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font-family:garamond,serif;">Blickersderfer to Blocksberg</p> <table width=100%><tr><td valign="top"> <a name="BLICKERSDERFER"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLICKERSDERFER</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albritton-aldous.html#ALDERFER">ALDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/amick-andersen.html#AMLICKE">AMLICKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#AUGENBLICK">AUGENBLICK</a>, <a href="#BLICKHAN">BLICKHAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clevenger-clime.html#CLICKENER">CLICKENER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#DEFENDERFER">DEFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#DEFFENDERFER">DEFFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dehart-deland.html#DEIFENDERFER">DEIFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/delay-delwin.html#DELESDERNIER">DELESDERNIER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/delay-delwin.html#DELLICKER">DELLICKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#DIEFENDERFER">DIEFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#DIFENDERFER">DIFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#DIFFENDERFER">DIFFENDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eleazar-elim.html#ELICKER">ELICKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glenni-glotzbach.html#GLICKENHAUS">GLICKENHAUS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marling-marschner.html#MARSDEN">MARSDEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#MEILICKE">MEILICKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/partington-pastuszka.html#PASDERIN">PASDERIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/refermat-reickenback.html#REICHELDERFER">REICHELDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schwartzenburg-scotland.html#SCOBLICK">SCOBLICK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#SHLICKERMAN">SHLICKERMAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/somervell-souter.html#SONNENBLICK">SONNENBLICK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#VANARSDEL">VANARSDEL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#VANARSDELL">VANARSDELL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#VANORSDEL">VANORSDEL</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="384.43.89">Blickersderfer, Jacob</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/TU-lived.html">Tuscarawas County</a>, Ohio. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cncn2.html">Delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention</a> from Tuscarawas County, 1850-51. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLICKHAN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLICKHAN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B425">Soundex B425</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#AUGENBLICK">AUGENBLICK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bale-baliles.html#BALKIN">BALKIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELKEN">BELKEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELKIN">BELKIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#BICKHAM">BICKHAM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#BICKHART">BICKHART</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#BICKHAUS">BICKHAUS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#BLACKEN">BLACKEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#BLACKNEY">BLACKNEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLAKENEY">BLAKENEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEICKEN">BLEICKEN</a>, <a href="#BLICKERSDERFER">BLICKERSDERFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boghos-boker.html#BOHLKEN">BOHLKEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckalew-buckles.html#BUCKHANNON">BUCKHANNON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#DOLKHANI">DOLKHANI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keys-kickham.html#KHAN">KHAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keys-kickham.html#KICKHAM">KICKHAM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#LICKHOEFER">LICKHOEFER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moorehead-morales.html#MORADKHAN">MORADKHAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pickford-pieras.html#PICKHARDT">PICKHARDT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schwartzenburg-scotland.html#SCOBLICK">SCOBLICK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/somervell-souter.html#SONNENBLICK">SONNENBLICK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#WICKHAM">WICKHAM</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="834.16.53">Blickhan, Edith M.</a></b> — of Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/IL.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1964. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIED"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIED</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B430">Soundex B430</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#BIDDLE">BIDDLE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwood-blaine.html#BLADE">BLADE</a>, <a href="#BLIESMER">BLIESMER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOOD">BLOOD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLOYD">BLOYD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUD">BLUD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#DEBLIECK">DEBLIECK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#DEBLIEUX">DEBLIEUX</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#DIBBLE">DIBBLE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#DIBBLEE">DIBBLEE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#DIBELL">DIBELL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#DIBLE">DIBLE</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="092.88.65">Blied, Frank C.</a></b> — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/madison.html">mayor of Madison, Wis.</a>, 1920, 1922. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIESMER"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIESMER</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B425">Soundex B425</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#BESMER">BESMER</a>, <a href="#BLIED">BLIED</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#CHIESMAN">CHIESMAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#DEBLIECK">DEBLIECK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#DEBLIEUX">DEBLIEUX</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#ESME">ESME</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennison-jewell.html#JESMER">JESMER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jex-johansen.html#JOHANNESMEYER">JOHANNESMEYER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonardo-lessler.html#LESMEISTER">LESMEISTER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonardo-lessler.html#LESMERISES">LESMERISES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/prichard-primrose.html#PRIESMEYER">PRIESMEYER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#RIESMAN">RIESMAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terryll-thaxton.html#TESMER">TESMER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/widdis-wiggin.html#WIESMAN">WIESMAN</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="127.02.33">Bliesmer, Mary</a></b> — of Minnesota. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MN.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIGH"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIGH</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEA">BLEA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEE">BLEE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEI">BLEI</a>, <a href="#BLIGHT">BLIGHT</a>, <a href="#BLIGHTON">BLIGHTON</a>, <a href="#BLISH">BLISH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLY">BLY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYE">BLYE</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLIGH:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doddridge-dodero.html#123.54.15">Bligh A. Dodds</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIGHT"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIGHT</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B423">Soundex B423</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLETT">BLETT</a>, <a href="#BLIGH">BLIGH</a>, <a href="#BLIGHTON">BLIGHTON</a>, <a href="#BLITHE">BLITHE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTH">BLYTH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTHE">BLYTHE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#FLIGHT">FLIGHT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LIGHT">LIGHT</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="478.08.55">Blight, John</a></b> — of Michigan. Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 19th District, 1948. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIGHTON"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIGHTON</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B423">Soundex B423</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLAYTON">BLAYTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLETHEN">BLETHEN</a>, <a href="#BLIGH">BLIGH</a>, <a href="#BLIGHT">BLIGHT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTHIN">BLYTHIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTON">BLYTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#BRIGHTON">BRIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/creighton.html#CREIGHTON">CREIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#CRIGHTON">CRIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#DIGHTON">DIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNIGHTON">KNIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#LAIGHTON">LAIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#LEIGHTON">LEIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LIGHTON">LIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccorquodale-mccuiston.html#MCCREIGHTON">MCCREIGHTON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wrightson-wyant.html#WRIGHTON">WRIGHTON</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="865.70.95">Blighton, William V.</a></b> — Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1906 (34th District), 1910 (34th District), 1912 (40th District), 1914 (40th District). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=91418">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLILER"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLILER</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B446">Soundex B446</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bale-baliles.html#BALILES">BALILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELILES">BELILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bilandic-billinghurst.html#BILLER">BILLER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEILER">BLEILER</a>, <a href="#BLILEY">BLILEY</a>, <a href="#BLILIE">BLILIE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carfield-carll.html#CARLILE">CARLILE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#ILER">ILER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILE">LILE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILES">LILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#MCALILEY">MCALILEY</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="230.92.11">Bliler, John H.</a></b> — of Hammond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/TP-lived.html">Tangipahoa Parish</a>, La. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/hammond.html#2">Hammond, La.</a>, 1901. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLILEY"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLILEY</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B440">Soundex B440</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bale-baliles.html#BALILES">BALILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELIL">BELIL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELILES">BELILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELLIEL">BELLIEL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bilandic-billinghurst.html#BILELE">BILELE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLAUL">BLAUL</a>, <a href="#BLILER">BLILER</a>, <a href="#BLILIE">BLILIE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carfield-carll.html#CARLILE">CARLILE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILE">LILE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILES">LILES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#MCALILEY">MCALILEY</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="502.60.34">Bliley, Thomas Jerome, Jr.</a> (b. 1932)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas J. Bliley, Jr.</b>; <b>Tom Bliley</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-lived.html">Richmond</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CF-born.html">Chesterfield County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-28.html">January 28, 1932</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/richmond.html">Mayor of Richmond, Va.</a>, 1970-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1981-2001 (3rd District 1981-93, 7th District 1993-2001). Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000556">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400571">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/145/000129755">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bliley, Tom</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#502.60.34">Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr.</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLILIE"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLILIE</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B440">Soundex B440</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELIL">BELIL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELLIEL">BELLIEL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bilandic-billinghurst.html#BILELE">BILELE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bilandic-billinghurst.html#BILIE">BILIE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bilandic-billinghurst.html#BILLIE">BILLIE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLAUL">BLAUL</a>, <a href="#BLILER">BLILER</a>, <a href="#BLILEY">BLILEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keys-kickham.html#KHALILI">KHALILI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kilguss-kim.html#KILILI">KILILI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILI">LILI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIA">LILIA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIAN">LILIAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIANA">LILIANA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIENFELD">LILIENFELD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIENTHAL">LILIENTHAL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIJEDAHL">LILIJEDAHL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILITH">LILITH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LILIUS">LILIUS</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLILIE:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#143.52.68">Arthur H. Jacobson</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIM"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIM</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B450">Soundex B450</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOEM">BLOEM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOHM">BLOHM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOHME">BLOHME</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOM">BLOM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOOM">BLOOM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUHM">BLUHM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUM">BLUM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUME">BLUME</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LIMB">LIMB</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="475.25.71">Blim, Martin</a></b> — Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/IA.html">1880</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B450">Soundex B450</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELIN">BELIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwood-blaine.html#BLAIN">BLAIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLAN">BLAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLENN">BLENN</a>, <a href="#BLIM">BLIM</a>, <a href="#BLINCK">BLINCK</a>, <a href="#BLIND">BLIND</a>, <a href="#BLINEAU">BLINEAU</a>, <a href="#BLINKEN">BLINKEN</a>, <a href="#BLINN">BLINN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLON">BLON</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLUN">BLUN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYN">BLYN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYNN">BLYNN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#BOLIN">BOLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#BULIN">BULIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#CHAMBLIN">CHAMBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/darnell-daughenbaugh.html#DAUBLIN">DAUBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#DUBLIN">DUBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#EBLIN">EBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#GAMBLIN">GAMBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gibbs-giboyeaux.html#GIBLIN">GIBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halstad-hamill.html#HAMBLIN">HAMBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herberts-herlong.html#HERBLIN">HERBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jex-johansen.html#JOBLIN">JOBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/joyes-judah.html#JUBLIN">JUBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#LAIBLIN">LAIBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/noadiah-nobles.html#NOBLIN">NOBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plauche-plumley.html#PLIN">PLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scadden-schafe.html#SCHABLIN">SCHABLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shaffner-shanley.html#SHAMBLIN">SHAMBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#TAMBLIN">TAMBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tivy-tod.html#TOBLIN">TOBLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/todhunter-tomlin.html#TOMBLIN">TOMBLIN</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLIN:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/page.html#413.71.14">Blin W. Page</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLINCK"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLINCK</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B452">Soundex B452</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLANC">BLANC</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLANCH">BLANCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLANCK">BLANCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLANCKE">BLANCKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLANK">BLANK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLANKE">BLANKE</a>, <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLUNCK">BLUNCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLUNK">BLUNK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kleindienst-klima.html#KLINCK">KLINCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#LINCK">LINCK</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="454.38.66">Blinck, J. R. van Julsingha</a></b> — of Tampa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/HI-lived.html">Hillsborough County</a>, Fla. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/HI-consuls.html">Tampa, Fla.</a>, 1935. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blinck, van Julsingha</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#454.38.66">J. R. van Julsingha Blinck</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIND"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIND</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B453">Soundex B453</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bland.html#BLAND">BLAND</a>, <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOND">BLOND</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lind-lindquist.html#LIND">LIND</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blind Musician, The:</b> <i>See</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#694.02.49">J. H. St. Lawrence</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blind Optimist, The:</b> <i>See</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#694.02.49">J. H. St. Lawrence</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blind Orator, The:</b> <i>See</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#694.02.49">J. H. St. Lawrence</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blind Tom:</b> <i>See</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/obrien8.html#104.97.86">Thomas Joseph O'Brien</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLINEAU"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLINEAU</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B450">Soundex B450</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#BABINEAUX">BABINEAUX</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLANEY">BLANEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLAYNEY">BLAYNEY</a>, <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boghos-boker.html#BOINEAU">BOINEAU</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gehant-geoghan.html#GELINEAU">GELINEAU</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINEAR">LINEAR</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINEAUS">LINEAUS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINEAWEAVER">LINEAWEAVER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#MARINEAU">MARINEAU</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martina-martinelli.html#MARTINEAU">MARTINEAU</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/millsap-minehart.html#MINEAU">MINEAU</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moffat-molumby.html#MOLINEAUX">MOLINEAUX</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#PAPINEAU">PAPINEAU</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLINEAU:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#954.28.64">Algernon Sidney Badger</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLINKEN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLINKEN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B452">Soundex B452</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLINKE">KLINKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLINKEFUS">KLINKEFUS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLINKER">KLINKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLINKERK">KLINKERK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINKE">LINKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINKENS">LINKENS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#LINKER">LINKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/painken-palma.html#PAINKEN">PAINKEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schlacter-schmies.html#SCHLINKER">SCHLINKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schlacter-schmies.html#SCHLINKERT">SCHLINKERT</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="559.02.27">Blinken, Alan</a></b> — of Sun Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BN-lived.html">Blaine County</a>, Idaho. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Idaho</a>, 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/ID.html">2004</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="654.87.50">Blinken, Alan John</a> (b. 1937)</b> — of New York. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/index.html">1937</a>. U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-diplomats.html ">Belgium</a>, 1993-98. Still living as of 1998. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/blinken-alan-john ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="466.00.12">Blinken, Donald M.</a> (b. 1925)</b> — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/index.html">1925</a>. U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-diplomats.html ">Hungary</a>, 1994. Still living as of 1994. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/blinken-donald-m ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="593.23.86">Blinken, Samuel</a></b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Member of New York American Labor Party Executive Committee, 1949. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="481.70.78">Blinken, Samuel M.</a></b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 11th District, 1938. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLINN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLINN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B450">Soundex B450</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLENN">BLENN</a>, <a href="#BLIN">BLIN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYN">BLYN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYNN">BLYNN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#FLINN">FLINN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linn.html#LINN">LINN</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLINN:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailhache-bakanatch.html#563.33.37">Henry Robert Baird</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#844.21.48">George Blinn Francis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#135.50.92">Christopher Parsons Wolcott</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="373.28.23">Blinn, Charles Oscar</a> (1857-1934)</b> — also known as <b>Charles O. Blinn</b> — of Caro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-lived.html">Tuscola County</a>, Mich.; Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Perrysburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WO-born.html">Wood County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/07-20.html">July 20, 1857</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-officials.html">Tuscola County Sheriff</a>, 1899-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Tuscola County, 1917-20. Died in Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/index.html">1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-13.html">December 13, 1876</a>, to Carrie B. Loop.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.okc.gov/council/okcmayors/19-C%20J%20Blinn.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/113/63.34.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Clarence J. Blinn"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="113.63.34">Blinn, Clarence J.</a></b> — of Oklahoma City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-lived.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/oklahomacity.html">Mayor of Oklahoma City, Okla.</a>, 1931-33. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> City of Oklahoma City</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="861.22.20">Blinn, E. D.</a></b> — of Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LO-lived.html">Logan County</a>, Ill. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/IL.html">1880</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="645.02.25">Blinn, W. H.</a></b> — of Antigo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/LG-lived.html">Langlade County</a>, Wis. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/antigo.html#2">Antigo, Wis.</a>, 1891. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="247.29.42">Blinn, Wilbur Ralph</a> (1911-1971)</b> — also known as <b>Wilbur R. Blinn</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/06-02.html">June 2, 1911</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1937 (Kings County 17th District), 1938 (Kings County 17th District), 1940 (Kings County 17th District), 1954 (Kings County 5th District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 11th District, 1946, 1950. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/index.html">1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Wilbur Ralph Blinn (1886-1924) and Marie (Harvey) Blinn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/05-10.html">May 10, 1936</a>, to Anna Marie Schemitsch.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLINSTRUB"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLINSTRUB</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B452">Soundex B452</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fergusson-ferrington.html#FERNSTRUM">FERNSTRUM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jabar-jackman.html#JABLINSKE">JABLINSKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#LANSTRUM">LANSTRUM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTAD">LINSTAD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTEAD">LINSTEAD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTEDT">LINSTEDT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTER">LINSTER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTROM">LINSTROM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LINSTROMBERG">LINSTROMBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinnon-mclaud.html#MCKINSTRY">MCKINSTRY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#STRUBBERG">STRUBBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#STRUBE">STRUBE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#STRUBEL">STRUBEL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#STRUBLE">STRUBLE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vincente-vliet.html#VINSTRAND">VINSTRAND</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/voelker-voorehees.html#VONSTRUVE">VONSTRUVE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html#WENSTRUP">WENSTRUP</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="164.12.28">Blinstrub, Robert L.</a></b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Republican. Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a>, 1948 (primary, Wayne County 1st District), 1959 (Wayne County 10th District), 1960 (Wayne County 10th District). Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLISH"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLISH</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bakewell-baldus.html#BALASH">BALASH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bale-baliles.html#BALESH">BALESH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#BALSCHI">BALSCHI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELSHAW">BELSHAW</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELSHE">BELSHE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#BISH">BISH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEISH">BLEISH</a>, <a href="#BLIGH">BLIGH</a>, <a href="#BLISS">BLISS</a>, <a href="#BLISSARD">BLISSARD</a>, <a href="#BLISSITT">BLISSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#CHAMBLISS">CHAMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#CRUMBLISS">CRUMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#DIVELBLISS">DIVELBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#ESTABLISHMENT">ESTABLISHMENT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LISH">LISH</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="738.22.98">Blish, Dwight W.</a></b> — of Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Manchester, 1902, 1906. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="900.38.76">Blish, Roger</a></b> — of Marlborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Marlborough, 1835, 1839. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="533.68.58">Blish, Sylvester</a></b> — of Glastonbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Glastonbury, 1833. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="465.34.95">Blish, Sylvester</a></b> — of Kewanee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/HE-lived.html">Henry County</a>, Ill. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/kewanee.html#2">Kewanee, Ill.</a>, 1855. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="843.93.86">Blish, W. B.</a></b> — Democrat. Alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Illinois, 1896. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLISS"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLISS</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/billingsley-binger.html#BILLS">BILLS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLASS">BLASS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEASE">BLEASE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEES">BLEES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEISE">BLEISE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLESS">BLESS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLESSE">BLESSE</a>, <a href="#BLISH">BLISH</a>, <a href="#BLISSARD">BLISSARD</a>, <a href="#BLISSITT">BLISSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOSS">BLOSS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#CHAMBLISS">CHAMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#CRUMBLISS">CRUMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#DIVELBLISS">DIVELBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#ESTABLISHMENT">ESTABLISHMENT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#FLISS">FLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LISS">LISS</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLISS:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html#620.40.70">George Bliss Agnew</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexander.html#077.35.22">De Alva Stanwood Alexander</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#522.77.10">George Bancroft</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowker-bowling.html#858.42.48">Chester Bliss Bowles</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carnhill-carothers.html#369.18.71">Gouverneur Morris Carnochan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#532.29.03">Andrew Bliss Chapin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#499.42.36">John Cosgrove</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curtiss-cusey.html#236.47.93">George Boughton Curtiss</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davidson.html#075.83.61">James Ole Davidson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#380.61.95">Catherine Bliss Enslow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodges.html#769.31.36">George Tisdale Hodges</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jewett.html#705.20.34">Charles Fred Jewett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#049.29.31">Fred Lockwood Keeler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#986.21.29">George Bliss Lane</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#179.88.80">Arthur Bliss Lane</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#696.79.98">Tracy Hollingsworth Lay</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccorquodale-mccuiston.html#622.92.18">A. Bliss McCrum</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcnamee-mcpheeters.html#951.89.04">William Montgomery McNicol</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#710.63.35">Ernest J. Meakins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller4.html#478.67.97">Guy Alonzo Miller</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#217.65.37">George Bliss Nelson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pindall-pingree.html#549.93.29">William Bliss Pine</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#041.98.51">John Bliss Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thornwell-thurlow.html#728.30.78">George Bliss Throop</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3572534866/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/134/06.76.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Aaron T. Bliss"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="134.06.76">Bliss, Aaron Thomas</a> (1837-1906)</b> — also known as <b>Aaron T. Bliss</b> — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Peterboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/05-22.html">May 22, 1837</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 24th District, 1883-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 8th District, 1889-91; defeated, 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/MI.html">1892</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1901-04. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-died.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/09-16.html">September 16, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 117 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00515">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lyman Bliss and Anna M. (Chaffee) Bliss; brother of <a href="#977.42.57">Lyman Warren Bliss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/03-31.html">March 31, 1868</a>, to Allaseba Morey Phelps; granduncle of <a href="#935.40.13">Aaron Tyler Bliss</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#546.60.59">Frank Dickinson Blodgett</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0047.html">Blodgett-Whedon family</a> of Killingworth, Connecticut (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000557">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401531">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/aaron-thomas-bliss/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron T. Bliss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6248728">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="935.40.13">Bliss, Aaron Tyler</a> (1885-1964)</b> — also known as <b>Aaron T. Bliss</b> — of Midland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MI-lived.html">Midland County</a>, Mich.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Peterboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-03.html">September 3, 1885</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MI-officials.html">Midland County Clerk</a>, 1919-32; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Midland District, 1935-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/landtitle.html">abstract and title business</a>. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Midland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MI-died.html">Midland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/04-24.html">April 24, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 234 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MI-buried.html#cms00641">Midland Cemetery</a>, Midland, Mich.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-buried.html#cms01693">Peterboro Cemetery</a>, Peterboro, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Charles Norton Bliss and Ximena Monroe 'Minnie' (Harrington) Bliss; married to Frances G. Church; grandnephew of <a href="#977.42.57">Lyman Warren Bliss</a> and <a href="#134.06.76">Aaron Thomas Bliss</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#719.29.23">Orville Hungerford</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#546.60.59">Frank Dickinson Blodgett</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0571.html">Brainard-O'Brien-Crimmins-Mackay family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/121076772">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="037.05.10">Bliss, Albert</a> (1811-1876)</b> — of Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/10-10.html">October 10, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coal-ice-fuel.html">Coal</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber</a> dealer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1850; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1850. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-20.html">January 20, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms07932">Mineral Spring Cemetery</a>, Pawtucket, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Nathaniel Bliss and Elizabeth (Blake) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/06-25.html">June 25, 1840</a>, to Lydia Manton Jenks; father of Frank Manton Bliss; second cousin of <a href="#060.12.86">Harvey Carpenter Bliss</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="#447.97.16">Brooks Mason Bliss Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#006.76.40">Jedediah Sabin</a>, <a href="#876.29.14">Cornelius Newton Bliss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19648701">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="892.09.80">Bliss, Albert Asahel</a> (b. 1812)</b> — also known as <b>Albert A. Bliss</b> — of Elyria, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LO-lived.html">Lorain County</a>, Ohio; Jackson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Mich. Born in Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/03-25.html">March 25, 1812</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1839-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/trea.html">Ohio treasurer of state</a>, 1847-52. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss; brother of <a href="#667.78.73">Philemon Bliss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/12-30.html">December 30, 1835</a>, to Almira J. Beebe; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#539.20.10">Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen8.html#349.75.29">Samuel Clesson Allen</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warner-warnock.html#425.25.86">Judson H. Warner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#698.25.10">Jonathan Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#454.15.83">Ebenezer Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#932.85.97">Eli Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#175.15.85">John Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#026.38.52">Henry Leavitt Ellsworth</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#601.47.35">William Wolcott Ellsworth</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#429.16.41">Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#305.86.24">Oliver Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#700.58.06">Daniel Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#019.56.86">Edmund Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#232.62.06">Frederick Hobbes Allen</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#282.32.11">Amaziah Brainard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#986.53.99">Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#477.68.51">Chester William Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#161.25.92">John William Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#826.92.69">Norman A. Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#624.49.51">James Samuel Wadsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#448.15.94">John Smith Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#135.50.92">Christopher Parsons Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#587.44.91">Matthew Griswold (1833-1919)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0421.html">Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0624.html">Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons family</a> of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="655.64.67">Bliss, Alvin E.</a></b> — of Malden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a> Fourth Middlesex District, 1923-24. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="058.88.15">Bliss, Archibald Meserole</a> (1838-1923)</b> — also known as <b>Archibald M. Bliss</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/01-25.html">January 25, 1838</a>. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/NY.html">1864</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/NY.html">1868</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/brooklyn.html#2">mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y.</a>, 1867; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1875-83, 1885-89 (4th District 1875-83, 5th District 1885-89); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NY.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NY.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/NY.html">1884</a>; vice-president, Bushwick <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a> Company, 1877; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/03-19.html">March 19, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms02622">Cypress Hills National Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Neziah Bliss and Mary Ann (Meserole) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/06-15.html">June 15, 1857</a>, to Maria E. Meserole; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#363.02.03">Erastus Corning (1794-1872)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#720.34.20">Erastus Corning (1827-1897)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbra-abzug.html#347.95.74">Elijah Abel</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#034.83.15">Parker Corning</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#688.07.51">Edwin Corning</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#953.12.25">Amos Elwood Corning</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0541.html">Fulton-Halderman family</a> of Pawnee City, Nebraska (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000558">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401532">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6945325">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="153.81.11">Bliss, Arthur</a></b> — of Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/andover.html">Andover, Mass.</a>, 1901. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="447.97.16">Bliss, Brooks Mason, Jr.</a> (1884-1938)</b> — also known as <b>Brooks M. Bliss</b> — of Farmville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-lived.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-born.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-22.html">December 22, 1884</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Bookkeeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">flour mill business</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/VA.html">1932</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/06-08.html">June 8, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 168 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Brooks Mason Bliss and Sallie F. (Langslow) Bliss; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="#037.05.10">Albert Bliss</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/088/49.95.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Burdette B. Bliss"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="088.49.95">Bliss, Burdette Burt</a> (1894-1957)</b> — also known as <b>Burdette B. Bliss</b> — of Battle Creek, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL-lived.html">Calhoun County</a>, Mich. Born in Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-born.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/07-23.html">July 23, 1894</a>. U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SG-consuls.html ">Singapore</a>, 1919-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GU-consuls.html ">Guatemala City</a>, as of 1926-29. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GU-died.html">Guatemala</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-06.html">January 6, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 167 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Alton F. Bliss and Mattie Leone (Starr) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-17.html">October 17, 1921</a>, to Teresa Maria Alvarez; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html#507.91.46">Noyes Barber</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#425.18.26">Waightstill Avery</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#427.99.59">Edwin Barber Morgan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#898.52.04">Christopher Morgan</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0377.html">Lenoir family</a> of North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> U.S. passport application (1921)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="886.58.04">Bliss, Burton T.</a></b> — of Hastings-on-Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/hastingsonhudson.html">mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.</a>, 1949. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="410.78.37">Bliss, C.</a></b> — of South Freeport, Freeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/freeport.html#3">South Freeport, Maine</a>, 1861. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="480.95.08">Bliss, Charles Alfred</a> (1871-1967)</b> — also known as <b>Charles A. Bliss</b> — of Sacramento, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-lived.html">Sacramento County</a>, Calif. Born in Forest Home, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AM-born.html">Amador County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/09-03.html">September 3, 1871</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sacramento.html">mayor of Sacramento, Calif.</a>, 1920-21; member of California state legislature, 1920. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/10-02.html">October 2, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/96.html">96 years, 29 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jeremiah Bliss and Mary Barbara (Yager) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/04-23.html">April 23, 1905</a>, to Evalene Brown.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="789.93.14">Bliss, Charles E.</a></b> — of Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-lived.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/bangor.html#2">Bangor, Maine</a>, 1894-98. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="742.08.24">Bliss, Charles H.</a></b> — of Pensacola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ES-lived.html">Escambia County</a>, Fla. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/pensacola.html">Mayor of Pensacola, Fla.</a>, 1905-07. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="170.49.31">Bliss, Charles W.</a></b> — of Hillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ill. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/IL.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/IL.html">1916</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="715.89.41">Bliss, Chester Merton</a> (1898-1958)</b> — also known as <b>Chester Bliss</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-born.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/04-04.html">April 4, 1898</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Allegany County, 1942. Died in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-died.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., June, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/index.html">1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-buried.html# ">Maple Lawn Cemetery</a>, Bolivar, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#357.21.96">Walter Thomas Bliss</a> and Minnie Mae (Mitchell) Bliss; brother of <a href="#985.40.27">George Walter Bliss</a>; married to Pearl Hooker; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#500.01.05">Pascal Paoli Kidder</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.37.65">David Kidder</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#719.29.23">Orville Hungerford</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#714.82.32">Wallace Bruce Crumb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#174.63.92">Mary Rose Kidder</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0571.html">Brainard-O'Brien-Crimmins-Mackay family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/70869030">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="876.29.14">Bliss, Cornelius Newton</a> (1833-1911)</b> — also known as <b>Cornelius N. Bliss</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Fall River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/01-26.html">January 26, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican state chair</a>, 1887-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Treasurer of Republican National Committee</a>, 1892-1904; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/NY.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/NY.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1897-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/10-09.html">October 9, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 256 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Asahel Newton Bliss and Irene Borden (Luther) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/03-30.html">March 30, 1859</a>, to Elizabeth Mary Plummer; father of <a href="#518.53.24">Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="#037.05.10">Albert Bliss</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1398.html">Dows-Burden family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius Newton Bliss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7255394">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="518.53.24">Bliss, Cornelius Newton, Jr.</a> (1874-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr.</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/04-13.html">April 13, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Business executive</a>; philanthropist; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NY.html">1928</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Treasurer of Republican National Committee</a>, 1916. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, in Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/04-05.html">April 5, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 357 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#876.29.14">Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833-1911)</a> and Elizabeth Mary (Plummer) Bliss; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/">1906</a> to Zaidee C. Cobb; father of Cornelius Newton Bliss (1910-1996; son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/downs-doxey.html#713.20.49">Gwendolyn Burden Dows</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/downs-doxey.html#796.78.74">David Dows</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1398.html">Dows-Burden family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0611.html">Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="779.37.65">Bliss, David</a></b> — of Pleasanton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/CA.html">2004</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="778.29.64">Bliss, Don Carroll, Jr.</a> (1897-1978)</b> — of New Jersey; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Northville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/07-03.html">July 3, 1897</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ET-diplomats.html ">Ethiopia</a>, 1957. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/index.html">1978</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Don Carroll Bliss and Frances Marian (McConnell) Bliss; married to Gabriella de Cubas.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bliss-don-carroll ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="571.60.64">Bliss, Ellen E.</a></b> — of Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-lived.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 10th District, 1953-60. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bliss, F. Walter</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#126.86.63">Francis Walter Bliss</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="368.78.74">Bliss, Fanny</a></b> — of Clovis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/CU-lived.html">Curry County</a>, N.M. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/NM.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1960. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="126.86.63">Bliss, Francis Walter</a> (1892-1982)</b> — also known as <b>F. Walter Bliss</b> — of Middleburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-lived.html">Schoharie County</a>, N.Y. Born in Gilboa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-born.html">Schoharie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/04-27.html">April 27, 1892</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 3rd District, 1933-44; defeated, 1944; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 3rd Department, 1933-43. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/09-08.html">September 8, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 134 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Middleburgh, N.Y.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-buried.html# ">Breakabeen Cemetery</a>, Breakabeen, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Franklin Winslow Bliss and Alberta (Becker) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/06-22.html">June 22, 1918</a>, to E. Margaret Schaeffer; great-grandson of <a href="#060.12.86">Harvey Carpenter Bliss</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="941.42.66">Bliss, Frank Lafayette</a> (1851-1909)</b> — also known as <b>Frank L. Bliss</b> — of Corry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, Pa. Born in Nunda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/LI-born.html">Livingston County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/02-01.html">February 1, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/corry.html">Mayor of Corry, Pa.</a>, 1903-06; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/PA.html">1904</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/index.html">1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ER-buried.html#cms06900">Pine Grove Cemetery</a>, Corry, Pa. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="633.22.68">Bliss, Frederic W.</a></b> — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/MA.html">1904</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/boston.html">mayor of Boston, Mass.</a>, 1907. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="366.02.02">Bliss, George</a> (1813-1868)</b> — of Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-lived.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio; Wooster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WN-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Ohio. Born in Jericho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CH-born.html">Chittenden County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/01-01.html">January 1, 1813</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; district judge in Ohio, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/akron.html">mayor of Akron, Ohio</a>, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1853-55, 1863-65 (18th District 1853-55, 14th District 1863-65). Died in Wooster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WN-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-24.html">October 24, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WN-buried.html#cms01718">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Wooster, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Timothy Bliss and Anne C. (Campbell) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/01-16.html">January 16, 1856</a>, to Sarah Jane Fish.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000559">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401533">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Bliss %28Congressman%29">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7675347">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="928.92.91">Bliss, George</a></b> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives</a>, 1853. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="766.51.65">Bliss, George, Jr.</a></b> — of New York. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1873-77. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="421.11.67">Bliss, George E.</a></b> — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Canaan; elected 1906. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="985.40.27">Bliss, George Walter</a> (1907-1976)</b> — also known as <b>George W. Bliss</b> — of Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-born.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/03-30.html">March 30, 1907</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Allegany County, 1936, 1938, 1940; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-parties.html">chair of Allegany County Democratic Party</a>, 1955; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>. Died in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-died.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/07-14.html">July 14, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 106 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-buried.html# ">Maple Lawn Cemetery</a>, Bolivar, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#357.21.96">Walter Thomas Bliss</a> and Minnie Mae (Mitchell) Bliss; brother of <a href="#715.89.41">Chester Merton Bliss</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#500.01.05">Pascal Paoli Kidder</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.37.65">David Kidder</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#719.29.23">Orville Hungerford</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#714.82.32">Wallace Bruce Crumb</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#174.63.92">Mary Rose Kidder</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0571.html">Brainard-O'Brien-Crimmins-Mackay family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/70869039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="060.12.86">Bliss, Harvey Carpenter</a> (1791-1874)</b> — also known as <b>Harvey Bliss</b> — of Gilboa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-lived.html">Schoharie County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/01-10.html">January 10, 1791</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Schoharie County, 1839. Died in Gilboa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-died.html">Schoharie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/05-14.html">May 14, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 124 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-buried.html#cms07063">Flat Creek Cemetery</a>, Gilboa, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel Bliss and Anna (Mason) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/12-25.html">December 25, 1817</a>, to Betsey Ploss; great-grandfather of <a href="#126.86.63">Francis Walter Bliss</a>; second cousin of <a href="#037.05.10">Albert Bliss</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="449.98.68">Bliss, Helen L.</a></b> — of New Hampshire. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Hampshire</a>, 1966; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Hampshire</a> 2nd District, 1974. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1974. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="572.43.96">Bliss, Henry</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CH-lived.html">Chautauqua County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Chautauqua County 1st District, 1858-59. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="905.17.18">Bliss, Homer C.</a></b> — of Northampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HM-lived.html">Hampshire County</a>, Mass. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/MA.html">1928</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/northampton.html">mayor of Northampton, Mass.</a>, 1930-33. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="739.25.53">Bliss, Hubert D.</a></b> — of New York. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 44th District, 1944; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 45th District, 1948. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="453.33.63">Bliss, J. E.</a></b> — of Ottawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Kan. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/ottawa.html#2">Ottawa, Kan.</a>, 1883-87. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="184.31.92">Bliss, Mrs. Jack E.</a></b> — of Midland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MD-lived.html">Midland County</a>, Tex. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/TX.html">1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="872.89.13">Bliss, Jason H.</a></b> — of Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-lived.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Hampshire</a> 1st District, 1912; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="866.03.80">Bliss, John F.</a></b> — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/newcanaan.html">First selectman of New Canaan, Connecticut</a>, 1896. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="955.64.90">Bliss, Jonathan E.</a></b> — of Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Clinton; elected 1916, 1918; elected unopposed 1920, 1922. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="358.50.42">Bliss, Joseph W.</a></b> — of Bradford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Vt. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Vermont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/VT.html">1876</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="000.72.29">Bliss, L. D.</a></b> — of Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OL-lived.html">Olmsted County</a>, Minn. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/rochester.html">Mayor of Rochester, Minn.</a>, 1862-64, 1868-69. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="520.06.42">Bliss, Lawrence</a></b> — of Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-parties.html">Chair of Allegany County Democratic Party</a>, 1932. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="948.53.17">Bliss, Lawrence Steven</a></b> — also known as <b>Lawrence Bliss</b> — of South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/ME.html">2000</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a> 7th District; elected 2008. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="563.34.96">Bliss, Lewis L.</a></b> — Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="574.36.56">Bliss, Linus</a></b> — of Barkhamsted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-lived.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Barkhamsted, 1847. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="977.42.57">Bliss, Lyman Warren</a> (1836-1907)</b> — also known as <b>Lyman W. Bliss</b>; <b>"Doctor Joy"</b> — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Peterboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/07-12.html">July 12, 1836</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/saginaw.html">mayor of Saginaw, Mich.</a>, 1879-81, 1888-89; defeated, 1890. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-died.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/02-19.html">February 19, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms06251">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Saginaw Township, Saginaw County, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lyman Bliss and Anna M. (Chaffee) Bliss; brother of <a href="#134.06.76">Aaron Thomas Bliss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/07-27.html">July 27, 1858</a>, to Mary Jerome; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/09-18.html">September 18, 1877</a>, to Harriett (Granger) Miller; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/11-02.html">November 2, 1892</a>, to May Cummiskey; granduncle of <a href="#935.40.13">Aaron Tyler Bliss</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#546.60.59">Frank Dickinson Blodgett</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0047.html">Blodgett-Whedon family</a> of Killingworth, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="850.45.53">Bliss, Malcolm Andrews</a> (1863-1934)</b> — also known as <b>Malcolm A. Bliss</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in Warsaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/HA-born.html">Hancock County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-02.html">July 2, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1922. Died in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/09-04.html">September 4, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 64 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-buried.html# ">Manchester Methodist Cemetery</a>, Manchester, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-19.html">April 19, 1891</a>, to Clementine Chilton Carter.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35392884">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="344.27.60">Bliss, Mark</a></b> — of Madison Heights, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-lived.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 26th District, 2012. Still living as of 2012. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="549.03.44">Bliss, Maryanna</a></b> — of Lansdowne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-lived.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/lansdowne.html#3">Lansdowne, Pa.</a>, 1882-89. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="667.78.73">Bliss, Philemon</a> (1813-1889)</b> — Born in Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/07-28.html">July 28, 1813</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in Ohio, 1848-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 14th District, 1855-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/tsju.html">justice of Dakota territorial supreme court</a>, 1861-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/spju.html">justice of Missouri state supreme court</a>, 1868-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>. Died in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-died.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/08-25.html">August 25, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BO-buried.html#cms00516">Columbia Cemetery</a>, Columbia, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss; brother of <a href="#892.09.80">Albert Asahel Bliss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/11-16.html">November 16, 1843</a>, to Martha W. Thorpe; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#539.20.10">Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen8.html#349.75.29">Samuel Clesson Allen</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warner-warnock.html#425.25.86">Judson H. Warner</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#698.25.10">Jonathan Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#454.15.83">Ebenezer Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#932.85.97">Eli Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#175.15.85">John Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#026.38.52">Henry Leavitt Ellsworth</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#601.47.35">William Wolcott Ellsworth</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#429.16.41">Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#305.86.24">Oliver Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#700.58.06">Daniel Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#019.56.86">Edmund Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#232.62.06">Frederick Hobbes Allen</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#282.32.11">Amaziah Brainard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#986.53.99">Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#477.68.51">Chester William Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#161.25.92">John William Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#826.92.69">Norman A. Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#624.49.51">James Samuel Wadsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#448.15.94">John Smith Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#135.50.92">Christopher Parsons Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#587.44.91">Matthew Griswold (1833-1919)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0082.html">Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0421.html">Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0624.html">Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons family</a> of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000560">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401534">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28513523">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="668.25.28">Bliss, Ray Charles</a> (1907-1981)</b> — also known as <b>Ray C. Bliss</b> — of Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-lived.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio. Born in Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-born.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-16.html">December 16, 1907</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-parties.html">chair of Summit County Republican Party</a>, 1942-60; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Ohio Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1944-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Ohio Republican state chair</a>, 1949-65; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/OH.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/OH.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/OH.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/OH.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/OH.html">1972</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/OH.html">Republican National Committee from Ohio</a>, 1952-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1965-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Vice-Chair of Republican National Committee</a>, 1960-64. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-tau.html">Phi Kappa Tau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> at his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">office</a>, and died soon after at Akron City <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Akron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-died.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/08-06.html">August 6, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-buried.html#cms07933">Mt. Peace Cemetery</a>, Akron, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Emil Bliss and Emilie (Wieland) Bliss; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/">1959</a> to Ellen F. Palmer.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray C. Bliss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6602925">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/51262699810/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/249/96.62.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Robert Woods Bliss"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="249.96.62">Bliss, Robert Woods</a> (1875-1962)</b> — of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-born.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/08-05.html">August 5, 1875</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Venice</a>, as of 1903; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1923-27; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-diplomats.html ">Argentina</a>, 1927-33. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>. One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter protesting U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#956.57.47">Joe McCarthy</a>'s attacks on the Foreign Service. Donated his Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard University in 1940; after the war, it was the scene of the conference that led to the creation of the United Nations. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/04-19.html">April 19, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 257 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms06292">Dumbarton Oaks Rose Garden</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#637.55.04">William Henry Bliss</a> and Annie Louise (Woods) Bliss; brother of Annie Louise Bliss (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warren.html#458.67.47">Charles Warren</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/04-14.html">April 14, 1908</a>, to Mildred Barnes.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17140.html">Bliss-Warren family</a> of Plymouth, Massachusetts.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "Quod severeis metes." [as ye sow so ye shall reap.]</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bliss-robert-woods ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/32218621">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="136.92.59">Bliss, Samuel</a></b> — of Farmville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-lived.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/farmville.html#2">Farmville, Va.</a>, 1901. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="444.67.96">Bliss, Solomon B.</a></b> — of East Saginaw (now part of Saginaw), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/saginaw.html#4">East Saginaw, Mich.</a>, 1866-67. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="076.00.33">Bliss, Thales S.</a> (c.1824-1885)</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1824. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Wheelwright</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 13th District, 1883. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Nyack, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-died.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/08-05.html">August 5, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bliss, Walter</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#126.86.63">Francis Walter Bliss</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="883.02.19">Bliss, Walter A.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Otsego County, 1933. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="357.21.96">Bliss, Walter Thomas</a> (1860-1941)</b> — also known as <b>Walter T. Bliss</b> — of Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-born.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-06.html">November 6, 1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 8th District, 1909, 1916; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1917; Dry candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933. Died in Bolivar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-died.html">Allegany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/02-05.html">February 5, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 91 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AE-buried.html# ">Maple Lawn Cemetery</a>, Bolivar, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Benjamin Thurston Bliss and Mary Jane (Crandall) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/01-20.html">January 20, 1891</a>, to Minnie Mae Mitchell; father of <a href="#715.89.41">Chester Merton Bliss</a> and <a href="#985.40.27">George Walter Bliss</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#935.22.52">Ray Greene</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#714.82.32">Wallace Bruce Crumb</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#316.72.09">Wallace Raymond Crumb</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0142.html">Condit family</a> of Orange, New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/70869094">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="288.40.80">Bliss, Warren W.</a></b> — of Stepney Depot, Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Monroe, 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/monroe.html">first selectman of Monroe, Connecticut</a>, 1911. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="487.03.60">Bliss, William Carpenter</a> (b. 1874)</b> — also known as <b>William C. Bliss</b> — of East Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in East Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/07-06.html">July 6, 1874</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1908-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1911-12. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George Newman Bliss and Fannie A. (Carpenter) Bliss.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="065.59.00">Bliss, William H.</a></b> — of Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/TO-lived.html">Tolland County</a>, Conn. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Columbia; elected 1908; defeated, 1910. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="637.55.04">Bliss, William Henry</a> (1844-1932)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Bliss</b> — of Santa Barbara, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-lived.html">Santa Barbara County</a>, Calif. Born in Cuyahoga Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-born.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/10-07.html">October 7, 1844</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri</a>, 1876-87; vice-president and general solicitor, St. Paul & Duluth <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; associate counsel, Northern Pacific <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/05-05.html">May 5, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 211 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Philemon Bliss and Martha W. (Tharp) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/04-06.html">April 6, 1874</a>, to Annie Louise Woods; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/04-14.html">April 14, 1894</a>, to Anna Blaksley Barnes; father of <a href="#249.96.62">Robert Woods Bliss</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17140.html">Bliss-Warren family</a> of Plymouth, Massachusetts.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="555.20.98">Bliss, William L.</a> (1876-1969)</b> — of Mason City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CG-lived.html">Cerro Gordo County</a>, Iowa. Born in Lincoln Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-born.html">Polk County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-13.html">December 13, 1876</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Iowa state supreme court</a>, 1932, 1939-62; appointed 1932; defeated, 1932, 1936. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/01-29.html">January 29, 1969</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CG-buried.html# ">Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery</a>, Mason City, Iowa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Wentworth H. Bliss and Ellen (MacDonald) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/06-06.html">June 6, 1906</a>, to Margaret A. McGruder.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6554210">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="776.57.89">Bliss, William M.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RE-lived.html">Rensselaer County</a>, N.Y. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Rensselaer County, 1810-11. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="025.85.05">Bliss, Zenas Work</a> (1867-1957)</b> — also known as <b>Zenas W. Bliss</b> — of Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Edgewood, Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Johnston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-10.html">January 10, 1867</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1903-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1910-13; Rhode Island State Tax Commissioner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-pol-sci-assoc.html">American Political Science Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-10.html">January 10, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a>, Providence, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Zenas Randall Bliss and Martha Nancy (Work) Bliss; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/10-26.html">October 26, 1892</a>, to Lydia Collins Kelly.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75464891">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLISSARD"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLISSARD</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#BIRDSALL">BIRDSALL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEEZARDE">BLEEZARDE</a>, <a href="#BLISH">BLISH</a>, <a href="#BLISS">BLISS</a>, <a href="#BLISSITT">BLISSITT</a>, <a href="#BLIZARD">BLIZARD</a>, <a href="#BLIZZARD">BLIZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#CHAMBLISS">CHAMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#CRUMBLISS">CRUMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#DIVELBLISS">DIVELBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#ELISSA">ELISSA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#ESTABLISHMENT">ESTABLISHMENT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#JULISSA">JULISSA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LISSA">LISSA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#MELLISSA">MELLISSA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanger-sargeant.html#SARD">SARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#SILISSA">SILISSA</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="532.78.41">Blissard, Louis B.</a> (1913-1998)</b> — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-lived.html">Honolulu County</a>, Hawaii. Born in Port Norris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/07-15.html">July 15, 1913</a>. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Hawaii</a>, 1954-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jesters.html">Jesters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/05-12.html">May 12, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-buried.html#cms02367">National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific</a>, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Corson Blissard and Bertha Mae (Haines) Blissard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/07-15.html">July 15, 1945</a>, to Frances E. Morgan.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/377143">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLISSITT"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLISSITT</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B423">Soundex B423</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#BALLESTA">BALLESTA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#BALZOTTI">BALZOTTI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#BASSITT">BASSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELLISSIMO">BELLISSIMO</a>, <a href="#BLISH">BLISH</a>, <a href="#BLISS">BLISS</a>, <a href="#BLISSARD">BLISSARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLUST">BLUST</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#BOLSTA">BOLSTA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cassill-castillo.html#CASSITT">CASSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambliss-chancie.html#CHAMBLISS">CHAMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#COSSITT">COSSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#CRUMBLISS">CRUMBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#DIVELBLISS">DIVELBLISS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/esaias-esters.html#ESTABLISHMENT">ESTABLISHMENT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lachapelle-ladas.html#LACOSSITT">LACOSSITT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#MELISSINOS">MELISSINOS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merriwether-mesta.html#MESSITTE">MESSITTE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#ROSSITTO">ROSSITTO</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#ULISSI">ULISSI</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="284.85.36">Blissitt, Charles W.</a></b> — of Morgantown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MN-lived.html">Monongalia County</a>, W.Va. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/morgantown.html">Mayor of Morgantown, W.Va.</a>, 1962-63. Still living as of 1963. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLITCH"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLITCH</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B432">Soundex B432</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#BABLITCH">BABLITCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#BALTIC">BALTIC</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLATCH">BLATCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#FLITCRAFT">FLITCRAFT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LITCH">LITCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LITCHARD">LITCHARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LITCHFIELD">LITCHFIELD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LITCHKE">LITCHKE</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blitch, Mrs. B. E.</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#183.33.01">Iris Faircloth Blitch</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="032.11.47">Blitch, Brooks E. III</a></b> — of Georgia. Superior court judge in Georgia, 1982-. Still living as of 1997. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#183.33.01">Iris Faircloth Blitch</a>; married to <a href="#880.72.56">Peg Blitch</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11627.html">Blitch family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="183.33.01">Blitch, Iris Faircloth</a> (1912-1993)</b> — also known as <b>Iris Blitch</b>; <b>Iris Faircloth</b>; <b>Mrs. B. E. Blitch</b> — of Homerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CI-lived.html">Clinch County</a>, Ga. Born near Vidalia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TO-born.html">Toombs County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-25.html">April 25, 1912</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a> 5th District, 1947-48, 1953-54; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/GA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/GA.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/GA.html">Democratic National Committee from Georgia</a>, 1948-56; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a> from Clinch County, 1949-50; defeated, 1940, 1950; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 8th District, 1955-63. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, and died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-died.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/08-19.html">August 19, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 116 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CI-buried.html#cms05217">somewhere</a> in Homerville, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of James Louis Faircloth and Marietta (Ridgdill) Faircloth; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/10-11.html">October 11, 1929</a>, to Brooks Erwin Blitch; mother of <a href="#032.11.47">Brooks E. Blitch III</a> (who married <a href="#880.72.56">Peg Blitch</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11627.html">Blitch family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000561">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401535">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="880.72.56">Blitch, Peg</a></b> — of Georgia. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1990-92; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1992-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1997. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to <a href="#032.11.47">Brooks E. Blitch III</a> (son of <a href="#183.33.01">Iris Faircloth Blitch</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11627.html">Blitch family</a> of Georgia.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLITHE"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLITHE</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B430">Soundex B430</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLETT">BLETT</a>, <a href="#BLIGHT">BLIGHT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTH">BLYTH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blundell-board.html#BLYTHE">BLYTHE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#CLITHERALL">CLITHERALL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#LITHERLAND">LITHERLAND</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLITHE:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood6.html#027.90.49">Lloyd H. Wood</a></td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLITZ"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLITZ</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B432">Soundex B432</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbra-abzug.html#ABLITZ">ABLITZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#BABLITZ">BABLITZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELITZ">BELITZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/billingsley-binger.html#BILTZ">BILTZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#BITZ">BITZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#BLATZ">BLATZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOTZ">BLOTZ</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#HOBLITZELL">HOBLITZELL</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/littlebandit-livesay.html#LITZ">LITZ</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="861.18.72">Blitz, Howard</a></b> — Libertarian. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Arizona. Still living as of 2012. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="817.06.53">Blitz, Joseph</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 37th District, 1978. Still living as of 1978. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="706.00.79">Blitz, Lenore</a></b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008 /committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>, Democratic National Convention, 2008. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIVEN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIVEN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B415">Soundex B415</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#BIVEN">BIVEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/littlebandit-livesay.html#LIVENGOOD">LIVENGOOD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#OLIVEN">OLIVEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#SULLIVENT">SULLIVENT</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="139.59.09">Bliven, James S.</a></b> — Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1840/RI.html">1840</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIX"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIX</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#BELKIS">BELKIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELLACOSA">BELLACOSA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#BELLICOSE">BELLICOSE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#BLAKES">BLAKES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEX">BLEX</a>, <a href="#BLIXT">BLIXT</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="037.43.34">Blix, Fred M.</a></b> — Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana. Still living as of 1972. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIXT"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIXT</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B423">Soundex B423</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLIX">BLIX</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/califano-callaghan.html#CALIXTE">CALIXTE</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blixt, Myron</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#928.23.92">V. Myron Blixt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="928.23.92">Blixt, V. Myron</a> (born c.1921)</b> — of Alpena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-lived.html">Alpena County</a>, Mich. Born about 1921. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/MI.html">1956</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIZARD"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIZARD</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEEZARDE">BLEEZARDE</a>, <a href="#BLISSARD">BLISSARD</a>, <a href="#BLIZMAN">BLIZMAN</a>, <a href="#BLIZZARD">BLIZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#CELIZA">CELIZA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#ELIZABERTUS">ELIZABERTUS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#ELIZALDE">ELIZALDE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#ELIZARES">ELIZARES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ivey-izlar.html#IZARD">IZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingstone-llewllyn.html#LIZA">LIZA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingstone-llewllyn.html#LIZAK">LIZAK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingstone-llewllyn.html#LIZAMA">LIZAMA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingstone-llewllyn.html#LIZARRAGA">LIZARRAGA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#PELLIZARI">PELLIZARI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pittsford-platzek.html#PIZARRO">PIZARRO</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#WIZARD">WIZARD</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="998.00.64">Blizard, Margaret M.</a></b> — of Norwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/MA.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1964. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIZMAN"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIZMAN</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B425">Soundex B425</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLIZARD">BLIZARD</a>, <a href="#BLIZZARD">BLIZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kovach-krapohl.html#KRAIZMAN">KRAIZMAN</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="798.85.85">Blizman, Alexis S.</a></b> — of Michigan. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MI.html">2000</a>. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLIZZARD"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLIZZARD</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#ADELIZZI">ADELIZZI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLEEZARDE">BLEEZARDE</a>, <a href="#BLISSARD">BLISSARD</a>, <a href="#BLIZARD">BLIZARD</a>, <a href="#BLIZMAN">BLIZMAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#BUZZARD">BUZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#CANNIZZARO">CANNIZZARO</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/excell-ezequiel.html#EZZARD">EZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gritzmacher-grosfeld.html#GRIZZARD">GRIZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gutierrez-gyger.html#GUZZARDI">GUZZARDI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#HAZZARD">HAZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hutchison-hyche.html#HUZZARD">HUZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#IMPELLIZZERI">IMPELLIZZERI</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ivey-izlar.html#IZZARD">IZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingstone-llewllyn.html#LIZZOTTE">LIZZOTTE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owenby-ozzard.html#OZZARD">OZZARD</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/templeton-terrill.html#TERLIZZI">TERLIZZI</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="073.39.61">Blizzard, David C., Jr.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a> from Cumberland County, 1920-24. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="716.81.20">Blizzard, John T.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Sussex County 8th District, 1946. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="995.58.41">Blizzard, Reese</a> (1863-1941)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CH-lived.html">Calhoun County</a>, W.Va.; Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/NI-born.html">Nicholas County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-17.html">October 17, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia</a>, 1901-10; circuit judge in West Virginia, 1920. Died in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/11-10.html">November 10, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 24 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms00245">Parkersburg Memorial Gardens</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Burton Blizzard and Elizabeth (Gill) Blizzard; brother of <a href="#325.14.48">Williamson S. Blizzard</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/02-22.html">February 22, 1887</a>, to Lillin 'Lettie' Stump; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/09-18.html">September 18, 1897</a>, to Frances H. Holland; grandfather of <a href="#208.70.66">Reese Leroy Blizzard</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21397.html">Blizzard family</a> of Parkersburg, West Virginia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23853606">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="208.70.66">Blizzard, Reese Leroy</a> (b. 1919)</b> — also known as <b>Reese L. Blizzard</b> — of Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-born.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/09-22.html">September 22, 1919</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">West Virginia Republican State Executive Committee</a>, 1952-55. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Roy C. Blizzard and Florence Marie (Porter) Blizzard; grandson of <a href="#995.58.41">Reese Blizzard</a>; grandnephew of <a href="#325.14.48">Williamson S. Blizzard</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21397.html">Blizzard family</a> of Parkersburg, West Virginia.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blizzard, William S.</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#325.14.48">Williamson S. Blizzard</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="325.14.48">Blizzard, Williamson S.</a> (1865-1941)</b> — also known as <b>William S. Blizzard</b> — of Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/NI-born.html">Nicholas County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/index.html">1865</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia. Died in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-died.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/07-29.html">July 29, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-buried.html#cms00245">Parkersburg Memorial Gardens</a>, Parkersburg, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Burton Blizzard and Elizabeth (Gill) Blizzard; brother of <a href="#995.58.41">Reese Blizzard</a>; granduncle of <a href="#208.70.66">Reese Leroy Blizzard</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21397.html">Blizzard family</a> of Parkersburg, West Virginia.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOBAUM"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOBAUM</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B415">Soundex B415</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battles-baxmeyer.html#BAUM">BAUM</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOBA">LOBA</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOBASSO">LOBASSO</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOBAUGH">LOBAUGH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OBAUGH">OBAUGH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/soapy-solwin.html#SOLOBAY">SOLOBAY</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="019.30.71">Blobaum, Roger</a></b> — of Iowa. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a> 4th District, 1970. Still living as of 1970. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOCH"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOCH</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLOCHER">BLOCHER</a>, <a href="#BLOCK">BLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOK">BLOK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boarman-bodziak.html#BOCH">BOCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#BOLCH">BOLCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNOBLOCH">KNOBLOCH</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLOCH:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#596.43.64">Madeleine M. Kunin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#137.60.38">William H. Leinkauf</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/procum-pryde.html#934.39.69">Alfred Proskauer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/timmons-tittmann.html#769.76.58">Ernest Moss Tipton</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="351.31.54">Bloch, Adam F.</a> (1884-1940)</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-07.html">December 7, 1884</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 2nd District, 1922; clerk of the Illinois supreme court; elected 1932, 1938. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/05-09.html">May 9, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms02202">St. Adalbert's Cemetery</a>, Niles, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7063709">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=98814">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="622.59.36">Bloch, Alan Neil</a> (b. 1932)</b> — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/index.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1979-97; resigned 1997. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="067.09.11">Bloch, Allan R.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html">Illinois state senate</a> 31st District, 1938. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="058.68.90">Bloch, Charles Julian</a> (1893-1974)</b> — also known as <b>Charles J. Bloch</b> — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-born.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/10-10.html">October 10, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a> from Bibb County, 1927-28; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/GA.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/GA.html">1944</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/GA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/GA.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in August, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/index.html">1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 0 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Bloch, Ed</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#286.42.90">Edward James Bloch</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="286.42.90">Bloch, Edward James</a></b> — also known as <b>Ed Bloch</b> — of New York. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 24th District, 1984, 1986. Still living as of 1986. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="842.42.10">Bloch, Henry J.</a></b> — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-consuls.html">Honorary Consul for Austria</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-consuls.html">Portland, Ore.</a>, 1954-59. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="549.94.02">Bloch, Jerry</a></b> — Candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/168/18.27.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Jesse A. Bloch"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="168.18.27">Bloch, Jesse Aaron</a> (1879-1951)</b> — also known as <b>Jesse A. Bloch</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/11-02.html">November 2, 1879</a>. Republican. Vice-president, Bloch Brothers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">Tobacco</a> Co.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1913-16; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 1st District, 1919-22; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/WV.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/WV.html">1948</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/01-17.html">January 17, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 76 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-buried.html#cms01129">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Wheeling, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel Simon Bloch and Bertha (Prager) Bloch; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Jessie Thornton Moffat.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/143843572">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1919</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="491.01.33">Bloch, Julia Chang</a> (b. 1942)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/index.html">1942</a>. U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NP-diplomats.html ">Nepal</a>, 1989-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1993. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bloch-julia-chang ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="353.79.62">Bloch, Lester W.</a></b> — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Albany County 2nd District, 1930. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="424.99.09">Bloch, Maurice</a> (c.1891-1929)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., about 1891. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1915-29 (New York County 22nd District 1915-17, New York County 16th District 1918-29); died in office 1929; campaign manager for U.S. Senator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagner.html#509.64.46">Robert F. Wagner</a>, 1926. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/brith-abraham.html">Order Brith Abraham</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, from an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">embolus of the heart</a>, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/appendicitis.html">appendicitis</a> surgery, in Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/12-05.html">December 5, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">about 38 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms02622">Cypress Hills National Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Madelaine Neuberger.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="005.74.95">Bloch, Naomi</a></b> — of Potomac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MD.html">2004</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="326.95.06">Bloch, Nathan</a></b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1922. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="401.31.35">Bloch, Sol D.</a></b> — Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/AL.html">1920</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="325.16.52">Bloch, Thomas M.</a></b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/WV.html">1960</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/WV.html">1972</a>. Still living as of 1972. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOCHER"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOCHER</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLOCH">BLOCH</a>, <a href="#BLOCKER">BLOCKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOKER">BLOKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUCHER">BLUCHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chennault-cherney.html#CHER">CHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hutchison-hyche.html#HUTTENLOCHER">HUTTENLOCHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hutchison-hyche.html#HUTTONLOCHER">HUTTONLOCHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNOBLOCH">KNOBLOCH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOCHEMES">LOCHEMES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOCHER">LOCHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#MELOCHE">MELOCHE</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="636.05.66">Blocher, Ayers H.</a></b> — of Kansas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Jackson County 8th District, 1938. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="379.83.84">Blocher, Elmer A.</a></b> — Socialist. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOCK"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOCK</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B420">Soundex B420</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/black.html#BLACK">BLACK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#BLECK">BLECK</a>, <a href="#BLOCH">BLOCH</a>, <a href="#BLOCKER">BLOCKER</a>, <a href="#BLOCKSBERG">BLOCKSBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOK">BLOK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boarman-bodziak.html#BOCK">BOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bully-bunker.html#BULOCK">BULOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#FLOCK">FLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#HOBLOCK">HOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNOBLOCK">KNOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lloyd-lockard.html#LOCK">LOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nevin-newel.html#NEWBLOCK">NEWBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#NIBLOCK">NIBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OBLOCK">OBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zaagman-zazachilds.html#ZABLOCKI">ZABLOCKI</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLOCK:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbra-abzug.html#712.25.26">A. David Abrams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brentano-brewington.html#701.22.25">Earl Leroy Brewer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gjesdal-glaspie.html#953.47.64">Hans Glad-Block</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#959.18.19">Meyer Lissner</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="701.93.11">Block, Ann</a></b> — Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2012. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="027.19.13">Block, Arthur R.</a></b> — of New York. New Alliance candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 8th District, 1992. Still living as of 1992. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="300.80.05">Block, Carl W.</a></b> — of Manahawkin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/OC-lived.html">Ocean County</a>, N.J. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stafford-twp.html">Mayor of Stafford Township, N.J.</a>, 2007. Still living as of 2007. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="084.08.57">Block, Charles H.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-lived.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a> District 54, 1903-06. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=11285">Minnesota Legislator record</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="858.42.14">Block, Charles H.</a> (1885-1978)</b> — of Wyandotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Wyandotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/01-13.html">January 13, 1885</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 6th District, 1945-48. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/12-26.html">December 26, 1978</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 347 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Daniel Block and Caroline Block; married to Mae Weaver.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="313.27.04">Block, Dennis H.</a></b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/chicago.html">mayor of Chicago, Ill.</a>, 1977. Still living as of 1977. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="446.59.25">Block, Doug</a> (born c.1954)</b> — of Rockford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WN-lived.html">Winnebago County</a>, Ill. Born about 1954. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/rockford.html">mayor of Rockford, Ill.</a>, 2009. Still living as of 2009. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="796.12.28">Block, Edward J.</a></b> — of Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. American Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 17th District, 1952. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="848.71.41">Block, Ethel L.</a></b> — of Tivoli, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1972. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="063.19.08">Block, Fred</a></b> — of Michigan. Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Michigan state supreme court</a>, 1916. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="040.91.03">Block, Frederic</a> (b. 1934)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/index.html">1934</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> 2nd District, 1965; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York</a>, 1994-. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="351.32.51">Block, Fritz C.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-lived.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Madison County, 1903. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="805.04.77">Block, H. M.</a></b> — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/GA.html">1944</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="811.33.67">Block, Herbert</a></b> — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/GA.html">1936</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/GA.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/GA.html">1948</a> (alternate). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="621.89.19">Block, Herman M.</a></b> — of Del Rio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/VV-lived.html">Val Verde County</a>, Tex. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/delrio.html#2">Del Rio, Tex.</a>, 1879-84, 1886-89. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="504.21.13">Block, Jacob W.</a></b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Independence League candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1910. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Block, John</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#757.30.13">S. John Block</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="596.28.41">Block, John Rusling</a> (b. 1935)</b> — Born in Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/02-15.html">February 15, 1935</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Agriculture</a>, 1981-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lobbyist.html">lobbyist</a>. Still living as of 1994. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Rusling Block">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="025.78.63">Block, Joseph</a></b> — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Liberal. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 24th District, 1946. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="132.33.67">Block, Julius H.</a></b> — of St. Peter, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/NI-lived.html">Nicollet County</a>, Minn. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/trea.html">Minnesota state treasurer</a>, 1901-07. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="774.16.81">Block, Karl Morgan</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Bishop</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1956. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="796.67.84">Block, Kenneth L.</a></b> — of Michigan. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals</a> 3rd District, 1978. Still living as of 1978. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="338.55.66">Block, Lance</a></b> — of Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/FL.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/FL.html">2004</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="093.61.07">Block, Louis M.</a></b> — Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 12th District, 1916. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="561.60.03">Block, Marian</a></b> — of California. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1960. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="431.82.02">Block, Mark</a></b> — of New Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WK-lived.html">Waukesha County</a>, Wis. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/WI.html">2008</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="619.46.02">Block, Martin</a></b> — also known as <b>Marty Block</b> — of San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/CA.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/CA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/CA.html">2004</a>. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Block, Marty</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#619.46.02">Martin Block</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="745.25.25">Block, Matthew F.</a></b> — of Thibodaux, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/LF-lived.html">Lafourche Parish</a>, La. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/LA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/LA.html">2008</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="343.88.50">Block, Michael</a></b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 1st District, 1927. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="094.84.06">Block, Morris</a> (d. 1926)</b> — of Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/kingston.html">Mayor of Kingston, N.Y.</a>, 1902-05, 1925-26; died in office 1926. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/11-07.html">November 7, 1926</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="487.91.50">Block, Nathan</a></b> — Progressive. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1916. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="434.84.31">Block, P.</a></b> — of Belleville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/belleville.html#2">Belleville, N.J.</a>, 1901. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="757.30.13">Block, S. John</a> (c.1880-1955)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-born.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio, about 1880. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1908; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1933; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1914; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1916, 1917; delegate to Socialist National Convention from New York, 1920. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-lawyers-guild.html">National Lawyers Guild</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/05-30.html">May 30, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Block and Belle (Adler) Block; married to Anita Cahn.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="589.34.86">Block, Samuel</a></b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 9th District, 1928, 1932; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 22nd District, 1933, 1934, 1935. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="139.88.39">Block, Sherman</a> (1924-1998)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/index.html">1924</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-officials.html">Los Angeles County Sheriff</a>, 1981-98. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/index.html">1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">about 74 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms06148">Hillside Memorial Park</a>, Culver City, Calif. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Block, Sol</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#959.11.35">Solomon Block</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="959.11.35">Block, Solomon</a></b> — also known as <b>Sol Block</b> — of Grants, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/CI-lived.html">Cibola County</a>, N.M. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/grants.html#2">Grants, N.M.</a>, 1901. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="830.66.80">Block, William</a></b> — of Tolstoy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/PO-lived.html">Potter County</a>, S.Dak. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 26th District, 1941-42. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOCKER"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOCKER</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B426">Soundex B426</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#BLACKER">BLACKER</a>, <a href="#BLOCHER">BLOCHER</a>, <a href="#BLOCK">BLOCK</a>, <a href="#BLOCKSBERG">BLOCKSBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOKER">BLOKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blow-blumrosen.html#BLUCHER">BLUCHER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boarman-bodziak.html#BOCKLER">BOCKLER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#HOBLOCK">HOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLOCKE">KLOCKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/klinedinst-knaggs.html#KLOCKER">KLOCKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNOBLOCK">KNOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#LOCKE">LOCKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKEN">LOCKEN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKER">LOCKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKERBY">LOCKERBY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKERMAN">LOCKERMAN</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKERY">LOCKERY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKETT">LOCKETT</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKETTE">LOCKETTE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKEY">LOCKEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nevin-newel.html#NEWBLOCK">NEWBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#NIBLOCK">NIBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OBLOCK">OBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitla-whitlow.html#WHITLOCKE">WHITLOCKE</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zaagman-zazachilds.html#ZABLOCKI">ZABLOCKI</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>BLOCKER:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thornton.html#794.12.15">J. Blocker Thornton</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="592.49.37">Blocker, A. T.</a></b> — of St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-lived.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/saintpetersburg.html">Mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla.</a>, 1910-12. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="904.05.81">Blocker, Frank, Jr.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-lived.html">Norfolk</a>, Va. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/VA.html">1964</a>. Still living as of 1964. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Blocker, Harwood, Jr.</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#645.00.61">V. Harwood Blocker Jr.</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="409.28.07">Blocker, Janis</a></b> — of Round O, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CO-lived.html">Colleton County</a>, S.C. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/SC.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="395.74.35">Blocker, John R.</a></b> — of Edgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-lived.html">Edgefield County</a>, S.C. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/SC.html">1964</a>. Still living as of 1964. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="912.36.02">Blocker, Margaret Ann</a></b> — also known as <b>Margaret Blocker</b> — of St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-lived.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla.; Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/FL.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/FL.html">1956</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="933.16.67">Blocker, Rick</a></b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MI.html">2008</a>. Still living as of 2008. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="645.00.61">Blocker, V. Harwood, Jr.</a></b> — U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OL-consuls.html ">Manzanillo</a>, as of 1929; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PG-consuls.html ">Asuncion</a>, as of 1932; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ME-consuls.html ">Martinique</a>, as of 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Victoria</a>, as of 1943. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother of <a href="#674.95.42">William Preston Blocker</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="674.95.42">Blocker, William Preston</a> (1892-1947)</b> — also known as <b>William P. Blocker</b> — of Hondo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MN-lived.html">Medina County</a>, Tex. Born in Hondo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MN-born.html">Medina County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/09-30.html">September 30, 1892</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">salesman</a>; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Ciudad Porfirio Diaz</a>, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Piedras Negras</a>, 1916-19; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Piedras Negras</a>, 1919-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OS-consuls.html ">Guaymas</a>, 1923-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LS-consuls.html ">Mazatlan</a>, 1925-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HH-consuls.html ">Ciudad Juarez</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NN-consuls.html ">Monterrey</a>, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HH-consuls.html ">Ciudad Juarez</a>, 1938-43. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board</a> the U.S. Transport <i>St. Mihiel</i>, on which he had been scheduled to sail to Panama, at New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/02-28.html">February 28, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-buried.html#cms01665">Evergreen Alameda Cemetery</a>, El Paso, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Vincular Harwood Blocker and Daisy D. Blocker; brother of <a href="#645.00.61">V. Harwood Blocker Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-29.html">February 29, 1916</a>, to Joy Ovada Johnston.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28510707">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table><br clear="all"><br> <a name="BLOCKSBERG"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>BLOCKSBERG</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/b.html#B421">Soundex B421</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="#BLOCK">BLOCK</a>, <a href="#BLOCKER">BLOCKER</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLOKSBERG">BLOKSBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#BLONDILOCKS">BLONDILOCKS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobby-hodgdon.html#HOBLOCK">HOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/knill-knowland.html#KNOBLOCK">KNOBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locker-lockport.html#LOCKSLEY">LOCKSLEY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marksberry-marley.html#MARKSBERRY">MARKSBERRY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nevin-newel.html#NEWBLOCK">NEWBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#NIBLOCK">NIBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OBLOCK">OBLOCK</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#STOOKSBERRY">STOOKSBERRY</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#VICKSBURG">VICKSBURG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wait-walberg.html#WAKSBERG">WAKSBERG</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willison-wilshire.html#WILLOCKS">WILLOCKS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zaagman-zazachilds.html#ZABLOCKI">ZABLOCKI</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="734.29.34">Blocksberg, Arthur</a></b> — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. 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