| |  John Thomas Connor (1914-2000) — also known asJohn T. Connor;Jack Connor — Born in Syracuse,OnondagaCounty, N.Y.,November3, 1914.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1965-67.Catholic.Member,Council onForeign Relations;Phi Kappa Psi.President and CEO of the Merckpharmaceuticalcompany from 1955; chairman and CEO of AlliedChemical,1967-79.Died, ofcancer,at Massachusetts GeneralHospital,Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,October6, 2000 (age85 years, 338days).Interment atMosswoodCemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass. | | Thomas Millet Hand (1902-1956) — also known asT. Millet Hand — of Cape May,Cape MayCounty, N.J.Born in Cape May,Cape MayCounty, N.J.,July 7,1902.Republican.Lawyer;newspaperpublisher;vice-chair ofNew Jersey Republican Party, 1941-44;U.S.Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1945-56; died inoffice 1956.Member,Phi Kappa Psi;Freemasons.Died in Cold Spring,Cape MayCounty, N.J.,December26, 1956 (age54 years, 172days).Cremated;ashes interred atColdSpring Presbyterian Cemetery, Cold Spring, N.J. | | Harold Orville Mackenzie (b. 1885) — of California; New Jersey. Born in Trenton,MercerCounty, N.J.,April21, 1885.Republican. General manager, Mount WhitneyPower &Electric Co., 1914-16;rancher andfruitgrower;U.S. Minister toSiam, 1927-30.Member,Phi Kappa Psi. Burial location unknown. | | Frank Leander Sundstrom (1901-1980) — also known asFrank L. Sundstrom — of East Orange,EssexCounty, N.J.Born in Massena,St.Lawrence County, N.Y.,January5, 1901.Republican.U.S.Representative from New Jersey 11th District, 1943-49; defeated,1948.Member,Phi Kappa Psi. Died in Summit,UnionCounty, N.J.,May 23,1980 (age79 years, 139days).Interment atRestlandMemorial Park, East Hanover, N.J. | | William Edgar Tuttle Jr. (1870-1923) — also known asWilliam E. Tuttle, Jr. — of Westfield,UnionCounty, N.J.Born in Horseheads,ChemungCounty, N.Y.,December10, 1870.Democrat.U.S.Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1911-15;chair ofUnion County Democratic Party, 1913; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from New Jersey,1916.Member,Phi Kappa Psi. Died in1923(ageabout52 years).Interment atMapleGrove Cemetery, Horseheads, N.Y.  | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) — also known asThomas Woodrow Wilson;"Schoolmaster inPolitics" —of New Jersey. Born inStaunton,Va.,December28, 1856.Democrat.Universityprofessor;presidentof Princeton University, 1902-10;Governor ofNew Jersey, 1911-13;Presidentof the United States, 1913-21.Presbyterian.Member,Phi Kappa Psi;PhiAlpha Delta.Recipient ofNobelPeace Prize in 1919; elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1950.Died inWashington,D.C.,February3, 1924 (age67 years, 37days).Entombed atWashingtonNational Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 atMain Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.| |  Relatives: Sonof Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson;married,June 24,1885, toEllenLouise Axson; married,December18, 1915, toEdithBolling Galt; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who marriedWilliamGibbs McAdoo); grandfather ofWoodrowWilson Sayre. | | | | Political family:Wilsonfamily of California and Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:WilliamC. Bullitt —BainbridgeColby —JosephE. Davies —JosephP. Tumulty —ThomasH. Birch —ByronR. Newton | | | | MountWoodrow Wilson, inFremontCounty andSubletteCounty, Wyoming, isnamed forhim. — Woodrow WilsonPlaza,in the Federal Triangle,Washington,D.C., is isnamed forhim. — WilsonDam(built 1924), on the Tennessee River inColbertandLauderdalecounties, Alabama, as well as the WilsonLakereservoir, which extends intoLawrencecounty, arenamed forhim. —RamblaPresidente Wilson, inMontevideo,Uruguay, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:WoodrowW. Bean—WoodrowW. Jones—WoodrowW. Scott—TomWoodrow Payne—W.W. Dumas—WoodrowWilson Mann—WoodrowW. Lavender—WoodrowWilson Sayre—WoodrowW. Baird—WoodrowW. Mathna—WoodrowW. Hulme—WoodrowW. Kline—WoodrowW. McDonald—WoodrowW. Hollan—WoodrowW. Carter—WoodrowW. Ferguson—W.Wilson Goode—WoodrowWilson Storey—WoodrowW. Bean III | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issuedin 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. | | | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us outof war." | | | | See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail —NobelLaureates | | | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: LouisAuchincloss,WoodrowWilson — Herbert Hoover,TheOrdeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace,1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed theCountry — John Milton Cooper,ReconsideringWoodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, andPeace — A. Scott Berg,Wilson —Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] — Anne Schraff,WoodrowWilson (for young readers) | | | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:Jim Powell,Wilson'sWar : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,Stalin, and World War II | | | | Image source: American Monthly Reviewof Reviews, July 1902 |
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