Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.  | Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born inLynchburg,Va.,March 2,1858.Democrat.Lawyer;delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1900,1904,1908,1912,1916,1932,1936;Democratic Presidential Elector for New York,1913(voted forWoodrowWilson andThomasR. Marshall); candidate fordelegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914;Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for New York,1916;delegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938.Jewish.Germanancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanSociety for International Law.Died in Palm Springs,RiversideCounty, Calif.,March16, 1940 (age82 years, 14days).Entombed atWoodlawnCemetery, Bronx, N.Y. | | Irwin Untermyer (b. 1886) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,February2, 1886.Democrat.Justice ofNew York Supreme Court 1st District, 1930-45; defeated, 1919;Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1stDepartment, 1940-45.Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Bronx, N.Y. | | Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892-1950) — also known asLaurence A. Steinhardt — of New York. Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October6, 1892.Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;U.S. Minister toSweden, 1933-37; U.S. Ambassador toPeru, 1937-39;Soviet Union, 1939-41;Turkey, 1942-45;Czechoslovakia, 1945-48;Canada, 1948-50, died in office 1950.Jewish. Member,American BarAssociation.Died in aplanecrash near Ramsayville,Ontario,March28, 1950 (age57 years, 173days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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