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William Farrington Aldrich (1853-1925) —
also known as William F. Aldrich —
of Aldrich, Shelby
County, Ala.
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., March 11,
1853.
Son of William F. Aldrich and Louisa Maria (Klapp) Aldrich.
Republican. Civil engineer; mining
business; manufacturer;
postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1896-97, 1898-99,
1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1900,
1904.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., October
30, 1925 (age 72 years, 233
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Miller Baer (1886-1970) —
of North Dakota.
Born in Black Creek, Outagamie
County, Wis., March 29,
1886.
Civil engineer; farmer; cartoonist;
postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1917-21; defeated
(Non-Partisan League), 1920.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1970 (age 83 years, 326
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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John Michael Carmody (1881-1963) —
also known as John M. Carmody —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Towanda, Bradford
County, Pa., 1881.
Son of Michael John Carmody and Catherine 'Kate' (Collins) Carmody.
Democrat. Engineer; labor relations executive in coal
industry; editor of Coal Age trade
journal; member,
National Labor Relations Board, 1935-36; administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, 1937-39; director, Federal Works
Agency, 1939-41; member,
U.S. Maritime Commission, 1941-46.
Died November
10, 1963 (age about 82
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August 7,
1833.
Son of John Clayton and Ann (Clark) Clayton.
Republican. Engineer; surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Whitney Cooke (b. 1856) —
of Bowman's Creek, Wyoming
County, Pa.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.
Born in Wyoming
County, Pa., October
3, 1856.
Engineer; surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1891.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C.
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Relatives:
Married to Emma Florence Clark. |
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Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven (b. 1893) —
also known as T. A. M. Craven —
of Washington,
D.C.; Virginia.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1893.
Son of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; radio
engineer; member,
Federal Communications Commission, 1937-44, 1956-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven; married, September
25, 1915, to Josephine La Tourette; married 1931 to Emma
Stoner. |
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Proctor Lambert Dougherty (b. 1873) —
also known as Proctor L. Dougherty —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1873.
Son of M. Angelo Dougherty and Mary Elizabeth (Proctor) Dougherty.
Republican. Engineer; Manager, Otis Elevator Co., 1919-26; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1926-30.
Congregationalist;
later Unitarian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Ward Duffield (b. 1823) —
also known as William W. Duffield —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
19, 1823.
Democrat. Civil engineer; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1879-80; chief engineer for railways;
superintendent, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1894-98.
Burial
location unknown.
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Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887-1976) —
Born in Parkerville, Morris
County, Kan., April 17,
1887.
Son of John Edgar Edgerton and Alice (Green) Edgerton.
Engineer; Major General, U.S. Army; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1940-44.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1976
(age about
89 years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Philip Bond Fouke (1818-1876) —
also known as Philip B. Fouke —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., January
23, 1818.
Democrat. Civil engineer; newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
prosecuting attorney for 2nd circuit, 1846-50; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1859-63; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
3, 1876 (age 58 years, 254
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Garcia (b. 1933) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
9, 1933.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; computer
engineer; member of New York
state assembly, 1966-67 (83rd District 1966, 77th District 1967);
resigned 1967; member of New York
state senate 30th District, 1967-78; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1978-90 (21st District 1978-83,
18th District 1983-90); resigned 1990; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984,
1988;
indicted
in 1988, along with his wife, on federal bribery
and extortion
charges;
convicted
in October 1989 and sentenced
to three years in prison
(served 104 days); the conviction was reversed on appeal; retried
and again convicted
in 1991; the second conviction was also overturned, and prosecutors
dropped the case.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Mahone (1826-1895) —
of Virginia.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., December
1, 1826.
Civil engineer; president, chief engineer, superintendent,
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; president,
Norfolk and Western Railroad;
U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1881-87.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
8, 1895 (age 68 years, 311
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 16,
1903.
Son of Patrick Mansfield and Josephine (O'Brien) Mansfield.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining
engineer; university
professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Worthington Russell (1859-1944) —
also known as William W. Russell —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
3, 1859.
Civil engineer; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1904-05; Venezuela, 1905-09; Dominican Republic, 1910-13, 1915-25; Siam, 1925-27.
Died in 1944
(age about
84 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hoval A. Smith (1876-c.1954) —
of Arizona.
Born in Iowa, 1876.
Republican. Mining
engineer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1911.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Advocated the annexation of Sonora from Mexico to the U.S.
Died about 1954 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married to Nina R. Smith. |
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