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J. Edward Lajoie (b. 1894) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., December
1, 1894.
Son of Joseph Lajoie and Hermilinda (Belisle) Lajoie; married, June 22,
1922, to Cecile Laurent.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
lawyer; candidate for mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1928; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1944.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Joseph Lane (1898-1994) —
also known as Thomas J. Lane —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1898.
Son of Patrick Lane and Mary (Cahill) Lane.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1927-38; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1939-41; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1941-63;
defeated, 1962; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1965-70.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., June 14,
1994 (age 95 years, 343
days).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, North Andover, Mass.
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Morris Edward Lasker (1917-2009) —
also known as Morris E. Lasker; Edward Morris
Lasker —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 17,
1917.
Nephew of Albert
Davis Lasker; son of Harry Lasker and Peggy Lasker; first cousin
of Edward
Lasker; married 1943 to Helen
Marie 'Toy' Schubach.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World
War II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1950; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1968-83;
took senior status 1983.
Died, of cancer, in
Mount Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
25, 2009 (age 92 years, 161
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Lathrop (1835-1910) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
8, 1835.
Son of Rev. John T. Lathrop and Maria Margaretta (Long) Lathrop;
married, June 24,
1875, to Eliza Davis Parker.
Lawyer; served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1888-91; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1891-1906.
Died in 1910
(age about
75 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Lathrop (1772-1846) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in West Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., May 1,
1772.
Son of Joseph Lathrop (1731-1820) and Elizabeth (Dwight) Lathrop
(1736-1821); married, November
4, 1797, to Mary McCracken (1778-1853); third cousin thrice
removed of James
Abram Garfield, Charles
A. Hungerford and Austin
Eugene Lathrop; grandfather of Samuel
Lathrop Bronson; third cousin twice removed of Abial
Lathrop.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1819-27 (5th District 1819-25,
8th District 1825-27); member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1829.
Died July 11,
1846 (age 74 years, 71
days).
Interment at Park
Street Cemetery, West Springfield, Mass.
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Frank Joseph Lawler (b. 1863) —
also known as Frank J. Lawler —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in South Deerfield, Deerfield, Franklin
County, Mass., July 31,
1863.
Son of James Lawler and Margaret (Hafey) Lawler; married, October
4, 1899, to Annie C. Looney.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1906.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Pelton Lawrence (1859-1917) —
also known as George P. Lawrence —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 19,
1859.
Third cousin once removed of Edwin
A. Pelton and Frederic
William Pelton; nephew of Guy
Ray Pelton; son of Dr. George C. Lawrence (died 1883) and Jane E.
(Pelton) Lawrence (born 1829); fourth cousin once removed of William
Hayward.
Republican. Lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1885-94;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1895-97; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1897-1913.
Under stress as head of a World War I draft exemption board, he jumped
from an eighth-floor window and fell to his
death, at the Belmont Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., November
21, 1917 (age 58 years, 186
days).
Interment at Hill
Side Cemetery, North Adams, Mass.
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Joseph M. Levenson (b. 1881) —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 24,
1881.
Son of John Levenson and Fannie (Heifetz) Levenson; married 1918 to Frances
Anna Hahn.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1916.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) —
also known as Alfred B. Lewis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 20,
1897.
Son of John Frederick Lewis and Anne Henrietta Rush (Baker) Lewis;
married, November
20, 1924, to Lena Greenspan (divorced 1939); married, October
14, 1939, to Eileen B. (O'Connor) Lane.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; secretary
of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate
for Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1944; vice-president, later
president, Union Casualty insurance
company.
Episcopalian.
Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Federation of Teachers; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died about 1980 (age about 83
years).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield County, Conn.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Son of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis; married, September
26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first
black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer; served
in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African
ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Daniel Waldo Lincoln (b. 1882) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., September
2, 1882.
Son of Waldo Lincoln and Fanny (Chandler) Lincoln; married, December
29, 1917, to Harriet Brayton Nichols.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1916-17.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) —
of Paris, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., December
28, 1788.
Son of Levi
Lincoln and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln (1761-1828); brother of Levi
Lincoln, Jr.; granduncle of Frederick
Robie.
Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5th
District 1825-26); Governor of
Maine, 1827-29; died in office 1829.
Died October
8, 1829 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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Magnus Lipton (b. 1902) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., March 22,
1902.
Republican. Accountant;
lawyer; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1934; defeated,
1934.
Member, Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Amos R. Little (b. 1880) —
of Newton Center, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1880.
Son of John Mason Little and Helen (Beal) Little; married, December
6, 1934, to Phyllis Cleveland.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1913-14.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) —
of Nahant, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1850.
Great-grandson of George
Cabot; son of John Ellerton Lodge (1807-1862) and Anna Sophie
(Cabot) Lodge (1821-1900); married, June 29,
1871, to Anna Cabot Mills 'Nannie' Davis (1850-1915;
granddaughter of Elijah
Hunt Mills; daughter of Admiral Charles Henry Davis;
sister-in-law of Brooks
Adams); father of Constance Lodge (1872-1941; who married Augustus
Peabody Gardner) and George 'Bay' Lodge (1873-1909;
grandson-in-law of Frederick
Theodore Frelinghuysen); grandfather of Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; great-grandfather of William
Amory Gardner Minot and George
Cabot Lodge.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880-81; Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1883; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1887-93; resigned
1893; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924; died in office 1924;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1916,
1920,
1924.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, after a severe stroke, at
Charlesgate Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
9, 1924 (age 74 years, 181
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Davis Long (1838-1915) —
also known as John D. Long —
of Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Buckfield, Oxford
County, Maine, October
27, 1838.
Son of Zadoc Long and Julia Temple (Davis) Long; married, September
13, 1870, to Mary Woodward Glover; married, May 22,
1886, to Agnes Peirce.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1875-78; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1876-78; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1879-80; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1880-83; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1883-89; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1884,
1904,
1908,
1912
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902.
Died in Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass., August
28, 1915 (age 76 years, 305
days).
Interment at Hingham
Cemetery, Hingham, Mass.
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William Caleb Loring (1851-1930) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., August
24, 1851.
Great-grandson of Samuel
Putnam; son of Caleb William Loring (1819-1897) and Elizabeth
Smith (Peabody) Loring (1822-1869); married, September
25, 1883, to Susan Mason Lawrence (1852-1923; daughter of Amos
Adams Lawrence); third cousin once removed of Helen
Lima.
Lawyer; solicitor, New York and New England Railroad,
1881-85; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1899-1919.
English
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Prides Crossing, Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., September
8, 1930 (age 79 years, 15
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Van Ness Lothrop (1817-1897) —
also known as George V. N. Lothrop —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Easton, Bristol
County, Mass., August 8,
1817.
Son of Howard Lothrop and Sally (Williams) Lothrop; brother of Edwin
H. Lothrop; married 1847 to Almira
Strong; grandfather of Isabella Lothrop (daughter-in-law of Henry
Munroe Campbell).
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
state attorney general, 1848-51; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1856, 1860; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1860;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S. Minister
to Russia, 1885-88.
English
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in 1897
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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A. L. Lovejoy (b. 1811) —
of Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in Massachusetts, 1811.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Clackamas County,
1857.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Henry Lowe (b. 1939) —
also known as George H. Lowe —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 1,
1939.
Son of John Elmer Lowe and Mary Catherine (Mullin) Lowe; married, June 5,
1965, to Barbara Ann Blewitt.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1978-82.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Still living as of 1994.
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Robert Luce (1862-1946) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December
2, 1862.
Son of Enos Thompson Luce and Phebe (Learned) Luce; married 1885 to Mabelle
Farnham.
Republican. Lawyer; director, Boston Mutual Life
Insurance Company; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1899, 1901-08; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1912-13; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1919-35, 1937-41 (13th
District 1919-33, 9th District 1933-35, 1937-41); defeated, 1934,
1940.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Political Science Association; American
Economic Association; Exchange
Club.
Died April 7,
1946 (age 83 years, 126
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Henry Tilton Lummus (b. 1876) —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Swampscott, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., December
28, 1876.
Son of William Lummus and Louisa Mitchell (Brown) Lummus; married, October
9, 1900, to Eleanor Stetson Tarbox.
Lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1903-21; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19; superior
court judge in Massachusetts, 1921-32; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1932-55.
Universalist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Hinckley Lyman (b. 1850) —
also known as George H. Lyman —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
13, 1850.
Married 1881
to Caroline B. Amory.
Republican. Lawyer; Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1895-96; member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1896-1900; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1898-1909.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Lynch (b. 1952) —
of Hopkinton, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
25, 1952.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
New Hampshire, 2005-; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Hampshire, 2008.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2009.
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