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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: November 11, 1884</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 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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Louis Engdahl</a> — Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-born.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-11-11.html">Politicians who were born on November 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/born.html">politicians who were born in 1884</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Politicians who were married on this date: <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wolfenden-woo.html#652.23.19">Theodore J. Wolfley</a> and Elizabeth C. Martin</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#485.03.84">Abraham L. Brick</a> and Anna Meyer</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#124.87.10">Edgar Howard</a> and Elizabeth Burtch</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#617.93.45">Richard C. Flannigan</a> and Anna Haessly</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/married-11-11.html">Politicians who were married on November 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/married.html">politicians who were married in 1884</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Politicians who died on this date: <ul> <li>None currently in database.</li> <li>See: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-11-11.html">Politicians who died on November 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/died.html">politicians who died in 1884</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: <ul> <li>50 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson5.html#820.45.36">Jeremy Robinson</a>, died November 11, 1834</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 86: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cross.html#852.44.23">Edward Cross</a></li> <li>Age 80: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacon.html#290.57.41">Peter C. Bacon</a></li> <li>Age 64: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hare-harju.html#078.16.55">John Seldon Hargis</a></li> <li>Age 52: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker6.html#915.07.69">Lewis Baker</a></li> <li>Age 50: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler7.html#993.04.72">Richard Butler</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emily T. Helm</a></li> <li>Age 45: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#810.37.07">William H. Cate</a></li> <li>Age 42: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webb.html#189.52.34">William Robert Webb</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/black.html#417.17.37">William Perkins Black</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/norton.html#588.12.13">James A. Norton</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#648.43.84">Finis E. Johnston</a></li> <li>Age 40: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foraker-forbes.html#027.42.70">Martin A. Foran</a></li> <li>Age 38: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#974.07.99">Ebenezer W. Poe</a></li> <li>Age 37: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#467.71.06">Richard P. Cane</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#489.85.33">Zachary T. Coy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purchio-puthuff.html#492.88.18">Thomas Richard Purnell</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#905.61.09">Aaron Perry</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed4.html#897.00.38">Harper Reed</a></li> <li>Age 32: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#333.33.49">Hempstead Washburne</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#480.30.66">Otto Kelsey</a></li> <li>Age 31: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/giddey-gilberson.html#310.18.52">Isaac T. Giering</a></li> <li>Age 30: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/atkinson.html#395.09.64">William Yates Atkinson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ives.html#602.61.55">Eugene S. Ives</a></li> <li>Age 29: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham7.html#391.93.23">Robert D. Graham</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heft-heiple.html#251.22.01">William B. Heird</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis2.html#625.73.81">Charles F. Lewis</a></li> <li>Age 26: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#565.57.74">Michael J. Faherty</a></li> <li>Age 25: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#218.79.14">Samuel Insull</a></li> <li>Age 24: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawks-hawthorne.html#364.81.27">John Hawley</a></li> <li>Age 23: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lineberger-linligthgow.html#700.26.99">Curg H. Lingenfelter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennoyer-perk.html#775.36.23">Percy Pepoon</a></li> <li>Age 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pratt.html#716.39.82">Harry H. Pratt</a></li> <li>Age 18: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#560.08.05">George A. Blauvelt</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ramsay-randal.html#004.47.27">William E. Ramsay</a></li> <li>Age 16: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkinson-hormann.html#530.30.62">Fred H. Horlacher</a></li> <li>Age 15: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbeel-hudnut.html#876.62.19">George Huddleston</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#205.63.05">George S. Legaré</a></li> <li>Age 14: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booth.html#028.71.85">George F. Booth</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hackley-hagenbarth.html#644.87.39">Edward T. Hackney</a></li> <li>Age 13: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blair.html#149.30.68">James T. Blair</a></li> <li>Age 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walsh.html#875.91.37">David I. Walsh</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#687.24.10">George T. Summerlin</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perky-perrizzo.html#832.94.59">Axel Permin</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomas3.html#055.06.68">Edwin Stark Thomas</a></li> <li>Age 9: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emerson.html#431.76.51">Richard Emerson</a></li> <li>Age 8: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson4.html#344.60.33">George S. Wilson</a></li> <li>Age 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#054.19.73">William H. Parry</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#951.74.17">Charles D. Lockwood</a></li> <li>Age 6: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcalpin-mcbrayer.html#683.11.69">Charles D. McAvoy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bentsen-bereuter.html#632.59.44">Christian O. Berdahl</a></li> <li>Age 3: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdonald.html#887.77.17">Herman A. MacDonald</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#994.79.41">George T. Conway</a></li> <li>Age 2: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#339.99.30">Arthur B. Bean</a></li> <li>Age 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haibach-haiko.html#092.00.91">Max B. Haibach</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eachus-earlston.html#016.56.70">Justus O. Eakin</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/11-11.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/11-11.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>