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. | |  William Addams (1777-1858) — of Pennsylvania. Born inLancasterCounty, Pa.,April11, 1777.Democrat. Member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1822-24;U.S.Representative from Pennsylvania 7th District, 1825-29; defeated,1828; county judge in Pennsylvania, 1839-42.Died in Spring Township,BerksCounty, Pa.,May 30,1858 (age81 years, 49days).Interment atSinkingSpring Cemetery, Sinking Spring, Pa. | | John Huy Addams (1822-1881) — also known asJohn H. Addams — of Cedarville,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Sinking Spring,BerksCounty, Pa.,July 12,1822.Republican. Owner of Cedar Creek Mill, which producedlumber andflour;dirctor, Illinois CentralRailroad;president, Second NationalBank ofFreeport, Illinois; member ofIllinoisstate senate, 1855-61, 1863-71 (4th District 1855-61, 22ndDistrict 1863-71); delegate to Republican National Convention fromIllinois,1868(member,CredentialsCommittee;speaker).Died, ofappendicitis,in ahotel atGreen Bay,BrownCounty, Wis.,August17, 1881 (age59 years, 36days).Interment atCedarvilleCemetery, Cedarville, Ill.  | Jane Addams (1860-1935) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Cedarville,StephensonCounty, Ill.,September6, 1860.Progressive.Socialworker;sociologist;lecturer;woman suffrage activist; pacifist; delegate to Progressive NationalConvention from Illinois, 1912; Progressive candidate forPresidential Elector for Illinois,1924;received theNobelPeace Prize in 1931.Female.PresbyterianorUnitarian.Englishancestry.Lesbian. Member,PhiBeta Kappa;American CivilLiberties Union;Women'sInternational League for Peace and Freedom;NAACP.Died, fromcancer,in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,May 21,1935 (age74 years, 257days).Interment atCedarvilleCemetery, Cedarville, Ill. | | | Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) — also known asE. Haldeman-Julius;EmanuelJulius —of Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,July 30,1889.Socialist.Author;editor of the SocialistnewspaperAppeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications,publisherof many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; therewere more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widelyaccessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500million copies were printed and sold; candidate forU.S.Senator from Kansas, 1932;indictedby a federal grand jury in March, 1950 forincometax evasion;triedandconvictedin April, 1951;sentencedto six months inprison,andfined$12,500; released pending appeal.Jewish;laterAgnostic.Drownedin hisswimmingpool, in Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.,July 31,1951 (age62 years, 1days). Possiblysuicide,but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.Interment atCedarvilleCemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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