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Frederick Trubee Davison (1896-1974) —
also known as F. Trubee Davison —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1896.
Son of Henry Pomeroy Davison (1867-1922; banker, philanthropist) and
Kate (Trubee) Davison (1871-1962); married, April 16,
1920, to Dorothy Peabody.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1922-26;
Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1926-32; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1932; president, American Museum of Natural
History, 1933-51; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; personnel
director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1951-52.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Skull
and Bones; American
Legion.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
14, 1974 (age 78 years, 280
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Harvey Denby (1830-1904) —
also known as Charles H. Denby —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Mt. Joy, Botetourt
County, Va., June 16,
1830.
Son-in-law of Graham
Newell Fitch; father of Charles
Denby and Edwin
Denby.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1857; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1876,
1884;
U.S. Minister to China, 1885-98.
Episcopalian.
Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., January
13, 1904 (age 73 years, 211
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Steven Boghos Derounian (1918-2007) —
also known as Steven B. Derounian —
of Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria,
April
6, 1918.
Son of Boghos Derounian and Eliza Derounian; married 1947 to Emily
Ann Kennard.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1953-65 (2nd District 1953-63, 3rd
District 1963-65); delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1969-81.
Episcopalian. Armenian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., April 17,
2007 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Charles Desmond (b. 1887) —
also known as Thomas C. Desmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., September
15, 1887.
Son of Thomas Henry Desmond and Katharine (Safried) Desmond; married,
August
16, 1923, to Alice B. Curtis (who later married Hamilton
Fish, Jr.).
Republican. Engineer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928,
1940;
member of New York
state senate, 1931-58 (27th District 1931-44, 32nd District
1945-54, 33rd District 1955-58).
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Grange; Moose; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Redmen; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial
location unknown.
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Courken George Deukmejian (b. 1928) —
also known as George Deukmejian;
"Duke" —
of California.
Born in Menands, Albany
County, N.Y., June 6,
1928.
Son of George Deukmejian and Alice (Gairdian) Deukmejian; married, February
16, 1957, to Gloria M. Saatjian.
Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1963-67; member of California
state senate, 1967-79; California
state attorney general, 1979-83; Governor of
California, 1983-91.
Episcopalian. Member, Navy
League; American
Legion; Elks.
Still living as of 2009.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March 24,
1902.
Nephew of Edmond
O. Dewey; son of George
Martin Dewey and Annie (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (c.1903-1970; grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis).
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952,
1956.
Episcopalian. English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange; Phi Mu
Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel, Bal
Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March 16,
1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Hooker Austin Doolittle (b. 1889) —
also known as Hooker A. Doolittle —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Mohawk, Herkimer
County, N.Y., January
27, 1889.
Son of Frank Hooker Doolittle and Minnie Katharine (Schall)
Doolittle; married, March 5,
1921, to Veronica Bergman.
U.S. Vice Consul in Tiflis, 1917-21; Madras, 1921-23; Marseille, 1923-26; U.S. Consul in Bilbao, 1926-32; Tangier, 1938; U.S. Consul General in Rabat, 1943; Alexandria, 1947.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma Nu.
Burial
location unknown.
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Silas Hamilton Douglas (1816-1890) —
also known as Silas H. Douglas; Silas H.
Douglass —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., October
27, 1816.
Son of Benjamin Douglas (1785-1848) and Lucy (Townsend) Douglas
(1792-1840); brother of Samuel
T. Douglass; married, May 1,
1845, to Helen Welles (1821-1880); father of Henry
W. Douglas.
Physician;
university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1871-73.
Episcopalian.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August
26, 1890 (age 73 years, 303
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Coert du Bois (b. 1881) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Hudson, Columbia
County, N.Y., November
10, 1881.
Son of John C. du Bois and Eva (Kimball) du Bois; married, August 1,
1910, to Margaret Mendell.
Forester;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1919-20; Naples, 1920-21; Port Said, 1922; U.S. Consul General in Batavia, 1927-30; Genoa, 1931; Naples, 1931-35; Havana, 1938.
Episcopalian.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Clement Dunn (1890-1979) —
of New York.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
27, 1890.
Married to Mary Armour; father of Cynthia Dunn (who married Charles
Wheeler Thayer).
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; architect;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1946-52; France, 1952-53; Spain, 1953-55; Brazil, 1955-56.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1979
(age about
88 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lorenzo Thurston Durand (1849-1917) —
also known as Lorenzo T. Durand —
of Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Morehouseville, Hamilton
County, N.Y., December
9, 1849.
Son-in-law of John
Moore; brother of George
Harman Durand.
Democrat. Saginaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1879-82; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1902; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 10th Circuit, 1917.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died August 7,
1917 (age 67 years, 241
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Norman Eddy (1810-1872) —
Born in Scipio, Cayuga
County, N.Y., December
10, 1810.
Democrat. Candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847; member of Indiana
state senate, 1849-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1853-55; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1855-57; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; secretary of
state of Indiana, 1871-72.
Episcopalian.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., January
28, 1872 (age 61 years, 49
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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William Alfred Eddy (1896-1962) —
also known as Bill Eddy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.; Beirut, Lebanon.
Born, to American parents, in Sidon, Syria (now Lebanon),
March
9, 1896.
Son of William King Eddy and Elizabeth Mills (Nelson) Eddy; married,
October
5, 1917, to Mary Emma Garvin.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; college
professor; president
of Hobart College and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y., 1936-42;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Minister to
Saudi Arabia, 1944-46; Middle East consultant, Arabian American
Oil
Company, 1947-62.
Episcopalian.
Died May 3,
1962 (age 66 years, 55
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Sidon, Lebanon.
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Son of William Edge and Mary (Evans) Edge; married, June 5,
1907, to Lady Lee Phillips (died 1915); married, December
9, 1922, to Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall (daughter of Harold
Marsh Sewall).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper
publisher; banker;
Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1904;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1910; member of New Jersey
state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice
President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian. Member, Union
League.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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Franklin Edson (1832-1904) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Chester, Windsor
County, Vt., April 5,
1832.
Married 1856
to Fanny C. Wood (granddaughter of Jethro Wood (1774-1834; inventor
of the cast-iron plow)).
Democrat. Grain commission
merchant; president, New York Produce Exchange, 1866, 1873-74; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1883-84.
Episcopalian.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
24, 1904 (age 72 years, 172
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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William T. Elmer (1835-1907) —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Rome, Oneida
County, N.Y., November
6, 1835.
Son of Lobbeus E. Elmer (U.S. Marshal) and Charlotte (Mudge) Elmer;
married, May 21,
1862, to Catherine L. Camp.
Republican. Lawyer; Middlesex
County State's Attorney, 1863-75, 1883-95; member of Connecticut
state senate 18th District, 1873; mayor
of Middletown, Conn., 1876; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1895; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1895-1904.
Episcopalian.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
11, 1907 (age 72 years, 5
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Arthur O. Eve (b. 1933) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 23,
1933.
Son of Arthur B. Eve and Beatrice (Clark) Eve; married 1956 to Lee
Constance Bowles.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1967-2001 (143rd District 1967-82, 141st District
1983-2001); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972,
1976,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
candidate for mayor of
Buffalo, N.Y., 1977.
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Amvets; NAACP; Urban
League; United
Auto Workers; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2001.
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April 30,
1842.
Son of Sidney T. Fairchild and Helen (Childs) Fairchild; married, June 1,
1871, to Helen Lincklaen (1846-1931; granddaughter of Henry
Seymour; niece of Horatio
Seymour).
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust
Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad;
director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Robert Benjamin Fegan (b. 1877) —
also known as R. B. Fegan —
of Junction City, Geary
County, Kan.
Born in New York, May 15,
1877.
Son of John Wesler Fagan and Eliza (Weeks) Fagan; married 1910 to Marion
Lewis.
Republican. Telephone
company manager; rancher;
Kansas Highway Commissioner, 1929; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kansas, 1932.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Jesters;
Elks; Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Ridley Finch (b. 1873) —
also known as Edward R. Finch —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1873.
Son of Edward L(ucius) Finch and Annie Ridley (Crane) Finch; married,
January
18, 1913, to Mary Livingston Delafield.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1902-04; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1915-34; appointed 1915;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1922-33; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1935-40.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Roy G. Finch (b. 1884) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Eagle Bridge, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., August
17, 1884.
Son of George Nelson Finch and Helen (Hunt) Finch; married, October
19, 1909, to Jessie Lewis Weller.
Republican. Engineer;
New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1925-26.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
American
Society of Civil Engineers; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) —
of New York.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August 3,
1808.
Son of Nicholas Fish (1758-1833); married to Julia Kean; uncle of
Helen Neilson (who married David
Maitland Armstrong); father of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902) and Hamilton
Fish, Jr. (1849-1936); granduncle of Hamilton
Fish Kean; grandfather of Hamilton
Fish, Jr. (1888-1991); great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish, Jr. (1926-1996); second great-grandfather of Hamilton
Fish (1954?-).
Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly, 1834; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1843-45; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1848; defeated, 1846; Governor of
New York, 1849-51; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1851-57; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1869-77.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y., September
7, 1893 (age 85 years, 35
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Hamilton Fish, Jr. (1926-1996) —
of Millbrook, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 3,
1926.
Descendant of Lewis
Morris; great-grandson of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); grandson of Alfred
Clark Chapin and Hamilton
Fish, Jr. (1849-1936); grandnephew of Nicholas
Fish; son of Hamilton
Fish, Jr. (1888-1991) and Grace (Chapin) Fish; father of Hamilton
Fish (1954?-).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1969-95 (28th District 1969-73,
25th District 1973-83, 21st District 1983-93, 19th District 1993-95);
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1984.
Episcopalian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Grange; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died July 24,
1996 (age 70 years, 51
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Graham Newell Fitch (1809-1892) —
also known as Graham N. Fitch —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., December
5, 1809.
Brother-in-law of Henry
Jones Alvord; father-in-law of Charles
Harvey Denby; grandfather of Charles
Denby and Edwin
Denby.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-37, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1849-53; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1857-61; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War.
Episcopalian.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., November
28, 1892 (age 82 years, 359
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Ind.
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Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (1875-1962) —
also known as Roy G. Fitzgerald —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
25, 1875.
Son of M. G. Fitzgerald and Cornelia M. (Avery) Fitzgerald; married,
September
5, 1900, to Caroline L. Wetecamp.
Republican. Lawyer;
director, Merchants National Bank;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1921-31.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American
Legion.
Died in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, November
16, 1962 (age 87 years, 83
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Frank H. Flood (b. 1851) —
of Varick, Seneca
County, N.Y.; Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Farmer, Seneca
County, N.Y., September
17, 1851.
Son of James Flood (1826-1884) and Minerva (Kennedy) Flood; relative
of Thomas
Schmeck Flood; married 1888 to Lyle R.
Choate.
Republican. Physician;
Seneca
County Coroner, 1879; Chemung
County Coroner, 1898-1900; mayor of
Elmira, N.Y., 1900-02.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin Folsom (b. 1847) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Folsomdale, Wyoming
County, N.Y., December
5, 1847.
Son of Benjamin R. Folsom and Mary (Rathbone) Folsom; married, October
11, 1893, to Ella Blanchard Howard.
Journalist;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Sheffield, 1886-93.
Episcopalian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial
location unknown.
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Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot (1855-1943) —
also known as N. V. V. Franchot —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
21, 1855.
Son of Richard
Hansen Franchot and Ann (Van Vranken) Franchot (1822-1881);
brother of Stanislaus
Pascal Franchot; married, November
5, 1879, to Annie Coyne Wood; uncle of Edward
Eells Franchot and Nicholas
Van Vranken Franchot II.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
producer; vice-president, Exchange National Bank of
Olean; director Electric
Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1892,
1904;
mayor
of Olean, N.Y., 1894-98.
Episcopalian. Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., 1943
(age about
87 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (b. 1946) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.; Morris Plains, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 29,
1946.
Second great-grandnephew of Theodore
Frelinghuysen; second great-grandson of Frederick
Theodore Frelinghuysen; son of Peter
Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr..
Republican. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1983-94; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1995-; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 2004,
2008.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kappa
Alpha Society.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton).
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian. French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John F.
Hill
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| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
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William Holt Gale (b. 1864) —
also known as William H. Gale —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1864.
Son of William Gale and Elizabeth Varian (Naylor) Gale; married, August 5,
1905, to Corinne Blackburn (daughter of Joseph
Clay Stiles Blackburn).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Plata, 1906-07; Malta, 1907-10; Colón, 1914-15; U.S. Consul General in Athens, 1910-14; Munich, 1915-17; Copenhagen, 1919-20; Hong Kong, 1921-24; Amsterdam, 1926; Budapest, 1927-29.
Episcopalian. Member, Theta Xi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ralph Abernethy Gamble (1885-1959) —
also known as Ralph A. Gamble —
of Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Yankton, Yankton
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.), May 6,
1885.
Nephew of John
Rankin Gamble; son of Robert
Jackson Gamble and Carrie (Osborne) Gamble; married, April 19,
1911, to Virginia Nesbitt (died 1937); married, June 19,
1958, to Ruth G. Daniels.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1931-37; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1937-57 (25th District 1937-45,
28th District 1945-53, 26th District 1953-57).
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi; Lions.
Died in St. Michaels, Talbot
County, Md., March 4,
1959 (age 73 years, 302
days).
Interment at Hopewell
Cemetery, Port Deposit, Md.
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Lindley Miller Garrison (1864-1932) —
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., November
28, 1864.
Son of Rev. Joseph Fithian Garrison and Elizabeth Vanarsdale (Grant)
Garrison; brother of Charles
Grant Garrison; married, June 30,
1900, to Margaret Hildeburn.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1913-16; resigned 1916.
Episcopalian.
Died in Sea Bright, Monmouth
County, N.J., October
19, 1932 (age 67 years, 326
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Gerald Thomas Gentz (b. 1949) —
also known as Gerald T. Gentz —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; East Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
26, 1949.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, Jaycees;
Lions.
Still living as of 1993.
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Irene Hazard Gerlinger (1876-1960) —
also known as Irene Strang Hazard; Mrs. George T.
Gerlinger —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in New York, December
3, 1876.
Daughter of James Ryder Hazard (1849-1928) and Evangeline (Strang)
Hazard (1854-1950); married, October
21, 1903, to George Terwiliger Gerlinger (1876-1948).
Republican. Member of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1940-48.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April 5,
1960 (age 83 years, 124
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter Goelet Gerry (1879-1957) —
also known as Peter G. Gerry —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.; Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1879.
Great-grandson of Elbridge
Gerry; son of Elbridge
Thomas Gerry and Louisa Matilda (Livingston) Gerry; married, May 26,
1910, to Mathilde Townsend (divorced 1925; who later married Benjamin
Sumner Welles); married, October
22, 1925, to Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt (1873-1958);
second cousin of Robert
Walton Goelet; second cousin once removed of Peter
Goelet.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1932;
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1917-29, 1935-47; defeated, 1928,
1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from Rhode Island, 1932-36.
Episcopalian.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
31, 1957 (age 78 years, 43
days).
Interment at St.
James' Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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Charles Ellsworth Goodell (1926-1987) —
also known as Charles E. Goodell —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., March 16,
1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in
the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-68 (43rd District 1959-63,
38th District 1963-68); delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1964;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968-71; defeated, 1970.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
21, 1987 (age 60 years, 311
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Janet Hill Gordon (1915-1990) —
also known as Janet Hill —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
11, 1915.
Daughter of James
P. Hill; married to William J. Gordon.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1942-46; Chenango
County Attorney, 1944-45; first
woman county attorney in New York State; member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1947-58; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948;
member of New York
state senate 46th District, 1959-62.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Daughters of the
American Revolution; Grange; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died September
17, 1990 (age 75 years, 249
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ernest Greenwood (1884-1955) —
of Bay Shore, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
November
25, 1884.
Son of William Greenwood and Mary (Cookson) Greenwood; married, August 7,
1909, to Sarah Emma Mosley.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1951-53; defeated,
1954.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died June 15,
1955 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Bay Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
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Hicks George Griffiths (1910-1996) —
also known as Hicks G. Griffiths —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Amsterdam, Montgomery
County, N.Y., July 9,
1910.
Married to Martha
Edna Wright.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1949-50; probate judge in Michigan, 1950;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1952;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1953.
Episcopalian. Member, Eagles; Maccabees.
Died in 1996
(age about
85 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001) —
also known as Andy Guest —
of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
29, 1939.
Son of Elizabeth
Polk Guest and Raymond
Richard Guest; nephew of Winston
Frederick Churchill Guest.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1973-99.
Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Rotary; Izaak
Walton League; Ruritan.
A state park in Warren County was named for
him in 1995.
Died, of cancer, in
Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., April 2,
2001 (age 61 years, 185
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Fletcher Hale (1883-1931) —
of Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
22, 1883.
Son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale;
married, March 29,
1913, to Alice N. Armstrong.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1918; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1925-31; died in
office 1931.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; American Bar
Association.
Died in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
22, 1931 (age 48 years, 273
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Laconia, N.H.
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Henry Clay Hall (b. 1860) —
also known as Henry C. Hall —
of Paris, France;
Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1860.
Son of Henry Clay Hall and Amanda Harwood (Ferry) Hall; married, June 4,
1887, to Mary Bacon Bartow (died 1901); married, March 14,
1905, to Alice Munsell Sweetser.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Colorado Springs, Colo., 1905-07; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1914-28.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leonard Wood Hall (1900-1979) —
also known as Leonard W. Hall —
of Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
2, 1900.
Son of Franklyn H. Hall and Mary A. Hall; married, May 10,
1934, to Gladys Dowsey.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1927-28, 1934-38;
Nassau
County Sheriff, 1929-31; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1939-52 (1st District 1939-45, 2nd
District 1945-52); delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952,
1956;
Nassau
County Surrogate, 1952-57; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1953-57; Presidential Elector for
New York, 1972;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1972.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 2,
1979 (age 78 years, 243
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Son of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married 1780 to
Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; ancestor of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate to
New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New-York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian. Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $10
bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on
U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $2
to $1,000.
Shot
and mortally wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
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| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
Burr — Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | See also Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Clay
family of New York |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
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Chauncey B. Hammond (b. 1882) —
of near Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira town, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
5, 1882.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Chemung County, 1935-39; resigned 1939;
member of New York
state senate, 1940-52 (41st District 1940-44, 46th District
1945-52).
Episcopalian. Member, Rotary; Elks; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Augustus Noble Hand (1869-1954) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., July 26,
1869.
Grandson of Augustus
Cincinnatus Hand; son of Richard
Lockhart Hand and Mary Elizabeth (Noble) Hand; married, August 5,
1899, to Susan Train; cousin of Billings
Learned Hand.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director, San Juan and Reio Pedras Railroad;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1914-27; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1927-53.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died October
28, 1954 (age 85 years, 94
days).
Interment somewhere
in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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Arthur Thomas Hannett (1884-1966) —
of Gallup, McKinley
County, N.M.; Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y., February
17, 1884.
Son of William Hannett and Mary Emily (McCarthy) Hannett; married, August
13, 1913, to Louise Estella Westfall.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Mexico, 1912
(alternate), 1920;
mayor
of Gallup, N.M., 1918-22; Governor of
New Mexico, 1925-27.
Episcopalian. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died March 18,
1966 (age 82 years, 29
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Harry Franklin Hawley (b. 1880) —
also known as Harry F. Hawley —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., July 5,
1880.
Son of Robert Hawley and Sarah Jane (Daft) Hawley; married, January
22, 1910, to Agnes Sweet.
U.S. Consul in Tokyo, 1917-18; Yokkaichi, 1918-19; Nagoya, 1919-25; Windsor, 1925-36; Oporto, 1938; Marseille, 1942; Bilbao, 1943.
Episcopalian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Kenneth William Hechler (b. 1914) —
also known as Ken Hechler —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born near Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
20, 1914.
Son of Charles H. Hechler and Catherine (Hauhart) Hechler.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 4th District, 1959-77;
defeated, 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West
Virginia, 1964,
1968,
1972,
1980,
1984;
secretary
of state of West Virginia, 1985-2000; defeated, 2004.
Episcopalian. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Civitan;
American
Political Science Association.
Still living as of 2004.
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Frank Wayland Higgins (1856-1907) —
also known as Frank W. Higgins —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., August
18, 1856.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1888;
member of New York
state senate, 1894-1902 (32nd District 1894-95, 50th District
1896-1902); Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1903-04; Governor of
New York, 1905-06.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., February
12, 1907 (age 50 years, 178
days).
Interment at Mt.
View Cemetery, Olean, N.Y.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton (b. 1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 13,
1937.
Democrat. Lawyer; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1972;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1991-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1996
(delegation chair), 2000,
2004,
2008.
Female.
Episcopalian. African
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 2009.
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Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss (1856-1922) —
also known as Henry D. Hotchkiss —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 2,
1856.
Third cousin twice removed of Luther
Hotchkiss; fourth cousin once removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss, Elisha
Hotchkiss, Jr. and Daniel
Frederick Webster; son of Thomas Woodward Hotchkiss and Emma
(Burrell) Hotchkiss; married to Alice C. Strong.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1886; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 9th District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1913-22; defeated, 1911;
died in office 1922; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court, 1913-15.
Episcopalian. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1922 (age 65 years, 247
days).
Interment somewhere
in Norwalk, Ohio.
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Amory Houghton (1899-1981) —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., July 27,
1899.
Son of Alanson
Bigelow Houghton and Adelaide Louise (Wellington) Houghton;
married, October
19, 1921, to Laura DeKay Richardson; father of Amory
Houghton, Jr..
Republican. President (1930-41) and chairman (1941-61), Corning Glass Works;
director, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, Erie Railroad,
and National City Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948
(alternate), 1952,
1964;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1956;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1957-61; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1981
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Amory Houghton, Jr. (b. 1926) —
also known as Amo Houghton —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., August 7,
1926.
Grandson of Alanson
Bigelow Houghton; son of Amory
Houghton and Laura DeKay (Richardson) Houghton; married, June 27,
1950, to Ruth Frances West; married to Priscilla B. Dewey.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
president, Corning Glass Works,
1961; director, New York Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1987-2003 (34th District 1987-93,
31st District 1993-2003, 29th District 2003); delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 2008.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr. (b. 1906) —
also known as Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., December
12, 1906.
Son of Arthur
Amory Houghton and Mabel (Hollister) Houghton; married to
Elizabeth Douglas McCall.
Republican. Vice-president, Corning Glass Works,
1935-40; director, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1960.
Episcopalian. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Houstoun (1755-1813) —
of Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1755.
Father-in-law of Duncan
Lamont Clinch.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784-86; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March 17,
1813 (age about 57
years).
Interment at St.
Paul's Chapel, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Austin Hoyt (b. 1915) —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Beacon, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 26,
1915.
Married, November
11, 1939, to Margaret Llewellyn Carter.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado,
1956.
Episcopalian. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of the
Coif.
Still living as of 1958.
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Harry Edward Hull (1864-1938) —
also known as Harry E. Hull —
of Williamsburg, Iowa
County, Iowa.
Born near Belvidere, Allegany
County, N.Y., March 12,
1864.
Son of Henry D. Hull and Isabel (Renwick) Hull; married, June 3,
1891, to Mary Louise Harris.
Republican. Grain
business; mayor of Williamsburg, Iowa, 1889-1901; postmaster;
president, Williamsburg Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1915-25.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
16, 1938 (age 73 years, 310
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Iowa.
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Helen Huntington Hull (1893-1976) —
also known as Helen Dinsmore Huntington; Helen Huntington
Astor; Mrs. Lytle Hull —
of Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1893.
Descendant of Samuel
Huntington; daughter of Helen Gray (Dinsmore) Huntington
(1868-1942) and Robert Palmer Huntington (1869-1949); married, April 30,
1914, to William Vincent Astor (1891-1959; divorced 1940; first
cousin once removed of William
Waldorf Astor); married, April 15,
1941, to Lytle Hull (1882-1958).
Republican. Philanthropist; benefactor of musical institutions in New
York and the Hudson Valley; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1924.
Female.
Episcopalian. Bisexual.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
11, 1976 (age 83 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William S. Hults, Jr. (b. 1906) —
of Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 18,
1906.
Republican. Real
estate and insurance
business; automobile
dealer; member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1943-44; member
of New
York state senate 3rd District, 1945-59.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ward Hunt (1810-1886) —
of Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born June 14,
1810.
Member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County, 1839; mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1844; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1865-72; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1868-69; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-82.
Episcopalian. Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died March 24,
1886 (age 75 years, 283
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Lewis Morris Iddings (1850-1921) —
also known as Lewis M. Iddings —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rome, Italy.
Born in Warren, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April 23,
1850.
Son of Lewis J. Iddings and Jane (Chesney) Iddings; married, October
29, 1887, to Louise A. Belden.
Republican. Worked at New York Tribune and New York Evening
Post newspapers,
1876-91; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1905-10; representative of American Red Cross in Italy
during World War I; director, American War Relief Clearing House in
Italy.
Episcopalian.
Died December
26, 1921 (age 71 years, 247
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Verner M. Ingram (b. 1911) —
of Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., August
27, 1911.
Married to Ethel Mason.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1957-66 (St. Lawrence County 1957-65, 121st
District 1966).
Episcopalian. Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Houghwout Jackson (1892-1954) —
also known as Robert H. Jackson —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Spring Creek, Warren
County, Pa., February
13, 1892.
Son of William Eldred Jackson and Angelina (Houghwout) Jackson;
married, April 24,
1916, to Irene Gerhardt.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936;
U.S. Solicitor General,
1938-40; U.S.
Attorney General, 1940-41; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-54; died in office 1954.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1954 (age 62 years, 238
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg, N.Y.
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John Jay (1745-1829) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1745.
Married to Sarah Livingston (1756-1802; niece of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1716-1778); daughter of William
Livingston; first cousin of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1740-1810); sister-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes; sister of Henry
Brockholst Livingston); father of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandfather of John
Jay II; great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933).
Lawyer;
law partner of Robert
R. Livingston; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76, 1778-79; state
court judge in New York, 1777; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1779-82; delegate to
New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New-York
County, 1788; received 9 electoral votes, 1789;
received 5 electoral votes, 1796;
received one electoral vote, 1800;
Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790; Governor of
New York, 1795-1801; defeated, 1792.
Episcopalian. French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 17,
1829 (age 83 years, 156
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
23, 1877.
Great-grandson of John
Jay; son of Augustus Jay and Emily Astor (Kane) Jay; married, March 16,
1909, to Susan Alexander McCook.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1909-13; U.S. Minister to Salvador, 1920-21; Romania, 1921-25; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1925-26.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
18, 1933 (age 56 years, 56
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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William F. Jenks (1831-1910) —
of New Berlin, Chenango
County, N.Y.; Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.; Southern Pines, Moore
County, N.C.
Born in Burlington, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
29, 1831.
Democrat. Lawyer; Chenango
County Judge and Surrogate, 1878-89.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Southern Pines, Moore
County, N.C., October
3, 1910 (age 79 years, 35
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1865.
Son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original
stockholders of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson
(Goodsell) Jennings (1828-1908); married 1896 to Mary
Dows Brewster; uncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings
(1898-1968; president of Socony-Vacuum, which later became Mobil
Oil); granduncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1920;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1923; director, U.S. Industrial
Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull and
Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Hallett C. Johnson (1888-1968) —
also known as Francis Hallett Johnson —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
26, 1888.
Son of Jeremiah Augustus Johnson (1836-1912) and Frances Valeda
'Fannie' (Matthews) Johnson; married, May 20,
1920, to Katherine Elizabeth Steward (1889-1969; niece of Robert
Livingston Beeckman); father of Hallett Johnson, Jr. (son-in-law
of Jay
Cooke).
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1944-47.
Episcopalian. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Psi.
Died, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
11, 1968 (age 79 years, 259
days).
Interment at Rosedale
Cemetery, Orange, N.J.
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Mary Gardiner Jones (b. 1920) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1920.
Daughter of Charles Herbert Jones and Anna Livingston (Short) Jones.
Republican. Lawyer; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1964-73.
Female.
Episcopalian. Member, Order of the
Coif; American
Arbitration Association.
Still living as of 1973.
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Henry Lee Jost (1873-1950) —
also known as Henry L. Jost —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1873.
Son of Simeon Jost and Lena (Bahr) Jost; married 1911 to Alice
Hanks.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1912-16; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1923-25.
Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Died July 13,
1950 (age 76 years, 219
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriali Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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