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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Chewing Gum</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Flint</b>; <b>"Father of Trusts"</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Thomaston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/01-24.html">January 24, 1850</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Shipping business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">shipowner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CE-consuls.html">Consul for Chile</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-consuls.html">New York, N.Y.</a>, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-consuls.html">Consul-General for Costa Rica</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-consuls.html">New York, N.Y.</a>, 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups of smaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/rubber.html">Rubber</a> (1892); American Chicle (<b>chewing gum</b>) (1899); American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woolen</a> (1899); founder, in 1911, of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/infotech.html">Computing</a>-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became International Busines Machines (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/infotech.html">IBM</a>). Died, in his room at the Shoreham <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/02-26.html">February 26, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 33 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Benjamin Chapman Flint and Sarah (Tobey) Flint; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#983.58.68">Wallace Benjamin Flint</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-21.html">November 21, 1883</a>, to Emma Katherine 'E. Kate' Simmons; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/07-28.html">July 28, 1927</a>, to Charlotte Reeves.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Ranlett Flint">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/175629506">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></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> <b>Howard I. Olsen (c.1917-2001)</b> — of Palatine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., about 1917. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; worked in management at the Wrigley <b>chewing gum</b> company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/palatine.html">village president of Palatine, Illinois</a>, 1957-61. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Cary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-died.html">Wake County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/11-20.html">November 20, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">about 84 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William John White (1850-1923)</b> — also known as <b>William J. White</b> — of West Cleveland (now part of Cleveland), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio; Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio. Born in Rice Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/10-07.html">October 7, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">Candy</a> and <b>chewing gum</b> manufacturer; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cleveland.html#4">mayor of West Cleveland, Ohio</a>, 1889; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 20th District, 1893-95. Died in Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-died.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/02-16.html">February 16, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-buried.html#cms00167">Lake View Cemetery</a>, Cleveland, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000398">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411558">Govtrack.us page</a></span></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> <b>William Mills Wrigley Jr. (1861-1932)</b> — also known as <b>William Wrigley, Jr.</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-30.html">September 30, 1861</a>. Republican. Founder, Wrigley <b>chewing gum</b> company; owner, Chicago Cubs <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">baseball</a> team; owner, Arizona Biltmore <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a>, Phoenix, Ariz.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/IL.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/IL.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/IL.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/IL.html">1928</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois. Owner of the Chicago Cubs <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">baseball</a> team. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-26.html">January 26, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 118 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms07955">Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens</a>, Avalon, Calif.; re-entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms00954">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Glendale, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Wrigley Field (opened 1914, named 1927), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">ballpark</a> for the Chicago Cubs, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-names.html">Chicago, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Wrigley Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/798/000165303">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2371">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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