| | Horatio Gardner Ainsworth (1917-1994) — also known asH. Gardner Ainsworth — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,March15, 1917.Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul inWinnipeg, 1940;San Salvador, as of 1943.Member,Society of the Cincinnati. Died inWashington,D.C.,December10, 1994 (age77 years, 270days).Interment atWonalancet Cemetery, Wonalancet, Tamworth, N.H. | | James Dunbar Bell (1911-1979) — ofWashington,D.C.; Santa Cruz,Santa CruzCounty, Calif.Born in Lebanon,GraftonCounty, N.H.,July 1,1911.Democrat. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador toMalaysia, 1964; member ofCaliforniaDemocratic State Central Committee, 1971-72.Member,Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Santa Cruz,Santa CruzCounty, Calif.,April14, 1979 (age67 years, 287days).Interment atRockCreek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851) — also known asHenry A. S. Dearborn — of Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.; Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston,SuffolkCounty), Mass.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,March 3,1783.General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;U.S.Collector of Customs at Boston, Mass., Massachusetts, 1812-29;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1829; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1830;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1831-33;defeated, 1832;mayorof Roxbury, Mass., 1847-51.Member,Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Portland,CumberlandCounty, Maine,July 29,1851 (age68 years, 148days).Interment atForestHills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. | | Jeremiah Fogg (1749-1808) — of Kensington,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Kensington,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,1749.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofNewHampshire state senate 2nd District, 1796-1802.Member,Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Kensington,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,May 26,1808 (ageabout 58years).Interment atUpper Yard Burial Ground, Kensington, N.H. | | Nicholas Gilman (1755-1814) — of Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.Born in Exeter,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,August3, 1755.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1787-89;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;U.S.Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1789-97; member ofNewHampshire state senate 2nd District, 1804-05;U.S.Senator from New Hampshire, 1805-14; died in office 1814.Congregationalist.Member,Society of the Cincinnati.Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,May 2,1814 (age58 years, 272days).Interment atExeterCemetery, Exeter, N.H.  | Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) — also known asSinclair Weeks — of Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.Born in West Newton, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,June 15,1893.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served inthe U.S. Army during World War I;banker;mayor ofNewton, Mass., 1930-35; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Massachusetts,1932,1940,1944,1948,1952,1956(speaker);MassachusettsRepublican state chair, 1936-38; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-53;Treasurerof Republican National Committee, 1941-44;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1944; appointed 1944;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1953-58.Unitarian.Member,Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons;AmericanLegion;Sons ofthe American Revolution;Society of the Cincinnati.Died, in the RivercrestNursingHome, Concord,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,February7, 1972 (age78 years, 237days).Interment atSummerStreet Cemetery, Lancaster, N.H.| |  Relatives: Sonof Martha (Sinclair) Weeks andJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); married,December4, 1915, to Beatrice Lee Dowse; married,January3, 1948, to Jane (Tompkins) Rankin; married,August22, 1968, to Alice Pauline (Requa) Low; grandson ofJohnG. Sinclair; great-grandnephew ofJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin four times removed ofTimothyPickering; third cousin twice removed ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; third cousin thrice removed ofNathanRead. | | |  | Political family:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | Cross-reference:MaxwellM. Rabb | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | |  | Image source: Eminent Americans(1954) |
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