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William S. Banowsky (b. 1936) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex., March 4,
1936.
Republican. Minister;
president, Pepperdine University, 1968-78; president,
University of Oklahoma, 1978-85; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1972;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1972-73; Presidential Elector
for California, 1972.
Church
of Christ.
Still living as of 2000.
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William Henry Harrison Beadle (1838-1915) —
also known as William H. H. Beadle —
of Madison, Lake
County, S.Dak.
Born, in a log
cabin at Howard, Parke
County, Ind., January
1, 1838.
Son of James Ward Beadle and Elizabeth (Bright) Beadle.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Republican National Committee from Dakota Territory, 1872-;
member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1877-79; Dakota
Territory superintendent of public instruction, 1879-86;
president, Madison State Normal School (now Dakota State
University), 1889-1906.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
15, 1915 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Charles Ernest Bunnell (1878-1956) —
also known as Charles E. Bunnell —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Dimock, Susquehanna
County, Pa., January
12, 1878.
Son of Lyman Walton Bunnell and Ruth (Tingley) Bunnell.
Democrat. Candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1914; U.S.
District Judge for Alaska, 1914-21; first president of the
Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (later University of
Alaska), 1921-45.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, following a heart
attack, at a nursing
home in Burlingame, San Mateo
County, Calif., November
1, 1956 (age 78 years, 294
days).
Interment at Birch
Hill Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska; statue at University
of Alaska Campus, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Walter Friar Dexter (1886-1945) —
also known as Walter F. Dexter —
of Whittier, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
21, 1886.
Son of Harry Dexter and Margaret (Bell) Dexter.
Republican. President, Whittier College, 1923-34; secretary to
Gov. Frank
F. Merriam; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1932;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1937-45; appointed 1937;
died in office 1945.
Quaker.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Lions.
Died October
21, 1945 (age 58 years, 334
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Son of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; college
professor; president, Talladega College, 1933-43;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield
(1801-1888).
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president, Eclectic University (now Hiram
College); member of Ohio state
senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
His portrait appeared on the U.S. $20
gold certificate in about 1898-1905.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Third
cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Lathrop; son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou)
Garfield (1801-1888); fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph (1832-1918);
third cousin once removed of Abial
Lathrop; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer; father of James
Rudolph Garfield. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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George Richmond Grose (1869-1953) —
also known as George R. Grose —
of Massachusetts; Baltimore,
Md.; Peiping (Beijing), China;
Altadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Nicholas
County, W.Va., July 14,
1869.
Son of Andrew Dixon Grose and Mary Estaline (Harrah) Grose.
Democrat. Pastor; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ;
president, DePauw University, 1913-1924; missionary bishop in
China, 1924-29.
Methodist.
Died in Altadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
1953 (age 83 years, 296
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Stephen Horn (b. 1931) —
also known as Stephen Horn; Steve Horn —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in San Juan Bautista, San Benito
County, Calif., May 31,
1931.
Son of John Stephen Horn and Isabelle (McCaffrey) Horn.
Republican. Administrative assistant to Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell, 1959-60; legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Thomas
H. Kuchel, 1960-66; president, California State University
Long Beach, 1970-88; U.S.
Representative from California 38th District, 1993-2003; defeated
in primary, 1988.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Clark Kerr (1911-2003) —
Born in Pennsylvania, May 17,
1911.
Chancellor, University of California Berkeley, 1952-58
president, University of California, 1958-67; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Died in El Cerrito, Contra Costa
County, Calif., December
1, 2003 (age 92 years, 198
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ira Landrith (1865-1941) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Milford, Ellis
County, Tex., March 23,
1865.
Son of Martin Luther Landrith and Mary M. (Groves) Landrith.
Presbyterian
minister; president, Belmont College, Nashville, 1904-12;
president, Ward-Belmont College, 1913-15; Prohibition
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; president, Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association, 1920-27; president, National Temperance
Council, 1928-31.
Presbyterian.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
11, 1941 (age 76 years, 202
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Rex E. Lee (1935-1996) —
of Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
27, 1935.
Son of Rex E. Lee and Mabel (Whiting) Lee.
Republican. Lawyer; law
clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron
R. White, 1963-64; U.S.
Solicitor General, 1981-85; president, Brigham Young
University, 1989-95.
Mormon.
Member, Rotary.
Died March 11,
1996 (age 61 years, 13
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Foote Pedersen (b. 1925) —
also known as Richard F. Pedersen —
of California.
Born in 1925.
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1973-75.
President of American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Still living as of 2006.
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Robert Gordon Sproul (1891-1975) —
also known as Robert G. Sproul —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 22,
1891.
Son of Robert Sproul and Sarah Elizabeth (Moore) Sproul.
Republican. President, University of California, 1930-58;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1948.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., September
10, 1975 (age 84 years, 111
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 12,
1821.
Republican. First principal, in 1851-65, of the Michigan State
Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich. (later Eastern Michigan
University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president, in
1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later Iowa
State University); college
professor; author.
Welch Hall, at Eastern Michigan University, is named for him.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 14,
1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949) —
also known as Ray L. Wilbur —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Boonesboro, Boone
County, Iowa, April 13,
1875.
Son of Dwight Locke Wilbur and Edna Maria (Lyman) Wilbur.
Republican. Physician;
dean of
Stanford University Medical School, 1911-16; president of
Stanford University, 1916-43; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1929-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Newcomen
Society.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 26,
1949 (age 74 years, 74
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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