
days).
Original interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Asbury Francis Lever (1875-1940) —
also known as A. Frank Lever —
of Lexington, Lexington
County, S.C.; Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born near Springhill, Lexington
County, S.C., January
5, 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Rep. J.
William Stokes, 1897-1901; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Lexington County,
1900-01; resigned 1901; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 7th District, 1901-19.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Lexington
County, S.C., April
28, 1940 (age 65 years, 114
days).
Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Clemson, S.C.
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John Alexander Lillington (c.1725-1786) —
also known as Alexander Lillington —
Born in North Carolina, about 1725.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777; general in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Died in New Hanover County (part now in Pender
County), N.C., April, 1786
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Lillington Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
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John Lind (1854-1930) —
of New Ulm, Brown
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Kanna, Smaland, Sweden,
March
25, 1854.
School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1887-93, 1903-05 (2nd District
1887-93, 5th District 1903-05); served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
Minnesota, 1899-1901; defeated (Democratic), 1896, 1900; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1904;
Prohibition candidate for Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1916.
Unitarian.
Swedish
ancestry.
Lost
his left hand in a boyhood accident.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., September
18, 1930 (age 76 years, 177
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Henry Dickinson Lindsley (1872-1938) —
also known as Henry D. Lindsley —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
29, 1872.
Mayor
of Dallas, Tex., 1915-17; colonel in the U.S. Army during World
War I.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
18, 1938 (age 66 years, 0
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Glenard Paul Lipscomb (1915-1970) —
also known as Glenard P. Lipscomb —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., August
19, 1915.
Republican. Accountant;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1947-53; U.S.
Representative from California 24th District, 1953-70; died in
office 1970; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1956,
1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Kiwanis;
Elks.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
1, 1970 (age 54 years, 166
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Alexander Logan (1826-1886) —
also known as John A. Logan; "Black Jack";
"Black Eagle of Illinois" —
of Benton, Franklin
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Murphysboro, Jackson
County, Ill., February
9, 1826.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1852; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1859-62, 1867-71 (9th District
1859-62, at-large 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1868,
1880;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1871-77, 1879-86; died in office 1886;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1884;
Republican candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1884.
Member, Freemasons.
Conceived the idea of Memorial Day and inaugurated the observance in
May 1868.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1886 (age 60 years, 320
days).
Entombed at U.S.
Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jack Griffith London (1876-1916) —
also known as Jack London; John Griffith
Chaney —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
12, 1876.
Socialist. Novelist;
candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist).
Died in Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif., November
22, 1916 (age 40 years, 315
days).
Interment at Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery, Glen Ellen, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married 1900 to
Elizabeth May Maddern; married 1905 to
Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge. |
| | | Mount
London, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Haines
Borough, Alaska, is named for
him. — Jack London Square (entertainment and business
development),
and the surrounding Jack London District neighborhood,
in Oakland,
California, are named for
him. — Jack London Lake
(Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London Nature
Park, in Magadan
Oblast, Russia, are named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Jack London (built 1943 at Sausalito,
California; scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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James Longstreet (1821-1904) —
also known as "Old Pete" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., January
8, 1821.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1880-81.
Died in Gainesville, Hall
County, Ga., January
2, 1904 (age 82 years, 359
days).
Interment at Alta
Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga.
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
22, 1819.
Writer,
poet,
critic,
professor,
and abolitionist; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877-80; Great Britain, 1880-85.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died of cancer,
in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
12, 1891 (age 72 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Horace Harmon Lurton (1844-1914) —
of Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., February
26, 1844.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Tennessee state supreme court, 1886-93; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1893-1909; law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1909-14; died in office 1914.
Episcopalian.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., July 12,
1914 (age 70 years, 136
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Clarksville, Tenn.
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James Madison (1751-1836) —
also known as "Father of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights" —
of Virginia.
Born in Port Conway, King George
County, Va., March
16, 1751.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5th
District 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97); U.S.
Secretary of State, 1801-09; President
of the United States, 1809-17.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
He was elected in 1905 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Slaveowner.
Died in Montpelier, Orange
County, Va., June 28,
1836 (age 85 years, 104
days).
Interment at Montpelier
Plantation, Montpelier Station, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;
brother of William
Taylor Madison; married, September
15, 1794, to Dolley
Todd (sister-in-law of Richard
Cutts and John
George Jackson); first cousin once removed of George
Madison; first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of Zachary
Taylor; second cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., Nathaniel
Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton and Samuel
Bullitt Churchill; second cousin thrice removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Clement
F. Dorsey, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Gabriel
Slaughter, Andrew
Dorsey, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry, Gustavus
Adolphus Henry, David
Shelby Walker, Alexander
Warfield Dorsey, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Rice Slaughter, James
David Walker, David
Shelby Walker Jr. and Eli
Huston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Madison counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Tenn., Tex. and Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — Mount
Madison, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Madison (1808-13), and the subsequent city
of Fort
Madison, Iowa, were named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
James Madison (built 1942 at Houston,
Texas; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Madison Broom
— James
Madison Hite Beale
— James
Madison Porter
— James
M. Buchanan
— James
Madison Gregg
— J.
Madison Wells
— James
M. Tarleton
— James
Madison Hughes
— James
M. Marvin
— James
M. Edmunds
— James
Madison Gaylord
— James
M. Leach
— James
Turner
— James
M. Harvey
— James
M. Seymour
— James
Madison Barker
— James
Madison Mullen
— James
M. Candler
— James
Madison McKinney
— James
M. Morton
— James
Madison Barrett, Sr.
— James
M. Gudger, Jr.
— James
Madison Morton, Jr.
— James
Madison Woodard
— James
M. Waddell, Jr.
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Madison: Ralph Louis
Ketcham, James
Madison : A Biography — Garry Wills, James
Madison — Robert Allen Rutland, The
Presidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Samuel
Kernell, ed., James
Madison: The Theory and Practice of Republican
Government — Kevin R. C. Gutzman, James
Madison and the Making of America |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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James George Maguire (1853-1920) —
also known as James G. Maguire —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
22, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 13th District, 1875-77; superior court judge in
California, 1882-88; U.S.
Representative from California 4th District, 1893-99; candidate
for Governor of
California, 1898; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1900,
1912
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 20,
1920 (age 67 years, 119
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Horace Mann (1796-1859) —
also known as "The Father of American Public
Education" —
of Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Franklin, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 4,
1796.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1827-33; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1833-37; secretary, Massachusetts Board of
Education, 1837-48; founder and editor of The Common School
Journal; became a national leader in improving and reforming
public schools; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1848-53; Free
Soil candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1852; president
and professor
at Antioch College, 1852-59.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio, August
2, 1859 (age 63 years, 90
days).
Original interment somewhere in Yellow Springs, Ohio; reinterment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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James Manning (1738-1791) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
22, 1738.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1786.
Baptist.
Co-founder,
in 1764, of Rhode Island College (now Brown University).
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., July 29,
1791 (age 52 years, 280
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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John Marshall (1755-1835) —
of Virginia.
Born in Germantown, Fauquier
County, Va., September
24, 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782-96; U.S.
Attorney for Virginia, 1789; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1800-01; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-35; died in office 1835;
received 4 electoral votes for Vice-President, 1816.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 6,
1835 (age 79 years, 285
days).
Interment at Shockoe
Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Marshall (1730-1802) and Mary Randolph (Keith) Marshall;
brother-in-law of William
McClung, George
Keith Taylor and Joseph
Hamilton Daviess; brother of James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall (1770-1825); married, January
3, 1783, to Mary Willis Ambler (daughter of Jacquelin
Ambler); father of Thomas
Marshall (1784-1835), Mary Marshall (who married Jacquelin
Burwell Harvie) and James
Keith Marshall; uncle and first cousin once removed of Thomas
Alexander Marshall; uncle of Edward
Colston, Thomas
Francis Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall (1808-1884), Alexander
Keith McClung, Charles
Alexander Marshall and Edward
Colston Marshall; granduncle by marriage of Humphrey
Marshall (1812-1872); granduncle of John
Augustine Marshall; great-grandfather of Lewis
Minor Coleman; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; great-granduncle of Hudson
Snowden Marshall, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin and brother-in-law of Humphrey
Marshall (1760-1841); first cousin once removed of William
Marshall Anderson and Charles
Anderson; first cousin twice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Randolph of Roanoke, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of John
Gardner Coolidge; third cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; third cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Edith
Wilson and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Tuck-Claude
family of Annapolis, Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Marshall counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Miss., Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Marshall (built 1941-42 at Mobile,
Alabama; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
Marshall Stone
— John
Marshall Martin
— John
Marshall Harlan
— J.
Marshall Hagans
— John
M. Claiborne
— John
M. Hamilton
— John
M. Raymond
— John M.
Rose
— John
M. Slaton
— John
M. Wolverton
— John
M. Robsion
— John
Marshall Hutcheson
— John
M. Butler
— John
Marshall Harlan
— John
M. Robsion, Jr.
— John
Marshall Briley
— John
Marshall Lindley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $20 U.S. Treasury note in the 1880s, and on the
$500 bill in the early 20th century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges |
| | | Books about John Marshall: Jean Edward
Smith, John
Marshall : Definer of a Nation — Charles F. Hobson, The
Great Chief Justice : John Marshall and the Rule of
Law — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation
1815-1835 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction
1800-1815 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 — Albert J. Beveridge, The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier,
Lawmaker — David Scott Robarge, A
Chief Justice's Progress: John Marshall from Revolutionary Virginia
to the Supreme Court — R. Kent Newmyer, John
Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Alexander Martin (1740-1807) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Hunterdon
County, N.J., 1740.
Lawyer;
Governor
of North Carolina, 1782-85, 1789-92; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1793-99.
Slaveowner.
Died in Rockingham
County, N.C., November
2, 1807 (age about 67
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Stokes County, N.C.
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George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) —
also known as George B. McClellan; "Little
Mac" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
3, 1826.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1864; Governor of
New Jersey, 1878-81.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal
Legion.
Died October
29, 1885 (age 58 years, 330
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.; statue erected 1907 at Connecticut
Avenue, Washington, D.C.
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George Washington McCrary (1835-1890) —
of Iowa.
Born near Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., August
29, 1835.
Republican. Member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1857; member of Iowa
state senate, 1861-65; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1869-77; member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1870-72; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1877-79; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the
8th Circuit, 1879-84; resigned 1884.
Died in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., June 23,
1890 (age 54 years, 298
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa.
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Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.; Vansville, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Kennebunk, York
County, Maine, December
7, 1808.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1863-65; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1865-69, 1884-85.
Died in Vansville, Prince
George's County, Md., May 24,
1895 (age 86 years, 168
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh McCulloch (1773-1830) and Abigail (Perkins) McCulloch;
married, June 23,
1834, to Eunice Hardy; married, March
21, 1838, to Susan Maria Man. |
| | | McCulloch Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Hugh McCulloch (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on $20 U.S. national bank notes in 1902.
|
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Comptrollers
of the Currency |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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James McHenry (1753-1816) —
of Maryland.
Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), November
16, 1753.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Maryland
state senate, 1781-85, 1791-95; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1783-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1788-89; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1796-1800.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died near Baltimore (unknown
county), Md., May 3,
1816 (age 62 years, 169
days).
Interment at Westminster
Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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James Iver McKay (1792-1853) —
also known as James I. McKay —
of Elizabethtown, Bladen
County, N.C.
Born near Elizabethtown, Bladen
County, N.C., July 17,
1792.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1815-19, 1822, 1826, 1830; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1831-49 (5th District
1831-43, 6th District 1843-47, 7th District 1847-49).
Slaveowner.
Died in Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C., September
14, 1853 (age 61 years, 59
days).
Interment at James
Iver McKay Cemetery, Bladen County, N.C.
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John McKinley (1780-1852) —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Florence, Lauderdale
County, Ala.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., May 1,
1780.
Member of Alabama state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1826-31, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1833-35; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1837-52; died in office 1852.
Slaveowner.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 19,
1852 (age 72 years, 79
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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John McLean (1785-1861) —
of Ridgeville, Warren
County, Ohio; Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Morris
County, N.J., March
11, 1785.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1813-16; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1816-22; Commissioner of the General
Land Office, 1822-23; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1823-29; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1829-61; died in office 1861;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1856,
1860.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio, April 4,
1861 (age 76 years, 24
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John W. Meldrum (1843-1936) —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Caledonia, Livingston
County, N.Y., September
17, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; carpenter;
wagon
maker; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wyoming Territory, 1882; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wyoming Territory, 1884;
Surveyor General of Wyoming Territory, 1884-85; secretary
of Wyoming Territory, 1889-90; U.S. Commissioner in Yellowstone
National Park, 1894-1935.
Died in Denver,
Colo., February
27, 1936 (age 92 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jesse Houghton Metcalf (1860-1942) —
also known as Jesse H. Metcalf —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., November
16, 1860.
President of a woolen
manufacturing company; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Rhode Island, 1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee); member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1889-91, 1907; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1924-37; defeated (Republican), 1936;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee); member of Republican
National Committee from Rhode Island, 1935-40.
Unitarian.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
9, 1942 (age 81 years, 327
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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George von Lengerke Meyer (1858-1918) —
also known as George V. L. Meyer —
of Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 24,
1858.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1892-96; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1894-96; U.S.
Ambassador to Italy, 1900-05; Russia, 1905-07; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1907-09; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1909-13.
Died March 9,
1918 (age 59 years, 258
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Middleton (1717-1784) —
of South Carolina.
Born near Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., 1717.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1778.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 13,
1784 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Church
of St. James, Charleston, S.C.
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John Milledge (1757-1818) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Georgia, 1757.
Georgia
state attorney general, 1780-81; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1792-93, 1795-99, 1801-02;
Governor
of Georgia, 1802-06; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1806-09.
Slaveowner.
Died February
9, 1818 (age about 60
years).
Interment at Summerville
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) —
of New York.
Born in Fordham, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., July 19,
1879.
Lawyer;
law partner of George
V. Mullan, 1902-13; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1913; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1914-17; defeated (Fusion), 1917; on
April 17, 1914, at Park Row, New York, he was shot
at by an Michael P. Mahoney, an unemployed carpenter; the bullet
missed the mayor, but struck and wounded Frank L. Polk, the city's
Corporation Counsel.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Killed in a plane
crash during World
War I military training, at Gerstner Field, near Holmwood, Calcasieu
Parish, La., July 6,
1918 (age 38 years, 352
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Columbia University, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
October
17, 1817.
Democrat. Banker;
president, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
1864-87; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1871-75 (1st District 1871-73, 4th
District 1873-75); defeated, 1868; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1887 (age 69 years, 184
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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James Monroe (1758-1831) —
of Spotsylvania
County, Va.; Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April
28, 1758.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Spotsylvania County, 1788; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930.
Slaveowner.
Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831 (age 73 years, 67
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; subsequently entombed at
New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1858
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married, February
16, 1786, to Eliza Kortright and Elizabeth
Kortright; father of Eliza Kortright Monroe (who married George
Hay) and Maria Hester Monroe (who married Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur); nephew of Joseph
Jones; uncle of Thomas
Bell Monroe and James
Monroe (1799-1870); granduncle of Victor
Monroe; great-grandnephew of Douglas Robinson (who married Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson); second great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop; third great-granduncle of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; first cousin once removed of William
Grayson; second cousin of Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and John
Brady Grayson. |
| | | Political family: Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Monrovia,
Liberia, is named for
him. — Mount
Monroe, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Fort
Monroe (military installation 1819-2011), at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,
Virginia, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
James Monroe (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Monroe
— James
Monroe
— James
M. Pendleton
— James
M. Jackson
— James
Monroe Letts
— James
M. Ritchie
— James
M. Rosse
— James
M. Comly
— James
Monroe Buford
— James
M. Seibert
— J.
Monroe Driesbach
— James
M. Lown
— James
M. Miller
— James
Monroe Jones
— James
Monroe Hale
— James
Monroe Spears
— J.
M. Alford
— James
M. Lown, Jr.
— James
M. Miley
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100 silver certificate in the 1880s and
1890s. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James Monroe: Harry Ammon,
James
Monroe: The Quest for National Identity |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Motley Morehead (1796-1866) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., July 4,
1796.
Whig. Lawyer; railroad
promoter; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1821, 1826-27, 1838; Governor of
North Carolina, 1841-45; Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62.
Died in Alum Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., August
27, 1866 (age 70 years, 54
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Greensboro, N.C.
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John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907) —
also known as John T. Morgan —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Athens, McMinn
County, Tenn., June 20,
1824.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; general in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1876,
1900;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1877-1907; died in office 1907.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1907 (age 82 years, 356
days).
Interment at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) —
also known as "Penman of the
Constitution" —
of Westchester
County, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., January
31, 1752.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1777; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1777-78; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Minister to France, 1792-94; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1800-03.
Episcopalian.
Died in Morrisania, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., November
6, 1816 (age 64 years, 280
days).
Interment at St.
Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
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Ira Nelson Morris (1875-1942) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 8,
1875.
Democrat. U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1914-23; Consul-General
for Romania in Chicago,
Ill., 1929.
Jewish.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
15, 1942 (age 66 years, 313
days).
Entombed at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John Morton (c.1724-1777) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Ridley Township, Delaware
County, Pa., about 1724.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Anglican.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died April 1,
1777 (age about 53
years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Chester, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902) —
also known as J. Sterling Morton —
of Otoe
County, Neb.
Born in Adams, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April
22, 1832.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1855-57; secretary
of Nebraska Territory, 1858-61; Governor
of Nebraska Territory, 1858-59, 1861; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1866, 1882; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1888;
U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Member, Chi Psi.
Died in Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill., April
27, 1902 (age 70 years, 5
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Nebraska City, Neb.
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John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916) —
also known as John S. Mosby; "The Gray
Ghost" —
of Bristol,
Va.; Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Powhatan
County, Va., December
6, 1833.
In 1852, he shot
and wounded George R. Turpin, with whom he had quarreled; arrested
and tried,
ultimately convicted
only of the misdemeanor charge of unlawful
shooting and sentenced
to one year in jail; pardoned
by Gov. Joseph
Johnson in 1853; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; U.S. Consul in Hong Kong, 1878-85.
Scottish
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1916 (age 82 years, 176
days).
Interment at Warrenton
Cemetery, Warrenton, Va.
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John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) —
also known as J. Lothrop Motley —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
15, 1814.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1840; U.S. Minister to Austria, 1861-67; Great Britain, 1869-70.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1910.
Died in Dorset, England,
May
29, 1877 (age 63 years, 44
days).
Interment at Kensal
Green Cemetery, London, England.
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Abner Nash (1740-1786) —
of Jones
County, N.C.
Born near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., August
8, 1740.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777-78, 1782, 1784-85; member of North
Carolina state senate from Jones County, 1779; Governor of
North Carolina, 1780-81; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-86; died in
office 1786.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died while attending a session of the Continental
Congress, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
2, 1786 (age 46 years, 116
days).
Original interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Pembroke
Plantation Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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James Willis Nesmith (1820-1885) —
also known as James W. Nesmith —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.; Rickreall, Polk
County, Ore.
Born in New
Brunswick of American parents, July 23,
1820.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1861-67; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1873-75.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Rickreall, Polk
County, Ore., June 17,
1885 (age 64 years, 329
days).
Interment at Nesmith Family Cemetery, Rickreall, Ore.
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John George Nicolay (1832-1901) —
also known as John G. Nicolay; Johann
Georg —
Born in Essingen, Germany,
February
26, 1832.
Newspaper
editor; private secretary to President Abraham
Lincoln, 1861-65; U.S. Consul in Paris, as of 1865-69.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
26, 1901 (age 69 years, 212
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Ignatius Nolan (1874-1922) —
also known as John I. Nolan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
14, 1874.
Republican. Iron molder;
officer,
International Iron Moulders Union; secretary,
San Francisco Labor Council, 1912; U.S.
Representative from California 5th District, 1913-22; died in
office 1922.
Died November
18, 1922 (age 48 years, 308
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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George William Norris (1861-1944) —
also known as George W. Norris —
of McCook, Red Willow
County, Neb.
Born in Sandusky
County, Ohio, July 11,
1861.
Lawyer;
district judge in Nebraska 14th District, 1896-1903; resigned 1903;
U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 5th District, 1903-13; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1913-43; defeated (Independent), 1942;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1928.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in McCook, Red Willow
County, Neb., September
2, 1944 (age 83 years, 53
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, McCook, Neb.
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Relatives:
Married 1890 to Pluma
Lashley; married 1903 to Ella
Leonard; grandfather of Harvey
Frans Nelson Jr.. |
| | | Norris Dam
(built 1933-36), on the Clinch River, in Anderson
and Campbell
counties, Tennessee, and the Norris Lake
reservoir, which also extends into Claiborne,
Grainger,
and Union
counties, are named for
him. — The city
of Norris,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
George W. Norris (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; wrecked and lost in the North
Pacific Ocean, 1946) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about George Norris: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1961) |
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James Warren Nye (1814-1876) —
also known as James W. Nye —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in DeRuyter, Madison
County, N.Y., June 10,
1814.
Republican. Lawyer; Madison
County Surrogate, 1844-47; Madison
County Judge, 1847-51; Free Soil candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1848; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860;
Governor
of Nevada Territory, 1861-64; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1864-73; member of Republican
National Committee from Nevada, 1870-.
Died in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
25, 1876 (age 62 years, 198
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Presley Neville O'Bannon (1776-1850) —
also known as "The Hero of Deme" —
of Russellville, Logan
County, Ky.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., 1776.
During the war against the Barbary pirates, as lieutenant, he led a
detachment of U.S. Marines and assorted mercenaries to Deme, in North
Africa, in 1805, to rescue an American crew held captive by the Pasha
of Tripoli; the words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn
commemorate these events; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1812, 1817, 1820-21; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1824-26.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Henry
County, Ky., September
12, 1850 (age about 74
years).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1919 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Jeremiah O'Brien (1744-1818) —
of Machias, Washington
County, Maine.
Born in Kittery, York
County, Maine, 1744.
Captain in the Massachusetts State Navy; commanded ships during the
Revolutionary War; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1811-18; died in office 1818.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Machias, Washington
County, Maine, 1818
(age about
74 years).
Interment at O'Brien
Cemetery, Machias, Maine.
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Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Washington
County, Ohio, February
10, 1837.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1860;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1892;
general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
Died, from a rupture of the
heart, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 30,
1917 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Owen (1787-1841) —
of Bladen
County, N.C.
Born in Bladen
County, N.C., 1787.
Whig. Lawyer; planter; Governor of
North Carolina, 1828-30; delegate to Whig National Convention
from North Carolina, 1839 (Convention Vice-President; chair,
Balloting Committee; member, Committee on Permanent Organization;
chair, Committee to Notify Nominees; speaker).
Died October
9, 1841 (age about 54
years).
Interment somewhere
in Pittsboro, N.C.
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John Page (1743-1808) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gloucester
County, Va., April
17, 1743.
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 10th
District 1791-93, 12th District 1793-97); Governor of
Virginia, 1802-05.
Slaveowner.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
11, 1808 (age 65 years, 177
days).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Richmond, Va.
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936) —
also known as A. Mitchell Palmer; "The Fighting
Quaker" —
of Stroudsburg, Monroe
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Moosehead, Luzerne
County, Pa., May 4,
1872.
Democrat. Lawyer; bank
director; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 26th District, 1909-15; member
of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1912-20; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1912
(speaker),
1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1914; U.S. Alien Property Custodian,
1917-19; U.S.
Attorney General, 1919-21; target of assassination
attempts in 1919; instigator of the "Palmer Raids" in 1919-20, in
which over 10,000 legal immigrants were arrested and held for
deportation; most were eventually released; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1932.
Quaker.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a heart
condition following surgery for appendicitis,
in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 11,
1936 (age 64 years, 7
days).
Interment at Laurelwood
Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Pa.
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John McAuley Palmer (1817-1900) —
also known as John M. Palmer —
of Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Eagle Creek, Scott
County, Ky., September
13, 1817.
Lawyer;
probate judge in Illinois, 1843-47; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Macoupin County,
1847; county judge in Illinois, 1849-52; member of Illinois
state senate, 1852-56; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1859; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Illinois; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Governor
of Illinois, 1869-73; defeated (Democratic), 1888; received 3
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1872;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1884;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1891-97; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Illinois, 1896; Gold Democratic candidate
for President
of the United States, 1896.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., September
25, 1900 (age 83 years, 12
days).
Interment at Carlinville
City Cemetery, Carlinville, Ill.
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John Rockey Park (1833-1900) —
also known as John R. Park —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Tiffin, Seneca
County, Ohio, May 7,
1833.
Republican. School
teacher; president,
University of Deseret (now University of Utah), 1869-92; Utah
superintendent of public instruction, 1895-1900; died in office
1900.
Mormon.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
29, 1900 (age 67 years, 145
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Relatives: Son
of John Park and Anna Elizabeth (Waggoner) Park. |
| | | The Park Building
at the University
of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is named for
him. — Draper Park School
(built 1912; converted to city hall 1972; sold 2017), in Draper,
Utah, was named for
him. — Draper Park Middle
School (built 2013), in Draper,
Utah, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
John R. Park (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the English
Channel, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Salt Lake Herald,
September 30, 1900 |
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John Milliken Parker (1863-1939) —
also known as John M. Parker —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Washington, St. Landry
Parish, La., March
16, 1863.
Cotton
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1920;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1920-24; defeated (Progressive), 1916.
Presbyterian.
Died May 20,
1939 (age 76 years, 65
days).
Entombed at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) —
Born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
22, 1778.
Novelist;
poet;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1838-41.
Said to have written the rhyme 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers'.
Died in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 6,
1860 (age 81 years, 228
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Henry Clay Payne (1843-1904) —
also known as Henry C. Payne —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Ashfield, Franklin
County, Mass., November
23, 1843.
Republican. Postmaster at Milwaukee,
Wis., 1876-85; president, Wisconsin Telephone
Company; president, Milwaukee Electric
Railway and Light
Company; president, American Street
Railway Association; receiver, Northern Pacific Railroad;
member of Republican
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1880-1904; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1904; Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1892; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1902-04; died in office 1904.
Methodist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
4, 1904 (age 60 years, 316
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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John Barton Payne (1855-1935) —
of Kingwood, Preston
County, W.Va.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pruntytown, Taylor
County, Va. (now W.Va.), January
26, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; chair of
Preston County Democratic Party, 1877-82; superior court judge in
Illinois, 1893-98; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1919-20; resigned
1920; chair, U.S. Shipping Board, 1919-20; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1920-21.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died January
24, 1935 (age 79 years, 363
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright;
author of the lines which were later adapted as the song "Home Sweet
Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Hunt Pendleton (1825-1889) —
also known as George H. Pendleton —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, July 19,
1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate 1st District, 1854-55; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1857-65; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1864;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1864; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1868;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1869; president, Kentucky Central Railroad,
1869-79; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1879-85; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1885-89.
Died in Brussels, Belgium,
November
24, 1889 (age 64 years, 128
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Jane (Hunt) Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; married 1846 to Mary
Alicia 'Alice' Key (daughter of Francis
Scott Key; sister of Philip
Barton Key); father of Francis
Key Pendleton; nephew of Edmund
Henry Pendleton; grandson of Nathaniel
Pendleton; great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin once removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of John
Pendleton Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John
Penn; third cousin of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin once removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Zachary
Taylor, William
Barret Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; fourth cousin of Coleby
Chew; fourth cousin once removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, James
Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
George H. Pendleton (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1970) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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John Penn (1741-1788) —
of Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Port Royal, Caroline
County, Va., May 17,
1741.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1777.
Died in Granville
County, N.C., September
14, 1788 (age 47 years, 120
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Granville County, N.C.; reinterment
in 1894 at Guilford
Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial
monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Penn and Catherine (Taylor) Penn; married, July 28,
1763, to Susannah Lyne; first cousin once removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin of John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; second cousin once removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Zachary
Taylor, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of William
Barret Pendleton, George
Cassety Pendleton, James
Benjamin Garnett, Francis
Key Pendleton, Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton, John
Overton Pendleton, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk, Charles
Sumner Pendleton and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Penn (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed and lost in the Greenland
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Clement Perkins (1839-1923) —
also known as George C. Perkins —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Kennebunkport, York
County, Maine, August
23, 1839.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
miller;
steamship
business; member of California
state senate, 1869-76; Governor of
California, 1880-83; U.S.
Senator from California, 1893-1915; appointed 1893.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
26, 1923 (age 83 years, 187
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) —
also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Tyrrell
County, N.C., July 4,
1828.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Mortally wounded at the Battle of
Gettysburg, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, Berkeley
County, W.Va., July 17,
1863 (age 35 years, 13
days).
Original interment somewhere in Raleigh, N.C.; reinterment in 1865 at Pettigrew Family Cemetery, Tyrrell County, N.C.
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James Duval Phelan (1861-1930) —
also known as James D. Phelan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April
20, 1861.
Democrat. Banker; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1897-1902; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1900,
1916,
1924,
1928;
custodian of the Relief and Red Cross Funds after the 1906 San
Francisco earthquake and fire; U.S.
Senator from California, 1915-21; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California.
Died in Saratoga, Santa Clara
County, Calif., August
7, 1930 (age 69 years, 109
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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John Sargent Pillsbury (1827-1901) —
also known as John S. Pillsbury —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Sutton, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 29,
1827.
Republican. Member of Minnesota
state senate, 1864-68, 1871, 1873-75 (4th District 1864-68, 1871,
25th District 1873-75); Governor of
Minnesota, 1876-82.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., October
18, 1901 (age 74 years, 81
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue erected 1900 at University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Mahlon Pitney (1858-1924) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., February
5, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1895-99; member of
New
Jersey state senate from Morris County, 1899-1901; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1901-08; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1908-12; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1912-22.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
9, 1924 (age 66 years, 308
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Morristown, N.J.
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John Prentiss Poe (1836-1909) —
also known as John P. Poe —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
22, 1836.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state senate from Baltimore city 2nd District, 1890-92; Maryland
state attorney general, 1891-95; member, Platform and Resolutions Committee, Democratic
National Convention, 1904.
Died in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., October
14, 1909 (age 73 years, 53
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Neilson Poe and Josephine Emily (Clemm) Poe; married to Anne
Johnson Hough; father of Edgar
Allan Poe. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John P. Poe (built 1942 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1972) was named for
him. |
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George Poindexter (1779-1853) —
of Woodville, Wilkinson
County, Miss.; Wilkinson, Wilkinson
County, Miss.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., 1779.
Mississippi
territory attorney general, 1803-07; member of Mississippi
territorial House of Representatives, 1806; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Mississippi Territory, 1807-13; served in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1813-17; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1817-19; defeated,
1820, 1822; Governor of
Mississippi, 1820-22; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1830-35.
Slaveowner.
Died September
5, 1853 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) —
of Travelers Rest, Greenville
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 2,
1779.
Democrat. U.S. Consul General in Buenos Aires, 1811-14; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1816-20; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1821-25; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1825-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1837-41.
Member, Freemasons.
Gave important help to Latin American independence movements.
Slaveowner.
Died near Statesburg, Sumter
County, S.C., December
12, 1851 (age 72 years, 285
days).
Interment at Church
of Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery, Statesburg, S.C.
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.;
reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Russell Pope (1874-1937) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
24, 1874.
Architect;
member, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1917-22.
Died, following an operation, at the Harkness Pavilion of the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1937 (age 63 years, 125
days).
Interment at Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, R.I.
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George Bryan Porter (1791-1834) —
also known as George B. Porter —
Born in Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
9, 1791.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1824-29; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1827; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1831-34; died in office 1834.
Presbyterian.
Died in a cholera
epidemic in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 6,
1834 (age 43 years, 147
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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James Madison Porter (1793-1862) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., January
6, 1793.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; law
professor; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1843-44; member of Pennsylvania state
legislature, 1849.
Presbyterian.
Founder,
in 1826, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
Died in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., November
11, 1862 (age 69 years, 309
days).
Interment at Easton
Cemetery, Easton, Pa.
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James Hubert Price (1878-1943) —
also known as James H. Price —
of Virginia.
Born in Greenbrier
County, W.Va., September
7, 1878.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1916-30; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1930-38; Governor of
Virginia, 1938-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1940.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
22, 1943 (age 65 years, 76
days).
Interment at Thornrose
Cemetery, Staunton, Va.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton and
sugar planter;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of
Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Slaveowner.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison,
but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Thomas Rainey (1860-1934) —
also known as Henry T. Rainey —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.
Born in Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill., August
20, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; farmer; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 20th District, 1903-21, 1923-34;
defeated, 1920; died in office 1934; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1933-34; died in office 1934; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1920,
1924,
1932.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., August
19, 1934 (age 73 years, 364
days).
Interment at Carrollton
Cemetery, Carrollton, Ill.
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Alexander Ramsey (1815-1903) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born near Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., September
8, 1815.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1843-47; Governor
of Minnesota Territory, 1849-53; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1855-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President; member, Platform
Committee); Governor of
Minnesota, 1860-63; defeated, 1857; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1863-75; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1879-81.
Methodist
or Presbyterian.
Scottish
and German
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., April
22, 1903 (age 87 years, 226
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833) —
of Charlotte
County, Va.
Born in Cawsons, Prince
George County, Va., June 2,
1773.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1799-1813, 1815-17, 1819-25,
1827-29, 1833 (at-large 1799-1807, 15th District 1807-13, 16th
District 1815-17, 1819-21, 5th District 1821-25, 1827-29, 1833); died
in office 1833; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1825-27; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1830.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 24,
1833 (age 59 years, 356
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Charlotte County, Va.; reinterment
at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Randolph and Frances (Bland) Randolph; half-brother of Henry
St. George Tucker; nephew of Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790); uncle of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; grandson of Richard
Randolph; grandnephew of Richard
Bland; first cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775) and Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; first cousin four times removed of John
Gardner Coolidge; second cousin of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell, Fitzhugh
Lee and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Benjamin
Earl Cabell, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Edith
Wilson and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of Henry
De La Warr Flood, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt, Francis
Beverley Biddle, William
Welby Beverley, Joel
West Flood and Earle
Cabell; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd; third cousin of John
Wayles Eppes and Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846); third cousin once removed of David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817) and Meriwether
Lewis; third cousin twice removed of Douglass
Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Lawton Davis, Connally
Findlay Trigg, William
Henry Robertson and Richard
Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of Thomas
Jones Hardeman, James
Meriwether (1788-1852), Bailey
Hardeman, David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George
Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben
Handy Meriwether. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Randolph (built 1941 at Baltimore,
Maryland; mined and sank, in the Denmark
Strait, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — U.S. State Dept career summary |
| | | Image source: The South in the Building
of the Nation (1909) |
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John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869) —
Born in Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., February
13, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869; died in office 1869.
Died, of consumption (tuberculosis),
in Washington,
D.C., September
6, 1869 (age 38 years, 205
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1874 at Rawlins
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820-1869) —
also known as Henry J. Raymond —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lima town, Livingston
County, N.Y., January
24, 1820.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; founder of the New York Times; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 7th District, 1850-51, 1862;
Speaker
of the New York State Assembly, 1851, 1862; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1855-56; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1864-66; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1865-67.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1869 (age 49 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Read (1733-1798) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.
Born near North East, Cecil
County, Md., September
18, 1733.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1774-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Delaware state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Delaware
state legislative council from New Castle County, 1776-79,
1782-83; President
of Delaware, 1777-78; member of Delaware
house of assembly, 1779-80; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1789-93; justice of
Delaware state supreme court, 1793-98.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., September
21, 1798 (age 65 years, 3
days).
Interment at Immanuel
Churchyard, New Castle, Del.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Henninger Reagan (1818-1905) —
also known as John H. Reagan —
of Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex.
Born in Sevierville, Sevier
County, Tenn., October
8, 1818.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1847; district judge in Texas,
1852-57; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1857-61, 1875-87 (1st District
1857-61, 1875-83, 2nd District 1883-87); delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
Postmaster General, 1861-65; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1872,
1904
(Honorary
Vice-President); delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1887-91.
Methodist.
Arrested
by Union
troops in May 1865, along with Jefferson
Davis, and imprisoned
for several months.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
in Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex., March 6,
1905 (age 86 years, 149
days).
Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Palestine, Tex.
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Henry Mower Rice (1816-1894) —
also known as Henry M. Rice —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Waitsfield, Washington
County, Vt., November
29, 1816.
Democrat. Fur
trader; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1853-57; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-63; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1865.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
15, 1894 (age 77 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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James Burchill Richardson (1770-1836) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Camden District (part now in Clarendon
County), S.C., October
28, 1770.
Planter;
Governor
of South Carolina, 1802-04; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1806-13 (Clarendon & Claremont 1806-10,
Clarendon 1810-13); resigned 1813; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1816-18.
Episcopalian.
Died in Sumter District (part now in Clarendon
County), S.C., April
28, 1836 (age 65 years, 183
days).
Interment at Richardson
Cemetery, Near Remini, Clarendon County, S.C.
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Albert Cabell Ritchie (1876-1936) —
also known as Albert C. Ritchie —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Richmond,
Va., August
29, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer; Maryland
state attorney general, 1915-19; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1916
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1924,
1928;
Governor
of Maryland, 1920-35; defeated, 1934; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1924,
1932.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Delta
Phi.
Died, of a parlytic
stroke, in Baltimore,
Md., February
24, 1936 (age 59 years, 179
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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James Rolph Jr. (1869-1934) —
also known as "Sunny Jim" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
23, 1869.
Republican. Banker; shipbuilder;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1912-31; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1920
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1932;
Governor
of California, 1931-34; defeated, 1918; died in office 1934.
Died in Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 2,
1934 (age 64 years, 283
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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John Carter Rose (1861-1927) —
also known as John C. Rose —
of Maryland.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April
27, 1861.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Maryland, 1898-1910; U.S.
District Judge for Maryland, 1910-22; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1922-27; died in
office 1927.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., March
26, 1927 (age 65 years, 333
days).
Interment at Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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George Ross (1730-1779) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., May 10,
1730.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; state court judge in
Pennsylvania, 1779.
Died July 14,
1779 (age 49 years, 65
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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James Delmage Ross (1872-1939) —
also known as J. D. Ross —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Chatham, Ontario,
November
9, 1872.
Electrical
engineer;
Seattle superintendent of lighting (electric
power), 1911-39; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
1935-37; administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, 1937.
Died, from a heart
attack, following surgery for stomach
and intestinal
ailments, in the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., March
14, 1939 (age 66 years, 125
days).
Interment at Ross Family Burial Site, Newhalem, Wash.
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Relatives:
Married 1907 to Alice
M. Wilson. |
| | | Mount
Ross, in Whatcom
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Ross Dam
(built 1937-49), on the Skagit River, in Whatcom
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Ross Lake,
a reservoir in Whatcom
County, Washington, which also extends into British
Columbia, Canada, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS J.
D. Ross (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; sold and renamed SS Lampsis; sank during a storm
in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was originally named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "J.D. Ross, one of the
greatest Americans of our generation, was an outstanding
mathematician and equally great engineer. He had also the practical
ability to make things work in the spirit of public opinion and
successful business. More than that, he was a philosopher and lover
and student of trees and flowers. His successful career and
especially his long service in behalf of the public interest are
worthy of study by every American boy." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Henry Rosseter (1869-1936) —
also known as John H. Rosseter —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
6, 1869.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1920.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April
28, 1936 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Jeremiah McLain Rusk (1830-1893) —
also known as Jeremiah M. Rusk —
of Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis.
Born in Malta, Morgan
County, Ohio, June 17,
1830.
Republican. Member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1871-77 (6th District 1871-73, 7th
District 1873-77); Governor of
Wisconsin, 1882-89; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1889-93.
Died in Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis., November
21, 1893 (age 63 years, 157
days).
Interment at Viroqua
Cemetery, Viroqua, Wis.
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John Rutledge (1739-1800) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., September
18, 1739.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina House of Commons, 1761-76; South
Carolina state attorney general, 1764-65; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1774; President
of South Carolina, 1776-78; Governor of
South Carolina, 1779-82; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782, 1784-90; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
received 6 electoral votes, 1789;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-91; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1795; common pleas court judge in
South Carolina, 1791-95.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., July 23,
1800 (age 60 years, 308
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Church Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Anson Peacely Killen Safford (1830-1891) —
also known as A. P. K. Safford; "The Little
Governor"; "Father of Arizona Public
Schools" —
of California; Humboldt
County, Nev.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Hyde Park, Lamoille
County, Vt., February
14, 1830.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly 17th District, 1857-59; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1869-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arizona Territory, 1880.
Died in Tarpon Springs, Pinellas
County, Fla., December
15, 1891 (age 61 years, 304
days).
Interment at Cycadia
Cemetery, Tarpon Springs, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Warren Safford and Diantha (Little) Safford; married, July 24,
1869, to Jennie L. Tracy; married, December
12, 1878, to Marguerite F. Grijalva; married, September
10, 1881, to Soledad Bonillas; first cousin once removed of Ephraim
Safford; second cousin of John
Jay Walbridge, James
Safford and David
Safford Walbridge; second cousin once removed of Robert
Crawford Safford; second cousin twice removed of Cyrus
Packard Walbridge and Edward
L. Safford. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Safford,
Arizona, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Anson P. K. Safford (built 1943 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891) —
Born in Woodbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 15,
1823.
U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1861-69.
Died May 21,
1891 (age 67 years, 340
days).
Interment at Long
Hill Cemetery, Shelton, Conn.
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John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) —
also known as John M. Schofield —
Born in Gerry, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1868-69.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at Wilsons Creek, Mo., August 10,
1861.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., March 4,
1906 (age 74 years, 156
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) —
also known as Henry R. Schoolcraft —
of Mackinac Island, Mackinac
County, Mich.
Born in Guilderland, Albany
County, N.Y., March
28, 1793.
Glassmaker;
geologist;
U.S. Indian Agent, 1822-41; member
Michigan territorial council from Brown, Chippewa, Crawford and
Michilimackinac counties, 1828-31.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
10, 1864 (age 71 years, 257
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Lawrence Schoolcraft and Margaret Anna Barbara (Rowe) Schoolcraft;
married, October
12, 1823, to Jane Johnston; married, January
12, 1847, to Mary Howard; uncle of John
Lawrence Schoolcraft and Richard
Updike Sherman; granduncle of James
Schoolcraft Sherman (who married Carrie
Babcock Sherman) and James
Teller Schoolcraft; first cousin once removed of Peter
P. Schoolcraft. |
| | | Political families: Seward
family of New York; Schoolcraft-Sherman
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Schoolcraft
County, Mich. is named for him. |
| | | The village
of Schoolcraft,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry R. Schoolcraft (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; wrecked and scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Schureman (1756-1824) —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
12, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; merchant;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1783-85,
1788; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1786-87; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1789-91, 1797-99, 1813-15
(at-large 1789-91, 1797-99, 2nd District 1813-15); U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1799-1801; mayor
of New Brunswick, N.J., 1801-13, 1821-24; died in office 1824;
member of New Jersey
State Council from Middlesex County, 1808, 1810, 1812-13.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., January
22, 1824 (age 67 years, 344
days).
Interment at First
Reformed Church Cemetery, New Brunswick, N.J.
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Irving Murray Scott (1837-1903) —
also known as Irving M. Scott —
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., December
25, 1837.
Republican. Civil
engineer; shipbuilder;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April
28, 1903 (age 65 years, 124
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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George Nicholas Seger (1866-1940) —
also known as George N. Seger —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1866.
Republican. Builder;
mayor
of Passaic, N.J., 1911-19; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1923-40 (7th District 1923-33,
8th District 1933-40); died in office 1940.
Member, Royal
Arcanum; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died August
26, 1940 (age 74 years, 235
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Sergeant (1779-1852) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
5, 1779.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1815-23, 1827-29, 1837-41 (1st
District 1815-23, 2nd District 1827-29, 1837-41); National Republican
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1832.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
23, 1852 (age 72 years, 354
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Sevier (1745-1815) —
Born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham
County, Va., September
23, 1745.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1790-91; Governor of
Tennessee, 1796-1801, 1803-09; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1811-15; died in office
1815.
Slaveowner.
Died in Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala., September
24, 1815 (age 70 years, 1
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1889 at Knox
County Courthouse Grounds, Knoxville, Tenn.
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John Franklin Shafroth (1854-1922) —
also known as John F. Shafroth —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Fayette, Howard
County, Mo., June 9,
1854.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1895-1904; resigned
1904; Governor of
Colorado, 1909-13; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1913-19; defeated (Democratic), 1918.
Died in Denver,
Colo., February
20, 1922 (age 67 years, 256
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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George Sharswood (1810-1883) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 7,
1810.
Lawyer;
law
professor; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1837; district judge in
Pennsylvania, 1845-67; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1868-82; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1879-82.
Presbyterian.
Died May 28,
1883 (age 72 years, 325
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The World War II
Liberty ship SS George Sharswood (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "This monument, erected by
membes of the Philadelphia bar, commemorates the genius and virtues
of one distinguished as a legal author and professor of law,
President Judge of the District Court, Associate and Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) —
Born in Frederick County (part now in Washington
County), Md., December
11, 1750.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1782; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
Kentucky, 1792-96, 1812-16; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died of a broken blood
vessel in the head, in Lincoln
County, Ky., July 18,
1826 (age 75 years, 219
days).
Interment at Shelby Traveller's Rest Burying Ground, Stanford, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Evan Shelby and Letitia 'Leddy' (Cox) Shelby; married, April
19, 1783, to Susannah Hart; father of Susanna Hart Shelby (who
married James
Shannon); grandfather of Anna Nelson Shelby (who married Beriah
Magoffin); great-grandfather of Beriah
Magoffin Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Shannon-Shelby
family. |
| | | Shelby counties in Ala., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
of Shelby,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Indiana, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — The city
of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Isaac Shelby (built 1944 at Brunswick,
Georgia; mined and wrecked in the Tyrrhenian
Sea, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835-1902) —
also known as Alexander R. Shepherd; "Boss
Shepherd"; "The Father of Modern
Washington" —
of Washington,
D.C.; Batopilas, Chihuahua.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
30, 1835.
Republican. Plumber;
real
estate developer; Governor of
the District of Columbia, 1873-74.
Died, from appendicitis
and peritonitis,
in Batopilas, Chihuahua,
September
12, 1902 (age 67 years, 225
days).
Entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; statue at John A. Wilson Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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John Sherman (1823-1900) —
also known as "The Ohio Icicle" —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, May 10,
1823.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1855-61; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1861-77, 1881-97; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-81; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880,
1884,
1888;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1897-98.
Methodist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 1900 (age 77 years, 165
days).
Interment at Mansfield
Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman and Lampson
Parker Sherman; married, August
31, 1848, to Margaret Sarah Cecilia Stewart; uncle of Mary Hoyt
Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Sherman (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; sold 1947; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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James Shields (1806-1879) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Rice
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo.
Born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), May 10,
1806.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1839-41; Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1841-43; in 1842, when the
Springfield paper published letters from "Aunt Becca" ridiculing him,
Shields demanded to know who wrote them; Abraham
Lincoln (then a Springfield lawyer) acknowledged responsibility,
and Shields challenged him to a duel,
which was averted only through the intervention of friends; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1843-45; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1845-47; general in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1849, 1849-55; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1858-59; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1868; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1874, 1879; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1879.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, June 1,
1879 (age 73 years, 22
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at Courthouse Grounds, Carrollton, Mo.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, St. Paul, Minn.
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George Shiras Jr. (1832-1924) —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., January
26, 1832.
Lawyer;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1892-1903; retired 1903.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, as the result of a fall, in
Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
2, 1924 (age 92 years, 189
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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George Laird Shoup (1836-1904) —
also known as George L. Shoup —
of Colorado; Lemhi
County, Idaho; Salmon, Lemhi
County, Idaho; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Kittanning, Armstrong
County, Pa., June 15,
1836.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
delegate
to Colorado state constitutional convention, 1864; Lemhi
County Treasurer; member of Idaho
territorial House of Representatives, 1874; member
Idaho territorial council, 1878; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Idaho Territory, 1880;
member of Republican
National Committee from Idaho Territory, 1880-84, 1888-90; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1889-90; member of Republican
National Committee from Idaho, 1890-92, 1896; Governor of
Idaho, 1890; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1890-1901.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, December
21, 1904 (age 68 years, 189
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891) —
also known as Henry H. Sibley —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Mendota, Dakota
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
20, 1811.
Democrat. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1848-49; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Minnesota Territory, 1849-53; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 6th District, 1855; Governor of
Minnesota, 1858-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
18, 1891 (age 79 years, 363
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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John Drake Sloat (1781-1867) —
Born in Sloatsburg, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 6,
1781.
Commodore in U.S. Navy; claimed California for the United States on
July 7, 1846; Military
Governor of California, 1846.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
28, 1867 (age 86 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Presidio
of Monterey, Monterey, Calif.
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Albert Keith Smiley (1828-1912) —
also known as Albert K. Smiley —
Born in Vassalboro, Kennebec
County, Maine, March
17, 1828.
School
principal; created a resort
hotel, now known as Mohonk Mountain House, where many important
conferences were held; member, U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners,
1879-1912; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1888.
Died in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., December
2, 1912 (age 84 years, 260
days).
Interment at Poughkeepsie
Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873-1944) —
also known as Alfred E. Smith; Al Smith; "The
Happy Warrior"; "The Brown Derby";
"The King of Oliver Street"; "The First
Citizen" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
30, 1873.
Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 2nd District, 1904-15; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1913; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920,
1932,
1936;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 11th District, 1915;
Governor
of New York, 1919-21, 1923-29; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1920,
1932;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1928; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 12th District, 1938.
Catholic.
Irish,
German,
and Italian
ancestry.
Died October
4, 1944 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.; statue at Alfred
E. Smith Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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James Smith (1719-1806) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Dublin, Ireland,
September
17, 1719.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1780.
Presbyterian.
Died in York, York
County, Pa., July 11,
1806 (age 86 years, 297
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, York, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Michael Hoke Smith (1855-1931) —
also known as M. Hoke Smith —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Newton, Catawba
County, N.C., September
2, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1893-96; Governor of
Georgia, 1907-09, 1911; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1911-21.
Presbyterian.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
27, 1931 (age 76 years, 86
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
6, 1854.
Republican. Band
conductor; composer;
honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1924.
Bavarian
and Portugese
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Audubon
Society.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1973.
Died, in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel,
Reading, Berks
County, Pa., March 6,
1932 (age 77 years, 121
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Canfield Spencer (1788-1855) —
also known as John C. Spencer —
of Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
8, 1788.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster
at Canandaigua,
N.Y., 1816; U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1817-19; member of New York
state assembly from Ontario County, 1819-21, 1831, 1833; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1820; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1825-28; secretary
of state of New York, 1839-42; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1843-44.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 18,
1855 (age 67 years, 130
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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James Sprunt (1846-1924) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
June
9, 1846.
Served in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War; cotton exporter;
Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Wilmington,
N.C., 1884-1915.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Injured in a carriage accident in 1882, and his foot was
amputated.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., July 9,
1924 (age 78 years, 30
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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Abel Stearns (1798-1871) —
also known as "Cara de Caballo"; "Horse
Face" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Lunenburg, Worcester
County, Mass., February
9, 1798.
Delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1849; member of California
state assembly, 1851-52, 1861-62 (2nd District 1851-52, 1st
District 1861-62).
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
23, 1871 (age 73 years, 195
days).
Original interment somewhere
in San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Steele (1764-1815) —
of North Carolina.
Born in North Carolina, 1764.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1815
(age about
51 years).
Interment at Chestnut
Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) —
also known as Alexander H. Stephens; "The Little Pale
Star from Georgia" —
of Crawfordville, Taliaferro
County, Ga.
Born near Crawfordville, Taliaferro
County, Ga., February
11, 1812.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Georgia
state senate, 1842; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1843-59, 1873-82 (at-large 1843-45,
7th District 1845-53, 8th District 1853-59, 1873-82); candidate for
Presidential Elector for Georgia; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Vice
President of the Confederacy, 1861-65; arrested
for treason
in May 1865, and held for five months at Fort Warren; Governor of
Georgia, 1882-83; died in office 1883.
Slaveowner.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 4,
1883 (age 71 years, 21
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.; reinterment at Alexander
H. Stephens Memorial State Park, Crawfordville, Ga.
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) —
also known as Isaac I. Stevens —
of Washington.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March
25, 1818.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1853-57; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1857-61; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed at the Civil
War battle of Chantilly, Fairfax
County, Va., September
1, 1862 (age 44 years, 160
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Ox Hill Battlefield Park, Fairfax County, Va.
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Relatives:
Cousin *** of Charles
Abbot Stevens and Moses
Tyler Stevens. |
| | | Political family: Stevens-Woodhull
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Stevens counties in Minn. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a state
park) in Warrenton,
Oregon, was named for
him. — Fort
Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a park)
in Washington,
D.C., was named for
him. — The city
(and lake)
of Lake
Stevens, Washington, is named for
him. — The town
of Stevensville,
Montana, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(6,838 feet), in Shoshone
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(5,372 feet), in Bingham
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Upper Stevens Lake,
and Lower Stevens Lake,
in Shoshone
County, Idaho, are named for
him. — The Stevens Hall dormitory,
at Washington State University,
Pullman,
Washington, is named for
him. — Isaac I. Stevens Elementary
School (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001),
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Middle
School, in Port
Angeles, Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Junior
High School (now Middle School), in Pasco,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of
his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous
heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his
command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the
battle of Chantilly, Va." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:
Joseph Taylor Hazard, Companion
of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of
Washington |
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John Stevens III (1749-1838) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 26,
1749.
Lawyer;
inventor;
New
Jersey state treasurer, 1776-79; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; successfully advocated for the first
U.S. patent law (1790); innovated steam-powered ships and
locomotives; built railroads
in New Jersey.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Bergen Township, Bergen County (part now in Hoboken, Hudson
County), N.J., March 6,
1838 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevens and Elizabeth (Alexander) Stevens; brother of Mary
Stevens (who married Robert
R. Livingston); married, October
17, 1782, to Rachel Cox; grandson of James
Alexander; great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster and Johannes
de Peyster; second great-granduncle of Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin of Philip
Peter Livingston; first cousin once removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
DePeyster, William
Duer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish, Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin once removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Matthew
Clarkson and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip
DePeyster. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
John Stevens (built 1942 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John White Stevenson (1812-1886) —
also known as John W. Stevenson —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Richmond,
Va., May 2,
1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1845-48; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1848,
1852,
1856,
1880
(Permanent
Chair); delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1857-61; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1867; Governor of
Kentucky, 1867-71; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1871-77.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Slaveowner.
Died in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., August
10, 1886 (age 74 years, 100
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Granville Stuart (1834-1918) —
of Montana.
Born in 1834.
U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1894-98; Uruguay, 1894-98.
Died October
2, 1918 (age about 84
years).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Deer Lodge, Mont.
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James Sullivan (1744-1808) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Berwick, York
County, Maine, April
22, 1744.
State court judge in Massachusetts, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782-83; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1790-1807; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1807-08; died in office 1808.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
10, 1808 (age 64 years, 232
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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John Sullivan (1740-1795) —
of Durham, Strafford
County, N.H.
Born in Somersworth, Strafford
County, N.H., February
17, 1740.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1774, 1780-81; served
in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1782-86; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1782-83; member
of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1785-86; President
of New Hampshire, 1786-88, 1789-90; federal
judge, 1789; U.S.
District Judge for New Hampshire, 1789-95; died in office 1795.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Freemasons.
Died in Durham, Strafford
County, N.H., January
23, 1795 (age 54 years, 340
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (1830-1898) —
also known as Adolph Sutro —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Germany,
April
29, 1830.
Cigar and
tobacco merchant; promoted and led the construction of the Sutro
Tunnel, to drain water from the silver
mines of the Comstock Lode in Nevada; real estate
investor; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1895-97.
Jewish.
German
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
8, 1898 (age 68 years, 101
days).
Interment at Home
of Peace Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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John Augustus Sutter (1803-1880) —
also known as John A. Sutter; Johann August
Sutter —
of Lititz, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Kandern, Baden (now Germany),
February
23, 1803.
Established a Swiss settlement in California called New Helvetia, and
built Sutter's Fort; became famous following the 1848 discovery of
gold at his mill, which started the California Gold Rush; candidate
for Governor of
California, 1849.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 18,
1880 (age 77 years, 116
days).
Interment at Moravian Cemetery, Lititz, Pa.
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James Swan (1754-1830) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Paris, France.
Born in Fife, Scotland,
1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; twice
wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1777-78; imprisoned
for debt in
Paris, from 1808 to about 1830.
Died in Paris, France,
July
31, 1830 (age about 76
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Taylor (1716-1781) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Ireland,
1716.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Presbyterian.
Died in 1781
(age about
65 years).
Original interment at St.
John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, Easton, Pa.; reinterment at Easton
Cemetery, Easton, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) —
of Alabama.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
21, 1851.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97.
Author
of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1922 (age 71 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Henry Moore Teller (1830-1914) —
also known as Henry M. Teller —
of Central City, Gilpin
County, Colo.
Born in Granger, Allegany
County, N.Y., May 23,
1830.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1876-82, 1885-1909; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1882-85; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Colorado, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker).
Died in Denver,
Colo., February
23, 1914 (age 83 years, 276
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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George Thatcher (1754-1824) —
also known as George Thacher —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Massachusetts, 1754.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1789-1801 (6th District
1789-91, 8th District 1791-93, 4th District 1793-95, 3rd District
1795-97, at-large 1797-1801); state court judge in Massachusetts,
1792; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1801-24.
Died in 1824
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Biddeford, Maine.
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Jacob Thompson (1810-1885) —
of Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Leasburg, Caswell
County, N.C., May 15,
1810.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1839-51 (at-large 1839-47, 1st
District 1847-51); U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1857-61; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., March
24, 1885 (age 74 years, 313
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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John Tipton (1786-1839) —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Sevier
County, Tenn., August
14, 1786.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-23; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1832-39.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April 6,
1839 (age 52 years, 235
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Ind.
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Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Taunton, England,
September
7, 1766.
Secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president,
Transylvania University, 1804-18; judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1804; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19.
Died in Millry, Washington
County, Ala., November
11, 1823 (age 57 years, 65
days).
Interment somewhere
in Millry, Ala.; cenotaph at Spring Hill Graveyard, Mobile, Ala.
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John Adam Treutlen (1734-1782) —
also known as John A. Treutlen; Hans Adam
Treuettlen —
of Georgia.
Born in Kürnbach, Germany,
January
16, 1734.
Merchant;
planter;
justice of the peace; Governor of
Georgia, 1777-78.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Seized and murdered
by a group of men, probably in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March 1,
1782 (age 48 years, 44
days).
Cenotaph at Veterans Park of Effingham County, Springfield, Ga.
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John Trumbull (1750-1831) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Westbury, New Haven County (now Watertown, Litchfield
County), Conn., April
24, 1750.
Lawyer;
poet;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1801-19.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 10,
1831 (age 81 years, 16
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) —
of Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield
County, Va., December
29, 1780.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1815-19; member of Virginia
state senate, 1819-23; law
professor; chancellor, 4th District, 1824-31; Judge, Virginia
Court of Appeals, 1831-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
28, 1848 (age 67 years, 243
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Frances (Bland) Tucker and St.
George Tucker; half-brother of John
Randolph of Roanoke; married, September
23, 1806, to Ann Evelina Hunter; father of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and John
Randolph Tucker; nephew of Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790) and Thomas
Tudor Tucker; grandfather of Henry
St. George Tucker (1853-1932); grandnephew of Richard
Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of George
Tucker; first cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee; second cousin four times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, John
Wayles Eppes, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); third cousin once removed of David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Meriwether
Lewis, Thomas
Marshall, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Edmund
Randolph and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of William
Lewis Cabell, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, George
Craighead Cabell, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Frederick
Madison Roberts and Douglass
Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Lawton Davis, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Benjamin
Earl Cabell, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt, Francis
Beverley Biddle and Richard
Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George
Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben
Handy Meriwether. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Tucker County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Henry St.G. Tucker (built 1942 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Turner (1766-1824) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., December
20, 1766.
Democrat. Farmer; Governor of
North Carolina, 1802-05; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1805-16.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., January
15, 1824 (age 57 years, 26
days).
Interment at Bloomsbury
Cemetery, Warrenton, N.C.
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Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) —
of Virginia.
Born in Northampton
County, Va., June 17,
1790.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in
Virginia, 1826-41; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1843-44; died in office 1844.
Episcopalian.
Among those killed in the explosion
when a cannon
accidentally
burst on
board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort
Washington, Prince
George's County, Md., February
28, 1844 (age 53 years, 256
days).
Originally entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1874 at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) —
also known as "The Little Magician"; "Old
Kinderhook"; "Red Fox of Kinderhook";
"Matty Van"; "American Talleyrand";
"Blue Whiskey Van" —
of Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
5, 1782.
Lawyer;
Columbia
County Surrogate, 1808-13; member of New York
state senate Middle District, 1812-20; New York
state attorney general, 1815-19; appointed 1815; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1821-28; Governor of
New York, 1829; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1829-31; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Vice
President of the United States, 1833-37; President
of the United States, 1837-41; defeated, 1840 (Democratic), 1848
(Free Soil); candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1844.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died, reportedly due to asthma,
but more likely some kind of heart
failure, in Kinderhook, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 24,
1862 (age 79 years, 231
days).
Interment at Kinderhook
Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Van Buren and Maria (Hoes) Van Alen Van Buren;
half-brother of James
Isaac Van Alen; married to the sister-in-law of Moses
I. Cantine; married, February
21, 1807, to Hannah Hoes; father of John
Van Buren; second cousin of Barent
Van Buren; second cousin twice removed of Dirck
Ten Broeck, Cornelis
Cuyler and Thomas
Brodhead Van Buren; second cousin thrice removed of Harold
Sheffield Van Buren; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Roosevelt; fourth cousin of James
Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston and Peter
Gansevoort. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Cantine
family of Marbletown, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sanford
W. Smith — Jesse
Hoyt — Charles
Ogle |
| | | Van Buren
County, Ark., Van Buren
County, Iowa, Van Buren
County, Mich. and Van Buren
County, Tenn. are named for him. |
| | | The city
of Van
Buren, Arkansas, is named for
him. — The town
of Van
Buren, New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Van Buren, in Palmer
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Martin Van Buren High
School (opened 1955), in Queens Village, Queens,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty ship SS
Martin Van Buren (built 1943 at Baltimore,
Maryland; torpedoed and lost 1944 in the North
Atlantic Ocean) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: M.
V. B. Edgerly
— M.
V. B. Jefferson
— M.
V. B. Bennett
— Van
B. Wisker
— Martin
V. B. Rowland
— Martin
V. B. Ives
— Martin
V. B. Clark
— Martin
V. Godbey
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| | | Opposition slogan (1840): "Van, Van, is
a used-up man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Martin Van Buren: Major L.
Wilson, The
Presidency of Martin Van Buren — Joel H. Silbey, Martin
Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular
Politics — Jerome Mushkat & Robert G. Rayback, Martin
Van Buren : Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology — John Niven, Martin
Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics —
Ted Widmer, Martin
Van Buren |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
10, 1852.
Poet;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1913-17; Luxembourg, 1913-17.
Presbyterian.
Died April
10, 1933 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738-1810) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y., August
27, 1738.
Democrat. Merchant;
surveyor;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1788-89; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1789-91; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1801-04.
Slaveowner.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
19, 1810 (age 71 years, 176
days).
Original interment at Dutch
Reformed Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Engeltie 'Angelica' (Livingston) Van Rensselaer and Johannes Van
Rensselaer; brother of Robert
Van Rensselaer; married, July 3,
1760, to Judith Bayard; married 1764 to Helena
Lansing; father of Solomon
Van Vechten Van Rensselaer; uncle of Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; grandson of Robert
Livingston the Younger; granduncle of James
Alexander Hamilton and Philip
Schuyler; great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Elder, Jacobus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); great-granduncle of Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer; second great-granduncle of Robert
Ray Hamilton; third great-granduncle of John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; first cousin of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin once removed of Philip
P. Schuyler, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847) and Maturin
Livingston; first cousin twice removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Peter
Gansevoort, Gerrit
Smith and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler and John
Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor, Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; first cousin five times removed of William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Robert
Reginald Livingston and John
Hubner II; second cousin of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt, William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson (1733-1800), Stephen
John Schuyler, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin twice removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840) and Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Pinckney Brown and Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer; second cousin four times removed of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; second cousin five times removed of Brockholst
Livingston; third cousin of Nicholas
Bayard, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Matthew
Clarkson (1758-1825), Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., James
Parker, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; third cousin once removed of Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton
Fish, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Jay II, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936) and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of John
Sluyter Wirt, John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean, Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright, Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed and sunk in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Isaac Van Zandt (1813-1847) —
of Texas.
Born in Franklin
County, Tenn., July 10,
1813.
Member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-42; Texas Republic Charge
d'Affaires to the United States, 1842; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845.
Instrumental in negotiating the treaty to annex the Texas Republic to
the United States.
Died of yellow
fever while campaigning
for Governor, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
11, 1847 (age 34 years, 93
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Marshall, Tex.
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George Vickers (1801-1879) —
of Maryland.
Born in Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., November
19, 1801.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state senate, 1866-67; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1868-73.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., October
8, 1879 (age 77 years, 323
days).
Interment at Chester
Cemetery, Chestertown, Md.
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Jacques Philippe Villere (1761-1830) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Louisiana, April
28, 1761.
Sugar
cane planter; Governor of
Louisiana, 1816-20; defeated, 1824.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Conseil Plantation, St. Bernard
Parish, La., March 7,
1830 (age 68 years, 313
days).
Entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives:
Married, August
18, 1784, to Jeanne Henriette de Fazende. |
| | | The World War II Liberty ship SS
Jacques Phillippe Villere (built 1944 at New
Orleans, Louisiana; redesignated as USS Basilan; scrapped
1972) was originally named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Cette Tombe Renferme Aussi
les Restes / Du Vertueux Villere / L'estime de ses
Concitoyens fit sa Gloire / L'Union de sa Famille Son Bon
Bonheur." [This tomb also contains the remains / from
Virtuous Villers / The esteem of his fellow citizens made his
glory] |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Middleton Vining (1758-1802) —
also known as John Vining; Jack Vining —
of Kent
County, Del.
Born in Dover, Kent
County, Del., December
23, 1758.
Member of Delaware state legislature, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1780; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1789-93; member of Delaware
state senate from Kent County, 1793, 1800-02; died in office
1802; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1793-98.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February, 1802
(age 43
years, 0 days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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Carl Vinson (1883-1981) —
also known as "Father of the Two-Ocean
Navy" —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Baldwin
County, Ga., November
18, 1883.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1909-12; county judge in Georgia,
1912-14; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1914-65 (10th District 1914-33, 6th
District 1933-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., June 1,
1981 (age 97 years, 195
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., July 12,
1743.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1788; delegate
to Connecticut convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-95; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1795-1800.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., April
30, 1804 (age 60 years, 293
days).
Interment at Ancient
Burying Ground, Hartford, Conn.
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George Ernest Waldo (1851-1942) —
also known as George E. Waldo —
of Ulysses, Butler
County, Neb.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
11, 1851.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 18th District, 1896; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1900;
U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1905-09.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 16,
1942 (age 91 years, 156
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at New
Cemetery, Scotland, Conn.
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Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 11,
1866.
Farmer;
college
professor; magazine
editor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-24; died in office 1924.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
25, 1924 (age 58 years, 167
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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George Walton (c.1749-1804) —
of Georgia.
Born near Farmville, Cumberland
County, Va., about 1749.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776-77, 1780-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Georgia, 1779-80, 1789; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1783; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1795-96.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
2, 1804 (age about 55
years).
Original interment at Rosney
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.; reinterment in 1848 at Courthouse
Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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John Elliott Ward (1814-1902) —
also known as John E. Ward —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in 1814.
Mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1853-54; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1853-54; U.S.
Minister to China, 1858-60.
Died in 1902
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Midway
Church Cemetery, Midway, Ga.
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Henry Watterson (1840-1921) —
also known as "Marse Henry" —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
editor, Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876
(Temporary
Chair), 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1884,
1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1892;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1876-77; received the
Pulitzer
Prize in Journalism, 1918.
Methodist.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., December
22, 1921 (age 81 years, 309
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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James Moore Wayne (1790-1867) —
also known as James M. Wayne —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1790.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1815-16; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1817-19; state court judge in Georgia, 1820-22;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1829-35; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1835-67; died in office 1867.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 5,
1867 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Laurel
Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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James Baird Weaver (1833-1912) —
also known as James B. Weaver —
of Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa; Colfax, Jasper
County, Iowa.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, June 12,
1833.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 6th District, 1879-81, 1885-89;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1880 (Greenback Labor), 1892 (Populist);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Methodist.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, February
6, 1912 (age 78 years, 239
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Gideon Welles (1802-1878) —
of Glastonbury, Hartford
County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Glastonbury, Hartford
County, Conn., July 1,
1802.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Glastonbury, 1827, 1829-30,
1832, 1834-35; Connecticut
state comptroller, 1835-36, 1842-44; postmaster at Hartford,
Conn., 1836-41; member of Republican
National Committee from Connecticut, 1856-64; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1860;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1861-69.
Episcopalian.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., February
11, 1878 (age 75 years, 225
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Jacob Aaron Westervelt (1800-1879) —
also known as Jacob Westervelt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J., January
20, 1800.
Shipbuilder;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1853-55; member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1857.
Dutch
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
21, 1879 (age 79 years, 32
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Alexander White (1738-1804) —
of Frederick
County, Va.
Born in Orange
County, Va., June 17,
1738.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1772-73; member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Frederick County, 1782-86, 1788; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Frederick
County, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-93 (at-large 1789-91, 1st
District 1791-93).
Slaveowner.
Died in Frederick
County, Va., October
9, 1804 (age 66 years, 114
days).
Interment at Wood Family Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) —
also known as Andrew D. White —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., November
7, 1832.
Republican. University
professor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1864-67; co-founder and first president
of Cornell University, 1867-79 and 1881-85; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1872
(alternate), 1884,
1912;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1879-81; Russia, 1892-94; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1897-1902.
Member, American
Historical Association; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., November
4, 1918 (age 85 years, 362
days).
Entombed at Sage
Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; statue at Arts
Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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Henry White (1850-1927) —
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March
29, 1850.
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1905-07; France, 1906-09.
Episcopalian.
Died in Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass., July 15,
1927 (age 77 years, 108
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) —
of Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
17, 1807.
Poet;
newspaper
editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835; Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1842.
Quaker.
Member, American
Anti-Slavery Society.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
7, 1892 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
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George Henry Williams (1823-1910) —
also known as George H. Williams —
of Lee
County, Iowa; Marion
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in New Lebanon, Columbia
County, N.Y., March
23, 1823.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Iowa 1st District, 1847-52; justice of
Oregon territorial supreme court, 1853-57; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Marion County,
1857; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1865-71; U.S.
Attorney General, 1872-75; mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1902-05.
Episcopalian.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., April 4,
1910 (age 87 years, 12
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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John Sharp Williams (1854-1932) —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., July 30,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1892,
1904
(Temporary
Chair; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; chair, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1912
(speaker),
1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1920;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1893-1909 (5th District
1893-1903, 8th District 1903-09); U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1911-23.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died near Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss., September
7, 1932 (age 78 years, 39
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Yazoo County, Miss.
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Hugh Williamson (1735-1819) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.
Born in West Nottingham, Chester
County, Pa., December
5, 1735.
Preacher;
university
professor; physician;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93.
Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1819 (age 83 years, 168
days).
Entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Henry Wilson (1812-1875) —
also known as Jeremiah Jones Colbaith —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Farmington, Strafford
County, N.H., February
16, 1812.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1841-42; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1844-46, 1850-52; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1848; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1855-73; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1856 ;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868;
Vice
President of the United States, 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died, of a stroke,
in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1875 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Dell
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
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James Wilson (1742-1798) —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Carskerdo, Fife, Scotland,
September
14, 1742.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-98; died in office 1798.
Episcopalian.
Died in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., August
28, 1798 (age 55 years, 348
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Chowan County, N.C.; reinterment in
1906 at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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James Withycombe (1854-1919) —
of Oregon.
Born in Tavistock, Devon, England,
March
21, 1854.
Republican. Farmer; Governor of
Oregon, 1915-19; defeated in primary, 1906; died in office 1919.
Member, Grange.
Died, from a heart
condition, in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., March 3,
1919 (age 64 years, 347
days).
Entombed at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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George Washington Woodward (1809-1875) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Bethany, Wayne
County, Pa., March
26, 1809.
Democrat. Delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1837, 1873;
district judge in Pennsylvania, 1841-51; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1845; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1852-67; chief
justice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1863-67; candidate
for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1863; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1867-71.
Died in Rome, Italy,
May
10, 1875 (age 66 years, 45
days).
Interment at Hollenback
Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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Henry Wynkoop (1737-1816) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Northampton Township, Bucks
County, Pa., March 2,
1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1779-82; state court
judge in Pennsylvania, 1783-89; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania at-large, 1789-91.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bucks
County, Pa., March
25, 1816 (age 79 years, 23
days).
Interment at Low
Dutch Reformed Church Graveyard, Richboro, Pa.
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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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