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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Nassau County, N.Y.</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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Born near Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/12-05.html">December 5, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arkansas</a> 2nd District, 1868; died in office 1868. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by George A. Clark, who was drunk at the time, near Indian Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MO-died.html">Monroe County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-22.html">October 22, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 322 days</a>). Interment somewhere; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000631">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405488">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04598">Beth-David Cemetery</a> Elmont, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (1923-1983) — also known as Benjamin S. Rosenthal — of New York. Born in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-08.html">June 8, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1962-83 (6th District 1962-63, 8th District 1963-83, 7th District 1983); died in office 1983. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/01-04.html">January 4, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at Beth-David Cemetery. <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">Epitaph: "Beloved Husband, Father and Son."</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=R000442">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409406">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5409">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=16917">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/659/47.55.jpg" width=70 height=97 border=0 alt="Bernard Austin"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Bernard Austin (1896-1959) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-born.html">Russia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/index.html">1896</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 4th District, 1935-59; died in office 1959. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/fed-bar-assoc.html">Federal Bar Association</a>. After giving a short speech at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">swearing-in</a> of City Court Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heisel-hellyer.html#235.97.61">Louis B. Heller</a>, he collapsed and died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in the Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courthouse.html">Courts Building</a>, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/01-06.html">January 6, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Beth-David Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/142709887">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/192/21.65.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Mathias Naphtali"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Mathias Naphtali (1899-1987) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Ioannina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-born.html">Greece</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/12-14.html">December 14, 1899</a>. Liberal. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 14th District, 1950. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/greek.html">Greek</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in December, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/index.html">1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Interment at Beth-David Cemetery. <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/1926/06-22.html">June 22, 1926</a>, to Bella Myones.</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/130432832">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: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 5, 1945</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04351">Maimonides Cemetery</a> Elmont, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Berger Rossdale (1878-1968) — also known as Albert B. Rossdale — of New York. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-23.html">October 23, 1878</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">Postal worker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">jeweler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 23rd District, 1921-23; defeated, 1922, 1924; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Eastchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/04-17.html">April 17, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at Maimonides Cemetery. <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 Herman Rossdale and Betty (Berger) Rossdale.</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=R000457">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409421">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04341">Pratt Mausoleum</a> Glen Cove, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/921/32.43.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Ruth Baker Pratt"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ruth Baker Pratt (1877-1965) — also known as Ruth Sears Baker; Mrs. John T. Pratt — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Ware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HM-born.html">Hampshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/08-24.html">August 24, 1877</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NY.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NY.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NY.html">1940</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/committees.html">Arrangements Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NY.html">1944</a> (alternate); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">Republican National Committee from New York</a>, 1929-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/08-23.html">August 23, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at Pratt Mausoleum. <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 Edwin Howard Baker and Carrie Virginia (Richardson) Baker; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/01-06.html">January 6, 1903</a>, to John Teele Pratt; mother of Virginia Pratt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#862.59.64">Robert Helyer Thayer</a>); third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#036.06.46">George W. Clough</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andrews.html#907.73.00">Harlan Page Andrews</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000505">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408890">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6380795">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: Official Report of the 22nd Republican National Convention (1940)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery</a> 28 Highland Road Glen Cove, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2214711&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA1"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/607/06.15.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="Lewis S. Chanler"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869-1942) — also known as Lewis S. Chanler — of Barrytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-24.html">September 24, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1907-08; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1908; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County 2nd District, 1910-12. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</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/1942/02-28.html">February 28, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 157 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery. <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/chandless-chapline.html#799.25.22">John Winthrop Chanler</a> and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#251.93.32">William Astor Chanler</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/09-24.html">September 24, 1890</a>, to Alice Chamberlain; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/05-23.html">May 23, 1921</a>, to Julia Lynch (Olin) Benkard; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#012.22.53">John Armstrong Jr.</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#001.12.84">James Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#099.45.57">John Armstrong</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#784.43.99">William Waldorf Astor</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#800.41.06">Rensselaer Westerlo</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#095.75.00">Edward Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#983.62.80">William Alexander Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dudly-duffield.html#671.54.97">John Duer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#610.32.40">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fischman-fishburne.html#752.77.27">Hamilton Fish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#343.32.14">Peter Goelet Gerry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#018.20.63">Ogden Livingston Mills</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#197.26.24">Robert Reginald Livingston</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0090.html">Clinton-DeWitt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/54233630">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1907</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 Birdsall (1840-1891) — also known as "John Williams" — of Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/10-05.html">October 5, 1840</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1880-81. While registered under the assumed name "John Williams," he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">illuminating gas</a> in his room at the United States <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-14.html">April 14, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cemetery. <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 Annie Frost.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Birdsall (politician, born 1840)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23471485">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04439">Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church</a> Laurel Hollow, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641128&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950) — also known as Henry L. Stimson — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Huntington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/09-21.html">September 21, 1867</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1906-09; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1910; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1911-13, 1940-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1915; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NY.html">1932</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PI/ofc/gov.html">Governor-General of the Philippine Islands</a>, 1927-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1929-33. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Died in Huntington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/10-20.html">October 20, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry L. Stimson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/489/000059312">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830394">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/988">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 Henry L. Stimson: Godfrey Hodgson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/155553127X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=155553127X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Colonel : The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950</a> — David F. Schmitz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0842026320/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0842026320&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Henry L. Stimson : The First Wise Man</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Vliet Lindsay (1921-2000) — also known as John V. Lindsay — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/11-24.html">November 24, 1921</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1959-65; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/NY.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/NY.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1966-73; defeated in Republican primary, 1969; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/index.html">1972</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; candidate in Democratic primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1980. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/parkinsons.html">Parkinson's disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Hilton Head Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-died.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/12-19.html">December 19, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 25 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <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 George Nelson Lindsay and Eleanor (Vliet) Lindsay; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/06-18.html">June 18, 1949</a>, to Mary Anne Harrison.</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/burnquist-burns.html#732.19.84">John J. Burns</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=L000326">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406819">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John V. Lindsay">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/214/000117860">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512245">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6628761">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=10558">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 John V. Lindsay: Vincent J. Cannato, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465008437/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465008437&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Ungovernable City : John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York</a> — Sam Roberts, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231152604/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0231152604&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3514152213/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/715/37.07.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="George B. Cortelyou"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940) — also known as George B. Cortelyou — of Huntington Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-26.html">July 26, 1862</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School principal</a>; confidential stenographer to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a>, 1895-96; Executive Clerk of the White House, 1896-98; secretary to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckiernan-mckinne.html#894.85.64">William McKinley</a>, 1900-01; secretary to President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, 1901-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor</a>, 1903-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1904-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1905-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1907-09; president, Consolidated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas</a> Company, New York, 1909-35; director, New York <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Insurance</a> Company; first president, Edison Electric Institute, 1933. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, following two <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attacks</a>, in Huntington Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/10-23.html">October 23, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 89 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <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 Peter Crolius Cortelyou, Jr. and Rose (Seary) Cortelyou; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/09-15.html">September 15, 1888</a>, to Lily Morris Hinds; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#478.69.07">Lawrence Hillier Cortelyou</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#619.87.52">Aaron Cortelyou</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/17365.html">Cortelyou family</a> of Staten Island, 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">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS George B. Cortelyou (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1972) 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/George Bruce Cortelyou">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/400/000167896">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6850514">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, October 1901</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/-/media/images/houston_david.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/348/68.05.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="David F. Houston"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Franklin Houston (1866-1940) — also known as David F. Houston — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/02-17.html">February 17, 1866</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">Superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1902-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, University of Texas, 1905-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">chancellor</a>, Washington University, St. Louis, 1908-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Agriculture</a>, 1913-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1920-21; vice president, American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telegraph</a> Co. and president, Bell <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> Securities Co.; president, Mutual <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Insurance</a> Company of New York, 1930-1940; director, United States <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel</a> Corporation. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/09-02.html">September 2, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 198 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <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 H. Houston and Cornelia Anne (Stevens) Houston; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/12-11.html">December 11, 1895</a>, to Helen Beall.</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/David F. Houston">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/392/000167888">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15751028">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/david-f-houston">Federal Reserve History</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: Federal Reserve History</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> Douglas Maxwell Moffat (1881-1956) — Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/11-16.html">November 16, 1881</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AU-diplomats.html ">Australia</a>, 1956, died in office 1956. Died in Sydney, New South Wales, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AU-died.html">Australia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/08-30.html">August 30, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Stewart Moffat and Anna Robeson (McCartney) Moffat; married to Gertrude Mali (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/majors-malloney.html#196.73.86">Pierre Mali</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/majors-malloney.html#581.59.27">John Taylor Johnston Mali</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/37148.html">Mali 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">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/moffat-douglas-maxwell ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/161647897">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/606/49.79.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Leonard W. Hall"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leonard Wood Hall (1900-1979) — also known as Leonard W. Hall — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-02.html">October 2, 1900</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Nassau County 2nd District, 1927-28, 1934-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Sheriff</a>, 1929-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1939-52 (1st District 1939-45, 2nd District 1945-52); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NY.html">1944</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/NY.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/NY.html">1956</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Surrogate</a>, 1952-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1953-57; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/06-02.html">June 2, 1979</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood6.html#049.33.38">Leonard Wood</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Franklyn H. Hall and Mary A. Hall; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/05-10.html">May 10, 1934</a>, to Gladys Dowsey.</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=H000060">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404945">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard W. Hall">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7185319">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1936</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> Frederic René Coudert Jr. (1898-1972) — also known as Frederic R. Coudert, Jr. — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-07.html">May 7, 1898</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NY.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NY.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1939-46 (17th District 1939-44, 20th District 1945-46); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1947-59; campaign chair for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckley.html#393.59.57">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a>'s campaign for Mayor of New York City, 1965. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/05-21.html">May 21, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 14 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <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 Frederic R. Coudert and Alice T. (Wilmerding) Coudert; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Mary K. Callery; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/">1931</a> to Paula Murray; father of Paula Murray Coudert (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ramsay-randal.html#426.94.96">William Rand Jr.</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cottrell-coudriet.html#591.99.00">Frederic René Coudert</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tracy.html#494.38.55">Benjamin Franklin Tracy</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/15961.html">Coudert-Catlin-Tracy 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000804">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402923">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic Ren%C3%A9 Coudert%2C Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7185349">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> Percy D. Stoddart (c.1892-1957) — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born about 1892. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1938-57 (2nd District 1938-48, 10th District 1948-57); died in office 1957. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died, in Community <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/04-19.html">April 19, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Townsend Daniel Cock (1838-1913) — also known as Townsend D. Cock — of Locust Valley, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y. Born in Locust Valley, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/12-03.html">December 3, 1838</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1872-73; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County 1st District, 1876, 1881-82. Died in Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/06-19.html">June 19, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 198 days</a>). Interment at Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church. <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/1858/">1858</a> to Jane Deall Latting.</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/Townsend D. Cock">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/128816634">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04205">Locust Valley Cemetery</a> 117 Ryefield Road Locust Valley, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=441705&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John William Davis (1873-1955) — also known as John W. Davis — of Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-lived.html">Harrison County</a>, W.Va.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/04-13.html">April 13, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Harrison County, 1899; candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/WV.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S. Solicitor General, 1913-18; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1918-21; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/index.html">1920</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1924; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/03-24.html">March 24, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <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/davis5.html#209.57.87">John James Davis</a> and Anna (Kennedy) Davis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/06-20.html">June 20, 1899</a>, to Julia Terrill McDonald; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/01-02.html">January 2, 1912</a>, to Ellen G. Bassel; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#484.07.44">Lee H. Vance</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#585.27.74">John Carl Vance</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#078.79.63">Cyrus Roberts Vance</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/10392.html">Vance-Davis family</a> of Clarksburg, West Virginia.</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/burke.html#602.75.05">Thomas Burke</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">Campaign slogan (1924): "Honesty at home, honor abroad."</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: "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." (Psalm 37:37)</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=D000121">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403256">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John W. Davis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/davis-john-william ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/745/000134343">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2617">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (1900-1949) — also known as Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. — Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-22.html">October 22, 1900</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1944-45; U.S. Representative to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/un.html ">United Nations</a>, 1945-46. In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> transactions in which a group, including Stettinus as well as former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/casebolt-caseyjones.html#925.97.33">Joseph E. Casey</a> and diplomat <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holmes.html#489.85.29">Julius C. Holmes</a>, made large profits from the purchase and re-sale of surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War II. Since federal law required that sales be made only to U.S. citizens, the group allegedly set up <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">dummy corporations</a> purportedly under American control, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">faked financial statements</a> for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of Greek-Argentine shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Criminal indictments against Casey and Holmes were ultimately dismissed; Onassis pleaded guilty and paid a fine. Died in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/10-31.html">October 31, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 9 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <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 Judith Wimbish (Carrington) Stettinius and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#102.27.79">Edward Reilly Stettinius</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/">1926</a> to Virginia Gordon Wallace.</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: "Blessed Are The Pure In Heart."</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/Edward Stettinius, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/stettinius-edward-reilly ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/487/000059310">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2616">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> Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) — also known as Robert A. Lovett — of Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WK-born.html">Walker County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/09-14.html">September 14, 1895</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; partner, Brown Brothers Harriman; director of several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad</a> companies; director, Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Defense</a>, 1951-53. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1963. Died in Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/05-07.html">May 7, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Scott Lovett and Lavinia Chilton (Abercrombie) Lovett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/04-19.html">April 19, 1919</a>, to Adele Quartley Brown.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert A. Lovett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/046/000057872">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/31553754">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 Robert Lovett: Walter Isaacson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684837714/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684837714&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made</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> Ralph John Marino (1928-2002) — also known as Ralph J. Marino; "Mumbles" — of Muttontown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO-born.html">Monroe County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/01-02.html">January 2, 1928</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 5th District, 1969-95; resigned 1995. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mouth-cancer.html">tongue cancer</a>, in Mercy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/04-06.html">April 6, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 94 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <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/1954/">1954</a> to Ethel Bernstein.</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/6331089">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=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA23"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/916/60.20.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="William J. Tully"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William John Tully (1870-1930) — also known as William J. Tully — of Corning, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-lived.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y. Born in Corning, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-born.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/10-01.html">October 1, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1905-08 (41st District 1905-06, 43rd District 1907-08); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/08-22.html">August 22, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <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 J. Tully.</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/14344592">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1907</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 Reilly Stettinius (1865-1925) — also known as Edward R. Stettinius — of Dongan Hills, Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-born.html">St. Louis County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/02-15.html">February 15, 1865</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/09-03.html">September 3, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at Locust Valley Cemetery. <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 Judith Wimbish Carrington; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#357.34.10">Edward Reilly Stettinius 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/152604580">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05838">Christ Church Cemetery</a> 1355 Northern Boulevard Manhasset, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1964160&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Hay Whitney (1904-1982) — also known as Jock Whitney — of Manhasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Ellsworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/HA-born.html">Hancock County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/08-17.html">August 17, 1904</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1957-61; publisher of the New York Herald Tribune <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>, 1961-66. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died in Manhasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/02-08.html">February 8, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 175 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <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 Helen (Hay) Whitney and William Payne Whitney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-25.html">September 25, 1930</a>, to Mary Elizabeth 'Liz' Altemus; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/03-01.html">March 1, 1942</a>, to Betsey (Cushing) Roosevelt (ex-wife of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hay.html#669.81.76">Adelbert Stone Hay</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hay.html#668.05.28">John Milton Hay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#394.15.27">William Collins Whitney</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#917.57.79">Henry Melville Whitney</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payne-payrow.html#504.81.46">Henry B. Payne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#254.13.39">James Scollay Whitney</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#195.47.82">Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#399.88.18">James Jermiah Wadsworth</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#425.37.47">Frances Payne Bolton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#355.70.49">James Wadsworth Symington</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#659.80.35">Oliver Payne Bolton</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodges.html#018.53.72">James Hodges</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgess.html#007.11.93">Thomas Mackie Burgess</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0228.html">Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0137.html">Morton 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Hay Whitney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/whitney-john-hay ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/126/000059946">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7524924">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank Noyes Burdick (1839-1917) — also known as F. N. Burdick — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Vermillion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, S.Dak.; East Guilford, Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WN-lived.html">Windham County</a>, Vt. Born in Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WN-born.html">Windham County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/09-14.html">September 14, 1839</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/trcn.html">member Dakota territorial council</a>, 1883-84. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">arteriosclerosis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">interstitial nephritis</a>, in Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WN-died.html">Windham County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/02-22.html">February 22, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <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 Thompson Edwin Burdick and Elizabeth 'Betsy' (Noyes) Burdick; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-02.html">September 2, 1862</a>, to Amelia Bowker; married to Nina Davis.</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: "Physician and Friend."</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/45563024">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06207">Floyd-Jones Cemetery</a> Massapequa, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Richard Floyd-Jones (1813-1871) — also known as David R. Floyd-Jones — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/04-06.html">April 6, 1813</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1841-43, 1857 (New York County 1841-43, Queens County 1857); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1844-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of New York</a>, 1860-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1863-64. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/01-08.html">January 8, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at Floyd-Jones Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01907">Youngs Memorial Cemetery</a> Cove Road off East Main Oyster Bay, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3514960088/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/741/57.28.jpg" width=70 height=116 border=0 alt="Theodore Roosevelt"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) — also known as "T.R."; "Teddy"; "The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan Hill"; "The Rough Rider"; "Trust-Buster"; "The Happy Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/10-27.html">October 27, 1858</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 21st District, 1882-84; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/NY.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1899-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/index.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee, Wis., on October 14, 1912, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention. Awarded <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1906; elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1950. Died in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/01-06.html">January 6, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. <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 Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt; brother of Anna L. Roosevelt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#849.24.85">William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923)</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-27.html">October 27, 1880</a>, to Alice Hathaway Lee; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-02.html">December 2, 1886</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#111.45.68">Edith Kermit Carow</a> (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Lee Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#643.30.15">Nicholas Longworth</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#385.97.08">William Floyd Weld</a>); great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#109.58.92">Martin Van Buren</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)</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/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0078.html">Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pikiel-pinchot.html#329.78.78">Gifford Pinchot</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leader-leak.html#999.13.39">David J. Leahy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnes.html#561.86.35">William Barnes, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burcham-burdette.html#788.95.93">Oliver D. Burden</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/youngblood-yulee.html#275.97.24">William J. Youngs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#715.37.07">George B. Cortelyou</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell6.html#467.68.28">Mason Mitchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maclafferty-madar.html#376.04.87">Frederic MacMaster</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodell-goodrell.html#346.05.60">John Goodnow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#328.12.29">William Loeb, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gard-gardlock.html#981.93.24">Asa Bird Gardiner</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">Roosevelt counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RO.html">Mont.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/RO.html">N.M.</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-misc.html">minor planet</a> (asteroid) 188693 Roosevelt (discovered 2005), 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/basset-bastin.html#047.55.53">Theodore Bassett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeegan-mckenty.html#138.69.56">Theodore R. McKeldin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dalton.html#222.34.22">Ted Dalton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kuhne-kurthy.html#853.32.26">Theodore R. Kupferman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/britton.html#642.51.53">Theodore Roosevelt Britton, 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">Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."</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=R000429">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409394">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/theodore-roosevelt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/430/000026352">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740485">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/898">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4068">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 Theodore Roosevelt: James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871137801/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0871137801&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465069592/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465069592&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">T.R : The Last Romantic</a> — Edmund Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394555090/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0394555090&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Theodore Rex</a> — Edmund Morris, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375756787/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375756787&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt</a> — John Morton Blum, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674763025/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674763025&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Republican Roosevelt</a> — Richard D. White, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817313613/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817313613&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Roosevelt the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895</a> — Frederick W. Marks III, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803281153/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803281153&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Velvet on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt</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> — Patricia O'Toole, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684864770/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684864770&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">When Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White House</a> — Candice Millard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385507968/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385507968&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey</a> — Lewis Einstein, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006AL2ZG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006AL2ZG&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Roosevelt : His Mind in Action</a> — Rick Marshall, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981547/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1596981547&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Bully!: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt: Illustrated with More Than 250 Vintage Political Cartoons</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, October 1901</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> Edith Roosevelt (1861-1948) — also known as Edith Kermit Carow — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-06.html">August 6, 1861</a>. Republican. First Lady of New York, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1901-09. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/09-30.html">September 30, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. <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 Charles Carow and Gertude Elizabeth (Tyler) Carow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-02.html">December 2, 1886</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>); step-mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Roosevelt Longworth</a>; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#639.27.54">Theodore Roosevelt Jr.</a>; great-grandmother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt Weld</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</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/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith Roosevelt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5995">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32192">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> William Jones Youngs (1851-1916) — also known as William J. Youngs — of Oyster Bay, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y.; Garden City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/06-24.html">June 24, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County 1st District, 1879-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-officials.html">Queens County District Attorney</a>; private secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York</a>, 1902-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-psi.html">Chi Psi</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart trouble</a>, in Garden City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/04-27.html">April 27, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. <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 Daniel Kelsey Youngs and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Youngs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/05-07.html">May 7, 1879</a>, to Eleanor Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/03-31.html">March 31, 1886</a>, to Helen Louise 'Nellie' Mason; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/11-19.html">November 19, 1890</a>, to May Benson Emory.</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 J. Youngs">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23469508">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Youngs (born c.1813) — of Oyster Bay, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y.; Sacramento, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-lived.html">Sacramento County</a>, Calif.; Aurora, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ES-lived.html">Esmeralda County</a>, Nev. Born in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., about 1813. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County, 1843-44; city council member, Sacramento, Calif.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ofc/trlg.html">Nevada territorial legislature</a>, 1862; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Nevada state constitutional convention</a>, 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ES-officials.html">Esmeralda County Commissioner</a>. Interment at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944) — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/09-13.html">September 13, 1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Nassau County 2nd District, 1920-21; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NY.html">1940</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Puerto Rico</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PI/ofc/gov.html">Governor-General of the Philippine Islands</a>, 1932-33; general in the U.S. Army during World War II. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Principal founder of the American Legion in 1919. Participated in the invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and received a posthumous <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> for his actions that day; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-ii.html">died</a> a month later, of exhaustion and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Normandy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/07-12.html">July 12, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 303 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-buried.html#cms04709">Normandy American Cemetery</a>, Collevelle-sur-Mer, France; cenotaph at Youngs Memorial Cemetery. <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/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#111.45.68">Edith Roosevelt</a>; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#866.63.42">Alice Lee Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#643.30.15">Nicholas Longworth</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-20.html">June 20, 1910</a>, to Eleanor Butler Alexander; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson2.html#825.26.57">Corinne Roosevelt Robinson</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#525.16.64">Susan Roosevelt</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welcome-wellborn.html#385.97.08">William Floyd Weld</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#795.95.53">Robert Barnwell Roosevelt</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#589.17.33">James I. Roosevelt</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#216.33.92">William Bellinger Bulloch</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#822.48.83">Archibald Bulloch</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson8.html#581.70.12">Theodore Douglas Robinson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#632.73.38">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#148.74.70">Corinne Robinson Alsop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#717.74.29">William Sheffield Cowles</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#241.11.81">James Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#687.20.72">Elliott Roosevelt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#821.65.50">Corinne A. Chubb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#128.53.81">Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#338.31.34">John deKoven Alsop</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#118.12.55">Daniel Putnam Tyler</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#832.00.97">Philip DePeyster</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#279.56.72">Nicholas Roosevelt 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/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2144">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Unknown Location</a> Plandome Manor, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Matthias Nicoll (1630-1687) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Islip, Northamptonshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1630.html">1630</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">Mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1672-73. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-12-22.html">December 22</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1687.html">1687</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment somewhere. <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: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#702.77.78">Richard Nicolls</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias Nicoll">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Monfort Family Cemetery</a> Port Washington, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2327895&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Onderdonk (1756-1797) — of New York. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/05-06.html">May 6, 1756</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> Southern District, 1796-97; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/capp.html">New York council of appointment</a>, 1797; died in office 1797. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/yellow-fever.html">yellow fever</a>, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/09-23.html">September 23, 1797</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 140 days</a>). Interment at Monfort Family Cemetery. <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 Hendrick Onderdonk and Phebe (Tredwell) Onderdonk; married to Mary Magdalene Moore.</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/43791263">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06416">Nassau Knolls Cemetery</a> Port Washington, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John E. Kingston (1920-1996) — also known as Jack Kingston — of Westbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/index.html">1920</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1960-74 (Nassau County 3rd District 1960-65, 16th District 1966, 17th District 1967-72, 15th District 1973-74); district judge in New York, 1990-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1995. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/05-05.html">May 5, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Nassau Knolls Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01449">Roslyn Cemetery</a> Roslyn, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Taber (1821-1886) — of Roslyn, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/03-07.html">March 7, 1821</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County 1st District, 1860-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1865-69. Died 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/1886/04-23.html">April 23, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at Roslyn Cemetery. <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/tabbert-taffe.html#073.80.66">Thomas Taber 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000002">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410592">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4804">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> Vivian Burnett (1876-1937) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo.; Plandome Manor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/04-05.html">April 5, 1876</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">music composer</a>; Dry candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian-scientist.html">Christian Scientist</a>. Model for the title character in his mother's book, Little Lord Fauntleroy. While <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">sailing his yawl</a>, Delight III, he helped rescue people from an overturned sailboat, and then collapsed and died, probably of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Long Island Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-25.html">July 25, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at Roslyn Cemetery. <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 Swan Moses Burnett and Frances Eliza (Hodgson) Burnett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/11-21.html">November 21, 1914</a>, to Constance Clough Buel.</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/39974650">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01812">Greenfield Cemetery</a> 650 Nassau Road Uniondale, Long Island, Nassau County, New York See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=64706&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Fawcett Tiemann (1805-1899) — also known as Daniel F. Tiemann — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/01-09.html">January 9, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">Paint manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1858-60; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 8th District, 1872-73. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/06-29.html">June 29, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 171 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 I. Anthony Tiemann; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/">1826</a> to Martha Clowes (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooper.html#529.40.67">Peter Cooper</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/10053.html">Cooper-Ashley 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Fawcett Tiemann">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> Alfred M. Wood (1825-1895) — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/04-19.html">April 19, 1825</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/brooklyn.html#2">mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y.</a>, 1864-65. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-28.html">July 28, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Carmine Zavatt (1900-1985) — Born in Lawrence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-19.html">September 19, 1900</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York</a>, 1957-70; took senior status 1970. Died in Mineola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/08-31.html">August 31, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 Anna M. Maas.</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.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2684&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/220993366">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/zavatt-joseph-carmine">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Alexander Searing (1805-1876) — also known as John A. Searing — of Hempstead Branch, Queens County (now Mineola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y. Born in North Hempstead, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/05-14.html">May 14, 1805</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1857-59. Died in Mineola, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/05-06.html">May 6, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 358 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000209">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409714">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John A. Searing">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> John Davison Bennett (1911-2005) — also known as John D. Bennett — of Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y.; Greenport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/06-21.html">June 21, 1911</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Nassau County 1st District, 1938-44; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 2nd District, 1945-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Surrogate Court Judge</a>, 1953-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn9.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 7th District, 1967. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Greenport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/02-01.html">February 1, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 225 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 Earl Bennett and Edna (Davison) Bennett; married to Mildred Schwindt.</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/58479195">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/500/47.21.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Raymond S. Curtice"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Raymond Schofield Curtice (1887-1922) — also known as Raymond S. Curtice — of Saltsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/IN-lived.html">Indiana County</a>, Pa. Born in Middlefield Center, Middlefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-31.html">October 31, 1887</a>. U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KS-consuls.html ">Seoul</a>, as of 1916-17; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-consuls.html ">Nagasaki</a>, as of 1921. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, in his room at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> duPont, Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-15.html">February 15, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 107 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 Sara Comstock (Schofield) Curtice and Rev. Saul Ober Curtice; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/06-03.html">June 3, 1914</a>, to Marian Fitch Scranton; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</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/10001-0142.html">Condit family</a> of Orange, New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/200507420">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: U.S. Passport application (1919)</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 Fitzpatrick Adair (1878-1948) — also known as George F. Adair — of Lynbrook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Carrizo Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DM-born.html">Dimmit County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/04-14.html">April 14, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; Progressive candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/lynbrook.html">mayor of Lynbrook, N.Y.</a>, 1929. Died in Lynbrook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/09-07.html">September 7, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 George W. Adair and Margaret (Fitzpatrick) Adair; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/11-08.html">November 8, 1905</a>, to Pearle Frances Parke.</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> Archibald Holly Patterson (1898-1980) — also known as A. Holly Patterson; "Mr. Republican" — of Hempstead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Uniondale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/05-31.html">May 31, 1898</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Executive</a>, 1953-61; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/NY.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/NY.html">1960</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Hempsted General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Hempstead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/09-20.html">September 20, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 112 days</a>). Interment at Greenfield Cemetery. <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 Archibald G. Patterson.</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/A. Holly Patterson">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08057">Cemetery of the Holy Rood</a> 111 Old Country Road Westbury, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Joseph Casey (1913-1987) — also known as William J. Casey — Born in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-13.html">March 13, 1913</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1971-73; U.S. Director of Central Intelligence, 1981-87. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/05-06.html">May 6, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Cemetery of the Holy Rood. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William J. Casey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2570">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Waldemar Wydler (1924-1987) — also known as John W. Wydler — of Garden City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-09.html">June 9, 1924</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1963-81 (4th District 1963-73, 5th District 1973-81); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/NY.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/08-04.html">August 4, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at Cemetery of the Holy Rood. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000780">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411928">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5403">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Stanislaus Thorp Jr. (1925-1995) — also known as John S. Thorp, Jr. — of Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/09-29.html">September 29, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1965-75 (Nassau County 6th District 1965, 14th District 1966, 13th District 1967-72, 19th District 1973-75); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Judge</a>, 1976-85; Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1985-95; died in office 1995. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic-lawyers.html">Catholic Lawyers Guild</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/holy-name-soc.html">Holy Name Society</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">pulmonary fibrosis</a>, in Mercy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/11-15.html">November 15, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at Cemetery of the Holy Rood. <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/thornwell-thurlow.html#244.51.82">John Stanislaus Thorp</a>; married to Dolores Hartig.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John S. Thorp Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/171577655">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Stanislaus Thorp — also known as John S. Thorp — of Rockville Centre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-parties.html">Chair of Nassau County Democratic Party</a>, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NY.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NY.html">1952</a> (alternate); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 2nd District, 1944. Interment at Cemetery of the Holy Rood. <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/thornwell-thurlow.html#467.12.03">John Stanislaus Thorp Jr.</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 C. Sheridan (1896-1983) — also known as Jim Sheridan — of Long Island City, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/11-14.html">November 14, 1896</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-parties.html">Chair of Queens County Democratic Party</a>, 1934-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Manhasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/04-01.html">April 1, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 138 days</a>). Interment at Cemetery of the Holy Rood. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39854439">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01448">Friends Cemetery</a> Westbury, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Willets Cocks (1861-1932) — also known as William W. Cocks; "The Quaker Congressman" — of Old Westbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Old Westbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-24.html">July 24, 1861</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 2nd District, 1901-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Queens County 3rd District, including Nassau County, 1904; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1905-11; defeated, 1910. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died in Old Westbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/05-24.html">May 24, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at Friends Cemetery. <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 Isaac Hicks Cocks and Mary Titus (Willets) Cocks; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/07-24.html">July 24, 1901</a>, to Caroline R. Hicks (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hicks.html#737.36.87">Frederick Cocks Hicks</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/">1911</a> to Jessie Wright.</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=C000578">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402707">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Taber II (1785-1862) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/05-19.html">May 19, 1785</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Dutchess County, 1826; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1828-29. Died in Roslyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-21.html">March 21, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 306 days</a>). Interment at Friends Cemetery. <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/tabbert-taffe.html#028.22.57">Stephen Taber</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=T000003">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410593">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Albertson Willis (1840-1886) — also known as Benjamin A. Willis — of New York. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/index.html">1840</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 11th District, 1875-79; defeated, 1870 (Independent Republican, 7th District), 1878 (Tammany Hall Democratic, 11th District). Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/index.html">1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Original interment at Friends Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000558">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411714">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08422">Holy Rood Cemetery</a> 111 Old Country Road Westbury, Long Island, Nassau County, New York Founded 1930 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John D. Caemmerer (1928-1982) — also known as "The Snorting Bull" — of East Williston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/01-19.html">January 19, 1928</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1966-82 (8th District 1966, 5th District 1967-72, 7th District 1973-82); died in office 1982. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/holy-name-soc.html">Holy Name Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic-lawyers.html">Catholic Lawyers Guild</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Cancer Center</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/02-07.html">February 7, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery. <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 Joan L. Holt.</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 M. Curran (1918-1993) — of Oyster Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Lock Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CN-born.html">Clinton County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/01-02.html">January 2, 1918</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">deputy sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1961-70 (3rd District 1961-65, 4th District 1966, 3rd District 1967-70); chair, New York State Harness Racing Commission, 1970-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/holy-name-soc.html">Holy Name Society</a>. Died, in North Shore University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/03-13.html">March 13, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery. <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 Rita Rothmann.</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 E. Smith (d. 1935) — also known as "The Stormy Petrel" — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Phenix, West Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 15th District, 1899-1902; assistant district attorney, New York County, 1910-22. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</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/1935/03-18.html">March 18, 1935</a>. Interment at Holy Rood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Smith and Bridget (Moynihan) Smith; married to Sarah Quinn (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/quinn.html#813.14.18">John Quinn</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02884">Quaker Cemetery</a> Westbury, Long Island, Nassau County, New York <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick Cocks Hicks (1872-1925) — also known as Frederick C. Hicks; Frederick Hicks Cocks — of Port Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Westbury, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-born.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/03-06.html">March 6, 1872</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1915-23; defeated, 1912. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/12-14.html">December 14, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 283 days</a>). 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