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Wilhelmina F. Adams (1901-1987) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Key West, Monroe
County, Fla., January
31, 1901.
Daughter of Thomas F. Adams and Mary F. (Peck) Adams.
Democrat. Florist;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1944,
1964;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1945-51.
Female.
Protestant. African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Tammany
Hall; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in May, 1987
(age 86
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Floyd E. Anderson (1891-1976) —
of Port Dickinson, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Bainbridge, Chenango
County, N.Y., January
24, 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1934-51; member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 1st District, 1941-42; member
of New
York state senate, 1943-51 (40th District 1943-44, 45th District
1945-51); Justice of
New York Supreme Court 6th District, 1958.
Protestant. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in February, 1976
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Herman Badillo (b. 1929) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Caguas, Caguas
Municipio, Puerto Rico, August
21, 1929.
Son of Francisco Badillo and Carmen (Rivera) Badillo.
Lawyer;
accountant;
borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1966-69; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 29th District, 1967;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1980,
1988;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969 (Democratic primary), 1973
(Democratic primary), 1977 (Democratic primary), 2001 (Republican
primary); U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1971-77; Democratic
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1986.
Protestant. Puerto
Rican ancestry. Member, Beta
Gamma Sigma.
First
person of Puerto Rican birth to have a vote in the U.S. Congress.
Still living as of 2009.
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Harry Felipe Besosa (1881-1947) —
also known as Harry F. Besosa —
of Santurce, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 24,
1881.
Son of Manuel Besosa (1832-1898) and Fruta (Melero) Besosa.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Puerto
Rico senate, 1924; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Puerto Rico, 1928;
member of Republican National Committee from Puerto Rico, 1928-32; U.S.
Attorney for Puerto Rico, 1932-33.
Protestant. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Elks; Rotary.
Died October
22, 1947 (age 66 years, 181
days).
Interment at Cementerio
de Isla Verde, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
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Hugh Henry Bownes (b. 1920) —
also known as Hugh H. Bownes —
of Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 10,
1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Hampshire, 1956;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New Hampshire, 1963; mayor of
Laconia, N.H., 1963-65; superior court judge in New Hampshire,
1966-68; U.S.
District Judge for New Hampshire, 1968-77; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1977-90; took senior
status 1990.
Protestant. Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Lions.
Still living as of 2002.
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George Harvey Branch (b. 1870) —
also known as George H. Branch —
of Grand Isle, Grand Isle
County, Vt.
Born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., February
27, 1870.
Son of Walter C. Branch and Eunice (Monroe) Branch.
Republican. Physician;
Grand
Isle County Auditor; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Grand Isle, 1910; member of
Vermont
state senate from Grand Isle County, 1923; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1924.
Protestant. Member, American Medical
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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Lowell Huntington Brown (1885-1965) —
also known as Lowell H. Brown —
of Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, July 10,
1885.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; engineer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1940; member of New York
state senate 28th District, 1945-46.
Protestant. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Psi
Upsilon.
Died in February, 1965
(age 79
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Jackson Brundage (b. 1869) —
also known as Edward J. Brundage —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Campbell, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 13,
1869.
Son of Victor D. Brundage and Maria L. (Armstrong) Brundage.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 6th District, 1899-1900, 1903-04;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1916,
1928
(alternate); Illinois
state attorney general, 1917-25; corporate counsel, Chicago,
Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway.
Protestant. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, December
17, 1913, to Germaine Vernier. |
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1919 |
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Gordon Canfield (1898-1972) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Salamanca, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., April 15,
1898.
Son of Carl A. Canfield and Florence A. (Saxton) Canfield.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
reporter; secretary to U.S. Rep. George
N. Seger, 1923-40; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 8th District, 1941-61.
Protestant. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died in Hawthorne, Passaic
County, N.J., June 20,
1972 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, N.J.
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James Lawrence Fly (b. 1898) —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Seagoville, Dallas
County, Tex., February
22, 1898.
Son of Joseph Lawrence Fly and Jane (Ard) Fly.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1939-44; chair, Federal Communications
Commission, 1939-44.
Protestant. Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ross Graves —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Republican. Insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1915-16; member of
New
York state senate 48th District, 1917-19; candidate for mayor of
Buffalo, N.Y., 1925.
Protestant.
Burial
location unknown.
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Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) —
also known as Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first
state park in the U.S.); led crusade to consolidate the five boroughs
into today's New York City; helped create the New York Public
Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural institutions. Green
Island, near Niagara Falls, is named for
him.
Shot
and killed, by
a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in front of his home, on
Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903 (age 83 years, 38
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Raymond C. Green (b. 1893) —
of Sauquoit, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Sauquoit, Oneida
County, N.Y., January
27, 1893.
Republican. Merchant;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1948.
Protestant. Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Douglas H. Grieve (c.1881-1951) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1881.
Republican. Engineer;
candidate for New York
state senate 21st District, 1928; candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1937.
Protestant.
Died, in Westchester Square Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
13, 1951 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Louis Bret Hart (1869-1939) —
also known as Louis B. Hart —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Medina, Orleans
County, N.Y., March 30,
1869.
Son of Edward Hart and Hannah (Marcy) Hart.
Republican. Lawyer; Erie
County Surrogate, 1905-39; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Protestant. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., July 18,
1939 (age 70 years, 110
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Merwin Kimball Hart (1881-1962) —
also known as Merwin K. Hart —
of Oneida
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., June 25,
1881.
Son of Henry Gilbert Hart (1848-1922) and Lucy Lord (Kimball) Hart
(1854-1939).
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County 1st District, 1907-08; served
in the U.S. Army during World War I; founder and director, Utica
Mutual Insurance
Co.; political ally of "radio priest" Rev. Charles Coughlin, Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain.
Protestant. Member, John
Birch Society.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1962 (age 81 years, 158
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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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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George Keyes Page (1896-1972) —
also known as G. Keyes Page —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Perry, Wyoming
County, N.Y., November
10, 1896.
Son of George Keeney Page and Adella (Keyes) Page.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Genesee County
1st District, 1961-62.
Protestant. Member, Rotary; Elks.
Died in 1972
(age about
75 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Frances Marie Adams. |
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Laurence Ingram Radway (1919-2003) —
also known as Laurence Radway —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; West Lebanon, Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., February
2, 1919.
Son of Frederick Radway and Dorothy Radway.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; chair of
Grafton County Democratic Party, 1958-62; member of New Hampshire
Democratic State Committee, 1958-62; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1964,
1972
(alternate); candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1972.
Protestant. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Political Science Association; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from complications
of abdominal
surgery, in Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H., May 7,
2003 (age 84 years, 94
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Rand, Jr. (b. 1926) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1926.
Son of William Rand and Barbara (Burr) Rand.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1962; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1964.
Protestant. Member, American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 1967.
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Stanley Forman Reed (1884-1980) —
also known as Stanley F. Reed —
of Maysville, Mason
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Minerva, Mason
County, Ky., December
31, 1884.
Son of Dr. John A. Reed and Frances (Forman) Reed.
Democrat. Lawyer;
counsel, Burley Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Association; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1912-16; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kentucky, 1920,
1936;
U.S. Solicitor General,
1935-38; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1938-57.
Protestant. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Phi.
Died in Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 2,
1980 (age 95 years, 93
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Carlos M. Rios (1914-1980) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico, March 5,
1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; president,
Independent Theater Employees Union; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1963-65.
Protestant. Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Died, following a stroke, in
the Veterans Administration Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 6,
1980 (age 66 years, 93
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Candida Santos. |
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Hiram Charles Todd (b. 1876) —
also known as Hiram C. Todd —
of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 17,
1876.
Son of Vernon Lawrence Todd and Anna Elizabeth (Tefft) Todd.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
law partner of Edgar
T. Brackett, 1917-22; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1921-22.
Protestant. Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Speer Tubbs (1897-1982) —
also known as Robert S. Tubbs —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., January
23, 1897.
Son of Levi Tubbs and Myrtle (Speer) Tubbs.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Kent County 1st
District, 1961-62.
Protestant. Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association.
Died in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., December
11, 1982 (age 85 years, 322
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Lorraine Joyce Burgess. |
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