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Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-1969) —
also known as Thurman W. Arnold —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., June 2,
1891.
Son of Constantine Peter Arnold and Annie (Brockway) Arnold.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1921; mayor of
Laramie, Wyo., 1923-24; dean, College of Law, West
Virginia University, 1927-30; professor of law, Yale
University, from 1931; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1943-45; resigned
1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died two months later, in Alexandria,
Va., November
7, 1969 (age 78 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Charles Montague Bakewell (1867-1957) —
also known as Charles M. Bakewell —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., April 24,
1867.
Son of Thomas Bakewell and Josephine Alden (Maitland) Bakewell.
Republican. University professor; member of Connecticut
state senate 8th District, 1921-24; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1932
(alternate), 1936;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1933-35.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Freemasons;
Elks; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
19, 1957 (age 90 years, 148
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) —
also known as Simeon E. Baldwin —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
5, 1840.
Son of Roger
Sherman Baldwin and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Connecticut
state senate 4th District, 1867; law professor; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1897-1907; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1907-10; Governor of
Connecticut, 1911-15; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1912;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1914.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; American
Historical Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Philosophical Society.
Died January
30, 1927 (age 86 years, 359
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Philemon Bliss (1813-1889) —
Born in Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., July 28,
1813.
Son of Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Ohio, 1848-51; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1855-59; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1861-65; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1868-72; law professor.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
25, 1889 (age 76 years, 28
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Columbia, Mo.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Oxford, England.
Born in Longmeadow, Hampden
County, Mass., June 17,
1919.
Son of Kingman Brewster and Florence Foster (Besse) Brewster.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; President
of Yale University, 1963-77; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1977-81.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, England,
November
8, 1988 (age 69 years, 144
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Guido Calabresi (b. 1932) —
of Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Milan, Italy,
October
18, 1932.
Lawyer;
law professor; dean, Yale Law School, 1985-94; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1994-2009; took senior
status 2009; senior
judge, 2009-.
Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Charles Edward Clark (1889-1963) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbridge, New Haven
County, Conn., December
9, 1889.
Son of Samuel Orman Clark and Pauline C. (Marquard) Clark.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1917-18; law professor;
dean, Yale Law School, 1929; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1939-63; died in
office 1963.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died December
13, 1963 (age 74 years, 4
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April 10,
1862.
Son of Samuel Cross and Harriet M. (Gurley) Cross.
Democrat. University professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Winthrop More Daniels (b. 1867) —
also known as Winthrop M. Daniels —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Saybrook, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, September
30, 1867.
Son of E. A. Daniels.
University professor; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1914-23; trustee of New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad,
1935.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Henry Crosby Emery (b. 1872) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, December
21, 1872.
Son of Lucilius
Alonzo Emery and Annie S. (Crosby) Emery.
Economist;
university professor; chairman, U.S. Tariff Board, 1909-13.
Burial
location unknown.
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Francis Gillette (1807-1879) —
of Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn.; Bloomfield, Hartford
County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor (part now in Bloomfield), Hartford
County, Conn., December
14, 1807.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1832, 1838 (Windsor 1832,
Bloomfield 1838); U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1854-55; lecturer.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., September
30, 1879 (age 71 years, 290
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Farmington, Conn.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Son of Alpheus Hardy and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy.
Civil
engineer; college professor; author;
editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March 14,
1930 (age 82 years, 213
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Lukens McConaughy (1887-1948) —
also known as James L. McConaughy —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1887.
Republican. College professor; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-41; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1947-48; died in office 1948.
Member, Rotary; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March 7,
1948 (age 60 years, 138
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Monroe (1821-1898) —
of Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Plainfield, Windham
County, Conn., July 18,
1821.
Republican. College professor; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1856-59; member of Ohio state
senate, 1860-62; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Ohio, 1860;
U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1862-70; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1871-81 (14th District 1871-73, 18th
District 1873-79, 17th District 1879-81).
Died in Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio, July 6,
1898 (age 76 years, 353
days).
Interment at Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.
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Ralph Nader (b. 1934) —
of Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
27, 1934.
Son of Nadra or Nathra Nader and Rose (Bouziane) Nader.
Lawyer;
university professor; consumer advocate; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996 (Green), 2000 (Green), 2004
(Independent), 2008 (Independent).
Lebanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Thomas Burr Osborne (1798-1869) —
also known as Thomas B. Osborne —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Weston (part now in Easton), Fairfield
County, Conn., July 8,
1798.
Son of Jeremiah Osborne and Anna (Sherwood) Osborne.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Fairfield, 1836, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1839-43; member of
Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1844; county judge in Connecticut,
1844; probate judge in Connecticut, 1851; law professor.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
2, 1869 (age 71 years, 56
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in North Stratford (now Trumbull), Fairfield
County, Conn., August 8,
1779.
Son of Gold Selleck Silliman (1732-1790) and Mary (Fish) Silliman.
Republican. Lawyer; chemist;
university professor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Connecticut, 1856.
The mineral sillimanite was named for
him in 1850.
Died November
24, 1864 (age 85 years, 108
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Roscoe B. Turner Steffen (1893-1976) —
also known as Roscoe Steffen —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., April 9,
1893.
Son of John Bonard Steffen and Grace May (Brazelton) Turner.
Democrat. Law professor; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hamden, 1932, 1934.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 8,
1976 (age 83 years, 60
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bonard Steffen and Grace May (Brazelton) Turner; step-son of
William L. Turner; married 1919 to Ona
Belle Raymond. |
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Lawrence Henry Summers (b. 1954) —
also known as Lawrence H. Summers; Larry
Summers —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
30, 1954.
Economist;
university professor; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001; president
of Harvard University, 2001-06.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907).
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor General,
1890-92; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1892-1900; law professor; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull and
Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907); half-brother of
Charles
Phelps Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen 'Nellie' Herron (1861-1943; granddaughter of Ela
Collins; niece of William
Collins; daughter of John
Williamson Herron); brother of Henry
Waters Taft; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft, Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft II. See Taft
family of Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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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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Chase Going Woodhouse (1890-1984) —
also known as Chase Going; Mrs. E. J.
Woodhouse —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.; Baltic, Sprague, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Victoria, British
Columbia, of American parents, March 3,
1890.
Daughter of Seymour Going and Harriet (Jackson) Going.
Democrat. Economist;
college professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1941-43; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1945-47, 1949-51;
defeated, 1946, 1950; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women; Altrusa;
Pi
Lambda Theta; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
12, 1984 (age 94 years, 284
days).
Cremated.
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