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Joseph Walker Barr (1918-1996) —
also known as Joseph W. Barr —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Hume, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind., January
17, 1918.
Son of Oscar Lynn Barr and Stella Florence (Walker) Barr.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; movie
theater owner; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1959-61; defeated,
1960; chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1964-65; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1968-69.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Psi.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Playa del Carmen, Quintana
Roo, February
23, 1996 (age 78 years, 37
days).
Interment at Leeds
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hume, Va.
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George Earle Chamberlain (1854-1928) —
also known as George E. Chamberlain —
of Albany, Linn
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., January
1, 1854.
Son of Charles Thomson Chamberlain and Pamela A. (Archer)
Chamberlain.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1880-84; Oregon
state attorney general, 1891-95; appointed 1891; Governor of
Oregon, 1903-09; resigned 1909; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1909-21; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1912.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1928 (age 74 years, 190
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Williams Daniel, Jr. (b. 1936) —
also known as Robert W. Daniel, Jr. —
of Spring Grove, Surry
County, Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., March 17,
1936.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Virginia, 1972;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1973-83.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Still living as of 1998.
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William Joseph Donovan (1883-1959) —
also known as William J. Donovan; "Wild
Bill" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
1, 1883.
Son of Timothy P. Donovan and Anna (Lennon) Donovan.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1922; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1922-24; candidate
for Governor of
New York, 1932; general in the U.S. Army during World War II;
U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1953-54.
Catholic.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Received the Medal
of Honor for action during World War I. During World War II, he
founded and led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, which later
became the Central Intelligence Agency.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1959 (age 76 years, 38
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Walter Harrison (1856-1935) —
also known as Thomas W. Harrison —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., August 5,
1856.
Son of Matthew Harrison and Anne Harriette Harrison.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state senate, 1887-94; state court judge in Virginia, 1895-1916;
delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1901-02; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1916-22, 1923-29.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died in Winchester,
Va., May 9,
1935 (age 78 years, 277
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Chester Craig Hosmer (1915-1982) —
also known as Craig Hosmer —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Brea, Orange
County, Calif., May 6,
1915.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1953-74 (18th District 1953-63,
32nd District 1963-74); defeated, 1950; resigned 1974; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1956.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died of a heart
attack, aboard the cruise
ship Azure Seas, in the North
Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, en route to Mexico, October
11, 1982 (age 67 years, 158
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Otho Marsh, Jr. (b. 1926) —
also known as John O. Marsh, Jr. —
of Strasburg, Shenandoah
County, Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., August 7,
1926.
Son of John Otho Marsh and Nell Virginia (Wayland) Marsh.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1963-71; U.S.
Secretary of the Army, 1981-89.
Presbyterian.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Still living as of 2007.
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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.
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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John Adams Sanders (b. 1866) —
also known as John A. Sanders —
of Nye
County, Nev.; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in Wythe
County, Va., October
16, 1866.
Son of William C. Sanders and Florence (Peirce) Sanders.
Democrat. Lawyer; Nye
County District Attorney, 1911-16; justice of
Nevada state supreme court, 1917-35; chief
justice of Nevada state supreme court, 1921-22, 1927-29, 1933-34.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi; Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Shadrack Shallenberger (1839-1914) —
also known as William S. Shallenberger —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Pennsylvania, November
24, 1839.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 24th District, 1877-83.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died April 15,
1914 (age 74 years, 142
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Gardiner Tyler (1846-1927) —
also known as D. Gardiner Tyler —
of Sturgeon Point (unknown
county), Va.
Born in New York, 1846.
Son of John
Tyler (1790-1862).
Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1893-97.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died in 1927
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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James Alexander Walker (1832-1901) —
also known as James A. Walker —
of Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va.
Born in Augusta
County, Va., August
27, 1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1871-72; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1877-78; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1895-99; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1896.
Member, Phi Kappa Psi.
Died in Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., October
21, 1901 (age 69 years, 55
days).
Interment at East
End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
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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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