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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Mennonite Politicians</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Baehr (1866-1942) — of Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio. Born in Keokuk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/LE-born.html">Lee County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/03-16.html">March 16, 1866</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">Brewer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-officials.html">Cuyahoga County Recorder</a>, 1904-09; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/OH.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cleveland.html">mayor of Cleveland, Ohio</a>, 1910-11. Mennonite. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/02-04.html">February 4, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 325 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms00954">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Glendale, Calif. <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 Jacob Baehr and Magdalena (Zipf) Baehr; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-22.html">April 22, 1899</a>, to Rose E. Schulte.</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/20520851">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> Frank S. Ebersole (b. 1875) — of Goshen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/EL-lived.html">Elkhart County</a>, Ind. Born in Sterling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WH-born.html">Whiteside County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-28.html">November 28, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; director and secretary, Goshen <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Milk Condensing</a> Co.; board member, Goshen <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/goshen.html">mayor of Goshen, Ind.</a>, 1943-44. Mennonite. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Clayton Eicher (1878-1944) — also known as Edward C. Eicher — of Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Iowa; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-lived.html">Alexandria</a>, Va. Born in Noble, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/12-16.html">December 16, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a> 1st District, 1933-39; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1938-42; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#d">Judge of U.S. District Court</a>, 1942. Mennonite. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/11-30.html">November 30, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 350 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA-buried.html#cms03419">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Washington, Iowa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Eicher and Lydia (Sommer) Eicher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/08-19.html">August 19, 1908</a>, to Hazel Mount.</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=E000094">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403785">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward C. Eicher">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> Peter Jansen — of Jansen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Neb.; Beatrice, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GA-lived.html">Gage County</a>, Neb. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/NE.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NE.html">1916</a>. Mennonite. Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GA-buried.html#cms06422">somewhere</a> in Gage County, Neb. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Paul Peter Kleinsasser (1877-1972) — also known as Paul P. Kleinsasser — of Freeman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/HT-lived.html">Hutchinson County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Radekhiv, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UP-born.html">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/03-20.html">March 20, 1877</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">pastor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a>, 1907-08, 1917-18 (6th District 1907-08, 7th District 1917-18); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a> 7th District, 1919-22. Hutterite. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">Volga German</a> ancestry. Died in Freeman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/HT-died.html">Hutchinson County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/06-06.html">June 6, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/HT-buried.html# ">Freeman Cemetery</a>, Freeman, S.Dak. <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 Paul Kleinsasser and Anna (Tschetter) Kleinsasser; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kleindienst-klima.html#214.03.09">John Pierpont Kleinsasser</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/">1900</a> to Anna Wollman.</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/33611514">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> Lloyd Schrag (1915-1996) — of Marion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/TU-lived.html">Turner County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Marion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/TU-born.html">Turner County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/01-10.html">January 10, 1915</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/TU-officials.html">Turner County Commissioner</a>, 1951-55; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a>, 1959-72 (5th District 1959-66, 13th District 1967-72); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/snpr.html">President pro tempore of the South Dakota State Senate</a>, 1967-68; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/SD.html">1972</a>. Mennonite. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/02-21.html">February 21, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 42 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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/08-02.html">August 2, 1939</a>, to Lorraine Miller.</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 C. Yoder (b. 1951) — of Harpers Ferry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, W.Va. Born in Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/HA-born.html">Harvey County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/01-09.html">January 9, 1951</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; district judge in Kansas 9th District, 1976-80; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1990; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 16th District, 1993-96; defeated, 1988; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2004/WV.html">2004</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 2010, 2012. Mennonite. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/fed-bar-assoc.html">Federal Bar Association</a>. Still living as of 2012. <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 Gideon G. Yoder and Stella H. Yoder.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mennonite.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mennonite.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>