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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Killed by Drowning</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 South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/08-05.html">August 5, 1749</a>. Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776. While on an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">ocean voyage</a> to France, was lost at sea, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/index.html">1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/29.html">about 29 years</a>). His remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not recovered</a>. Memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lynch.html#865.44.36">Thomas Lynch Sr.</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=L000535">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407020">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Lynch, Jr.">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> Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789) — Born in Lyme, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1737/05-14.html">May 14, 1737</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/colasb.html">Connecticut colonial assembly</a>, 1762-74; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/tsju.html">justice of Northwest Territory supreme court</a>, 1788-89. Drowned in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">canoe accident</a>, near Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-17.html">November 17, 1789</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 187 days</a>). Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-buried.html#cms04213">Mortimer Cemetery</a>, Middletown, 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: Son of Rev. Jonathan Parsons and Phoebe (Griswold) Parsons; father of Lucia Parsons (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hortsman-hostler.html#162.71.84">Stephen Titus Hosmer</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#429.16.41">Matthew Griswold</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/10001-1436.html">Wolcott family</a> of Connecticut (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/Samuel Holden Parsons">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22596317">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> Moses Cockrell (1767-1800) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LE-lived.html">Lee County</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AG-born.html">Augusta County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/index.html">1767</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1799-1800. Dreamed one night that there was a white otter down in his salt well; in the morning, he had himself lowered into the well in a basket; the basket broke, and he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> to his death, or perhaps drowned, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LE-died.html">Lee County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">about 33 years</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LE-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Lee 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: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#504.15.16">Simon Cockrell</a> and Mary Magdalene (Vardeman) Cockrell; married to Barthenia Chadwell; uncle by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/south.html#060.31.95">Jeremiah Weldon South</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#429.64.87">Elisha Logan Cockrell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#944.49.50">Harrison Cockrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#226.00.97">Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#878.44.82">Francis Marion Cockrell</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#260.16.50">John T. Crisp</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#323.11.15">Ewing Cockrell</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#788.34.47">Egbert Railey Cockrell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#830.66.91">James Harris Baldwin</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/10324.html">Cockrell-South family</a> of 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/65629493">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> Nathaniel Williams Jr. (1742-1805) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GU-lived.html">Guilford County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HV-born.html">Hanover County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/10-01.html">October 1, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/pvcn.html">delegate to North Carolina provincial congress</a>, 1775. Accidentally drowned while trying to ford a swollen stream, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RC-died.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/01-25.html">January 25, 1805</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 116 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 Nathaniel Williams and Elizabeth (Washington) Williams; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#724.64.31">John Williams (1740-1804)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams7.html#804.91.51">Robert Williams (1744-1790)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#832.08.45">Joseph Williams of Shallow Ford</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/">1765</a> to Mary Ann Williamson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams7.html#506.64.85">Robert Williams (1766-1836)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams6.html#201.96.01">Marmaduke Williams</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams7.html#783.93.54">Robert Overton Williams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#289.58.44">John Williams (1778-1837)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams8.html#337.00.19">Thomas Lanier Williams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams6.html#102.18.25">Lewis Williams</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#400.19.03">Joseph Lanier Williams</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#037.13.29">John Williams of Montpelier</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#701.97.14">Richard Henderson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#939.81.93">Thomas Henderson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1501.html">Williams family</a> of North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2068.html">Winston family</a> of North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/146870514">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> Thomas Sandford (1762-1808) — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WM-born.html">Westmoreland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/index.html">1762</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a>, 1800; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 4th District, 1803-07. Slaveowner. Drowned in the Ohio River near Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-died.html">Kenton County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/12-10.html">December 10, 1808</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">about 46 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-buried.html#cms01782">Highland Cemetery</a>, Fort Mitchell, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000041">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409557">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 Carr (1777-1818) — of Massachusetts. Born in Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/09-09.html">September 9, 1777</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1806-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 17th District, 1815-17. Drowned in the Ohio River, at Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/08-24.html">August 24, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 349 days</a>). His body was apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not recovered</a>. Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-buried.html#cms00527">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Bangor, 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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#749.57.89">Francis Carr</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=C000176">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402323">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> Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) — also known as Jonathan Freeman — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/EW-lived.html">Edwards County</a>, Ill. Born in Settle, Yorkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/01-23.html">January 23, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Illinois</a>, 1824-25. Anti-slavery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a> under the pseudonym "Jonathan Freeman". While returning on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/horse.html">horseback</a> from a visit to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owen.html#847.15.60">Robert Owen</a>, he drowned while fording the Fox River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/EW-died.html">Edwards County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/06-04.html">June 4, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/PS-buried.html#cms05161">New Harmony Cemetery</a>, New Harmony, Ind.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/EW-buried.html#cms08232">Courthouse Grounds</a>, Albion, 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 Morris Birkbeck ; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/04-24.html">April 24, 1794</a>, to Prudence Bush.</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/Morris Birkbeck">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/adam/images/20071218092408.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/964/94.01.jpg" width=70 height=92 border=0 alt="George Washington Adams"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Washington Adams (1801-1829) — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/04-12.html">April 12, 1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1826-27. En route to New York City aboard the Benjamin Franklin, he apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by jumping from the ship and drowning, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Long Island Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/06-09.html">June 9, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/28.html">28 years, 58 days</a>). His body washed ashore a few days later. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-buried.html#cms07299">Hancock Cemetery</a>, Quincy, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#951.27.66">John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams6.html#194.84.36">Louisa Adams</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#667.46.85">Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886)</a>; married to Mary Freeland; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#686.41.46">John Quincy Adams (1833-1894)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#938.47.07">Brooks Adams</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#595.41.71">Joshua Johnson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#432.12.41">Abigail Adams</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson8.html#811.11.28">Thomas Johnson</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#945.56.41">Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams8.html#433.61.01">Thomas Boylston Adams</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crampton-crandall.html#350.99.32">William Cranch</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson1.html#741.60.79">Bradley Tyler Johnson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams8.html#103.05.89">Samuel Adams</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#327.71.65">Joseph Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#061.33.60">Edward M. Chapin</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sewall.html#196.78.65">Samuel Sewall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/quiles-quinlivan.html#300.41.36">Josiah Quincy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#446.92.43">Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#403.46.98">Arthur Chapin</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#167.23.46">John Milton Thayer</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#998.41.69">Jeremiah Mason</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/quiles-quinlivan.html#071.51.18">Josiah Quincy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#453.52.89">William Vincent Wells</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#501.57.58">Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904)</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/10001-1002.html">Adams family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (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/George Washington Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/96272886">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: National Park Service</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> Abner Hammond (1762-1829) — of Georgia. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/01-25.html">January 25, 1762</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Georgia</a>, 1811-23. Drowned, in Fishing Creek, near Milledgeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD-died.html">Baldwin County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/07-09.html">July 9, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 165 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD-buried.html#cms05946">a private or family graveyard</a>, Baldwin County, Ga.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD-buried.html#cms03937">Memory Hill Cemetery</a>, Milledgeville, Ga. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Clement Johnston (1795-1832) — of Virginia. Born in Longwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PE-born.html">Prince Edward County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/04-30.html">April 30, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 22nd District, 1831-32; died in office 1832. Drowned near one of the docks in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/06-17.html">June 17, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 48 days</a>). Interment 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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#889.09.46">Joseph Eggleston Johnston</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#939.95.38">John Warfield Johnston</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/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1682.html">McLane family</a> of Baltimore, Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000185">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406080">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> Robert M. Coleman (1799-1837) — also known as R. M. Coleman — of Texas. Born in Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/index.html">1799</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn3.html">Delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835</a> from District of Mina, 1835; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Mina, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836. Drowned in the Brazos River at Velasco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BZ-died.html">Brazoria County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/07-01.html">July 1, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">about 38 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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CE.html">Coleman County, Tex.</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://findagrave.com/memorial/31255908">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> Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1782-1837) — also known as Oliver H. Prince — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Montville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/index.html">1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1824; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1828-29. Perished in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the packet ship</a> Home, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a> off Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/10-09.html">October 9, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">about 55 years</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never recovered</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000539">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408923">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver H. Prince">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> James Collinsworth (1806-1838) — Born in Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee</a>, 1829-35; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention</a> from District of Brazoria, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rdofi.html">signer, Texas Declaration of Independence</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ratgn.html">Attorney General of the Texas Republic</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Brazoria, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rsju.html">justice of Texas Republic supreme court</a>, 1837. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. While a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/campaigning.html">candidate</a> for the presidency of the Texas Republic, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> off a boat and drowned in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MX-died.html">Galveston Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/index.html">1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/32.html">about 32 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms04690">Founders Memorial Park</a>, Houston, 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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CG.html">Collingsworth County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</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 Beatty Rochester (1789-1838) — also known as William B. Rochester — of Bath, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-lived.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hagerstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/01-29.html">January 29, 1789</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Allegany and Steuben counties, 1816-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1821-23 (20th District 1821-23, 28th District 1823); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1826. One of 128 people who perished on the the steam packet ship Pulaski, en route from Charleston to Baltimore, when it suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">boiler explosion</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a> in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a> off the coast of North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/06-14.html">June 14, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 136 days</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never recovered</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#551.80.99">Nathaniel Rochester</a> and Sophia (Beatty) Rochester; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#221.78.03">Thomas Hart Rochester</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/">1812</a> to Harriet Irwin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/01-31.html">January 31, 1816</a>, to Amanda Hopkins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/04-09.html">April 9, 1832</a>, to Eliza (Hatch) Powers (widow of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/powers.html#456.51.20">Gershom Powers</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/10001-1833.html">Rochester family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000360">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409331">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 Adams Cameron (1788-1838) — also known as John A. Cameron — of Fayetteville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.C.; Florida. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/index.html">1788</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a> from Fayetteville, 1810-12, 1820; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VR-consuls.html ">Veracruz</a>, 1831-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Florida</a>, 1832-38. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Perished in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamer</a> Pulaski, off the coast of North Carolina, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/06-14.html">June 14, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). His remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">probably not recovered</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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. John Cameron and Anne Owen (Nash) Cameron; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#486.55.63">Thomas N. Cameron</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/">1815</a> to Eliza Ann Adam; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/">1818</a> to Catherine (McQueen) Halliday; father of Catherine LaFayette Cameron (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#164.61.59">William Marcus Shipp</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/18911.html">Iredell-Johnston-Cameron family</a> of North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/81021725">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> Linn Banks (1784-1842) — of Virginia. Born in Culpeper County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MD-born.html">Madison County</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/01-23.html">January 23, 1784</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1812-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates</a>, 1817-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1838-41 (15th District 1838-39, 1st District 1839-41, 13th District 1841). Slaveowner. Accidentally drowned while attempting to ford the Conway River, near Wolftown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MD-died.html">Madison County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/01-13.html">January 13, 1842</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 355 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/MD-buried.html#cms05101">a private or family graveyard</a>, Madison 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000115">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401116">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 W. Burchard (d. 1844) — of Lansing Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/lansing-twp.html">Supervisor of Lansing Township, Michigan</a>, 1844; died in office 1844. Drowned, in Lansing Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-died.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., April, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/index.html">1844</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> Douglass Houghton (1809-1845) — of Michigan. Born in Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RE-born.html">Rensselaer County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/09-21.html">September 21, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">Geologist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1842. Drowned with four others, when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">sudden storm</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">overturned their boat</a>, at Eagle Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KW-died.html">Keweenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/10-13.html">October 13, 1845</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 22 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6578212">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?54422"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/142/46.79.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Stephen Allen"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Allen (1767-1852) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/07-02.html">July 2, 1767</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">Mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1821-24; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1826; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1829-32. Killed when the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">steamboat</a> Henry Clay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">burned</a> and sank, killing about eighty passengers, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Lower Hudson River</a>, next to what is now the Riverdale section of the Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/07-28.html">July 28, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 26 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms04987">New York City Marble Cemetery</a>, Manhattan, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen Allen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9628">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 Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Adolph Abeles (1817-1855) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in Petchau, Bohemia (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-born.html">Czechia</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/04-03.html">April 3, 1817</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a>; elected 1850. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. On the inaugural run of the Pacific Railroad, from St. Louis to Jefferson City, Mo., he was drowned when the bridge over the Gasconade River <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/collapse.html">collapsed</a>, sending the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/railroad.html">train into the water</a>, near Hermann, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GA-died.html">Gasconade County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/11-01.html">November 1, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 212 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00391">Bellefontaine Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, 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/5746826">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 B. Macy (1799-1856) — of Fond du Lac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/FD-lived.html">Fond du Lac County</a>, Wis. Born in Nantucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NA-born.html">Nantucket County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/03-25.html">March 25, 1799</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 3rd District, 1853-55. Lost his life in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">burning</a> and sinking of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">steamer</a> Niagara, a few miles from Port Washington, Wisconsin, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MI-died.html">Lake Michigan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/09-24.html">September 24, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 183 days</a>). His remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not found</a>. Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-buried.html#cms00118">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Buffalo, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000036">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407064">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John B. Macy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12199451">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 Hamilton Jr. (1786-1857) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/05-08.html">May 8, 1786</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1821-22; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1822-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1830-32. Slaveowner. While en route from New Orleans to Galveston, through some <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">mishap</a>, was drowned in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MX-died.html">Gulf of Mexico</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/11-15.html">November 15, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 191 days</a>). His remains were probably <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</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: Brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bedelle-beebe.html#373.44.79">Barnard Elliott Bee</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/10102.html">Bee family</a> of Charleston, South 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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HM.html">Hamilton County, Tex.</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=H000110">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404992">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-jr-hamilton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Hamilton Jr.">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> Esbon Blackmar (1805-1857) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, N.Y. Born in Freehold, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/06-19.html">June 19, 1805</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Wayne County, 1838, 1841; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 27th District, 1848-49. Accidentally drowned in a well, in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-died.html">Wayne County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/11-19.html">November 19, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-buried.html#cms02620">Newark Cemetery</a>, Newark, 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 Abel Edward Blackmar (1771-1843) and Polly (Trowbridge) Blackmar; married to Arabella Reed; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackdon-blackstone.html#074.28.23">Abel Edward Blackmar (1852-1931)</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=B000513">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401491">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6399294">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> Louis Powell Harvey (1820-1862) — also known as Louis P. Harvey — of Shopiere, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RO-lived.html">Rock County</a>, Wis. Born in East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/07-22.html">July 22, 1820</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention</a>, 1847; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1854-58; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/WI.html">1856</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wisconsin</a>, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1862; died in office 1862. While on a trip to inspect Wisconsin troops after the battle of Shiloh, during the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Civil War</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> off a boat and drowned in the Tennessee River, near Pittsburg Landing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-19.html">April 19, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 271 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">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/louis-powell-harvey/">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> S. L. Burritt (d. 1865) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-lived.html">Duval County</a>, Fla. Elected <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Florida state constitutional convention</a> from Duval County 1865, but died before taking office. Lost at sea in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/index.html">1865</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> Preston King (1806-1865) — of Ogdensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SL-lived.html">St. Lawrence County</a>, N.Y. Born in Ogdensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SL-born.html">St. Lawrence County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/10-14.html">October 14, 1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ogdensburg.html#3">Ogdensburg, N.Y.</a>, 1833-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from St. Lawrence County, 1835-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 18th District, 1843-47, 1849-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/NY.html">1856</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/committees.html">Platform Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/NY.html">1860</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/NY.html">1864</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1857-63; Republican Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr1864-meeting.html">1864</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#4">U.S. Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York</a>, 1865; died in office 1865. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-soc.html">Kappa Alpha Society</a>. Tied bags of lead shot to his body, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> from the ferryboat Paterson, between New York and Hoboken, and drowned in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Lower Hudson River</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/11-12.html">November 12, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SL-buried.html#cms00246">Ogdensburg Cemetery</a>, Ogdensburg, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000211">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406371">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston King (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/771/000118417">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6221615">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> Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) — of Montana. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/08-03.html">August 3, 1823</a>. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of Montana Territory</a>, 1865; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Montana Territory</a>, 1865-66. Fell from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">steamboat</a> into the Missouri River and presumably drowned, at Fort Benton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CH-died.html">Chouteau County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/07-01.html">July 1, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 332 days</a>). His body was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</a>. Statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC-buried.html#cms05643">State Capitol Grounds</a>, Helena, Mont. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/MG.html">Meagher County, Mont.</a> is named for him.</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> Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873) — also known as Rufus W. Peckham — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Rensselaerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-born.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-20.html">December 20, 1809</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#146.66.83">Lyman Tremain</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 14th District, 1853-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a>, 1861-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1870-73; died in office 1873. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-soc.html">Kappa Alpha Society</a>. En route to Europe on the steamer Ville du Havre, he was among 226 passengers and crew who perished when the steamer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">collided</a> with the Scottish sailing vessel Loch Earn, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/11-22.html">November 22, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 337 days</a>). His remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</a>. Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, 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 Peleg Peckham and Desire (Watson) Peckham; married to Isabella Adaline Lacey and Mary Elizabeth Foote; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peckham-peisner.html#571.37.59">Rufus Wheeler Peckham Jr.</a>; uncle of Isabella Peckham (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller1.html#389.47.48">Andrew Galbraith Miller</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#023.20.47">Nathaniel Hazard</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/peckham-peisner.html#528.17.46">Stephen E. Peckham</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#233.50.73">Benjamin Hazard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#652.15.91">Ezekiel Cornell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#970.87.08">Ebenezer Hazard</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#927.13.32">Augustus George Hazard</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#405.45.96">Erskine Hazard</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000180">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408584">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873)">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 Hutchins Doolittle (1816-1874) — also known as Charles H. Doolittle — of Utica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-lived.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y. Born in Herkimer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HE-born.html">Herkimer County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/02-19.html">February 19, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/utica.html">mayor of Utica, N.Y.</a>, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 5th District, 1869-74; died in office 1874. While sailing from New York to Europe on the steamer Abyssinia, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">lost overboard</a> and presumed drowned, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/05-21.html">May 21, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 91 days</a>). His body was not recovered. Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-buried.html#cms00991">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Utica, 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 Harvey W. Doolittle and Hannah (Hutchins) Doolittle; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/">1847</a> to Julia Tyler Shearman; father of Maryette Doolittle (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#167.76.23">Alfred Conkling Coxe</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#833.30.07">Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1197.html">Seymour family</a> of New York and Connecticut (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://findagrave.com/memorial/25525682">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> Kirkland C. Barker (1819-1875) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in East Schuyler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HE-born.html">Herkimer County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/09-08.html">September 8, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">Mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1864-65. Drowned, when the sailboat in which he was transporting ballast-lead to his yacht Cora suddenly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, in the Detroit River near Amherstburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-died.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/05-20.html">May 20, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 254 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7253852">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> Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) — also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in New York, about 1806. Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1865-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">aboard the steamer</a> Amador on the Sacramento River, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">taking poison</a>, tying his feet together, and then jumping or falling overboard to drown in the river, near Sacramento, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-died.html">Sacramento County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/05-20.html">May 20, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-buried.html#cms00611">Mountain View Cemetery</a>, Oakland, Calif. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Tecumsah Avery (1819-1880) — of Tennessee. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HR-born.html">Hardeman County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-11.html">November 11, 1819</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1843; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 10th District, 1857-61; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Accidentally drowned in Ten Mile Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CT-died.html">Crittenden County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-22.html">May 22, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-buried.html#cms00365">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Memphis, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000347">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400998">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> Joseph I. Stein (d. 1880) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 20th District, 1877. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. One of dozens killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamboat</a> Seawanhaka, which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">burned</a> and sank in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">East River</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/06-28.html">June 28, 1880</a>. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms04457">Linden Hill Cemetery</a>, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hiland R. Hulburd (1829-1880) — of Great Neck, Queens County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>), Long Island, N.Y. Born in Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/index.html">1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1867-72. One of dozens killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamboat</a> Seawanhaka, which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">burned</a> and sank in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">East River</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/06-29.html">June 29, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">about 50 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-buried.html#cms01246">Oak Dale Cemetery</a>, Urbana, 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: Married to Rebecca Corwin.</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/Hiland R. Hulburd">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/146589805">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://occ.treas.gov/about/who-we-are/history/previous-comptrollers/bio-03-hiland-hulburd.html">Comptrollers of the Currency</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 W. Dwinelle (1816-1881) — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/09-07.html">September 7, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">Mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1866-67; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 9th District, 1867-69. While trying to board a ferryboat in the dark, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> into the water and drowned, at Port Costa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-died.html">Contra Costa County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/01-28.html">January 28, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 143 days</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> Stephen Coburn (1817-1882) — of Skowhegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, Maine. Born in Skowhegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SO-born.html">Somerset County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/11-11.html">November 11, 1817</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 5th District, 1861. Drowned in the Kennebec River, at Skowhegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SO-died.html">Somerset County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/07-04.html">July 4, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SO-buried.html#cms02195">Southside Cemetery</a>, Skowhegan, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000559">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402691">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7227443">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> Oscar Anthony Iasigi (1846-1884) — also known as Oscar Iasigi — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/10-18.html">October 18, 1846</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importer and exporter</a>; treasurer, Vassalboro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">woolen mills</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Turkey</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-consuls.html">Boston, Mass.</a>, 1871-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TK-consuls.html">Consul-General for Turkey</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-consuls.html">Boston, Mass.</a>, 1877-84. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/armenian.html">Armenian</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Perished in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamship</a> SS City of Columbus, which hit a reef and sank, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Vineyard Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/01-18.html">January 18, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">37 years, 92 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms00204">Mt. Auburn Cemetery</a>, Cambridge, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#156.35.29">Joseph Iasigi</a> and Eulalie (Loir) Iasigi; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#944.98.37">Joseph Andrew Iasigi</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#885.84.61">Nora Iasigi</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#140.75.64">William Marshall Bullitt</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/10001-2515.html">Bullitt family</a> (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://findagrave.com/memorial/84647954">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> A. C. Rand (1832-1885) — of Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/12-31.html">December 31, 1832</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/minneapolis.html">Mayor of Minneapolis, Minn.</a>, 1878-82. Drowned in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">boat</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> on Lake Minnetonka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/07-12.html">July 12, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 193 days</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> Andrew Jackson Bryant (1831-1888) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Effingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-born.html">Carroll County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/10-30.html">October 30, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Gold miner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">wholesale liquor merchant</a>; importer and dealer in safes and locks; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1875-79. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Jumped</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> from the ferry steamer Encinal, and drowned in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">San Francisco Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-11.html">May 11, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 194 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-buried.html#cms00174">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms01912">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Colma, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</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/Andrew Jackson Bryant">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44469817">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 Terry (1824-1888) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/08-14.html">August 14, 1824</a>. Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1871-73, 1875-77 (8th District 1871-73, 9th District 1875-77); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/VA.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>). Slaveowner. Drowned while trying to ford Reed Creek, near Wytheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WY-died.html">Wythe County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/09-05.html">September 5, 1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WY-buried.html#cms00941">East End Cemetery</a>, Wytheville, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000136">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410718">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 Thomas Stocker (1824-1889) — also known as James T. Stocker — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; San Rafael, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-lived.html">Marin County</a>, Calif.; Glenbrook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Nev.; Santa Cruz, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SZ-lived.html">Santa Cruz County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-born.html">Talbot County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-03.html">October 3, 1824</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Carpenter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 11th District, 1858-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-officials.html">Marin County Sheriff</a>. Drowned, in Tillamook Bay, near Tillamook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/TI-died.html">Tillamook County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/09-07.html">September 7, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 339 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/12-23.html">December 23, 1847</a>, to Josephine E. Smith.</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 Taylor Minor (1844-1889) — also known as Thomas T. Minor — of Port Townsend, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wash.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LK-born.html">Sri Lanka</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-20.html">February 20, 1844</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/WA.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/porttownsend.html">mayor of Port Townsend, Wash.</a>, 1880-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/seattle.html">mayor of Seattle, Wash.</a>, 1887-88. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island, with others, on a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">duck huting trip</a>, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">never heard from again</a>; presumed drowned in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">watercraft accident</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PU-died.html">Puget Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-02.html">December 2, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 285 days</a>). His canoe was recovered, but his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not found</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 Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/08-20.html">August 20, 1872</a>, to Sarah Montgomery; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#534.68.48">Thomas Minor Pelly</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/12974.html">Moriarty-Minor family</a> of Seattle, Washington.</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 T.T. Minor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1890, demolished 1940, rebuilt 1941, closed 2010, renovated and reopened 2016), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Minor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</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/Thomas T. Minor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8159123">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 Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) — 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/1851/03-18.html">March 18, 1851</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89; in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a national <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a>, after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it came out that Eva was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">still married</a> to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when this was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">publicized</a>, Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to Wyoming to help a friend establish a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel</a>. While on a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">hunting trip</a>, he drowned while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-died.html">Teton County</a>), Wyo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/08-23.html">August 23, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 158 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/TE-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, 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 Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#244.80.26">Philip John Schuyler</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#577.91.97">Stephen John Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#993.49.53">Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#979.11.25">Stephanus Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#537.76.51">Robert Livingston the Younger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#649.30.19">Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747)</a>; fourth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#789.71.60">Jacobus Van Cortlandt</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#893.32.40">Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#467.87.25">Robert Livingston the Elder</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#029.55.69">Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#867.40.08">Stephanus Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#833.17.87">Pierre Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#199.37.38">John Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#876.54.52">Robert Livingston (1688-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#449.58.55">Gilbert Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#364.47.63">Philip P. Schuyler</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#751.52.30">David Davidse Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#889.34.79">Myndert Davidtse Schuyler</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#700.80.53">Henry Walter Livingston</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#611.60.54">Nicholas Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#374.55.91">Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#806.45.69">Philip Van Cortlandt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#718.86.91">Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#709.51.14">Edward Livingston (1764-1836)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#753.05.32">Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#477.65.60">Maturin Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#595.88.73">Robert Livingston (1708-1790)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#875.08.45">Peter Van Brugh Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#825.93.31">Robert Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#884.62.11">Henry Gilbert Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#879.66.25">Philip Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#283.29.67">Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#553.65.72">William Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#498.42.59">James Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#250.80.11">John Jay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#882.43.77">Frederick Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#916.88.18">Peter Samuel Schuyler</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#933.33.90">Matthew Clarkson</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#724.66.91">Edward Livingston (1796-1840)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#619.37.87">Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#198.16.03">John Eliot Thayer Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#860.08.93">Stephen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#801.86.15">Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#764.34.99">Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#784.46.42">Gerrit Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#969.35.25">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#234.21.08">John Cortlandt Parker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#110.29.78">Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#336.45.81">Walter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#760.25.09">Philip Peter Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#055.73.86">Henry Brockholst Livingston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#158.71.62">Peter Augustus Jay</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#014.71.43">William Jay</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#098.18.45">Henry Bell Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#402.77.44">James Adams Ekin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#637.48.52">John Jacob Astor III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker7.html#328.97.55">Richard Wayne Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker2.html#397.04.53">Charles Wolcott Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#853.91.54">Charles Ludlow Livingston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#827.26.10">Bronson Murray Cutting</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/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Ray Hamilton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/150120347">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> Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894) — of Anderson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-lived.html">Anderson County</a>, S.C. 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/1854/02-05.html">February 5, 1854</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-parties.html">chair of Anderson County Democratic Party</a>, 1878-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Anderson County, 1878-84; involved in a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson County, which he supported; on September 15, 1885, in the public square of Anderson, S.C., he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore5.html#519.64.95">John Brown Moore</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">fired back</a>, injuring Moore; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> against him were dismissed; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Anderson County, 1886-90. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-temp.html">Sons of Temperance</a>. Drowned while rescuing his daughter in a swimming pond, Anderson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-died.html">Anderson County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/07-07.html">July 7, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-buried.html# ">Silver Brook Cemetery</a>, Anderson, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Scott Murray and Claudia Rebecca (Edwards) Murray; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/05-09.html">May 9, 1876</a>, to Mary Eva Sloan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Murray <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AN-names.html">Anderson, South Carolina</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/100590584">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 Henry Platt Jr. (1837-1894) — also known as James H. Platt, Jr. — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-lived.html">Norfolk</a>, Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CA-born.html">Canada</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/07-13.html">July 13, 1837</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1867; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 2nd District, 1869-75. Drowned in Green Lake, near Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/CC-died.html">Clear Creek County</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/08-13.html">August 13, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 31 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-buried.html#cms00627">Fairmount Cemetery</a>, Denver, Colo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Sarah Sophia Chase.</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=P000380">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408774">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11261267">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 Daniel Sherwood (1833-1895) — also known as Charles D. Sherwood — of Rushford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/FI-lived.html">Fillmore County</a>, Minn.; Sherwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn. Born in New Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/11-18.html">November 18, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a>, 1859-61, 1863 (District 9 1859-60, District 14 1861, 1863); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota</a>, 1864-66. Drowned, reportedly as a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MI-died.html">Lake Michigan</a>, near Chicago, Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-02.html">July 2, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 226 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KN-buried.html#cms01063">Mound Grove Cemetery</a>, Kankakee, 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 Daniel Sherwood and Fanny (Shore) Sherwood; married to Charlotte Phoebe Ferris.</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/TN/FR-names.html">Sherwood, Tennessee</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/Charles D. Sherwood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/66033000">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> Rounsevelle Wildman (1864-1901) — of California. Born in Batavia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GE-born.html">Genesee County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/03-19.html">March 19, 1864</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SG-consuls.html ">Singapore</a>, 1889-97; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HK-consuls.html ">Hong Kong</a>, 1897-1901, died in office 1901. En route from Hong Kong to San Francisco on the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, he and his family were among 135 who perished when the ship struck a reef in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">dense fog</a>, and quickly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">San Francisco Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-22.html">February 22, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 340 days</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not found</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 Edwin Wildman and Helen Pamela (Rounsevelle) Wildman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</a>; married to Letitia Sherman Aldrich; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</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/10001-2050.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut (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://findagrave.com/memorial/131888601">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> Otto Phillipp Max Adae (1840-1907) — also known as Otto M. Adae — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio; San Diego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Born in Möckmühl, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/09-26.html">September 26, 1840</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-consuls.html">Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1873-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Took his own life</a> by drowning, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">San Diego Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-08.html">August 8, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 316 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-buried.html#cms02378">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, San Diego, 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 Johann Mattheaus Adae and Marie Friederika Luis (Schwarz) Adae; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#281.90.59">Carl Adolphus Gottlieb Adae</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#421.39.32">Carl Friedrich Adae</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/39041.html">Adae family</a> of Cincinnati, 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/126587051">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/956/62.94.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="B. B. Haagsma"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Broer Baukes Haagsma (1831-1907) — also known as B. B. Haagsma — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in Schraard, Friesland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-born.html">Netherlands</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/05-16.html">May 16, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods salesman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">bookkeeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-consuls.html">St. Louis, Mo.</a>, 1870-77, 1888-1904. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Accidentally drowned in the Mississippi River at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-died.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-28.html">August 28, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 104 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SS-buried.html#cms02143">Valhalla Cemetery</a>, Bel-Nor, 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/186269318">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: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 29, 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> Joseph Henry Peirce (1870-1908) — also known as Joseph H. Peirce — Born in Messina, Sicily, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-born.html">Italy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/11-06.html">November 6, 1870</a>. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Messina</a>, 1900-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper correspondent</a>. He and his family were among about 80,000 people killed during an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/earthquake.html">earthquake</a> and tsunami, specifically, when his house <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/collapse.html">collapsed</a>, in Messina, Sicily, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-died.html">Italy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/12-28.html">December 28, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 52 days</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> Isidor Straus (1845-1912) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Otterberg, Bavaria (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-06.html">February 6, 1845</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1894-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. One of the owners of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in New York. Perished in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamship</a> Titanic, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/04-15.html">April 15, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 69 days</a>); his body was subsequently recovered. Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms06866">Beth El Cemetery</a>, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; later interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms06430">Straus Park</a>, Manhattan, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Lazarus Straus and Sara (Straus) Straus; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#575.76.31">Oscar Solomon Straus</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/07-12.html">July 12, 1871</a>, to Ida Blum; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#358.36.62">Jesse Isidor Straus</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#770.49.32">Nathan Straus Jr.</a>; grandfather of Evelyn Straus Weil (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#973.52.17">George Backer</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schauber-schemanske.html#366.74.81">Stuart Scheftel</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#363.05.73">Ronald Peter Straus</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/10001-1623.html">Straus-Morgenthau-Lehman-Vanderbilt family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Straus Hall (built 1926), a dormitory at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-names.html">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his wife.  — Straus <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (established 1895 as Schuyler Square; renamed 1907 as Bloomingdale Square; renamed 1915 as Straus Park), at Broadway and West End Avenue in Morningside Heights, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his wife.</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=S001000">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410458">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3678">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 Isidor Straus: June Hall McCash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881462772/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0881462772&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus</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> Solomon Luna (1858-1912) — of Los Lunas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/VA-lived.html">Valencia County</a>, N.M. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/10-18.html">October 18, 1858</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NM.html">Republican National Committee from New Mexico Territory</a>, 1896, 1908; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/NM.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to New Mexico state constitutional convention</a>, 1910. Reportedly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> into a sheep dip vat and drowned, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/08-29.html">August 29, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 316 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/BE-buried.html#cms02937">Mt. Calvary Cemetery</a>, Albuquerque, N.M. <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 Adelaida Otero.</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/16156767">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 Walter Wedemeyer (1873-1913) — also known as William W. Wedemeyer — of Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-lived.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-born.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/03-22.html">March 22, 1873</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavanaugh.html#019.38.43">Martin J. Cavanaugh</a>, from 1896; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GY-consuls.html ">Georgetown</a>, 1905; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MI.html">Michigan Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 2nd District, 1911-13; defeated, 1912; died in office 1913. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. 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/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Accidentally drowned in the harbor at Colón, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PM-died.html">Panama</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/01-02.html">January 2, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 286 days</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never recovered</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000242">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411410">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> Frederick Van Dyne (1861-1915) — Born in Palmyra, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-born.html">Wayne County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-24.html">November 24, 1861</a>. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/JM-consuls.html ">Kingston</a>, 1907-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Lyon</a>, 1915, died in office 1915. While a passenger on the steamship Sant'Anna, en route from New York to Naples, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> overboard and was presumed drowned, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-21.html">April 21, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 148 days</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not recovered</a>. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Ney McNeely (1883-1915) — also known as Robert McNeely — of Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-12.html">November 12, 1883</a>. <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>, 1909-10; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/YM-consuls.html ">Aden</a>, 1915, died in office 1915. While en route to Aden as a passenger on the British liner Persia, he was one of 385 passengers and crew who perished when the ship was hit by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-i.html">German torpedo</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MD-died.html">Mediterranean Sea</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-20.html">December 20, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/32.html">32 years, 38 days</a>). His body was apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">not recovered</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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/67275414">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> Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1873-1918) — also known as Alfred L. M. Gottschalk — 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/1873/02-08.html">February 8, 1873</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper correspondent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">sugar</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">grower</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PU-consuls.html ">Callao</a>, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PU-consuls.html ">Callao</a>, 1905-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DF-consuls.html ">Mexico City</a>, 1906-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cg-at-large.html "></a>, 1908-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html ">Rio de Janeiro</a>, 1916-18, died in office 1918. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship Cyclops, during <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-i.html">World War I</a>, he was one of 306 sailors and passengers who perished when the ship <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, March, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/index.html">1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 0 days</a>). The wreckage was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</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 L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher) Gottschalk.</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 Fraser Pugh (1876-1918) — also known as John F. Pugh — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ju-lived.html">Juneau</a>, Alaska. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-25.html">December 25, 1876</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/juneau.html#6">U.S. Collector of Customs at Juneau, Alaska, Alaska</a>, 1914-18; died in office 1918. Was a passenger on the SS Princess Sophia, en route from Skagway to Juneau, which grounded on Vanderbilt Reef in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">storm</a>, and ultimately was damaged and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">sank</a>, drowning all passengers and crew (more than 340), in Lynn Canal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">Inside Passage</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/10-25.html">October 25, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 304 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ju-buried.html#cms04275">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Juneau, Alaska. <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/49516261">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 Arthur Elston (1874-1921) — also known as John A. Elston; J. A. Elston — of Berkeley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in Woodland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/YO-born.html">Yolo County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/02-10.html">February 10, 1874</a>. Republican. <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/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 6th District, 1915-21; died in office 1921. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Killed himself</a> by drowning in the Potomac River, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/12-15.html">December 15, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 308 days</a>). In his suicide note, he wrote that he was "caught in a chain of circumstances that spelled ruin.". <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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000161">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403852">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/009/000164514">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph H. Brownell (1854-1925) — of Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-lived.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y. Born in Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-born.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-21.html">April 21, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumberman</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1894-96 (Broome County 1894-95, Broome County 1st District 1896). <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/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>. Died by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, by drowning himself in the icy Susquehanna River, in Windsor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-died.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/03-06.html">March 6, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 319 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-buried.html# ">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Windsor, 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 Bennett Brownell, Jr. and Mary Ann (Brownell) Brownell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/">1881</a> to Minnie Lorena Brush.</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/Joseph H. Brownell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/47642990">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> Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (1886-1927) — also known as Maurice E. Crumpacker — of Oregon. Born in Valparaiso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/PO-born.html">Porter County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-19.html">December 19, 1886</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oregon</a> 3rd District, 1925-27; died in office 1927. Visited San Francisco with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/longan-looker.html#643.30.15">Nicholas Longworth</a> and others; left the group and was found by police, sitting on a curb and claiming he had been <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">poisoned</a> by someone trying to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">murder</a> him; deemed paranoid, taken to a hospital, and sedated; released at his insistence; walking near the shoreline with a friend, he yelled "Tell everybody good-bye!", <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> into the water, and drowned, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">San Francisco Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/07-24.html">July 24, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 217 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-buried.html#cms00797">River View Cemetery</a>, Portland, Ore. <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/crowninshield-crystal.html#865.92.46">Edgar Dean Crumpacker</a> and Charlotte Ann (Lucas) Crumpacker; married to Cully Cooke; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#091.90.02">Owen Windle Crumpacker</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#417.33.78">Jonathan William Crumpacker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#383.71.24">Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10368.html">Crumpacker family</a> of Indiana.</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=C000959">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403071">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice E. Crumpacker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5954236">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Hollister Jackson (1875-1927) — also known as Hollister Jackson; Samuel Hollister Jackson — of Barre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Vt. Born in Toronto, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/12-07.html">December 7, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-officials.html">Washington County State's Attorney</a>, 1904-06; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a>, 1906-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Vermont</a>, 1927; died in office 1927. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Drowned in a flood near his home, Barre, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/11-02.html">November 2, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CH-buried.html#cms03497">Lakeview Cemetery</a>, Burlington, 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: Married to Maude Parkyn.</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/13429124">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank Tetes Johns (1889-1928) — also known as Frank T. Johns — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-lived.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/02-23.html">February 23, 1889</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Carpenter</a>; Industrial Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oregon</a> 3rd District, 1920, 1922; Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1924. Interrupting an outdoor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/campaigning.html">campaign speech</a>, he dove into the Deschutes River in an attempt to save a 10-year-old boy who had fallen in, but both drowned, in Bend, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/DE-died.html">Deschutes County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/05-20.html">May 20, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 87 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank T. Johns">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 Blakeslee Law (1872-1929) — also known as Charles B. Law — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hannibal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OS-born.html">Oswego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/02-05.html">February 5, 1872</a>. Republican. <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> 4th District, 1905-11; defeated, 1910; state court judge in New York, 1916; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1924. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming</a> (presumably drowned) at his summer home on Kattskill Bay, near Lake George, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-died.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/09-15.html">September 15, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-buried.html#cms02904">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>, Jordan, 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 Eli B. Law and Mary Louisa (Payne) Law; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/11-20.html">November 20, 1901</a>, to Ilma Best.</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=L000124">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406629">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> Hans Adolph Aune (1878-1931) — also known as Hans A. Aune; H. A. Aune — of Baldwin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-lived.html">St. Croix County</a>, Wis.; Osseo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/TR-lived.html">Trempealeau County</a>, Wis. Born in Baldwin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-born.html">St. Croix County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/12-19.html">December 19, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1931; died in office 1931. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">Killed himself</a> by drowning in Lake Monona, Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-died.html">Dane County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/02-25.html">February 25, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 68 days</a>). He left a note saying, "You will find my body in the lake east of the Capitol," but it was not found until almost two months later. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/SC-buried.html# ">Woodside Cemetery</a>, Baldwin, 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 Indianna (Alte) Aune and Carl R. Aune; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Hannah Eline Anderson.</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/Hans A. Aune">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/89032693">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 Edwin Schaak (1872-1934) — also known as William E. Schaak — of Lebanon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-lived.html">Lebanon County</a>, Pa. Born in South Londonderry Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-born.html">Lebanon County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/07-30.html">July 30, 1872</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/lebanon.html#2">Lebanon, Pa.</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-parties.html">chair of Lebanon County Democratic Party</a>, 1927. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died, from an accidental drowning, while swimming in Lake Conewago, South Londonderry Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-died.html">Lebanon County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/06-27.html">June 27, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LB-buried.html#cms00735">Mt. Lebanon Cemetery</a>, Lebanon, 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 Elias Kettering Schaak and Mary Louise (Erb) Schaak; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/11-24.html">November 24, 1896</a>, to Elizabeth Behney.</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 Robert Hogg (1863-1934) — also known as Jim Hogg — of Poplar Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BT-lived.html">Butler County</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/JN-born.html">Jennings County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/01-04.html">January 4, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/meat.html">meat merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">distillery</a> owner; produced Jim Hogg's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">Corn Whiskey</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BT-officials.html">Butler County Sheriff</a>, 1892-96, 1902-06, 1920-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/poplarbluff.html">mayor of Poplar Bluff, Mo.</a>, 1897-99. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>. Fell into the Black River, and drowned, in Poplar Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BT-died.html">Butler County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/07-12.html">July 12, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 189 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BT-buried.html#cms06072">Poplar Bluff City Cemetery</a>, Poplar Bluff, 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 Marion Hogg and Mary Belle (Winslow) Hogg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/09-05.html">September 5, 1880</a>, to Ida Dillard (1864-1888; divorced); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-13.html">December 13, 1884</a>, to Susan S. 'Susie' Klutts; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-19.html">November 19, 1887</a>, to Ida Dillard (1864-1888; died); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-07.html">December 7, 1889</a>, to Clara Catherine Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-14.html">August 14, 1914</a>, to Naoma Ruth Hawas.</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: "Peace be thy silent slumber."</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/84343184">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/896/63.55.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="George W. Borowitz"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George W. Borowitz (1870-1938) — of Wausau, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MA-lived.html">Marathon County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-07.html">December 7, 1870</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/wausau.html">mayor of Wausau, Wis.</a>, 1935-38. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Catholic Order of Foresters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. While on a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">hunting and fishing trip</a>, he and three other men from Wausau (N. P. Beck, Herman Belter, and J. William Delaney) drowned when their <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">boat capsized</a>, in Island Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/VI-died.html">Vilas County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/11-12.html">November 12, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 340 days</a>). The overturned boat was found two days later; the bodies were recovered from the lake the following April. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MA-buried.html# ">St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery</a>, Wausau, 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 Michael Borowitz and Hulda (Lambs) Borowitz; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-20.html">January 20, 1899</a>, to Josephine Kroupa.</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/86322060">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: Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent, November 14, 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> John W. Speakman (1900-1942) — of Danville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/VE-lived.html">Vermilion County</a>, Ill. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/VE-born.html">Vermilion County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/03-05.html">March 5, 1900</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>; elected 1936, 1938; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html">Illinois state senate</a> 22nd District; elected 1940. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Drowned when his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">boat capsized</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/06-07.html">June 7, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 94 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/VE-buried.html#cms02351">Spring Hill Cemetery</a>, Danville, Ill. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carl Frederick Zeidler (1908-1942) — also known as Carl Zeidler; "Singing Mayor"; "Boy Mayor" — of Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-born.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-04.html">January 4, 1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/milwaukee.html">Mayor of Milwaukee, Wis.</a>, 1940-42; resigned 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-ii.html">Killed</a> when the munitions <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">ship</a> La Salle was struck by torpedos, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">exploded</a>, and sank, about 350 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-died.html">Indian Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/11-07.html">November 7, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 307 days</a>); his remains were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</a>. Cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-buried.html#cms00501">Forest Home Cemetery</a>, Milwaukee, 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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zebb-ziegenheim.html#155.22.16">Frank P. Zeidler</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">Carl F. Zeidler <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a> (now Zeidler Union Square), in downtown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-names.html">Milwaukee, Wisconsin</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/Carl Zeidler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13991497">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> Arthur A. Shonbeck (1878-1945) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-lived.html">Anchorage</a>, Alaska. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/index.html">1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Gold miner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmsupply.html">implement dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/anchorage.html">mayor of Anchorage, Alaska</a>, 1924; trustee, Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1925-33; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/AK.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/AK.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/AK.html">Alaska Territory Democratic Party chair</a>, 1934-37. Drowned in a river when his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">pickup truck went off the road</a>, near Ophir, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/YK-died.html">Yukon-Koyukuk census area</a>, Alaska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/06-20.html">June 20, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/an-buried.html#cms07389">Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery</a>, Anchorage, Alaska. <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 Ann Peckenpaugh.</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> Clarence A. Dahle (1894-1949) — also known as "Whiff" — of Duluth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-lived.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn. Born in Spokane, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SP-born.html">Spokane County</a>, Wash., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-22.html">January 22, 1894</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a> District 57, 1933-36; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/stsen.html">Minnesota state senate</a> 57th District, 1937-49; died in office 1949. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-tau-delta.html">Delta Tau Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. During a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">fishing trip</a>, he drowned while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming</a> off an island in Lake Kabetogama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/07-26.html">July 26, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 185 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/">1922</a> to Helen C. Jenswold.</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.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=12433">Minnesota Legislator record</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> Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) — also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel Julius — of Girard, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CR-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Kan. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/07-30.html">July 30, 1889</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a>; editor of the Socialist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">publisher</a> of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography, self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500 million copies were printed and sold; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kansas</a>, 1932; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/tax-evasion.html">income tax evasion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in April, 1951; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to six months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $12,500; released pending appeal. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Agnostic</a>. Drowned in his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming pool</a>, in Girard, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CR-died.html">Crawford County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/07-31.html">July 31, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 1 days</a>). Possibly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ST-buried.html#cms08466">Cedarville Cemetery</a>, Cedarville, 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 David Julius and Elizabeth (Zamost) Julius; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/06-01.html">June 1, 1916</a>, to Anna Marcet Haldeman (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#661.89.24">Jane Addams</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#399.68.83">John Huy Addams</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Susan Haney.</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/18194.html">Addams-Haldeman family</a> of Sinking Spring, 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E. Haldeman-Julius">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/101918220">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> Albert Denis Cash (1897-1952) — also known as Albert D. Cash — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/08-21.html">August 21, 1897</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/OH.html">1940</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cincinnati.html">mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio</a>, 1948-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">fishing</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">freak storm</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">overturned his boat</a> and drowned him, on Torch Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AN-died.html">Antrim County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/08-02.html">August 2, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 347 days</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> Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905-1973) — also known as Henry E. Stebbins — of Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/06-16.html">June 16, 1905</a>. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NP-diplomats.html ">Nepal</a>, 1959-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UG-diplomats.html ">Uganda</a>, 1966-69. Apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> from the deck of the ocean liner Leonardo da Vinci, and drowned, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/03-28.html">March 28, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 285 days</a>). His body was apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</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 Rev. Roderick Stebbins and Edith Endicott (Marean) Stebbins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/06-22.html">June 22, 1951</a>, to Barbara Jennifer Worthington; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#585.24.70">Charles Endicott</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#293.32.09">James Endicott</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#894.92.67">Eugene Frances Endicott</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/12138.html">Tweedy 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">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/stebbins-henry-endicott">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) — also known as Max Rafferty — of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif.; Alabama. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/05-09.html">May 9, 1917</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">columnist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sppi.html">California superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1963-70; defeated, 1970; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1968; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">dean</a>, Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-kappa.html">Phi Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Drowned when his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">car went off the road</a> into a pond, in Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/PI-died.html">Pike County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/06-13.html">June 13, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/PI-buried.html#cms05514">Green Hills Cemetery</a>, Troy, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1886-1967) and DeEtta (Cox) Rafferty; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/06-04.html">June 4, 1944</a>, to Frances Luella Longman.</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/Max Rafferty">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/152889999">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=10886">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> Renz L. Jennings (1899-1983) — also known as Lorenzo Jennings — of Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Taylor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/NA-born.html">Navajo County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/08-05.html">August 5, 1899</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/sthse.html">Arizona state house of representatives</a>, 1931-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-officials.html">Maricopa County Attorney</a>, 1933-34; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Arizona</a>, 1934, 1964; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Arizona</a>, 1942; superior court judge in Arizona, 1949-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/spju.html">justice of Arizona state supreme court</a>, 1960-64; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/AZ.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/AZ.html">1968</a> (alternate). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Member, <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/woodmen.html">Woodmen of the World</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> in his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming pool</a>, and drowned, in Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/02-11.html">February 11, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-buried.html# ">Phoenix Memorial Park & Mortuary</a>, Phoenix, Ariz. <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 Cyrus Morgan Jennings and Hannah Jane (Hansen) Jennings; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#582.15.99">Irving Anthony Jennings</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/">1927</a> to Leola Lesueur; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#937.69.42">Renz D. Jennings</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#966.58.30">Jonas Mapes</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#484.18.15">George Hammond Parshall</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#721.22.98">David Parshall Mapes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#530.93.34">George Mortimer Beakes</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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renz L. Jennings">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/97619540">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=91791">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> Bertram Thomas Combs (1911-1991) — also known as Bert T. Combs — of Prestonsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FL-lived.html">Floyd County</a>, Ky. Born in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-born.html">Clay County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/08-13.html">August 13, 1911</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/coajd.html">Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals</a>, 1951-55; state court judge in Kentucky, 1957-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1959-63; defeated, 1955, 1971; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/KY.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/KY.html">1964</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/KY.html">Democratic National Committee from Kentucky</a>, 1966; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit</a>, 1967-70. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Drowned when his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile</a> was washed from the roadway into the Red River, during a flood, near Rosslyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-died.html">Powell County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/12-04.html">December 4, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 113 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-buried.html#cms04763">Beech Creek Cemetery</a>, Manchester, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Stephen Gibson Combs and Martha (Jones) Combs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-15.html">June 15, 1937</a>, to Mabel Hall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Bert T. Combs Mountain <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Parkway</a>, which runs through <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CR-names.html">Clark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-names.html">Powell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WL-names.html">Wolfe</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MJ-names.html">Morgan</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MG-names.html">Magoffin</a> counties in Kentucky, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Bert T. Combs <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-names.html">Clay County, Kentucky</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/bert-thomas-combs/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/921/000122555">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Benjamin Payton (1943-1994) — also known as James Payton — of Sylacauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-lived.html">Talladega County</a>, Ala. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/06-12.html">June 12, 1943</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sylacauga.html">Mayor of Sylacauga, Ala.</a>, 1984-94; died in office 1994. Drowned while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/sports.html">swimming</a> to retrieve a radio-controlled miniature boat, in Lake Howard, Sylacauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-died.html">Talladega County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/07-28.html">July 28, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TA-buried.html# ">Fort Williams Cemetery</a>, Sylacauga, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#535.33.35">W. Ross Payton</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: "His memory is blessed."</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/5570955">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> Sheila Abdus-Salaam (1952-2017) — also known as Sheila Turner — of 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/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/03-14.html">March 14, 1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1993-2013; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, 2009-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 2013-17; died in office 2017; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> Black woman to serve on New York State's highest court. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. From Riverbank State Park in Manhattan, she evidently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">jumped</a> 15 feet down to the water and drowned in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Lower Hudson River</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2017/04-12.html">April 12, 2017</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 29 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila Abdus-Salaam">Wikipedia article</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." Henry L. 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