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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Pi Lambda Theta Politicians</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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Adkins</b> — of Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WI-lived.html">Wicomico County</a>, Md. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WI-born.html">Wicomico County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/08-24.html">August 24, 1906</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Dean of Women</a>, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., 1934-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Dean of Residence</a>, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass., 1942-46; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MD.html">Republican National Committee from Maryland</a>, 1948-58; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/MD.html">1956</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/MD.html">1960</a> (alternate). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>. Died in Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-died.html">Talbot County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/01-14.html">January 14, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 143 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WI-buried.html#cms01171">Parsons Cemetery</a>, Salisbury, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Edna May (Sheppard) Adkins and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#620.19.58">Frederick Paul Adkins</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#300.46.88">Elijah Dale Adkins</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adamske-aedanus.html#306.79.93">Elijah Dale Adkins Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white9.html#574.61.24">Wallace Henry White</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white1.html#924.76.92">Arthur Percival White</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#778.27.72">Edward Homer White Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tilghman.html#240.71.08">Merrill Henry Tilghman</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/10400.html">White-Dennis-Adkins family</a> of Maryland.</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/6378374">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>Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945)</b> — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Houston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-born.html">Harris County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/08-19.html">August 19, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sppi.html">Texas superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1919-23. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-dtrs-confederacy.html">United Daughters of the Confederacy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-delta-pi.html">Kappa Delta Pi</a>; <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-gamma-mu.html">Pi Gamma Mu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-gamma.html">Delta Kappa Gamma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/maccabees.html">Maccabees</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/10-02.html">October 2, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 44 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#992.52.51">Thomas Lindsay Blanton (1872-1957)</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>Grace Holmes Carlson (b. 1906)</b> — also known as <b>Grace Carlson</b> — of Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn. Born in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-born.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/11-13.html">November 13, 1906</a>. Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Minnesota</a>, 1940 (Trotskyist Anti-War), 1946 (Revolutionary Workers); Socialist Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-xi.html">Sigma Xi</a>; <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joyce A. Fadem (b. 1932)</b> — also known as <b>Joyce Abrams</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/1932/02-25.html">February 25, 1932</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College instructor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CA.html">California Democratic State Committee</a>, 1960-64, 1966-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CA.html">secretary of California Democratic Party</a>, 1963-67; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-gamma-mu.html">Pi Gamma Mu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-sigma-alpha.html">Pi Sigma Alpha</a>. Still living as of 1973. <table width=100% 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 Arthur J. Abrams and Regina (Goodman) Abrams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/06-17.html">June 17, 1951</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#041.37.33">Jerrold A. Fadem</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>Mary Louise Nice (b. 1911)</b> — of Tonawanda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-lived.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y. Born in Grand Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/10-22.html">October 22, 1911</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NY.html">1944</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 42nd District, 1948, 1950. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/279/67.50.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Chase Going Woodhouse"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Chase Going Woodhouse (1890-1984)</b> — also known as <b>Chase Going</b>; <b>Mrs. E. J. Woodhouse</b> — of New London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn.; Baltic, Sprague, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn. Born in Victoria, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-born.html">British Columbia</a>, of American parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/03-03.html">March 3, 1890</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/economist.html">Economist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">college professor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/CT.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/CT.html">1944</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Connecticut</a>, 1941-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 2nd District, 1945-47, 1949-51; defeated, 1946, 1950; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention</a> 2nd District, 1965. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/altrusa.html">Altrusa</a>; <b>Pi Lambda Theta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-delta-pi.html">Kappa Delta Pi</a>. Died in New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/12-12.html">December 12, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 284 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;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Seymour Going and Harriet (Jackson) Going; married to E. J. Woodhouse.</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=W000714">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411866">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase G. Woodhouse">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9047819">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> Connecticut Register and Manual 1950</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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