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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Newspapers and Print Journalism in North Carolina</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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Abbott — of New Hampshire; Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-lived.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C. Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/07-15.html">July 15, 1825</a>. Republican. Newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of New Hampshire</a>, 1855-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1868; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1868-71; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NC.html">Republican National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1872-; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/NCcc nWM">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1874-77. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-died.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/10-08.html">October 8, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 85 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-buried.html#cms03653">National Cemetery</a>, Wilmington, N.C.; reinterment in 1887 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-buried.html#cms00348">Valley Cemetery</a>, Manchester, N.H. <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">Relatives: Son of Aaron Abbott and Nancy (Badger) Abbott.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400669">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Carter Abbott">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5993447">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=43923">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> Charles Laban Abernethy (1872-1955) — also known as Charles L. Abernethy — of New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-lived.html">Craven County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/03-18.html">March 18, 1872</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper publisher; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 3rd District, 1922-35. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-died.html">Craven County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/02-23.html">February 23, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 342 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-buried.html#cms00038">Cedar Grove Cemetery</a>, New Bern, N.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">Relatives: Son of John Turner Abernethy and Martha Anna (Scott) Abernethy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/12-19.html">December 19, 1895</a>, to Minnie M. May.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000015">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400677">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Laban Abernethy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6404439">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Orison Rudolph Aggrey (1926-2016) — also known as O. Rudolph Aggrey — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-born.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/07-24.html">July 24, 1926</a>. Newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NG-consuls.html ">Lagos</a>, 1951-53; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SN-diplomats.html ">Senegal</a>, 1973-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GM-diplomats.html ">Gambia</a>, 1973-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RM-diplomats.html ">Romania</a>, 1977-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-alpha.html">Alpha Phi Alpha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-delta-chi.html">Sigma Delta Chi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/04-06.html">April 6, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and Rose Rudolph (Douglass) Aggrey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/11-05.html">November 5, 1966</a>, to Francoise Christiane Fratacci.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison Rudolph Aggrey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/aggrey-orison-rudolph">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/541/000119184">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/175435856">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=119576">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> George Venable Allen (1903-1970) — also known as George V. Allen — of Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-lived.html">Durham County</a>, N.C.; Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-born.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-03.html">November 3, 1903</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JM-consuls.html ">Kingston</a>, as of 1930; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Shanghai</a>, as of 1932; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EG-consuls.html ">Cairo</a>, as of 1936-38; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IA-diplomats.html ">Iran</a>, 1946-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/YU-diplomats.html ">Yugoslavia</a>, 1949-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-diplomats.html ">India</a>, 1953-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NP-diplomats.html ">Nepal</a>, 1953-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-diplomats.html ">Greece</a>, 1956-57; director, U.S. Information Agency, 1957-60; president, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">Tobacco</a> Institute, 1960-66. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-phi.html">Delta Sigma Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-world-federalists.html">United World Federalists</a>. Died suddenly, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">coronary occlusion</a>, in Bahama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-died.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/07-11.html">July 11, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of Thomas Ellis Allen and Harriet (Moore) Allen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/10-02.html">October 2, 1934</a>, to Katharine Martin; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams7.html#783.93.54">Robert Overton Williams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#289.58.44">John Williams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams8.html#337.00.19">Thomas Lanier Williams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams6.html#102.18.25">Lewis Williams</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#400.19.03">Joseph Lanier Williams</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0013.html">Williams family</a> of North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George V. Allen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/allen-george-venable">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/614/000121251">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7247643">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.cityofws.org/Home/DiscoverWinston-Salem/History/Articles/WinstonMayorsBiographies"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/186/12.65.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="J. W. Alspaugh"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Wesley Alspaugh (1828-1912) — also known as J. W. Alspaugh — of Winston (now part of Winston-Salem), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-lived.html">Forsyth County</a>, N.C. Born in North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/07-21.html">July 21, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/winstonsalem.html#3">mayor of Winston, N.C.</a>, 1871-72, 1873-74, 1875-76. Died in Winston (now part of Winston-Salem), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-died.html">Forsyth County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-03.html">November 3, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 105 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-buried.html#cms01768">Salem Cemetery</a>, Winston-Salem, N.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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">John Wesley</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Alspaugh and Elizabeth (Lashmit) Alspaugh; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#594.61.95">Franklin Pierce Alspaugh</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28156469">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: City of Winston-Salem</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> R. F. Arledge (1907-1968) — also known as Deacon Arledge — of Albuquerque, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/BE-lived.html">Bernalillo County</a>, N.M. Born in Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/06-01.html">June 1, 1907</a>. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; major in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/BE-parties.html">chair of Bernalillo County Democratic Party</a>, 1946; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NM.html">New Mexico Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1946; district judge in New Mexico 2nd District, 1947-50; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NM.html">1948</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/church-of-christ.html">Church of Christ</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-kappa-alpha.html">Pi Kappa Alpha</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/06-16.html">June 16, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/SF-buried.html#cms00642">Santa Fe National Cemetery</a>, Santa Fe, N.M. <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">Relatives: Son of Richard F. Arledge and Ellen (Henderson) Arledge; married to Helen Jean Floyd.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3862167">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Hannah Diggs Atkins (b. 1923) — of Oklahoma. Born in Winston-Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-born.html">Forsyth County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-02.html">November 2, 1923</a>. Reporter; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">school teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/librarian.html">librarian</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/sthse.html">Oklahoma state house of representatives</a>, 1969-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Oklahoma</a>, 1987-91. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 1999. <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">Relatives: Daughter of James Thackeray Diggs and Mabel Kennedy Diggs; married to Charles N. Atkins.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/298/11.03.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Thomas Hart Benton"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) — also known as "Old Bullion" — of Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WI-lived.html">Williamson County</a>, Tenn.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born near Hillsborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-14.html">March 14, 1782</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1809; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 1821-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 1st District, 1853-55; Benton Democrat candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1856. Fought a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a>, who later became a political ally. In April, 1850, he caused a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> with his attempt to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assault</a> Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foote.html#353.73.85">Henry Stuart Foote</a>, of Mississippi, during debate on the Senate floor; he was restrained by other senators. Foote had a cocked pistol in his hand and undoubtedly would have shot him. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/04-10.html">April 10, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 27 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00391">Bellefontaine Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, 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">Relatives: Son of Jesse Benton and Ann (Gooch) Benton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/">1821</a> to Elizabeth McDowell (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>); father of Jessie Benton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fremont.html#303.52.14">John Charles Frémont</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benton.html#633.78.80">Thomas Hart Benton Jr.</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benton.html#388.47.45">Maecenas Eason Benton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0255.html">Benton family</a> of Missouri and Tennessee (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Benton counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BE.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/BE.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BE.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/BN.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BE.html">Ore.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/BE.html">Wash.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $100 gold certificate in the 1880s to 1920s.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000398">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401389">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Hart Benton (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/041/000049891">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3101">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=76726">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Thomas Hart Benton: John F. Kennedy, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060955449/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060955449&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Profiles in Courage</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</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> Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky.; Glenview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/11-08.html">November 8, 1871</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; publisher of Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/louisville.html">mayor of Louisville, Ky.</a>, 1907; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals</a>, 1910; circuit judge in Kentucky, 1911; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1933-37. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-died.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/12-18.html">December 18, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 40 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms00479">Cave Hill Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <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">Relatives: Son of Col. Robert Bingham and Delphine Louise (Worth) Bingham; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-20.html">May 20, 1896</a>, to Eleanor E. Miller; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/11-15.html">November 15, 1916</a>, to Mary Lily (Kenan) Flagler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/08-20.html">August 20, 1924</a>, to Mrs. James Byron Hilliard.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Worth Bingham">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bingham-robert-worth ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/229/000134824">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6940366">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Stanford R. Brookshire — also known as Stan Brookshire — of Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. Born in Troutmans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/IR-born.html">Iredell County</a>, N.C. Newspaper reporter; dealer in industrial belts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/charlotte.html">mayor of Charlotte, N.C.</a>, 1961-69. Still living as of 1969. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Marion Butler (1863-1938) — of Elliott, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/SA-lived.html">Sampson County</a>, N.C. Born near Clinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/SA-born.html">Sampson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/05-20.html">May 20, 1863</a>. Newspaper publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>; elected 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1895-1901; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/NC.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NC.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NC.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NC.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NC.html">1932</a>. Died in Takoma Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/06-03.html">June 3, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 14 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/SA-buried.html#cms02192">Clinton Cemetery</a>, Clinton, N.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">Relatives: Son of Wiley Butler and Romelia Butler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/08-31.html">August 31, 1893</a>, to Florence Faison.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001183">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402125">Govtrack.us page</a></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> John Adams Cameron (1788-1838) — also known as John A. Cameron — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C.; Florida. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/index.html">1788</a>. Newspaper editor; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Fayetteville, 1810-12, 1820; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VR-consuls.html ">Veracruz</a>, 1831-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Florida</a>, 1832-38. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">Perished</a> in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamer</a> Pulaski, off the coast of North Carolina, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/06-14.html">June 14, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). His remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">probably not recovered</a>. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. John Cameron and Anne Owen (Nash) Cameron; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#486.55.63">Thomas N. Cameron</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/">1815</a> to Eliza Ann Adam; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/">1818</a> to Catherine (McQueen) Halliday; father of Catherine LaFayette Cameron (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#164.61.59">William Marcus Shipp</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/18916.html">Iredell-Johnston-Cameron family</a> of North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/81021725">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> James P. Cook (b. 1863) — of Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CB-lived.html">Cabarrus County</a>, N.C. Born in Mt. Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CB-born.html">Cabarrus County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/01-12.html">January 12, 1863</a>. Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> 24th District, 1913-14. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</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">Relatives: Son of Matthew Cook and Mary (Costner) Cook; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/">1892</a> to Margaret J. Norfleet.</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> Charles Holden Cowles (1875-1957) — of Wilkesboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WL-lived.html">Wilkes County</a>, N.C. Born in Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/07-16.html">July 16, 1875</a>. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; private secretary to U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackburn.html#767.43.63">E. Spencer Blackburn</a>, 1901-03; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/NC.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NC.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/NC.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NC.html">1916</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Wilkes County, 1905-08, 1921-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 8th District, 1909-11. Died in Mocksville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DV-died.html">Davie County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/10-02.html">October 2, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WL-buried.html#cms03323">Episcopal Church Cemetery</a>, Wilkesboro, N.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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#490.03.75">Calvin Josiah Cowles</a> and Ida Augusta (Holden) Cowles; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/09-06.html">September 6, 1916</a>, to Louise S. Lunn; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#297.64.28">William Henry Harrison Cowles</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#525.88.28">William Woods Holden</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#469.29.30">Josiah Cowles</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wyche-wyvell.html#053.26.70">Thomas Wynns</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#647.53.19">Charles Upson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#336.78.61">Gad Ely Upson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#967.04.59">Daniel Upson</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins3.html#209.06.86">Ela Collins</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#291.66.45">Christopher Columbus Upson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#436.82.26">Andrew Seth Upson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#928.05.17">Evelyn M. Upson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <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>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000826">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402944">Govtrack.us page</a></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> Jonathan Worth Daniels (1902-1981) — also known as Jonathan Daniels — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/04-27.html">April 27, 1902</a>. Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1930; White House press secretary in 1945, for presidents <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trippe-trumbo.html#556.54.36">Harry Truman</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NC.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NC.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NC.html">1964</a>. Died in Hilton Head Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-died.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/11-06.html">November 6, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-buried.html#cms04727">Six Oaks Cemetery</a>, Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head Island, S.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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#646.82.53">Josephus Daniels</a> and Addie Worth (Bagley) Daniels; married to Lucy Cathcart; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#304.45.08">Jonathan Worth</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11986.html">Daniels-Bagley-Worth family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan W. Daniels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/82069834">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-18.html">May 18, 1862</a>. Democrat. North Carolina state printer, 1887-93; newspaper editor and publisher; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1896-1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NC.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NC.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NC.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>); U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1933-41. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/01-15.html">January 15, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.C.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms07905">Nash Square</a>, Raleigh, N.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">Relatives: Son of Josephus Daniels and Mary (Cleves) Daniels; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-02.html">May 2, 1888</a>, to Addie Worth Bagley (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#304.45.08">Jonathan Worth</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/daniels.html#778.76.23">Jonathan Worth Daniels</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11986.html">Daniels-Bagley-Worth family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus Daniels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/daniels-josephus ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/446/000176915">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199993">Internet Movie Database profile</a></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> Robert Dick Douglas (b. 1875) — also known as Robert D. Douglas — of Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C. Born in Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-born.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/04-07.html">April 7, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/attygn.html">North Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/NC.html">1904</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/greensboro.html#2">Greensboro, N.C.</a>, 1906-16. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#033.46.86">Robert Martin Douglas</a> and Jessie M. (Dick) Douglas; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/04-14.html">April 14, 1909</a>, to Virginia Land Brown; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#784.08.08">Stephen Arnold Douglas</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dick.html#347.05.91">Robert P. Dick</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17016.html">Douglas-Dick family</a> of Greensboro, North Carolina.</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> William Carson Ervin (1859-1943) — also known as William C. Ervin — of Lenoir, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CD-lived.html">Caldwell County</a>, N.C.; Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/MW-born.html">McDowell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/12-15.html">December 15, 1859</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">printer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/lenoir.html">mayor of Lenoir, N.C.</a>, 1888-89. Died in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/07-16.html">July 16, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 213 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-buried.html#cms03461">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Morganton, N.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">Relatives: Son of Lawson Ervin and Evelyn (Moody) Ervin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/83577125">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> John Robert French (1819-1890) — also known as John R. French — of Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-lived.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H.; Biddeford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LA-lived.html">Lake County</a>, Ohio; Edenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-lived.html">Chowan County</a>, N.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C.; Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb.; Boise, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/AD-lived.html">Ada County</a>, Idaho. Born in Gilmanton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/BE-born.html">Belknap County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/05-28.html">May 28, 1819</a>. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1858-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1867-69; Sergeant-at-Arms, U.S. Senate, 1869-79. Died in Boise, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/AD-died.html">Ada County</a>, Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/10-02.html">October 2, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 127 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/AD-buried.html#cms06491">Pioneer Cemetery</a>, Boise, Idaho. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000378">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404323">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John R. French">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6570632">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Edward Carney Hackney (1856-1903) — also known as Edward C. Hackney — of Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-lived.html">Durham County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CH-born.html">Chatham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/05-30.html">May 30, 1856</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor and publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/durham.html">mayor of Durham, N.C.</a>, 1882-83. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-died.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/03-10.html">March 10, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-buried.html#cms05929">Maplewood Cemetery</a>, Durham, N.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">Relatives: Son of Joshua William Hackney and Harriet Hill (Stowe) Hackney; married to Lina Almira (Mallory) Mallory; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#791.01.90">Charles Buchanan Markham</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/55795619">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Edward Joseph Hale (1839-1922) — also known as Edward J. Hale — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C. Born in Haymount, Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/12-25.html">December 25, 1839</a>. Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; newspaper editor and publisher; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Manchester</a>, 1885-89; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NC.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/NC.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NC.html">1904</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/NC.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NC.html">1912</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-diplomats.html ">Costa Rica</a>, 1913-17. Died in Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-16.html">February 16, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-buried.html#cms08138">Cross Creek Cemetery No. 2</a>, Fayetteville, N.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">Relatives: Son of Edward J. Hale and Sarah Jane (Walker) Hale; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/01-15.html">January 15, 1861</a>, to Maria Rhett Hill; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/12-05.html">December 5, 1905</a>, to Caroline Green Mallett.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/hale-edward-joseph ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28509230">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William Cicero Hammer (1865-1930) — also known as William C. Hammer — of Asheboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C. Born near Asheboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-born.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/03-24.html">March 24, 1865</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/asheboro.html">mayor of Asheboro, N.C.</a>, 1895-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NC.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NC.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina</a>, 1914-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 7th District, 1921-30; died in office 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen of the World</a>. Died in Asheboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-died.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-26.html">September 26, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 186 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-buried.html#cms03509">City Cemetery</a>, Asheboro, N.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">Relatives: Son of William C. Hammer and Hannah Jane (Burrows) Hammer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/12-21.html">December 21, 1893</a>, to Minnie Lee Hancock.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000123">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405005">Govtrack.us page</a></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> Charles Joseph Harris (1853-1944) — also known as Charles J. Harris — of Dillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, N.C. Born in Putnam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-born.html">Windham County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/09-11.html">September 11, 1853</a>. Republican. President, Harris Kaolin Co. (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">mining</a>), Harris Granite <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">Quarries</a>, and Harris-Woodbury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber</a> Co.; president, Jackson County <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> (Sylva, N.C.); vice-president, American National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> (Asheville, N.C.); president, Asheville Daily Times newspaper; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/NC.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NC.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NC.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NC.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NC.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NC.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NC.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NC.html">1936</a> (alternate); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1904. Suffered a broken back, probably from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fall</a>, was unable to eat, and died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/starvation.html">inanition</a>, in Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/02-14.html">February 14, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-buried.html#cms00551">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Asheville, N.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">Relatives: Son of William Harris and Zilpah (Torrey) Harris; married to Florence Rust.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12141509">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Clyde Roark Hoey (1877-1954) — also known as Clyde R. Hoey — of Shelby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-lived.html">Cleveland County</a>, N.C. Born in Shelby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-born.html">Cleveland County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/12-11.html">December 11, 1877</a>. Democrat. Newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1899-1902; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1903-06; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NC.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NC.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 9th District, 1919-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1937-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">Democratic National Committee from North Carolina</a>, 1941-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1945-54; died in office 1954; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-54; died in office 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-chi.html">Sigma Chi</a>. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, at his desk in his congressional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">office</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/05-12.html">May 12, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-buried.html#cms01102">Sunset Cemetery</a>, Shelby, N.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">Relatives: Son of Samuel Alberta Hoey and Mary Charlotte (Roark) Hoey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/03-22.html">March 22, 1900</a>, to Bessie Gardner (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gardner.html#249.70.03">Oliver Max Gardner</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11536.html">Gardner family</a> of Shelby, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000679">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405532">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/clyde-roark-hoey/">National Governors Association biography</a></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> William Woods Holden (1818-1892) — also known as William W. Holden — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/11-24.html">November 24, 1818</a>. Newspaper editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/NC.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to North Carolina secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1865, 1868-70; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/raleigh.html#2">Raleigh, N.C.</a>, 1873-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Impeached</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as Governor in 1870, over corruption <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>. Died in Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-01.html">March 1, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.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">Relatives: Married to Ann Augusta Young; father of Ida Augustus Holden (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#490.03.75">Calvin Josiah Cowles</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#379.83.92">Charles Holden Cowles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <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>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-woods-holden/">National Governors Association biography</a></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> Edwin Bedford Jeffress (1887-1961) — of Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C. Born in Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HY-born.html">Haywood County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/05-29.html">May 29, 1887</a>. Democrat. Newspaper publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/greensboro.html">mayor of Greensboro, N.C.</a>, 1925-29; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1931-33. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</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/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in Chapel Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/05-23.html">May 23, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-buried.html#cms03260">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Greensboro, N.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">Relatives: Son of C. J. Jeffress and Emma (Osborn) Jeffress; married to Louise Adams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/80137981">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> John Kendrick (1825-1877) — of Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/05-27.html">May 27, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/waterbury.html">mayor of Waterbury, Conn.</a>, 1864-66, 1868-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Waterbury, 1867-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/CT.html">1868</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1870. Died in Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/05-27.html">May 27, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 0 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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kendig-kennard.html#517.82.31">Green Kendrick</a> and Anna Maria (Leavenworth) Kendrick; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/">1849</a> to Marian Marr; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kendig-kennard.html#543.71.48">Greene Kendrick</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alt-amersoon.html#438.59.76">David Muir Amacker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/18519.html">Kendrick-Amacker family</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Kendrick (politician)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT133"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/885/10.04.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="William W. Kitchin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Walton Kitchin (1866-1924) — also known as William W. Kitchin — of Roxboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PE-lived.html">Person County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born near Scotland Neck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-09.html">October 9, 1866</a>. Democrat. Newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1892; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 5th District, 1897-1909; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1909-13. Died in Scotland Neck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-died.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/11-09.html">November 9, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 31 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-buried.html#cms03265">Baptist Cemetery</a>, Scotland Neck, N.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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#001.85.02">William Hodges Kitchin</a> and Maria (Arrington) Kitchin; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#940.70.84">Claude Kitchin</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/">1893</a> to Sue Musette Satterfield; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#682.06.01">Alvin Paul Kitchin</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnoldus-arzeno.html#470.48.59">Archibald Hunter Arrington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams1.html#042.22.73">Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#523.55.93">William Terrell Kitchens</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#442.97.98">Wade Hampton Kitchens</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#893.08.55">Claude Steward Kitchens</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10046.html">Kitchin-Kitchens family</a> of Scotland Neck, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manners-manning.html#853.86.50">James S. Manning</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000252">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406411">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-walton-kitchin/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8586830">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT149"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/779/76.84.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Charles B. Landis"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Beary Landis (1858-1922) — also known as Charles B. Landis — of Delphi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CR-lived.html">Carroll County</a>, Ind. Born in Millville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BU-born.html">Butler County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/07-09.html">July 9, 1858</a>. Republican. Newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Indiana</a> 9th District, 1897-1909; defeated, 1908. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a> due to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">interstital nephritis</a>, in Meriwether <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/04-24.html">April 24, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CA-buried.html#cms01384">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Logansport, Ind. <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">Relatives: Son of Abraham Hoch Landis and Mary (Kumler) Landis; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#830.60.04">Walter Kumler Landis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#297.49.67">Kenesaw Mountain Landis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#260.59.59">Frederick Daniel Landis</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#490.27.32">Frederick Daniel Landis Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#814.52.25">Cary Dayton Landis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10786.html">Landis family</a> of Logansport, Indiana.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000050">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406559">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</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> F. Brevard McDowell — of Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/charlotte.html">mayor of Charlotte, N.C.</a>, 1887-91. 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> Lucien Memminger (1879-1958) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Tampa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/08-11.html">August 11, 1879</a>. Newspaper correspondent; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CK-consuls.html ">Boma</a>, 1907-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-consuls.html ">Smyrna</a>, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1908-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LN-consuls.html ">Beirut</a>, 1910-11; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Rouen</a>, 1913-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-consuls.html ">Madras</a>, as of 1916-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Leghorn</a>, as of 1920-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Bordeaux</a>, as of 1924-29; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-consuls.html ">Belfast</a>, 1931-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html ">Copenhagen</a>, as of 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SE-consuls.html ">Paramaribo</a>, as of 1943. Died in Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/11-20.html">November 20, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-buried.html#cms00551">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Asheville, N.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">Relatives: Son of Robert Withers Memminger and Susan (Mazyck) Memminger; married to Mabel Elizabeth Dibell; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#307.46.44">Robert B. Memminger</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#194.50.28">Christopher Gustavus Memminger</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11471.html">Memminger-Bennett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/38498927">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Manley Leonidas Misenheimer (1883-1962) — also known as M. L. Misenheimer — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RC-lived.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.C.; Commerce, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HU-lived.html">Hunt County</a>, Tex.; Pittsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-lived.html">Pittsburg County</a>, Okla. Born in Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CB-born.html">Cabarrus County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/05-24.html">May 24, 1883</a>. Newspaper editor; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oklahoma</a>, 1922 (Socialist, 3rd District), 1924 (Farmer-Labor, 4th District). Died in October, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/index.html">1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-buried.html#cms05493">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, McAlester, Okla. <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">Relatives: Son of William Andrew Misenheimer and Emma Caroline (Mitchell) Misenheimer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/">1907</a> to Florence Payne.</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> John Franklin Newell (1869-1945) — also known as Jake F. Newell — of Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CB-born.html">Cabarrus County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/02-15.html">February 15, 1869</a>. Republican. Newspaper reporter; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 9th District, 1904, 1914, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/attygn.html">North Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1908; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NC.html">1924</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NC.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NC.html">1940</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>. Worked against repeal of Prohibition. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Waynesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HY-died.html">Haywood County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/08-09.html">August 9, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 175 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CB-buried.html#cms08475">Bogers Chapel Cemetery</a>, Concord, N.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">Relatives: Son of William Greene Newell and Elizabeth Caroline (Hudson) Newell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-30.html">December 30, 1915</a>, to Frances Moody Black.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18678678">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/612/98.52.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Chandler Owen"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Chandler Owen (1889-1967) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/04-05.html">April 5, 1889</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 21st District, 1920; newspaper managing editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/advertising.html">public relations business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">speechwriter</a>; candidate in Republican primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 1st District, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a>, in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/11-02.html">November 2, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms02812">Lincoln Cemetery</a>, Blue Island, 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">Relatives: Son of Aaron A. Owen and Mary (Bonner) Owen.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler Owen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/208043875">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005017911/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/672/64.42.jpg" width=70 height=92 border=0 alt="Walter H. Page"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) — also known as Walter H. Page — of Garden City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Cary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-born.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-15.html">August 15, 1855</a>. Editor, The Atlantic Monthly magazine, 1896-99; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1913-18. Died in Pinehurst, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/MO-died.html">Moore County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-21.html">December 21, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/MO-buried.html#cms02760">Old Bethesda Cemetery</a>, Aberdeen, N.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">Relatives: Son of Allison Francis Page and Catherine (Raboteau) 'Kate' Page; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/page.html#716.02.81">Robert Newton Page</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/">1880</a> to Alice Wilson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/page-walter-hines ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</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> Hugh Peterson Jr. (1898-1961) — of Ailey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ga. Born near Ailey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MY-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/08-21.html">August 21, 1898</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a> from Montgomery County, 1923-31; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1931-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 1st District, 1935-47. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Sylva, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/10-03.html">October 3, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 43 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MY-buried.html#cms04963">a private or family graveyard</a>, Montgomery County, 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">Relatives: Son of William James Peterson and Catherine Joannah (Calhoun) Peterson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/06-24.html">June 24, 1930</a>, to Patience Elizabeth Russell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000260">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408662">Govtrack.us page</a></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> Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892) — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/AN-born.html">Anson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/04-24.html">April 24, 1837</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cmagr.html">North Carolina commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1877-80; national president of the Farmers' Alliance. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/other-hof.html">Hall of Fame</a> in 1957. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/bladder.html">bladder hemorrhage</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/06-11.html">June 11, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.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">Relatives: Son of Andrew Polk and Sereba Autry Polk; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Sarah Pamela Gaddy.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Editor, orator, patriot, Christian. The friend of popular education and civil liberty."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas L. Polk">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/861/000180321">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9271702">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William Elmendorf Rothery (1851-1932) — also known as William E. Rothery — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash.; Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. 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/1851/03-25.html">March 25, 1851</a>. Newspaper editor and publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LB-consuls.html">Consul for Liberia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-consuls.html">Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1888-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">manufacturers' agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">food broker</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in St. Peter's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-died.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/07-08.html">July 8, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 105 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-buried.html# ">Cataumet Cemetery</a>, Bourne, Mass. <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">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/07-14.html">July 14, 1907</a>, to Olive Draper (Leach) Hoag.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/108352433">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Samuel Tredwell Sawyer (1800-1865) — of Edenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-lived.html">Chowan County</a>, N.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-lived.html">Norfolk</a>, Va. Born in Edenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CW-born.html">Chowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1829-32; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1834; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1837-39; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/VAcc nNO">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1853-58; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died in Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/11-29.html">November 29, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000093">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409605">Govtrack.us page</a></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> Mitchell Lee Shipman (b. 1866) — also known as Mitchell L. Shipman — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TR-lived.html">Transylvania County</a>, N.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-lived.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C. Born in Bowman's Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-born.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/12-31.html">December 31, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TR-officials.html">Transylvania County School Superintendent</a>, 1892-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-parties.html">chair of Henderson County Democratic Party</a>, 1898-1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cmlab.html">North Carolina commissioner of labor</a>, 1909-25. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anti-saloon-league.html">Anti-Saloon League</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">Relatives: Son of F. M. Shipman and Martha A. (Dawson) Shipman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/07-12.html">July 12, 1896</a>, to Lula Osborne.</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> Francis Emanuel Shober (1860-1919) — also known as Frank E. Shober — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-born.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/10-24.html">October 24, 1860</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">minister</a>; newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1906. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/10-07.html">October 7, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms01014">Wooster Cemetery</a>, Danbury, Conn. <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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shober-shorett.html#251.58.90">Francis Edwin Shober</a> and Josephine May (Wheat) Shober; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/04-11.html">April 11, 1882</a>, to Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>); second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robe-roberto.html#106.90.08">Daniel Roberdeau</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0658.html">Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family</a> of Salisbury, North Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000373">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409867">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371796">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> John Humphrey Small (1858-1946) — also known as John H. Small; "The Father of Inland Waterways" — of Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-lived.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/08-29.html">August 29, 1858</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor and publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-officials.html">Beaufort County Superintendent of Schools</a>, 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/washington.html">mayor of Washington, N.C.</a>, 1889-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-parties.html">chair of Beaufort County Democratic Party</a>, 1889-98; candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1899-1921; vice-president, Atlantic Deeper <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Waterways</a> Association, 1912-46; president, National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Rivers and Harbors</a> Congress, 1919-25. Died in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-died.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/07-13.html">July 13, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-buried.html#cms00521">Oakdale Cemetery</a>, Washington, N.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">Relatives: Married to Isabella Carter Wharton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Though his interests carried him into far fields, his heart was ever with his beloved eastern Carolina." / "He served the needs of others." / "As a teacher, lawyer, public servant, and citizen, he was a pioneer in many battles for public and individual progress, and a lifelong advocate of public education, better farming, good roads, public health, drainage and conservation."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000500">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409987">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Humphrey Small">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8047797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/997/75.90.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Hoke Smith"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Michael Hoke Smith (1855-1931) — also known as M. Hoke Smith — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CA-born.html">Catawba County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/09-02.html">September 2, 1855</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper publisher; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1893-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1907-09, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1911-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/11-27.html">November 27, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html#cms00699">Oakland Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of Hildreth Hosea Smith and Mary Brent (Hoke) Smith; married to Marion Birdie Cobb (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#991.10.16">Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#963.59.62">Michael Hoke</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#348.86.74">John Franklin Hoke</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#444.67.11">William Alexander Hoke</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0016.html">Lee-Randolph family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0156.html">Washington-Walker family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0450.html">Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Hoke Smith <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened 1923 as junior high, became high school 1947, closed 1985), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-names.html">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hoke Smith (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-names.html">Savannah, Georgia</a>; scrapped 1967) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000551">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410033">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/hoke-smith/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M. Hoke Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9663">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York World, March 5, 1893</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> Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) — also known as Albion W. Tourgee — of Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C.; Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Mayville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CH-lived.html">Chautauqua County</a>, N.Y. Born in Williamsfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AS-born.html">Ashtabula County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/05-02.html">May 2, 1838</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; newspaper editor; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1868, 1875; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a>, 1878; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Bordeaux</a>, 1897-1905, died in office 1905. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">acute uremia</a>, due to an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">infected wound</a>, in Bordeaux, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/05-21.html">May 21, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 19 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CH-buried.html#cms08050">Mayville Cemetery</a>, Mayville, 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">Relatives: Son of Louisa Emma (Winegar) Tourgee and Valentine Tourgee; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/">1863</a> to Emma Doiska Kilbourne; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/toth-towns.html#830.44.26">Clyde Carlos Tourgee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion W. Tourgee">Wikipedia article</a></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> Robert Johnstone Vance (1854-1902) — also known as Robert J. Vance — of New Britain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. 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/1854/03-15.html">March 15, 1854</a>. Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1886; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 1st District, 1887-89; defeated, 1888, 1898; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/CT.html">1888</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/CT.html">1892</a>; Connecticut labor commissioner, 1893-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/newbritain.html">mayor of New Britain, Conn.</a>, 1896-98; delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Connecticut, 1896; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention</a> from New Britain, 1902. Died in Montreat, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/06-15.html">June 15, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 92 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-buried.html#cms01245">Fairview Cemetery</a>, New Britain, Conn. <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000020">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411116">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert J. Vance">Wikipedia article</a></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> Robert Lee Vann (1879-1940) — also known as Robert L. Vann — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa.; Oakmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in Ahoskie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HR-born.html">Hertford County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/08-27.html">August 27, 1879</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor and publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/PA.html">1924</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/PA.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died, at Shadyside <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-died.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/10-24.html">October 24, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 58 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-buried.html#cms01421">Homewood Cemetery</a>, Pittsburgh, Pa. <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">Relatives: Son of Lucy Peoples; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/">1910</a> to Jessie Matthews.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Robert L. Vann Elementary <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1914 as Watt School; name changed to Vann 1941; closed and sold 2011; now St. Benedict the Moor Catholic School), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-names.html">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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> Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912) — also known as Alfred M. Waddell — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-lived.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C. Born in Hillsborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/09-16.html">September 16, 1834</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; newspaper editor and publisher; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 3rd District, 1871-79; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NC.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NC.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">notorious</a> leader of the overthrow of Wilmington's elected city government by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">white supremacists</a> on November 10, 1898; forced the incumbent mayor to resign at gunpoint, and took his place; the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record newspaper were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/arson.html">burned</a>, and as many as 300 Black citizens of Wilmington were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murdered</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/wilmington.html">mayor of Wilmington, N.C.</a>, 1898-1906. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-died.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-17.html">March 17, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-buried.html#cms01219">Oakdale Cemetery</a>, Wilmington, N.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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore1.html#772.44.17">Alfred Moore</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hugh Waddell and Susan (Moore) Waddell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Julia Savage; married to Ellen Savage; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/">1896</a> to Gabrielle de Rosset; cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#661.65.95">Samuel Ashe</a>; cousin two different ways of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#889.88.88">John Baptista Ashe (1748-1802)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill9.html#932.19.39">William Henry Hill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#461.53.47">John Baptista Ashe (1810-1857)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#057.70.03">William Shepperd Ashe</a>; cousin four different ways of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#321.66.42">Thomas Samuel Ashe</a>; cousin three different ways of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#379.55.20">George Davis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis4.html#442.62.84">Horatio Davis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0044.html">Polk family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0256.html">Ashe-Polk family</a> of North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000002">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411181">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred Moore Waddell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8065989">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Capus Miller Waynick (1889-1986) — also known as Capus M. Waynick — of High Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RC-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-23.html">December 23, 1889</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper editor; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1931; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1933-35; North Carolina state highway commissioner, 1935-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">North Carolina Democratic state chair</a>, 1948; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NC-diplomats.html ">Nicaragua</a>, 1949-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-diplomats.html ">Colombia</a>, 1951-53; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NC.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of North Carolina</a>, 1957-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing facility</a> in Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-died.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/09-07.html">September 7, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/96.html">96 years, 258 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">Relatives: Son of Joshua James N. Waynick and Anna (Moore) Waynick; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-19.html">June 19, 1915</a>, to Elizabeth McBee.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/waynick-capus-miller ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></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> John Franklin Westmoreland (1847-1913) — also known as J. F. Westmoreland — of Thomasville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/SO-born.html">Stokes County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-27.html">April 27, 1847</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">printer</a>; newspaper publisher; suffered a stroke in the 1890s which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">confined him to a wheelchair</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a> 26th District, 1895-96. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disciples-of-christ.html">Campbellite</a>. Died in Thomasville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DA-died.html">Davidson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/05-13.html">May 13, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 16 days</a>). 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