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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Son of Charles Leslie Adams (born 1896) and Vera Eleanor (Beemer)
Adams (born 1903).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual
misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape;
he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen Anne's
County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad
Creek Cemetery, Stevensville, Md.
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Bond Almand (1894-1985) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Lithonia, DeKalb
County, Ga., January
13, 1894.
Son of Alexander James Almand (1852-1932) and Clara Emily (Bond)
Almand (1860-1913).
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Fulton County, 1935-36;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1942-43, 1945-49; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1949-69; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1969-72.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Alpha Delta; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Junior
Order; Kiwanis.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 13,
1985 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives:
Grandson of William
Parks Bond; son of Alexander James Almand (1852-1932) and Clara
Emily (Bond) Almand (1860-1913); married, June 18,
1932, to Helen Whitefoot Barnett (1900-1996). |
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Philip Henry Alston, Jr. (1911-1988) —
also known as Philip H. Alston, Jr. —
of Sea Island, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., April 19,
1911.
Son of Philip Henry Alston and May (Lewis) Alston.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 1977-81; Nauru, 1979-81.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died March 2,
1988 (age 76 years, 318
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jefferson Randolph Anderson (b. 1861) —
also known as J. Randolph Anderson —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., September
4, 1861.
Son of Edward Clifford Anderson, Jr. and Jane Margaret (Randolph)
Anderson.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for several railroads;
director, Savannah Bank and
Trust Co.; director, Savannah Electric &
Power Co.; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1905-06, 1909-12; member of Georgia
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1907-08; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1912
(speaker);
member of Georgia
state senate, 1913-14.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Arnall (b. 1947) —
also known as Joe Arnall —
of Florida.
Born in Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga., February
14, 1947.
Republican. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 18th District, 1989-.
Episcopalian. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation.
Still living as of 1999.
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William Hale Barrett (1866-1941) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1866.
Son of William Hale Barrett and Susan (Rhind) Barrett.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, 1922-41;
died in office 1941.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Rotary.
Died May 1,
1941 (age 74 years, 233
days).
Interment somewhere
in Augusta, Ga.
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Benjamin Bentley Blackburn (b. 1927) —
also known as Benjamin B. Blackburn; Ben B.
Blackburn —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., February
14, 1927.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1967-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Optimist
Club.
Still living as of 1998.
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Paul C. Broun (1916-2005) —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Bogart, Oconee
County, Ga.
Born in Shellman, Randolph
County, Ga., March 1,
1916.
Son of Leroy Augustus Broun and Annie (Edwards) Broun.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; merchant;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1963-2001.
Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Moose; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
Died February
14, 2005 (age 88 years, 350
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Devereux Byron (1895-1941) —
also known as William D. Byron —
of Williamsport, Washington
County, Md.
Born in Danville,
Va., May 15,
1895.
Son of Col. Joseph C. Byron and Jane (Wilson) Byron.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor of
Williamsport, Md., 1926-30; member of Maryland
state senate, 1930-34; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1936;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Episcopalian.
Killed in an airplane
crash at Jonesboro, Clayton
County, Ga., February
27, 1941 (age 45 years, 288
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Williamsport, Md.
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Howard Hollis Callaway (b. 1927) —
also known as Howard H. Callaway; Bo
Callaway —
of Pine Mountain, Harris
County, Ga.; Crested Butte, Gunnison
County, Colo.
Born in La Grange, Troup
County, Ga., April 2,
1927.
Son of Cason Jewell Callaway and Virginia (Hand) Callaway.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 3rd District, 1965-67; candidate for
Governor
of Georgia 1966, election inconclusive; member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1968-73; Presidential Elector
for Georgia, 1972;
Colorado
Republican state chair, 1981-87.
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Rotary.
Still living as of 1998.
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John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) —
also known as John A. Campbell —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., June 24,
1811.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1837; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-61; Confederate States Assistant
Secretary of War, 1861-65.
Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., March 12,
1889 (age 77 years, 261
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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George H. Carley (b. 1938) —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., September
24, 1938.
Son of George L. Carley, Jr. and Dorothy (Holmes) Carley.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1966; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1979-93; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1993-.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Elks; Rotary.
Still living as of 2009.
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Saxby Chambliss (b. 1943) —
of Moultrie, Colquitt
County, Ga.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., November
10, 1943.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1995-2003; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 2003-.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2012.
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John Sanford Cohen (1870-1935) —
also known as John S. Cohen —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
26, 1870.
Democrat. Member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1924-; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1932-33.
Episcopalian. Jewish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., May 13,
1935 (age 65 years, 76
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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George Dent (1756-1813) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., 1756.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1782-90; member of Maryland
state senate, 1791-92; state court judge in Maryland, 1791-95; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1793-1801.
Episcopalian.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., December
2, 1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Ga.
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George H. Edwards (1911-1980) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., February
13, 1911.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1955-78 (Wayne County 11th
District 1955-64, 12th District 1965-72, 9th District 1973-78).
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in 1980
(age about
69 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Howard Flowers, Jr. (1913-2000) —
also known as W. H. 'Bill' Flowers, Jr. —
of Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga.
Born November
14, 1913.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1964-68.
Episcopalian.
President of Flowers Baking Company, and chief executive officer of
Flowers Industries.
Died in Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga., May 2,
2000 (age 86 years, 170
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Tillie Kidd Fowler (1942-2005) —
also known as Tillie K. Fowler; Tillie
Kidd —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., December
23, 1942.
Daughter of Edwards
Culver Kidd, Jr..
Republican. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Robert
G. Stephens, Jr., 1967-70; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1993-2001; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Florida, 2004.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Junior
League.
Died, of a brain
hemorrhage, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., March 2,
2005 (age 62 years, 69
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian. French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John F.
Hill
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| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
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William Mathis Gober (b. 1875) —
also known as William M. Gober —
of Ocala, Marion
County, Fla.; Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla.; Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Commerce, Jackson
County, Ga., July 29,
1875.
Son of William J. Gober and Clarisa (Embry) Gober.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 1st District, 1916, 1922; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Florida, 1920
(alternate), 1924;
candidate for Florida
state attorney general, 1920; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, 1921-29; candidate
for justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1924.
Episcopalian. Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Burial
location unknown.
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Guy Despard Goff (1866-1933) —
also known as Guy D. Goff —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., September
13, 1866.
Son of Laura E. (Despard) Goff and Nathan
Goff, Jr..
Republican. U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1911-15; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1925-31.
Episcopalian.
Died in Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga., January
7, 1933 (age 66 years, 116
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Philip Gramm (b. 1942) —
also known as Phil Gramm —
of College Station, Brazos
County, Tex.
Born in Fort Benning, Chattahoochee
County, Ga., July 8,
1942.
University
professor; U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1978-83, 1983-85;
resigned 1983; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1985-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1996.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Houstoun (1755-1813) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1755.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784-86; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March 17,
1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Chapel, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Katherine Graham Howard (1898-1986) —
also known as Katherine G. Howard; Katherine Montague
Graham; Mrs. Charles P. Howard —
of Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Guyton, Effingham
County, Ga., 1898.
Daughter of Joseph Lewis Graham and Margaret (Nowell) Graham.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952,
1956
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1945-53; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1948-53.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, League of Women
Voters; Colonial
Dames.
Died in 1986
(age about
88 years).
Interment somewhere
in Reading, Mass.
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John Heddens Kingston (b. 1955) —
also known as Jack Kingston —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Bryan, Brazos
County, Tex., April 24,
1955.
Republican. Business
executive; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1985-93; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1993-.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alexander Robert Lawton, Jr. (b. 1884) —
also known as Alexander R. Lawton, Jr. —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., August
16, 1884.
Son of Alexander Rudolf Lawton (born 1858) and Ella Stanly (Beckwith)
Lawton.
Democrat. Lawyer;
general solicitor, Central of Georgia Railway;
general solicitor, Ocean Steamship
Co. of Savannah; director, Colonial Oil Company;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Chatham County, 1925-26.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Psi.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) —
also known as William G. McAdoo —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., October
31, 1863.
Son of William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1849) and Mary Faith (Floyd) McAdoo
(1832-1913).
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner with William
McAdoo (no relation); attorney for railroads;
president, Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1912; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920,
1924;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1932,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1933-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1937.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1941 (age 77 years, 93
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Anderson Mercer (1835-1907) —
also known as George A. Mercer —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1835.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
member of Georgia state legislature; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1892.
Episcopalian.
Died from "congestion of the brain" (probably a stroke),
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., October
23, 1907 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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John Millen (1804-1843) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1804.
Democrat. Member of Georgia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843; died in office 1843.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1843
(age about
39 years).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Palmer II (1914-1994) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; California.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 16,
1914.
Son of Robert Woodbury Palmer and Helen Marie (Bush) Palmer.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Mexico City, 1940; Nairobi, 1941-45; U.S. Consul in London, 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1960-64; Libya, 1969.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1994
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Leigh Pierce (1740-1789) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in 1740.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1786; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1787; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
10, 1789 (age about 49
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) —
also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt;
"F.D.R." —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
30, 1882.
Son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt
(1854-1941).
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1911-13; resigned 1913; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1928;
contracted polio in the early 1920s; as a result, his legs were
paralyzed for the rest of his life; Governor of
New York, 1929-33; President
of the United States, 1933-45; died in office 1945; on February
15, 1933, in Miami, Fla., he and Chicago mayor Anton
J. Cermak were shot
at by Guiseppe Zangara; Cermak was hit and mortally wounded.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Grange; Knights
of Pythias.
Served as president during the Depression and World War II. His
portrait appears on the U.S. dime
(ten
cent coin).
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Warm Springs, Meriwether
County, Ga., April 12,
1945 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; son of James Roosevelt (1828-1900) and Sara
(Delano) Roosevelt (1854-1941); fourth cousin once removed of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); half-uncle of Helen
Roosevelt Robinson; married, March 17,
1905, to Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Theodore
Roosevelt (1858-1919); first cousin of Corinne
Douglas Robinson); second cousin of Caroline Astor Drayton (who
married William
Phillips); first cousin of Warren
Delano Robbins and Katharine
Price Collier St. George; father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Ross
T. McIntire — Milton
Lipson — W.
W. Howes — Bruce
Barton — Hamilton
Fish, Jr. — Joseph
W. Martin, Jr. — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Rexford
G. Tugwell — Raymond
Moley — Adolf
A. Berle — George
E. Allen — Lorence
E. Asman — Grenville
T. Emmet |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
James MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — Doris Kearns Goodwin, No
Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in
World War II — Joseph Alsop & Roland Gelatt, FDR
: 1882-1945 — Bernard Bellush, Franklin
Roosevelt as Governor of New York — Robert H. Jackson,
That
Man : An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt —
Jonas Klein, Beloved
Island : Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of
Campobello — Conrad Black, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt : Champion of Freedom — Charles
Peters, Five
Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of
1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World —
Steven Neal, Happy
Days Are Here Again : The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence
of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever — Karen
Bornemann Spies, Franklin
D. Roosevelt (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Franklin D.
Roosevelt: Jim Powell, FDR's
Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great
Depression — John T. Flynn, The
Roosevelt Myth |
| | | Fiction about Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Philip Roth, The
Plot Against America: A Novel |
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Julian Larcombe Schley (1880-1965) —
of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone (now Panama).
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
23, 1880.
Son of Jordan Schley and Eliza Ann (Larcombe) Schley.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant colonel, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers;
Governor
of Panama Canal Zone, 1932-36.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Died March 29,
1965 (age 85 years, 34
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hugh P. Thompson —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in Georgia, 1979-94; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1994-.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Jaycees;
Rotary.
Still living as of 2008.
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James Moore Wayne (1790-1867) —
also known as James M. Wayne —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1790.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1815-16; mayor
of Savannah, Ga., 1817-19; state court judge in Georgia, 1820-22;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1829-35; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1835-67; died in office 1867.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 5,
1867 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Maximilian Bethune Wellborn (b. 1862) —
also known as M. B. Wellborn —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Lewisville, Lafayette
County, Ark., January
22, 1862.
Son of Maximilian Bethune Wellborn and Emma Julia (Dent) Wellborn.
Democrat. President, First National Bank of
Anniston, 1905-14; director, Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad;
Calhoun
County Commissioner; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1912;
Governor, Federal Reserve Bank of
Atlanta, from 1914; delegate to
Alabama convention to ratify 21st amendment from Calhoun County,
1933.
Episcopalian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary Hinton Graves. |
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North Winship (1885-1968) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
31, 1885.
Son of Nathaniel R. Winship and Mary A. (North) Winship.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Tahiti, 1910; Owen Sound, 1913-14; Petrograd, 1914-17; Milan, 1917-21; Bombay, 1921-22; Fiume, 1923-24; Cairo, 1924-27; U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, 1928-31; Toronto, 1943; Montreal, 1945-47; U.S. Minister to South Africa, 1948-49; U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, 1949.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1968
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Relatives:
Married 1921
to Catherine Colfelt Taylor. |
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Bob Young (born c.1948) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born about 1948.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War; mayor of
Augusta, Ga., 1999-; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Georgia, 2000,
2004;
Presidential Elector for Georgia, 2000.
Episcopalian. Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Still living as of 2004.
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