CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: August 11, 1914</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'https://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFDD" text="#000000" link="#cc0000" alink="#ff0000" vlink="#760000"> <style type="text/css"> p {font-family:georgia,garamond,serif} td {font-family:georgia,garamond,serif} A:link {text-decoration: none} A:visited {text-decoration: none} A:active {text-decoration: none} A:hover {text-decoration: underline} </style> PoliticalGraveyard.com <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html" border=0> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgmain6.gif" width=450 height=216 border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History"></a> <table align="center" cellpadding=1><tr> <td align="center" valign="center"> <table align="center" cellpadding=30><tr> <td align="center" valign="center"> « <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-10.html">Previous date</a> </td></tr></table></td> <td width=0.1% bgcolor="#000000"></td> <td align="center" valign="center"> <table align="center" cellpadding=20><tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> Tuesday, August 11, 1914 19/20 Av, 5674 (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/calendar.html#Jewish">Jewish calendar</a>) </td></tr></table> <table align="center" width=100% cellpadding=1><tr> <td width=33% align="center" valign="center"> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/index.html#07">July 1914</a></td> <td width=0.1% bgcolor="#000000"></td> <td width=33% align="center" valign="center"> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/index.html#08">August 1914</a></td> <td width=0.1% bgcolor="#000000"></td> <td width=33% align="center" valign="center"> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/index.html#09">September 1914</a></td> </tr></table> </td> <td width=0.1% bgcolor="#000000"></td> <td align="center" valign="center"> <table align="center" cellpadding=30><tr> <td align="center" valign="center"> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-12.html">Next date</a> » </td></tr></table></td> </tr></table> <table width=100%><tr><td valign="top"> Links relevant to this date: <ul> <li>Wikipedia articles on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century">20th century</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910s">1910s</a> decade, the year <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914">1914</a>, the month <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1914">August 1914</a>, and the date <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_ 11">August 11</a> (any year)</li> <li>On This Day for <a href="https://onthisday.com/date/1914/august/11">August 11, 1914</a></li> <li>New York Times articles published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1914/08/11/">August 11, 1914</a></li> </ul> Politicians who were born on this date: <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#855.55.44">Joseph S. Farland</a> — Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, W.Va.</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holmes.html#401.11.39">David S. Holmes, Jr.</a> — Covington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/KE-born.html">Kenton County</a>, Ky.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-08-11.html">Politicians who were born on August 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/born.html">politicians who were born in 1914</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Politicians who were married on this date: <ul> <li>None currently in database.</li> <li>See: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/married-08-11.html">Politicians who were married on August 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/married.html">politicians who were married in 1914</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Politicians who died on this date: <ul> <li>None currently in database.</li> <li>See: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-08-11.html">Politicians who died on August 11</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/died.html">politicians who died in 1914</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: <ul> <li>100 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/finn-firth.html#339.19.15">Darwin A. Finney</a>, born August 11, 1814; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/timmons-tittmann.html#999.18.45">George B. Tingley</a>, born August 11, 1814</li> </ul> Federal Elections on this date: <ul> <li>U.S. House of Representatives: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">Ohio</a> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 78: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strickland.html#991.16.45">Charles Lee Strickland</a></li> <li>Age 75: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckalew-buckles.html#097.90.32">E. V. B. Buckingham</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#174.91.96">Jeremiah Smith</a></li> <li>Age 70: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/delano.html#189.90.68">Milton De Lano</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeague-mckechnie.html#778.53.96">James A. McKean</a></li> <li>Age 68: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#980.48.51">J. Hoge Tyler</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tillman.html#279.64.90">Benjamin R. Tillman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#746.89.07">Stephen H. Claycomb</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buenemeyer-bufford.html#613.45.51">Edward Stanard Buffington</a></li> <li>Age 66: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson2.html#721.33.38">C. W. Johnson</a></li> <li>Age 63: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcclurg-mcconkey.html#950.64.95">Derrill H. McCollough</a></li> <li>Age 61: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#721.81.01">Ben T. Cable</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin2.html#950.32.06">Chester W. Martin</a></li> <li>Age 60: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glenn.html#752.06.11">Robert B. Glenn</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyon.html#615.44.37">William H. Lyon</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#375.48.50">Thorvald K. Beyer</a></li> <li>Age 55: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#139.97.31">Heber M. Wells</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor7.html#729.51.37">Richard V. Taylor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young2.html#760.70.00">Carl Young</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pikiel-pinchot.html#329.78.78">Gifford Pinchot</a></li> <li>Age 46: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#749.39.98">Charles G. Brittingham</a></li> <li>Age 45: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brentano-brewington.html#701.22.25">Earl Brewer</a></li> <li>Age 43: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#622.60.88">William Wickham</a></li> <li>Age 42: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laws-lawyer.html#287.74.58">Robert R. Lawson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carfield-carll.html#614.33.42">Algar E. Carleton</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook1.html#388.70.28">Albert B. Cook</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark2.html#757.73.53">Damon H. Clark</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilhams-gillen.html#067.37.91">John D. Gill</a></li> <li>Age 39: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willis.html#522.16.77">Raymond E. Willis</a></li> <li>Age 37: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#409.64.34">Ernest Bamberger</a></li> <li>Age 35: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnquist-burns.html#239.68.39">Frank N. Burns</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#850.21.78">Lucien Memminger</a></li> <li>Age 34: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochran.html#259.34.59">John J. Cochran</a></li> <li>Age 30: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy-kensey.html#913.12.53">Edward A. Kenney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams9.html#780.31.73">William R. Williams</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#979.64.46">M. Clifford Townsend</a></li> <li>Age 29: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#367.84.95">William Dawson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ohara.html#249.27.44">John J. O'Hara</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntly-hurlbut.html#725.61.25">Henry W. Hupfauf</a></li> <li>Age 27: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osullivan.html#784.72.72">Patrick B. O'Sullivan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy-kensey.html#688.43.18">Martin H. Kennelly</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#611.83.93">William B. Ardery</a></li> <li>Age 26: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nicholson.html#388.00.72">Donald W. Nicholson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#140.37.57">Lyman Kerswill</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccormick.html#135.18.29">Richard J. McCormick</a></li> <li>Age 25: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schlacter-schmies.html#448.50.14">J. L. Schleimer</a></li> <li>Age 24: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynolds.html#273.03.40">Sam W. Reynolds</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mann.html#634.74.37">William Hodges Mann, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 22: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson1.html#834.25.11">A. Garnett Thompson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiteaker-whitehoss.html#119.20.78">G. E. Whitehead</a></li> <li>Age 21: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winslow.html#116.39.38">Rollin R. Winslow</a></li> <li>Age 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scadden-schafe.html#083.64.56">Roy Scantlin</a></li> <li>Age 18: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller8.html#813.93.14">Thomas Byron Miller</a></li> <li>Age 17: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#433.75.78">Ernest Lappano</a></li> <li>Age 16: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#197.13.59">Sylvester A. Dineen</a></li> <li>Age 14: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fentress-fergus.html#879.38.58">Charles R. Fenwick</a></li> <li>Age 13: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gayle-geerlings.html#825.41.49">James P. Geelan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall6.html#696.75.47">Monroe B. Hall</a></li> <li>Age 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright5.html#226.51.24">James A. Wright</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill7.html#696.41.72">R. Lester Hill</a></li> <li>Age 11: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson2.html#233.05.40">C. Arvid Johnson</a></li> <li>Age 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nichols.html#746.46.79">Philip Nichols, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 6: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbra-abzug.html#331.26.09">I. W. Abel</a></li> <li>Age 3: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#490.88.09">William H. Avery</a></li> <li>Age 2: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tillmon-timmis.html#478.73.54">George Bell Timmerman, Jr.</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-11.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/08-11.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>