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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians: Death On Board Boats or Ships</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born in Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1737/12-24.html">December 24, 1737</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut</a>, 1774-76. Died on board ship (the Boston Packet), en route from Gravesend to Boston, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/09-23.html">September 23, 1789</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-buried.html#cms05882">St. George's Churchyard</a>, Deal, Kent, England. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/">1763</a> to Mehitable Webb; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/">1770</a> to Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1853.html">Saltonstall family</a> of Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000176">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403338">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas Deane">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/138/000096847">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=146714&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2028795"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/679/32.17.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Winthrop Sargent"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) — of Ohio. Born in Gloucester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1753/05-01.html">May 1, 1753</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Ship captain</a>; major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of Northwest Territory</a>, 1788-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Mississippi Territory</a>, 1798-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>. Died on board ship at sea in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MX-died.html">Gulf of Mexico</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/06-03.html">June 3, 1820</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 33 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/AD-buried.html#cms06122">Gloucester Plantation Cemetery</a>, Natchez, Miss. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Winthrop Sargent (1727-1793) and Judith (Sanders) Sargent; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/06-13.html">June 13, 1789</a>, to Rebecca Rowena Tupper; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/10-24.html">October 24, 1798</a>, to Maria (McIntosh) Williams; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones5.html#523.72.67">John Winthrop Jones</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sargent.html#173.16.27">Francis Williams Sargent</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10928.html">Sargent-Peters family</a> of Ellsworth, Maine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop Sargent">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/078/000050925">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/24944020">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: U.S. postage stamp</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Jones Lowndes (1782-1822) — also known as William Lowndes — of South Carolina. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/02-11.html">February 11, 1782</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1806-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1811-22 (4th District 1811-13, 2nd District 1813-22). Slaveowner. Died aboard a ship in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a> while en route to England, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/10-27.html">October 27, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 258 days</a>). Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a> and Sarah (Jones) Lowndes; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/">1802</a> to Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>); second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1177.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Pinckney family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1648.html">Lowndes family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Lowndes counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LO.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LO.html">Ga.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LO.html">Miss.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000483">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406971">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22633922">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Gerrit De Witt (1789-1839) — also known as Charles G. De Witt — of Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Greenhill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-07.html">November 7, 1789</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1829-31; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CX-diplomats.html ">Central America</a>, 1833-39. Died on board a river steamer on the Hudson River near Newburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/04-12.html">April 12, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms02312">Dutch Reformed Cemetery</a>, Hurley, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Garrit V. De Witt and Catherine (Ten Eyck) De Witt; married to Catherine Bogert Godwin; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#089.85.16">Charles De Witt</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bruns-bruyn.html#661.46.67">Charles D. Bruyn</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#422.34.26">David Miller De Witt</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#687.03.73">Charles Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#026.12.20">De Witt Clinton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#549.98.40">George Clinton Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dewine-dewson.html#648.32.56">Jacob Hasbrouck DeWitt</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#634.49.96">George William Clinton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1153.html">DeWitt-Bruyn-Clinton-Hasbrouck family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1245.html">Clinton family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000284">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403326">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/de-witt-charles-gerrit ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Walker Gilmer (1802-1844) — of Virginia. Born in Gilmerton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/04-06.html">April 6, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1829-36, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates</a>, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1840-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1841-44 (12th District 1841-43, 5th District 1843-44); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1844; died in office 1844. Slaveowner. Among those killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally burst</a> on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-28.html">February 28, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 328 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-buried.html#cms05083">a private or family graveyard</a>, Albemarle County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson (Hudson) Gilmer; married to Anne Elizabeth Baker; nephew of Mildred Gilmer (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#399.89.85">John Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker3.html#075.40.98">Francis Walker</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#091.92.58">Aylett Hawes</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#987.19.36">Robert Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#567.76.22">George Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#854.96.20">Richard Aylett Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#586.38.93">Richard Hawes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#022.65.25">Albert Gallatin Hawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beck.html#633.21.43">George Washington Thornton Beck</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#720.84.87">Archer Woodford</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#279.31.86">Francis Taliaferro Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#403.69.94">Aylette Buckner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckner.html#672.52.62">Aylett Hawes Buckner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#772.04.59">Charles John Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronstein-brookover.html#615.98.49">Robert Thomas Brooke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#617.52.86">Hubbard Dozier Helm</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#659.83.99">Harry Bartow Hawes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1058.html">Cobb-Lumpkin family</a> of Athens, Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1689.html">Meriwether family</a> of Georgia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1647.html">Walker-Lowndes family</a> of Maryland (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/GI.html">Gilmer County, W.Va.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000218">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404580">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-walker-gilmer/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7220006">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/NH-born.html">Northampton County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/06-17.html">June 17, 1790</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1812-13, 1824-27; state court judge in Virginia, 1826-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1829-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Navy</a>, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1843-44; died in office 1844. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Among those killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally burst</a> on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-28.html">February 28, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 256 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1874 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#621.79.19">Littleton Upshur</a> and Ann 'Nancy' (Parker) Upshur; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/">1817</a> to Elizabeth W. Dennis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/">1824</a> to Elizabeth Ann Upshur; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upjohn-upston.html#336.94.78">George Martin Upshur</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12884.html">Upshur family</a> of Virginia.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Upshur counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/UP.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/UP.html">W.Va.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Abel Parker Upshur (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel Parker Upshur">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/594/000168090">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/37679771">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844) — of Maryland. Born in Attleboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/05-05.html">May 5, 1785</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/excn.html">Maryland state executive council</a>, 1815; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1820; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1820; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-diplomats.html ">Belgium</a>, 1837-42. Among those killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally burst</a> on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-28.html">February 28, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 299 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-buried.html#cms04905">a private or family graveyard</a>, Anne Arundel County, 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">Relatives: Son of Levi Maxcy and Ruth (Newell) Maxcy; married to Mary Galloway.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/maxcy-virgil ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Gardiner (1784-1844) — of New York. Born in East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/05-29.html">May 29, 1784</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1824-27. Among those killed in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion</a> when a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">cannon</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">accidentally burst</a> on board the U.S.S. Princeton, on the Potomac River near Fort Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-died.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/02-28.html">February 28, 1844</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 275 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; later interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms02897">South End Cemetery</a>, East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Phebe Gardiner and Abraham Gardiner; married to Juliana MacLachlan; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#030.25.92">Julia Tyler</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#008.32.15">John Tyler</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#693.28.14">David Gardiner Tyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tyler.html#361.09.63">Lyon Gardiner Tyler</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#797.28.81">John Lee Saltonstall</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#966.58.30">Jonas Mapes</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#827.42.07">Alfred Conkling</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manshel-mapp.html#721.22.98">David Parshall Mapes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2749.html">Mapes-Neuman family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6685073">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Hanna Hammond (1791-1847) — also known as Robert H. Hammond — of Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-lived.html">Northumberland County</a>, Pa. Born in Milton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-born.html">Northumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/04-28.html">April 28, 1791</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-officials.html">Northumberland County Register and Recorder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">postmaster</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 16th District, 1837-41; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Wounded during the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/mexican-war.html">Mexican War</a>; ordered home on sick leave, but died of his wounds en route, aboard the steamship Orleans, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/06-02.html">June 2, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-buried.html#cms00700">Milton Cemetery</a>, Milton, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000132">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405014">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Hanna Hammond">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5834601">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Swearingen (1792-1849) — of Steubenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BR-born.html">Brooke County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/index.html">1792</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/JF-officials.html">Jefferson County Sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 19th District, 1838-41. Died on board ship, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/ZZ-died.html">At Sea</a> en route from California, January, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/index.html">1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Buried at sea. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel V. Swearingen and Rebecca (Dawson) Swearingen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/07-16.html">July 16, 1807</a>, to Mary Swearingen.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412182">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Swearingen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6780617">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Royal Thurston (1816-1851) — of Oregon. Born in Monmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-born.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/04-15.html">April 15, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Oregon Territory</a>, 1849-51. Died aboard the steamer California, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/04-09.html">April 9, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/34.html">34 years, 359 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GO-buried.html#cms05902">somewhere</a> in Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero; reinterment in 1853 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-buried.html#cms05167">Pioneer Cemetery</a>, Salem, Ore. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/TH.html">Thurston County, Wash.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000258">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410833">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Somervell (1796-1854) — of Texas. Born in Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/06-11.html">June 11, 1796</a>. Colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswar.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War</a>, 1836; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Colorado and Austin, 1836-38. Died under <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/disappeared.html">mysterious circumstances</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/index.html">1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>); his body was found lashed to the timbers of a capsized boat. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/SV.html">Somervell County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert M. Palmer (1820-1862) — of Pottsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SC-lived.html">Schuylkill County</a>, Pa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/index.html">1820</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/PA.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/PA.html">1860</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 7th District, 1859-61; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-diplomats.html ">Argentina</a>, 1861-62. Died aboard ship in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">Atlantic Ocean</a> while returning from Argentina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-26.html">April 26, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Buried at sea in Atlantic Ocean. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/palmer-robert-m ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Calvin Mason (1802-1865) — of Owingsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BT-lived.html">Bath County</a>, Ky. Born near Mt. Sterling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MY-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/08-04.html">August 4, 1802</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1839; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 9th District, 1849-53, 1857-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1856/KY.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/KY.html">1860</a>. Slaveowner. Died while en route from Texas to Kentucky, on board a steamer on the Mississippi River, near New Orleans (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ZZ-died.html">unknown parish</a>), La., August, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/index.html">1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment 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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">John Calvin</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000218">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407236">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003003396/PP/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/769/82.45.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="John Van_Buren"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Van Buren (1810-1866) — also known as "Prince John" — of Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-lived.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hudson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CO-born.html">Columbia County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/02-10.html">February 10, 1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1845-47; appointed 1845; defeated, 1847, 1865; in September 1845, during a trial, he and opposing counsel <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jordan.html#709.02.33">Ambrose L. Jordan</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">came to blows</a> in the courtroom; both were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 24 hours solitary confinement in jail; his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resignation</a> as Attorney General was refused by the governor. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">exposure</a>, on board the ship Scotia, en route from Liverpool to New York, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-13.html">October 13, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 245 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#109.58.92">Martin Van Buren</a> and Hannah (Hoes) Van Buren; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/06-22.html">June 22, 1841</a>, to Elizabeth Vanderpoel; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#570.40.66">James Isaac Van Alen</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#958.37.42">Barent Van Buren</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/templeton-terrill.html#059.95.71">Dirck Ten Broeck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cutliff-czelusta.html#132.10.62">Cornelis Cuyler</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#505.10.96">Thomas Brodhead Van Buren</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#522.20.50">Harold Sheffield Van Buren</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html#363.29.89">James Livingston</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Van Buren">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) — of Montana. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/08-03.html">August 3, 1823</a>. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of Montana Territory</a>, 1865; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Montana Territory</a>, 1865-66. Fell from a steamboat into the Missouri River and presumably <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a>, at Fort Benton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CH-died.html">Chouteau County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/07-01.html">July 1, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 332 days</a>). His body was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">never found</a>. Statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/LC-buried.html#cms05643">State Capitol Grounds</a>, Helena, Mont. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/MG.html">Meagher County, Mont.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George W. Guess (c.1829-1868) — of Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-lived.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex. Born in North Carolina, about 1829. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/dallas.html">mayor of Dallas, Tex.</a>, 1866-68. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">sunstroke</a>, aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi River, at a wharf in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-died.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/07-18.html">July 18, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">about 39 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-buried.html#cms00365">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Memphis, Tenn. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Foster Perkins (1809-1868) — also known as Richard F. Perkins — of Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-lived.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Bridgewater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/11-12.html">November 12, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/augusta.html#2">Augusta, Maine</a>, 1842-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html#2">San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1864-68; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1844-45. Died aboard the passenger ship Colorado, on a voyage from San Francisco to New York, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/10-13.html">October 13, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 336 days</a>). Buried at sea in North Pacific Ocean. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Washington Perkins and Anna (Ames) Perkins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/12-29.html">December 29, 1834</a>, to Susan Cony (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#303.67.64">Samuel Cony (1775-1835)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#267.18.91">Samuel Cony (1811-1870)</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#612.03.26">Daniel Albert Cony</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#387.07.76">Daniel Cony</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/12-11.html">December 11, 1843</a>, to Emeline Page Avery.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2489.html">Cony-Sewall family</a> of Augusta, Maine (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870) — also known as Alexander P. Crittenden — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-lived.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Virginia City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/ST-lived.html">Storey County</a>, Nev. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/01-14.html">January 14, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1849-51, 1852-53 (Los Angeles District 1849-51, 5th District 1852-53). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a> by his ex-lover, Laura D. Fair, on board a ferry boat in San Francisco Bay, and died two days later, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/11-05.html">November 5, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 295 days</a>). Fair was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, but the state supreme court ordered a new trial, and she was acquitted. Interment 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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#787.62.12">Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1788-1832)</a> and Mary Wilson (Parker) Crittenden; brother of Thomas Turpin Crittenden (1825-1905; Union general); married to Clara Churchill; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#432.06.89">John Jordan Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#658.58.19">Robert Crittenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#138.09.08">John Crittenden</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#339.61.88">Thomas Theodore Crittenden</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#355.43.54">Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#647.96.43">Thomas Jefferson</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodside-woodville.html#833.08.74">Archelaus Marius Woodson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.55.79">Martha Jefferson Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#254.15.15">Dabney Carr</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html#454.22.91">Francis Wayles Eppes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#689.82.39">Dabney Smith Carr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#211.37.17">Benjamin Franklin Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#946.12.53">Meriwether Lewis Randolph</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#621.61.28">George Wythe Randolph</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#253.45.41">Thomas Jefferson Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#833.19.22">Frederick Madison Roberts</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#244.69.74">Edith Wilson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1282.html">Crittenden family</a> of Kentucky (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/49547142">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) — also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in New York, about 1806. Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1865-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>. While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', aboard the steamer Amador on the Sacramento River, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">killed himself</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">taking poison</a>, tying his feet together, and then jumping or falling overboard to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drown</a> in the river, near Sacramento, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ST-died.html">Sacramento County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/05-20.html">May 20, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-buried.html#cms00611">Mountain View Cemetery</a>, Oakland, Calif. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Eggleston Segar (1804-1880) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/KW-born.html">King William County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/06-01.html">June 1, 1804</a>. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 1st District, 1861-63. Slaveowner. Died en route from Norfolk, Va. to Washington, D.C., on the steamer George Leary, probably in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/CP-died.html">Chesapeake Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/04-30.html">April 30, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 334 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ha-buried.html# ">St. John's Church Cemetery</a>, Hampton, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000227">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409732">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6862543">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin M. Davis (c.1816-1892) — of Springwells Township (now part of Detroit), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born about 1816. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/florist.html">Florist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/dearborn.html#B">supervisor of Springwells Township, Michigan</a>, 1859-60. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. While on a boat, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a>, suffered a head injury, and died, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/HR-died.html">Georgian Bay</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/08-15.html">August 15, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.waukeganweb.net/Ferry,%20E.P.-1856-1857&1859.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/452/42.28.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Elisha P. Ferry"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) — also known as Elisha P. Ferry — of Waukegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LA-lived.html">Lake County</a>, Ill.; Olympia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/TH-lived.html">Thurston County</a>, Wash.; Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-lived.html">King County</a>, Wash. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MO-born.html">Monroe County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/08-09.html">August 9, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Democratic Presidential Elector for Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/pr1852-meeting.html">1852</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/waukegan.html#3">Waukegan, Ill.</a>, 1853-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/waukegan.html#2">village president of Waukegan, Illinois</a>, 1856-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/waukegan.html">mayor of Waukegan, Ill.</a>, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention</a> from Lake County, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Surveyor-General for Washington, 1871; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Washington Territory</a>, 1872-80; vice-president, Puget Sound National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Washington</a>, 1889-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</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>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, on board a steamer in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PU-died.html">Puget Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/10-14.html">October 14, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-buried.html#cms00171">Lake View Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of Peter Ferry and Clarissa (Peyre) Ferry; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#321.68.94">Lucien Peyre Ferry</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/">1850</a> to Sarah Brown Kellog; father of Eliza P. Ferry (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leakin-leaver.html#060.41.21">John Leary</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#472.44.18">Clinton Peyre Ferry</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17453.html">Ferry family</a> of Seattle, Washington.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FE.html">Ferry County, Wash.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Ferry, a summit in Olympic National Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/JF-names.html">Jefferson County, 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> SS Elisha P. Ferry (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1969) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/elisha-peyre-ferry/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha P. Ferry">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4371">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://billiongraves.com/pages/record/burial/*">BillionGraves burial record</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: City of Waukegan</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> Augustine Heard (1827-1905) — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Ipswich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/12-07.html">December 7, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KO-diplomats.html ">Korea</a>, 1890-93. Died on board the steamship Konig Albert, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, en route from Naples to New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/12-14.html">December 14, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-buried.html# ">Highland Cemetery</a>, Ipswich, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Washington Heard and Elizabeth Ann (Farley) Heard; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Jane Leeps de Coninck; nephew of Augustine Heard (1785-1868; China trader).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/heard-augustine ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/85646570">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/419/30.32.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Hermann Oelrichs"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hermann Oelrichs (1850-1906) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/06-08.html">June 8, 1850</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Steamship agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">Democratic National Committee from New York</a>, 1888. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver.html">liver trouble</a>, on board the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/09-01.html">September 1, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 85 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">Relatives: Son of Henry Ferdinand Oelrichs and Julia Matilda (May) Oelrichs; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/">1890</a> to Theresa Alice 'Tessie' Fair (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#574.70.14">James Graham Fair</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/92365825">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Washington Times, September 4, 1906</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Frederick Manderson (1837-1911) — also known as Charles F. Manderson — of Canton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ST-lived.html">Stark County</a>, Ohio; Omaha, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DO-lived.html">Douglas County</a>, Neb. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/02-09.html">February 9, 1837</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ST-officials.html">Stark County Prosecuting Attorney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Nebraska state constitutional convention</a>, 1871; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Nebraska state constitutional convention</a>, 1875; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Nebraska</a>, 1883-95; general solicitor, western region, Burlington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railway</a> System, 1895. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died on board the steamship Cedric, in the harbor at Liverpool, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-died.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/09-28.html">September 28, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 231 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">Relatives: Son of John Manderson and Katharine Manderson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-11.html">April 11, 1865</a>, to Rebekah S. Brown.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000095">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407119">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles F. Manderson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13067">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/stli/historyculture/joseph-pulitzer.htm"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/537/97.19.jpg" width=70 height=128 border=0 alt="Joseph Pulitzer"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-born.html">Hungary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-10.html">April 10, 1847</a>. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Missouri state legislature, 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention</a> 31st District, 1875; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/MO.html">1880</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 9th District, 1885-86. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/10-29.html">October 29, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 202 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000568">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408951">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/193/000085935">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: National Park Service</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT209"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/493/51.42.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="William W. McIntire"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Watson McIntire (1850-1912) — also known as William W. McIntire — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-lived.html">Baltimore</a>, Md. Born in Chambersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/06-30.html">June 30, 1850</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/machinist.html">Machinist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 4th District, 1897-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died on a boat while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">fishing</a> in the Middle River (or Gunpowder River), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-died.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/03-30.html">March 30, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-buried.html#cms00523">Loudon Park Cemetery</a>, Baltimore, 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">Relatives: Married to Hortense Hay Hardesty.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000480">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407477">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7530513">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</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> Orlando Harrison Baker (1830-1913) — also known as Orlando H. Baker — of Indianola, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, Iowa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/09-16.html">September 16, 1830</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html ">Copenhagen</a>, 1892-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AU-consuls.html ">Sydney</a>, 1900-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MY-consuls.html ">Sandakan</a>, 1908-13, died in office 1913. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, on board the steamship Thomas, en route to San Francisco, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/08-06.html">August 6, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 324 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WR-buried.html#cms08154">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a>, Indianola, 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">Relatives: Married to Mary Catherine Ridley.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29398033">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William Jay Gaynor (1849-1913) — also known as William J. Gaynor; "Brother Adrian Denys" — 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.; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/index.html">1912</a>. <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 steamship Baltic, 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">Relatives: Son of Keiron Gaynor and Elizabeth (Handwright) Gaynor.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <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></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Gaynor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Plaza</a>, 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> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=35506">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6559349927/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/512/80.54.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Paul O. Husting"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Paul Oscar Adolph Husting (1866-1917) — also known as Paul O. Husting — of Mayville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-lived.html">Dodge County</a>, Wis. Born in Fond du Lac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/FD-born.html">Fond du Lac County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/04-25.html">April 25, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-officials.html">Dodge County District Attorney</a>, 1903-06; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a> 13th District, 1907-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1915-17; died in office 1917; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/WI.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Luxemburgian</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">Menominee Indian</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gun-accidents.html">Accidentally</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> in the back by his brother Gustave, when he stood up in his boat while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">duck hunting</a> on Rush Lake, and died soon after in a nearby farmhouse, near Pickett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/WI-died.html">Winnebago County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-21.html">October 21, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 179 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DO-buried.html#cms01532">Graceland Cemetery</a>, Mayville, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John P. Husting and Mary M. (Juneau) Husting; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#650.21.97">Solomon Juneau</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001006">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405846">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul O. Husting">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</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> Wilhelm Christian Magelssen (1873-1919) — also known as William C. Magelssen — of Bratsberg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/FI-lived.html">Fillmore County</a>, Minn. Born in Bratsberg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/FI-born.html">Fillmore County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/10-19.html">October 19, 1873</a>. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LN-consuls.html ">Beirut</a>, 1899-1905; in Beirut, in August 1903, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> but not injured; press reports incorrectly reported that he was dead; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LN-consuls.html ">Beirut</a>, 1905-06; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IQ-consuls.html ">Baghdad</a>, 1906-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LK-consuls.html ">Colombo</a>, 1909-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AU-consuls.html ">Melbourne</a>, 1911-17. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, on board the steamship Sonoma, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/10-17.html">October 17, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 363 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/FI-buried.html# ">Highland Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery</a>, Near Peterson, Fillmore County, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Kristian Magelssen and Sarah (Stockfleth) Magelssen; brother of Dorothea Magelssen (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raub-rawson.html#398.03.57">Gabriel Bie Ravndal</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/38716.html">Ravndal-Magelssen family</a> of Minnesota.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/112832420">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Stenger Grosscup (1852-1921) — of Ashland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AH-lived.html">Ashland County</a>, Ohio; Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Ashland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AH-born.html">Ashland County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/02-15.html">February 15, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois</a>, 1892-99; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 7th Circuit, 1899-1911; resigned 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit</a>, 1899-1911; resigned 1911. Died aboard ship, on the R.M.S. Caronia, en route from New York, N.Y., to Southampton, England, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-01.html">October 1, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 228 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=923&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/grosscup-peter-stenger">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=839PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64-IA22"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/645/59.81.jpg" width=70 height=101 border=0 alt="James A. Emerson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Alfred Emerson (1865-1922) — also known as James A. Emerson — of Warrensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y. Born in Warrensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-25.html">April 25, 1865</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">woollen manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">steamboat business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a>, 1907-18 (32nd District 1907-08, 33rd District 1909-18); as an opponent of alcohol prohibition in 1918, he was called "wringing wet" (in contrast to prohibition advocates, who were "desert dry"). Became ill, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">gastritis</a>, while on board the steamship Porto Rico, and died soon after, in Long Island <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/01-31.html">January 31, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WR-buried.html#cms02849">Warrensburg Cemetery</a>, Warrensburg, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Albert C. Emerson and Abigail J. (Woodward) Emerson; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emerson.html#792.95.16">Louis Woodard Emerson</a>; married to Margaret Jane McGregor.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/93536750">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1907</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/52832612006/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/729/35.15.jpg" width=70 height=116 border=0 alt="Elon R. Brown"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elon Rouse Brown (1857-1922) — also known as Elon R. Brown — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y. Born in Stone Mills, Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-07.html">October 7, 1857</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; counsel to the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughey-hulka.html#331.87.94">Francis M. Hugo</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 22nd District, 1894; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 35th District, 1898-1904, 1913-18; 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/1904/NY.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/NY.html">1920</a>. Opposed woman suffrage and alcohol prohibition. While <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">duck hunting</a> from a small boat, he suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> and died, at Fox Island, Cape Vincent, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-24.html">September 24, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-buried.html#cms00025">Brookside Cemetery</a>, Watertown, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elon Galusha Brown and Lucretia (Rouse) Brown; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/11-25.html">November 25, 1882</a>, to Ettella B. Greene.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon R. Brown">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61676355">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Red Book 1917</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Edward Fletcher (1866-1924) — also known as Joseph E. Fletcher; "The Colonel" — of Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I. Born in Bradford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/06-09.html">June 9, 1866</a>. Republican. Head of the Coronet <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Company of Mapleville, R.I., the Plainfield <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Company of Plainfield, Conn., the Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Yarn</a> Company, of Central Valley, Conn., and the Allentown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woolen</a> Company of Wickford, R.I. Was also president of the American Association of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Woolen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/wool.html">Worsted</a> Manufacturers; delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/RI.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/RI.html">1908</a>; Republican Presidential Elector for Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/pr1908-meeting.html">1909</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#155.21.12">William H. Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#082.27.33">James S. Sherman</a>). Died on board the yacht Juniata, at Pawtucket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/09-28.html">September 28, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a>, Providence, R.I. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Louis Adams Frothingham (1871-1928) — also known as Louis A. Frothingham — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/07-13.html">July 13, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; private secretary to U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lovejoy-lowdermilk.html#356.76.38">W. C. Lovering</a>, 1897; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during Spanish-American War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a> Eleventh Suffolk District, 1901-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives</a>, 1904-05; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/boston.html">mayor of Boston, Mass.</a>, 1905; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1909-12; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1911; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/MA.html">1916</a>; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 14th District, 1921-28; died in office 1928. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died, on board the yacht Winsone, at North Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-died.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/08-23.html">August 23, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 41 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-buried.html#cms03499">Village Cemetery</a>, North Easton, Easton, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas B. Frothingham and Annie Pearson (Lunt) Frothingham; married to Mary S. Ames.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000395">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404337">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Otto Tremont Bannard (1854-1929) — also known as Otto T. Bannard — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-28.html">April 28, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; director, Niagara <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Fire Insurance</a> Co., Dolphin <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Jute Mills</a>, and Jersey United <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas and Electric</a> Co.; 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/parties/R/1912/NY.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NY.html">1916</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1909. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">bronchial pneumonia</a>, on the ocean liner President Cleveland, en route from Seattle to Manila, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/01-15.html">January 15, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 262 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-buried.html#cms00467">Grove Street Cemetery</a>, New Haven, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John W. Bannard and Eliza Landon (Stone) Bannard.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=52347">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frank Putnam Flint (1862-1929) — also known as Frank P. Flint — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in North Reading, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-15.html">July 15, 1862</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/CA.html">1896</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/CA.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/CA.html">1928</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California</a>, 1897-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1905-11. While on a world tour, died on the ocean liner President Polk, probably in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">South China Sea</a>, while approaching Manila, Philippines, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/02-11.html">February 11, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 211 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms00954">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Glendale, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francis Eaton Flint and Althea Louise (Hewes) Flint; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#309.29.38">Motley H. Flint</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#889.25.06">Judah Dana</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#803.40.72">Benjamin Dexter Sprague</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of Flintridge (now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">La Canada Flintridge, California</a>), was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000207">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404162">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank Putnam Flint">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10350">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Bird J. Vincent (1880-1931) — of Saginaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-lived.html">Saginaw County</a>, Mich. Born in Brandon Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-born.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/03-06.html">March 6, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-officials.html">Saginaw County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 8th District, 1923-31; died in office 1931. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, aboard ship, the naval transport USS Henderson en route from Hawaii to San Francisco, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/07-18.html">July 18, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SG-buried.html#cms00515">Forest Lawn Cemetery</a>, Saginaw, 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">Relatives: Son of Hermon Henry Vincent and Elizabeth Sarah (Bird) Vincent; married to L. Maud Hinds.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nash.html#601.23.98">Willard J. Nash</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000101">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411156">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19971170">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Charles Hanson (1883-1935) — also known as George C. Hanson — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/10-11.html">October 11, 1883</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; U.S. Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Shanghai</a>, 1911-12; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Chefoo</a>, 1912-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Dalny</a>, 1913-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Newchwang</a>, 1914; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Tientsin</a>, 1914-15; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Swatow</a>, 1915-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Chungking</a>, 1917-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Foochow</a>, 1918-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Harbin</a>, 1921-31; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Harbin</a>, 1931-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Moscow</a>, 1934-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-consuls.html ">Salonika</a>, 1935, died in office 1935. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-sigma.html">Alpha Delta Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-tau-delta.html">Delta Tau Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>. Killed by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, aboard the steamship President Polk, en route from Marseilles to New York, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/09-02.html">September 2, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 326 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms07124">somewhere</a> in 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">Relatives: Son of Charles C. Hanson and Josephine (Stegkemper) Hanson.</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> Vivian Burnett (1876-1937) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo.; Plandome Manor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/04-05.html">April 5, 1876</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">music composer</a>; Dry candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian-scientist.html">Christian Scientist</a>. Model for the title character in his mother's book, Little Lord Fauntleroy. While sailing his yawl, Delight III, he helped rescue people from an overturned sailboat, and then collapsed and died, probably of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/LI-died.html">Long Island Sound</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-25.html">July 25, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-buried.html#cms01449">Roslyn Cemetery</a>, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Swan Moses Burnett and Frances Eliza (Hodgson) Burnett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/11-21.html">November 21, 1914</a>, to Constance Clough Buel.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39974650">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/531/31.20.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="David W. Steele"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Wilmer Steele (1899-1940) — also known as David W. Steele — of Ocean View, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Poultry raiser</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Sussex County 4th District, 1937-40; died in office 1940. <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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tall-cedars.html">Tall Cedars of Lebanon</a>. While <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hunting.html">fishing</a> off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, he and his wife were killed in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">explosion and fire</a> aboard their cruiser, the Lure, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/10-07.html">October 7, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-buried.html# ">Mariners Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery</a>, Ocean View, Del. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26935062">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wilmington (Del.) Morning News, October 8, 1940</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Preston Blocker (1892-1947) — also known as William P. Blocker — of Hondo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MN-lived.html">Medina County</a>, Tex. Born in Hondo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MN-born.html">Medina County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/09-30.html">September 30, 1892</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">salesman</a>; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Ciudad Porfirio Diaz</a>, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Piedras Negras</a>, 1916-19; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Piedras Negras</a>, 1919-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OS-consuls.html ">Guaymas</a>, 1923-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LS-consuls.html ">Mazatlan</a>, 1925-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HH-consuls.html ">Ciudad Juarez</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NN-consuls.html ">Monterrey</a>, as of 1938; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HH-consuls.html ">Ciudad Juarez</a>, 1938-43. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, on board the U.S. Transport St. Mihiel, on which he had been scheduled to sail to Panama, at New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/02-28.html">February 28, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-buried.html#cms01665">Evergreen Alameda Cemetery</a>, El Paso, 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">Relatives: Son of Vincular Harwood Blocker and Daisy D. Blocker; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#645.00.61">V. Harwood Blocker Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-29.html">February 29, 1916</a>, to Joy Ovada Johnston.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28510707">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lloyd Church (c.1890-1948) — also known as "Lulu Lloyd" — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-born.html">Norfolk</a>, Va., about 1890. 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/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 1st District, 1935-41, 1942-48; resigned 1941; died in office 1948; candidate for New York City Controller, 1941. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, on board the ocean liner President Cleveland, en route from Yokohama to Shanghai, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/08-02.html">August 2, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms04637">Long Island National Cemetery</a>, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of Lloyd Church, Jr.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Flack (1894-1955) — of Grenoble, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-lived.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa.; Doylestown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-lived.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa. Born in Grenoble, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-born.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/12-05.html">December 5, 1894</a>. U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Liverpool</a>, 1917-19; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BV-diplomats.html ">Bolivia</a>, 1946-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-diplomats.html ">Costa Rica</a>, 1949-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-diplomats.html ">Poland</a>, 1950-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a>, and nearly hit, at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, during the 1946 revolution. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">coronary thrombosis</a>, aboard the ocean liner United States, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/05-08.html">May 8, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 154 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">Relatives: Married to Aloisia Schmid.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/flack-joseph ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6631323">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Francis Grady (1882-1957) — also known as Henry F. Grady — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-born.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/02-12.html">February 12, 1882</a>. Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IN-diplomats.html ">India</a>, 1947-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-diplomats.html ">Greece</a>, 1948-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IA-diplomats.html ">Iran</a>, 1950-51; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NP-diplomats.html ">Nepal</a>, 1948. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-gamma-sigma.html">Beta Gamma Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-pi.html">Delta Sigma Pi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lambda-chi-alpha.html">Lambda Chi Alpha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-gamma-mu.html">Phi Gamma Mu</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, on the ocean liner President Wilson, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">Pacific Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/09-14.html">September 14, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 214 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms00860">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of John Henry Grady and Ellen G. (Rourke) Grady; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-18.html">October 18, 1917</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grady.html#300.26.55">Lucretia del Valle</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/grady-henry-francis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/144/000127760">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Willa Lybrand Fulmer (1884-1968) — also known as Willa E. Lybrand — of Orangeburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-lived.html">Orangeburg County</a>, S.C. Born in Wagener, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI-born.html">Aiken County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/02-03.html">February 3, 1884</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1943-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died on board a ship en route to Europe, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/05-13.html">May 13, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-buried.html#cms03495">Memorial Park Cemetery</a>, Orangeburg, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-20.html">October 20, 1901</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fullerton-fulper.html#227.12.92">Hampton Pitts Fulmer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000418">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404360">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Chester Craig Hosmer (1915-1982) — also known as Craig Hosmer — of Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Brea, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/05-06.html">May 6, 1915</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/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a>, 1953-74 (18th District 1953-63, 32nd District 1963-74); defeated, 1950; resigned 1974; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/CA.html">1956</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, aboard the cruise ship Azure Seas, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-died.html">North Pacific Ocean</a> off the coast of California, en route to Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/10-11.html">October 11, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 158 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000802">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405651">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig Hosmer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/942/000167441">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George McInvale Grant (1897-1982) — also known as George M. Grant — of Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/PI-lived.html">Pike County</a>, Ala. Born in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/BR-born.html">Barbour County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/07-11.html">July 11, 1897</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/AL/PI-parties.html">chair of Pike County Democratic Party</a>, 1927-37; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/AL.html">Alabama Democratic State Executive Committee</a>, 1935-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a>, 1938-65 (2nd District 1938-63, at-large 1963-65). <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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-kappa-phi.html">Pi Kappa Phi</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>, on a cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, en route to New York, probably in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/11-04.html">November 4, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 116 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">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Giles Grant and Lannie Gholson (Stephens) Grant; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/12-05.html">December 5, 1938</a>, to Matalie Carter.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000381">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404732">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ggrant.htm">Arlington National Cemetery unofficial website</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908-1987) — also known as Homer M. Byington, Jr. — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Naples, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-born.html">Italy</a> of American parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/05-31.html">May 31, 1908</a>. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1938-39; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MY-diplomats.html ">Malaya</a>, 1957-61; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1963-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a> in 1946. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, aboard the Vista Fjord, a Norwegian cruise ship, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/11-02.html">November 2, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 155 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-buried.html#cms02490">St. Georges Cemetery</a>, St. Georges, Del. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#176.21.28">Homer Morrison Byington</a>; married to Jane Craven McHarg; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#479.73.25">Aaron Homer Byington</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14290.html">Byington family</a> of Norwalk, Connecticut.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/byington-homer-morrison ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7745155">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Erwin Bibby (1920-2003) — also known as John E. Bibby — of Brookings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/BO-lived.html">Brookings County</a>, S.Dak. Born in Brookings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/BO-born.html">Brookings County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/11-21.html">November 21, 1920</a>. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">creamery manager</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">mens wear retailer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a>, 1963-74; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/stsen.html">South Dakota state senate</a>, 1975-82. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. Suffered <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">cardiac arrest</a> while sailing on Green Lake, Spicer, Minn., and died two weeks later, in Brookings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Brookings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/BO-died.html">Brookings County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/07-26.html">July 26, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/BO-buried.html#cms02666">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Brookings, 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">Relatives: Son of Irwin John 'Jake' Bibby and Ruth Edith (Erwin) Bibby; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/">1947</a> to Jean Frances Starksen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/">1993</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#811.35.10">Mary McClure</a>; father of John Francis 'Jay' Bibby.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Devoted Citizen."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/155199349">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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