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Raymond Thomas Nagle (1897-1950) —
also known as Raymond T. Nagle; Ray Nagle —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., June 2,
1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives; Montana
state attorney general, 1933-36.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association.
Died, from periarteritis
nodosa, in Brookmont, Montgomery
County, Md., March 6,
1950 (age 52 years, 277
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Abner Nash (1740-1786) —
of Craven
County, N.C.
Born near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., August 8,
1740.
Brother of Francis
Nash.
Lawyer; member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777-78; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1779-80; Governor of
North Carolina, 1780-81; member of North Carolina state
legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-86; died in
office 1786.
Died while attending a session of the Continental
Congress, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
2, 1786 (age 46 years, 116
days).
Original interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Pembroke
Plantation Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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Lawrence Talbot Neal (1844-1905) —
also known as Lawrence T. Neal —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
22, 1844.
Democrat. Lawyer; Ross
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1871-72; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 7th District, 1873-77; candidate for Ohio state
senate, 1887; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1892;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1893.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, November
2, 1905 (age 61 years, 41
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio.
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Hugh Mortimer Nelson (1811-1862) —
of Clarke
County, Va.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., October
20, 1811.
Married to Maria Adelaide Holker.
Lawyer; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; major in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died, of typhoid,
in Albemarle
County, Va., August 6,
1862 (age 50 years, 290
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Harry Whinna Nice (1877-1941) —
also known as Harry W. Nice —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
5, 1877.
Son of Henry Nice and Drucilla (Arnold) Nice; married 1906 to Edna
Viola Amos; uncle of Deeley
K. Nice; granduncle of Harry
Whinna Nice III.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maryland, 1920;
Governor
of Maryland, 1935-39; defeated, 1919, 1938; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grotto;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Junior
Order; Elks; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; Knights
of Khorassan.
Died in Richmond,
Va., February
25, 1941 (age 63 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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James Noble (1785-1831) —
of Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind.
Born near Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., December
16, 1785.
Brother of Noah
Noble and Benjamin
Sedgwick Noble (1809?-1869); father of Benjamin
Sedgwick Noble (1805-1837).
Lawyer; member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1813-14; member
Indiana territorial council, 1815; circuit judge in Indiana,
1815; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1816; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1816-31; died in office 1831.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1831 (age 45 years, 72
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Noah Noble (1794-1844) —
of Franklin
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., January
14, 1794.
Brother of James
Noble and Benjamin
Sedgwick Noble (1809?-1869); uncle of Benjamin
Sedgwick Noble (1805-1837).
Lawyer; farmer; merchant;
miller;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825; Governor of
Indiana, 1831-37; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1836, 1838.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
8, 1844 (age 50 years, 25
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Mark Obenshain (b. 1962) —
of Harrisonburg,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., June 11,
1962.
Son of Richard
Dudley Obenshain; married to Suzanne Speas; brother of Kate
Obenshain Griffin.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state senate 26th District, 2004-.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2011.
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Richard Dudley Obenshain (1935-1978) —
also known as Richard D. Obenshain —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., October
31, 1935.
Son of Samuel Shockley Obenshain (1904-2000; soil scientist) and
Josephine Mathews (Dudley) Obenshain; married, July 15,
1961, to Helen Nottingham Wilkins; father of Mark
Obenshain and Kate
Obenshain Griffin.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1964; candidate for Virginia
state attorney general, 1969; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1972-73; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia 1978, but died before election.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons.
Killed when his small plane
crashed during a nighttime landing at Chesterfield County Airport,
Chesterfield
County, Va., August 2,
1978 (age 42 years, 275
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William O'Dwyer (1890-1964) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland,
July
11, 1890.
Brother of Peter
Paul O'Dwyer.
Democrat. Lawyer; Kings
County District Attorney; county judge in New York, 1937-40;
general in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1946-50; defeated, 1941; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1948;
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1950-52.
Died in a hospital
at New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1964 (age 74 years, 136
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Grant O'Hara (1925-1989) —
also known as James G. O'Hara —
of Utica, Macomb
County, Mich.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
8, 1925.
Son of Raphael McNulty O'Hara and Neta Lloyd (Hemphill) O'Hara;
married, February
14, 1953, to Susan Puskas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1959-77 (7th District 1959-65, 12th
District 1965-77); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1960;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1976.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from lung
cancer, in the George Washington University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March 13,
1989 (age 63 years, 125
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (1839-1900) —
also known as Edwin S. Osborne —
of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born in Bethany, Wayne
County, Pa., August 7,
1839.
Father of John
Ball Osborne.
Republican. Lawyer; major in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1885-91 (at-large 1885-89, 12th
District 1889-91); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1888.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died January
1, 1900 (age 60 years, 147
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joseph Allen Overton, Jr. (b. 1921) —
also known as J. Allen Overton, Jr. —
of Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va., April 17,
1921.
Son of Joseph Allen Overton and Edith (Wharton) Overton; married, May 15,
1943, to Bette Crosswhite.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Wood County, 1949-50;
member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1959-62; vice-president, American Mining
Congress.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Phi
Kappa Psi; Elks.
Still living as of 1964.
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George Washington Owen (1796-1837) —
also known as George W. Owen —
of Claiborne, Monroe
County, Ala.; Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Brunswick
County, Va., October
20, 1796.
Lawyer; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819-21; Speaker of
the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1821; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1823-29; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1828-36; mayor of
Mobile, Ala., 1836-37; died in office 1837.
Died near Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., August
18, 1837 (age 40 years, 302
days).
Interment at Old
Church Street Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Robert Latham Owen (1856-1947) —
also known as Robert L. Owen —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., February
2, 1856.
Son of Robert L. Owen (president of the Virginia and Tennesee
Railroad) and Narcissa Chisholm Owen (Cherokee Nation); married 1889 to Daisey
Deane Hester.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1892-96; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-25; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Cherokee
Indian ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Modern
Woodmen of America; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died July 19,
1947 (age 91 years, 167
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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Robert Page (1765-1840) —
of Virginia.
Born in Gloucester County (part now in Mathews
County), Va., February
4, 1765.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
lawyer; planter;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1795; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801.
Died in Clarke
County, Va., December
8, 1840 (age 75 years, 308
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) —
also known as Thomas N. Page —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., April 23,
1853.
Son of Maj. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; married 1886 to Anne
Seddon Bruce (died 1888); married 1893 to
Florence (Lathrop) Field.
Lawyer; author;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19.
Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., November
1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Mosby Monroe Parsons (1822-1865) —
also known as M. M. Parsons —
of Missouri.
Born in Charlottesville,
Va., May 21,
1822.
Son of Gustavus Adolphus Parsons.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Missouri
state attorney general, 1853-57; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, 1857-58; general
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Killed,
along with Aaron
H. Conrow and four others, by bandits in Nuevo
León, August
15, 1865 (age 43 years, 86
days).
Interment somewhere
in Nuevo León; cenotaph at Maplewood
Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.; cenotaph at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Ira Judson Partlow (b. 1876) —
also known as Ira J. Partlow —
of Welch, McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born in Rappahannock
County, Va., February
20, 1876.
Son of Burrell T. Partlow and Ruth (Updike) Partlow; married, May 23,
1905, to Andrea Martin.
Democrat. Lawyer; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1945-49.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Porter Patterson (1891-1952) —
of Cold Spring, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
12, 1891.
Son of Charles R. Patterson and Lodice E. (Porter) Patterson;
married, January
3, 1920, to Margaret T. Winchester.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1930-39; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1939-40; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1945-47.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; American
Legion.
Died in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., January
22, 1952 (age 60 years, 344
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Seargent Smith Prentiss Patteson (1856-1931) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Amherst
County, Va., December
15, 1856.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1899-1901, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Died January
26, 1931 (age 74 years, 42
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Barbour Pedigo (1870-1932) —
also known as W. B. Pedigo; "Bill
Bob" —
of Patrick
County, Va.; Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va.; Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis.
Born, in a log
cabin, at Elamsville, Patrick
County, Va., January
28, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; Patrick
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1895-99; candidate in primary for
West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1906; mayor
of Parkersburg, W.Va., 1907-11.
Baptist.
French
ancestry.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., October
23, 1932 (age 62 years, 269
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.
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George Campbell Peery (1873-1952) —
also known as George C. Peery —
of Tazewell, Tazewell
County, Va.
Born in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell
County, Va., October
28, 1873.
Son of James Peery (M.D.) and Mary Letitia (Spotts) Peery; married,
June
19, 1907, to Nancy Bane Gillespie.
Democrat. School
principal; lawyer; vice-president, Norton Hardware
Company; director of coal mining
companies and a railroad;
Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1916;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1923-29; Governor of
Virginia, 1934-38.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Richlands, Tazewell
County, Va., October
14, 1952 (age 78 years, 352
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Near Bluefield, Tazewell County, Va.
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Richard F. Pence (d. 1999) —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1958.
Died November
18, 1999.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) —
of Virginia.
Born in Caroline
County, Va., September
9, 1721.
Uncle of John
Penn and Nathaniel
Pendleton; great-granduncle of Henry
Gaines Johnson.
Lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1776; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1777.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
23, 1803 (age 82 years, 44
days).
Original interment at Edmundsbury
Graveyard, Bowling Green, Va.; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton
Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
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Thomas Lee Perkins (b. 1905) —
also known as Thomas L. Perkins —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Newport
News, Va., November
9, 1905.
Son of William R. Perkins and Mary (Bell) Perkins.
Republican. Stockbroker;
lawyer; Presidential Elector for New York, 1952;
director, Pennsylvania Railroad,
American Cyanimid Co., Duke Power
Co., and others.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Owen Bradford Pickett (b. 1930) —
also known as Owen B. Pickett —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., August
31, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1972-86; Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1980-82; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1987-2001; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1996,
2000.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Rotary; Lions; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Still living as of 2009.
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Fred G. Pollard (1918-2003) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., May 7,
1918.
Son of Robert N. Pollard and Mary (Butler) Pollard.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1950-65; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1966-67.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died July 7,
2003 (age 85 years, 61
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Pinckney Pope (1884-1966) —
also known as James P. Pope —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born near Jonesboro, Jackson
Parish, La., March 31,
1884.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Idaho, 1924,
1936;
mayor
of Boise, Idaho, 1929-33; resigned 1933; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1933-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., January
23, 1966 (age 81 years, 298
days).
Interment at Lynnhurst
Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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John Pope (1770-1845) —
also known as "One-Arm Pope" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Springfield, Washington
County, Ky.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1770.
Married to Eliza Johnson (sister-in-law of John
Quincy Adams); brother of Nathaniel
Pope.
Democrat. Lawyer; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1800,
1820;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802, 1806-07; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1807-13; secretary of
state of Kentucky, 1816-19; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1825-29; Governor of
Arkansas Territory, 1829-35; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1837-43.
Lost
his right arm as a youth.
Died in Springfield, Washington
County, Ky., July 12,
1845 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Ky.
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Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (1907-1998) —
also known as Lewis F. Powell, Jr. —
of Virginia.
Born in Suffolk,
Va., September
19, 1907.
Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
member of Virginia
state constitutional commission, 1967-68; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1972-87.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died of pneumonia,
in Richmond,
Va., August
25, 1998 (age 90 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Michael K. Powell (b. 1963) —
of Fairfax Station, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March 23,
1963.
Son of Colin
Luther Powell and Alma (Johnson) Powell; married to Jane Knott.
Republican. Lawyer; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1997-2005; chair, Federal Communications
Commission, 2001-05.
African
ancestry. Member, Theta
Delta Chi.
Still living as of 2010.
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Francis Preston (1765-1836) —
of Virginia.
Born in Greenfield, Botetourt
County, Va., August 2,
1765.
Son of William Preston and Susanna (Smith) Preston; nephew by
marriage of Patrick
Henry; cousin of John
Brown, John
Breckinridge, James
Breckinridge and James
Brown; married, January
10, 1793, to Sarah Buchanan Campbell (1778-1846); father of William
Campbell Preston and Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston
(1818-1852; who married Wade
Hampton III); uncle of William
Ballard Preston and William
Preston (1816-1887).
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1788-89, 1812-14; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 5th District, 1793-97; colonel in
the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Virginia
state senate, 1816-20.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., May 26,
1836 (age 70 years, 298
days).
Interment at Aspinvale
Cemetery, Seven Mile Ford, Va.
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Samuel Price (1805-1884) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.); Greenbrier
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., July 28,
1805.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1834-36, 1847-50, 1852; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate
to Virginia secession convention, 1861; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1864-65; delegate to
West Virginia state constitutional convention, 1872; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1876-77.
Died in Lewisburg, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., February
25, 1884 (age 78 years, 212
days).
Interment at Stuart
Burying Ground, Lewisburg, W.Va.
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William Buchanan Price (b. 1865) —
also known as William B. Price —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., July 2,
1865.
Son of Abner Clopton Price and Hester (Walker) Price.
Democrat. Lawyer; Nebraska state insurance commissioner,
1896-1900; candidate for Nebraska
state auditor, 1908; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 1916;
candidate for Nebraska
state attorney general, 1926.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Woodmen of
the World; Modern
Woodmen of America; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Edwin Proffit (1876-1958) —
also known as Joseph E. Proffit —
of Floyd, Floyd
County, Va.
Born in Floyd, Floyd
County, Va., March 24,
1876.
Son of Joseph Patterson Proffit (1837-1913) and Mary Anne 'Polly'
(Via) Proffit (1840-1887); married, April 26,
1916, to Anne Weston Simmons (1891-1974).
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
U.S. Consul in Pretoria, 1904-05; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1928,
1940,
1956;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1944-47, 1952-57.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Kappa
Sigma.
Died February
27, 1958 (age 81 years, 340
days).
Interment at Jacksonville
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Va.
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