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Daniel J. Gallagher (b. 1873) —
of Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
31, 1873.
Son of Owen Gallagher and Ann (Ryan) Gallagher; married, November
26, 1898, to Mary A. Cronin.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1918-19; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1920-21; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932.
Catholic.
Member, Foresters;
Knights
of Columbus; Kiwanis.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Frye Garcelon (1868-1949) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine, October
24, 1868.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907-09.
Member, Freemasons.
Died May 1,
1949 (age 80 years, 189
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Tudor Gardiner (1892-1953) —
of Gardiner, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 12,
1892.
Second great-grandson of Robert
H. Gardiner; son of Robert Hallowell Gardiner (died 1924) and
Alice (Bangs) Gardiner; married, September
16, 1916, to Margaret
Thomas.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1921-26; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1925-26; Governor of
Maine, 1929-33; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maine, 1932;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; he and Gen. Maxwell
Taylor landed in Italy in 1943, before the American invasion,
traveled to Rome undetected, and held a conference with the Italian
High Command, obtaining information helpful to the Allies.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons
of Union Veterans; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Grange; American Bar
Association.
Killed when his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane exploded in
midair, and crashed
in Schnecksville, Lehigh
County, Pa., August 2,
1953 (age 61 years, 51
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Gardiner, Maine.
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Wendell Arthur Garrity, Jr. (1920-1999) —
also known as W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 20,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1961-66; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1966-85.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Ordered the desegregation of Boston schools in 1974.
Died, of cancer, in
Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., September
16, 1999 (age 79 years, 88
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Wellesley, Mass.
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William Gaston (b. 1899) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1899.
Son of William
Alexander Gaston.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
playwright;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1948.
Protestant.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Alexander Gaston (1859-1927) —
also known as William A. Gaston —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 1,
1859.
Son of William
Gaston (1820-1894) and Louisa Augusta (Beecher) Gaston; married
1892 to May
Davidson Lockwood; father of William
Gaston (1899-?).
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1902, 1903, 1926; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1922; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Died in Barre, Worcester
County, Mass., July 17,
1927 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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family of Massachusetts |
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Frederick Huntington Gillett (1851-1935) —
also known as Frederick H. Gillett —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
16, 1851.
Son of Edward Bates Gillett and Lucy Douglas (Fowler) Gillett;
married, November
25, 1915, to Christine (Rice) Hoar (widow of Rockwood
Hoar).
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1890-91; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1893-1925; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1919-25; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1920,
1924,
1928;
U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1925-31.
Died July 31,
1935 (age 83 years, 288
days).
Interment at Pine
Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass.
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Bernard Ginsburg (b. 1898) —
of Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine,
August
1, 1898.
Son of Myer Ginsburg and Sonia (Segal) Ginsburg; married, November
27, 1927, to Mildred Fishman.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1925-26, 1929-30; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1932-36; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1932.
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; B'nai
B'rith.
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene H. Giroux (b. 1903) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
20, 1903.
Son of Hercule J. Giroux and Mary L. (LeSage) Giroux; married 1927 to Mary E.
Cotter.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1931-36; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1937-44.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Louis H. Glaser (1910-1989) —
of Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Poland,
June
15, 1910.
Son of Philip Glaser and Lillian (Burstein) Glaser; married, November
2, 1947, to Estelle Vineberg.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952.
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Jewish
War Veterans.
Died October
4, 1989 (age 79 years, 111
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert William Goodlatte (b. 1952) —
also known as Bob Goodlatte —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., September
22, 1952.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1993-.
Christian
Scientist.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Zacheus Goodrich (1804-1885) —
also known as John Z. Goodrich —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., September
27, 1804.
Lawyer; manufacturer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55 (7th District 1851-53,
11th District 1853-55); Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1861; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1861-65.
Died in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 19,
1885 (age 80 years, 204
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Angier Louis Goodwin (1881-1975) —
also known as Angier L. Goodwin —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Fairfield, Somerset
County, Maine, January
30, 1881.
Married 1905
to Eleanor Hardy Stone.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Melrose, Mass., 1921-23; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1925-28; member of Massachusetts
state senate Fourth Middlesex District, 1929-41; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1943-55;
defeated, 1954; member,
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1954-55.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Grange; Zeta Psi.
Died in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 20,
1975 (age 94 years, 141
days).
Interment at Wyoming
Cemetery, Melrose, Mass.
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Robert Eliot Goodwin (b. 1878) —
also known as Robert E. Goodwin —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
27, 1878.
Son of Frank Goodwin and Mary Greenwood (Buttrick) Goodwin; married,
October
3, 1922, to Elsie T. Wainwright.
Republican. Lawyer; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
I; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1936.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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Gurdon Wright Gordon (b. 1871) —
also known as Gurdon W. Gordon —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., November
26, 1871.
Son of Nelson E. Gordon and Caroline Augusta (Wright) Gordon;
married, November
3, 1903, to Ellen Beekman Walsh.
Republican. Lawyer; insurance
executive; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1912; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1913-16; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1920
(alternate), 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Gordon (1763-1802) —
of Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Massachusetts, April 12,
1763.
Lawyer; member of New
Hampshire state senate 7th District, 1794-95; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1797-1800; New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1801-02; died in office 1802.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 8,
1802 (age 39 years, 26
days).
Interment at Amherst
Cemetery, Amherst, N.H.
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William Joseph Granfield (1889-1959) —
also known as William J. Granfield —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.; Longmeadow, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., December
18, 1889.
Son of John Granfield and Ellen (O'Connor) Granfield; married, August
30, 1919, to Jane Campbell (died 1929); married, July 26,
1938, to Elsie I. Bemis (born 1901); married, July 28,
1950, to Ruth Rosamond Belding (born 1902).
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1917-19; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-18; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1930-37; district
judge in Massachusetts, 1936-49.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Catholic
Order of Foresters; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., May 28,
1959 (age 69 years, 161
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Miles Tobey Granger (1817-1895) —
also known as Miles T. Granger —
of Canaan, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in New Marlborough, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
12, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; probate judge in Connecticut, 1849-67;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1857; member of Connecticut
state senate 17th District, 1866-67; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1867-76; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1876-87; resigned 1887; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1887-89.
Died in North Canaan, Litchfield
County, Conn., October
21, 1895 (age 78 years, 70
days).
Interment at Lower
Cemetery, North Canaan, Conn.
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William P. Grant (b. 1905) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., November
5, 1905.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives; member of Massachusetts
state senate; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1950-51; defeated, 1951.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Eagles; Moose.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Merle Dixon Graves (b. 1887) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.; Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, October
13, 1887.
Son of Rev. Lucien Chase Graves and Annie (Dixon) Graves; married, December
27, 1910, to Clara
Cooley Stevenson.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1921-24.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Gamma Delta; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Francis Calley Gray (b. 1890) —
also known as Francis C. Gray —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
22, 1890.
Son of Morris Gray and Flora (Grant) Gray; married, September
16, 1916, to Helen Rotch Bullard.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; banker;
director, U.S. Smelting,
Refining & Mining Co.;
director, Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance
Co.; chairman, Massachusetts General Hospital;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Humane
Society.
Burial
location unknown.
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Horace Gray (1828-1902) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 24,
1828.
Descendant of William
Gray; son of Horace Gray and Harriett (Upham) Gray; married to
Jane Matthews (daughter of Stanley
Matthews).
Lawyer; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902; died in office 1902.
Unitarian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., September
15, 1902 (age 74 years, 175
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Addison Loomis Green (1862-1942) —
also known as Addison L. Green —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
23, 1862.
Son of Thomas Jefferson Green and Alvira Eunice (Loomis) Green;
married 1890
to Maud Ingersoll Bennett (died 1901); married 1911 to
Gertrude Metcalf; father of Addison Bennett Green (born 1891; who
married Margaret
A. Oldham) and Marshall
Green.
Lawyer; archaeologist;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1894; became
involved in the textile
business; vice-president, Association of Woolen
Manufacturers of America; studied archeological sites in Spain and
France with Charles
G. Dawes, 1930.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died June 24,
1942 (age 79 years, 244
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Byram Green (1786-1865) —
of Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in East Windsor, Windsor, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 15,
1786.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; circuit judge in New York, 1814; member of New York
state assembly from Ontario County, 1816-17, 1818-20, 1821-22;
member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1823-24; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1843-45.
Died in Sodus, Wayne
County, N.Y., October
18, 1865 (age 79 years, 186
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Sodus, N.Y.
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Isaiah Lewis Green (1761-1841) —
also known as Isaiah L. Green —
of Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., December
28, 1761.
Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1805-09, 1811-13.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
5, 1841 (age 79 years, 342
days).
Interment at Old
Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Roger Sherman Greene (1840-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1840.
Great-grandson of Roger
Sherman; son of Rev. David Greene and Mary (Evarts) Greene;
nephew of William
Maxwell Evarts; married, August
17, 1866, to Grace Wooster (died 1917); married, August 4,
1918, to May (Collins) Jones (died 1929); second cousin of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar and Roger
Kent; uncle of Henry
Sherman Boutell and Roger
Sherman Greene II; first cousin of Maxwell
Evarts.
Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1870-79; chief
justice of Washington territorial supreme court, 1879-87;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1888; Prohibition candidate for
Governor
of Washington, 1890.
Baptist.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
17, 1930 (age 89 years, 65
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Bates Greenough (1866-1956) —
also known as William B. Greenough —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., November
22, 1866.
Son of James Carruthers Greenough and Jeanie Ashley (Bates)
Greenough; married, September
27, 1893, to Eliza S. Clark.
Republican. Lawyer; Rhode
Island state attorney general, 1905-12; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1924.
Member, American Bar
Association; Chi Phi;
Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died November
17, 1956 (age 89 years, 361
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (1904-1994) —
also known as Erwin N. Griswold —
Born in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, July 14,
1904.
Son of James Harlen Griswold and Hope (Erwin) Griswold; married to
Harriet Allena Ford.
Republican. Lawyer; law
professor; dean, Harvard Law School, 1946-67; U.S. Solicitor General,
1967-73.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1994 (age 90 years, 128
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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