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Edward Clarkson Leverette Adams (1876-1946) —
also known as Ned Adams —
Born in Richland
County, S.C., January
5, 1876.
Physician;
farmer;
author; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1916, 1922; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., November
1, 1946 (age 70 years, 300
days).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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John Drayton (1767-1822) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 22,
1767.
Son of William
Henry Drayton and Dorothy (Golightly) Drayton (1747-1780).
Lawyer;
author; botanist;
Governor
of South Carolina, 1800-02, 1808-10; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1802-04; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1803-04; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1804-08; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1812-22.
Died in South Carolina, November
27, 1822 (age 55 years, 158
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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Joseph Earle Jacobs (1893-1971) —
also known as Joseph E. Jacobs —
of Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C., October
31, 1893.
Son of Joseph Jacobs and Nettie (Austin) Jacobs.
Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Foochow, 1917-18; Shanghai, 1918-19; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1924, 1928-30; Yunnanfu, 1926-28; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948-49; Poland, 1955-57.
Died in 1971
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 10,
1903.
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.).
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.);
step-daughter of Albert
Elmer Austin; married, August
10, 1923, to George Tuttle Brokaw (1879-1935; divorced 1929);
married, November
23, 1935, to Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967; founder and
publisher of Time, Life, and other magazines); mother
of Ann Clare Brokaw (1924-1944; killed in an automobile accident in
Palo Alto, Calif.). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Clare Boothe Luce: Sylvia
Morris, Rage
for Fame : The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce — Stephen
C. Shadegg, Clare
Boothe Luce: a biography — Joseph Lyons, Clare
Boothe Luce: Author and Diplomat (for young
readers) |
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David Ramsay (1749-1815) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., April 2,
1749.
Physician;
author; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1776-83; served in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1782-83, 1785-86;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1801-15.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by a crazed patient, and died two days later, in
Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1815 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Interment at Circular
Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, S.C.
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