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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Prince Hall Masons, politicians</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Barlow, Jr.</b> — of Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn.; Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born in Americus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/SU-born.html">Sumter County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/08-08.html">August 8, 1915</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/CT.html">1968</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1977. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <b>Prince Hall Masons</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>. Died in Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/01-31.html">January 31, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 176 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 Boce William Barlow and Ethel (Green) Barlow; married to Catherine Swanson.</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;">Boce Barlow Way, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">street</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-names.html">Hartford, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/Boce W. Barlow Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10413689">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>John Wesley Dobbs (1882-1961)</b> — also known as <b>J. W. Dobbs</b> — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CB-born.html">Cobb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/03-06.html">March 6, 1882</a>. Republican. Co-founder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League, 1946; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/GA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/GA.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <b>Prince Hall Masons</b>. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/08-30.html">August 30, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html# ">South View Cemetery</a>, Atlanta, Ga.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html# ">John Wesley Dobbs Plaza</a>, Atlanta, 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>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">John Wesley</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>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/">1906</a> to Irene Ophelia Thompson; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson6.html#466.63.50">Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr.</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;">John Wesley Dobbs <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a> (formerly Houston Street), and Dobbs <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-names.html">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/John Wesley Dobbs">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12599889">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>Joseph E. Ousley (c.1850-1896)</b> — of Eutaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-lived.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss. Born in Mississippi, about 1850. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-officials.html">Bolivar County Circuit Clerk</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/MS.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <b>Prince Hall Masons</b>. Died in Eutaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-died.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/10-16.html">October 16, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 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/1881/12-22.html">December 22, 1881</a>, to Jennie M. Williamson.</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>Louis B. Toomer (1842-1904)</b> — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/index.html">1842</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/GA.html">1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <b>Prince Hall Masons</b>. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-18.html">October 18, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 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>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/214492367">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/50888208241/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/964/94.74.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Andrew Young"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932)</b> — also known as <b>Andy Young</b> — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/03-12.html">March 12, 1932</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Ordained minister</a>; one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. until his assassination; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 5th District, 1973-77; defeated, 1970; U.S. Representative to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/un.html ">United Nations</a>, 1977-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/atlanta.html">mayor of Atlanta, Ga.</a>, 1982-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1990. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">United Church of Christ</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <b>Prince Hall Masons</b>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/spingarn-medal.html">Spingarn Medal</a> in 1978; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1981. Still living as of 2021. <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>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</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>Relatives:</i> Son of Andrew Jackson Young and Daisy (Fuller) Young; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to Jean Childs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/03-24.html">March 24, 1996</a>, to Carolyn Watson.</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=Y000028">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411962">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew Young">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/young-andrew-jackson ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/235/000025160">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949258">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=8416">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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