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Henry Hammill Fowler (1908-2000) —
also known as Henry H. Fowler; Joe Fowler —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., September
5, 1908.
Son of Mack Johnson Fowler and Bertha (Browning) Fowler.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi Kappa
Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Falls
Church, Va., January
3, 2000 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery.
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James Murray Mason (1798-1871) —
also known as James M. Mason —
of Virginia.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., November
3, 1798.
Son of John Mason (1766-1849) and Anna Maria (Murray) Mason
(1776-1857).
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1826; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 12th District, 1837-39; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1847-61; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
States Envoy to England, 1861.
Author of the Fugitive Slave Law. When the Civil War began, he left
Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Died April 28,
1871 (age 72 years, 176
days).
Interment at Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery.
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Thomson Francis Mason (1785-1838) —
also known as Thomson F. Mason —
of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.).
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., 1785.
Son of Thomson Mason (1759-1820) and Sarah McCarty (Chichester)
Mason.
Mayor
of Alexandria, D.C., 1827-30.
Died in Alexandria, D.C (now Va.), December
21, 1838 (age about 53
years).
Original interment at Colross Graveyard
(which no longer exists); reinterment at Christ Church Episcopal
Cemetery.
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Albert Vickers Bryan (1899-1984) —
also known as Albert V. Bryan —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Alexandria,
Va., July 23,
1899.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1947-61; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1961-72; took senior
status 1972.
Died in Fairfax,
Va., March 13,
1984 (age 84 years, 234
days).
Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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Charles Creighton Carlin (1866-1938) —
also known as Charles C. Carlin —
of Alexandria,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Alexandria,
Va., April 8,
1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1907-19; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1924,
1932.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
4, 1938 (age 72 years, 179
days).
Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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David Funsten (1819-1866) —
of Virginia.
Born in Clarke
County, Va., October
14, 1819.
Member of Virginia state legislature, 1844; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1863-65.
Died of pneumonia,
at Howard (unknown
county), Va., April 6,
1866 (age 46 years, 174
days).
Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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Joseph Eaches (1794-1857) —
of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.).
Born in Loudoun
County, Va., 1794.
Mayor
of Alexandria, D.C., 1843-46.
Died in 1857
(age about
63 years).
Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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Richard Laidley Ruffner (1894-1965) —
also known as Richard Ruffner —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., September
30, 1894.
Lawyer;
president, Alexandria National Bank; mayor
of Alexandria, Va., 1937-40.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., August
11, 1965 (age 70 years, 315
days).
Interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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