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The Political Graveyard: Good Templars, politicians
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Good Templars, politicians</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Finch"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Bird Finch (1852-1887)</b> — also known as <b>John B. Finch</b> — of Nebraska; Evanston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Lincklaen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-born.html">Chenango County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/03-17.html">March 17, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Orator</a>; Chairman of Prohibition National Committee, 1884-87. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Died, in the Eastern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/rr-stations.html">Railroad Depot</a>, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-03.html">October 3, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00293">Rosehill Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Uretta Lemira Coy and Frances E. Manchester.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9256033">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> American Prohibition Year Book 1910</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Francis A. Freer (1843-1908)</b> — also known as <b>Frank A. Freer</b> — of Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Ill. Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/04-06.html">April 6, 1843</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">school teacher</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/galesburg.html#2">Galesburg, Ill.</a>, 1889-93, 1897-1908. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <b>Good Templars</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-temp.html">Sons of Temperance</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-un-workmen.html">Ancient Order of United Workmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-died.html">Knox County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/12-16.html">December 16, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 254 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-buried.html#cms00852">Hope Cemetery</a>, Galesburg, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Abram Freer and Mary (McKimens) Freer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/12-26.html">December 26, 1871</a>, to Jennie E. Christy.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15179258">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George White Hawxhurst (1848-1932)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fc-lived.html">Falls Church</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-born.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/06-02.html">June 2, 1848</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/fallschurch.html">mayor of Falls Church, Va.</a>, 1906; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/fallschurch.html#2">Falls Church, Va.</a>, 1906-07. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <b>Good Templars</b>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/10-02.html">October 2, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 122 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fc-buried.html#cms08457">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Falls Church, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Maria Whelan (Leeds) Hawxhurst and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawks-hawthorne.html#178.09.67">Job Hawxhurst</a>; married to Sarah La Feore and Ida Jeanette Quick.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/87313337">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Job Hawxhurst (1823-1906)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ff-lived.html">Fairfax</a>, Va. Born in Jamaica (now part of Queens), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/03-30.html">March 30, 1823</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">miller</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/fairfax.html#3">Fairfax Court House, Va.</a>, 1865-85, 1889-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/fairfax.html#2">Fairfax, Va.</a>, 1897-1903; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/fairfax.html">mayor of Fairfax, Va.</a>, 1892. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fc-died.html">Falls Church</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/02-07.html">February 7, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ff-buried.html#cms03127">Fairfax City Cemetery</a>, Fairfax, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Townsend Hawxhurst and Rebecca (Searing) Hawxhurst; married to Maria Whelan Leeds and Margaret Davies Borden; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawks-hawthorne.html#913.58.42">George White Hawxhurst</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/87309192">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James W. Hood (b. 1831)</b> — Born in Kennett Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CH-born.html">Chester County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/05-30.html">May 30, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">bishop</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/NC.html">1872</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">African Methodist Episcopal</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <b>Good Templars</b>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Hannah L. Ralph and Sophia J. Nugent; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/">1877</a> to Mrs. K. P. McKoy.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edwin Jay Pinney (b. 1847)</b> — also known as <b>E. Jay Pinney</b> — of Jefferson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AS-lived.html">Ashtabula County</a>, Ohio; Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio. Born in Hartsgrove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AS-born.html">Ashtabula County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/05-26.html">May 26, 1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/spju.html">justice of Ohio state supreme court</a>, 1897; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 21st District, 1902. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Philo Pinney and Delia (Griswold) Pinney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/12-25.html">December 25, 1869</a>, to Mary E. Gist.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Caleb Seymour Pitkin (b. 1854)</b> — also known as <b>Caleb S. Pitkin</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Highland Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Ypsilanti, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-born.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/01-13.html">January 13, 1854</a>. Member of Michigan Prohibition Party State Central Committee, 1887; vice-chair of Michigan Prohibition Party, 1887; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 1st District, 1890. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Elnathan A. Pitkin and Lucy A. (Seymour) Pitkin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/07-07.html">July 7, 1874</a>, to Lucy T. Boughton; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#111.95.76">Thomas Welles</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#024.71.41">Robert Treat</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#626.06.04">David Lowrey Seymour</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#683.55.96">Thomas Seymour</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#539.20.10">Roger Wolcott</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#358.48.30">Moses Seymour</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#469.29.30">Josiah Cowles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#700.58.06">Daniel Pitkin</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#740.73.58">Thomas Henry Seymour</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#737.15.66">Horatio Seymour (1778-1857)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#388.11.15">Henry Seymour</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins3.html#209.06.86">Ela Collins</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#949.54.81">Clarence Horatio Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#062.41.93">Carroll Peabody Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#778.50.42">Eldred C. Pitkin</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#026.38.52">Henry Leavitt Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#601.47.35">William Wolcott Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#149.90.39">Origen Storrs Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#287.08.86">Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#975.61.35">Hezekiah Cook Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#141.11.46">George Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#145.68.22">McNeil Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#871.97.99">Henry William Seymour</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#212.63.80">Frederick Walker Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#941.19.99">Luther S. Pitkin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eastman.html#115.37.60">George Eastman</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Otis Jerome Range (1840-1914)</b> — also known as <b>Otis J. Range</b> — of Meriden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn.; Essex, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn.; Southbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn.; Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Meriden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., September, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/index.html">1840</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 2nd District, 1882; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Guilford, 1884-85, 1895-96, 1911-12. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/index.html">1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-buried.html#cms00075">East Cemetery</a>, Meriden, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Range and Charlotte Range; married to Maria Jeanette Kellam.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10765922">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Harrah Judson Reynolds (b. 1835)</b> — also known as <b>Harrah J. Reynolds</b> — of Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, N.Y. Born in Granville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-30.html">September 30, 1835</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School principal</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Monroe County 2nd District, 1909. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Harrah Reynolds and Hannah White (Savage) Reynolds; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/04-24.html">April 24, 1867</a>, to Mary Desiah Broughton.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KQTTAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA136"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/244/50.06.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="John Russell"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Russell (1822-1912)</b> — of Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-lived.html">Macomb County</a>, Mich. Born near Geneseo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/LI-born.html">Livingston County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/09-20.html">September 20, 1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Methodist minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; Chairman of Prohibition National Committee, 1869; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1872; member of Michigan Prohibition Party State Central Committee, 1887; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 7th District, 1890; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1892; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <b>Good Templars</b>. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-03.html">November 3, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 44 days</a>). 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