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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Died of Gastrointestinal Ailments</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-born.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/11-27.html">November 27, 1754</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Fairfax County, 1778-81. Died, probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/typhus.html">typhus</a> or dysentery, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NK-died.html">New Kent County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/11-05.html">November 5, 1781</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/26.html">26 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html#cms02042">Mt. Vernon</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Step-son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; son of Daniel Parke Custis and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#978.09.40">Martha Dandridge Custis</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/02-03.html">February 3, 1774</a>, to Eleanor Calvert; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee9.html#398.72.85">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#591.07.02">Burwell Bassett</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#841.23.27">William Henry Bagwell Custis</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/10001-1062.html">Washington family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Parke Custis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119511159">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=174948">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> Henry Knox (1750-1806) — Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/07-25.html">July 25, 1750</a>. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1789-94. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass., leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776. Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines, and died three days later of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in Thomaston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-died.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/10-21.html">October 21, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-buried.html#cms01938">Thomaston Village Cemetery</a>, Thomaston, Maine. <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">Knox counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/KX.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KX.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX.html">Maine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/KX.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/KX.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/KX.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX.html">Tenn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KX.html">Tex.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-names.html">Knoxville, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; torpedoed and lost in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Indian Ocean</a>, 1943) 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/Henry Knox">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20979">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 Breckinridge (1760-1806) — of Kentucky. Born near Staunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/12-02.html">December 2, 1760</a>. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Kentucky</a>, 1793-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/attygn.html">Kentucky state attorney general</a>, 1793-97; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1798-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Kentucky State House of Representatives</a>, 1799-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Kentucky state constitutional convention</a>, 1799; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1801-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1805-06; died in office 1806. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, from a stomach infection, in near Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/12-14.html">December 14, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 12 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html# ">Cabell's Dale Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky.; reinterment in 1884 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Breckenridge and Letitia 'Lettice' (Preston) Breckenridge; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#135.09.87">Robert Breckinridge</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#223.53.09">James Breckinridge</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/06-28.html">June 28, 1785</a>, to Mary Hopkins Cabell (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis9.html#475.21.75">William J. Lewis</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>); father of Letitia Preston Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#938.36.55">Alfred William Grayson</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#313.23.20">Mary Cyrene Burch</a>), Mary Cabell Breckinridge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#139.90.75">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1844-1906)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#594.71.07">John Bayne Breckinridge</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#213.96.07">John Brown</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#539.98.75">James Brown</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</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/10001-1182.html">Cabell-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BC.html">Breckinridge County, Ky.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000787">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401744">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Breckinridge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6807557">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/ThomasLHamer.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/975/03.17.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Thomas L. Hamer"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Lyon Hamer (1800-1846) — also known as Thomas L. Hamer — of Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BR-lived.html">Brown County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-born.html">Northumberland County</a>, Pa., July, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1825, 1828-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Ohio State House of Representatives</a>, 1829; Presidential Elector for Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/pr1828-meeting.html">1828</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#210.17.82">John C. Calhoun</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 5th District, 1833-39; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Nominated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses S. Grant</a> to be a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mexican-war.html">Died in the military service</a>, probably from dysentery, at Monterrey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NN-died.html">Nuevo León</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/12-02.html">December 2, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 0 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NN-buried.html#cms05093">somewhere</a> in near Monterrey, Nuevo León; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BR-buried.html#cms03549">Old Georgetown Cemetery</a>, Georgetown, Ohio; 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">Relatives: Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halstad-hamill.html#605.95.37">Thomas Ray Hamer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BR-names.html">Hamersville, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000097">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404979">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas L. Hamer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5834586">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=181390">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">Image source: Unknown</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267598157/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/681/60.97.jpg" width=70 height=79 border=0 alt="Zachary Taylor"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) — also known as "Old Rough and Ready" — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/11-24.html">November 24, 1784</a>. Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1849-50; died in office 1850. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, probably of gastroenteritis, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/white-house.html">White House</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/07-09.html">July 9, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 227 days</a>). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the theory. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms02214">Zachary Taylor National Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney (Strother) Taylor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/06-21.html">June 21, 1810</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor6.html#060.12.22">Margaret Mackall Smith</a> (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#095.74.96">Benjamin Mackall IV</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mackay.html#479.76.08">Thomas Mackall</a>); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#938.98.18">Jefferson Finis Davis</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#102.00.89">Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr.</a>; ancestor *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#817.13.16">Victor D. Crist</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/major.html#015.79.59">Elliot Woolfolk Major</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#003.73.50">Edgar Bailey Woolfolk</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#262.89.36">Richard Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#010.52.17">Francis Lightfoot Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee1.html#361.64.36">Arthur Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#283.62.28">John Tyler (1747-1813)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#515.86.97">Max Rogers Strother</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#999.09.60">Charles Sumner Pendleton</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee8.html#346.86.17">Thomas Sim Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee4.html#665.18.18">Henry Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee2.html#558.92.01">Charles Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee7.html#872.48.41">Richard Bland Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#856.08.16">Edmund Jennings Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#908.74.21">John Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler (1790-1862)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#755.40.63">Hancock Lee Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#221.89.01">Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee9.html#398.72.85">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#950.82.94">James Francis Buckner Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winsor-wintenburg.html#079.84.82">Bickerton Lyle Winston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#363.09.77">Francis Preston Blair Lee</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#656.69.14">John Lee Carroll</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#320.61.72">Charles Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laire-lamartine.html#231.45.79">James Sansome Lakin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee3.html#297.22.60">Edward Brooke Lee</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#250.83.08">William Byrd III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#411.04.00">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#615.98.49">Robert Thomas Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beck.html#633.21.43">George Washington Thornton Beck</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: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/ashlock-athelston.html#706.58.46">David R. Atchison</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#785.23.78">Thomas Ewing</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">Taylor counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/TA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TY.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/TY.html">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/TA.html">Ky.</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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#489.85.33">Zachary T. Coy</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#435.92.38">Zack T. Sutley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#967.97.28">Zachary T. Bielby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#403.63.44">Zachary T. Nixon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris9.html#315.46.75">Zachary T. Harris</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/majors-malloney.html#137.01.42">Zachary T. Malaby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis9.html#939.17.58">Zachary T. Davis</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#541.71.45">Zack Space</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 (1848): "General Taylor never surrenders."</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/Zachary Taylor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/841/000031748">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1023">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4108">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 Zachary Taylor: K. Jack Bauer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807118516/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807118516&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest</a> — Elbert B. Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/070060362X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=070060362X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</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: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Paine (1799-1853) — of Northfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Vt. Born in Williamstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/04-15.html">April 15, 1799</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woollen manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotelier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a>, 1828-29; delegate to Whig National Convention from Vermont, 1839 (Convention Secretary); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Vermont</a>, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad builder</a>. Died, from dysentery, in Waco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ML-died.html">McLennan County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/07-06.html">July 6, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-buried.html#cms07867">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Northfield, Vt. <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/paine.html#561.36.86">Elijah Paine</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-paine/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Paine">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23058">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Watkins Collier (1801-1855) — of Tuscaloosa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-lived.html">Tuscaloosa County</a>, Ala. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LN-born.html">Lunenburg County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/01-17.html">January 17, 1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1826; circuit judge in Alabama, 1828-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spaj.html">associate justice of Alabama state supreme court</a>, 1836-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Alabama state supreme court</a>, 1837-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Alabama</a>, 1849-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, of "cholera morbus" (gastroenteritis), in Bailey Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LA-died.html">Lauderdale County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-28.html">August 28, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-buried.html#cms03295">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Tuscaloosa, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-watkins-collier/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Gallagher Montgomery (1805-1857) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Northumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-born.html">Northumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/06-27.html">June 27, 1805</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1855; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 12th District, 1857; died in office 1857. While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of at a President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#094.14.57">James Buchanan</a>, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">poison</a>, but probably dysentery), and subsequently died, at Danville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MT-died.html">Montour County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/04-24.html">April 24, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MT-buried.html#cms03137">Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Danville, Pa.; 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=M000868">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407841">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) — also known as John A. Quitman — of Mississippi. Born in Rhinebeck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/09-01.html">September 1, 1799</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">sugar</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/sthse.html">Mississippi state house of representatives</a>, 1826-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention</a>, 1832; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/stsen.html">Mississippi state senate</a>, 1835-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Mississippi</a>, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi, 1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1848/index.html">1848</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1856/index.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a> 5th District, 1855-58; died in office 1858. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>. Slaveowner. While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#094.14.57">James Buchanan</a>, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">poison</a>, but probably dysentery), and subsequently died, near Natchez, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/AD-died.html">Adams County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/07-17.html">July 17, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 319 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/AD-buried.html#cms00363">Natchez City Cemetery</a>, Natchez, Miss.; 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">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John A. Quitman (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-names.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; scrapped 1973) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Q000022">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408984">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-anthony-quitman/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John A. Quitman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/109/000050956">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John A. Quitman: Robert E. May, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807112070/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807112070&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader</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> David Fullerton Robison (1816-1859) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Greencastle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/05-28.html">May 28, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 17th District, 1855-57. While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#094.14.57">James Buchanan</a>, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">poison</a>, but probably dysentery), and subsequently died, at Chambersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/06-24.html">June 24, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 27 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR-buried.html#cms01929">Cedar Hill Cemetery</a>, Greencastle, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fullerton-fulper.html#769.21.44">David Fullerton</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=R000356">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409327">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> James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) — of South Carolina. Born in Newberry District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/NE-born.html">Newberry County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/11-15.html">November 15, 1807</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 4th District, 1835-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1842-44; defeated, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1857-60. Slaveowner. Died, of a stomach disorder, at Beech Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI-died.html">Aiken County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/11-13.html">November 13, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI-buried.html#cms05579">Beech Island Cemetery</a>, Beech Island, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000128">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405010">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-henry-hammond/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Henry Hammond">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> Charles S. Kuh (d. 1871) — of Hilton Head, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-lived.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Beaufort County, 1868-71; died in office 1871. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from dysentery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/09-25.html">September 25, 1871</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Reed (1821-1877) — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/11-12.html">November 12, 1821</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sweetland-swinburne.html#895.28.48">J. Bowman Sweitzer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania</a>, 1874-76. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and digestive problems, in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-died.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/02-17.html">February 17, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 97 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-buried.html#cms00535">Allegheny Cemetery</a>, Pittsburgh, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Reed and Jane Ann (Alison) Reed; married to Sarah Ann McKinney; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed5.html#307.44.93">James Hay Reed</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed2.html#300.72.49">David Aiken Reed</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/16757.html">Reed family</a> of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</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/37213486">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 Rice Vandiver (1805-1885) — also known as Robert R. Vandiver — of Havre de Grace, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/HA-lived.html">Harford County</a>, Md. Born in Brandywine (now part of Wilmington), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/07-22.html">July 22, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Contractor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1868. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died, from dysentery, in Havre de Grace, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/HA-died.html">Harford County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/09-04.html">September 4, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/HA-buried.html#cms01275">Angel Hill Cemetery</a>, Havre de Grace, Md. <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 Mary Russell; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandine-vanduzer.html#859.97.64">Murray Vandiver</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/Robert R. Vandiver">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/103314970">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 Noble Hudson (1819-1889) — of Indiana. Born in Brookville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-07.html">November 7, 1819</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sthse.html">Indiana state house of representatives</a>, 1851-52, 1855; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Uncovered a canal bond fraud in 1859-60, thus saving the state of Indiana more than $1.2 million. Died, of a stomach ailment, in Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-died.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/08-30.html">August 30, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 296 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-buried.html#cms00649">Highland Lawn Cemetery</a>, Terre Haute, Ind. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Patrick Hagan (1846-1893) — also known as Edward P. Hagan; Eddy Hagan — of New York, <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/1846/02-01.html">February 1, 1846</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">Saloon keeper</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 16th District, 1879-80, 1885-89; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 9th District, 1892-93; died in office 1893. <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/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, following a laparotomy for an intestinal obstruction, in Roosevelt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</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/1893/02-20.html">February 20, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Powell) Hagan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/07-24.html">July 24, 1877</a>, to Ellen Matthews.</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> Walter Henry Churchill (1838-1900) — also known as Walter H. Churchill — of Shelby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OC-lived.html">Oceana County</a>, Mich. Born in Batavia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GE-born.html">Genesee County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/04-27.html">April 27, 1838</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>; supervisor, Shelby Township, 1866, 1885; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hardware.html">hardware business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">boot and shoe merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OC-officials.html">Oceana County Probate Judge</a>, 1889-92. Died, from intestinal adhesions, in Shelby Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OC-died.html">Oceana County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-23.html">June 23, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 57 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OC-buried.html# ">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Shelby, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Churchill and Eliza Churchill; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/">1859</a> to Jane P. Green; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/">1869</a> to Lucada A. Carter; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/">1874</a> to Sarah A. Hamlin.</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/83946984">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> Cornelius R. Parsons (c.1836-1901) — of Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO-lived.html">Monroe County</a>, N.Y. Born in York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/LI-born.html">Livingston County</a>, N.Y., about 1836. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/rochester.html">mayor of Rochester, N.Y.</a>, 1876-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Monroe County 2nd District, 1891; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1892-1901 (29th District 1892-93, 28th District 1894-95, 43rd District 1896-1901); died in office 1901. Died, from stomach trouble, in Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO-died.html">Monroe County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/01-30.html">January 30, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MO-buried.html#cms00423">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Rochester, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parsons.html#100.04.41">Thomas Parsons</a> and Julia (Gorsline) Parsons.</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/7880060">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Adolph Osterloh (1847-1901) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-lived.html">Richmond</a>, Va. Born in Bremen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/05-15.html">May 15, 1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">Tobacco</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-consuls.html">Richmond, Va.</a>, 1879; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html">Consul for Germany</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-consuls.html">Richmond, Va.</a>, 1885-1901. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/">German Evangelical Church</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from dysentery and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/08-29.html">August 29, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 106 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-buried.html#cms00943">Hollywood Cemetery</a>, Richmond, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/10-06.html">October 6, 1879</a>, to Anne Belle Marriott.</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/93378949">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> Hugh Reid Belknap (1860-1901) — also known as Hugh R. Belknap — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Keokuk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/LE-born.html">Lee County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/09-01.html">September 1, 1860</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 3rd District, 1895-99; defeated, 1898. Died, from intestinal trouble, in Calamba, Laguna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-died.html">Philippines</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/11-12.html">November 12, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 72 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#241.81.50">William Worth Belknap</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=B000329">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401321">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> Henry Cullen Adams (1850-1906) — also known as Henry C. Adams — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in Verona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/11-28.html">November 28, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1883-86; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/WI.html">1888</a>; Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commissioner, 1895-1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 2nd District, 1903-06; died in office 1906. Died, from intestinal illness, in Auditorium <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/07-09.html">July 9, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-buried.html#cms00116">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Madison, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Franklin Adams and Caroline Melissa Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-15.html">October 15, 1878</a>, to Anna B. Norton.</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=A000037">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400698">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Cullen Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/064/000208437">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6404657">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/037/66.94.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Auguste Fusenot"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Auguste Fusenot (1851-1907) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, February, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/index.html">1851</a>. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html">Consular Agent for France</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-consuls.html">Los Angeles, Calif.</a>, 1898-1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, during stomach surgery, in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/05-27.html">May 27, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-buried.html#cms01533">Père la Chaise Cemetery</a>, Paris, France. <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">Image source: Los Angeles Evening Express, May 28, 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 J. Cathro (1842-1909) — of Alpena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-lived.html">Alpena County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-03.html">April 3, 1842</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">Painter and decorator</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Alpena District, 1895-96. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from a "long illness of stomach trouble", in Cathro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-died.html">Alpena County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/03-07.html">March 7, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 338 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA18"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/298/74.53.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Patrick H. McCarren"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patrick Henry McCarren (1849-1909) — also known as Patrick H. McCarren; "Friend of the Sugar Trust" — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in East Cambridge, Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-18.html">June 18, 1849</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Cooper</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 6th District, 1882-83, 1889; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1890-93, 1896-1909 (4th District 1890-93, 7th District 1896-1909); died in office 1909; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/NY.html">1892</a> (delegation secretary), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NY.html">1904</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Political boss who dominated Brooklyn politics for twenty years. Died, from intestinal degeneration, complicated by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/appendicitis.html">appendicitis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">myocarditis</a>, in St. Catherine's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/10-23.html">October 23, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 127 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, 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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</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: Married to Catherine M. 'Katie' Hogan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">McCarren <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (opened 1906 as Greenpoint Park; renamed in 1909), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/111921220">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"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/10507004143/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/309/73.05.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="John G. Carlisle"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Griffin Carlisle (1835-1910) — also known as John G. Carlisle — of Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-lived.html">Kenton County</a>, Ky. Born in Campbell County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-born.html">Kenton County</a>), Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-05.html">September 5, 1835</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foote.html#186.00.67">Charles D. Foote</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1859-61; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a>, 1866-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/KY.html">1868</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1871-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 6th District, 1877-90; resigned 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1883-89; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/index.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1890-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1893-97. Died, reportedly from intestinal trouble and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a> Wolcott, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/07-31.html">July 31, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 329 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-buried.html#cms00443">Linden Grove Cemetery</a>, Covington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodroads-gorbey.html#597.75.63">John A. Goodson</a>; son of Lilborn Hardin Carlisle and Mary A. (Reynolds) Carlisle; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carfield-carll.html#145.66.48">Napoleon H. Carlisle</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/01-15.html">January 15, 1857</a>, to Mary Jane Goodson.</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/14332.html">Carlisle-Goodson family</a> of Covington, Kentucky.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CE.html">Carlisle County, Ky.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John G. Carlisle (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1965) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000152">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402301">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John G. Carlisle">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/428/000209798">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11747">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John G. Carlisle: James A. Barnes, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0844610569/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0844610569&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Carlisle : Financial Statesman</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.okc.gov/council/okcmayors/8-C%20G%20Jones.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/539/70.65.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="Charles G. Jones"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Gasham Jones (1856-1911) — also known as Charles G. Jones; "Gristmill" — of Oklahoma City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-lived.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla. Born in Greenup, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/11-03.html">November 3, 1856</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">Flour mill business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">painting contractor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/oklahomacity.html">mayor of Oklahoma City, Okla.</a>, 1896-97, 1901-03; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/trhs.html">Oklahoma territorial House of Representatives</a>, 1900. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, from a stomach hemorrhage, in Oklahoma City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-died.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/03-29.html">March 29, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-buried.html#cms01103">Fairlawn Cemetery</a>, Oklahoma City, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Harrison Jones and Rebeccal (Wall) Jones; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/">1893</a> to Tena Stafford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/04-10.html">April 10, 1909</a>, to Nettie E. Wheeler; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halla-halsell.html#579.50.67">William Harrison Hallett</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">Epitaph: "89'er"</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/33790490">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: City of Oklahoma City</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 Ernest Goddard (1847-1911) — also known as Alfred E. Goddard — of Essex, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn. Born in Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/07-28.html">July 28, 1847</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/saybrook.html#A">Essex, Conn.</a>, 1892-96, 1900-11. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-un-workmen.html">Ancient Order of United Workmen</a>. Died, from stomach trouble, in St. Raphael's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/06-11.html">June 11, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-buried.html# ">Prospect Hill Cemetery</a>, Essex, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/godard-goder.html#681.55.26">Grace Walton Goddard</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/19338000">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Marshall Hanger (1833-1912) — also known as Marshall Hanger — Born near Waynesboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/11-12.html">November 12, 1833</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1869-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates</a>, 1876; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BA-consuls.html ">Bermuda</a>, 1894-98. Died, of intestinal paralysis and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">gangrene</a>, in King's Daughters <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sn-died.html">Staunton</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/08-26.html">August 26, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sn-buried.html#cms00871">Thornrose Cemetery</a>, Staunton, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Hanger and Martha Elizabeth 'Patsy' (Crawford) Hanger.</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 Francis Glasby (1825-1912) — also known as William F. Glasby — of East Saginaw (now part of Saginaw), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/03-07.html">March 7, 1825</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Contractor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/saginaw.html#3">mayor of East Saginaw, Mich.</a>, 1863-64. Died, from enteritis, in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-21.html">November 21, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms06858">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a>, Los Angeles, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Patrick Glasby and Polly (Coon) Glasby.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John C. Callbreath (1826-1916) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SS-lived.html">Stanislaus County</a>, Calif.; Wrangell (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), Wash. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/01-16.html">January 16, 1826</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 7th District, 1856-57. Died, from a gastric ulcer, in the Kenney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing home</a>, Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-died.html">King County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/04-06.html">April 6, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms00171">Lake View Cemetery</a>, Seattle, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Callbreath and Mary (Finch) Callbreath.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Duncan Davidson (1853-1916) — also known as A. D. Davidson — of Little Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/MR-lived.html">Morrison County</a>, Minn.; Duluth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-lived.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn. Born in Glencoe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/05-18.html">May 18, 1853</a>. Republican. President, Canadian Western <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber</a> Company; vice-president, Columbia River <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber</a> Company; land commissioner, Canadian Northern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/MN.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>). Died, from acute stomach trouble, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mayo-clinic.html">Mayo Clinic</a>, Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OL-died.html">Olmsted County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/04-22.html">April 22, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 340 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-buried.html#cms00466">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Duluth, Minn. <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 Davidson and Christina Davidson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SK-names.html">Davidson, Saskatchewan, Canada</a> is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53203361">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Sylvanus Allee (1852-1916) — also known as William S. Allee — of High Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MT-lived.html">Moniteau County</a>, Mo.; Olean, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MI-lived.html">Miller County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MT-born.html">Moniteau County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/01-20.html">January 20, 1852</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/MO.html">1904</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 27th District, 1909-16; died in office 1916. Died, following surgery for intestinal obstruction, in Wesley <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Kansas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/10-09.html">October 9, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MI-buried.html# ">Olean Cemetery</a>, Olean, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James William Vardaman Allee and Sabrena (Bowlin) Allee; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/">1875</a> to Laura Cyrena Huston; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#535.95.87">William Joseph Allee</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#054.08.43">Henry Etna Allee</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miner.html#082.68.28">Elbert Spencer Miner</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/10398.html">White-Adkins-Dennis-Tilghman family</a> of Maryland.</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/17367466">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William D. Wood (1858-1917) — of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/12-01.html">December 1, 1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-officials.html">King County Probate Judge</a>, 1884; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/seattle.html">mayor of Seattle, Wash.</a>, 1896-97; appointed 1896; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/klondike.html">went to the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush</a>. Died, from an intestinal ailment, in Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-died.html">King County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/03-23.html">March 23, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 112 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms00171">Lake View Cemetery</a>, Seattle, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19179455">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> Wellington R. Burt (1831-1919) — also known as "The Lone Pine of Michigan" — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Pike, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WY-born.html">Wyoming County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/08-26.html">August 26, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber and timber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad builder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/saginaw.html#3">mayor of East Saginaw, Mich.</a>, 1867-68; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/MI.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/MI.html">1880</a>; Fusion candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1888; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/MI.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/MI.html">1912</a>; Convention Vice-President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/officers.html">1892</a>; member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 22nd District, 1893-94; defeated (Democratic), 1904, 1908; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 8th District, 1900; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/uofm.html">University of Michigan board of regents</a>, 1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention</a> 22nd District, 1907-08. Died, from stomach trouble, in Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-died.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/03-02.html">March 2, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 188 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00515">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Luther Burt.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-names.html">Burt, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington R. Burt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25600514">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Drake Baring-Gould (1878-1921) — also known as William D. Baring-Gould — of Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/12-21.html">December 21, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Great Britain</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-consuls.html">Minneapolis, Minn.</a>, 1919-21. Died, following surgery for an acute stomach disorder, in Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/08-19.html">August 19, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 241 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-buried.html#cms00172">Lakewood Cemetery</a>, Minneapolis, Minn. <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 Sabine Baring-Gould and Grace Berry (Taylor) Baring-Gould; father of William Stuart Baring-Gould.</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/129631908">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Stephen Clubb (1827-1921) — also known as Henry S. Clubb — of Grand Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OT-lived.html">Ottawa County</a>, Mich.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Colchester, Essex, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/06-21.html">June 21, 1827</a>. Abolitionist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; founder and first president, Vegetarian Society of America; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 29th District, 1873-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">pastor</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swedenborgian.html">Swedenborgian</a>. Died, from chronic gastritis and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">senile debility</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-29.html">October 29, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 130 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ME-buried.html#cms00728">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Sharon, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry S. Clubb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/197322928">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-IA22"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/645/59.81.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="James A. Emerson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Alfred Emerson (1865-1922) — also known as James A. Emerson — of Warrensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y. Born in Warrensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-25.html">April 25, 1865</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">woollen manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">steamboat business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel owner</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>, 1907-18 (32nd District 1907-08, 33rd District 1909-18); as an opponent of alcohol prohibition in 1918, he was called "wringing wet" (in contrast to prohibition advocates, who were "desert dry"). Became ill, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a> and gastritis, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">on board</a> the steamship Porto Rico, and died soon after, in Long Island <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/01-31.html">January 31, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-buried.html#cms02849">Warrensburg Cemetery</a>, Warrensburg, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Albert C. Emerson and Abigail J. (Woodward) Emerson; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emerson.html#792.95.16">Louis Woodard Emerson</a>; married to Margaret Jane McGregor.</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/93536750">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> Hilem F. Paddock (1871-1922) — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Canandaigua, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OT-born.html">Ontario County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/11-10.html">November 10, 1871</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-officials.html">Saginaw County Treasurer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/saginaw.html">mayor of Saginaw, Mich.</a>, 1915-19; resigned 1919. <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>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died, from gastritis, in Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-died.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/12-02.html">December 2, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00768">Brady Hill Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles H. Paddock and Helen R. Paddock; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/03-12.html">March 12, 1896</a>, to Ella Mae Sager.</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/46771687">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> George Harriss Bellamy (1856-1924) — also known as George H. Bellamy — of El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BN-lived.html">Brunswick County</a>, N.C. Born in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-born.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/04-24.html">April 24, 1856</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Brunswick County, 1893, 1913-14; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1903-04, 1907-08, 1911-12. Injured in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fall onto pavement</a>, and died a few days later, from an intestinal hemorrhage, in James Walker Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-died.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/03-14.html">March 14, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-buried.html#cms01219">Oakdale Cemetery</a>, Wilmington, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) and Eliza McIlhenny (Harriss) Bellamy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#368.02.37">John Dillard Bellamy (1854-1942)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-20.html">December 20, 1876</a>, to Katie Thees; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#278.88.96">Marsden Bellamy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#986.90.00">Emmett Hargrove Bellamy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harriss-harstad.html#253.67.13">William James Harriss</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/19496.html">Bellamy-Harriss family</a> of Wilmington, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26933071">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> Richard Moberley Dudley (1860-1925) — also known as Richard M. Dudley — of El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-lived.html">El Paso County</a>, Tex. Born in Waco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MD-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/index.html">1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1910; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/elpaso.html">mayor of El Paso, Tex.</a>, 1923-25; died in office 1925. Died, following ulcer surgery, in Hotel Dieu <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-died.html">El Paso County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/05-01.html">May 1, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-buried.html#cms01665">Evergreen Alameda Cemetery</a>, El Paso, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Parker Dudley and Mary Susan (Gentry) Dudley; married to Frances Dow 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">R. M. Dudley <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (opened 1925; now gone), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-names.html">El Paso, Texas</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/116367827">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> Edgar Addison Bancroft (1857-1925) — also known as Edgar A. Bancroft — of Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Ill.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/11-20.html">November 20, 1857</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; solicitor in Illinois for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; vice-president and general solicitor for Chicago and Western Indiana <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a> and the Belt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a> Company; general counsel, International Harvester Company, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmsupply.html">farm equipment</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">truck manufacturer</a>; Republican Presidential Elector for Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/pr1888-meeting.html">1889</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-diplomats.html ">Japan</a>, 1924-25, died in office 1925. Died, from an intestinal hemorrhage, in Karuizawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JP-died.html">Japan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/07-27.html">July 27, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-buried.html#cms00852">Hope Cemetery</a>, Galesburg, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Addison N. Bancroft and Catharine (Blair) Bancroft; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/04-18.html">April 18, 1896</a>, to Margaret Healy.</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/bancroft-edgar-addison ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7290328">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> Don Carlos Corbett (1861-1927) — also known as Don C. Corbett — of Pennsylvania. Born in Clarion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CI-born.html">Clarion County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-05.html">December 5, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CI-officials.html">Clarion County District Attorney</a>, 1894-96; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pr1916-election.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, from intestinal hemorrhages, in Clarion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CI-died.html">Clarion County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/12-15.html">December 15, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CI-buried.html#cms04028">Clarion Cemetery</a>, Clarion, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coots-corbly.html#723.86.96">William Lucas Corbett</a> and Rosa (Jones) Corbett; married to Ida Minnie Rugh; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coots-corbly.html#855.12.11">Homer Eugene Corbett</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coots-corbly.html#527.48.66">Robert James Corbett</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/19687.html">Corbett family</a> of Pennsylvania.</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/23638696">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> Barton Myers (1853-1927) — also known as Richard Barton Myers — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-lived.html">Norfolk</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-born.html">Norfolk</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/03-29.html">March 29, 1853</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Great Britain</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-consuls.html">Norfolk, Va.</a>, 1877-1923; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-consuls.html">Norfolk, Va.</a>, 1878-1904; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-consuls.html">Norfolk, Va.</a>, 1884-1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/norfolk.html">mayor of Norfolk, Va.</a>, 1886-88. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Died, from mesenteric thrombosis, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/vb-died.html">Virginia Beach</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/12-23.html">December 23, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-buried.html#cms01322">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Norfolk, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Moses Myers and Juliana Grammar (Barton) Myers; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/12-26.html">December 26, 1882</a>, to Virginia Katherine Macky 'Kate' Baldwin; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#318.55.49">Robert Baldwin Myers</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barton.html#645.55.54">Richard Walker Barton</a>; grandnephew of Judith Marx (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#714.70.56">Myer Myers</a>); second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/riter-rivero.html#398.76.53">David Rittenhouse</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/10001-1060.html">Myers family</a> of Norfolk, Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1867.html">Wise-Sergeant family</a> of Richmond, Virginia (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">Epitaph: "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mecy and to walk humbly with thy God?"</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/37200049">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/52832790464/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/853/89.63.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Charles D. Donohue"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles D. Donohue (1880-1928) — 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/1880/10-11.html">October 11, 1880</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NY.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1913-23 (New York County 9th District 1913-17, New York County 5th District 1918-23); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1924-28; died in office 1928. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, from acute indigestion, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/03-05.html">March 5, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, 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://findagrave.com/memorial/212794847">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 1917</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> Francois Joseph Denis Belanger (1848-1928) — also known as Joseph Belanger — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-born.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/10-08.html">October 8, 1848</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html">Consular Agent for France</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-consuls.html">Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1889-1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Canadian</a> ancestry. Died, from gastrointestinal infection and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">senile debility</a>, in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-19.html">November 19, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms05212">Mt. Elliott Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francois Stanislas Belanger and Marie Louise (Doyon) Belanger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/04-16.html">April 16, 1873</a>, to Madeline Askin Pelletier.</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/63844193">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> Charles Francis Brown (1844-1929) — of Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y. Born in Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/09-12.html">September 12, 1844</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">secretary of New York Democratic Party</a>, 1874, 1880-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-officials.html">Orange County District Attorney</a>, 1875-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-officials.html">Orange County Judge</a>, 1878-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1883-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1889-92; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1893-96; general counsel, Metropolitan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Street Railway</a> Co., 1897-1901. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died, from an intestinal malady, in Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/06-19.html">June 19, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 280 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#197.42.40">John W. Brown</a> and Eliza (Reeve) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/06-27.html">June 27, 1876</a>, to Harriet E. Shaffer.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Hahn Albrecht (1885-1929) — also known as Charles H. Albrecht — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/02-22.html">February 22, 1885</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DR-consuls.html ">Santo Domingo</a>, 1913-15; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ES-consuls.html ">Reval</a>, 1920-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-consuls.html ">Danzig</a>, 1922-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TH-consuls.html ">Bangkok</a>, 1923-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-consuls.html ">Nairobi</a>, 1926-29, died in office 1929. Died, from a gastric ailment, in Nairobi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-died.html">Kenya</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/08-07.html">August 7, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 166 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html# ">Mt. Peace Cemetery</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/135951528">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> George White Baxter (1855-1929) — also known as George W. Baxter — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo.; Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn. Born in Hendersonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-born.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/01-07.html">January 7, 1855</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Wyoming Territory</a>, 1886; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Wyoming state constitutional convention</a>, 1889; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wyoming</a>, 1890; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/TN.html">1912</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, after suffering a gastric hemorrhage, 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/1929/12-18.html">December 18, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-buried.html#cms00408">Old Gray Cemetery</a>, Knoxville, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baxter.html#583.74.69">John Baxter</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 L. Young (1860-1930) — of Ossining, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Port Byron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-born.html">Cayuga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/10-31.html">October 31, 1860</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 Westchester County 3rd District, 1909-12; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/NY.html">1912</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 24th District, 1915; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 9th District, 1922-30; died in office 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>. Died, from acute indigestion, in Ossining, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-21.html">May 21, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms01172">Dale Cemetery</a>, Ossining, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Levi W. Young and Margaret (Lane) Young; married to Mary Yawger and Mary Lockwood; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/">1916</a> to Mary E. Cummings.</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> Lee Slater Overman (1854-1930) — also known as Lee S. Overman — of Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-lived.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-born.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/01-03.html">January 3, 1854</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; private secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vance.html#959.45.64">Z. B. Vance</a>, 1877-78, and to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jarvis.html#926.16.02">Thomas J. Jarvis</a>, 1879; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Rowan County, 1883-88, 1893-94, 1899-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the North Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1893; president, North Carolina <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1894; president, Saisbury Savings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; Democratic Presidential Elector for North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/pr1900-meeting.html">1901</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1903-30; died in office 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/NC.html">1916</a>. Died, from a stomach hemorrhage, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/12-12.html">December 12, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 343 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-buried.html#cms01622">Chestnut Hill Cemetery</a>, Salisbury, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Overman and Mary E. Overman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-31.html">October 31, 1878</a>, to Mary P. Merrimon (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merriman-merrit.html#637.92.51">Augustus Summerfield Merrimon</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=O000140">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408391">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/358/76.57.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Harry W. Mager"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry W. Mager (1893-1930) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/12-11.html">December 11, 1893</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/chicago.html#6">U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago, Illinois</a>, 1920-21; in 1921-22, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> several times for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">intoxication</a> and possession of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">illegal liquor</a>; in July 1922, he and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell1.html#225.54.27">Benjamin M. Mitchell</a> were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> as part of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extortion</a> conspiracy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/alcohol-crimes.html">violation of Prohibition laws</a>; he was not convicted. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Suffered an attack of acute indigestion, and died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">in an ambulance</a> en route to a hospital, in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/12-28.html">December 28, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 17 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms03083">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Mager and Margaret (Casey) Mager.</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/226415333">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: Chicago Tribune, January 14, 1920</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/aboutus/history/gallery.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/564/12.26.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="Francis M. Wilson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis M. Wilson (1867-1932) — of Platte City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PL-lived.html">Platte County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/index.html">1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a> 3rd District, 1899-1900, 1909-14; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 4th District, 1904; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri</a>, 1913-20; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Missouri</a>, 1928. Died, from stomach ulcers, in Kansas City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/10-12.html">October 12, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/PL-buried.html#cms03036">Platte City Cemetery</a>, Platte City, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/75863618">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. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri</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 McKay Byrd (1867-1934) — also known as John M. Byrd — of Lillington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-lived.html">Harnett County</a>, N.C.; Coats, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-lived.html">Harnett County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-born.html">Harnett County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/06-25.html">June 25, 1867</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-officials.html">Harnett County Register of Deeds</a>, 1894-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-officials.html">Harnett County Sheriff</a>, 1914-16; delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NC.html">1920</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NC.html">1928</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1928-30; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 7th District, 1932. Died, from intestinal obstruction and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, in Coats, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-died.html">Harnett County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/04-11.html">April 11, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HA-buried.html# ">Coats Cemetery</a>, Coats, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Reddin Byrd and Elizabeth (Searles) Byrd; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/">1889</a> to Anna Matthews.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22807901">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> Walter Marion Chandler (1867-1935) — also known as Walter M. Chandler — of Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/YA-born.html">Yazoo County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/12-08.html">December 8, 1867</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Cowboy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">school teacher</a>; <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> 19th District, 1913-19, 1921-23; defeated (Republican), 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> and intestinal malady, in Post-Graduate <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/1935/03-16.html">March 16, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-buried.html#cms00809">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Jacksonville, Fla. <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 King David Chandler and Mary Frances (Harrison) Chandler.</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=C000297">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402439">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> Harry Terhune (d. 1935) — of Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">Pharmacist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/middletown.html">mayor of Middletown, N.Y.</a>, 1934-35; died in office 1935. Died, from a stomach ailment, in Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/07-17.html">July 17, 1935</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alphonse Gaulin Jr. (1874-1937) — of Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I. Born in Woonsocket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/05-24.html">May 24, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/woonsocket.html">mayor of Woonsocket, R.I.</a>, 1903-05; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/RI.html">1904</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Le Havre</a>, 1905-09; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Marseille</a>, 1909-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Rio de Janeiro</a>, 1921-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Paris</a>, 1926-29. Died, from an intestinal hemorrhage and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in St. Vincent's <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/1937/03-06.html">March 6, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 286 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alphonse Gaulin and Marcoux (Elmire) Gaulin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/09-12.html">September 12, 1905</a>, to Marguerite H. Steele.</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 J. Hogan (d. 1938) — of Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/longbeach.html">mayor of Long Beach, N.Y.</a>, 1929. Died, from complications of stomach ulcers, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/ny-hospital.html">New York 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/1938/01-18.html">January 18, 1938</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A00agd9079m/viewer#page/34/mode/1up"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/433/80.72.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="Albert Gaddis"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Gaddis (1849-1938) — of North Union Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa. Born in Franklin Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/05-30.html">May 30, 1849</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/grain.html">miller</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">coal mining business</a>; Prohibition candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pr1916-election.html">1916</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> at-large, 1918; Prohibition candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/pr1920-election.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, from an intestinal obstruction while suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">senility</a>, in North Union Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-24.html">August 24, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-buried.html#cms01527">Oak Grove Cemetery</a>, South Union Township, Fayette County, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Gaddis and Sarah (Carter) Gaddis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/">1871</a> to Esther Jones.</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/91923847">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Book of Prominent Pennsylvanians (1913)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/902/55.91.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Fred A. Chapman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick A. Chapman (1878-1938) — also known as Fred A. Chapman — of Ionia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IO-lived.html">Ionia County</a>, Mich. Born in Leeds, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-16.html">October 16, 1878</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/furniture.html">Furniture manufacturer</a>; business partner of Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green3.html#304.32.09">Fred W. Green</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; co-founder (1915) and manager (1915-38) of the Ionia Free Fair; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ionia.html">mayor of Ionia, Mich.</a>, 1927-31; defeated, 1931; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment</a> from Ionia County, 1933; warden of Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, 1936-37. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Suffered from an incurable stomach ailment; while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">in his car</a>, parked in his home garage, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> with a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shotgun</a>, in Ionia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IO-died.html">Ionia County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/10-18.html">October 18, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IO-buried.html# ">Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery</a>, Ionia, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Enoch Chapman and Annie (Ryecroft) Chapman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/07-10.html">July 10, 1900</a>, to Thecla A. 'Dollie' Denk; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/04-19.html">April 19, 1928</a>, to Aurelia T. Denk; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chapman.html#971.73.47">Frederick A. Chapman 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/127429501">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: Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, October 18, 1938</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Delmage Ross (1872-1939) — also known as J. D. Ross — of Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born in Chatham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/11-09.html">November 9, 1872</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/electrician.html">Electrical</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; Seattle superintendent of lighting (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">electric power</a>), 1911-39; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935-37; administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, 1937. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, following surgery for stomach and intestinal ailments, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mayo-clinic.html">Mayo Clinic</a>, Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OL-died.html">Olmsted County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/03-14.html">March 14, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-buried.html# ">Ross Family Burial Site</a>, Newhalem, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/">1907</a> to Alice M. Wilson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Ross, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Ross <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Dam</a> (built 1937-49), on the Skagit River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Ross <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, a reservoir in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-names.html">Whatcom County, Washington</a>, which also extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-names.html">British Columbia, Canada</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS J. D. Ross (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; sold and renamed SS Lampsis; sank during a storm in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-names.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, 1966) was originally <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "J.D. Ross, one of the greatest Americans of our generation, was an outstanding mathematician and equally great engineer. He had also the practical ability to make things work in the spirit of public opinion and successful business. More than that, he was a philosopher and lover and student of trees and flowers. His successful career and especially his long service in behalf of the public interest are worthy of study by every American boy."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Delmage Ross">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6289">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Charles Butte (1877-1940) — also known as George C. Butte — of Muskogee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/MU-lived.html">Muskogee County</a>, Okla.; Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/05-09.html">May 9, 1877</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/ofc/attygn.html">Puerto Rico attorney general</a>, 1925; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PI/ofc/gov.html">Governor-General of the Philippine Islands</a>, 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-soc-int-law.html">American Society for International Law</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-law-inst.html">American Law Institute</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>. Died, following surgery for an intestinal blockage, in American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Mexico City (Ciudad de México), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DF-died.html">Distrito Federal</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/01-18.html">January 18, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 254 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ER-buried.html# ">Live Oak Cemetery</a>, Dublin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Felix Butte and Lena Clara (Stoes) Butte; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/08-21.html">August 21, 1898</a>, to Bertha Lattimore.</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 C. Butte">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27583691">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> Mason P. Rumney (1883-1944) — of Grosse Pointe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/12-04.html">December 4, 1883</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel executive</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/grossepointe.html">mayor of Grosse Pointe, Mich.</a>, 1939-44; died in office 1944. Died, following surgery for a stomach ailment, in the Mayo <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Clinic</a>, Rochester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/OL-died.html">Olmsted County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/01-20.html">January 20, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00088">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John G. Rumney; married to Miriam Hull.</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> Alexander Akerman (1869-1948) — of Cartersville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BW-lived.html">Bartow County</a>, Ga.; Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga.; Kissimmee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OS-lived.html">Osceola County</a>, Fla.; Orlando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Fla. Born in Elberton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/EL-born.html">Elbert County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/10-09.html">October 9, 1869</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/GA.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia</a>, 1912-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida</a>, 1929-39; took senior status 1939; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/FL.html">1948</a>. Died, after undergoing an operation for an intestinal disorder, in Orange Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Orlando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/08-21.html">August 21, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 317 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-buried.html#cms00421">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Orlando, Fla. <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/aikens-albree.html#407.77.28">Amos Tappan Akerman</a> and Martha Rebecca (Galloway) Akerman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/">1890</a> to Minnie C. Edwards.</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=17&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/24909492">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> Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949) — also known as Stephen Wise; Stephen Samuel Weisz — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Budapest, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-born.html">Hungary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/03-17.html">March 17, 1874</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Rabbi</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/NY.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1924. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-cong.html">American Jewish Congress</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Died, from a stomach ailment, in Lenox Hill <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/1949/04-19.html">April 19, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 33 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms07970">Westchester Hills Cemetery</a>, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rabbi Aaron Wise and Sabine (Fisher) Wise; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/11-14.html">November 14, 1900</a>, to Louise Waterman.</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/Stephen Samuel Wise">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1119">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> Max Radin (1880-1950) — of Berkeley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in Kempen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-born.html">Poland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/03-29.html">March 29, 1880</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">law professor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/CA.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">American Association of University Professors</a>. Died, from an intestinal obstruction, in Berkeley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-died.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-22.html">June 22, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 85 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00515">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin and Johanna (Theodor) Radin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/07-02.html">July 2, 1909</a>, to Rose Jaffe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/06-30.html">June 30, 1922</a>, to Dorothea Prall (sister-in-law of Sherwood Anderson).</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 Buchanan (1902-1951) — of McKeesport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in McKeesport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/12-01.html">December 1, 1902</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">athletic coach</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">automobile dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/mckeesport.html">mayor of McKeesport, Pa.</a>, 1942; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/PA.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 33rd District, 1946-51; died in office 1951. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-gamma-delta.html">Phi Gamma Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died, from esophageal and gastric bleeding, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">naval hospital</a> at Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/04-27.html">April 27, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 147 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-buried.html#cms02799">Mt. Vernon Cemetery</a>, near McKeesport, Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Buchanan and Mary (Campbell) Buchanan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/01-04.html">January 4, 1929</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buchanan.html#549.28.17">Vera Daerr</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=B001002">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401952">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> William Brown Carswell (1883-1953) — also known as William B. Carswell — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Edinburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SD-born.html">Scotland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/index.html">1883</a>. Democrat. <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> 6th District, 1913-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1923-53; died in office 1953; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1927-49; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn8.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1937; vice-president and trustee, Caledonian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grotto.html">Grotto</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, following surgery for a stomach ailment, in Sherbrooke <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Sherbrooke, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-died.html">Quebec</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-07.html">September 7, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Bruce Carswell and Ann (Brown) Carswell.</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> Harry Clifton Yates (1878-1953) — also known as Harry C. Yates — of Faucett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-lived.html">Buchanan County</a>, Mo. Born in Faucett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-born.html">Buchanan County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/10-12.html">October 12, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a> from Buchanan County 3rd District, 1909-12, 1923-26; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-officials.html">Buchanan County Recorder of Deeds</a>, 1915-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-officials.html">Buchanan County Judge</a>, 1927-31. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-select-masters.html">Royal and Select Masters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">coronary occlusion</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a>, diverticulitis, and intestinal hemorrhage, in Missouri Methodist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, St. Joseph, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-died.html">Buchanan County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/12-05.html">December 5, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BU-buried.html# ">Yates Cemetery</a>, Faucett, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah Jane 'Sallie' (Williams) Yates and Henry R. Yates; married to Lora Jane Means and Edith M. Arnold; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/03-18.html">March 18, 1915</a>, to Waunetta Bruce.</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/8926475">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> Stanley G. Adams (1907-1954) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/IW-lived.html">Isle of Wight County</a>, Va.; Colonial Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-lived.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va. Born in Eclipse, Nansemond County (now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sf-born.html">Suffolk</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-16.html">December 16, 1907</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Ferry boat captain</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel owner</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-parties.html">chair of Westmoreland County Republican Party</a>, 1944-50; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/stsen.html">Virginia state senate</a>, 1947; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1948; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/VA.html">1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <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>. Died, from an intestinal blood clot, in Physicians Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, La Plata, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CH-died.html">Charles County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/11-07.html">November 7, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 326 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-buried.html#cms08525">Oak Grove Cemetery</a>, Oak Grove, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Quincy Adams and Cecil May (Barkelow) Adams; married to Marie Miller.</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/36152845">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> Orville Canada Bullington (1882-1956) — also known as Orville Bullington — of Wichita Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WC-lived.html">Wichita County</a>, Tex. Born in Indian Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/VE-born.html">Vernon County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/02-10.html">February 10, 1882</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; president and chairman, Wichita Falls & Southern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/TX.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/TX.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/TX.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/TX.html">1936</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/TX.html">1940</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/TX.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/TX.html">1948</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Texas</a>, 1932; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Texas Republican State Committee</a>, 1947-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/TX.html">Texas Republican state chair</a>, 1951. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died, from mesenteric thrombosis while also suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/emphysema.html">emphysema</a>, in Wichita Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/WC-died.html">Wichita County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/11-24.html">November 24, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 288 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-buried.html#cms03760">Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park</a>, Dallas, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Isaac Bullington and Sarah Elizabeth (Holmes) Bullington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/06-28.html">June 28, 1911</a>, to Sadie Kell.</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/93111422">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> Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Sands Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-born.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/01-05.html">January 5, 1882</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper</a> reporter and editor; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> in 1917 for a series of articles titled "Inside the German Empire"; executive editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his leadership, the newspaper won a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for meritorious public service in 1922, for reporting on the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>; elected (Wet) <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a> 1933, but did not serve. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, following surgery for an intestinal ailment, in Doctors <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/1958/06-20.html">June 20, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 166 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/">1912</a> to Margaret Honeyman Powell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert Bayard Swope">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> Ben Hulse (c.1895-1961) — of El Centro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/IM-lived.html">Imperial County</a>, Calif. Born about 1895. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/stsen.html">California state senate</a>, 1945-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/snpr.html">President pro tempore of the California State Senate</a>, 1955-57; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/CA.html">1956</a>. Died, five days after emergency surgery for a perforated stomach ulcer, at Community <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, El Centro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/IM-died.html">Imperial County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/03-02.html">March 2, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Nicholas Yoho (1868-1964) — also known as George N. Yoho — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WE-lived.html">Wetzel County</a>, W.Va.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-lived.html">Marshall County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WE-born.html">Wetzel County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-18.html">February 18, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 2nd District, 1923-26; defeated, 1926, 1938. Died, from gastroenteritis, in Wetzel County <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, New Martinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WE-died.html">Wetzel County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/04-07.html">April 7, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/96.html">96 years, 49 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MH-buried.html# ">Highland Cemetery</a>, Cameron, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joshua Yoho and Sarah Catherine (Monroe) Yoho; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-11.html">June 11, 1886</a>, to Ida L. Frankin; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#323.88.20">Jefferson Wylie Yoho</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#131.94.08">Elmer Coleman Yoho</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#297.47.78">Floyd Roscoe Yoho</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#804.78.02">Pearl Yoho</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/22548.html">Yoho family</a> of Moundsville, West Virginia.</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> Carl R. Henry (1887-1966) — of Alpena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-lived.html">Alpena County</a>, Mich. Born in Au Sable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-born.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-17.html">November 17, 1887</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-officials.html">Alpena County Prosecuting Attorney</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Alpena County, 1916; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 11th District, 1928; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Michigan state supreme court</a>, 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, from an gastrointestinal hemorrhage, following duodenal ulcer surgery, in University of Michigan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-died.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/12-13.html">December 13, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 26 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AP-buried.html#cms00791">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Alpena, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#130.36.32">Charles Roswell Henry</a> and Florence (Parshal) Henry.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/838/96.96.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="Alice K. Leopold"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alice K. Leopold (1906-1982) — also known as Alice Kay Koller — of Weston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-lived.html">Alexandria</a>, Va. Born in Scranton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LC-born.html">Lackawanna County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-09.html">May 9, 1906</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Weston, 1949-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Connecticut</a>, 1951-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/CT.html">1952</a>; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1953-61. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">cardiac arrythmia</a> and gastro-intestinal bleeding, probably due to a gastric ulcer, in Alexandria <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/03-23.html">March 23, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/YO-buried.html# ">Chestnut Hill Cemetery</a>, Glen Rock, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Edmund Leonard Koller and Lenora May (Edwards) Koller; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/05-28.html">May 28, 1931</a>, to Joseph Leopold.</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/102802217">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: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953</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 Milan Ashbrook (1928-1982) — also known as John M. Ashbrook; "The Small Paul Revere" — of Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LI-lived.html">Licking County</a>, Ohio. Born in Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LI-born.html">Licking County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/09-21.html">September 21, 1928</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/OH.html">1956</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/OH.html">1960</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/OH.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1957-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 17th District, 1961-82; died in office 1982; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/index.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-delta-chi.html">Sigma Delta Chi</a>. Suffered a massive gastrointestinal bleed, and died soon after, in Licking Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LI-died.html">Licking County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/04-24.html">April 24, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 215 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LI-buried.html#cms00134">Green Hill Cemetery</a>, Johnstown, Ohio. <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/asbjornson-ashlay.html#031.36.20">William Albert Ashbrook</a> and Marie Swank Ashbrook; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Joan Needles; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/">1974</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/asbjornson-ashlay.html#100.45.28">Emily Jean Spencer</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/11343.html">Ashbrook family</a> of Newark and Johnstown, Ohio.</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: "No Left Turns."</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=A000221">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400949">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John M. Ashbrook">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/706/000161223">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6710841">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> Ernest Sherrill Halbert (1901-1991) — also known as Sherrill Halbert — of Porterville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-lived.html">Tulare County</a>, Calif.; Modesto, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SS-lived.html">Stanislaus County</a>, Calif. Born in Terra Bella, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-born.html">Tulare County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-17.html">October 17, 1901</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/CA.html">1936</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-parties.html">chair of Tulare County Republican Party</a>, 1936-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SS-officials.html">Stanislaus County District Attorney</a>, 1949; superior court judge in California, 1949-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California</a>, 1954-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of California</a>, 1966-69; took senior status 1969. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/native-sons-golden-west.html">Native Sons of the Golden West</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, while suffering from stomach problems, in Marin General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Greenbrae, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-died.html">Marin County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/05-31.html">May 31, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 226 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-buried.html#cms06102">Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery</a>, San Rafael, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Duffield Halbert and Martha Ellen (Rhodes) Halbert; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/06-07.html">June 7, 1927</a>, to Verna Irene Dyer.</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=942&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrill Halbert">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/128217969">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/halbert-sherrill">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> Richard Stockman Cohen (1937-1998) — also known as Richard S. Cohen — of Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-lived.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine. Born in Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/04-05.html">April 5, 1937</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1979-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1981-93. Died of Crohn's disease, in Mount Sinai <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/1998/04-13.html">April 13, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 8 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-buried.html# ">Harrison Village Cemetery</a>, Harrison, Maine. <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: "Devoted son husband and father."</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/Richard S. Cohen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/155802944">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> Eugene Hoffman Nickerson (1918-2002) — also known as Eugene H. Nickerson — of Roslyn Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/08-02.html">August 2, 1918</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hand.html#769.26.49">Augustus N. Hand</a>, 1943-44, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#866.46.23">Harlan F. Stone</a>, 1944-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Executive</a>, 1962-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/NY.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1968; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York</a>, 1977-94; took senior status 1994; senior judge, 1994-2002. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">right arm was paralyzed</a> by polio in his youth. Died, from complications of ulcer surgery, in St. Luke's <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/2002/01-01.html">January 1, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/PU-buried.html#cms02462">St. Philip's Cemetery</a>, Garrison, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#631.71.70">Hoffman Nickerson</a> and Ruth Constance (Comstock) Nickerson; married to Marie-Louise Steiner; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#821.44.47">Stephen Westcott Nickerson</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/22866.html">Nickerson family</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Nickerson Beach <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-names.html">Lido Beach, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1760&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene Nickerson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/49982615">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> Hope Elise Ross Lange (1933-2003) — also known as Hope Lange — Born in Redding Ridge, Redding, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/11-28.html">November 28, 1933</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actress</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960 /speakers.html">honored guest</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1960. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died, from ischemic colitis, in St. Johns <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Santa Monica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/12-19.html">December 19, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 21 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of John George Lange and Minetta (Buddecke) Lange; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/04-14.html">April 14, 1956</a>, to Don Murray; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/10-19.html">October 19, 1963</a>, to Alan Jay Pakula; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/01-29.html">January 29, 1986</a>, to Charles Hollerith, Jr.</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/Hope Lange">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/022/000023950">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0486136">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8200007">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 Patrick Murtha Jr. (1932-2010) — also known as John P. Murtha; Jack Murtha; "The King of Pork" — of Johnstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-lived.html">Cambria County</a>, Pa. Born in New Martinsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WE-born.html">Wetzel County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/06-17.html">June 17, 1932</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1969-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 12th District, 1974-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/PA.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/PA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/PA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/PA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/PA.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Implicated</a> in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/bribery.html">bribes</a> to political figures; never charged, but cited by the grand jury in 1980 as an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">unindicted co-conspirator</a>. During gall bladder surgery, suffered an intestinal cut, which led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">infection</a>; he subsequently died at Virginia <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-died.html">Arlington County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/02-08.html">February 8, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-buried.html#cms00132">Grandview Cemetery</a>, Southmont, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary Edna (Ray) Murtha and John Patrick Murtha.</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=M001120">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400286">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Murtha">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/067/000039947">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/47806007">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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