| | 
Berry Nelson Beaman (1890-1981) —
also known as Berry N. Beaman —
of Parma, Jackson
County, Mich.; Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., August
15, 1890.
Son of Fred Beaman and Grace (Berry) Beaman.
Republican. Manufacturer;
treasurer
of Michigan Republican Party, 1956-61; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1960;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from 10th Senatorial
District, 1961-62.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma Chi; Elks.
Died in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., December
25, 1981 (age 91 years, 132
days).
Cremated.
| |  |
Relatives:
Married to Lucretia Comstock. |
|
| |
Dennis O. Cawthorne (b. 1940) —
of Manistee, Manistee
County, Mich.
Born in Manistee, Manistee
County, Mich., April 29,
1940.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives 98th District, 1967-78.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma Chi.
Still living as of 1978.
|
| |
Leland Ira Doan (1894-1974) —
also known as Leland I. Doan —
of Midland, Midland
County, Mich.
Born in North Bend, Dodge
County, Neb., November
9, 1894.
Son of Ira Doan and Hester (Spencer) Doan.
Republican. President, Dow Chemical
Company, 1949-62; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1952-59; director, Michigan Bell Telephone
Company.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma Chi.
Died in Midland, Midland
County, Mich., April 4,
1974 (age 79 years, 146
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Ferris H. Fitch (1893-1984) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., January
2, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1922; candidate for
Michigan
state senate 2nd District, 1926; candidate in primary for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1935.
Member, Sigma Chi.
Died July 13,
1984 (age 91 years, 193
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Cemetery, Troy, Mich.
|
| |
John Warner Fitzgerald (1924-2006) —
also known as John W. Fitzgerald —
of Grand Ledge, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Ledge, Eaton
County, Mich., November
24, 1924.
Son of Frank
Dwight Fitzgerald.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 15th District, 1959-64; Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals 3rd District, 1965-73; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1974-82; appointed 1974; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1982.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma Chi; Lions; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Farm
Bureau; American Bar
Association.
Died July 7,
2006 (age 81 years, 225
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.; Possum Poke, Poulan, Worth
County, Ga.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Son of George A. Osborn and Margaret (Fannon) Osborn.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster;
member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1936.
Presbyterian.
English,
French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights
of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April 11,
1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
|
| |
Henrik Ekroll Stafseth (1919-1968) —
also known as Henrik E. Stafseth —
of Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich.
Born in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., April 14,
1919.
Son of Henrik J. Stafseth and Inger (Nordhem) Stafseth.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; civil
engineer; chair of
Ottawa County Republican Party, 1958-60; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Ottawa County,
1961-62.
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary; American
Legion; Kiwanis;
Sigma Chi; Freemasons.
Died in 1968
(age about
49 years).
Burial
location unknown.
| | |
Relatives:
Married to Lillian Mae Carisch. |
|
| |
Russell H. Strange, Jr. (1934-2001) —
of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich., September
18, 1934.
Republican. Tree farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1957-70 (Isabella District
1957-64, 100th District 1965-70); defeated in primary, 1970; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1968.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma Chi; American
Political Science Association; Rotary; Grange; Elks.
Died in North Port, Sarasota
County, Fla., December
6, 2001 (age 67 years, 79
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Richard Franklin Vander Veen (1922-2006) —
also known as Richard F. Vander Veen —
of East Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., November
26, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1974-77; defeated,
1958, 1976; candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1960; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1978.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma Chi.
Died in East Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., March 3,
2006 (age 83 years, 97
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
|
The Political Graveyard
is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source
for American political biography, listing 234,420
politicians, living and dead. |
| |
| |
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
|
| |
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
|
| |
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
|
| |
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/sigma-chi.html. |
|
| |
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
|
| |
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
|
| |
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
|
| |
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
|
|
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained
by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure
and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by
HDL. —
The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996;
the last full revision was done on
May 12, 2012.
|
|
Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist
v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and
arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also
licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons
License. |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)