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Thomas A. Burke (1898-1971) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, October
30, 1898.
Son of Thomas A. Burke and Lillian (McNeil) Burke.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1945-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1953-54.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Phi Alpha Delta.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
5, 1971 (age 73 years, 36
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Harold Hitz Burton (1888-1964) —
also known as Harold H. Burton —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho; East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 22,
1888.
Son of Alfred Edgar Burton (Dean of M.I.T.) and Gertrude (Hitz)
Burton.
Republican. Lawyer;
assistant attorney, Utah Power &
Light Company and Utah Light &
Traction
Company, 1914-16; attorney, Idaho Power
Company and Boise Valley Traction
Company, 1916-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member
of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1929; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1931-32, 1935-40; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1941-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1944;
Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1945-58; took senior status 1958.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Alpha Delta; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles; Grange; Rotary; Kiwanis;
Exchange
Club.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
28, 1964 (age 76 years, 128
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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James Clement Cain (b. 1925) —
also known as James C. Cain —
of Bluefield, Mercer
County, W.Va.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, April 13,
1925.
Son of Emmett Alexander Cain and Wilhelmina (Hessee) Cain.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mercer County, 1965-68.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Jaycees.
Still living as of 1968.
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Lee I. Fisher (b. 1951) —
of Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August 7,
1951.
Son of Stan Fisher and Elaine Fisher.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1981-82; member of Ohio state
senate, 1982-90; Ohio
state attorney general, 1991-95; defeated, 1994; Presidential
Elector for Ohio, 1992;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1996,
2008;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1998; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 2007-.
Jewish.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2010.
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Robert Elliott Freer (b. 1896) —
also known as Robert E. Freer —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Westmoreland Hills, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Madisonville, Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
30, 1896.
Son of Guy Metcalf Freer and May (Dunlap) Freer.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1935-48; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1939, 1944, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Order of the
Coif; Sons of
the Revolution; Phi Alpha Delta.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Guy Metcalf Freer and May (Dunlap) Freer; married, October
27, 1919, to Hazel Louise Davis (divorced); married, April 12,
1925, to Olive Roberts. |
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Son of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding (1843-1910) and George
Tryon Harding (1844-1928).
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio state
senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Phi Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August 2,
1923 (age 57 years, 273
days); the claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Original interment at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Tomb, Marion, Ohio.
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Relatives:
Married, July 8,
1891, to Florence Mabel Kling (1860-1924). |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His Times (out of
print) — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding (out of
print) — John W. Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
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Harry B. Hershey —
of Taylorville, Christian
County, Ill.
Born in Mifflin, Richland
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938; Illinois
Democratic state chair, 1938; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1940,
1944,
1948;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1940; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1951-66 (2nd District 1951-63, 5th
District 1964-66).
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Farm
Bureau.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Carl West Rich (1898-1972) —
also known as Carl W. Rich —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
12, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1947, 1951-53, 1954; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1963-65.
Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi Alpha Delta; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Eagles.
Chairman and president of the Cincinnati Royals professional basketball
team.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 26,
1972 (age 73 years, 288
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907).
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor General,
1890-92; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1892-1900; law
professor; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull and
Bones; Phi Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907); half-brother of
Charles
Phelps Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen 'Nellie' Herron (1861-1943; granddaughter of Ela
Collins; niece of William
Collins; daughter of John
Williamson Herron); brother of Henry
Waters Taft; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft, Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft II. See Taft
family of Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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Charles Tatgenhorst, Jr. (1883-1961) —
of Cleves, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
19, 1883.
Son of Charles F. W. Tatgenhorst and Amelia (Streidelmeyer)
Tatgenhorst.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1927-29; Judge, Ohio Court of
Appeals, 1936.
Methodist.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Freemasons.
Died January
13, 1961 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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