| | 
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1897-1976) —
also known as Hugh D. Auchincloss —
of Fairfax,
Va.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
28, 1897.
Son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss and Emma Brewster (Jennings)
Auchincloss.
Republican. Lawyer;
stockbroker; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1940.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
20, 1976 (age 79 years, 84
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
|
| |
Robert Livingston Beeckman (1866-1935) —
also known as R. Livingston Beeckman —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 15,
1866.
Son of Gilbert Livingston Beeckman and Margaret Atherton (Foster)
Beeckman.
Republican. Stockbroker; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1909-11; member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1912-14; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Rhode Island, 1912,
1916,
1924;
Governor
of Rhode Island, 1915-21; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1922.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of apparently of a heart
attack, in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
21, 1935 (age 68 years, 281
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
|
| |
William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) —
also known as William A. Chanler —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Paris, France.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 11,
1867.
Son of John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler (1838-1875).
Democrat. Explorer; author;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a
lower leg.
Died in Mentone (Menton), France,
March
4, 1934 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
|
| |
Ralph Fordyce Chesbrough (b. 1885) —
also known as Ralph F. Chesbrough —
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., July 1,
1885.
Traveling salesman; interpreter;
U.S. Vice Consul in Beirut, 1914-17; U.S. Consul in Trebizond, 1919.
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Ernest Sherwood —
of Rhode Island.
Born in England.
Socialist. Salesman; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Rhode Island, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Robert A. Weygand (b. 1948) —
of East Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Saunderstown, Narragansett, Washington
County, R.I.
Born in Attleboro, Bristol
County, Mass., May 10,
1948.
Democrat. Landscape architect; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1985-93; Lieutenant
Governor of Rhode Island, 1993-97; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1997-2001;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 2000.
Still living as of 2009.
|
| |
Henry Rogers Winthrop (1876-1958) —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 2,
1876.
Son of Buchanan Winthrop and Sarah Helen (Townsend) Winthrop.
Republican. Banker;
stockbroker; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; director,
Long Island Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., November
14, 1958 (age 82 years, 135
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
|
The Political Graveyard
is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source
for American political biography, listing 234,420
politicians, living and dead. |
| |
| |
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
|
| |
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
|
| |
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
|
| |
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/misc-occ.html. |
|
| |
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
|
| |
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
|
| |
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
|
| |
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
|
|
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained
by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure
and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by
HDL. —
The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996;
the last full revision was done on
May 12, 2012.
|
|
Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist
v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and
arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also
licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons
License. |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)
