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John Albus, Jr. (1860-1940) —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas, October
4, 1860.
Son of John Albus and Elizabeth Albus.
Republican. Insurance
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1888;
U.S. Surveyor of
Customs, 1909-10.
German ancestry.
Died October
22, 1940 (age 80 years, 18
days).
Interment at Mt.
Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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Moses Alexander (1853-1932) —
of Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Obrigheim, Bavaria, Germany,
November
13, 1853.
Son of Nathan Alexander and Emma Alexander.
Democrat. Clothing
merchant; mayor
of Chillicothe, Mo., 1887; mayor of
Boise, Idaho, 1897-99, 1901-03; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Idaho, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Idaho, 1915-19; defeated, 1908, 1922.
Jewish.
German ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
B'nai
B'rith.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, January
4, 1932 (age 78 years, 52
days).
Interment at Morris
Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902) —
also known as John P. Altgeld —
of Andrew
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Hesse, Germany,
December
30, 1847.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Andrew
County State's Attorney, 1875; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1884; superior court judge in
Illinois, 1886-91; Governor of
Illinois, 1893-97; Independent candidate for mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 1899.
German ancestry.
Pardoned the surviving protesters of the Haymarket incident in
Chicago, and refused to send troops against the Pullman railway
strikers. These actions were not popular at the time, and he never
won another election.
Died in Joliet, Will
County, Ill., March 12,
1902 (age 54 years, 72
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; statue at Lincoln
Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Richard Bartholdt (1855-1932) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Schleiz, Germany,
November
2, 1855.
Son of Gottlob Bartholdt and Caroline (Wagner) Bartholdt.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1893-1915.
German ancestry.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia,
in St.
Louis, Mo., March 19,
1932 (age 76 years, 138
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Concordia
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Charles U. Becker (1868-1934) —
of Bolivar, Polk
County, Mo.
Born near New Haven, Franklin
County, Mo., October
21, 1868.
Son of Hermann Becker and Sarah (Maupin) Becker.
Republican. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1913-19; secretary of
state of Missouri, 1921-33.
German and French
ancestry.
Died, from cirrhosis of
the liver, in Missouri Methodist Hospital,
St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., May 21,
1934 (age 65 years, 212
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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William Dee Becker (1876-1943) —
also known as William D. Becker —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., October
23, 1876.
Son of John Philip Becker and Anna A. (Cammann) Becker.
Republican. Lawyer; Judge, Missouri Court of
Appeals, 1916-40; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1941-43; died in office 1943.
German ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Was a passenger in an experimental Army glider, towed by an airplane;
the glider's wings suddenly fell off, and it crashed
at Lambert-St. Louis Airfield,
St. Louis
County, Mo., August 1,
1943 (age 66 years, 282
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Henry Boernstein —
of Missouri.
Born in Hamburg, Germany.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S. Consul in Bremen, 1861-66.
German ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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August Henry Bolte (1854-1920) —
also known as August H. Bolte —
of Franklin
County, Mo.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born September
23, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1897-1901; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1916.
German ancestry.
Died, from valvular heart
disease and nephritis,
in St.
Louis, Mo., June 24,
1920 (age 65 years, 275
days).
Interment somewhere
in Washington, Mo.
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Charles Ferris Booher (1848-1921) —
also known as Charles F. Booher —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.; Savannah, Andrew
County, Mo.
Born in East Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., January
31, 1848.
Son of Henry Booher and Catharine (Updegraft) Booher.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Missouri, 1880;
U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1889, 1907-21; died in
office 1921.
German and Swiss
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Savannah, Andrew
County, Mo., January
21, 1921 (age 72 years, 356
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Savannah, Mo.
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John B. Bowman (1832-1885) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
1832.
Republican. Civil
engineer; lawyer; real estate
business; mayor
of East St. Louis, Ill., 1865-66, 1868, 1872-74, 1877-78.
German ancestry.
Shot
and killed by
an unknown assailant, in front of his home, in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
21, 1885 (age about 53
years). Two East St. Louis policemen were later charged with his
murder, but they were never tried.
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Charles Emil Dehner (1871-1945) —
also known as Charles E. Dehner —
of Lincoln, Logan
County, Ill.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., October
27, 1871.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916.
Catholic.
German ancestry.
Died November
11, 1945 (age 74 years, 15
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Lincoln, Ill.
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Herman Rudolph Dietrich (1862-1938) —
also known as Herman R. Dietrich —
of Utica, Livingston
County, Mo.
Born in Utica, Livingston
County, Mo., January
6, 1862.
Son of Martin Anthony Dietrich (1825-1884) and Wilhelmina M. (Kurth)
Dietrich (1836-1911).
Farmer;
merchant;
postmaster;
newspaper
editor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1902-03; U.S. Consul General in
Guayaquil, 1903-12.
German ancestry.
Died in Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo., January
21, 1938 (age 76 years, 15
days).
Interment at Catholic
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Mo.
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Married to Cora Helena Boschert (1873-1904). |
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Henry Christian Kumpf (1830-1904) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Germany,
1830.
Republican. Mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1886-88.
German ancestry.
Died in 1904
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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Frederick William Lehmann (1853-1931) —
also known as Frederick W. Lehmann —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Prussia,
February
28, 1853.
Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann and Sophia Lehman.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for Wabash Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee); U.S.
Solicitor General, 1910-12.
German ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died September
12, 1931 (age 78 years, 196
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; cenotaph at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Frank J. Lutz (1855-1916) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 24,
1855.
Son of John Lutz and Rosine Lutz.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,
1892.
German ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, March 24,
1916 (age 60 years, 305
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Nagel (1849-1940) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Bernardo, Colorado
County, Tex., August 9,
1849.
Son of Dr. Hermann Nagel and Friederike (Litzmann) Nagel.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1881-83; member of Republican
National Committee from Missouri, 1908-12; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1909-13.
German ancestry.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1940 (age 90 years, 149
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) —
also known as Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wright City, Warren
County, Mo., June 21,
1892.
Son of Gustave Niebuhr and Lydia (Hosto) Niebuhr.
Pastor;
professor,
Union Theological Seminary, 1928-60; Socialist candidate for New York
state senate 19th District, 1930; Socialist candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; vice-chair of New York Liberal
Party, 1958.
Protestant.
German ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Theologian; Socialist and pacifist until World War II; received the
Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., June 1,
1971 (age 78 years, 345
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus (1837-1922) —
also known as Frederick G. Niedringhaus —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Westphalia, Germany,
October
21, 1837.
Son of Frederick W. Niedringhaus and Mary N. Niedringhaus.
Republican. Manufacturer;
real
estate business; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 8th District, 1889-91; member, Arrangements Committee, Republican National
Convention, 1896.
Methodist.
German ancestry.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., November
25, 1922 (age 85 years, 35
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Carl Schurz (1829-1906) —
of Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; St.
Louis, Mo.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Liblar (now part of Erfstadt), Germany,
March
2, 1829.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1857; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1860;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1868
(Temporary
Chair; speaker);
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1869-75; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1877-81.
German ancestry.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 14,
1906 (age 77 years, 73
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; statue at Morningside
Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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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). |
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Edward Henry Winter (1879-1941) —
also known as Edward H. Winter —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, Mo.; Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Warren
County, Mo., April 5,
1879.
Son of Frederick Anton Winter and Dora (Richterberg) Winter.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Missouri, 1912;
probate judge in Missouri, 1921; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1923-28; Speaker of
the Missouri State House of Representatives, 1927-28; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1929-33.
Methodist.
German ancestry. Member, Rotary.
Died June 29,
1941 (age 62 years, 85
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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