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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Namesake Politicians: Lakes, Rivers, Islands, Dams</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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Arthur"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) — also known as Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur; "The Gentleman Boss"; "His Accidency"; "Elegant Arthur"; "Our Chet"; "Dude President" — of New York. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/10-05.html">October 5, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/NYcc nNY">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1870-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican state chair</a>, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1881-85; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/index.html">1884</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a> and a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/11-18.html">November 18, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms05335">Madison Square Park</a>, Manhattan, 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 Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-25.html">October 25, 1859</a>, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#139.47.08">Benjamin Franklin Flanders</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#999.13.12">Cassius Montgomery Clay Twitchell</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/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0176.html">Flanders family</a> of Vermont; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0307.html">Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders family</a> of New Hampshire; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a> (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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/AR.html">Arthur County, Neb.</a> is 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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/AR-names.html">Arthur, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/TA-names.html">Chester, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lake Arthur, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/PO-names.html">Polk County, Minnesota</a>, is <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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heisel-hellyer.html#240.93.19">Chester A. Heitman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pike.html#413.32.94">Chester Arthur Pike</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson2.html#174.73.08">Chester A. Johnson</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=A000303">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400945">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester A. Arthur">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/565/000024493">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19910">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 Chester A. Arthur: Thomas C. Reeves, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0945707037/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0945707037&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gentleman Boss : The Life of Chester Alan Arthur</a> — Justus D. Doenecke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700602089/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700602089&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur</a> — George Frederick Howe, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0781249147/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0781249147&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester A. Arthur, A Quarter-Century of Machine Politics</a> — Zachary Karabell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069518/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069518&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester Alan Arthur</a> — Paul Joseph, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577652363/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1577652363&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Chester Arthur</a> (for young readers)</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: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</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 Bigler (1805-1871) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CE-lived.html">Centre County</a>, Pa.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-lived.html">Sacramento County</a>, Calif. Born in Carlisle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/01-08.html">January 8, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1850-52 (Sacramento District 1850-51, 12th District 1851-52); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1852-56; defeated, 1855; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CE-diplomats.html ">Chile</a>, 1857-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/CA.html">1868</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/11-29.html">November 29, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-buried.html#cms00522">Sacramento City Cemetery</a>, Sacramento, 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 Bigler and Susan (Dock) Bigler; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bigger-bikar.html#304.00.80">William Bigler</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">Lake Bigler (later changed to Lake Tahoe), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/PL-names.html">Placer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ED-names.html">El Dorado</a> counties, California, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-names.html">Washoe</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/DO-names.html">Douglas</a> counties, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/cc-names.html">Carson City</a>, Nevada, 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://www.nga.org/governor/john-bigler/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Bigler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bigler-john ?">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> Daniel Boone (1734-1820) — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-born.html">Berks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/11-02.html">November 2, 1734</a>. Explorer and frontiersman; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1781, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SC-died.html">St. Charles County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/09-26.html">September 26, 1820</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 329 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SC-buried.html# ">a private or family graveyard</a>, St. Charles County, Mo.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, 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: Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#540.75.72">Jessie Bryan Boone</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#594.21.11">Nathan Boone</a>; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#219.26.63">Hiram Howell Baber</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#209.88.10">Levi Day Boone</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#541.45.85">Elmer Charless Henderson</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/10001-1246.html">Thomas-Smith-Irwin family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0280.html">Boone family</a> of St. Charles County, Missouri (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">Boone counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BO.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/BO.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/BO.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BO.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BO.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/BO.html">Neb.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO.html">W.Va.</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">The Daniel Boone <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">National Forest</a> (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed 1966), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BT-names.html">Bath</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-names.html">Clay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ES-names.html">Estill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HR-names.html">Harlan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JA-names.html">Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KX-names.html">Knox</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LA-names.html">Laurel</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LE-names.html">Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LS-names.html">Leslie</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MQ-names.html">McCreary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MM-names.html">Menifee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MJ-names.html">Morgan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/OS-names.html">Owsley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PE-names.html">Perry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-names.html">Powell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PU-names.html">Pulaski</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/RC-names.html">Rockcastle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/RO-names.html">Rowan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WY-names.html">Wayne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WH-names.html">Whitley</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WL-names.html">Wolfe</a> counties, Kentucky, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Boone Dam (built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SU-names.html">Sullivan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WA-names.html">Washington</a> counties, Tennessee, and the Boone Lake reservoir behind the dam, are <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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Boone">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/109">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> Edmund Gerald Brown Sr. (1905-1996) — also known as Edmund G. Brown, Sr.; Pat Brown — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/04-21.html">April 21, 1905</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1928; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/CA.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/CA.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/CA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CA.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/CA.html">1988</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/attygn.html">California state attorney general</a>, 1951-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1959-67; defeated, 1966; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/index.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/native-sons-golden-west.html">Native Sons of the Golden West</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Beverly Hills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/02-16.html">February 16, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms00860">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery</a>, Colma, 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 Edmund Brown and Ida (Schuckman) Brown; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#642.52.89">Harold C. Brown</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/10-30.html">October 30, 1930</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#526.38.33">Bernice Layne Brown</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#288.84.35">Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown6.html#715.71.60">Kathleen Lynn Brown</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/11370.html">Brown family</a> of San Francisco, California.</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/christinson-chumbler.html#731.05.04">Warren Christopher</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobbin-cochel.html#345.04.01">William K. Coblentz</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">The Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct, a system of canals and pipelines that brings water to Southern California, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Contra Costa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-names.html">Alameda</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SJ-names.html">San Joaquin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SS-names.html">Stanislaus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ME-names.html">Merced</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-names.html">Fresno</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/KI-names.html">Kings</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/KE-names.html">Kern</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SP-names.html">San Luis Obispo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-names.html">Santa Barbara</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Los Angeles</a> counties, is <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://www.nga.org/governor/edmund-gerald-brown/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/784/000055619">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113494">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20637">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">Books about Edmund G. Brown: Ethan Rarick, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520236270/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520236270&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown</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 Paul Buchanan (1867-1937) — also known as James P. Buchanan — of Brenham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Tex. Born in Midway, Barnwell District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BM-born.html">Bamberg County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/04-30.html">April 30, 1867</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1906-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 10th District, 1913-37; died in office 1937. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/02-22.html">February 22, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 298 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WA-buried.html#cms00275">Prairie Lea Cemetery</a>, Brenham, Tex. <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: Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/potterton-powe.html#315.00.72">Edward William Pou</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">Buchanan Dam on the Colorado River, and Lake Buchanan, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BU-names.html">Burnet</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LL-names.html">Llano</a> counties, Texas, are <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=B001006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401956">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/210/17.82.jpg" width=70 height=90 border=0 alt="John C. Calhoun"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) — also known as John C. Calhoun — of Pickens District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/PI-lived.html">Pickens County</a>), S.C. Born in Abbeville District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MC-born.html">McCormick County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-18.html">March 18, 1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 6th District, 1811-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1825-32; resigned 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1844-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/03-31.html">March 31, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms01667">St. Philip's Churchyard</a>, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms07916">Marion Park</a>, Charleston, 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 James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-27.html">December 27, 1809</a>, to Floride Bonneau and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#902.99.62">Floride Calhoun</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a>); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clementson-cletus.html#133.51.85">Thomas Green Clemson</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#800.59.25">John Alfred Calhoun</a> and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burruss-burtness.html#830.81.52">Armistead Burt</a>); great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graves.html#541.07.78">John Temple Graves</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#617.76.19">Joseph Calhoun</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#395.65.80">Andrew Pickens</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#144.57.37">Francis Wilkinson Pickens</a>; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#485.68.41">Alexander Henry Brown</a>); second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#429.98.13">William Francis Calhoun</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/10001-0250.html">Calhoun-Pickens family</a> of South 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">Calhoun counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CU.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/CA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CJ.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CN.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CO.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CU.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CA.html">S.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CU.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CH.html">W.Va.</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">The John C. Calhoun <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (opened 1926), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-names.html">Columbia, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lake Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-names.html">Minneapolis, Minnesota</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 John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; destroyed in cargo explosion at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PN-names.html">Finchhafen, Papua New Guinea</a>, 1944) 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#585.81.84">John C. Johnson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#763.09.32">John Calhoun Nicholls</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook5.html#149.37.05">John Calhoun Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheppard.html#624.39.02">John C. Sheppard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#825.29.95">John C. Bell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#520.96.43">John C. C. Mayo</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#834.82.33">John C. Phillips</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes (1862).</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">Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than union."</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=C000044">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402205">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John C. Calhoun">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/902/000043773">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2437">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">Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret L. Coit, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872497755/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0872497755&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun : American Portrait</a> — Clyde N. Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313280819/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0313280819&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> — Merrill D. Peterson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195056868/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195056868&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun</a> — Warren Brown, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791017273/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791017273&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> (for young readers)</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: James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003004836/PP/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/892/23.36.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Lewis Cass"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lewis Cass (1782-1866) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Exeter, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/10-09.html">October 9, 1782</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1806; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Michigan Territory</a>, 1813-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1836-42; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/uofm.html">University of Michigan board of regents</a>, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1844/index.html">1844</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/index.html">1852</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Michigan</a>, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1857-60. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/06-17.html">June 17, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00088">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <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 Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#814.28.40">Thomas Cass Ballenger</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of 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">Cass counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CS.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CS.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CS.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CS.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/CA.html">Neb.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CS.html">Tex.</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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/GT-names.html">Cassville, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-names.html">Cass City, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-names.html">Cassopolis, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BA-names.html">Cassville, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Cass Lake, and the adjoining <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CS-names.html">Cass Lake, Minnesota</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Cass Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-names.html">Oakland County, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Cass River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-names.html">Tuscola</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-names.html">Saginaw</a> counties, Michigan, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Lewis Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1921 as the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951; rebuilt and named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building in 2020), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-names.html">Lansing, Michigan</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, and Cass Technical <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-names.html">Detroit, Michigan</a>, are <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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willison-wilshire.html#966.58.33">Lewis Cass Wilmarth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carpenter-carper.html#728.65.76">Lewis C. Carpenter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#855.72.01">Lewis C. Vandergrift</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#739.28.41">Lewis C. Tidball</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#429.14.44">Lewis Cass Wick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#849.44.54">Lewis Cass Tidball II</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#172.06.41">Lewis C. Gabbert</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=C000233">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402378">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis Cass">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/cass-lewis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/224/000050074">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2256">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4109">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 Lewis Cass: Willard Carl Klunder, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873385365/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873385365&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation</a> — Frank Bury Woodford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374987181/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374987181&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis Cass, the Last Jeffersonian</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> Bertram Thomas Combs (1911-1991) — also known as Bert T. Combs — of Prestonsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-lived.html">Floyd County</a>, Ky. Born in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-born.html">Clay County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/08-13.html">August 13, 1911</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals</a>, 1951-55; state court judge in Kentucky, 1957-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1959-63; defeated, 1955, 1971; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/KY.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/KY.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/KY.html">Democratic National Committee from Kentucky</a>, 1966; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit</a>, 1967-70. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">Drowned</a> when his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile</a> was washed from the roadway into the Red River, during a flood, near Rosslyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-died.html">Powell County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/12-04.html">December 4, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 113 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-buried.html#cms04763">Beech Creek Cemetery</a>, Manchester, 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 Stephen Gibson Combs and Martha (Jones) Combs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-15.html">June 15, 1937</a>, to Mabel Hall.</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 Bert T. Combs Mountain <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Parkway</a>, which runs through <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CR-names.html">Clark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-names.html">Powell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WL-names.html">Wolfe</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MJ-names.html">Morgan</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MG-names.html">Magoffin</a> counties in Kentucky, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Bert T. Combs Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-names.html">Clay County, Kentucky</a>, is <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://www.nga.org/governor/bert-thomas-combs/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/921/000122555">NNDB dossier</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 N. Culmback (1888-1960) — of Everett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-lived.html">Snohomish County</a>, Wash. Born in Jedsted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-born.html">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/12-30.html">December 30, 1888</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/sthse.html">Washington state house of representatives</a> 38th District, 1926-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/everett.html">mayor of Everett, Wash.</a>, 1956-60; died in office 1960. Died in Everett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-died.html">Snohomish County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/07-06.html">July 6, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 189 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">Culmback Dam, on the Sultan River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-names.html">Snohomish County, Washington</a>, is <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> Glenn Clarence Cunningham (1912-2003) — also known as Glenn Cunningham — of Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb. Born in Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-born.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/09-10.html">September 10, 1912</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/omaha.html">mayor of Omaha, Neb.</a>, 1948-54; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/NE.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/NE.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Nebraska</a> 2nd District, 1957-71. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-kappa-alpha.html">Pi Kappa Alpha</a>. Died in Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-died.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/12-18.html">December 18, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 99 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-buried.html#cms02498">Westlawn-Hillcrest Memorial Park</a>, Omaha, Neb. <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 Emma Wilhelmina (Seefus) Cunningham and George Warner Cunningham; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/">1941</a> to Janis Lucille Thelen.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Glenn Cunningham Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-names.html">Omaha, Nebraska</a>, is <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=C000991">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403099">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn Cunningham (Nebraska politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8193209">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> Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) — of Massachusetts. Born in North Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/02-23.html">February 23, 1751</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95, 1st District 1795-97); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-diplomats.html ">Portugal</a>, 1822-24. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>), Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/06-06.html">June 6, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 103 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms00204">Mt. Auburn Cemetery</a>, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment in 1848 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html#cms00452">Forest Hills Cemetery</a>, Jamaica Plain, Boston, 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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#783.21.56">Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DA.html">Dearborn County, Ind.</a> is 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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-names.html">Dearborn, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Dearborn River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC-names.html">Lewis & Clark</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CA-names.html">Cascade</a> counties, Montana, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Mount Dearborn, a former <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">military arsenal</a> on an island in the Catawba River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CT-names.html">Chester County, South Carolina</a>, is <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 Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1959) 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=D000178">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403340">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Dearborn">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dearborn-henry ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/10506877665/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/651/51.59.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Roswell P. Flower"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roswell Pettibone Flower (1835-1899) — also known as Roswell P. Flower — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Theresa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/08-07.html">August 7, 1835</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">Jeweler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1881-83, 1889-91 (11th District 1881-83, 12th District 1889-91); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/NY.html">1888</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/NY.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/NY.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1892-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Eastport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/05-12.html">May 12, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 278 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-buried.html#cms00025">Brookside Cemetery</a>, Watertown, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-buried.html# ">Washington Street Median</a>, Watertown, 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 Nathan Monroe Flower and Mary Ann Flower.</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 Flower Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a> (opened 1904), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-names.html">Watertown, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lake Flower, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FR-names.html">Franklin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-names.html">Essex</a> counties, New York, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of Roswell, now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/EP-names.html">Colorado Springs, Colorado</a>, 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=F000217">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404172">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/roswell-pettibone-flower/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell P. Flower">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2763">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: The Parties and The Men (1896)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?53993"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/163/13.60.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="Albert Gallatin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) — also known as Abraham Albert Alphonse de Gallatin — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Geneva, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SZ-born.html">Switzerland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1761/01-29.html">January 29, 1761</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1790; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1790-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1793-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 11th District, 1795-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1815-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1826-27. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Died in Astoria, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/08-12.html">August 12, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 195 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms00598">Trinity Churchyard</a>, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms07599">Treasury Building Grounds</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 Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du Rosey Gallatin; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/">1789</a> to Sophie Allègre; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/11-11.html">November 11, 1793</a>, to Hannah Nicholson; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davie-davila.html#408.61.93">May Preston Davie</a>; cousin by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nicholson.html#408.64.04">Joseph Hopper Nicholson</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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0631.html">Davie family</a> of Maryland (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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#951.19.18">John L. Dawson</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">Gallatin counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/GA.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/GL.html">Ky.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA.html">Mont.</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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SM-names.html">Gallatin, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SL-names.html">Galatia, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Gallatin River, which flows through <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/GA-names.html">Gallatin County, Montana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Gallatin Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <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 Albert Gallatin (built 1941 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California</a>; torpedoed and sunk 1944 in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Arabian Sea</a>) 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#872.92.14">Albert Galliton Harrison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jewett.html#154.59.90">Albert G. Jewett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert G. Hawes</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wait-walberg.html#944.25.08">Albert G. Wakefield</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talbott.html#626.26.93">Albert Gallatin Talbott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dow.html#464.32.77">Albert G. Dow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#899.40.25">Albert G. Dole</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#922.22.69">Albert Gallatin Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mara-margolis.html#721.92.24">Albert Gallatin Marchand</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#394.42.94">Albert G. Brown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#499.26.17">Albert G. Brodhead, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allison.html#211.03.04">Albert G. Allison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richner-rider.html#721.52.46">Albert G. Riddle</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watkins-watrous.html#654.35.38">Albert Galiton Watkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#129.34.80">Albert G. Porter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/egbert.html#696.43.32">Albert Gallatin Egbert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jenkins.html#405.90.04">Albert Gallatin Jenkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/callan-came.html#735.19.84">Albert Gallatin Calvert</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawrence.html#687.36.22">Albert G. Lawrence</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#924.47.00">Albert G. Foster</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simms-simonetti.html#364.91.15">Albert G. Simms</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $500 note in 1862-63.</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=G000020">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404397">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert Gallatin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/gallatin-abraham-albert-alphonse ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/996/000049849">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/375">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">Books about Albert Gallatin: John Austin Stevens, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898751616/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0898751616&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin: An American Statesman</a> — L. B. Kuppenheimer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0275953882/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0275953882&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin's Vision of Democratic Stability</a> — Nicholas Dungan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814721117/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814721117&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father</a> — Raymond Walters, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822952106/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822952106&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat</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"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Gilpin (1813-1894) — of Colorado. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/10-04.html">October 4, 1813</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">explorer</a>; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Colorado Territory</a>, 1861-62; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory</a>, 1862. Run over by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/horse.html">horse and buggy</a>, and later died as a result, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-20.html">January 20, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/JF-buried.html#cms05327">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Wheat Ridge, Colo. <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 Gilpin and Mary (Dilworth) Gilpin; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmour-givhan.html#386.59.43">Henry Dilworth Gilpin</a>; married to Julia Pratte.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/GI.html">Gilpin County, Colo.</a> is 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">Gilpin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a>, in the Sneffels Range of the Rocky Mountains, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/OU-names.html">Ouray County</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/SM-names.html">San Miguel County</a>, Colorado, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Gilpin Lake, in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RO-names.html">Routt County</a>, Colorado, is <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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Gilpin (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12680">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> Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) — also known as Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New York"; "Handy Andy" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born near Worcester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/10-06.html">October 6, 1820</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NY.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 13th District, 1894. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State Preserve (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> state park in the U.S.); led crusade to consolidate the five boroughs into today's New York City; helped create the New York Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural institutions. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a>, by a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in front of his home, on Park Avenue, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-13.html">November 13, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 38 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-buried.html#cms00382">Worcester Rural Cemetery</a>, Worcester, 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">Green Island, in the Niagara River, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NI-names.html">Niagara Falls, New York</a>, is <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"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=145029&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2034172"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/988/79.86.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Herbert Hoover"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) — also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" — of Palo Alto, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-lived.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif.; Pasadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in West Branch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CD-born.html">Cedar County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/08-10.html">August 10, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Mining</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/index.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Commerce</a>, 1921-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker, Republican National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/speakers.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/speakers.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/speakers.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Inducted into the National Mining <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/other-hof.html">Hall of Fame</a>, Leadville, Colorado. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/colon-cancer.html">intestinal cancer</a>, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/10-20.html">October 20, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CD-buried.html#cms02218">Herbert Hoover National Historic Site</a>, West Branch, 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 Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/02-10.html">February 10, 1899</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#870.54.76">Lou Hoover</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#936.13.49">Herbert Clark Hoover Jr.</a>; distant cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#138.95.04">Charles Lewis Hoover</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/16135.html">Hoover family</a> of Palo Alto, California.</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/mann.html#711.44.30">Horace A. Mann</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/newton.html#858.58.66">Walter H. Newton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#391.20.50">Christian A. Herter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#549.55.77">Lewis L. Strauss</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#439.04.43">Clarence C. Stetson</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">Hoover Dam (built 1931-36 as Boulder Dam; renamed 1947), on the Colorado River between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/CL-names.html">Clark County, Nevada</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MO-names.html">Mohave County, Arizona</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Glendale, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-names.html">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-names.html">Fresno, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-names.html">Elkview, West Virginia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">minor planets</a> (asteroids) 932 Hooveria (discovered 1920), and 1363 Herberta (discovered 1935), are <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">Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in every pot."</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/Herbert Hoover">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/429/000026351">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393885">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/498">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4054">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 by Herbert Hoover: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943875412/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943875412&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson</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 Herbert Hoover: Martin L. Fausold, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700603581/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700603581&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover</a> — Joan Hoff Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881337056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0881337056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover : Forgotten Progressive</a> — George H. Nash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393025500/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393025500&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Life of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917</a> — George H. Nash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393038416/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393038416&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies, 1917-1918</a> — William E. Leuchtenburg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069585/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069585&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933</a> — Glen Jeansonne, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/023010309X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=023010309X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933</a> — Kendrick A. Clements, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230103081/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0230103081&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928</a> — David Holford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076602279X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076602279X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover</a> (for young readers)</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: U.S. postage stamp (1965)</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 J. Howard — of Sylacauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-lived.html">Talladega County</a>, Ala. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sylacauga.html">Mayor of Sylacauga, Ala.</a>, 1948-59; resigned 1959. Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-buried.html#cms07746">somewhere</a> in Sylacauga, Ala. <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/howard.html#648.55.34">H. H. Howard</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#477.83.75">W. L. Howard</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/14480.html">Howard family</a> of Sylacauga, Alabama.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lake Howard, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-names.html">Sylacauga, Alabama</a>, is <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"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=144953&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2034127"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/728/08.99.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Cordell Hull"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Cordell Hull (1871-1955) — also known as "Father of the United Nations" — of Carthage, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SI-lived.html">Smith County</a>, Tenn. Born in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a> at Olympus, Overton County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/PI-born.html">Pickett County</a>), Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-02.html">October 2, 1871</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1893-97; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1903-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 4th District, 1907-21, 1923-31; defeated, 1920; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/TN.html">Democratic National Committee from Tennessee</a>, 1914-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/index.html">Chairman of Democratic National Committee</a>, 1921-24; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/index.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/index.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/index.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1931-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1933-44; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/TN.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1945. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">sarcoidosis</a>, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Bethesda Naval Hospital</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/07-23.html">July 23, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 294 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms02220">Washington National Cathedral</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 William Hull and Elizabeth (Riley) Hull.</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/finck-finlayson.html#040.65.73">Thomas K. Finletter</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">Cordell Hull Dam on the Cumberland River, and its impoundment, Cordell Hull Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SI-names.html">Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/JA-names.html">Jackson</a> counties, Tennessee, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Cordell Hull <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (built 1952-54), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-names.html">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Cordell Hull <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Highway</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-names.html">Barren</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MO-names.html">Monroe</a> counties, Kentucky, is <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=H000940">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405785">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell Hull">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/365/000059188">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/524">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">Books by Cordell Hull: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0781248116/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0781248116&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Memoirs of Cordell Hull</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 Cordell Hull: Julius William Pratt, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815401841/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0815401841&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Cordell Hull, 1933-44</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: U.S. postage stamp (1963)</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> Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) — also known as Henry E. Huntington — of Oneonta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; San Marino, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Oneonta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-born.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/02-27.html">February 27, 1850</a>. Republican. Owned and expanded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">streetcar and trolley</a> system in Southern California; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Lankenau <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/05-23.html">May 23, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 85 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html# ">Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens</a>, San Marino, 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 Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Mary Alice Prentice; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/">1913</a> to Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington.</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-names.html">Huntington Beach, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Huntington Park, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Huntington Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-names.html">Fresno County, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Huntington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hotel</a> (built 1907 as Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the Huntington Hotel; demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington hotel) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Pasadena, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Huntington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Art Museum</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Botanical Gardens</a>, on his former estate, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">San Marino, California</a>, is <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 Henry E. Huntington (built 1943-44 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1961) 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://findagrave.com/memorial/6084">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=144632&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2034488"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/502/84.04.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Lyndon B. Johnson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) — also known as Lyndon B. Johnson; "L.B.J."; "Landslide Lyndon"; "Preacher Lyndon"; "The Accidental President"; "Volunteer"; "Light Bulb Johnson" — of Johnson City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BA-lived.html">Blanco County</a>, Tex. Born near Stonewall, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GP-born.html">Gillespie County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/08-27.html">August 27, 1908</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 10th District, 1937-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Texas</a>, 1949-61; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/index.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/index.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/index.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1961-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1963-69. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disciples-of-christ.html">Disciples of Christ</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Awarded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> posthumously in 1980. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GP-died.html">Gillespie County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/01-22.html">January 22, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GP-buried.html#cms01561">LBJ Ranch</a>, Stonewall, Tex. <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 Sam Ealy Johnson and Rebekah (Baines) Johnson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/11-17.html">November 17, 1934</a>, to Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson6.html#910.01.72">Claudia Alta Taylor</a>; father of Lynda Bird Johnson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roads-robberson.html#398.49.80">Charles Spittal Robb</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/12057.html">Johnson family</a> of Stonewall, Texas.</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/kent.html#123.27.66">Roger Kent</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#267.06.10">Irvine H. Sprague</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moultrie-moynihan.html#327.96.94">A. W. Moursund</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#477.77.14">Eliot Janeway</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanders.html#934.97.65">Barefoot Sanders</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">Lake LBJ (created as Lake Granite Shoals; renamed in 1965), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BN-names.html">Burnet</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/LL-names.html">Llano</a> counties, Texas, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of Kampung LB Johnson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MY-names.html">Malaysia</a>, is <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">Campaign slogan (1964): "All The Way With L.B.J."</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=J000160">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406058">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon B. Johnson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/062/000023990">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425696">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/550">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4039">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 Lyndon B. Johnson: Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312060270/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312060270&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream</a> — Robert Dallek, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195132386/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195132386&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Flawed Giant : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973</a> — Sean J. Savage, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791461696/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791461696&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party</a> — Robert A. Caro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679405070/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679405070&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson</a> — Mark Updegrove, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307887715/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307887715&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency</a> — Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393067254/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393067254&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ</a> — Robert A. Caro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375713255/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375713255&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV</a> — Michael A. Schuman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766022870/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766022870&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Lyndon B. Johnson: Robert A. Caro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679729453/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679729453&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Years of Lyndon Johnson : The Path to Power</a> — Robert A. Caro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067973371X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=067973371X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Years of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent</a> — Robert A. Caro, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394528360/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0394528360&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Years of Lyndon Johnson : Master of the Senate</a> — Lance Morrow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465047238/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465047238&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power</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: U.S. postage stamp (1973)</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 Hosea Kerr (1873-1958) — also known as John H. Kerr — of Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.C. Born in Yanceyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CS-born.html">Caswell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/12-31.html">December 31, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; mayor of Warrenton, N.C., 1897-98; superior court judge in North Carolina 3rd District, 1916-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1923-53; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NC.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-died.html">Warren County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/06-21.html">June 21, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 172 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-buried.html#cms02088">Fairview Cemetery</a>, Warrenton, 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 Capt. John H. Kerr and Eliza Katherine (Yancey) Kerr; married to Ella Foote; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerr.html#849.79.65">John Kerr</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/10347.html">Kerr-Settle 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">The John H. Kerr dam, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ME-names.html">Mecklenburg County, Virginia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Kerr Lake, an impoundment on the Roanoke River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ME-names.html">Mecklenburg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CH-names.html">Charlotte</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HX-names.html">Halifax</a> counties, Virginia, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/VA-names.html">Vance</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GR-names.html">Granville</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WR-names.html">Warren</a> counties, North Carolina, is <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">Epitaph: "He Loved God And His Fellow Man."</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=K000138">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406304">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John H. Kerr">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20872278">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3GQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128-IA3"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/687/03.90.jpg" width=70 height=88 border=0 alt="Lucius Q. C. Lamar"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) — also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar — of Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/NE-lived.html">Newton County</a>, Ga.; Abbeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss.; Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-lived.html">Lafayette County</a>, Miss. Born near Eatonton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/PU-born.html">Putnam County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/09-17.html">September 17, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention</a>, 1865, 1868, 1875, 1877, 1881; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Mississippi</a>, 1877-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1885-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1888-93; died in office 1893. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-died.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/01-23.html">January 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 128 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-buried.html#cms01230">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-buried.html#cms01332">St. Peter's Cemetery</a>, Oxford, Miss. <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/laire-lamartine.html#816.10.63">Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834)</a> and Sarah Williamson (Bird) Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#529.83.94">Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar</a> and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chappel-chartrand.html#646.53.06">Absalom Harris Chappell</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#981.18.56">William Bailey Lamar</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#485.90.31">William McKendree Robbins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#639.34.50">Joseph Rucker Lamar</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html#625.86.37">Gaston Ahi Robbins</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/10253.html">Lamar family</a> of Georgia.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lamar counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LM.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LM.html">Ga.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LM.html">Miss.</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">Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-names.html">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lamar River, in Yellowstone National Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/PA-names.html">Park County, Wyoming</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Boulevard</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LY-names.html">Oxford, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-names.html">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Lamar <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (founded 1964), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-names.html">Meridian, Mississippi</a>, is <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=L000030">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406540">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1331&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/890/000180350">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5695">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">Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: 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: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)</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> Jack Griffith London (1876-1916) — also known as Jack London; John Griffith Chaney — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif.; Glen Ellen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-lived.html">Sonoma County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-12.html">January 12, 1876</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist). Died in Glen Ellen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-died.html">Sonoma County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/11-22.html">November 22, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-buried.html# ">Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery</a>, Glen Ellen, 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 William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/">1900</a> to Elizabeth May Maddern; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> London, on the border between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-names.html">British Columbia, Canada</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/HI-names.html">Haines Borough, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Jack London Square (entertainment and business <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">development</a>), and the surrounding Jack London District <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">neighborhood</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-names.html">Oakland, California</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Jack London Lake (Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Nature Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-names.html">Magadan Oblast, Russia</a>, are <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 Jack London (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-names.html">Sausalito, California</a>; scrapped 1968) 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack London">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1889">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=29857">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> Robert Thomas Miller (1893-1962) — also known as Tom Miller — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-born.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/09-21.html">September 21, 1893</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">Mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1933-49, 1955-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TX.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TX.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/TX.html">1956</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/04-30.html">April 30, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms00703">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex. <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">Tom Miller Dam (completed 1940), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <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"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=144878&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2035673"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/207/74.13.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="George W. Norris"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George William Norris (1861-1944) — also known as George W. Norris — of McCook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/RW-lived.html">Red Willow County</a>, Neb. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SA-born.html">Sandusky County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-11.html">July 11, 1861</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; district judge in Nebraska 14th District, 1896-1903; resigned 1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Nebraska</a> 5th District, 1903-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Nebraska</a>, 1913-43; defeated (Independent), 1942; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/index.html">1928</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in McCook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/RW-died.html">Red Willow County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/09-02.html">September 2, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 53 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/RW-buried.html#cms02604">Memorial Park Cemetery</a>, McCook, Neb. <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/1890/">1890</a> to Pluma Lashley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/">1903</a> to Ella Leonard; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#998.90.96">Harvey Frans Nelson Jr.</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">Norris Dam (built 1933-36), on the Clinch River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/AN-names.html">Anderson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CM-names.html">Campbell</a> counties, Tennessee, and the Norris Lake reservoir, which also extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CL-names.html">Claiborne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GA-names.html">Grainger</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/UN-names.html">Union</a> counties, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-names.html">Norris, Tennessee</a>, is <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 George W. Norris (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/GL-names.html">Brunswick, Georgia</a>; wrecked and lost in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-names.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, 1946) 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=N000139">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408223">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/617/000121254">NNDB dossier</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 George Norris: 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: U.S. postage stamp (1961)</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> Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) — also known as Jackie Onassis; Jaqueline Lee Bouvier; Jacqueline Kennedy — Born in Southampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/07-28.html">July 28, 1929</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1961-63. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">non-Hodgkin lymphoma</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/05-19.html">May 19, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 295 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, 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">Relatives: Step-daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-12.html">September 12, 1953</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/">1968</a> to Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</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/10422.html">Kennedy 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">The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> for International Careers, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at George Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, in Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/780">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32168">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3572533214/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/579/80.28.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="George C. Pardee"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Cooper Pardee (1857-1941) — also known as George C. Pardee — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/07-25.html">July 25, 1857</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1893-95; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/CA.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/CA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/CA.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/CA.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1903-07; candidate for Presidential Elector for California; candidate for Presidential Elector for California. 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/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/native-sons-golden-west.html">Native Sons of the Golden West</a>. Died in Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-died.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/09-01.html">September 1, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 38 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-buried.html#cms00611">Mountain View Cemetery</a>, Oakland, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#059.67.75">Enoch Homer Pardee</a> and Mary Elizabeth (Pardee) Pardee; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/01-25.html">January 25, 1887</a>, to Helen Newhall Penniman; grandnephew and second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#030.80.98">Aaron Pardee</a>; first cousin once removed and third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#921.20.05">Don Albert Pardee</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#463.01.97">Jared Whitfield Pardee</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#664.30.46">Dwight Whitfield Pardee</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/12788.html">Pardee family</a> of New York.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Pardee Dam (built 1929), and the Pardee Reservoir, on the Mokelumne River between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CV-names.html">Calaveras County</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AM-names.html">Amador County</a>, California, are <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://www.nga.org/governor/george-cooper-pardee/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Pardee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5987">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: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902</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 Percy Priest (1900-1956) — also known as J. Percy Priest — of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born in Carter's Creek, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MU-born.html">Maury County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/04-01.html">April 1, 1900</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper work</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a>, 1941-56 (5th District 1941-43, 6th District 1943-53, 5th District 1953-56); died in office 1956. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-died.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/10-12.html">October 12, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 194 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-buried.html#cms00344">Woodlawn Memorial Park</a>, Nashville, Tenn. <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">The J. Percy Priest Dam, and Percy Priest Lake, on the Stones River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-names.html">Davidson County, Tennessee</a>, are <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=P000536">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408920">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy Priest">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> Harmon Liveright Remmel (1852-1927) — also known as H. L. Remmel — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/JA-lived.html">Jackson County</a>, Ark.; Little Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-lived.html">Pulaski County</a>, Ark. Born in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/01-15.html">January 15, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/newport.html#2">Newport, Ark.</a>, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance executive</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 1st District, 1884; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/AR.html">Arkansas Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1884-1927; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/sthse.html">Arkansas state house of representatives</a>, 1887; delegate to Republican National Convention from Arkansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/AR.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/AR.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/AR.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/AR.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/AR.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/AR.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/AR.html">1924</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arkansas</a>, 1894, 1896, 1900; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Arkansas, 1897-1902, 1921-27; died in office 1927; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/AR.html">Arkansas Republican state chair</a>, 1900-03, 1910-16, 1921-25; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/AR.html">Republican National Committee from Arkansas</a>, 1912-24; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arkansas</a>, 1916. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, while recovering from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in Hot Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/GA-died.html">Garland County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/10-14.html">October 14, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 272 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-buried.html#cms01457">Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park</a>, Little Rock, Ark. <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 Gottlieb 'Godlove' Remmel and Henrietta (Bever) Remmel; brother of Louesa Remmel (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#806.90.59">William Burdick Empie</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#757.72.40">Augustus Caleb Remmel (1847-1883)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#047.74.05">Ada E. Remmel</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-13.html">March 13, 1878</a>, to Laura Lee Stafford; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/">1915</a> to Elizabeth I. Cameron; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#972.06.41">Augustus Caleb Remmel (1882-1920)</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#292.08.10">Pratt Cates Remmel</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#839.30.58">Roland Rowe Remmel</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/12701.html">Remmel family</a> of Little Rock, Arkansas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Remmel Dam (built 1924), on the Ouachita River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/HS-names.html">Hot Spring County, Arkansas</a>, is <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://findagrave.com/memorial/8196487">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 Delmage Ross (1872-1939) — also known as J. D. Ross — of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born in Chatham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-09.html">November 9, 1872</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/electrician.html">Electrical</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; Seattle superintendent of lighting (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">electric power</a>), 1911-39; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-37; administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, 1937. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, following surgery for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">stomach</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">intestinal</a> ailments, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mayo-clinic.html">Mayo Clinic</a>, Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OL-died.html">Olmsted County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/03-14.html">March 14, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-buried.html# ">Ross Family Burial Site</a>, Newhalem, Wash. <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/">1907</a> to Alice M. 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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Ross, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Ross Dam (built 1937-49), on the Skagit River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Ross Lake, a reservoir in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, which also extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-names.html">British Columbia, Canada</a>, is <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 J. D. Ross (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; sold and renamed SS Lampsis; sank during a storm in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, 1966) was originally <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">Epitaph: "J.D. Ross, one of the greatest Americans of our generation, was an outstanding mathematician and equally great engineer. He had also the practical ability to make things work in the spirit of public opinion and successful business. More than that, he was a philosopher and lover and student of trees and flowers. His successful career and especially his long service in behalf of the public interest are worthy of study by every American boy."</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/James Delmage Ross">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6289">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> Merrell Quentin Sharpe (1888-1962) — also known as M. Q. Sharpe — of Kennebec, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/LY-lived.html">Lyman County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Marysville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/MR-born.html">Marshall County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/01-11.html">January 11, 1888</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/attygn.html">South Dakota state attorney general</a>, 1929-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1943-47; candidate in inconclusive primary 1942; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/SD.html">1952</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>). Died in Kennebec, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/LY-died.html">Lyman County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/01-22.html">January 22, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/LY-buried.html# ">Graceland Cemetery</a>, Oacoma, 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">Lake Sharpe, on a portion of the Missouri River impounded by the Big Bend Dam (built 1959-63), and extending into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/BF-names.html">Buffalo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/LY-names.html">Lyman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/HY-names.html">Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/HU-names.html">Hughes</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ST-names.html">Stanley</a> counties, South Dakota, is <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://www.nga.org/governor/merrell-quentin-sharpe/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrell Q. Sharpe">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/198/000208571">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41688171">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> Adolph Bernard Spreckels (1857-1924) — also known as Adolph B. Spreckels — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/01-05.html">January 5, 1857</a>. Republican. President, Spreckels <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">Sugar</a> Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/CA.html">1884</a>; angered by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, on November 19, 1884, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">shot</a> and badly wounded the paper's publisher, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dey-dichman.html#760.84.83">M. H. de Young</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">attempted murder</a>; pleaded temporary insanity; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> in 1885 and found not guilty; president, San Francisco and San Mateo <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Electric Railway</a>; vice-president, Western <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">Sugar</a> Company; vice-president, Oceanic <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Steamship</a> Company. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">syphilis</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-28.html">June 28, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 175 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms01912">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Colma, 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spraker-sprigade.html#467.69.88">Claus Spreckels</a> and Anna Christina (Mangels) Spreckels; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spraker-sprigade.html#425.58.77">John Diedrich Spreckels</a>; married to Alma de Bretteville.</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/38398.html">Spreckels family</a> of San Francisco, California.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Spreckels Lake, in Golden Gate Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-names.html">San Francisco, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Spreckels Organ Pavilion, an outdoor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">performance venue</a>, in Balboa Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his brother.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph B. Spreckels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/80220632">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> Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) — also known as Isaac I. Stevens — of Washington. Born in North Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/03-25.html">March 25, 1818</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Washington Territory</a>, 1853-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory</a>, 1857-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Civil War</a> battle of Chantilly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-01.html">September 1, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 160 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms01071">Island Cemetery</a>, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html# ">Ox Hill Battlefield Park</a>, Fairfax County, 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">Relatives: Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens2.html#805.82.89">Charles Abbot Stevens</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens6.html#928.66.70">Moses Tyler Stevens</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/11057.html">Stevens-Woodhull family</a> of New York City, New York.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Stevens counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SV.html">Minn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ST.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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">state park</a>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CA-names.html">Warrenton, Oregon</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">park</a>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> (and lake) of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-names.html">Lake Stevens, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RA-names.html">Stevensville, Montana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (6,838 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (5,372 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BI-names.html">Bingham County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Upper Stevens Lake, and Lower Stevens Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Stevens Hall <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">dormitory</a>, at Washington State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WI-names.html">Pullman, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Isaac I. Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Middle School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/CA-names.html">Port Angeles, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Junior High School</a> (now Middle School), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FR-names.html">Pasco, Washington</a>, is <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 Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</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">Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the battle of Chantilly, Va."</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=S000881">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410343">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Stevens">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21358">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">Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens: Joseph Taylor Hazard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0832300594/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0832300594&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Companion of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington</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 Field Stockton (1795-1866) — also known as Robert F. Stockton — of New Jersey. Born in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/08-20.html">August 20, 1795</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; served in the U.S. Navy during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/milgov.html">Military Governor of California</a>, 1846-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1851-53. Slaveowner. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-07.html">October 7, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-buried.html#cms01396">Princeton Cemetery</a>, Princeton, N.J. <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/stockton.html#686.94.98">Richard Stockton (1764-1828)</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#371.88.95">John Potter Stockton</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#568.05.78">Richard Stockton (1730-1781)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockton.html#939.26.86">Richard Stockton (c.1857-1929)</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/10001-0220.html">Stockton family</a> of Princeton, New Jersey (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">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SJ-names.html">Stockton, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CE-names.html">Stockton, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">borough</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HN-names.html">Stockton, New Jersey</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/PE-names.html">Fort Stockton, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stockton Creek, a tidal channel in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LB-names.html">Monrovia, Liberia</a>, is <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=S000942">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410401">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert F. Stockton">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> Lurleen Burns Wallace (1926-1968) — also known as Lurleen B. Wallace; Lurleen Brigham Burns — of Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala. Born in Tuscaloosa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-born.html">Tuscaloosa County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-19.html">September 19, 1926</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Alabama</a>, 1967-68; died in office 1968. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">uterine cancer</a>, in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/05-07.html">May 7, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 231 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-buried.html#cms00352">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, Ala. <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 Henry Burns and Estelle (Burroughs) Burns; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-21.html">May 21, 1943</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#549.03.46">George Corley Wallace Jr.</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/11541.html">Wallace-Folsom family</a> of Montgomery, Alabama.</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 Lurleen Wallace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-hospitals.html">Tumor Institute</a>, at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Alabama <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-names.html">Birmingham</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Lurleen B. Wallace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">Community College</a> (established 1967 as Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College), with campuses in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CV-names.html">Covington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/BU-names.html">Butler</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CR-names.html">Crenshaw</a> counties, Alabama, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Lake Lurleen, and Lake Lurleen <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">State Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-names.html">Tuscaloosa County, Alabama</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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://www.nga.org/governor/lurleen-burns-wallace/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/268/000032172">NNDB dossier</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> Paul Allen Wallace (1901-1958) — also known as Paul A. Wallace — of Wallace, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-lived.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C. Born in Bennettsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-born.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/07-15.html">July 15, 1901</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Marlboro County, 1947-58; died in office 1958; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/SC.html">1956</a>. On the night of the 1958 Democratic primary, he and others gathered in the sheriff's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">office</a> at the Marlboro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courthouse.html">County Courthouse</a> to hear election returns on the radio; he had just learned he had won renomination, when Court Clerk Henry A. Rogers entered the room and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> him four times; he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">died</a> about twenty minutes later, in the emergency room of a nearby <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a>, in Bennettsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-died.html">Marlboro County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/06-10.html">June 10, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 330 days</a>). On June 27, Rogers hanged himself in the South Carolina state mental hospital. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-buried.html# ">Wallace Baptist Church Cemetery</a>, Wallace, 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 James Percy Wallace and Lillie (Allen) Wallace; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/05-25.html">May 25, 1920</a>, to Ethelyne Gardner; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#591.03.83">William Paul Wallace</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">Lake Paul Wallace, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-names.html">Marlboro County</a>, South Carolina, is <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">Epitaph: "With forgetfulness of self, humility of spirit, and nobility of character, he followed in his Master's footsteps in service to his fellowman."</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/138428273">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> Carlton Weaver (1881-1947) — of Wilburton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LA-lived.html">Latimer County</a>, Okla. Born in Mt. Vernon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FK-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/08-25.html">August 25, 1881</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Oklahoma state constitutional convention</a>, 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives</a>, 1930-31. Died in Wilburton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LA-died.html">Latimer County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/08-17.html">August 17, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 357 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LA-buried.html#cms07365">Robbers Cave State Park</a>, Near Wilburton, Latimer County, 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">Lake Carlton (created by a dam on Fouche Maline Creek), in Robbers Cave State Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LA-names.html">Latimer County, Oklahoma</a>, is <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"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YyoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA388-IA3"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/704/55.72.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Joseph Wheeler"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) — also known as "Fighting Joe" — of Wheeler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-lived.html">Lawrence County</a>, Ala. Born in Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/09-10.html">September 10, 1836</a>. Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 8th District, 1881-82, 1885-1900; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-war-1812.html">Sons of the War of 1812</a>. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/01-25.html">January 25, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 137 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, 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">Relatives: Son of Joseph Wheeler and Julia Knox (Hull) Wheeler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/02-06.html">February 6, 1866</a>, to Daniella Jones (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/early.html#500.20.09">Peter Early</a>); father of Thomas Harrison Wheeler.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WH.html">Wheeler County, Ga.</a> is 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">Wheeler Dam (built 1933-36), on the Tennessee River in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LA-names.html">Lauderdale</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-names.html">Lawrence</a> counties, Alabama, and the Wheeler Lake reservoir, which extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LI-names.html">Limestone</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MR-names.html">Morgan</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-names.html">Madison</a> counties, are <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=W000338">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411500">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Wheeler">Wikipedia article</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: Men of Mark in America (1906)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3568853702/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/878/23.04.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Woodrow Wilson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) — also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in Politics" — of New Jersey. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sn-born.html">Staunton</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/12-28.html">December 28, 1856</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> of Princeton University, 1902-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1911-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1913-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Recipient of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1919; elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1950. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/02-03.html">February 3, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 37 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms02220">Washington National Cathedral</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-buried.html# ">Main Railway Station</a>, Prague, Czechia. <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 Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/06-24.html">June 24, 1885</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#736.34.17">Ellen Wilson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-18.html">December 18, 1915</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#442.55.34">William Gibbs McAdoo</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sawyers-sayward.html#428.97.59">Woodrow Wilson Sayre</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/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia (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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#559.12.89">William C. Bullitt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#997.90.35">Bainbridge Colby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davie-davila.html#828.33.61">Joseph E. Davies</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuckerman-turnbull.html#003.48.76">Joseph P. Tumulty</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingley-birchby.html#901.48.13">Thomas H. Birch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/newton.html#464.44.82">Byron R. Newton</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Woodrow Wilson, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/FR-names.html">Fremont County</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/SU-names.html">Sublette County</a>, Wyoming, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Woodrow Wilson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Plaza</a>, in the Federal Triangle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Wilson Dam (built 1924), on the Tennessee River in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CO-names.html">Colbert</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LA-names.html">Lauderdale</a> counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake reservoir, which extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-names.html">Lawrence</a> county, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Rambla</a> Presidente Wilson, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-names.html">Montevideo, Uruguay</a>, is <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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#404.50.20">Woodrow W. Bean</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones9.html#432.95.93">Woodrow W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott9.html#348.47.84">Woodrow W. Scott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payne-payrow.html#581.65.97">Tom Woodrow Payne</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#965.13.45">W. W. Dumas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mann.html#479.67.01">Woodrow Wilson Mann</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#428.61.22">Woodrow W. Lavender</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailhache-bakanatch.html#808.45.90">Woodrow W. Baird</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathewson-matthaei.html#871.40.47">Woodrow W. Mathna</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hulme-humberto.html#676.65.07">Woodrow W. Hulme</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kline.html#095.71.30">Woodrow W. Kline</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdonald.html#036.00.08">Woodrow W. McDonald</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holder-hollan.html#501.93.59">Woodrow W. Hollan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carter9.html#653.92.24">Woodrow W. Carter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#624.62.75">Woodrow W. Ferguson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goode.html#628.88.60">W. Wilson Goode</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#082.50.01">Woodrow Wilson Storey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#561.54.42">Woodrow W. Bean III</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks.</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">Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out of war."</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/thomas-woodrow-wilson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow Wilson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/333/000024261">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1115">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4064">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 Woodrow Wilson: Louis Auchincloss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670889040/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670889040&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Woodrow Wilson</a> — Herbert Hoover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943875412/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943875412&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson</a> — James Chace, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743203941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743203941&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country</a> — John Milton Cooper, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801890748/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801890748&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace</a> — A. Scott Berg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399159215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399159215&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wilson</a> — Anne Schraff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766022781/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766022781&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Woodrow Wilson</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Woodrow Wilson: Jim Powell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400082366/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400082366&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wilson's War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II</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: American Monthly Review of Reviews, July 1902</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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