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Taliaferro Alexander (1846-1924) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Catahoula
Parish, La., March 17,
1846.
Son of John Steele Alexander and Susan (Taliaferro) Alexander.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for railroads;
delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898.
Episcopalian. Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., January
3, 1924 (age 77 years, 292
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) —
also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs.
Tobin Armstrong —
of Armstrong, Kenedy
County, Tex.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
27, 1927.
Daughter of Armant Legendre and Olive (Martindale) Legendre.
Republican. Member of Texas
Republican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1976-77; Presidential Elector for Texas, 1992.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died, of cancer, in
a hospice
at Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 30,
2008 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Algernon Sidney Badger (1839-1905) —
also known as Algernon S. Badger —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 1839.
Son of John Beighton Badger (1811-1904) and Sarah Payne (Sprague)
Badger (1816-1851).
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; superintendent, New
Orleans Metropolitan Police,
1870; postmaster;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1879.
Episcopalian. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1905 (age 65 years, 193
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Presumably named
for: Algernon
Sidney |
| | | Relatives: Son of John Beighton Badger
(1811-1904) and Sarah Payne (Sprague) Badger (1816-1851); married, April 30,
1872, to Elizabeth Florence Parmele (1856-1877); married, September
9, 1882, to Olivia Blanche Blineau (1860-1939). |
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William Preston Blocker (1892-1947) —
also known as William P. Blocker —
of Hondo, Medina
County, Tex.
Born in Hondo, Medina
County, Tex., September
30, 1892.
Son of Vincular Harwood Blocker and Daisy D. Blocker.
Democrat. School
teacher; salesman;
U.S. Vice Consul in Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, 1913-14; Piedras Negras, 1916-19; U.S. Consul in Piedras Negras, 1919-23; Guaymas, 1923-24; Mazatlan, 1925-29; Ciudad Juarez, 1929-32; Monterrey, 1938; U.S. Consul General in Ciudad Juarez, 1938-43.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died, following a heart
attack, on board
the U.S. Transport St. Mihiel, on which he had been scheduled
to sail to Panama, at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
28, 1947 (age 54 years, 151
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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Wayne G. Borah (1891-1966) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Baldwin, St. Mary
Parish, La., April 28,
1891.
Son of Charles Frank Borah and Fannie (Thomas) Borah.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1925-28; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1928-49; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1949-56; took senior
status 1956.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died February
6, 1966 (age 74 years, 284
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas C. Bowie (b. 1876) —
of Jefferson, Ashe
County, N.C.
Born in Louisiana, July 27,
1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for North Carolina, 1904;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Ashe County, 1909,
1913.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961) —
also known as Overton Brooks —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born near Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., December
21, 1897.
Son of Claude M. Brooks and Penelope (Overton) Brooks.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1937-61; died in
office 1961.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., September
16, 1961 (age 63 years, 269
days).
Interment at Forest
Park Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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William Charles Cole Claiborne (1775-1817) —
also known as William C. C. Claiborne —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Sussex
County, Va., 1775.
Son of William Claiborne and Mary (Leigh) Claiborne.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1796; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1797-1801; Governor of
Mississippi Territory, 1801-04; Governor of
Orleans Territory, 1804-12; Governor of
Louisiana, 1812-16; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1817; died in office 1817.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Fought a duel
with Daniel Clark on June 8, 1807; he was wounded in the thigh.
Died of a liver
ailment, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., November
23, 1817 (age about 42
years).
Originally entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.; re-entombed in 1872 at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Lawrence Pike Crain (1818-1859) —
also known as Lawrence P. Crain —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., 1818.
Democrat. Mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1846-47; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1850-53.
Episcopalian.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., 1859
(age about
41 years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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John Ewing (1857-1923) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., June 24,
1857.
Son of James Lindsay Ewing and Margaret Ann (Hunter) Ewing.
Democrat. U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1913-18.
Episcopalian.
Died June 24,
1923 (age 66 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin Franklin Flanders (1816-1896) —
also known as Benjamin F. Flanders —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Bristol, Grafton
County, N.H., January
26, 1816.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1862-63; Governor of
Louisiana; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1870-72; candidate for Louisiana
state treasurer, 1888.
Episcopalian.
Opposed secession in 1861, driven out of New Orleans, leaving his
family behind; returned in 1862 when the city is taken by Union
troops.
Died near Youngsville, Lafayette
Parish, La., March 13,
1896 (age 80 years, 47
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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M. J. Foster (b. 1930) —
also known as Mike Foster —
of Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., July 11,
1930.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict;
member of Louisiana
state senate; elected 1986; Governor of
Louisiana, 1996-; Presidential Elector for Louisiana, 2000.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Farm
Bureau; American
Legion.
Still living as of 2009.
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Henry Luse Fuqua (1865-1926) —
also known as Henry L. Fuqua —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., November
8, 1865.
Son of James Overton Fuqua and Jeanette (Fowles) Fuqua.
Democrat. Hardware
dealer; warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, 1916-24;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1924;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1924-26; died in office 1926.
Episcopalian. French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., October
11, 1926 (age 60 years, 337
days).
Original interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Baton Rouge, La.; reinterment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, La.
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Michael Hahn (1830-1886) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Bavaria, Germany,
November
24, 1830.
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana, 1862-63, 1885-86 (at-large
1862-63, 2nd District 1885-86); died in office 1886; Governor of
Louisiana; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1872-76; Speaker of
the Louisiana State House of Representatives, 1875; district
judge in Louisiana 26th District, 1879-85.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 15,
1886 (age 55 years, 111
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
13, 1877.
Son of Frederick Jahncke and Margaret (Lee) Jahncke.
Republican. Engineer;
president, Jahncke Dry Docks,
New Orleans; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1932,
1936
(alternate).
Episcopalian. German
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Hoover Administration. Expelled
from the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking a
strong
stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games.
Died November
16, 1960 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Jahncke and Margaret (Lee) Jahncke; married to Cora Van
Voorhis Stanton (granddaughter of Edwin
McMasters Stanton). |
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Henry Johnson (1783-1864) —
of Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La.; New River, Ascension
Parish, La.
Born in Virginia, September
14, 1783.
Delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1812; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1818-24, 1844-49; resigned 1824; Governor of
Louisiana, 1824-28; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1834-39.
Episcopalian.
Died in Pointe
Coupee Parish, La., September
4, 1864 (age 80 years, 356
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Isaac Johnson (1803-1853) —
of Louisiana.
Born November
1, 1803.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives; secretary of
state of Louisiana; Governor of
Louisiana, 1846-50; Louisiana
state attorney general.
Episcopalian.
Died, of a heart
attack, in a hotel at
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 15,
1853 (age 49 years, 134
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bolivar Edwards Kemp (1871-1933) —
also known as Bolivar E. Kemp —
of Amite, Tangipahoa
Parish, La.
Born near Amite, St. Helena
Parish, La., December
28, 1871.
Son of William Breed Kemp and Elizabeth (Nesom) Kemp.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1925-33; died in
office 1933.
Episcopalian.
Died June 19,
1933 (age 61 years, 173
days).
Interment at Amite
Cemetery, Amite, La.
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Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. (1904-1987) —
also known as Henry R. Labouisse, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1904.
Son of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger)
Labouisse.
Lawyer;
U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1962-65.
Episcopalian. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in 1987
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger) Labouisse;
married, June 29,
1935, to Elizabeth Scriven Clark (died 1945); married, November
19, 1954, to Eve Curie. |
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Robert Linligthgow Livingston, Jr. (b. 1943) —
also known as Robert L. Livingston, Jr.; Bob
Livingston —
of Metairie, Jefferson
Parish, La.
Born in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., April 30,
1943.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1977-99; defeated,
1976; resigned 1999; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1987; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1988.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. (1894-1973) —
also known as Charlton H. Lyons, Sr. —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Abbeville, Vermilion
Parish, La., September
3, 1894.
Son of Ernest John Lyons and Joyce Bentley (Havard) Lyons.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1961; candidate for
Governor
of Louisiana, 1964; Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1964-68; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1964
(delegation chair); Presidential Elector for Louisiana, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died August 8,
1973 (age 78 years, 339
days).
Interment at Forest
Park Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Paul Herbert Maloney (1876-1967) —
also known as Paul H. Maloney —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
14, 1876.
Democrat. Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1914-16; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Louisiana, 1924,
1936;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1931-40, 1943-47; U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for Louisiana, 1941.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 26,
1967 (age 91 years, 40
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Whitmell Pugh Martin (1867-1929) —
also known as Whitmell P. Martin; Whit P.
Martin —
of Thibodaux, Lafourche
Parish, La.
Born near Napoleonville, Assumption
Parish, La., August
12, 1867.
Son of Robert Campbell Martin and Margerite Chism (Littlejohn)
Martin.
Democrat. Chemist;
lawyer;
District Attorney, 20th District of Louisiana, 1900-06; district
judge in Louisiana 20th District, 1906-14; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Louisiana, 1912
(alternate), 1920;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1915-29; died in
office 1929.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 6,
1929 (age 61 years, 237
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.
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William Henson Moore III (b. 1939) —
also known as W. Henson Moore III —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in Lake Charles, Calcasieu
Parish, La., October
4, 1939.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1975-87; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1986; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1988.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of California.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Son of Maxwell L. Rafferty and DeEtta (Cox) Rafferty.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968.
Episcopalian. Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Reily (1811-1863) —
of Texas.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, July 3,
1811.
Son of John Reily and Nancy (Hunter) Reily.
Lawyer;
major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-41; Texas Republic
Minister to the United States, 1841-42; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853-54; U.S. Consul in SAINT Petersburg, 1856; colonel in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Killed
in the Battle of Camp Bisland, on Bayou Teche, near Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., April 14,
1863 (age 51 years, 285
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Thomas Bolling Robertson (1779-1828) —
of Louisiana.
Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie
County, Va., February
27, 1779.
Democrat. Secretary
of Orleans Territory, 1807-11; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1812-18; Governor of
Louisiana, 1820-24; U.S.
District Judge for Louisiana, 1825.
Episcopalian.
Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, Va (now W.Va.), October
5, 1828 (age 49 years, 221
days).
Interment at Copeland
Hill Cemetery, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
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Jonas Robeson (1800-1871) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Massachusetts, 1800.
Democrat. Mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1858-59, 1860-62.
Episcopalian.
Died in Caddo
Parish, La., 1871
(age about
71 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Caddo Parish, La.
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George Foster Shepley (1819-1878) —
also known as George F. Shepley —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
1, 1819.
Son of Ether
Shepley.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1848-49, 1853-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1862; Governor of
Louisiana; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine,
1868.
Episcopalian.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 20,
1878 (age 59 years, 200
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Thomas Sloo, Jr. (1790-1879) —
of Illinois; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Washington, Mason
County, Ky., April 5,
1790.
Member of Illinois
state senate, 1823-27; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1826.
Episcopalian.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
17, 1879 (age 88 years, 287
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) —
also known as "Old Rough and Ready" —
Born in Orange
County, Va., November
24, 1784.
Whig. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; colonel in the
U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; general in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; President
of the United States, 1849-50; died in office 1850.
Episcopalian.
Died, probably of gastroenteritis,
in the White
House, Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1850 (age 65 years, 227
days). Based on the theory that he was poisoned, his remains
were tested for arsenic in 1991; the results tended to disconfirm the
theory.
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in private or family
graveyard; reinterment in 1926 at Zachary
Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives:
Second cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee; second cousin of James
Madison; third cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Richard
Bland Lee; married, June 21,
1810, to Margaret Mackall 'Peggy' Smith (1778-1852; niece of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall); father of Sarah Knox Taylor (who married Jefferson
Finis Davis); granduncle of Edmund
Haynes Taylor, Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major; second cousin thrice removed of Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk; ancestor of Victor
D. Crist. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: David
R. Atchison — Thomas
Ewing |
| | | Taylor counties in Fla., Ga., Iowa and Ky. are named
for him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1848): "General Taylor
never surrenders." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Zachary Taylor: K. Jack
Bauer, Zachary
Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old
Southwest — Elbert B. Smith, The
Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard
Fillmore |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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James McIlhany Thomson (1878-1959) —
also known as James M. Thomson —
of Norfolk,
Va.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Gaylord, Clarke
County, Va.
Born in Summit Point, Jefferson
County, W.Va., February
13, 1878.
Son of Augustus Pembroke Thomson (1847-1920) and Elizabeth (McIlhany)
Thomson (born 1854).
Editor
of the Norfolk Dispatch, 1900-06; publisher,
New Orleans Item, 1906-41; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Louisiana, 1920,
1924,
1944;
Constitution candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1956.
Episcopalian.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died, in Gaylord, Clarke
County, Va., September
25, 1959 (age 81 years, 224
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Tucker Vinson (1842-1904) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Assumption
Parish, La., 1842.
Democrat. Caddo Parish Police Juror, 1884-90; mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1890-96.
Episcopalian.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., 1904
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Samuel J. Ward (1834-1906) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Wales,
1834.
Democrat. Mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1874-75; Caddo Parish Sheriff, 1900-06.
Episcopalian.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., 1906
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Henry Clay Warmouth (1842-1931) —
also known as Henry C. Warmouth —
of Lawrence, Plaquemines
Parish, La.
Born in McLeansboro, Hamilton
County, Ill., May 9,
1842.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1868,
1888,
1896,
1900,
1908,
1912;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1868-72; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1888-92.
Episcopalian.
Impeached
as Governor in 1872 during election contest over successor.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
30, 1931 (age 89 years, 144
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Hamilton Mercer Wright (b. 1852) —
also known as Hamilton M. Wright —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
26, 1852.
Son of Hamilton Mercer Wright and Virginia (Huckins) Wright.
Democrat. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Bay County 1st District,
1883-86; mayor of
Bay City, Mich., 1887-89, 1895-97; probate judge in Michigan,
1889-1900.
Episcopalian. Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1871
to Anne Dana Fitzhugh. |
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