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Rufus Budd Bement —
also known as Rufus B. Bement —
of Michigan; Delphi, Carroll
County, Ind.; Clyde, Sandusky
County, Ohio.
Civil engineer; minister;
Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1843.
Interment at Clyde
Cemetery, Clyde, Ohio.
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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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Chauncey Stewart Conger (b. 1838) —
also known as Chauncey S. Conger —
of Carmi, White
County, Ill.
Born in Strong Ridge, Wood
County, Ohio, January
14, 1838.
Son of Enoch Conger (1792-1872) and Esther (West) Conger (1796-1882).
Civil engineer; lawyer; White
County Superintendent of Schools, 1861-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1863-64; circuit judge in
Illinois, 1879.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) —
also known as Charles G. Dawes; "Charging
Charlie" —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, August
27, 1865.
Son of Rufus
R. Dawes and Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes.
Republican. Engineer; lawyer; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1897-1902; colonel in the U.S. Army
during World War I; Vice
President of the United States, 1925-29; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1929-31; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1925.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 23,
1951 (age 85 years, 239
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Warren Armstrong Haggott (1864-1958) —
also known as Warren A. Haggott —
of Idaho Springs, Clear Creek
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born near Sidney, Shelby
County, Ohio, May 18,
1864.
Son of Benjamin Pearl Haggott and Margaret Agnes (Gamble) Haggott.
Republican. School
teacher; mining
engineer; lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1902-03; member of Colorado
state senate, 1903-05; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1907-09; defeated,
1908; district judge in Colorado 2nd District, 1921-23.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Denver,
Colo., April 29,
1958 (age 93 years, 346
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Charles F. Herbert (1910-2003) —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
17, 1910.
Democrat. Mining
engineer; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 4th District, 1941-42;
Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources.
Died in Kailua-Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
County, Hawaii, September
3, 2003 (age 93 years, 198
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean.
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Ezra Mills Lawton (b. 1864) —
also known as Ezra M. Lawton —
Born in Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio, August
23, 1864.
Electrical
engineer; mining
business; U.S. Consular Agent in Oaxaca, 1908-11; U.S. Consul in Tegucigalpa, 1914-17; Guatemala City, 1919-20; Sao Paulo, 1921; Sydney, 1926; U.S. Consul General in Sydney, 1927-29.
Burial
location unknown.
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J. Fred Thomas —
of Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa.
Born in Brookfield, Trumbull
County, Ohio.
Republican. Mining
engineer; mayor of
Sharon, Pa., 1933-37; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1939-46; chief clerk, Pennsylvania
State Senate, 1953.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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W. Dean Watkins (b. 1931) —
of Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, 1931.
Aeronautical
engineer; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2000.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2000.
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Charles Erwin Wilson (1890-1961) —
also known as Charles E. Wilson; "Engine
Charlie" —
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 18,
1890.
Electrical
engineer; president, General
Motors, 1941-53; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1953-57.
Famed for saying, during his confirmation hearings, that "for years I
thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and
vice versa.".
Died in Norwood, East
Feliciana Parish, La., September
26, 1961 (age 71 years, 70
days).
Interment at Acacia
Park Cemetery, Beverly Hills, Mich.
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