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Robert C. Word Ramspeck (1890-1972) —
also known as Robert Ramspeck —
of Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., September
5, 1890.
Son of Theodore R. Ramspeck and Ida (Word) Ramspeck; married, October
18, 1916, to Nobie Clay.
Democrat. Secretary to U.S. Rep. William
S. Howard, 1912; lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from DeKalb County, 1929-31; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1929-45.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order.
Died in Castor, Bienville
Parish, La., September
10, 1972 (age 82 years, 5
days).
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ga.
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Charles Simpson Reid (1897-1947) —
also known as Charles S. Reid —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Blairsville, Union
County, Ga., September
25, 1897.
Nephew of John
Lafayette Reid, Harry
Maurelle Reid and Charles
Simpson Reid (1861?-?); grandson of Simpson
Reid; first cousin once removed of William
W. Murray; son of Norville Y. Reid (1855-1934) and Sarah E.
'Sallie' (Daniel) Reid (1869-1944).
Democrat. Lawyer; banker; Georgia
Democratic state chair, 1937; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1938-43.
Methodist.
Member, Delta
Sigma Phi.
Died in Fulton
County, Ga., November
7, 1947 (age 50 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Alexander Roberts (1809-1872) —
also known as Samuel A. Roberts —
of Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex.
Born in Putnam
County, Ga., February
13, 1809.
Son of Willis Roberts and Asenath (Alexander) Roberts; married to
Lucinda Mary Reed.
Whig. Classmate of Jefferson
Davis at the U.S. Military Academy; lawyer; law partner of
James
W. Throckmorton and Thomas
J. Brown; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1841; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Texas, 1852.
Died in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., August
18, 1872 (age 63 years, 187
days).
Interment at Inglish
Cemetery, Bonham, Tex.
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Dwight Laing Rogers (1886-1954) —
also known as Dwight L. Rogers —
of Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born near Reidsville, Tattnall
County, Ga., August
17, 1886.
Son of William Millard Rogers and Augusta (Laing) Rogers; married, November
15, 1916, to Florence Roberts; father of Paul
Grant Rogers.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1930-38; U.S.
Representative from Florida 6th District, 1945-54; died in office
1954; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Sphinx; Kiwanis.
Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., December
1, 1954 (age 68 years, 106
days).
Interment at Lauderdale
Memorial Park, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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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.
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; father of James
Roosevelt (1907-1991), Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr..
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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Cross-reference:
Anton
J. Cermak — 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 Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Clay
family of New York |
| | | 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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Thomas Howard Ruger (1833-1907) —
Born in Lima, Livingston
County, N.Y., April 2,
1833.
Lawyer; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Georgia, 1868; superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1871-76.
Died June 3,
1907 (age 74 years, 62
days).
Interment at West
Point Cemetery, West Point, N.Y.
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Richard Brevard Russell (1861-1938) —
also known as Richard B. Russell —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Russell, Bartow
County, Ga.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., April 27,
1861.
Son of William John Russell and Rebecca Harriette (Brumby) Russell;
married, May 13,
1883, to Marie Louise Tyler (died 1886); married, June 24,
1891, to Ina Dillard (1868-1953); father of Richard
Brevard Russell, Jr. and Robert
Lee Russell; grandfather of Robert
Lee Russell, Jr..
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton
planter; newspaper
editor; president, Hoschton Telephone
Co.; organizer, Athens Street
Railway Co.; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-88; circuit judge in
Georgia, 1898-1906; candidate in primary for Governor of
Georgia, 1906; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1907-16; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1923-38; died in office 1938.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum.
Died December
3, 1938 (age 77 years, 220
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.
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Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. (1897-1971) —
also known as Richard B. Russell, Jr. —
of Winder, Barrow
County, Ga.
Born in Winder, Barrow
County, Ga., November
2, 1897.
Son of Richard
Brevard Russell and Ina (Dillard) Russell (1868-1953); brother of
Robert
Lee Russell; uncle of Robert
Lee Russell, Jr..
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Barrow County, 1921-31; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1927-31; Governor of
Georgia, 1931-33; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1933-71; died in office 1971; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1952;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952;
member, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Kiwanis;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
21, 1971 (age 73 years, 80
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Atlanta, Ga.
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Samuel Rutherford (1870-1932) —
of Forsyth, Monroe
County, Ga.
Born near Culloden, Crawford
County, Ga., March 15,
1870.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1896-97, 1921-24; member of Georgia
state senate, 1909-10; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 6th District, 1925-32; died in office
1932.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1932 (age 61 years, 326
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Forsyth, Ga.
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William James Samford (1844-1901) —
of Alabama.
Born in Meriwether
County, Ga., September
16, 1844.
Father of William
Hodges Samford and Thomas
Drake Samford.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1872,
1876;
delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1875; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1879-81; member of Alabama
state senate, 1892-95; Governor of
Alabama, 1900-01; died in office 1901.
Died in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., June 11,
1901 (age 56 years, 268
days).
Interment at Rosemere
Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.
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Carl Edward Sanders (b. 1925) —
also known as Carl E. Sanders —
of Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., May 15,
1925.
Son of Carl Thomas Sanders and Roberta J. (Alley) Sanders; married,
September
6, 1947, to Betty Bird Foy.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Richmond County, 1955-56;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1957-62; Governor of
Georgia, 1963-67; chair, Committee on Rules and Order of Business,
Democratic National Convention, 1964.
Baptist.
Member, Jaycees;
American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Moose; Elks; Freemasons;
Exchange
Club; Chi Phi;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Randall James Sauder (b. 1954) —
also known as Randy Sauder —
of Smyrna, Cobb
County, Ga.
Born in Du Bois, Clearfield
County, Pa., June 6,
1954.
Lawyer; political
consultant; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1995-2000; defeated (Democratic),
2000.
Seventh-Day
Adventist. Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2004.
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Charles Joseph Scarborough (b. 1963) —
also known as Joe Scarborough —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., April 9,
1963.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Florida 1st District, 1995-2001; resigned
2001; host of the television
news commentary show "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC.
Still living as of 2009.
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Francis Muir Scarlett (1891-1971) —
also known as Frank M. Scarlett —
of Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., June 9,
1891.
Son of Frank M. Scarlett and Bessie Brailsford (Bailey) Scarlett;
married, June 15,
1923, to Mary Louisa Morgan (died 1962); married, May 29,
1965, to Mary Roberta Walker.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1924,
1936;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, 1946-68;
took senior status 1968.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
The federal building in Brunswick, Ga. is named for
him.
Died November
18, 1971 (age 80 years, 162
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Schley (1786-1858) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., December
15, 1786.
Democrat. Lawyer; superior court judge in Georgia, 1825-28;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1833-35; resigned 1835; Governor of
Georgia, 1835-37.
Died near Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., November
20, 1858 (age 71 years, 340
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Ga.
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Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955) —
Born in Heidelberg, Germany,
of American parents, June 13,
1955.
Daughter of Thomas E. Sears and Onnye Jean Sears.
Lawyer; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1992-2005; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 2005-.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; National
Bar Association; Alpha
Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Joseph Sears (1874-1944) —
also known as William J. Sears —
of Kissimmee, Osceola
County, Fla.
Born in Smithville, Lee
County, Ga., December
4, 1874.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Kissimmee, Fla., 1907-11; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1915-29, 1933-37 (4th District
1915-29, at-large 1933-37).
Died in Kissimmee, Osceola
County, Fla., March 30,
1944 (age 69 years, 117
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Kissimmee, Fla.
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Ebenezer J. Shields (1778-1846) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., December
22, 1778.
Whig. Lawyer; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1833-35; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1835-39;
Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1840.
Died near La Grange, Fayette
County, Tex., April 21,
1846 (age 67 years, 120
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Marshall Slaton (1866-1955) —
also known as John M. Slaton —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Meriwether
County, Ga., December
25, 1866.
Son of William Franklin Slaton and Nancy June (Martin) Slaton;
married, July 12,
1898, to Sarah Frances Grant.
Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1896-1909; member of Georgia
state senate, 1909-11; Governor of
Georgia, 1911-12, 1913-15.
Died January
11, 1955 (age 88 years, 17
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Herman Louis Spahr (b. 1875) —
also known as Herman L. Spahr —
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., December
18, 1875.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer; college
teacher; U.S. Consul in Breslau, 1906-14; Montevideo, 1916-17.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Grier Stephens, Jr. (1913-2003) —
also known as Robert G. Stephens, Jr. —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
14, 1913.
Great-grandnephew of Alexander
Hamilton Stephens.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1951-53; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Clarke County, 1953-59; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1961-77.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Kiwanis;
Woodmen.
Died, in a hospital
at Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., February
20, 2003 (age 89 years, 190
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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William Stephens —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Lawyer; Georgia
state attorney general, 1776-80.
Burial
location unknown.
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Lackland McIntosh Stone (1801-1842) —
also known as Lackland M. Stone; Lachlan McIntosh
Stone —
of St. Joseph, Calhoun County (now Port St. Joe, Gulf
County), Fla.
Born in Georgia, September
11, 1801.
Son of Henry
Dessex Stone and Ann (Maxwell) Stone; married, July 24,
1819, to Hannah Dilahunt Loftin; uncle of Lewis
Maxwell Stone, James
Bennett Stone and Joseph
Seaborn Stone; granduncle of Terrell
Higdon Stone.
Lawyer; member
Florida territorial council, 1828-31.
Died, of yellow
fever, in St. Joseph, Calhoun County (now Port St. Joe, Gulf
County), Fla., April 11,
1842 (age 40 years, 212
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lewis Maxwell Stone (1819-1890) —
of Carrollton, Pickens
County, Ala.
Born in Baldwin
County, Ga., December
11, 1819.
Grandson of Henry
Dessex Stone; son of William DeSaix Stone (1793-1855) and
Elizabeth (Lewis) Stone (1801-1858); nephew of Lackland
McIntosh Stone; first cousin of James
Bennett Stone and Joseph
Seaborn Stone.
Lawyer; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1849-52, 1868-69, 1888-89; Speaker of
the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1868-69; member of Alabama
state senate, 1859-63; delegate
to Alabama secession convention, 1861; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1875.
Baptist.
Died in Carrollton, Pickens
County, Ala., June 26,
1890 (age 70 years, 197
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Marion Ortez Strickland (b. 1921) —
also known as M. Ortez Strickland —
of Vidalia, Toombs
County, Ga.
Born in Webb, Houston
County, Ala., July 19,
1921.
Son of Fannie Bell (Buie) Strickland (born 1901) and Norman Hamp
Strickland (1899-1930); married, March 2,
1952, to Betty Bulloch (born 1929).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Toombs County, 1955-56.
Methodist.
Member, Lions; American
Legion; Theta
Chi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 1956.
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Charles Tait (1768-1835) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.; Wilcox
County, Ala.
Born near Hanover, Hanover
County, Va., February
1, 1768.
Democrat. College
professor; lawyer; circuit judge in Georgia, 1803-09; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1809-19; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1820-26.
Died near Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., October
7, 1835 (age 67 years, 248
days).
Interment at Dry
Forks Cemetery, Camden, Ala.
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Herman Eugene Talmadge (1913-2002) —
also known as Herman E. Talmadge —
of Lovejoy, Clayton
County, Ga.
Born near McRae, Telfair
County, Ga., August 9,
1913.
Son of Eugene
Talmadge and Mattie Iola (Thurmond) Peterson Talmadge.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
Governor
of Georgia, 1947, 1948-55; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1952;
received one electoral vote for Vice-President, 1956;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1957-81; defeated, 1980.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Hampton, Henry
County, Ga., March 21,
2002 (age 88 years, 224
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Henry County, Ga.
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Malcolm Connor Tarver (1885-1960) —
also known as Malcolm C. Tarver —
of Dalton, Whitfield
County, Ga.
Born in Whitfield
County, Ga., September
25, 1885.
Married to Jewell Colclough.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1909-12; member of Georgia
state senate, 1913-14; superior court judge in Georgia, 1917-26;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1927-47.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Redmen;
Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died March 5,
1960 (age 74 years, 162
days).
Interment at West
Hill Cemetery, Dalton, Ga.
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Charles Spalding Thomas (1849-1934) —
also known as Charles S. Thomas —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Darien, McIntosh
County, Ga., December
6, 1849.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Colorado, 1884; member of Democratic
National Committee from Colorado, 1884-96; Governor of
Colorado, 1899-1901; defeated, 1894; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Colorado, 1908;
U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1913-21; defeated (National), 1920.
Died June 24,
1934 (age 84 years, 200
days).
Cremated.
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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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Standish Fletcher Thompson (b. 1925) —
also known as Fletcher Thompson —
of East Point, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in College Park, Fulton
County, Ga., February
5, 1925.
Son of R. Standish Thompson and Mary (Spencer) Thompson; married, November
23, 1946, to Kathryn Cochran.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; insurance
agent; lawyer; member of Georgia
state senate; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1967-73; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972.
Still living as of 1998.
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Robert Augustus Toombs (1810-1885) —
also known as Robert Toombs; Bob Toombs —
of Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga.
Born in Wilkes
County, Ga., July 2,
1810.
Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1837-43; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1845-53; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1853-61; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Confederate
Secretary of State, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; fled
to Europe in 1865 to avoid
arrest by Union
forces; he was suspected of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln; later returned to Georgia; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877.
One of the greatest orators of his time.
Died in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., December
15, 1885 (age 75 years, 166
days).
Interment at Rest
Haven Cemetery, Washington, Ga.
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Samuel Joelah Tribble (1869-1916) —
also known as Samuel J. Tribble —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Franklin
County, Ga., November
15, 1869.
Married to Minnie B. McEntire.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1911-16; died in office
1916.
Died December
8, 1916 (age 47 years, 23
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) —
also known as Elbert P. Tuttle —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 17,
1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1948,
1952;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1954-68; took
senior status 1968.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., June 23,
1996 (age 98 years, 342
days).
Interment at All
Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga.
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Carl Vinson (1883-1981) —
also known as "Father of the Two-Ocean
Navy" —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Baldwin
County, Ga., November
18, 1883.
Granduncle of Samuel
Augustus Nunn, Jr..
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1909-12; county judge in Georgia,
1912-14; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1914-65 (10th District 1914-33, 6th
District 1933-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died June 1,
1981 (age 97 years, 195
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Walter Edward Washington (1915-2003) —
also known as Walter Washington —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., April 15,
1915.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1975-79; defeated in primary, 1978.
African
ancestry.
Died, in Howard University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
27, 2003 (age 88 years, 195
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922) —
also known as Thomas E. Watson —
of Thomson, McDuffie
County, Ga.
Born in Columbia
County, Ga., September
5, 1856.
Son of John S. Watson and Ann Eliza (Maddox) Watson.
Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-83; Presidential Elector for
Georgia, 1888;
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1891-93; candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1896; Populist candidate for President
of the United States, 1904, 1908; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1912;
controversial for his writings attacking
the Catholic Church; arrested
in 1912 on obscenity
charges
over three chapters in his book The Catholic Hierarchy; tried and
acquitted in 1916; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Died September
26, 1922 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Thomson
Cemetery, Thomson, Ga.
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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.
Father of Henry
Constantine Wayne; uncle of Sarah Anderson 'Addie' Stites (who
married William
Washington Gordon (1796-1842)); granduncle of William
Washington Gordon (1834-1912).
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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Charles Longstreet Weltner (1927-1992) —
also known as Charles L. Weltner —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., December
17, 1927.
Son of Philip Weltner and Sally Cobb (Hull) Weltner; married, September
16, 1950, to Betty Jean Center.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1963-67; superior court
judge in Georgia, 1976-81; justice of
Georgia state supreme court, 1981-92; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1992; died in office 1992.
Presbyterian.
Died August
31, 1992 (age 64 years, 258
days).
Interment at Arlington
Burial Park, Near Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga.
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Thomas William White (1824-1889) —
also known as T. W. White —
of Hernando, DeSoto
County, Miss.
Born in Elbert
County, Ga., January
8, 1824.
Democrat. Lawyer; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; law partner of H.
H. Chalmers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1876.
Died in Hernando, DeSoto
County, Miss., July 26,
1889 (age 65 years, 199
days).
Interment at Hernando
Baptist Cemetery, Hernando, Miss.
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Richard Henry Whiteley (1830-1890) —
of Bainbridge, Decatur
County, Ga.; Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.
Born in County Kildare, Ireland,
December
22, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer; major in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1870-75.
Died in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., September
26, 1890 (age 59 years, 278
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Boulder, Colo.
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James Mark Wilcox (1890-1956) —
also known as J. Mark Wilcox —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Willacoochee, Atkinson
County, Ga., 1890.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1933-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1944.
Methodist.
Died in 1956
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Park Cemetery, Miami, Fla.
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Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) —
also known as Richard H. Wilde —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Dublin, Ireland,
September
24, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer; Georgia
state attorney general, 1811-13; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1815-17, 1825, 1827-35.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
10, 1847 (age 57 years, 351
days).
Original interment somewhere
in New Orleans, La.; reinterment 1854 in private or family graveyard;
reinterment in 1886 at City
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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David W. Williams (1910-2000) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 20,
1910.
Republican. Lawyer; municipal judge in California, 1956-62;
superior court judge in California, 1963-69; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1969-81.
African
ancestry.
First
black federal judge west of the Mississippi.
Died, of pneumonia,
at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
2000 (age 90 years, 47
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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; married 1921 to
Catherine Colfelt Taylor.
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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James Walter Wise (1868-1925) —
also known as James W. Wise —
of Fayetteville, Fayette
County, Ga.
Born near McDonough, Henry
County, Ga., March 3,
1868.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1902-08; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 6th District, 1915-25.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., September
8, 1925 (age 57 years, 189
days).
Interment at McDonough
Cemetery, McDonough, Ga.
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John Stephens Wood (1885-1968) —
also known as John S. Wood —
of Canton, Cherokee
County, Ga.
Born near Ball Ground, Cherokee
County, Ga., February
8, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1917; superior court judge in
Georgia, 1925-31; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1931-35, 1945-53;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Junior
Order; Redmen.
Died in Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., September
12, 1968 (age 83 years, 217
days).
Interment at Arlington
Cemetery, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga.
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William Carter Wright (1866-1933) —
also known as William C. Wright —
of Newnan, Coweta
County, Ga.
Born in Carroll
County, Ga., January
6, 1866.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1918-33.
Died in 1933
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Ga.
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