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Mary Bellamy (1861-1955) —
also known as Marie Godat; Mrs. Charles
Bellamy —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Richwoods, Washington
County, Mo., December
13, 1861.
Daughter of Charles Augustus Godat (1808-1860) and Catherine (Horine)
Godat (1822-1908).
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1911; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Wyoming, 1916.
Female.
Swiss,
Dutch,
and English ancestry.
First
woman legislator in Wyoming.
Died in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., January
28, 1955 (age 93 years, 46
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1886
to Charles Bellamy (1851-1934). |
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) —
also known as "Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" —
of Albemarle
County, Va.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April 13,
1743.
Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796.
English ancestry. Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. nickel
(five
cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2
bill since the 1860s.
Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826 (age 83 years, 82
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph
at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton (died 1782); third cousin once
removed of John
Marshall; father-in-law of Thomas
Mann Randolph and John
Wayles Eppes; uncle of Dabney
Carr; great-granduncle of John
Jordan Crittenden; second cousin once removed of William
Segar Archer; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; grandfather of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who
married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; second great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; ancestor of Lloyd
Lee Gravely. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy — Joshua
Fry |
| | | Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Thomas
Jefferson Campbell
— Thomas
Jefferson Kennard
— Thomas
J. Gazley
— Thomas
Jefferson Word
— Thomas
J. Drake
— Thomas
Jefferson Heard
— Thomas
Jefferson Green
— Thomas
Jefferson Rusk
— Thomas
Jefferson Withers
— Thomas
J. Parsons
— Thomas
J. Dryer
— Thomas
J. Foster
— Thomas
J. Henley
— Thomas
J. Barr
— Thomas
Jefferson Jennings
— Thomas
J. Henderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Van Alstyne
— Thomas
Jefferson Cason
— Thomas
Jefferson Buford
— T.
Jefferson Coolidge
— Thomas
J. Megibben
— Thomas
J. Bunn
— Thomas
J. Hardin
— Thomas
J. Brown
— Thomas
Jefferson Speer
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Hudson
— Thomas
J. Selby
— Thomas
Jefferson Deavitt
— Thomas
Jefferson Majors
— Thomas
Jefferson Wood
— Thomas
Jefferson Nunn
— Thomas
J. Strait
— Thomas
J. Humes
— T.
J. Appleyard
— Thomas
J. Clunie
— Thomas
J. Steele
— Thomas
J. Boynton
— Thomas
J. Halsey
— Thomas
Jefferson Lilly
— Thomas
J. Randolph
— Tom
J. Terral
— T.
Jeff Busby
— Thomas
Jefferson Murphy
— Thomas
J. Hamilton
— Thomas
J. Ryan
— Tom
J. Murray
— Tom
Steed
— Thomas
J. Anderson
— Thomas
Jefferson Roberts
— Thomas
J. Barlow III
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| | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrants
is obedience to God." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.
Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — Willard
Sterne Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson — Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — Susan
Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello — Christopher
Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America |
| | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Thomas William Nadal (b. 1875) —
also known as Thomas W. Nadal —
of Olivet, Eaton
County, Mich.; Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.
Born near Milroy, Rush
County, Ind., June 17,
1875.
Son of Benjamin Franklin Nadal and Jerusha (Richey) Nadal.
Republican. College
professor; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1911-17; appointed 1911; acting president,
Olivet College, Olivet, Mich., 1915-16; president,
Drury College, Springfield, Mo., 1917.
Congregationalist.
English and French
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Modern
Language Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, June 2,
1909, to Kathryne Dillingham Wyckoff. |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual,
1911 |
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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1882.
Son of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer
Prize in 1917 for a series of articles titled "Inside the German
Empire"; executive editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his
leadership, the newspaper won a Pulitzer
Prize for meritorious public service in 1922, for reporting on
the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
English, German,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
following surgery for an intestinal
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1958 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope (1872-1957;
president of General Electric, 1922-39); married 1912 to
Margaret Honeyman Powell (1890-1967). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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William Henry Workman (1839-1918) —
also known as William H. Workman —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New Franklin, Howard
County, Mo., January
1, 1839.
Son of David Workman (1798-1854) and Nancy (Hook) Workman
(1807-1888).
Democrat. Harness
manufacturer; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1886-88.
English ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
21, 1918 (age 79 years, 51
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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