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Mary Eldridge Alger (1876-1956) —
also known as Mary E. Alger; Mary Eldridge Swift;
Mrs. Frederick M. Alger —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Norfolk, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 21,
1876.
Daughter of Edward Young Swift (1827-1913) and Irene (Battell) Swift
(1840-1913).
Republican. Delegate to
Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Wayne County
1st District, 1933; member, Michigan Liquor Control Commission, 1933,
1935.
Female.
Presbyterian. Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
9, 1956 (age 80 years, 172
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1898-1947) —
also known as Fred Bradley —
of Rogers City, Presque
Isle County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 12,
1898.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1939-47; died in
office 1947.
Presbyterian. Member, Kiwanis.
Died, in the infirmary at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London,
New
London County, Conn., May 24,
1947 (age 49 years, 42
days).
Interment at Rogers
City Memorial Park, Rogers City, Mich.
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George Ellsworth Chamberlin (b. 1872) —
also known as George E. Chamberlin —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in West Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., February
17, 1872.
Son of Edward Chandler Chamberlin and M. Jane (Kinney) Chamberlin.
Traveling
salesman; piano
manufacturing business; U.S. Vice Consul in Singapore, 1906-10; U.S. Consul in Swatow, 1910; Queenstown, 1910-14; Georgetown, 1914-19; Glasgow, 1919-26; U.S. Consul General in Glasgow, 1927-29; Halifax, 1932.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Eli Clark (1869-1950) —
also known as Walter E. Clark —
of Washington,
D.C.; Alaska; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Ashford, Windham
County, Conn., January
7, 1869.
Son of Oren Andrus Clark and Emily Jeannette (Jones) Clark.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; Governor of
Alaska District, 1909-12; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1912-13; newspaper
editor.
Presbyterian or Congregationalist.
Member, Chi Psi.
Died of a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., February
4, 1950 (age 81 years, 28
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.
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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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James Albert Gary (1833-1920) —
also known as James A. Gary —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Uncasville, Montville, New London
County, Conn., October
22, 1833.
Cotton duck
manufacturer; Whig candidate for Maryland
state senate, 1858; Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1870, 1872; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1872,
1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
Republican candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1879; member of Republican
National Committee from Maryland, 1880-96; Maryland
Republican state chair, 1883; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1897-98; vice-president, Consolidated Gas
Company; president, Citizens National Bank of
Baltimore.
Presbyterian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
31, 1920 (age 87 years, 9
days).
Interment at Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives:
Married 1856
to Lavin Corrie. |
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William H. Gleason (1833-1892) —
of Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Durham, Middlesex
County, Conn., September
28, 1833.
Son of Henry Gleason and Cynthia (Vandervoort) Gleason.
Merchant;
lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 1st District, 1864-65; pastor.
Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
21, 1892 (age 58 years, 146
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Porter J. Goss (b. 1938) —
of Sanibel, Lee
County, Fla.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., November
26, 1938.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1989-2004 (13th District 1989-93,
14th District 1993-2004); resigned 2004; Director of Central
Intelligence, 2004-06.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Charles Hanson (1883-1935) —
also known as George C. Hanson —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
11, 1883.
Son of Charles C. Hanson (c.1844-1934) and Josephine (Stegkemper)
Hanson.
U.S. Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Chefoo, 1912-13; U.S. Vice Consul in Dalny, 1913-14; Tientsin, 1914-15; Newchwang, 1915; U.S. Consul in Swatow, 1915-17; Chungking, 1917-18; Foochow, 1918-21; Harbin, 1922-31; U.S. Consul General in Harbin, 1931-32; Moscow, 1935; Salonika, 1935, died in office 1935.
Presbyterian. Member, Alpha
Delta Sigma; Delta
Tau Delta; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot,
aboard
the steamship President Polk, en route from Marseilles to
New York, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
2, 1935 (age 51 years, 326
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield, Conn.
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John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 20,
1899.
Son of John Maynard Harlan and Elizabeth Palmer (Flagg) Harlan.
Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1954-55; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1955-71.
Presbyterian. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1971 (age 72 years, 223
days).
Interment at Emmanuel
Church Cemetery, Weston, Conn.
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William Franklin Henney (b. 1852) —
also known as William F. Henney —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Enfield, Hartford
County, Conn., November
2, 1852.
Son of John Henney and Mene (Barclay) Henney.
Republican. Lawyer;
director and counsel, Hartford Electric
Light Co. and Southern New England Telephone
Co.; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1904-08; member of Republican
National Committee from Connecticut, 1913-16.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Bunce Holt (1790-1871) —
also known as George B. Holt —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Norfolk, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 12,
1790.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1824-25; member of Ohio state
senate, 1828-30; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1828-36,
1843-49; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Montgomery County,
1850-51.
Presbyterian.
Died October
30, 1871 (age 81 years, 140
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
24, 1749.
Son of Hannah (Whiting) Ingersoll (1719-1786) and Jared Ingersoll
(1722-1781).
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1780-81; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1791-1800, 1811-16; U.S.
Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1800-01; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1812; district judge in
Pennsylvania, 1821-22.
Presbyterian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
31, 1822 (age 73 years, 7
days).
Interment at Old
Pine Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
7, 1727.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1784-87; member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1786-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1789-91.
Presbyterian or Episcopalian.
Died in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
14, 1819 (age 92 years, 38
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Cemetery, Stratford, Conn.
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John Russell Kellogg (1793-1868) —
also known as John R. Kellogg —
of Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich.
Born in New Hartford, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 16,
1793.
Son of Jesse Kellogg and Susanna (Griswold) Kellogg.
Republican. Merchant;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Allegan County, 1838; member
of Michigan
state board of education, 1855-60; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1856.
Presbyterian.
Died in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., March 13,
1868 (age 74 years, 302
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary Otterson. |
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Charles Henry Leeds (b. 1834) —
also known as Charles H. Leeds —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
9, 1834.
Son of Samuel Leeds and Mary Warren (Mellen) Leeds.
Republican. Manufacturer;
mayor
of Stamford, Conn., 1894-95.
Presbyterian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Davenport Lockwood (b. 1877) —
also known as Charles D. Lockwood —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
11, 1877.
Son of Henry Lockwood and Helen (Davenport) Lockwood.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1920;
delegate
to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large, 1933.
Presbyterian. Member, Sigma
Xi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Roe Mansfield (1911-1987) —
of New York; New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 1,
1911.
Son of Frederick
William Mansfield and Helena E. (Roe) Mansfield.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1966-71; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1971-81.
Presbyterian. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of a stroke, in
Christchurch, New
Zealand, January
7, 1987 (age 75 years, 190
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Warren Scranton (b. 1917) —
also known as William W. Scranton —
of Dalton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Madison, New Haven
County, Conn., July 19,
1917.
Son of Marion
Margery Scranton and Worthington Scranton.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 10th District, 1961-63; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1963-67; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1964;
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1976-77.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Strong (1808-1895) —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Somers, Tolland
County, Conn., May 6,
1808.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1847-51; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1857-68; resigned 1868; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1870-80; retired 1880.
Presbyterian.
Died in Lake Minnewaska, Ulster
County, N.Y., August
19, 1895 (age 87 years, 105
days).
Interment at Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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Uri Tracy (1764-1838) —
of Oxford, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., February
8, 1764.
Democrat. Minister; postmaster;
Chenango
County Sheriff, 1798-1801; Chenango
County Clerk, 1801-15; member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1802-03; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1805-07, 1809-13 (16th District
1805-07, 13th District 1809-13); county judge in New York, 1819-23.
Presbyterian.
Died in Oxford, Chenango
County, N.Y., July 21,
1838 (age 74 years, 163
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Oxford, N.Y.
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Frederic Collin Walcott (1869-1949) —
also known as Frederic C. Walcott —
of Norfolk, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York Mills, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
19, 1869.
Republican. Manufacturer;
banker;
member of Connecticut
state senate, 1925-27; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1928,
1932;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1929-35; defeated, 1934.
Presbyterian.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 27,
1949 (age 80 years, 67
days).
Interment at Center
Cemetery, Norfolk, Conn.
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Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) —
also known as Henry A. Wallace —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; South Salem, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Orient, Adair
County, Iowa, October
7, 1888.
Son of May (Brodhead) Wallace and Henry
Cantwell Wallace.
U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-40; Vice
President of the United States, 1941-45; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Iowa, 1940,
1944;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1945-46; Progressive candidate for President
of the United States, 1948.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Danbury, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
18, 1965 (age 77 years, 42
days).
Interment at Glendale
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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