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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 11,
1893.
Son of Edward Campion Acheson (1858-1934; Episcopal bishop of
Connecticut) and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson (1870-1958).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Son of John
Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams (1744-1818).
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Angela Marie Buchanan (b. 1948) —
also known as Bay Buchanan —
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1948.
Daughter of William Baldwin Buchanan (1905-1988) and Catherine
Elizabeth (Crum) Buchanan (1911-1995).
Republican. Treasurer for Ronald
Reagan's presidential campaigns, 1976-84; treasurer of the United
States, 1981-83; television
commentator; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1988;
candidate in primary for California
state treasurer, 1990.
Female.
Catholic;
later Mormon. Irish,
English, and German
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Patrick Joseph Buchanan (b. 1938) —
also known as Patrick J. Buchanan; Pat Buchanan;
"Pitchfork Pat" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
2, 1938.
Son of William Baldwin Buchanan (1905-1988) and Catherine Elizabeth
(Crum) Buchanan (1911-1995).
Advisor and speechwriter
to President Richard
Nixon and Vice President Spiro
Agnew; communications director for President Ronald
Reagan; newspaper
columnist,
radio and
television commentator; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1992,
1996;
Reform candidate for President
of the United States, 2000.
Catholic.
Irish,
English, and German
ancestry. Member, Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Still living as of 2010.
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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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Royal Samuel Copeland (1868-1938) —
also known as Royal S. Copeland —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
7, 1868.
Son of Roscoe
Pulaski Copeland and Frances Jane (Holmes) Copeland (born 1843).
Physician;
university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901-03; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1923-38; died in office 1938; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924,
1936;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1937.
Methodist.
English ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American
Public Health Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 17,
1938 (age 69 years, 222
days).
Interment at Mahwah
Cemetery, Mahwah, N.J.
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Charles Curtis (1860-1936) —
also known as "Square Shooter"; "The
Whisperer" —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in a log
cabin at Eugene (now part of Topeka), Shawnee
County, Kan., January
25, 1860; his mother was one-quarter blood Kansa/Osage Indian.
Son of Oren A. Curtis and Helen (Pappan) Curtis.
Republican. Lawyer; Shawnee
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1884-88; U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1893-1907 (4th District 1893-99, 1st
District 1899-1907); resigned 1907; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1907-13, 1915-29; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kansas, 1908;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1924;
Vice
President of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932.
Protestant.
English, French,
and Kansa/Osage
Indian ancestry.
Died of a heart
attack, in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1936 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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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
|
| | | 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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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles City
County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Son of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor of
Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio state
senate, 1819-21; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1820,
1824;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry.
Died of pneumonia,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) —
also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April 13,
1743.
Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796.
English ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. nickel
(five
cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2
bill since the 1860s.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826 (age 83 years, 82
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph
at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton (died 1782); third cousin once
removed of John
Marshall; father-in-law of Thomas
Mann Randolph and John
Wayles Eppes; uncle of Dabney
Carr; great-granduncle of John
Jordan Crittenden; second cousin once removed of William
Segar Archer; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; grandfather of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who
married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; ancestor of Lloyd
Lee Gravely. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy — Joshua
Fry |
| | | Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
Jefferson Kennard
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
Jefferson Word
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
Jefferson Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants
is obedience to God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.
Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard
Sterne Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan
Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher
Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America |
| | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) —
also known as John F. Kerry;
"Liveshot" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital,
Aurora, Adams
County, Colo., December
11, 1943.
Son of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary (Forbes) Kerry (1913-2002).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1972; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-85; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Catholic.
English and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull and
Bones.
Still living as of 2012.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Robert
Charles Winthrop; third cousin twice removed of William
Cameron Forbes; son of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary (Forbes)
Kerry (1913-2002); married, May 23,
1970, to Julia Stimson Thorne (divorced 1988); married, May 26,
1995, to Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz (widow of Henry
John Heinz III). See Heinz-Forbes-Kerry-Winthrop
family of Massachusetts. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — votes
in Congress from the Washington Post — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kerry: A
Call to Service : My Vision for a Better America
(2003) — The
New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
(1997) — Our
Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World, with
John Edwards (2004) |
| | | Books about John F. Kerry: Douglas
Brinkley, Tour
of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War — Michael
Kranish et al, John
F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best — Paul Alexander, The
Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White
House — George Butler, John
Kerry: A Portrait |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kerry:
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi, Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry — David N. Bossie, The
Many Faces of John Kerry |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of Spencer
County, Ind.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
English ancestry.
His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War;
determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the
battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing
this, redefined American nationhood.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April 15,
1865 (age 56 years, 62
days). He was elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans. His portrait appears on the U.S. penny
(one
cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5
bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also
appeared on U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $1
to $500.
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, November
4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (1818-1882; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter; sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of N. H.
R. Dawson); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln. See Porter-Edwards-Lincoln-Todd
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
Lincoln Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (out of print) — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — Karen
Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Franklin Nason (1897-1954) —
also known as William F. Nason; William Franklyn
Nason —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
13, 1897.
Son of Bradford A. Nason (born 1868) and Edith Jane (Appleton) Nason
(1878-1967).
U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1921-24; Mukden, 1924-25; Kobe, 1926; Taihoku, 1929; U.S. Consul in Kobe, 1932.
English ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 1,
1954 (age 56 years, 169
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, January
20, 1932, to Ruth Wells Barron (1910-1936; aviator killed in
explosion while trying to land plane at Omaha, Neb.). |
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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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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and Mary (Ball) Washington
(c.1709-1789).
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. quarter
(25
cent coin), and on the one
dollar bill. His portrait also appeared on various other
denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50
note during the Civil War.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Va.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and Mary (Ball) Washington
(c.1709-1789); married, January
6, 1759, to Martha (Dandridge) Custis (1731-1802); uncle of Bushrod
Washington; uncle by marriage of Burwell
Bassett; granduncle of George
Corbin Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; second cousin five times removed of Horace
Lee Washington. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Matthews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
Washington Holman
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
Washington Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
Washington Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
Washington Jones
— George
Washington Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George W.
Ray
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
Washington Oakes
— George
Washington Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Darden
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — Wendie C.
Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) —
also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the
Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack
County, N.H., January
18, 1782.
Son of Ebenezer Webster (1739-1806) and Abigail (Eastman) Webster
(1759-1836).
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate to
New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; Presidential
Elector for New Hampshire, 1820;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned
1827; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appeared on the
$10
U.S. Note from the 1860s until the early 20th century.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., October
24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280
days).
Interment at Winslow
Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Webster (1739-1806) and Abigail (Eastman) Webster
(1759-1836); fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin; married, May 29,
1808, to Grace Fletcher (1781-1828); second cousin twice removed
of Edwin
George Eastman. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Daniel
Webster Wilder
— Daniel
W. Mills
— Daniel
W. Jones
— Daniel
Webster Comstock
— Daniel
Webster Waugh
— Daniel
Webster Heagy
— Daniel
W. Whitmore
— Daniel
W. Hamilton
— Daniel
W. Allaman
— Webster
Turner
— Dan
W. Turner
— Daniel
W. Hoan
— Daniel
W. Ambrose, Jr.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Daniel Webster: Robert
Vincent Remini, Daniel
Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One
and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union —
Robert A. Allen, Daniel
Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current,
Daniel
Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism —
Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun |
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Roy Orchard Woodruff (1876-1953) —
also known as Roy O. Woodruff —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich., March 14,
1876.
Son of Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
dentist;
mayor
of Bay City, Mich., 1911-13; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 10th District, 1913-15, 1921-53;
defeated, 1914; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1940.
Baptist;
later Presbyterian.
Scottish
and English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; American
Legion; Elks; United
Spanish War Veterans; American
Dental Association; Delta
Sigma Delta.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
12, 1953 (age 76 years, 335
days).
Interment at Elm
Lawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich.
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