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The Political Graveyard: Namesake Politicians: Parks
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Namesake Politicians: Parks</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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P. Archer</b> — of McAllen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HG-lived.html">Hidalgo County</a>, Tex. Born in Garland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/TI-born.html">Tipton County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/11-29.html">November 29, 1869</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/mcallen.html">Mayor of McAllen, Tex.</a>, 1913-23. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-03.html">May 3, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 155 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HG-buried.html#cms07840">Roselawn Cemetery</a>, McAllen, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Clara Hill.</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;">Archer <b>Park</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HG-names.html">McAllen, Texas</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://findagrave.com/memorial/25906576">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>William Henry Ashley (c.1778-1838)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Ashley</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PO-born.html">Powhatan County</a>, Va., about 1778. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fur.html">Fur trader</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Missouri</a>, 1820-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> at-large, 1831-37. Died near Boonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CP-died.html">Cooper County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/03-26.html">March 26, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <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> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/11-17.html">November 17, 1806</a>, to Mary Able; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/10-17.html">October 17, 1832</a>, to Elizabeth Woodson Moss.</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;">The Ashley <b>National Forest</b> (established 1908), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/DG-names.html">Daggett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/DU-names.html">Duchesne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SU-names.html">Summit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UI-names.html">Uintah</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-names.html">Utah</a> counties, Utah, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/SW-names.html">Sweetwater County, Wyoming</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000315">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400960">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Henry Ashley">Wikipedia article</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>Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861)</b> — also known as <b>Edward D. Baker</b> — of Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill.; Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JD-lived.html">Jo Daviess County</a>, Ill.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Oregon City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CL-lived.html">Clackamas County</a>, Ore. Born in London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/02-24.html">February 24, 1811</a>. <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>, 1837-40; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html">Illinois state senate</a>, 1841-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1845-46, 1849-51 (7th District 1845-46, 6th District 1849-51); resigned 1846; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oregon</a>, 1860-61; died in office 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Killed in battle</a> at Balls Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-died.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/10-21.html">October 21, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-buried.html#cms01128">San Francisco National Cemetery</a>, San Francisco, 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/04-27.html">April 27, 1831</a>, to Mary A. Lee.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BA.html">Baker County, Ore.</a> is named for him.</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;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BA-names.html">Baker City, Oregon</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Baker (previously, Lime Point Military Reservation; renamed Fort Baker in 1897; now part of Golden Gate National <b>Recreation Area</b>), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-names.html">Marin County, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Baker <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-names.html">San Francisco, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000059">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401064">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>Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866)</b> — also known as <b>Matthias W. Baldwin</b> — Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-born.html">Union County</a>), N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/12-10.html">December 10, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">Jeweler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">inventor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">locomotive manufacturer</a>; abolitionist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1837. Died in Wissinoming, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-07.html">September 7, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html# ">Philadelphia City Hall Grounds</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Baldwin.</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;">Matthias Baldwin <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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/Matthias W. Baldwin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21656">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93515312/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/671/35.90.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="William B. Bankhead"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Brockman Bankhead (1874-1940)</b> — also known as <b>William B. Bankhead</b> — of Jasper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WL-lived.html">Walker County</a>, Ala. Born in Moscow (now Sulligent), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LM-born.html">Lamar County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/04-12.html">April 12, 1874</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1900-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a>, 1917-40 (10th District 1917-33, 7th District 1933-40); died in office 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1936-40; died in office 1940. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/09-15.html">September 15, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WL-buried.html#cms01152">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Jasper, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#107.26.79">John Hollis Bankhead</a> and Tallulah James (Brockman) Bankhead; brother of Louise Bankhead (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#343.76.66">William Hayne Perry</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#844.98.73">John Hollis Bankhead II</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-31.html">January 31, 1900</a>, to Adalaide Eugene Sledge; father of Tallulah Bankhead; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#536.05.12">Walter Will Bankhead</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10064.html">Bankhead family</a> of Jasper, Alabama.</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#307.66.34">Carter Manasco</a></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;">The William B. Bankhead <b>National Forest</b> (established as Alabama National Forest 1918; given current name 1942), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/FR-names.html">Franklin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-names.html">Lawrence</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WI-names.html">Winston</a> counties, Alabama, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000113">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401114">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William B. Bankhead">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/991/000047850">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11739">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</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>Vito Piranesi Battista (1909-1990)</b> — also known as <b>Vito P. Battista</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Bari, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-born.html">Italy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/09-07.html">September 7, 1909</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/architect.html">Architect</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1957 (United Taxpayers), 1961 (United Taxpayers), 1965 (United Taxpayers), 1977; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 10th District, 1962; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> 38th District, 1968-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican State Committee</a>, 1970-73; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1980. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-delta.html">Alpha Phi Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aia.html">American Institute of Architects</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/05-24.html">May 24, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 259 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Vincenzo Battista and Sabina (Caputo) Battista; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/06-30.html">June 30, 1941</a>, to JOsephine Palermo.</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;">The Vito P. Battista <b>Playground</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Truxtun Beale (1856-1936)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Annapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-lived.html">Anne Arundel County</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/03-06.html">March 6, 1856</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IA-diplomats.html ">Persia</a>, 1891-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-diplomats.html ">Greece</a>, 1892-93; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/CA.html">1912</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/MD.html">1920</a>. Died near Annapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-died.html">Anne Arundel County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/06-02.html">June 2, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wb-buried.html#cms06062">Bruton Parish Churchyard</a>, Williamsburg, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#656.67.53">Edward Fitzgerald Beale</a> and Mary (Edwards) Beale; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/04-30.html">April 30, 1894</a>, to Harriet 'Hattie' Blaine (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blackwood-blaine.html#759.22.50">James Gillespie Blaine</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/04-23.html">April 23, 1903</a>, to Marie Oge.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0603.html">Beale-Blaine-Edwards family</a> of Chester, Pennsylvania (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Truxtun <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a> and Beale <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/KE-names.html">Bakersfield, California</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Beale <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/KE-names.html">Bakersfield, California</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://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/beale-truxtun ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7134646">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>Gabriel Augustus Bodenheim (1873-1957)</b> — also known as <b>G. A. Bodenheim</b>; <b>"Bodie"</b> — of Longview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GG-lived.html">Gregg County</a>, Tex. Born in Vicksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/08-13.html">August 13, 1873</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton buyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/longview.html">mayor of Longview, Tex.</a>, 1904-16, 1918-20; defeated, 1920; candidate for Presidential Elector for Texas. Died in Longview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GG-died.html">Gregg County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/08-12.html">August 12, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GG-buried.html#cms02690">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Longview, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mayer Bodenheim and Lena (Picard) Bodenheim; married to Willie Bass.</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;">Bodie <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GG-names.html">Longview, Texas</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://findagrave.com/memorial/5703080">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>Harvey Wesley Bolin (1909-1978)</b> — also known as <b>H. Wesley Bolin</b> — of Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Butler, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BE-born.html">Bates County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/07-01.html">July 1, 1909</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Arizona</a>, 1949-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Arizona</a>, 1977-78; died in office 1978. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, Phoenix, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/03-04.html">March 4, 1978</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 246 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-buried.html#cms07942">State Capitol Grounds</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Doc Strother Bolin and Margaret (Combs) Bolin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/02-18.html">February 18, 1940</a>, to Julia Elizabeth Hentz.</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;">The Wesley Bolin Memorial <b>Plaza</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-names.html">Phoenix, Arizona</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://www.nga.org/governor/wesley-bolin/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley Bolin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/306/000119946">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8421549">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>Daniel Boone (1734-1820)</b> — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-born.html">Berks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/11-02.html">November 2, 1734</a>. Explorer and frontiersman; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1781, 1787. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/welsh.html">Welsh</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SC-died.html">St. Charles County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/09-26.html">September 26, 1820</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 329 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/SC-buried.html# ">a private or family graveyard</a>, St. Charles County, Mo.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-buried.html#cms00550">Frankfort Cemetery</a>, Frankfort, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Rebecca Ann Bryan; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#540.75.72">Jessie Bryan Boone</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#594.21.11">Nathan Boone</a>; grandfather of Harriett Morgan Boone (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#219.26.63">Hiram Howell Baber</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booher-boos.html#209.88.10">Levi Day Boone</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#541.45.85">Elmer Charless Henderson</a>.</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1246.html">Thomas-Smith-Irwin family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0280.html">Boone family</a> of St. Charles County, Missouri (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Boone counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BO.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/BO.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/BO.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BO.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BO.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/BO.html">Neb.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO.html">W.Va.</a> are named for him.</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;">The Daniel Boone <b>National Forest</b> (established 1937 as Cumberland National Forest; renamed 1966), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BT-names.html">Bath</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CY-names.html">Clay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ES-names.html">Estill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HR-names.html">Harlan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JA-names.html">Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KX-names.html">Knox</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LA-names.html">Laurel</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LE-names.html">Lee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LS-names.html">Leslie</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MQ-names.html">McCreary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MM-names.html">Menifee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MJ-names.html">Morgan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/OS-names.html">Owsley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PE-names.html">Perry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PO-names.html">Powell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PU-names.html">Pulaski</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/RC-names.html">Rockcastle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/RO-names.html">Rowan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WY-names.html">Wayne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WH-names.html">Whitley</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WL-names.html">Wolfe</a> counties, Kentucky, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Boone <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Dam</a> (built 1950-52), on the South Fork Holston River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SU-names.html">Sullivan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WA-names.html">Washington</a> counties, Tennessee, and the Boone <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> reservoir behind the dam, are <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/Daniel Boone">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/109">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>Walter Bowne (1770-1846)</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Flushing, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/09-26.html">September 26, 1770</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1816-24 (Southern District 1816-22, 1st District 1823-24); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1829-33. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/08-31.html">August 31, 1846</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Bowne and Caroline (Rodman) Bowne; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/">1803</a> to Elizabeth Southgate.</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;">Bowne <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-names.html">Flushing, Queens, New York</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/Walter Bowne">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003004836/PP/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/892/23.36.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Lewis Cass"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lewis Cass (1782-1866)</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Exeter, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/10-09.html">October 9, 1782</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1806; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Michigan Territory</a>, 1813-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1836-42; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/uofm.html">University of Michigan board of regents</a>, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1844/index.html">1844</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/index.html">1852</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Michigan</a>, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1857-60. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/06-17.html">June 17, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00088">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#517.15.08">Henry Brockholst Ledyard</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#814.28.40">Thomas Cass Ballenger</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Cass counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CS.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CS.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CS.html">Minn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/CS.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/CA.html">Neb.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CS.html">Tex.</a> are named for him.</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;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/GT-names.html">Cassville, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-names.html">Cass City, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">village</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-names.html">Cassopolis, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/BA-names.html">Cassville, Missouri</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, and the adjoining <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CS-names.html">Cass Lake, Minnesota</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Cass Lake, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-names.html">Oakland County, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">River</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/TU-names.html">Tuscola</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-names.html">Saginaw</a> counties, Michigan, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Lewis Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1921 as the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951; rebuilt and named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building in 2020), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-names.html">Lansing, Michigan</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Cass <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, Cass <b>Park</b>, and Cass Technical <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-names.html">Detroit, Michigan</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Other politicians named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willison-wilshire.html#966.58.33">Lewis Cass Wilmarth</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carpenter-carper.html#728.65.76">Lewis C. Carpenter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#855.72.01">Lewis C. Vandergrift</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#739.28.41">Lewis C. Tidball</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#429.14.44">Lewis Cass Wick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#849.44.54">Lewis Cass Tidball II</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#172.06.41">Lewis C. Gabbert</a> </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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000233">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402378">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis Cass">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/cass-lewis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/224/000050074">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2256">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4109">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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>Books about Lewis Cass:</i> Willard Carl Klunder, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873385365/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873385365&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation</a> — Frank Bury Woodford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374987181/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374987181&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lewis Cass, the Last Jeffersonian</a></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>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</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>Burton W. Chace (1901-1972)</b> — of Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Stanton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ST-born.html">Stanton County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/07-06.html">July 6, 1901</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber dealer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/longbeach.html">mayor of Long Beach, Calif.</a>, 1947-53; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/CA.html">1952</a>; member, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 1953-72. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">car accident</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/08-22.html">August 22, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 47 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Burton Chace <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Marina del Rey, California</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/Burton W. Chace">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/531/34.01.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Grover Cleveland"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)</b> — also known as <b>Stephen Grover Cleveland</b>; <b>"Uncle Jumbo"</b>; <b>"The Veto Mayor"</b>; <b>"Grover The Good"</b>; <b>"The Sage of Princeton"</b>; <b>"Dumb Prophet"</b>; <b>"Buffalo Hangman"</b>; <b>"The Veto President"</b>; <b>"Beast of Buffalo"</b>; <b>"Big Steve"</b> — of Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J.; Tamworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-lived.html">Carroll County</a>, N.H. Born in Caldwell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/03-18.html">March 18, 1837</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-officials.html">Erie County Sheriff</a>, 1870-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/buffalo.html">mayor of Buffalo, N.Y.</a>, 1882; resigned 1882; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1883-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1885-89, 1893-97; defeated, 1888. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-chi.html">Sigma Chi</a>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1935. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/06-24.html">June 24, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-buried.html#cms01396">Princeton Cemetery</a>, Princeton, N.J.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-buried.html# ">City Hall Grounds</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-02.html">June 2, 1886</a>, to Frances Folsom and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#436.13.43">Frances Clara Folsom</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#024.00.71">Richard Folsom Cleveland</a> (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#717.60.85">Thomas Frank Gailor</a>; brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#726.86.51">Frank Hoyt Gailor</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#256.23.03">Francis Landon Cleveland</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#770.37.91">James Harlan Cleveland</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#547.41.02">James Harlan Cleveland Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#322.93.90">Jonathan Usher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#123.19.22">Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#045.74.35">John Palmer Usher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#735.11.63">Robert Cleveland Usher</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#380.89.20">Ephraim Safford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#639.15.77">Isaiah Kidder</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lord.html#827.56.76">Samuel Lord</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#028.37.68">Rollin Usher Tyler</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellet-ellington.html#034.35.28">Henry T. Ellett</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#208.88.56">Wilson S. Bissell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#822.76.01">David King Udall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#350.33.14">Edward S. Bragg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grady.html#314.40.50">Thomas F. Grady</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bass.html#651.84.71">Lyman K. Bass</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corsentino-costas.html#715.37.07">George B. Cortelyou</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogarth-hogenauer.html#732.70.04">J. Hampton Hoge</a></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;">Cleveland counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CV.html">Ark.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CV.html">Okla.</a> are named for him.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Cleveland, a volcano on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/AW-names.html">Chuginadak Island, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CL-names.html">Grover, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Cleveland <b>National Forest</b> (established 1908), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-names.html">Riverside</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-names.html">Orange</a> counties, California, 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>Other politicians named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook4.html#648.73.90">Grover C. Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#012.02.16">Grover C. Meyrs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talbot.html#087.33.01">Grover C. Talbot</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#776.85.03">Grover C. Helm</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robertson.html#425.11.58">Grover C. Robertson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooley.html#103.23.95">G. C. Cooley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whalen.html#469.29.16">Grover A. Whalen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor4.html#307.51.54">Grover C. Taylor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winn.html#948.23.71">Grover C. Winn</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#639.66.26">Grover C. Luke</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/albright.html#440.30.16">Grover C. Albright</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html#535.66.27">Grover Cleveland Welsh</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#187.97.27">Grover C. Belknap</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#546.68.11">Grover C. Worrell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill4.html#311.13.36">Grover B. Hill</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilas-dills.html#513.95.85">Grover C. Dillman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brenneman-brenner.html#634.76.46">Grover C. Brenneman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/george.html#513.87.70">Grover C. George</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell4.html#799.54.30">Grover C. Mitchell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#468.47.58">Grover C. Ladner</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall4.html#161.19.64">Grover C. Hall</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#124.90.44">Grover C. Tye</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cisco-clague.html#968.67.23">Grover C. Cisel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hedrick.html#769.53.19">Grover C. Hedrick</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunter.html#283.04.38">Grover C. Hunter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/montgomery.html#172.05.02">Grover C. Montgomery</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farron-faulkland.html#310.26.32">Grover C. Farwell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilliam-gillon.html#571.90.74">Grover C. Gillingham</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#340.79.45">Grover C. Studivan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#952.54.89">Grover C. Layne</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudson.html#851.64.00">Grover C. Hudson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/combs.html#065.15.38">Grover C. Combs</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snyder.html#853.59.65">Grover C. Snyder</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grovenor-guert.html#859.83.54">Grover C. Guernsey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henderson.html#345.32.58">Grover C. Henderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#675.29.28">Grover C. Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#054.81.70">Grover C. Jackson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunter.html#586.92.59">Grover C. Hunter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowens-bower.html#982.54.89">Grover C. Bower</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#763.74.36">Grover C. Land</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#336.22.61">Grover C. Moritz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gregg.html#888.74.90">Grover C. Gregg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richardville-richman.html#687.78.30">Grover C. Richman, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/anderson4.html#138.08.05">Grover C. Anderson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/choate-chrisman.html#837.68.22">Grover C. Chriss</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#508.06.22">Grover C. Criswell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#652.69.29">Grover C. Brown</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson4.html#819.63.65">Grover C. Robinson III</a> </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>Coins and currency</i>: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $20 bill (1914-28), and on the $1,000 bill (1928-46).</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>Campaign slogan (1884):</i> "We love him for the enemies he has made."</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>Opposition slogan (1884):</i> "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?"</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://www.nga.org/governor/steven-grover-cleveland/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover Cleveland">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/433/000026355">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166479">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/205">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4079">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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>Books about Grover Cleveland:</i> Alyn Brodsky, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312268831/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312268831&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland : A Study in Character</a> — H. Paul Jeffers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038097746X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=038097746X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland</a> — Mark Wahlgren Summers, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807848492/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807848492&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion : The Making of a President, 1884</a> — Henry F. Graff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069232/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069232&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland</a> — Troy Senik, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982140747/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1982140747&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland</a> — Jeff C. Young, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766051285/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766051285&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grover Cleveland</a> (for young readers)</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>Critical books about Grover Cleveland:</i> Matthew Algeo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156976350X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=156976350X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The President Is a Sick Man: the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth</a> — Charles Lachman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620870967/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1620870967&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Secret Life : The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland</a></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>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1896</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>Charles Emmett Coffin (1849-1934)</b> — also known as <b>Charles E. Coffin</b> — of Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind. Born in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/07-14.html">July 14, 1849</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PG-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Paraguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-consuls.html">Indianapolis, Ind.</a>, 1900-03. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/optimist-club.html">Optimist Club</a>; <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>. Died in Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-died.html">Marion County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/10-15.html">October 15, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 93 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-buried.html#cms00556">Crown Hill Cemetery</a>, Indianapolis, Ind. <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 Zachariah T. Coffin and Caroline (Armfield) Coffin; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/">1875</a> to Elizabeth H. Holloway; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/09-20.html">September 20, 1897</a>, to Mary (Birch) Fletcher.</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;">The Charles E. Coffin <b>Municipal Golf Course</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-names.html">Indianapolis, Indiana</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://findagrave.com/memorial/45871508">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>John H. Coyne</b> — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/yonkers.html">Mayor of Yonkers, N.Y.</a>, 1906-07; defeated, 1907 (Democratic), 1913 (Progressive). 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Coyne <b>Park and Playground</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-names.html">Yonkers, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>David Crockett (1786-1836)</b> — also known as <b>Davy Crockett</b>; <b>"King of the Wild Frontier"</b> — of Tennessee. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/08-17.html">August 17, 1786</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1821; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a>, 1827-31, 1833-35 (9th District 1827-31, 12th District 1833-35); served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/war-tx-independence.html">Killed</a> while defending the Alamo, in San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-died.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/03-06.html">March 6, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 202 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-buried.html#cms05282">San Fernando Cathedral</a>, San Antonio, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Crockett and Rebecca (Hawkins) Crockett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/08-16.html">August 16, 1806</a>, to Mary 'Polly' Finley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/">1815</a> to Elizabeth Patton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crockett.html#143.49.46">John Wesley Crockett</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walcott-waldren.html#427.51.85">Charles Carroll Walcutt</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10366.html">Crockett-Walcutt family</a> of Tennessee.</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;">Crockett counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CK.html">Tenn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/KK.html">Tex.</a> are named for him.</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;">The Davy Crockett <b>National Forest</b> (established 1936), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HS-names.html">Houston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TN-names.html">Trinity</a> counties, Texas, 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>Personal motto:</i> "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000918">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403030">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy Crockett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/867/000082621">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2308">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Books by David Crockett:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803263252/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803263252&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee</a></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>Books about David Crockett:</i> William C. Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060173343/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060173343&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis</a> — Constance Rourke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803289677/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803289677&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Davy Crockett</a> — Elaine Alphin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0613523563/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0613523563&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Davy Crockett</a> (for young readers)</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>Samuel Sam Dale (1772-1841)</b> — also known as <b>Sam Dale</b> — of Alabama; Mississippi. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/RB-born.html">Rockbridge County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/index.html">1772</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/sthse.html">Alabama state house of representatives</a>, 1819; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/sthse.html">Mississippi state house of representatives</a>, 1836. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died near Daleville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-died.html">Lauderdale County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/05-24.html">May 24, 1841</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-buried.html#cms05750">a private or family graveyard</a>, Lauderdale County, Miss.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-buried.html#cms00862">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/DL.html">Dale County, Ala.</a> is named for him.</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;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-names.html">Daleville, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Sam Dale <b>State Park</b>, on Highway 39, near <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LA-names.html">Daleville, Mississippi</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Sam Dale</i> (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-names.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; scrapped 1973) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/Samuel Dale">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23288">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>Jay Norwood Darling (1876-1962)</b> — also known as <b>Jay N. Darling</b>; <b>"Ding"</b> — of Des Moines, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-lived.html">Polk County</a>, Iowa. Born in Norwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CX-born.html">Charlevoix County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/10-21.html">October 21, 1876</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/artist.html">Cartoonist</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for his political cartoons in 1924 and 1943; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/IA.html">1932</a>; founder and first president, National Wildlife Federation; head of the U.S. Biological Survey (which later became the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), 1934-35; obtained millions of acres for wildlife refuges. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-theta-pi.html">Beta Theta Pi</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/01-12.html">January 12, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WO-buried.html#cms04619">Logan Park Cemetery</a>, Sioux City, Iowa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Marcellus Warner Darling and Clara (Woolson) Darling; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/09-19.html">September 19, 1911</a>, to Genevieve Pendleton.</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;">The J.N. 'Ding' Darling <b>National Wildlife Refuge</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LE-names.html">Sanibel Island, Florida</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://findagrave.com/memorial/8236833">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>Germain P. Dupont (c.1915-1963)</b> — of Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-lived.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H. Born in Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., about 1915. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; employed at J. F. McElwain <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Shoe</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">secretary-treasurer</a>, New Hampshire Shoe Workers Union; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-officials.html">Hillsborough County Commissioner</a>, 1959-63; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/manchester.html">mayor of Manchester, N.H.</a>, 1963. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic-war-vets.html">Catholic War Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/foresters.html">Foresters</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> at his home, and was dead on arrival at Notre Dame <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-died.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/12-12.html">December 12, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">about 48 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-buried.html#cms04352">Mt. Calvary Cemetery</a>, Manchester, N.H. <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> Married to Laurette E. Prince.</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;">Dupont Pool (now Dupont Splash Pad), a <b>public park facility</b> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-names.html">Manchester, New Hampshire</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Asher Bates Emery (1867-1924)</b> — also known as <b>Asher B. Emery</b> — of East Aurora, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y. Born in East Aurora, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/02-18.html">February 18, 1867</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NY.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 8th District, 1922-24; appointed 1922; died in office 1924. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <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>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a>, in Sisters <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-died.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/08-08.html">August 8, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 172 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-buried.html#cms07417">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, East Aurora, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Josiah Emery and Elizabeth C. (Kellogg) Emery; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emery.html#076.53.07">Edward Kellogg Emery</a>.</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;">Asher B. Emery <b>County Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-names.html">South Wales, New York</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://findagrave.com/memorial/27387808">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>James Edgar Evins</b> — also known as <b>J. Edgar Evins</b> — of Smithville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DK-lived.html">DeKalb County</a>, Tenn. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/TN.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/TN.html">1944</a>. Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DK-buried.html#cms04229">Smithville Town Cemetery</a>, Smithville, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everette-ewin.html#633.50.14">Joseph Landon Evins</a>.</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;">Edgar Evins <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DK-names.html">DeKalb County, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Clyde Edward Fant (1905-1973)</b> — also known as <b>Clyde E. Fant</b> — of Shreveport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-lived.html">Caddo Parish</a>, La. Born in Linden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CS-born.html">Cass County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/index.html">1905</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/shreveport.html">Mayor of Shreveport, La.</a>, 1946-54, 1958-70. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Died in Shreveport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-died.html">Caddo Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/index.html">1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-buried.html#cms00694">Forest Park East Cemetery</a>, Shreveport, La. <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;">Clyde Fant <b>Park</b>, along the Red River, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-names.html">Shreveport, Louisiana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Herman Daniel Farrell Jr. (1932-2018)</b> — also known as <b>Denny Farrell</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/02-04.html">February 4, 1932</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autoservice.html">Automobile mechanic</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1975-2017 (74th District 1975-82, 71st District 1983-2017); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/NY.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NY.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NY.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/NY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1985; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">Democratic National Committee from New York</a>, 1988, 2004-08; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">New York Democratic state chair</a>, 2001-06. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2018/05-26.html">May 26, 2018</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 111 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Denny Farrell Riverbank State <b>Park</b> (opened 1993 as Riverbank State Park; renamed 2017), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Herman 'Denny' Farrell <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Pedestrian Bridge</a> (opened 2017), over the Henry Hudson Parkway and railroad tracks, to Riverside Park, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for 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/Herman D. Farrell Jr.">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/415/68.41.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Edwin H. Fitler"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Edwin Henry Fitler (1825-1896)</b> — also known as <b>Edwin H. Fitler</b> — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Kensington (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/12-02.html">December 2, 1825</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Rope and cordage manufacturer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/philadelphia.html">mayor of Philadelphia, Pa.</a>, 1887-91; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/index.html">1888</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Torresdale, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-31.html">May 31, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 181 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Fitler and Elizabeth (Wonderly) Fitler; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/">1850</a> to Josephine R. Baker; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#989.75.85">Margaretta Large Fitler</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#729.26.37">Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller</a>).</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">The Edwin H. Fitler <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1897-98), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Fitler Square, a <b>public park</b> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</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/Edwin Henry Fitler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14118024">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=23524">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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>Image source:</i> Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 1888</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>Lucy Louisa Flower (1837-1921)</b> — also known as <b>Lucy L. Flower</b>; <b>Lucy Louisa Coues</b>; <b>"The Mother of the Juvenile Court"</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/05-10.html">May 10, 1837</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; social reformer; founder of nursing school; advocate for the creation of a "parental court" to handle cases of delinquent children; her efforts led to the world's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> juvenile court legislation, which created the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1899; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/uofi.html">University of Illinois trustee</a>; elected 1894. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Coronado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-died.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/04-27.html">April 27, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00128">Graceland Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-04.html">September 4, 1862</a>, to James Monroe Flower; mother of Harriet Flower (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farron-faulkland.html#984.44.26">John Villiers Farwell</a>) and Elliott Flower.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0466.html">Farwell family</a> of Chicago, Illinois (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Lucy Flower <b>Park</b>, on West Moffat Street, and Lucy Flower Technical <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> (opened, 1911; moved to new building, 1927; renamed Flower Vocational High School, 1956; renamed Lucy Flower Career Academy High School, 1995; closed, 2003), both in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-names.html">Chicago, Illinois</a>, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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://findagrave.com/memorial/189921962">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>Irving C. Freese (b. 1903)</b> — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in East Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/02-19.html">February 19, 1903</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/photo.html">Photographer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1946; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html">mayor of Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1947-55, 1957-59; defeated, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945. 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Elizabeth E. Hutchinson (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclevy-mcmahan.html#982.89.08">Jasper McLevy</a>).</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;">Irving Freese <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Norwalk, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Melville Weston Fuller (1833-1910)</b> — also known as <b>Melville W. Fuller</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-born.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/02-11.html">February 11, 1833</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn3.html">Delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention</a> from Cook County, 1862; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1863; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/IL.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/IL.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1888-1910; died in office 1910. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Sorrento, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/HA-died.html">Hancock County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/07-04.html">July 4, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 143 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00128">Graceland Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of Mildred Fuller (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#048.89.80">Hugh Campbell Wallace</a>).</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawyn-day.html#979.44.25">Stephen A. Day</a></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;">Fuller <b>Park</b> (opened about 1914), 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/Melville W. Fuller">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/889/000180349">NNDB dossier</a></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>Books about Melville W. Fuller:</i> James W. Ely, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570030189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1570030189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910</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>Thomas Oscar Fuller Sr. (1867-1942)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas O. Fuller, Sr.</b> — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-lived.html">New Hanover County</a>, N.C.; Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-lived.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn. Born in Franklinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/10-25.html">October 25, 1867</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>; elected 1898; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Died in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/06-21.html">June 21, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-buried.html#cms05854">New Park 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of J. Henderson Fuller and Mary Eliza Fuller.</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;">T.O. Fuller <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-names.html">Memphis, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</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://findagrave.com/memorial/52652883">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163897356/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/407/08.41.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="William J. Gaynor"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Jay Gaynor (1849-1913)</b> — also known as <b>William J. Gaynor</b>; <b>"Brother Adrian Denys"</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Oriskany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/02-02.html">February 2, 1849</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1894-1909; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1908-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1910-13; died in office 1913; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> in the throat by James J. Gallagher, a former city employee, on August 9, 1910. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, on board the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">steamship</a> <i>Baltic</i>, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/09-10.html">September 10, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 220 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html# ">Cadman Plaza Park</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Keiron Gaynor and Elizabeth (Handwright) Gaynor.</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grossi-grout.html#817.84.29">Edward M. Grout</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kochendorfer-kolski.html#965.87.47">James P. Kohler</a></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;">Gaynor <b>Plaza</b>, the triangle between Flatbush Avenue, St. John's Place, and Eighth Avenue, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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 Jay Gaynor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/421/000137010">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3339">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</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>Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001)</b> — also known as <b>Andy Guest</b> — of Front Royal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, Va. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/09-29.html">September 29, 1939</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1973-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/izaak-walton-league.html">Izaak Walton League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ruritan.html">Ruritan</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Front Royal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WR-died.html">Warren County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/04-02.html">April 2, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 185 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CK-buried.html#cms02044">Old Chapel Cemetery</a>, Millwood, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#985.75.87">Raymond Richard Guest</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#178.29.67">Elizabeth Polk Guest</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/guess-gunderman.html#080.95.37">Winston Frederick Churchill Guest</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#632.78.03">Frank Lyon Polk</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawkins.html#516.31.25">Philemon Hawkins</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haywood.html#104.76.53">William Dallas Polk Haywood</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#181.41.38">Rufus King Polk</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#210.42.53">James Knox Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#067.26.29">William Hawkins Polk</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#137.40.12">Paul Fletcher Faison</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#540.84.48">Marshall Tate Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#769.93.45">Tasker Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#479.25.41">Richard Tyler Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#672.96.01">Edwin Fitzhugh Polk</a>.</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0044.html">Polk family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0283.html">Manly-Haywood-Polk family</a> of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Raymond R. 'Andy' Guest Jr. Shenandoah River <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/WR-names.html">Warren County, Virginia</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://findagrave.com/memorial/18555833">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>Louis Francis Haffen (1854-1935)</b> — also known as <b>Louis F. Haffen</b>; <b>"Father of the Bronx"</b> — of Melrose, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>), N.Y.; Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Born in Melrose, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/11-06.html">November 6, 1854</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Civil engineer</a>; engineer, New York City Department of Parks, 1883-93; commissioner of street improvement in Annexed Territory (Bronx), 1893-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/bronx.html">borough president of Bronx, New York</a>, 1898-1909; removed 1909; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> by Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughes.html#733.21.32">Charles Evans Hughes</a> over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/misfeasance.html">maladministration</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a>, 1909; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 22nd District, 1915; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">New York Democratic State Committee</a>, 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">arteriosclerosis</a>, in Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-died.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/12-25.html">December 25, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 49 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mathias Haffen and Catharine (Hayes) Haffen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/">1886</a> to Caroline Kurz.</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;">Haffen <b>Park</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-names.html">Bronx, New York</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/Louis F. Haffen">Wikipedia article</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>Kenneth Frederick Hahn (1920-1997)</b> — also known as <b>Kenneth Hahn</b>; <b>Kenny Hahn</b> — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-born.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/08-19.html">August 19, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member, Los Angeles City Council, 1947-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-officials.html">Los Angeles County Supervisor</a>, 1952-92; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/CA.html">1952</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1970. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/church-of-christ.html">Church of Christ</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Inglewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/10-12.html">October 12, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms02104">Inglewood Park Cemetery</a>, Inglewood, 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Heinrich Hahn and Hattie Louise (Wiggins) Hahn; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hahn.html#713.30.43">Gordon R. Hahn</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hahn.html#484.44.15">James Kenneth Hahn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hahn.html#158.72.44">Janice Kay Hahn</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13637.html">Hahn family</a> of Los Angeles, California.</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;">The Kenneth Hahn <b>State Recreation Area</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Los Angeles, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Kenneth Hahn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall of Administration</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Los Angeles, California</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/Kenneth Hahn">Wikipedia article</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>Phil Hardberger (b. 1934)</b> — of San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-lived.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex. Born in Morton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CC-born.html">Cochran County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/07-27.html">July 27, 1934</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sanantonio.html">mayor of San Antonio, Tex.</a>, 2005-09. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Still living as of 2014. <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 Homer Reeves Hardberger and Bess (Scott) Hardberger; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/">1968</a> to Linda Morgan.</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;">Phil Hardberger <b>Park</b> (formerly Voelcker Park), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-names.html">San Antonio, Texas</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/Phil Hardberger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/138/000162649">NNDB dossier</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 Hasson (1833-1923)</b> — of Oil City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/VE-lived.html">Venango County</a>, Pa. Born in Shippenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CI-born.html">Clarion County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/03-17.html">March 17, 1833</a>. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/PA.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/PA.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/PA.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a> from Venango County, 1875-76, 1883-84, 1899-1900. Died in Oil City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/VE-died.html">Venango County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/05-15.html">May 15, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 59 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/VE-buried.html# ">St. Joseph's Cemetery</a>, Oil City, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Hasson and Sarah (Fetzer) Hasson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/">1871</a> to Mary Collins.</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;">Hasson <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/VE-names.html">Oil City, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Hasson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/VE-names.html">Oil City, Pennsylvania</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://findagrave.com/memorial/76866085">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>Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863)</b> — of Wisconsin. Born in Lierbyen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/12-21.html">December 21, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; abolitionist; Wisconsin state prison commissioner, elected 1859; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Suffered wounds in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">battle</a>, and died the next day, at Chickamauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WL-died.html">Walker County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-20.html">September 20, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-buried.html#cms06071">Norway Lutheran Cemetery</a>, Wind Lake, Wis.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-buried.html# ">State Capitol Grounds</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Even Heg and Sigrid (Kallerud) Heg; married to Gunhild Einong.</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;">Heg Memorial <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-names.html">Wind Lake, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Hans Heg</i> (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1961) was <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/Hans Christian Heg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7489797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5964395250/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/500/95.15.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Weldon B. Heyburn"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Weldon Brinton Heyburn (1852-1912)</b> — also known as <b>Weldon B. Heyburn</b> — of Wallace, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-lived.html">Shoshone County</a>, Idaho. Born in Chadds Ford Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/05-23.html">May 23, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho Territory, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/ID.html">1888</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Idaho state constitutional convention</a>, 1889; delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/ID.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/ID.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/ID.html">1904</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Idaho</a>, 1898; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Idaho</a>, 1903-12; died in office 1912; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/ID.html">Republican National Committee from Idaho</a>, 1904. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/10-17.html">October 17, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 147 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-buried.html#cms02542">Lafayette Cemetery</a>, Chadds Ford, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/MI-names.html">Heyburn, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Heyburn, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/CU-names.html">Custer County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Heyburn <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BW-names.html">Benewah County, Idaho</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000554">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405416">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weldon Brinton Heyburn">Wikipedia article</a></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>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</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>Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927)</b> — also known as <b>Henry E. Huntington</b> — of Oneonta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; San Marino, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Oneonta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-born.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/02-27.html">February 27, 1850</a>. Republican. Owned and expanded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">streetcar and trolley</a> system in Southern California; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Lankenau <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/05-23.html">May 23, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 85 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html# ">Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens</a>, San Marino, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Mary Alice Prentice; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/">1913</a> to Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington.</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;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-names.html">Huntington Beach, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Huntington Park, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Huntington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-names.html">Fresno County, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Huntington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hotel</a> (built 1907 as Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the Huntington Hotel; demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington hotel) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Pasadena, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Huntington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Library</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-libraries.html">Art Museum</a>, and <b>Botanical Gardens</b>, on his former estate, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">San Marino, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Henry E. Huntington</i> (built 1943-44 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1961) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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://findagrave.com/memorial/6084">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>Edgar Lanier Jenkins (1933-2012)</b> — also known as <b>Ed Jenkins</b> — of Jasper, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/PI-lived.html">Pickens County</a>, Ga. Born in Young Harris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/TN-born.html">Towns County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-04.html">January 4, 1933</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; staff member for U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/landram-landy.html#757.93.75">Phillip M. Landrum</a>, 1959-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 9th District, 1977-93. Died in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/01-01.html">January 1, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 362 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/UN-buried.html# ">Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery</a>, Blairsville, Ga. <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;">Ed Jenkins <b>National Recreation Area</b> (established as Springer Mountain National Recreation Area in 1991; renamed in 1992; southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FN-names.html">Fannin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/UN-names.html">Union</a> counties, Georgia, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000083">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405985">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed Jenkins (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/647/000141224">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/82835137">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>John Winthrop Jones (1817-1887)</b> — also known as <b>J. Winthrop Jones</b> — of Ellsworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/HA-lived.html">Hancock County</a>, Maine; Greenpoint, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Ellsworth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/HA-born.html">Hancock County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/02-14.html">February 14, 1817</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">shipbuilder</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/ME.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Greenfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/09-19.html">September 19, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 217 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Theodore Jones and Catherine Winthrop (Sargent) Jones; married to Ann Maria Peters (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perryman-petersen.html#536.63.45">John Andrew Peters (1822-1904)</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perryman-petersen.html#017.73.36">John Andrew Peters (1864-1953)</a>); first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sargent.html#679.32.17">Winthrop Sargent</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sargent.html#173.16.27">Francis Williams Sargent</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10930.html">Sargent-Peters family</a> of Ellsworth, Maine.</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;">Winthrop <b>Park</b> (created 1889; renamed 1941 as Msgr. McGolrick Park), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Eugene A. Leahy (1929-2000)</b> — also known as <b>Gene Leahy</b> — of Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb. Born in Imogene, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/FE-born.html">Fremont County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/05-08.html">May 8, 1929</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; municipal judge in Nebraska, 1964-68; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/omaha.html">mayor of Omaha, Neb.</a>, 1969-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, at the Veterans Administration <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-died.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/01-18.html">January 18, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-buried.html#cms00553">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Omaha, Neb. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Gene Leahy Mall, a downtown <b>park</b> (created 1977 as "Central Park Mall", renamed 1992, closed and demolished 2019), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-names.html">Omaha, Nebraska</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>James T. Lennon</b> — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/yonkers.html">Mayor of Yonkers, N.Y.</a>, 1910-17; defeated, 1917; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/NY.html">1912</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Winifred Butler.</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;">Lennon <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-names.html">Yonkers, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8751752316/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/318/99.97.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="John A. Logan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Alexander Logan (1826-1886)</b> — also known as <b>John A. Logan</b>; <b>"Black Jack"</b>; <b>"Black Eagle of Illinois"</b> — of Benton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ill.; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Murphysboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/02-09.html">February 9, 1826</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1852; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1859-62, 1867-71 (9th District 1859-62, at-large 1867-71); general in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/IL.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/IL.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1871-77, 1879-86; died in office 1886; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/index.html">1884</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1884. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Conceived the idea of Memorial Day and inaugurated the observance in May 1868. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/12-26.html">December 26, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 320 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms02554">U.S. Soldiers' & Airmen's Home National 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/logan.html#880.27.72">John Logan</a>.</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;">Logan counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/LO.html">Colo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/LG.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LO.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ND/LG.html">N.Dak.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/LO.html">Okla.</a> are named for him.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Logan (established 1887, closed 1946), and Fort Logan National <b>Cemetery</b> (established 1950 on part of the same site) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-names.html">Denver, Colorado</a>, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS John A. Logan</i> (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; renamed <i>USS Alnitah</i>; scrapped 1961) was originally <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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000403">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406894">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John A. Logan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/778/000207157">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1653">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Books about John A. Logan:</i> James Pickett Jones, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809323893/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809323893&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John A. Logan : Stalwart Republican from Illinois</a></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>Image source:</i> Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</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>Jack Griffith London (1876-1916)</b> — also known as <b>Jack London</b>; <b>John Griffith Chaney</b> — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif.; Glen Ellen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-lived.html">Sonoma County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-12.html">January 12, 1876</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist). Died in Glen Ellen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-died.html">Sonoma County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/11-22.html">November 22, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SN-buried.html# ">Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery</a>, Glen Ellen, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/">1900</a> to Elizabeth May Maddern; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> London, on the border between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-names.html">British Columbia, Canada</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/HI-names.html">Haines Borough, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Jack London Square (entertainment and business <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">development</a>), and the surrounding Jack London District <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">neighborhood</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-names.html">Oakland, California</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Jack London <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> (Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London <b>Nature Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-names.html">Magadan Oblast, Russia</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Jack London</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-names.html">Sausalito, California</a>; scrapped 1968) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/Jack London">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1889">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=29857">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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>Francis Marion (1732-1795)</b> — also known as <b>"Swamp Fox"</b> — of South Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/index.html">1732</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1782-90. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/02-27.html">February 27, 1795</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-buried.html#cms05199">Belle Isle Plantation</a>, Berkeley County, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Marion counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MI.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MA.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MR.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/MA.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MR.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA.html">Ind.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MR.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/MA.html">Kan.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MI.html">Ky.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MI.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/MA.html">Mo.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MR.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA.html">Ore.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MA.html">S.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MR.html">Tenn.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MP.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MA.html">W.Va.</a> are named for him.</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;">The Francis Marion <b>National Forest</b> (established 1936), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Charleston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-names.html">Berkeley</a> counties, South Carolina, 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>Other politicians named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#449.01.08">Francis M. Bristow</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hopkins.html#240.39.24">Francis M. D. Hopkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zebb-ziegenheim.html#647.02.21">Francis Marion Ziebach</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dracos-drane.html#687.38.42">Francis Marion Drake</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin3.html#068.51.62">Francis Marion Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crosby.html#956.05.40">F. M. Crosby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#878.44.82">Francis M. Cockrell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#610.62.31">Francis M. Hamilton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gregor-grennell.html#283.54.89">Francis Marion Gregory</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html#646.84.76">Francis M. Griffith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nichols.html#914.32.20">Francis M. Nichols</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#299.44.09">Francis Marion Morris</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#497.58.40">Francis M. Taitt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#283.86.92">Francis Marion Bryan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/noone-norrell.html#958.63.90">F. M. Norman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fields.html#992.80.23">Francis M. Fields</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whaley-wham.html#074.38.24">Francis Marion Whaley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#399.23.85">Francis M. Bistline</a> </span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA18"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/298/74.53.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Patrick H. McCarren"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Patrick Henry McCarren (1849-1909)</b> — also known as <b>Patrick H. McCarren</b>; <b>"Friend of the Sugar Trust"</b> — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in East Cambridge, Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-18.html">June 18, 1849</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Cooper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Kings County 6th District, 1882-83, 1889; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1890-93, 1896-1909 (4th District 1890-93, 7th District 1896-1909); died in office 1909; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/NY.html">1892</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/NY.html">1904</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Political boss who dominated Brooklyn politics for twenty years. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">intestinal degeneration</a>, complicated by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/appendicitis.html">appendicitis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">myocarditis</a>, in St. Catherine's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/10-23.html">October 23, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 127 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a></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>Relatives:</i> Married to Catherine M. 'Katie' Hogan.</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;">McCarren <b>Park</b> (opened 1906 as Greenpoint Park; renamed in 1909), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-names.html">Brooklyn, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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://findagrave.com/memorial/111921220">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1907</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>Samuel Roy McKelvie (1881-1956)</b> — also known as <b>Sam R. McKelvie</b> — of Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Neb. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/CL-born.html">Clay County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/04-15.html">April 15, 1881</a>. Republican. Publisher, The Nebraska Farmer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">magazine</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/sthse.html">Nebraska state house of representatives</a>, 1911-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska</a>, 1913-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Nebraska</a>, 1919-23; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NE.html">1928</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/NE.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NE.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/NE.html">1944</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Arizona, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/10-06.html">October 6, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LA-buried.html#cms00350">Wyuka Cemetery</a>, Lincoln, Neb. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel McKelvie and Jennie (Glandon) McKelvie; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/06-19.html">June 19, 1904</a>, to Flossie DeArnold.</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;">The Samuel R. McKelvie <b>National Forest</b> (established 1902; given current name 1971), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/CR-names.html">Cherry County, Nebraska</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://www.nga.org/governor/samuel-roy-mckelvie/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Roy McKelvie">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/538/000213896">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7267699">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>Stewart Brett McKinney (1931-1987)</b> — also known as <b>Stewart B. McKinney</b> — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Westport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/01-30.html">January 30, 1931</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1967-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1971-87; died in office 1987; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/CT.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Bisexual</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aids.html">acquired immune deficiency syndrome</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/05-07.html">May 7, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 97 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms05539">Oak Lawn Cemetery</a>, Fairfield, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Polk McKinney and Clare Louise (Brett) McKinney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-02.html">October 2, 1954</a>, to Lucy Cunningham; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinney.html#233.70.39">John P. McKinney</a>.</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;">The Stewart B. McKinney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Transportation Center</a> (built 1987), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Stamford, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Stewart B. McKinney <b>National Wildlife Refuge</b> (etablished 1972 as the Salt Meadow Wildlife Refuge; renamed 1987), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Fairfield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-names.html">New Haven</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-names.html">Middlesex</a> counties, Connecticut, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407519">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart McKinney (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/104382968">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>George Wilson Mead (1871-1961)</b> — also known as <b>George W. Mead</b> — of Grand Rapids (now Wisconsin Rapids), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, Wis.; Wisconsin Rapids, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WO-lived.html">Wood County</a>, Wis. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/02-22.html">February 22, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/wisconsinrapids.html">mayor of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.</a>, 1926-32; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WI.html">1932</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/theta-delta-chi.html">Theta Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died in Wisconsin Rapids, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/10-02.html">October 2, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WO-buried.html# ">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Wisconsin Rapids, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Darius Raymond Mead and Abigail Crane (Spare) Mead; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/10-18.html">October 18, 1899</a>, to Ruth Emily Witter.</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;">Mead <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PO-names.html">Stevens Point, Wisconsin</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://findagrave.com/memorial/87676807">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>George Newton (1810-1883)</b> — of Volinia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-lived.html">Cass County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/PR-born.html">Preble County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/08-10.html">August 10, 1810</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a>, 1858-59. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Volinia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-died.html">Cass County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/01-23.html">January 23, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 166 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-buried.html# ">Crane Cemetery</a>, Volinia, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/newton.html#886.48.97">James Newton</a> and Mary Newton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/">1837</a> to Esther Green.</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;">Newton <b>Woods</b> (original oak-hickory forest, a National Natural Landmark), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CS-names.html">Volinia, Michigan</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://findagrave.com/memorial/68879565">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>Eugene Hoffman Nickerson (1918-2002)</b> — also known as <b>Eugene H. Nickerson</b> — of Roslyn Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Orange, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/08-02.html">August 2, 1918</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hand.html#769.26.49">Augustus N. Hand</a>, 1943-44, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#866.46.23">Harlan F. Stone</a>, 1944-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-officials.html">Nassau County Executive</a>, 1962-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NY.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/NY.html">1972</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York</a>, 1977-94; took senior status 1994; senior judge, 1994-2002. His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">right arm was paralyzed</a> by polio in his youth. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">ulcer</a> surgery, in St. Luke's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/01-01.html">January 1, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/PU-buried.html#cms02462">St. Philip's Cemetery</a>, Garrison, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#631.71.70">Hoffman Nickerson</a> and Ruth Constance (Comstock) Nickerson; married to Marie-Louise Steiner; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nick-nikka.html#821.44.47">Stephen Westcott Nickerson</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/22874.html">Nickerson family</a>.</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;">Nickerson Beach <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-names.html">Lido Beach, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1760&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene Nickerson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/49982615">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Pat Nixon (1912-1993)</b> — also known as <b>Thelma Catherine Ryan</b>; <b>"Starlight"</b> — of California. Born in Ely, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WP-born.html">White Pine County</a>, Nev., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-16.html">March 16, 1912</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/second.html">Second Lady of the United States</a>, 1953-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1969-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1972. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, in Park Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-died.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/06-22.html">June 22, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-buried.html#cms02215">Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace</a>, Yorba Linda, 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of William M. Ryan, Sr. and Katherine (Halberstadt) Ryan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/06-21.html">June 21, 1940</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nixon.html#870.67.93">Richard Milhous Nixon</a>.</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0294.html">Eisenhower-Nixon family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0460.html">Carroll family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">The Patricia Nixon <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (opened 1973; now Nixon Academy), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Cerritos, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>. — Pat Nixon <b>Park</b> (established 1969), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Cerritos, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</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>Epitaph:</i> "Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart."</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/Pat Nixon">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/327/000024255">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633268">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1281">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32147">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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>Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950)</b> — also known as <b>Ransom E. Olds</b> — of Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Geneva, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AS-born.html">Ashtabula County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/06-03.html">June 3, 1864</a>. Republican. Founder in 1897 of Olds <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Motor Vehicle</a> Company, maker of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> commercially successful American-made <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">automobile</a>; founder in 1905 of the REO <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Motor Car</a> Company (later, the Olds company became the Oldsmobile division of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">General Motors</a>, and Reo became part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">truck manufacturer</a> Diamond Reo); owner of several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotels</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/MI.html">1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died in Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-died.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/08-26.html">August 26, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 84 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-buried.html#cms00206">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Lansing, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah (Whipple) Olds; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/06-05.html">June 5, 1889</a>, to Metta Ursula Woodward; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#136.15.39">Martin Olds</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Olds <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a> (built 1917 for the College of Engineering, now used as offices), Michigan State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-names.html">East Lansing, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-names.html">Oldsmar, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — R. E. Olds <b>Park</b>, on the waterfront in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-names.html">Oldsmar, FLorida</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/Ransom E. Olds">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/060/000203448">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/778">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>Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)</b> — also known as <b>Jackie Onassis</b>; <b>Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</b>; <b>Jacqueline Kennedy</b> — Born in Southampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/07-28.html">July 28, 1929</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1961-63. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">non-Hodgkin lymphoma</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/05-19.html">May 19, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 295 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Step-daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-12.html">September 12, 1953</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/">1968</a> to Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10422.html">Kennedy family</a>.</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;">The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> for International Careers, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>. — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at George Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Reservoir</a>, in Central <b>Park</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </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/Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/780">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32168">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://library.ci.glendale.ca.us/glendale_mayors.asp"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/528/19.75.jpg" width=70 height=97 border=0 alt="Carroll W. Parcher"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carroll Wilmot Parcher (1903-1992)</b> — also known as <b>Carroll W. Parcher</b>; <b>"Mr. Glendale"</b> — of Tujunga, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif.; Glendale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Glendale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-born.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/09-13.html">September 13, 1903</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor-publisher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">columnist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/CA.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/CA.html">1956</a> (alternate); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/glendale.html">mayor of Glendale, Calif.</a>, 1977-78, 1979-81, 1984-85. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/native-sons-golden-west.html">Native Sons of the Golden West</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-delta-chi.html">Sigma Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Glendale Adventist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Glendale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/03-31.html">March 31, 1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html# ">Grand View 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#484.59.38">Wilmot Parcher</a> and Nannie (McBryde) Parcher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/11-08.html">November 8, 1924</a>, to Frances Morgan.</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;">Parcher <b>Plaza</b>, in the Glendale Civic Center, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Glendale, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</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://findagrave.com/memorial/47544449">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Image source:</i> Glendale Public Library</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>Frank Pate Jr.</b> — of Port St. Joe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/GU-lived.html">Gulf County</a>, Fla. Born in Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CN-born.html">Conecuh County</a>, Ala. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/portsaintjoe.html">Mayor of Port St. Joe, Fla.</a>, 1966-97, 1999-2007. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Still living as of 2009. <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> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/">1947</a> to Evelyn J. Griner.</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;">Frank Pate <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/GU-names.html">Port St. Joe, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Lynn F. Pett (1940-2017)</b> — of Murray, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born in Payson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-born.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/12-20.html">December 20, 1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/murray.html">Mayor of Murray, Utah</a>, 1990-98. Died in Taylorsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-died.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2017/09-17.html">September 17, 2017</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 271 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The Lynn F. Pett Parkway <b>Golf Course</b>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-names.html">Murray, Utah</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/Lynn Pett">Wikipedia article</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>Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)</b> — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PI-lived.html">Pike County</a>, Pa. Born in Simsbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/08-11.html">August 11, 1865</a>. Chief Forester of the U.S.; close confidant of President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#741.57.28">Theodore Roosevelt</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania</a>, 1914 (Roosevelt Progressive), 1926 (Republican primary); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1923-27, 1931-35; defeated in Republican primary, 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-forestry-assoc.html">American Forestry Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/leukemia.html">leukemia</a>, at the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/10-04.html">October 4, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PI-buried.html#cms00817">Milford Cemetery</a>, Milford, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James W. Pinchot and Mary (Eno) Pinchot; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/">1914</a> to Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan-bucciarelli.html#033.86.16">Lloyd Stephens Bryce</a>).</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10053.html">Cooper-Ashley family</a> of New York City, New York.</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;">The Gifford Pinchot <b>National Forest</b> (established 1908 as the Columbia National Forest; renamed 1949), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SA-names.html">Skamania</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/LE-names.html">Lewis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/YA-names.html">Yakima</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/CO-names.html">Cowlitz</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KL-names.html">Klickitat</a> counties, Washington, 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://www.nga.org/governor/gifford-pinchot/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford Pinchot">Wikipedia article</a></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>Books about Gifford Pinchot:</i> Char Miller, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1559638222/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1559638222&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism</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>J. Gottlieb Reutter (1868-1954)</b> — of Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-26.html">October 26, 1868</a>. Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/meat.html">meat merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>; president, Lansing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coal-ice-fuel.html">Ice and Fuel</a>; vice-president, Weissinger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper</a> Co.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/lansing.html">mayor of Lansing, Mich.</a>, 1912-18; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MI.html">1940</a>. <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/death/automobile.html">Struck by a car</a>, badly injured, and died two weeks later, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-died.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-20.html">October 20, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-buried.html#cms00206">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Lansing, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Mary Anna Schoettle and Blanche M. Bennett.</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;">Reutter <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-names.html">Lansing, Michigan</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://findagrave.com/memorial/24723567">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>David Rittenhouse (1732-1796)</b> — of Pennsylvania. Born in Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/04-08.html">April 8, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">Astronomer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">mathematician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clocks.html">clockmaker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/surveyor.html">surveyor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/trea.html">Pennsylvania state treasurer</a>, 1777-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> director of the U.S. Mint. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/06-26.html">June 26, 1796</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 79 days</a>). Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms00362">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a>, Philadelphia, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Matthias Rittenhouse and Elizabeth (Williams) Rittenhouse; married to Eleanor Coulston and Hannah Jacobs; father of Elizabeth Rittenhouse (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#456.80.86">Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#855.43.82">Barton Myers</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#318.55.49">Robert Baldwin cyers</a>.</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>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0066.html">Rockefeller family</a> of New York City, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0297.html">Wise-Sergeant-Rockefeller family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0426.html">Sergeant-Whitehill-Kunkel-Spencer family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0359.html">Myers family</a> of Norfolk, Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">Rittenhouse <b>Square</b> (originally Southwest Square; renamed 1825) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-names.html">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Rittenhouse, a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">crater on the Moon</a>, about 26 km (16 miles) in diameter, 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://www.nndb.com/people/172/000172653">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22735">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>John Long Routt (1826-1907)</b> — also known as <b>John L. Routt</b> — of Central City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/GI-lived.html">Gilpin County</a>, Colo.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/04-25.html">April 25, 1826</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Colorado Territory</a>, 1875-76; delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/CO.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/CO.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Colorado</a>, 1876-79, 1891-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/denver.html">mayor of Denver, Colo.</a>, 1883-85. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/08-13.html">August 13, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 110 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-buried.html#cms00495">Riverside 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RO.html">Routt County, Colo.</a> is named for him.</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;">Routt <b>National Forest</b> (established 1905, now part of Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RO-names.html">Routt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/JA-names.html">Jackson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/RB-names.html">Rio Blanco</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/GR-names.html">Grand</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/MF-names.html">Moffat</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/GA-names.html">Garfield</a> counties, Colorado, 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://www.nga.org/governor/john-long-routt/">National Governors Association biography</a></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>Books about John Routt:</i> Joyce B. Lohse, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865410631/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0865410631&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">First Governor, First Lady: John and Eliza Routt of Colorado</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>Edgar Backus Schermerhorn (1851-1923)</b> — also known as <b>Edgar B. Schermerhorn</b> — of Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CH-lived.html">Cherokee County</a>, Kan. Born in Channahon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WI-born.html">Will County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/11-19.html">November 19, 1851</a>. Organizer, Citizens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Galena; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/sthse.html">Kansas state house of representatives</a>, 1903-05; Chairman, Kansas Board of Control, 1905-11. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-un-workmen.html">Ancient Order of United Workmen</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CH-died.html">Cherokee County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/02-01.html">February 1, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 74 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JS-buried.html# ">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Webb City, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Isaac B. Schermerhorn and Jane B. Schermerhorn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/11-21.html">November 21, 1878</a>, to Abbie Brown Simpson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/11-19.html">November 19, 1919</a>, to Ella Marie Brace Sumner.</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;">Schermerhorn <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CH-names.html">Galena, Kansas</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://findagrave.com/memorial/55452994">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6267608867/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/767/01.16.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Carl Schurz"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carl Christian Schurz (1829-1906)</b> — also known as <b>Carl Schurz</b> — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Wis.; Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Liblar (now part of Erfstadt), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/03-02.html">March 2, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1857; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/WI.html">1860</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/MO.html">1868</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/officers.html">Temporary Chair</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Missouri</a>, 1869-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Interior</a>, 1877-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>. Died in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-14.html">May 14, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms01193">Sleepy Hollow Cemetery</a>, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms07597">Morningside 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/MI-names.html">Schurz, Nevada</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Schurz, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/PA-names.html">Park County, Wyoming</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Carl Schurz <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, 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>. — Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/JF-names.html">Watertown, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Carl Schurz <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CM-names.html">New Braunfels, Texas</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>Politician named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson2.html#933.74.53">Carl S. Thompson</a> </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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000151">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409658">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl Schurz">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/schurz-carl ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></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>Books about Carl Schurz:</i> Hans Louis Trefousse, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0823218546/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0823218546&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Carl Schurz: A Biography</a></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>Image source:</i> William C. Roberts, Leading Orators (1884)</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>Samuel Seabury (1873-1958)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/02-22.html">February 22, 1873</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, 1907-14; defeated, 1905; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1914-16; defeated (Progressive), 1913; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1916; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/NY.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/05-07.html">May 7, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms02313">Trinity 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. William Jones Seabury and Alice Van Wyck (Beare) Seabury; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-06.html">June 6, 1900</a>, to Josephine Maud Richey.</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;">Samuel Seabury <b>Playground</b> (opened 1962, renamed 1989), Lexington Avenue at 96th Street, <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>.</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/Samuel Seabury (judge)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6273093">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1245586"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/231/48.38.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="William H. Seward"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Henry Seward (1801-1872)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Seward</b> — of Auburn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-lived.html">Cayuga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/05-16.html">May 16, 1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; co-founded (with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#930.88.30">Thurlow Weed</a>), the <i>Albany Evening Journal</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> in 1830; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 7th District, 1831-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1849-61; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/index.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/index.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1861-69; as Secretary of State in 1867, he made a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed the territory "Seward's Folly". Survived an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">assassination attempt</a> on April 14, 1865 (the same night <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged. Died in Auburn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-died.html">Cayuga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/10-16.html">October 16, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CY-buried.html#cms00777">Fort Hill Cemetery</a>, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms05335">Madison Square Park</a>, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms07596">Volunteer Park</a>, Seattle, Wash. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#236.50.53">Samuel Swayze Seward</a> and Mary (Jennings) Seward; married to Frances Adeline Miller; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#015.40.78">Frederick William Seward</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#101.42.48">William Henry Seward Jr.</a>; uncle of Caroline Cornelia Canfield (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schneiderman-schrock.html#420.92.69">John Lawrence Schoolcraft</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#862.58.59">George Frederick Seward</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#049.77.66">Frederick Whittlesey Seward Jr.</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0159.html">Seward family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones4.html#848.73.10">George W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barretto-barrows.html#995.38.07">Samuel J. Barrows</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seward.html#015.40.78">Frederick W. Seward</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#125.55.47">Elias P. Pellet</a></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;">Seward counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SW.html">Kan.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/SE.html">Neb.</a> are named for him.</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;">Seward <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mountain</a>, in the Adirondack Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FR-names.html">Franklin County, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/SE-names.html">Seward, Nebraska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SH-names.html">Seward, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/KP-names.html">Seward, Alaska</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Seward <b>Park</b> (300 acres on a forested peninsula, established 1911), 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>. — Seward <b>Park</b> (three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for 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>Other politicians named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#924.30.04">W. Seward Whittlesey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomson.html#314.20.25">W. H. Seward Thomson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shaffner-shanley.html#182.91.54">William S. Shanahan</a> </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>Coins and currency</i>: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the $50 U.S. Treasury note in the 1890s.</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000261">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409762">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-henry-seward/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William H. Seward">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/945">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Books about William H. Seward:</i> Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270754/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743270754&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</a> — Walter Stahr, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439121168/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439121168&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man</a> — Walter Stahr, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439121184/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439121184&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man</a> — Michael Burgan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791064182/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791064182&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">William Henry Seward : Senator and Statesman</a> (for young readers)</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>Image source:</i> New York Public Library</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>Edwin Alonzo Sherman (1844-1916)</b> — also known as <b>E. A. Sherman</b> — of Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-lived.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Wayland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/06-19.html">June 19, 1844</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/ttrea.html">Treasurer of Dakota Territory</a>, 1871-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DK/ofc/taud.html">Dakota territorial auditor</a>, 1879-81; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 10th District, 1911-12. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/06-13.html">June 13, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 360 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-buried.html#cms05656">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a>, Sioux Falls, S.Dak. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Calvin Sherman and Lucy (Parmenter) Sherman.</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;">Sherman <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-names.html">Sioux Falls, South Dakota</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/E. A. Sherman">Wikipedia article</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>James Richard Slack (1818-1881)</b> — also known as <b>J. R. Slack</b> — of Huntington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HU-lived.html">Huntington County</a>, Ind. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/09-28.html">September 28, 1818</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Indiana</a>, 1854, 1880; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1856/IN.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/IN.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/IN.html">1880</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/stsen.html">Indiana state senate</a>, 1850; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; circuit judge in Indiana, 1872-78. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/07-28.html">July 28, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 303 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HU-buried.html#cms01839">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Huntington, Ind. <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;">General Slack <b>Park</b> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HU-names.html">Huntington, Indiana</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/James R. Slack">Wikipedia article</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>Thomas A. Soetaert (1936-2016)</b> — also known as <b>Tony Soetaert</b> — of Shawnee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-lived.html">Johnson County</a>, Kan. Born in Shawnee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-born.html">Johnson County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/10-01.html">October 1, 1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/shawnee.html">mayor of Shawnee, Kan.</a>, 1977-89. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/12-16.html">December 16, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 76 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-buried.html# ">St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery</a>, Shawnee, Kan. <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> Married to Joyce Huff.</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;">The Soetaert <b>Aquatic Center</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO-names.html">Shawnee, Kansas</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://findagrave.com/memorial/174129678">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>John Diedrich Spreckels (1853-1926)</b> — also known as <b>John D. Spreckels</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Coronado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-lived.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/08-16.html">August 16, 1853</a>. Republican. Founder and president, Oceanic <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Steamship</a> Company; president, Western <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/sugar.html">Sugar</a> Company; owned the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a> de Coronado, the San Diego <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Electric Railway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspapers</a> in San Francisco and San Diego; built the San Diego and Arizona <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a>, from San Diego to Calexico; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/CA.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/CA.html">1924</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CA.html">Republican National Committee from California</a>, 1896. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Coronado, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-died.html">San Diego County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/06-07.html">June 7, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 295 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms01912">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Colma, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spraker-sprigade.html#467.69.88">Claus Spreckels</a> and Anna Christina (Mangels) Spreckels; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spraker-sprigade.html#637.91.75">Adolph Bernard Spreckels</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/">1877</a> to Lillie C. Siebein.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/38398.html">Spreckels family</a> of San Francisco, California.</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;">The Spreckels <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">Theatre</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Spreckels <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Spreckels <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">Coronado, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Spreckels Organ Pavilion, an outdoor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">performance venue</a>, in Balboa Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a> and his brother.</li> </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/John D. Spreckels">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15709358">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>William Cameron Sproul (1870-1928)</b> — also known as <b>William C. Sproul</b> — of Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-lived.html">Delaware County</a>, Pa. Born in Octoraro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/09-16.html">September 16, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">journalist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 9th District, 1897-1919; resigned 1919; delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/PA.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/PA.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/PA.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1919-23; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/index.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-philosophical-soc.html">American Philosophical Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-xi.html">Sigma Xi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pat-ord-sons-am.html">Patriotic Order Sons of America</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/03-21.html">March 21, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 187 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DE-buried.html#cms03351">Chester Rural Cemetery</a>, Chester, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Hall Sproul and Deborah Dickinson (Slokom) Sproul; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/01-21.html">January 21, 1892</a>, to Emeline Wallace Roach.</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;">Sproul Hall, a residence hall at Pennsylvania State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, University Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CE-names.html">State College, Pennsylvania</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Sproul <b>State Forest</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CN-names.html">Clinton County, Pennsylvania</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://www.nga.org/governor/william-cameron-sproul/">National Governors Association biography</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>Robert Theodore Stafford (1913-2006)</b> — also known as <b>Robert T. Stafford</b> — of Rutland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-lived.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt. Born in Rutland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-born.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/08-08.html">August 8, 1913</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-officials.html">Rutland County State's Attorney</a>, 1947-51; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/attygn.html">Vermont state attorney general</a>, 1955-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Vermont</a>, 1957-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Vermont</a>, 1959-61; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/VT.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Vermont</a> at-large, 1961-71; resigned 1971; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Vermont</a>, 1971-89; appointed 1971. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Rutland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-died.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/12-23.html">December 23, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 137 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-buried.html#cms02537">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Rutland, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Bert Linus Stafford and Mabel R. (Stratton) Stafford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/10-15.html">October 15, 1938</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stafford.html#186.54.44">Helen Content Kelley</a>.</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;">The Robert T. Stafford <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">Student Loan Program</a> (established 1965 as the Federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program; renamed 1988) is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National <b>Recreation Area</b> (established 1984 as White Rocks National Recreation Area; renamed 2006), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/BE-names.html">Bennington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-names.html">Rutland</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WI-names.html">Windsor</a> counties, Vermont, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000776">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410242">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-t-stafford/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Stafford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/497/000122131">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/17128864">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>William Brown Stansbury (1923-1985)</b> — also known as <b>William B. Stansbury</b> — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in Corydon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/HR-born.html">Harrison County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/03-18.html">March 18, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-parties.html">chair of Jefferson County Democratic Party</a>, 1968-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/louisville.html">mayor of Louisville, Ky.</a>, 1977-81; in 1978, during a firemen's strike, he left the city, saying that he was going to a conference in Atlanta; instead, he went to New Orleans for a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">tryst</a> with his administrative assistant; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">scandal</a> led to an effort to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeach</a> him; soon after, a city official pleaded guilty to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/extortion.html">extorting</a> $16,000 from local businessmen; when questioned by a federal grand jury as to whether this money came to his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/campaign-finance.html">campaign</a> or to him personally, Stansbury refused to answer, claiming the Fifth Amendment right against <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">self-incrimination</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-upsilon.html">Delta Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. While crossing Bardstown Road to enter St. Francis of Assisi <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/churches.html">Church</a>, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">hit by a car</a>, and died soon after, in Humana <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>-University, Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/04-04.html">April 4, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 17 days</a>); His mother was killed in the same accident, and his wife was injured. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-buried.html#cms05162">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Louisville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Bernard Stansbury and Alliene (Brown) Stansbury; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/">1983</a> to Mary Ellen Farmer.</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;">William B. Stansbury <b>Park</b> (established 1900, received current name 1985), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-names.html">Louisville, Kentucky</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 B. Stansbury">Wikipedia article</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>Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862)</b> — also known as <b>Isaac I. Stevens</b> — of Washington. Born in North Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/03-25.html">March 25, 1818</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Washington Territory</a>, 1853-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory</a>, 1857-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Civil War</a> battle of Chantilly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-01.html">September 1, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 160 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms01071">Island Cemetery</a>, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html# ">Ox Hill Battlefield Park</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens2.html#805.82.89">Charles Abbot Stevens</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens6.html#928.66.70">Moses Tyler Stevens</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11057.html">Stevens-Woodhull family</a> of New York City, New York.</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;">Stevens counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SV.html">Minn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ST.html">Wash.</a> are named for him.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a <b>state park</b>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CA-names.html">Warrenton, Oregon</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a <b>park</b>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> (and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">lake</a>) of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-names.html">Lake Stevens, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RA-names.html">Stevensville, Montana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (6,838 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (5,372 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BI-names.html">Bingham County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Upper Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, and Lower Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Stevens Hall <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">dormitory</a>, at Washington State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WI-names.html">Pullman, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Isaac I. Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Middle School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/CA-names.html">Port Angeles, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Junior High School</a> (now Middle School), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FR-names.html">Pasco, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Isaac I. Stevens</i> (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1967) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Epitaph:</i> "Who gave to the service of his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the battle of Chantilly, Va."</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000881">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410343">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Stevens">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21358">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:</i> Joseph Taylor Hazard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0832300594/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0832300594&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Companion of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington</a></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>Robert William Straub (1920-2002)</b> — also known as <b>Robert W. Straub</b>; <b>Bob Straub</b> — of Eugene, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LA-lived.html">Lane County</a>, Ore. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/05-06.html">May 6, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/stsen.html">Oregon state senate</a>, 1959-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/OR.html">1964</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/trea.html">Oregon state treasurer</a>, 1965-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Oregon</a>, 1975-79; defeated, 1966, 1978. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">Alzheimer's disease</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">long-term care facility</a> at Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/LA-died.html">Lane County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/11-27.html">November 27, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 205 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Bob Straub <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/TI-names.html">Pacific City, Oregon</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://www.nga.org/governor/robert-william-straub/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/302/000119942">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6965384">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>Isidor Straus (1845-1912)</b> — 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. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">Perished</a> in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/boat.html">wreck of the steamship</a> <i>Titanic</i>, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> 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 <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>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0218.html">Straus family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">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 <b>Park</b> (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> </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://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></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>Books about Isidor Straus:</i> 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></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/234/91.93.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="Thomas Sumter"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Sumter (1734-1832)</b> — of Statesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SU-lived.html">Sumter County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HV-born.html">Hanover County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1734/08-14.html">August 14, 1734</a>. Democrat. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from District Eastward of Wateree River, 1781-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1789-93, 1797-1801 (at-large 1789-93, 1797-99, 4th District 1799-1801); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1801-10; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-diplomats.html ">Portugal</a>, 1809-19. Slaveowner. Died near Statesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SU-died.html">Sumter County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/06-01.html">June 1, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 292 days</a>). Interment in private or family graveyard. <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> Grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumners-sutliff.html#454.99.60">Thomas De Lage Sumter</a>.</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Sumter (built during 1829-61), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Sumter <b>National Forest</b> (established 1936), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OC-names.html">Oconee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/UN-names.html">Union</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/NE-names.html">Newberry</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MC-names.html">McCormick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-names.html">Edgefield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AB-names.html">Abbeville</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LR-names.html">Laurens</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CT-names.html">Chester</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/FA-names.html">Fairfield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GE-names.html">Greenwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SA-names.html">Saluda</a> counties, South Carolina, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001073">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410527">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Sumter">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/sumter-thomas ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/123/000052964">NNDB dossier</a></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>Image source:</i> The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</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>Leslie M. Sutherland</b> — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Republican. Vice-president, Third Avenue <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a>, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/yonkers.html">mayor of Yonkers, N.Y.</a>, 1898-1901; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/NY.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Matilda Karg.</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;">Leslie Sutherland <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-names.html">Yonkers, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/747/08.36.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="Daniel D. Tompkins"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825)</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y. Born in Scarsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/06-21.html">June 21, 1774</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County, 1802-03; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1805; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1807-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a>, 1821. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/06-11.html">June 11, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 355 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-buried.html#cms05836">St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#922.67.39">Jonathan Griffin Tompkins</a> and Sarah Ann (Hyatt) Tompkins; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#830.40.76">Caleb Tompkins</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/02-20.html">February 20, 1798</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#599.15.89">Hannah Tompkins</a>; father of Arietta Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson4.html#201.00.11">Gilbert Livingston Thompson</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlison-tomsen.html#260.18.93">Mangle Minthorne Tompkins</a>; grandfather of Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/venables-vermillion.html#337.50.72">Theodore Chardavoyne Vermilye</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#227.53.36">Guy Vernor Henry</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO.html">Tompkins County, N.Y.</a> is named for him.</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;">Tompkins Square <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for 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>Politician named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/farlin-farquhar.html#815.63.79">Daniel D. T. Farnsworth</a> </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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000306">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410879">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-d-tompkins/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel D. Tompkins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/268/000050118">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1896</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 Bradley Umstead (1895-1954)</b> — also known as <b>William B. Umstead</b> — of Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-lived.html">Durham County</a>, N.C. Born in Mangum Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-born.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/05-13.html">May 13, 1895</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 6th District, 1933-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">North Carolina Democratic state chair</a>, 1945; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1946-48; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NC.html">1948</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1953-54; died in office 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">arteriosclerotic heart disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, while also suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">bronchopneumonia</a>, in Watts <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-died.html">Durham County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/11-07.html">November 7, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/DU-buried.html#cms01270">Mt. Tabor Church Cemetery</a>, Mangum Township, Durham County, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/uczciwek-underhill.html#087.41.49">John Wesley Umstead</a> and Lulie Elizabeth (Lunsford) Umstead; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/09-05.html">September 5, 1929</a>, to Merle Davis; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coxe-crago.html#519.57.39">Benjamin Hubbard Cozart</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html#542.88.78">Julia Grimmet Fortson</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0646.html">Umstead-Grimmet-Byrd family</a> of Durham, North Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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;">William B. Umstead <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-names.html">Wake County, North Carolina</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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=U000005">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411029">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-bradley-umstead/">National Governors Association biography</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>Robert Ferdinand Wagner III (1944-1993)</b> — also known as <b>Robert F. Wagner III</b>; <b>Bobby Wagner</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/01-06.html">January 6, 1944</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html#3">borough president of Manhattan, New York</a>, 1977. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died in his room at the Embassy Suites <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, San Antonio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BX-died.html">Bexar County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/11-15.html">November 15, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Susan (Edwards) Wagner and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagner.html#899.38.63">Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagner.html#509.64.46">Robert Ferdinand Wagner</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12056.html">Wagner family</a> of Woodside and New York City, New York.</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;">Robert F. Wagner Jr. <b>Park</b> (opened 1996), in Battery Park City, <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>.</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/Robert F. Wagner Jr. (deputy mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11768">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>Lurleen Burns Wallace (1926-1968)</b> — also known as <b>Lurleen B. Wallace</b>; <b>Lurleen Brigham Burns</b> — of Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala. Born in Tuscaloosa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-born.html">Tuscaloosa County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-19.html">September 19, 1926</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Alabama</a>, 1967-68; died in office 1968. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">uterine cancer</a>, in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/05-07.html">May 7, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 231 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MN-buried.html#cms00352">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Montgomery, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Henry Burns and Estelle (Burroughs) Burns; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-21.html">May 21, 1943</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#549.03.46">George Corley Wallace Jr.</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11541.html">Wallace-Folsom family</a> of Montgomery, Alabama.</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;">The Lurleen Wallace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-hospitals.html">Tumor Institute</a>, at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Alabama <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-names.html">Birmingham</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>. — Lurleen B. Wallace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">Community College</a> (established 1967 as Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College), with campuses in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CV-names.html">Covington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/BU-names.html">Butler</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CR-names.html">Crenshaw</a> counties, Alabama, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> Lurleen, and Lake Lurleen <b>State Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/TU-names.html">Tuscaloosa County, Alabama</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </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://www.nga.org/governor/lurleen-burns-wallace/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/268/000032172">NNDB dossier</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>Albert Harold Wheeler (1915-1994)</b> — also known as <b>Albert H. Wheeler</b> — of Ann Arbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-lived.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-11.html">December 11, 1915</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/MI.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/annarbor.html">mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich.</a>, 1975-78; defeated, 1978. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/04-04.html">April 4, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 114 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered. <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> Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith1.html#988.89.34">Alma Wheeler Smith</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12191.html">Smith-Wheeler-Warren family</a> of Ann Arbor, Michigan.</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;">Wheeler <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-names.html">Ann Arbor, Michigan</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/Albert H. Wheeler">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/3568853702/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/878/23.04.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Woodrow Wilson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas Woodrow Wilson</b>; <b>"Schoolmaster in Politics"</b> — of New Jersey. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sn-born.html">Staunton</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/12-28.html">December 28, 1856</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> of Princeton University, 1902-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1911-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1913-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Recipient of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1919; elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1950. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/02-03.html">February 3, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 37 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms02220">Washington National Cathedral</a>, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EZ-buried.html# ">Main Railway Station</a>, Prague, Czechia. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/06-24.html">June 24, 1885</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#736.34.17">Ellen Wilson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-18.html">December 18, 1915</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#442.55.34">William Gibbs McAdoo</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sawyers-sayward.html#428.97.59">Woodrow Wilson Sayre</a>.</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>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</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>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#559.12.89">William C. Bullitt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#997.90.35">Bainbridge Colby</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davie-davila.html#828.33.61">Joseph E. Davies</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuckerman-turnbull.html#003.48.76">Joseph P. Tumulty</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingley-birchby.html#901.48.13">Thomas H. Birch</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/newton.html#464.44.82">Byron R. Newton</a></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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Woodrow Wilson, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/FR-names.html">Fremont County</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/SU-names.html">Sublette County</a>, Wyoming, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Woodrow Wilson <b>Plaza</b>, in the Federal Triangle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Wilson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Dam</a> (built 1924), on the Tennessee River in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CO-names.html">Colbert</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LA-names.html">Lauderdale</a> counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> reservoir, which extends into <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-names.html">Lawrence</a> county, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Rambla</a> Presidente Wilson, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-names.html">Montevideo, Uruguay</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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>Other politicians named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#404.50.20">Woodrow W. Bean</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones9.html#432.95.93">Woodrow W. Jones</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scott9.html#348.47.84">Woodrow W. Scott</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payne-payrow.html#581.65.97">Tom Woodrow Payne</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#965.13.45">W. W. Dumas</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mann.html#479.67.01">Woodrow Wilson Mann</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#428.61.22">Woodrow W. Lavender</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailhache-bakanatch.html#808.45.90">Woodrow W. Baird</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathewson-matthaei.html#871.40.47">Woodrow W. Mathna</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hulme-humberto.html#676.65.07">Woodrow W. Hulme</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kline.html#095.71.30">Woodrow W. Kline</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdonald.html#036.00.08">Woodrow W. McDonald</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holder-hollan.html#501.93.59">Woodrow W. Hollan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carter9.html#653.92.24">Woodrow W. Carter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#624.62.75">Woodrow W. Ferguson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goode.html#628.88.60">W. Wilson Goode</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#082.50.01">Woodrow Wilson Storey</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#561.54.42">Woodrow W. Bean III</a> </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>Coins and currency</i>: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks.</li> </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>Campaign slogan (1916):</i> "He kept us out of war."</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://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-woodrow-wilson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow Wilson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/333/000024261">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1115">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4064">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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>Books about Woodrow Wilson:</i> Louis Auchincloss, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670889040/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670889040&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Woodrow Wilson</a> — Herbert Hoover, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943875412/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943875412&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson</a> — James Chace, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743203941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743203941&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country</a> — John Milton Cooper, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801890748/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801890748&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace</a> — A. Scott Berg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399159215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399159215&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wilson</a> — Anne Schraff, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766022781/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766022781&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Woodrow Wilson</a> (for young readers)</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>Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:</i> Jim Powell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400082366/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400082366&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wilson's War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II</a></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>Image source:</i> American Monthly Review of Reviews, July 1902</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>George Wingfield (1876-1959)</b> — of Reno, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-lived.html">Washoe County</a>, Nev. Born in Fort Smith, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/SB-born.html">Sebastian County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/08-16.html">August 16, 1876</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Rancher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">mining business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel owner</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NV.html">Republican National Committee from Nevada</a>, 1920-24; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nevada, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NV.html">1924</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Washoe <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Reno, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-died.html">Washoe County</a>, Nev., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/12-25.html">December 25, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-buried.html#cms01162">Masonic Memorial Gardens</a>, Reno, Nev. <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 Thomas Yates Wingfield and Martha Matilda (Spradling) Wingfield; married to Maude Azile Murdoch and Roxy Thoma.</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;">Wingfield <b>Park</b>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-names.html">Reno, Nevada</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/George Wingfield">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/64456859">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>Alexander Penn Wooldridge (1847-1930)</b> — also known as <b>A. P. Wooldridge</b> — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-13.html">April 13, 1847</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank president</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1909-19. Died in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-08.html">September 8, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms00703">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Wooldridge <b>Park</b>, in downtown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Wooldridge <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-names.html">Austin, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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/Alexander Penn Wooldridge">Wikipedia article</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>Carl Frederick Zeidler (1908-1942)</b> — also known as <b>Carl Zeidler</b>; <b>"Singing Mayor"</b>; <b>"Boy Mayor"</b> — 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> <i>La Salle</i> was struck by torpedos, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">exploded</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">sank</a>, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zebb-ziegenheim.html#155.22.16">Frank P. Zeidler</a>.</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;">Carl F. 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