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Percival Proctor Baxter (1876-1969) —
also known as Percival P. Baxter —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
22, 1876.
Son of James
Phinney Baxter and Mehetabel Cummings (Proctor) Baxter.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives from Cumberland County, 1905-06,
1917-20; member of Maine
state senate, 1909-10; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maine, 1920,
1924,
1928;
Governor
of Maine, 1921-25.
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 12,
1969 (age 92 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) —
also known as Carroll L. Beedy —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Phillips, Franklin
County, Maine, August 3,
1880.
Son of Clarence E. Beedy and Myra Mildred (Page) Beedy.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1917-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
30, 1947 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Charles Russell Clason (1890-1985) —
also known as Charles R. Clason —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Gardiner, Kennebec
County, Maine, September
3, 1890.
Son of Oliver
Barrett Clason and Lizzie Julia (Trott) Clason.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1937-49;
defeated, 1934, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Methodist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., July 7,
1985 (age 94 years, 307
days).
Interment at Longmeadow
Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Selden Connor (1839-1917) —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Fairfield, Somerset
County, Maine, January
25, 1839.
Son of William Connor and Mary Connor.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Maine, 1876-79.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died July 9,
1917 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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Richard B. Coolidge (b. 1879) —
of West Medford, Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Deering, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
14, 1879.
Son of Merrit B. Coolidge and Lucy Greenwood (French) Coolidge.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, First National Bank of
Medford; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1920-22; mayor of
Medford, Mass., 1923-26; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Unitarian.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Exchange
Club.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leslie Colby Cornish (b. 1854) —
also known as Leslie C. Cornish —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine, October
8, 1854.
Son of Colby Coombs Cornish and Pauline Bailey (Simpson) Cornish.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1878; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1907-17; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1917-25; resigned 1925.
Unitarian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Allan England (b. 1877) —
also known as George A. England —
of Maine; Hampton, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Fort McPherson, Lincoln
County, Neb., February
9, 1877.
Son of Rev. George Allen England (Army chaplain) and Hannah Pearl
(Lyon) England.
Socialist. Author;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1912.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Hale (1889-1976) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
29, 1889.
Son of Clarence Hale and Margaret (Rollins) Hale.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1923-30; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
30, 1976 (age 87 years, 1
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Horatio Collins King (1837-1918) —
also known as Horatio C. King —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
22, 1837.
Son of Horatio
King and Anne (Collins) King.
Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Democratic candidate
for secretary of
state of New York, 1895; Independent Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1897; Progressive
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi Beta Kappa.
Received Medal
of Honor for action near Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 29,
1865.
Died November
15, 1918 (age 80 years, 328
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Shepherd Linnell (1885-1968) —
also known as William S. Linnell —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Biddeford, York
County, Maine, July 21,
1885.
Son of William Franklin Linnell (1842-1927) and Sarah C. (Shepherd)
Linnell.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Portland Gas Light
Company; director, National Bank of
Commerce, Portland director, Bancroft & Martin Rolling Mills
Company; member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1925-28; member of Maine
Republican State Committee, 1928; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1936;
member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1937-40.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
14, 1968 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Littlefield Marble (b. 1876) —
also known as Thomas L. Marble —
of Gorham, Coos
County, N.H.; Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December
24, 1876.
Son of Henry Marble and Mercy (Littlefield) Marble.
School
principal; lawyer;
superior court judge in New Hampshire, 1917-25; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1925-43; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1943-46; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Concord 9th
Ward, 1948.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Theodore Marriner (c.1892-1937) —
also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted
Marriner —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, about 1892.
Son of Harriet Cram (Thorpe) Marriner.
U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Shot
and killed by
Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he had been denied a U.S.
visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937 (age about 45
years); the killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after.
Interment somewhere
in Portland, Maine.
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Marion E. Martin (b. 1900) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Kingman, Penobscot
County, Maine, January
14, 1900.
Republican. Member of Maine
state house of representatives from Penobscot County (1st),
1931-34; member of Maine
state senate, 1935-38; member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1936-47; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1948.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Alpha
Omicron Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Gamma.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996) —
also known as Edmund S. Muskie; "Mr.
Clean" —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Rumford, Oxford
County, Maine, March 28,
1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1947-51; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1952-54; Governor of
Maine, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1956,
1964;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1959-80; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1980-81.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Lions; Elks; Amvets;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March 26,
1996 (age 81 years, 364
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Edward Nelson (1874-1955) —
also known as John E. Nelson —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine; Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in China, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 12,
1874.
Son of Edward White Nelson and Cassandra Marden (Worthing) Nelson.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1922-33; defeated, 1932.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Zeta
Psi; Phi Beta Kappa; Rotary.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, April 11,
1955 (age 80 years, 273
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Waterville, Maine.
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David A. Nichols (1917-1997) —
of Lincolnville, Waldo
County, Maine.
Born in Lincolnville, Waldo
County, Maine, August 6,
1917.
Son of George E. Nichols and Flora E. (Pillsbury) Nichols.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1952;
member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1955-57; Maine
Republican state chair, 1960-64; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1977-88.
Member, Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; Rotary; Odd
Fellows; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died June 21,
1997 (age 79 years, 319
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Robinson Pattangall (1865-1942) —
also known as William R. Pattangall —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine; Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Pembroke, Washington
County, Maine, June 29,
1865.
Son of Ezra Lincoln Pattangall and Arethusa B. (Longfellow)
Pattangall.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1897, 1901, 1909-11; Democratic
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1904 (4th District), 1913 (3rd
District), 1914 (3rd District); member of Maine
Democratic State Committee, 1905-07; mayor
of Waterville, Maine, 1911-13; Maine
state attorney general, 1911-12, 1915-16; Maine
Democratic state chair, 1916, 1919; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1920,
1924;
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1922, 1924; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1926-30; appointed 1926; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1930-35; appointed 1930;
resigned 1935; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine,
1936;
president, Depositors Trust Co..
Unitarian.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died October
21, 1942 (age 77 years, 114
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.
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John Andrew Peters (1864-1953) —
also known as John A. Peters —
of Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, August
13, 1864.
Son of William B. Peters and Martha Elizabeth (Chute) Peters.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Maine, 1896-98; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1909-13; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1913; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1913-22; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1916;
U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1922.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in 1953
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.
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Donald Ward Philbrick (b. 1896) —
also known as Donald W. Philbrick —
of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine, March 16,
1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1935-40; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1939-40; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1944,
1952
(alternate).
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Interment somewhere
in Skowhegan, Maine.
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) —
also known as Nelson A. Rockefeller;
"Rocky" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bar Harbor, Hancock
County, Maine, July 8,
1908.
Son of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960) and Abby (Aldrich)
Rockefeller (1874-1948).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); Governor of
New York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1974-77.
Baptist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias.
Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died, of a massive heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1979 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Pocantico
Hills Estate, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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George Otis Smith (1871-1944) —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, February
22, 1871.
Son of Joseph O. Smith and Emma (Mayo) Smith.
Republican. Geologist;
director, U.S. Geological Survey, 1907-30 (except 1922-23); chair, Federal Power
Commission, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, American
Forestry Association; Phi Beta Kappa.
Suffered a heart
attack during a meeting
of the board of directors of the Central Maine Power Company, and
died soon after, in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
10, 1944 (age 72 years, 322
days).
Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
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Charles Wilbert Snow (1884-1977) —
also known as C. Wilbert Snow —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in White Head Island, Knox
County, Maine, April 6,
1884.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1945-46; Governor of
Connecticut, 1946-47; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
American
Legion.
Died September
28, 1977 (age 93 years, 175
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (1839-1927) —
also known as William W. Thomas, Jr. —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
26, 1839.
Son of William Widgery Thomas and Elizabeth White (Goddard) Thomas.
Republican. Lawyer;
brought Swedish colonists to northern Maine, 1870, founding community
of New Sweden; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1873-75; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1874-75; member of Maine
state senate, 1879; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maine, 1880;
U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1883-85, 1889-94, 1898-1905.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in 1927
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of William Widgery Thomas and Elizabeth White (Goddard) Thomas;
married, October
11, 1887, to Dagmar Törnebladh; married, June 2,
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Earle Stanley Tyler (b. 1896) —
also known as Earle S. Tyler —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cherryfield, Washington
County, Maine, December
18, 1896.
Son of Samuel H. Tyler and Ida P. (Grant) Tyler.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1945-48; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956.
Baptist.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Son of Herman Weinberger.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1969-70; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade Commission; director, U.S.
Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia,
in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 28,
2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Scott Wilson (1870-1942) —
of Woodfords, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Falmouth, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
11, 1870.
Son of Nathaniel Baker Wilson and Loemma Pearson (Leighton) Wilson.
Republican. Lawyer; Maine
state attorney general, 1913-14; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1918-25; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1925-29; resigned 1929; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1929-40.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died October
22, 1942 (age 72 years, 284
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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