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Arthur Ainslie Ageton (1900-1971) —
also known as Arthur A. Ageton —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Fromberg, Carbon
County, Mont., October
25, 1900.
Son of Peter Benjamin Ageton and Minnie Anna (Drummond) Ageton.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; rear
admiral; U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1954-57; university professor.
Episcopalian.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 23,
1971 (age 70 years, 180
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-1969) —
also known as Thurman W. Arnold —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., June 2,
1891.
Son of Constantine Peter Arnold and Annie (Brockway) Arnold.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1921; mayor of
Laramie, Wyo., 1923-24; dean, College of Law, West
Virginia University, 1927-30; professor of law, Yale
University, from 1931; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1943-45; resigned
1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died two months later, in Alexandria,
Va., November
7, 1969 (age 78 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Pasco Middleton Bowman II (b. 1933) —
Born in Harrisonburg,
Va., 1933.
Lawyer;
law professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1983-.
Still living as of 2002.
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John White Brockenbrough (1806-1877) —
of Virginia.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., December
23, 1806.
Son of William
Brockenbrough.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; law professor; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1846-61;
resigned 1861; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Confederate
District Judge, 1861.
Died in Lexington,
Va., February
20, 1877 (age 70 years, 59
days).
Interment at Stonewall
Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.
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Sherrod Brown (b. 1952) —
of Lorain, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, November
9, 1952.
Democrat. University faculty; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1975-82; secretary of
state of Ohio, 1983-91; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1993-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Lutheran.
Still living as of 2009.
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Walter Holden Capps (1934-1997) —
also known as Walter H. Capps —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 5,
1934.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1996;
U.S.
Representative from California 22nd District, 1997; defeated,
1994; died in office 1997.
Suffered a heart
attack while on a
flight from California to Washington, D.C., and died shortly
afterward in a hospital
at Reston, Fairfax
County, Va., October
28, 1997 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Ramsey Clark (b. 1927) —
also known as William Ramsey Clark —
of near Falls Church, Fairfax
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., December
18, 1927.
Son of Thomas
Campbell Clark and Mary Jane (Ramsey) Clark.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney General, 1967-69; law professor; Democratic
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974, 1976 (primary); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1976.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society.
Defended many controversial figures during his legal and political
career, including David Koresh, Lyndon
LaRouche, Leonard
Peltier, Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic, and Saddam Hussein.
Still living as of 2009.
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Arthur Bledsoe Cooke (b. 1869) —
also known as Arthur B. Cooke —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Melton's, Louisa
County, Va., June 15,
1869.
Son of George Washington Cooke and Sallie Farrar (Anderson) Cooke.
Democrat. College professor; U.S. Consul in Patras, 1910-19; Swansea, 1919-26; Plymouth, 1926-34.
Methodist.
Burial
location unknown.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president,
Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college professor; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Armistead Mason Dobie (1881-1962) —
of Charlottesville,
Va.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., April 15,
1881.
Son of Richard Augustus Dobie and Margaret Kearns (Cooke) Dobie.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1939-56.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1962
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Henry Keeling Ellyson (1823-1890) —
also known as Henry K. Ellyson —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 31,
1823.
Son of Jane 'Annie' (Huot) Ellyson (1797-1842) and Onan Ellyson
(1800-1859).
Printer;
lecturer; newspaper
publisher; director of banks, insurance
companies, and the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad;
president, Virginia Steamboat
Co.; Henrico
County Sheriff, 1857-65; mayor
of Richmond, Va., 1870-71.
Baptist.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
27, 1890 (age 67 years, 119
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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David B. Funderburk (b. 1944) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Langley Field (now Langley Air Force Base), Hampton,
Va., April 28,
1944.
Republican. University professor; U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1981-85; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1995-97;
defeated, 1996.
Still living as of 1998.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 16,
1903.
Son of Patrick Mansfield and Josephine (O'Brien) Mansfield.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining engineer;
university professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James William Marshall (1822-1910) —
also known as James W. Marshall —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Clarke
County, Va., August
14, 1822.
College professor; U.S. Consul in Leeds, 1861-64; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1874.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
5, 1910 (age 87 years, 175
days).
Interment somewhere
in Carlisle, Pa.
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-2005) —
also known as Eugene J. McCarthy; "Clean
Gene" —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Watkins, Meeker
County, Minn., March 29,
1916.
Son of Michael J. McCarthy and Anna (Baden) McCarthy.
School
teacher; university professor; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1949-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1952
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1992;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1968, 1976 (Independent).
Catholic.
Irish
and German
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in the Georgetown Retirement
Residence, Washington,
D.C., December
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Woodville, Va.
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George Brinton McClellan (1865-1940) —
also known as George B. McClellan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dresden, Saxony (now Germany)
of American parents, November
23, 1865.
Son of George
Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) and Ellen (Marcy) McClellan.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1895-1903; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1904-09; university professor;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Loyal
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died November
30, 1940 (age 75 years, 7
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Paul Vories McNutt (1891-1955) —
also known as Paul V. McNutt —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Franklin, Johnson
County, Ind., July 19,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; law professor;
national commander, American Legion, 1928-29; Governor of
Indiana, 1933-37; High Commissioner to the Philippines, 1937-39,
1945-46; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1940;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1940;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1944;
U.S. Ambassador to Philippines, 1946-47; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Delta Chi; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary; Kiwanis.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 24,
1955 (age 63 years, 248
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Parren James Mitchell (1922-2007) —
also known as Parren J. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April 29,
1922.
Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Sr. and Elsie (Davis) Mitchell.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1971-87.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Greater Baltimore Medical
Center, Baltimore,
Md., May 28,
2007 (age 85 years, 29
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Powers Moody (b. 1935) —
also known as James P. Moody; Jim Moody —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Richlands, Tazewell
County, Va., September
2, 1935.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; university professor; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1977-78; member of Wisconsin
state senate 9th District, 1979-82; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1983-93.
Still living as of 2009.
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College professor; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1884; district judge in Minnesota
11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his car
struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) —
also known as Pat Moynihan —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Pindars Corners, Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., March 16,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; political
scientist; university professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S. Ambassador to India, 1973-75; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1975-76; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1977-.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of infection
from a ruptured appendix,
in Washington,
D.C., March 26,
2003 (age 76 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916-1999) —
also known as Robert G. Neumann —
of California.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
January
2, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1966-73; Morocco, 1973-76; Saudi Arabia, 1981.
Died of cancer, in
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 18,
1999 (age 83 years, 167
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John W. Slayton (1863-1935) —
of New Castle, Lawrence
County, Pa.; McKeesport, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Virginia, 1863.
Socialist. Carpenter;
lecturer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1900 (at-large), 1924 (35th
District); candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1902, 1910, 1926; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Pennsylvania, 1928;
candidate for justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1930, 1932.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 5,
1935 (age about 71
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas H. Steele (b. 1887) —
of Statesville, Iredell
County, N.C.
Born in Virginia, August
26, 1887.
Son of John H. Steele and Julia (Hensley) Steele.
Democrat. Writer; accountant;
lecturer; member of North
Carolina state senate 25th District, 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Rotary; Odd
Fellows; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Grace Vawter Bates. |
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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 Tait (1768-1835) —
of Elbert
County, Ga.; Wilcox
County, Ala.
Born near Hanover, Hanover
County, Va., February
1, 1768.
Democrat. College professor; lawyer;
circuit judge in Georgia, 1803-09; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1809-19; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1820-26.
Died near Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala., October
7, 1835 (age 67 years, 248
days).
Interment at Dry
Forks Cemetery, Camden, Ala.
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Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro (b. 1885) —
also known as Sidney F. Taliaferro —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Salem,
Va., March 4,
1885.
Son of Van Taliaferro and Sallie (Pendleton) Taliaferro.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; banker; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; director,
Washington Gas Light
Co. and Georgetown Gas Light
Co.; board member, Columbia Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Chi; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Oscar Talle (1892-1969) —
also known as Henry O. Talle —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born near Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn., January
12, 1892.
Son of John Talle and Anna (Ovri) Talle.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1939-59 (4th District 1939-43, 2nd
District 1943-59); defeated, 1936 (4th District), 1958 (2nd District).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 14,
1969 (age 77 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Tucker (1775-1861) —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in St. Georges, Bermuda,
August
20, 1775.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1815; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1819-25 (15th District 1819-21, 6th
District 1821-25); university professor.
Died in Sherwood, Albemarle
County, Va., April 10,
1861 (age 85 years, 233
days).
Interment at University
of Virginia Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.
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Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932) —
of Staunton,
Va.; Lexington,
Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., April 5,
1853.
Son of John
Randolph Tucker and Laura (Powell) Tucker.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1889-97, 1922-32;
died in office 1932; law professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1912.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in 1932
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Stonewall
Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.
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William E. Ward —
of Chesapeake,
Va.
University professor; mayor
of Chesapeake, Va., 1990-.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2002.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) —
also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in
Politics" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Staunton,
Va., December
28, 1856.
Son of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) and Janet 'Jessie'
(Woodrow) Wilson (1826-1888).
Democrat. University professor; president
of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of
New Jersey, 1911-13; President
of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950. His portrait appeared on the
U.S. $100,000
gold certificate which was issued in 1934-45 for cash
transactions between banks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37
days).
Interment at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) and Janet 'Jessie'
(Woodrow) Wilson (1826-1888); married, June 24,
1885, to Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914); married, December
18, 1915, to Edith (Bolling) Galt (1872-1961); father of Eleanor
Randolph Wilson (1889-1967; who married William
Gibbs McAdoo). See Wilson-McAdoo-Floyd
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
C. Bullitt — Bainbridge
Colby — Joseph
E. Davies — Joseph
P. Tumulty — Thomas
H. Birch |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Woodrow
W. Jones
— Tom
Woodrow Payne
— Woodrow
Wilson Dumas
— Woodrow
Wilson Mann
— W.
Wilson Goode
— Woodrow
Wilson Storey
|
| | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out
of war." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis
Auchincloss, Woodrow
Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Anne Schraff, Woodrow
Wilson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:
Jim Powell, Wilson's
War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, and World War II |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1902 |
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Richard Alsop Wise (1843-1900) —
of Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
2, 1843.
Son of Henry
Alexander Wise.
Republican. College professor; member of Virginia state
legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1898-99, 1900; died in
office 1900.
Died in Williamsburg,
Va., December
21, 1900 (age 57 years, 110
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Philip Young (1910-1987) —
of New York; Great Falls (unknown
county), Va.
Born in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 9,
1910.
Son of Josephine Sheldon (Edmonds) Young (1870-1935) and Owen
D. Young.
Republican. Economist;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; business
executive; dean of the Columbia University business
school, 1948-53; chair, U.S.
Civil Service Commission, 1953-57; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1957-60.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Arlington Hospital,
Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., January
15, 1987 (age 76 years, 251
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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