Very incomplete list! | |  Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000) — also known asMorris Abram — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Fitzgerald,Ben HillCounty, Ga.,June 19,1918.Democrat.Rhodesscholar;lawyer;served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; served onprosecution staff at Nuremburg war crimes trials; U.S. Representativeto United Nations European office; worked on Marshall Plan forpostwar reconstruction of Europe; candidate forU.S.Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1952; candidate fornomination forU.S.Senator from New York, 1968;presidentof Brandeis University, 1968-70; member, U.S. Civil RightsCommission, 1984-86.Jewish. Member,PhiBeta Kappa;OmicronDelta Kappa;PhiKappa Phi;American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanJewish Committee;UrbanLeague;Council onForeign Relations.Died, from aviralinfection, in ahospitalat Geneva,Switzerland,March16, 2000 (age81 years, 271days).Interment atWoodsideCemetery, Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Samuel Abram and Irene (Cohen) Abram; married,December23, 1944, to Jane Isabella Maguire; married,January25, 1975, to Carlyn (Feldman) Fisher; married,August26, 1990, to Bruna Molina. | | | | Epitaph: He established "one man, onevote" as a principle of American law. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
 | Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) — also known asDean Acheson — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Middletown,MiddlesexCounty, Conn.,April11, 1893.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;lawyer;private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court JusticeLouisD. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933;U.S.Secretary of State, 1949-53.Episcopalian.Englishancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;DeltaKappa Epsilon;Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidentialMedal of Freedom in 1964; received aPulitzerPrize in History, 1970, for his bookPresent At The Creation:My Years In The State Department.Died, probably from aheartattack, over his desk in hisstudy,Sandy Spring,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,October12, 1971 (age78 years, 184days).Interment atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | | Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) — also known asH. Gardner Ackley — of Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.Born in Indianapolis,MarionCounty, Ind.,June 30,1915.Universityprofessor;economist;chair, U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, 1964-68; U.S. Ambassador toItaly, 1968-69.Scottishancestry. Member,KappaDelta Pi;TauKappa Alpha;PhiKappa Phi;TrilateralCommission;AmericanEconomic Association;AmericanPhilosophical Society;American Academy of Arts andSciences.Died, from complications ofAlzheimer'sdisease, in Huron Woodsnursinghome, Superior Township,WashtenawCounty, Mich.,February12, 1998 (age82 years, 227days).Cremated.  | John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as"His Rotundity";"The Duke ofBraintree";"American Cato";"OldSink and Swim";"The Colossus ofIndependence";"Father of the AmericanNavy" —of Quincy,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy),NorfolkCounty, Mass., October 19, 1735 o.s. ((October30,1735)).Lawyer;Delegateto Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister toNetherlands, 1781-88;Great Britain, 1785-88;VicePresident of the United States, 1789-97;Presidentof the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.Unitarian.Englishancestry. Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Died in Quincy,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,July 4,1826 (age90 years, 247days).Original interment atHancockCemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 atUnitedFirst Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument atConstitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: Sonof John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married,October25, 1764, toAbigailQuincy Smith (aunt ofWilliamCranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who marriedWilliamStephens Smith) andJohnQuincy Adams (1767-1848) (who marriedLouisaCatherine Johnson); grandfather ofGeorgeWashington Adams andCharlesFrancis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather ofJohnQuincy Adams (1833-1894) andBrooksAdams; second great-grandfather ofCharlesFrancis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather ofThomasBoylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed ofEdwardM. Chapin; first cousin four times removed ofArthurChapin; first cousin six times removed ofDenwoodLynn Chapin; second cousin ofSamuelAdams; second cousin once removed ofJosephAllen; second cousin twice removed ofJohnMilton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed ofWilliamVincent Wells; second cousin four times removed ofLymanKidder Bass,DanielT. Hayden,ArthurLaban Bates andAlmurStiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed ofCharlesGrenfill Washburn,LymanMetcalfe Bass andEmersonRichard Boyles; third cousin ofThomasCogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed ofJeremiahMason,GeorgeBailey Loring andThomasCogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed ofAsahelOtis,ErastusFairbanks,CharlesStetson,HenryBrewster Stanton,CharlesAdams Jr.,IsaiahStetson,JoshuaPerkins,EliThayer andBaileyFrye Adams; third cousin thrice removed ofDayOtis Kellogg,DwightKellogg,CalebStetson,OakesAmes,OliverAmes Jr.,BenjaminW. Waite,AlfredElisha Ames,GeorgeOtis Fairbanks,AustinWells Holden,HoraceFairbanks,EbenezerOliver Grosvenor,JosephWashburn Yates,AugustusBrown Reed Sprague,FranklinFairbanks,JonahFitz Randolph Leonard,ErskineMason Phelps,ThomasDudley Bradstreet,AlbertPorter Bradstreet,GeorgeParker Bradstreet,ArthurNewton Holden,JohnAlden Thayer,IrvingHall Chase,IsaiahKidder Stetson andGilesRussell Taggart. | | | | Political family:Kidderfamily of Bangor, Maine (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Adams counties inIdaho,Iowa,Miss.,Neb.,Ohio,Pa.,Wash. andWis. arenamed for him. | | | | MountAdams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS John Adams (built 1941-42 atRichmond,California; torpedoed and lost in theCoralSea, 1942) wasnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:JohnAdams Harper—JohnA. Cameron—JohnA. Dix—JohnAdams Fisher—JohnA. Taintor—JohnA. Gilmer—JohnA. Perkins—JohnAdams Hyman—JohnA. Damon—John A.Lee—JohnAdams Aiken—JohnA. Sanders—JohnA. Kingsbury—JohnAdams Hurson | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S.State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,JohnAdams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis,ThePassionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of JohnAdams — David McCullough,JohnAdams — Gore Vidal,InventingA Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,Adamsvs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — JamesGrant,JohnAdams : Party of One — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
|  | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) — also known as"Old Man Eloquent";"TheAccidental President";"The MassachusettsMadman" —of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Quincy,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy),NorfolkCounty, Mass.,July 11,1767.Lawyer;U.S. Minister toNetherlands, 1794-97;Prussia, 1797-1801;Russia, 1809-14;Great Britain, 1815-17; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1802;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808;U.S.Secretary of State, 1817-25;Presidentof the United States, 1825-29;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office1848; candidate forGovernor ofMassachusetts, 1834.Unitarian.Englishancestry. Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1905.Suffered astrokewhile speaking on the floor of the U.S.House ofRepresentatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later inthe Speaker'soffice,U.S.CapitolBuilding,Washington,D.C.,February23, 1848 (age80 years, 227days).Original interment atHancockCemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment atUnitedFirst Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: SonofJohnAdams andAbigailAdams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who marriedWilliamStephens Smith); married,July 26,1797, toLouisaCatherine Johnson (daughter ofJoshuaJohnson; sister-in-law ofJohnPope; niece ofThomasJohnson); father ofGeorgeWashington Adams andCharlesFrancis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather ofJohnQuincy Adams (1833-1894) andBrooksAdams; great-grandfather ofCharlesFrancis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather ofThomasBoylston Adams; first cousin ofWilliamCranch; second cousin once removed ofSamuelAdams; second cousin twice removed ofEdwardM. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed ofArthurChapin; second cousin five times removed ofDenwoodLynn Chapin; third cousin ofJosephAllen; third cousin once removed ofSamuelSewall,JosiahQuincy,ThomasCogswell (1799-1868) andJohnMilton Thayer; third cousin twice removed ofWilliamVincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed ofLymanKidder Bass,DanielT. Hayden,ArthurLaban Bates andAlmurStiles Whiting; fourth cousin ofJeremiahMason,JosiahQuincy Jr.,GeorgeBailey Loring andThomasCogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed ofAsahelOtis,ErastusFairbanks,CharlesStetson,HenryBrewster Stanton,CharlesAdams Jr.,IsaiahStetson,JoshuaPerkins,EliThayer,BaileyFrye Adams andSamuelMiller Quincy. | | | | Political family:Kidderfamily of Bangor, Maine (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JohnSmith —ThurlowWeed | | | | Adams counties inIll. andInd. arenamed for him. | | | | MountQuincy Adams, in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. —MountQuincy Adams, on the border betweenBritishColumbia, Canada, andHoonah-AngoonCensus Area, Alaska, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:J.Q. A. Vale—JohnQ. A. Brackett—JohnQ. A. Shelden—J.Q. A. Reber | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S.State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.Nagel,JohnQuincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — LynnHudson Parsons,JohnQuincy Adams — Robert V. Remini,JohnQuincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan,Mr.Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's ExtraordinaryPost-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,Profilesin Courage — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
| | Thomas Boylston Adams (1910-1997) — also known asThomas B. Adams — of Lincoln,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Kansas City,JacksonCounty, Mo.,July 25,1910.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;hotelexecutive; candidate forU.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1966; candidate forU.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1968; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from Massachusetts,1972.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;PhiBeta Kappa.Died in Lincoln,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,June 4,1997 (age86 years, 314days).Burial location unknown. | | Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) — of Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.Born in Uxbridge,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,October14, 1846.Democrat.Lawyer; lawpartner ofElihuRoot, 1869-83 and 1917-24;dramacritic;Justice ofNew York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1884-1907; Justice of theAppellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,1896-1906;judge ofNew York Court of Appeals, 1906-16;chiefjudge of New York Court of Appeals, 1914-16.Member,American BarAssociation;Sons ofthe Revolution;Societyof Colonial Wars;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died, fromheartdisease, in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,January17, 1925 (age78 years, 95days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.| | Relatives: Sonof William Osborne Bartlett and Agnes E. H. (Willard) Bartlett;brother ofFranklinBartlett; married,October26, 1870, to Mary Fairbanks Buffum. |
| | David Lionel Bazelon (1909-1993) — also known asDavid L. Bazelon — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.;Washington,D.C.Born in Superior,DouglasCounty, Wis.,September3, 1909.Democrat.Lawyer;alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,1948;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1949-79; tooksenior status 1979.Jewish. Member,American BarAssociation;FederalBar Association;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died inWashington,D.C.,February19, 1993 (age83 years, 169days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Israel Bazelon and Lena (Krasnovsky) Bazelon; married,June 7,1936, to Miriam M. Kellner. |
| | Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895-1971) — also known asAdolf A. Berle;A. A. Berle — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,January29, 1895.Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;economist;lawprofessor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised PresidentFranklinD. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate fordelegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.Ambassador toBrazil, 1945-46.Congregationalist.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;Council onForeign Relations;AmericanPhilosophical Society;PhiBeta Kappa.Died, from astroke,in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,February17, 1971 (age76 years, 19days).Interment atMuddy Brook Cemetery, Great Barrington, Mass. | | James Bowdoin (1726-1790) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,August7, 1726.Delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1785-87;delegateto Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788.Frenchancestry. Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died, ofconsumption(tuberculosis),in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,November6, 1790 (age64 years, 91days).Interment atOldGranary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. | | James Bowdoin III (1752-1811) — also known asJemmy Bowdoin — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,September22, 1752.Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1776-77;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died in Naushon Island,DukesCounty, Mass.,October11, 1811 (age59 years, 19days).Interment atOldGranary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. | | Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015) — also known asEdward W. Brooke — of Newton Center, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born inWashington,D.C.,October26, 1919.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;lawyer;candidate forsecretaryof state of Massachusetts, 1960;Massachusettsstate attorney general, 1963-67;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1967-79; defeated, 1978.Episcopalian.Africanancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;Amvets;AlphaPhi Alpha.FirstBlack U.S. Senator in the 20th century; recipient of theSpingarnMedal in 1967.Died in Coral Gables,Miami-DadeCounty, Fla.,January3, 2015 (age95 years, 69days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) — also known as"The Refrigerator";"The SlyFox" —of New York; Dummerston,WindhamCounty, Vt.Born in Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,May 11,1894.Director and officer, NationalSugarRefining Company; director, American-HawaiianSteamshipCompany; U.S. Ambassador toArgentina, 1951-52;Italy, 1952-53;India, 1956-61;Nepal, 1956-59;, 1966-67, 1973-78;Vietnam, 1967-73.Member,Council onForeign Relations;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Recipient of twoPresidentialMedals of Freedom, in 1963 and in 1967.Died, in Brattleboro MemorialHospital,Brattleboro,WindhamCounty, Vt.,September27, 1984 (age90 years, 139days).Intermentsomewherein Dummerston, Vt. | | Edward Capps (1866-1950) — of Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.Born in Jacksonville,MorganCounty, Ill.,December21, 1866.Universityprofessor; U.S. Minister toGreece, 1920.Member,AmericanAssociation of University Professors;American Academy of Artsand Sciences.Died in1950(ageabout83 years).Interment atDiamondGrove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill. | | William Richards Castle Jr. (1878-1963) — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu,HonoluluCounty, Hawaii,June 19,1878.Republican.Collegeinstructor; U.S. Ambassador toJapan, 1929-30.Episcopalian.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died in1963(ageabout85 years).Burial location unknown. | | Charles Woolsey Cole (1906-1978) — also known asCharles W. Cole — of Amherst,HampshireCounty, Mass.; New York.Born in Montclair,EssexCounty, N.J.,February8, 1906.Universityprofessor;Presidentof Amherst College, 1946-60; U.S. Ambassador toChile, 1961-64.Presbyterian.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanAssociation of University Professors;Council onForeign Relations;PhiBeta Kappa;DeltaKappa Epsilon;DeltaSigma Rho;AmericanHistorical Association;AmericanEconomic Association.Died in1978(ageabout72 years).Burial location unknown. | | James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) — also known asJames B. Conant — Born in Dorchester, Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,March26, 1893.Major in the U.S. Army during World War I;chemist;universityprofessor;Presidentof Harvard University, 1933-53; U.S. Ambassador toGermany, 1955-57.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;PhiBeta Kappa;SigmaXi;AlphaChi Sigma;AmericanPhilosophical Society;Council onForeign Relations.Died in Hanover,GraftonCounty, N.H.,February11, 1978 (age84 years, 322days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Fred Tarbell Field (1876-1950) — of Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Springfield,WindsorCounty, Vt.,December24, 1876.Lawyer;justiceof Massachusetts state supreme court, 1929-47;chiefjustice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1938-47.Baptist.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;American BarAssociation;AmericanHistorical Association;PhiBeta Kappa.Died, in Newton-WellesleyHospital,Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,July 23,1950 (age73 years, 211days).Burial location unknown. | | Marion Bayard Folsom (1893-1976) — also known asMarion B. Folsom — of Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.Born in McRae (now part of McRae-Helena),TelfairCounty, Ga.,November23, 1893.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member,Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1955-58;speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956.Presbyterian.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanEconomic Association.Treasurer of Eastman Kodak Company, 1935-53. DiedSeptember27, 1976 (age82 years, 309days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) — also known as"Silence Dogood";"AnthonyAfterwit";"Poor Richard";"AliceAddertongue";"Polly Baker";"HarryMeanwell";"Timothy Turnstone";"Martha Careful";"Benevolus";"Caelia Shortface" —of Pennsylvania. Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,January17, 1706.Delegateto Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775;U.S.Postmaster General, 1775-76;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.Minister toFrance, 1778-85;Sweden, 1782-83;Presidentof Pennsylvania, 1785-88;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.Deist. Member,Freemasons;AmericanPhilosophical Society;American Academy of Arts andSciences.Famed for his experiments with electricity;inventedbifocal glasses and the harmonica. Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,April17, 1790 (age84 years, 90days).Interment atChristChurch Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 atOld City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue atLaArcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument atConstitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: Sonof Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married,September1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (whomarriedRichardBache); uncle ofFranklinDavenport; grandfather ofRichardBache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who marriedWilliamJohn Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, MaryBlechenden Bache (who marriedRobertJohn Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who marriedWilliamWallace Irwin); second great-grandfather ofRobertWalker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather ofDanielBaugh Brewster andElisedu Pont; first cousin thrice removed ofWalterFolger Jr.; first cousin four times removed ofCharlesJames Folger,BenjaminDexter Sprague andWhartonBarker; first cousin five times removed ofAlonzoMendonhall Folger andAlfredRobert Newton Folger; first cousin six times removed ofThomasMott Osborne,JohnHamlin Folger,AlonzoDillard Folger andWorthBarnard Folger; first cousin seven times removed ofCharlesDevens Osborne,LithgowOsborne andFredFolger; second cousin five times removed ofGeorgeHammond Parshall. | | | | Political families:FourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JonathanWilliams | | | | Franklin counties inAla.,Ark.,Fla.,Ga.,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Kan.,Ky.,La.,Maine,Mass.,Miss.,Mo.,Neb.,N.Y.,N.C.,Ohio,Pa.,Tenn.,Vt.,Va. andWash. arenamed for him. | | | | MountFranklin, in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — Theminorplanet5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), isnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS Benjamin Franklin (built 1941 atTerminalIsland, California; scrapped 1958) wasnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:BenjaminF. Deming—BenjaminF. Butler—BenjaminF. H. Witherell—BenjaminF. Hallett—BenjaminF. Wade—BenjaminFranklin Wallace—BenjaminCromwell Franklin—BenjaminFranklin Perry—BenjaminFranklin Robinson—BenjaminF. Randolph—BenjaminFranklin Massey—BenjaminF. Rawls—BenjaminFranklin Leiter—BenjaminFranklin Thomas—BenjaminF. Hall—BenjaminF. Angel—BenjaminFranklin Ross—BenjaminF. Flanders—BenjaminF. Bomar—BenjaminFranklin Hellen—BenjaminF. Mudge—BenjaminFranklin Wallace—BenjaminF. Butler—BenjaminF. Loan—BenjaminF. Simpson—BenjaminFranklin Terry—BenjaminFranklin Junkin—BenjaminF. Partridge—B.F. Langworthy—BenjaminF. Harding—BenjaminMebane—B.F. Whittemore—BenjaminFranklin Bradley—BenjaminFranklin Claypool—BenjaminFranklin Arthur—BenjaminFranklin Saffold—BenjaminF. Coates—B.Franklin Martin—BenjaminF. Howey—BenjaminF. Martin—BenjaminFranklin Rice—BenjaminF. Randolph—BenjaminFranklin Jackson—BenjaminF. Hopkins—BenjaminF. Tracy—BenjaminFranklin Briggs—BenjaminF. Grady—BenjaminF. Farnham—BenjaminF. Meyers—BenjaminFranklin White—BenjaminFranklin Prescott—BenjaminF. Jonas—B.Franklin Fisher—BenjaminFranklin Potts—BenjaminF. Funk—B.F. Brimberry—BenjaminF. Marsh—FrankB. Arnold—BenjaminF. Heckert—BenjaminF. Bradley—BenjaminF. Howell—BenjaminFranklin Miller—BenjaminF. Mahan—BenFranklin Caldwell—BenjaminFranklin Tilley—BenjaminF. Hackney—B.F. McMillan—BenjaminF. Shively—BenjaminFranklin Keller—B.Frank Hires—B.Frank Mebane—BenF. Stuart—B.Frank Murphy—BenjaminF. Starr—BenjaminFranklin Jones, Jr.—BenjaminF. Welty—BenjaminF. Jones—BenjaminFranklin Boley—BenFranklin Looney—BenjaminF. Bledsoe—BenjaminFranklin Williams—B.Frank Kelley—BenjaminFranklin Butler—BenjaminF. James—FrankB. Heintzleman—BenjaminF. Feinberg—B.Franklin Bunn—B.Franklin Blotz—BenF. Cameron—BenF. Blackmon—B.Frank Whelchel—B.F. Merritt, Jr.—BenF. Hornsby—BenDillingham II—BenFranklin Biddle, Jr. | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. halfdollar coin (1948-63). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —BillionGravesburial record | | | | Books by Benjamin Franklin:TheAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin —AnAccount of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place(1744) | | | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.Brands,TheFirst American: The Life and Times of BenjaminFranklin — Edmund S. Morgan,BenjaminFranklin — Stacy Schiff,AGreat Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth ofAmerica — Gordon S. Wood,TheAmericanization of Benjamin Franklin — WalterIsaacson,BenjaminFranklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren,BenjaminFranklin — Philip Dray,StealingGod's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Inventionof America — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Library ofCongress |
| | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Iona Station,Ontario,October15, 1908.Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen;economist;universityprofessor; U.S. Ambassador toIndia, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromMassachusetts,1972.Scottishancestry. Member,Americansfor Democratic Action;AmericanEconomic Association;American Academy of Arts andSciences;AmericanPhilosophical Society.Received theMedalof Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.Died, ofpneumonia,in Mt. AuburnHospital,Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,April29, 2006 (age97 years, 196days).Interment atIndianHill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. | | Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) — also known asJoan Ruth Bader — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,March15, 1933.Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1980-93;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1993-.Female.Jewish. Member,American BarAssociation;Council onForeign Relations;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanCivil Liberties Union;AmericanJewish Congress;PhiAlpha Delta.Inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 2002.Died inWashington,D.C.,September18, 2020 (age87 years, 187days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Francis Calley Gray (b. 1890) — also known asFrancis C. Gray — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Chestnut Hill, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,January22, 1890.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;banker;director, U.S.Smelting,Refining &Mining Co.;director, Massachusetts Fire and MarineInsuranceCo.; chairman, Massachusetts GeneralHospital;alternate delegate to Republican National Convention fromMassachusetts,1944.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;HumaneSociety.Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Morris Gray and Flora (Grant) Gray; married,September16, 1916, to Helen Rotch Bullard. |
| | John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) — ofSanFrancisco, Calif.;SouthAfrica;Washington,D.C.; Gloucester,EssexCounty, Mass.Born inSanFrancisco, Calif.,March31, 1855.Republican.Miningengineer;worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, anattemptto overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; wasarrestedwith other leaders andsentencedto be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventuallyreleased to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nominationfor Vice President,1908;chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died, fromcoronaryocclusion, in Gloucester,EssexCounty, Mass.,June 8,1936 (age81 years, 69days).Interment atGreen-WoodCemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. | | John Wilkes Hammond (1837-1922) — of Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Rochester (part now in Mattapoisett),PlymouthCounty, Mass.,December16, 1837.Republican.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1872-73; superior court judge inMassachusetts, 1886-98;justice ofMassachusetts state supreme court, 1898-1914; resigned 1914.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died in1922(ageabout84 years).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof John Wilkes Hammond and Maria Louisa (Southworth) Hammond;married,August15, 1866, to Clara E. Tweed. |
| | John Hancock (1737-1793) — of Massachusetts. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy),NorfolkCounty, Mass.,January23, 1737.Delegateto Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4electoral votes,1789.Congregationalist.Irishancestry. Member,Freemasons;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died in Quincy,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,October8, 1793 (age56 years, 258days).Interment atOldGranary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument atConstitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: Sonof Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married,August28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. | | | | Hancock counties inGa.,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Ky.,Maine,Miss.,Ohio,Tenn. andW.Va. arenamed for him. | | | | ThetownofHancock,Massachusetts, isnamed forhim. —MountHancock, in the White Mountains,GraftonCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS John Hancock (built 1941 atPortland,Oregon; torpedoed and lost in theCaribbeanSea, 1942) wasnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —National GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about John Hancock: Harlow GilesUnger,JohnHancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — HarlowGiles Unger,JohnHancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
 | Francis Russell Hart (1868-1938) — also known asFrancis R. Hart — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in New Bedford,BristolCounty, Mass.,January16, 1868.Engineer;vice-president, Cartagena-MagdalenaRailway;director, Costa Rica NorthernRailway;director, Boston and ProvidenceRailroad;director, MayanSteamshipCorporation director, RevereSugarRefinery;Vice-Consulfor Colombia inBoston,Mass., 1905-07;banker;president, UnitedFruitCompany, 1933-38.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanAntiquarian Society.Died, from aheartattack, in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,January18, 1938 (age70 years, 2days).Interment atRuralCemetery, New Bedford, Mass.| | Relatives: Sonof Thomas Mandell Hart and Sarah Davis (Watson) Hart; married,June 4,1896, to Helen Bronson Hobbey. | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: Boston Globe, January 19,1938 |
|  | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — also known as"Apostle of Liberty";"Sage ofMonticello";"Friend of the People";"Father of the University of Virginia" —ofAlbemarleCounty, Va.Born inAlbemarleCounty, Va.,April13, 1743.Lawyer;Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776;Governor ofVirginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;U.S. Minister toFrance, 1785-89;U.S.Secretary of State, 1790-93;VicePresident of the United States, 1797-1801;Presidentof the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),1796.Deist.Englishancestry. Member,AmericanPhilosophical Society;American Academy of Arts andSciences.He was elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Slaveowner. Died near Charlottesville,AlbemarleCounty, Va.,July 4,1826 (age83 years, 82days).Interment atMonticelloGraveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaphatUniversityof Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument atWestPotomac Park, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument atConstitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: Sonof Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson; married,January1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton; father ofMarthaJefferson (who marriedThomasMann Randolph Jr.) and Maria Jefferson (who marriedJohnWayles Eppes); uncle ofDabneyCarr; grandfather ofThomasJefferson Randolph,FrancisWayles Eppes, Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who marriedNicholasPhilip Trist),BenjaminFranklin Randolph,MeriwetherLewis Randolph andGeorgeWythe Randolph; grandnephew ofRichardRandolph; granduncle ofDabneySmith Carr; great-grandfather ofThomasJefferson Coolidge andFrederickMadison Roberts; second great-grandfather ofJohnGardner Coolidge; second great-granduncle ofEdithWilson; first cousin once removed ofRichardBland andPeytonRandolph (1721-1775); first cousin twice removed ofJohnJordan Crittenden,ThomasTurpin Crittenden,RobertCrittenden,CarterHenry Harrison andJohnBreckinridge Castleman; first cousin thrice removed ofAlexanderParker Crittenden,ThomasLeonidas Crittenden,ThomasTheodore Crittenden,ArchelausMarius Woodson andCarterHenry Harrison II; first cousin four times removed ofThomasTheodore Crittenden Jr.; second cousin ofTheodorickBland,EdmundJenings Randolph,BeverleyRandolph andJohnRandolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed ofJohnMarshall,HenryLee,CharlesLee,RichardBland Lee,JamesMarkham Marshall,AlexanderKeith Marshall,EdmundJennings Lee,PeytonRandolph (1779-1828),HenrySt. George Tucker andWilliamSegar Archer; second cousin twice removed ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,NathanielBeverly Tucker andEdmundRandolph; second cousin thrice removed ofFitzhughLee,WilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee,EdmundRandolph Cocke andJohnAugustine Marshall; second cousin four times removed ofWilliamMarshall Bullitt,AlexanderScott Bullitt andFrancisBeverley Biddle; second cousin five times removed ofWilliamWelby Beverley; third cousin thrice removed ofWilliamHenry Robertson. | | | | Political family:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JeffersonM. Levy —JoshuaFry | | | | Jefferson counties inAla.,Ark.,Colo.,Fla.,Ga.,Idaho,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Kan.,Ky.,La.,Miss.,Mo.,Mont.,Neb.,N.Y.,Ohio,Okla.,Ore.,Pa.,Tenn.,Tex.,Wash.,W.Va. andWis. arenamed for him. | | | | MountJefferson (third highest peak in the Northeast), inCoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:ThomasJefferson Kennard—ThomasJ. Randolph—ThomasJefferson Campbell—ThomasJ. Gazley—ThomasJ. Drake—ThomasJefferson Heard—ThomasJefferson Green—ThomasJ. Rusk—ThomasJefferson Withers—ThomasJ. Parsons—ThomasJ. Word—ThomasJ. Henley—ThomasJ. Dryer—ThomasJ. Foster—ThomasJ. Barr—ThomasJefferson Jennings—ThomasJ. Stewart—ThomasJ. Henderson—ThomasJ. Van Alstyne—ThomasJefferson Cason—T.J. Coghlan—ThomasJefferson Buford—T.Jefferson Coolidge—ThomasJ. Megibben—ThomasJ. Bunn—ThomasJ. Hardin—ThomasJ. McLain, Jr.—ThomasJ. Brown—ThomasJefferson Speer—ThomasJefferson Counts—ThomasJ. Boynton—ThomasJ. Hudson—ThomasJ. Brady—ThomasJ. Selby—ThomasJefferson Deavitt—ThomasJefferson Majors—ThomasJefferson Wood—T.J. Jarratt—ThomasJefferson Nunn—ThomasJ. Douglas—ThomasJ. Strait—ThomasJ. Humes—T.J. Appleyard—ThomasJ. Clunie—ThomasJ. Steele—ThomasJ. Boynton—ThomasJ. O'Donnell—ThomasJ. Shaw—ThomasJ. Halsey—ThomasJ. Graham—T.J. Martin—ThomasJefferson Lilly—ThomasJ. Randolph—TomJ. Terral—T.Jeff Busby—ThomasJefferson Murphy—ThomasJ. Hamilton—TomMangan—ThomasJ. Ryan—TomJ. Murray—ThomasJ. Tydings—ThomasJ. Tubb—TomSteed—ThomasJefferson Edmonds, Jr.—ThomasJ. Anderson—ThomasJefferson Roberts—ThomasJ. Barlow III | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraithas appeared on the U.S. nickel (five cent coin) since 1938, andon the $2 bill since the 1860s. | | | | Personal motto: "Rebellion to tyrantsis obedience to God." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about Thomas Jefferson: Joseph J.Ellis,AmericanSphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson — WillardSterne Randall,ThomasJefferson : A Life — R. B. Bernstein,ThomasJefferson — Joyce Appleby,ThomasJefferson — Gore Vidal,InventingA Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,Adamsvs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — SusanDunn,Jefferson'sSecond Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800 —Andrew Burstein,Jefferson'sSecret: Death and Desire at Monticello — ChristopherHitchens,ThomasJefferson : Author of America — David Barton,TheJefferson Lies: Exposing the myths you've always believed aboutThomas Jefferson — David Barton,TheJefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed AboutThomas Jefferson — Donald Barr Chidsey,Mr.Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Critical books about Thomas Jefferson:Joseph Wheelan,Jefferson'sVendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and theJudiciary | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) — of Nahant,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,May 12,1850.Republican.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1880-81;MassachusettsRepublican state chair, 1883;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1887-93; resigned1893;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924; died in office 1924;delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1896(speaker),1900,1904,1908,1916,1920(TemporaryChair;PermanentChair;speaker),1924.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Died, after a severestroke,at CharlesgateHospital,Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,November9, 1924 (age74 years, 181days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Calvert Magruder (1893-1968) — of Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Annapolis,AnneArundel County, Md.,December26, 1893.Democrat. Secretary to U.S. Supreme Court JusticeLouisBrandeis, 1916-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawprofessor;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1939-59; tooksenior status 1959.Episcopalian.Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanJudicature Society;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.DiedMay 22,1968 (age74 years, 148days).Burial location unknown. | | Harold Raymond Medina (1888-1990) — also known asHarold R. Medina — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,February16, 1888.Lawyer;lawprofessor;U.S.District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1947-51;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1951-58; tooksenior status 1958.Episcopalian.Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Died in Westwood,BergenCounty, N.J.,March14, 1990 (age102 years,26 days).Interment atWesthamptonCemetery, Westhampton Beach, Long Island, N.Y. | | Henry Parkman Jr. (1894-1958) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,April26, 1894.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1928,1936;member ofMassachusettsstate senate Third Suffolk District, 1929-36; candidate formayor ofBoston, Mass., 1933; candidate forU.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1940; colonel in the U.S. Army duringWorld War II.Episcopalian.Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;PhiBeta Kappa;Freemasons;AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars.Died in1958(ageabout64 years).Burial location unknown. | | Robert Porter Patterson (1891-1952) — also known asRobert P. Patterson — of Cold Spring,PutnamCounty, N.Y.Born in Glens Falls,WarrenCounty, N.Y.,February12, 1891.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War I;U.S.District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1930-39;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1939-40;U.S.Secretary of War, 1945-47.Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;PhiBeta Kappa;PhiDelta Theta;AmericanLegion.Killed, along with 22 other passengers and crew, and seven people onthe ground, in aplanecrash duringrain andheavy fog, in Elizabeth,UnionCounty, N.J.,January22, 1952 (age60 years, 344days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Christopher Hallowell Phillips (b. 1920) — also known asChristopher H. Phillips — of Beverly,EssexCounty, Mass.;Washington,D.C.Born in The Hague (Den Haag),Netherlands,December6, 1920.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; memberofMassachusettsstate senate, 1948-53; delegate to Republican National Conventionfrom Massachusetts,1952,1960;U.S. Ambassador toBrunei, 1989-91.Episcopalian.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;Council onForeign Relations.Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. | | John Phillips (1770-1823) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,November26, 1770.Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1803; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1804;mayor ofBoston, Mass., 1822-23.Englishancestry. Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanAntiquarian Society.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,May 29,1823 (age52 years, 184days).Interment atOldGranary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass. | | Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) — of Milford,PikeCounty, Pa.Born in Simsbury,HartfordCounty, Conn.,August11, 1865.Chief Forester of the U.S.; close confidant of PresidentTheodoreRoosevelt; candidate forU.S.Senator from Pennsylvania, 1914 (Roosevelt Progressive), 1926(Republican primary);Governor ofPennsylvania, 1923-27, 1931-35; defeated in Republican primary,1938.Frenchancestry. Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanForestry Association;AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science.Died, fromleukemia,at the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-PresbyterianMedicalCenter, Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October4, 1946 (age81 years, 54days).Interment atMilfordCemetery, Milford, Pa. | | John Dyneley Prince (1868-1945) — also known asJohn D. Prince — ofPassaicCounty, N.J.; Ringwood Manor,PassaicCounty, N.J.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April17, 1868.Universityprofessor; member ofNewJersey state house of assembly from Passaic County, 1906,1908-09;Speaker ofthe New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1909; member ofNewJersey state senate from Passaic County, 1910-12; U.S. MinistertoDenmark, 1921-26;Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1926-29;Yugoslavia, 1929-33.Member,AmericanPhilosophical Society;American Academy of Arts andSciences.Died in1945(ageabout77 years).Burial location unknown.  | Elihu Root (1845-1937) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Clinton,OneidaCounty, N.Y.,February15, 1845.Republican.Lawyer;U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-85;delegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894;U.S.Secretary of War, 1899-1904; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from New York,1904(TemporaryChair),1912;U.S.Secretary of State, 1905-09;U.S.Senator from New York, 1909-15;delegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;candidate for Republican nomination for President,1916;delegateto New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.Member,UnionLeague;AmericanSociety for International Law;American BarAssociation;AmericanPhilosophical Society;American Academy of Arts andSciences.Recipient of theNobelPeace Prize in 1912.Died, ofpneumonia,in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,February7, 1937 (age91 years, 358days).Interment atHamiltonCollege Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y. | | | Walter V. Schaefer (1904-1986) — of Lake Bluff,LakeCounty, Ill.Born in Grand Rapids,KentCounty, Mich.,December10, 1904.Lawyer;justiceof Illinois state supreme court, 1951-76 (7th District 1951-63,1st District 1964-76); appointed 1951.Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.DiedJune 15,1986 (age81 years, 187days).Burial location unknown. | | Caleb Strong (1745-1819) — of Massachusetts. Born in Northampton,HampshireCounty, Mass.,January9, 1745.Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1776; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1780;Delegateto Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1780;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1789-96;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1800-07, 1812-16.Congregationalist.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences.DiedNovember7, 1819 (age74 years, 302days).Interment atBridgeStreet Cemetery, Northampton, Mass. | | John Sullivan (1740-1795) — of Durham,StraffordCounty, N.H.Born in Somersworth,StraffordCounty, N.H.,February17, 1740.Delegateto Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1774, 1780-81; servedin the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;NewHampshire state attorney general, 1782-86;delegateto New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1782-83; memberofNewHampshire Governor's Council, 1785-86;Presidentof New Hampshire, 1786-88, 1789-90;federaljudge, 1789;U.S.District Judge for New Hampshire, 1789-95; died in office 1795.Member,American Academy of Arts and Sciences;Freemasons.Died in Durham,StraffordCounty, N.H.,January23, 1795 (age54 years, 340days).Interment in private or family graveyard. | | William Cushing Wait (1860-1935) — also known asWilliam C. Wait — of Medford,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston,SuffolkCounty), Mass.,December18, 1860.Democrat.Lawyer;superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1902-23;justice ofMassachusetts state supreme court, 1923-34.Unitarian.Member,American BarAssociation;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanGeographic Society;PhiBeta Kappa.Died in Medford,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,January28, 1935 (age74 years, 41days).Interment atOakGrove Cemetery, Medford, Mass.  | Earl Warren (1891-1974) — also known as"Superchief" — of Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,March19, 1891.Republican.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War I;AlamedaCounty District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from California,1928(alternate),1932;Temporary Chair,1944;CaliforniaRepublican state chair, 1934-36; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from California, 1936-38;Californiastate attorney general, 1939-43;Governor ofCalifornia, 1943-53; Republican candidate for PresidentialElector for California,1944;candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1948; candidate for Republicannomination for President,1952;ChiefJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President'sCommission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.Norwegianancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;Freemasons;Shriners;Elks;American Academy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanPhilosophical Society;PhiDelta Phi;SigmaPhi;ExchangeClub.Awarded thePresidentialMedal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.Died inWashington,D.C.,July 9,1974 (age83 years, 112days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives: Sonof Methias H. Warren and Chrystal (Hernlund) Warren; married,October14, 1925, to Nina Palmquist Meyers. | | | | Cross-reference:WilliamS. Mailliard | | | | See alsoNational GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —ArlingtonNational Cemetery unofficial website | | | | Books about Earl Warren: Ed Cray,ChiefJustice: A Biography of Earl Warren — G. Edward White,EarlWarren : A Public Life — Bernard Schwartz,SuperChief, Earl Warren and His Supreme Court — Jim Newton,Justicefor All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made — MikeResnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Eminent Americans(1954) |
|  | George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as"Father of His Country";"TheAmerican Fabius" —of Virginia. Born inWestmorelandCounty, Va., February 11, 1732/31 o.s. ((February22,1732)).Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in theContinental Army during the Revolutionary War;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;Presidentof the United States, 1789-97.Episcopalian.Englishancestry. Member,Freemasons;Societyof the Cincinnati;American Academy of Arts and Sciences.As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, heserved as thefirstPresident and voluntarily stepped down after two terms. Elected totheHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1900.Slaveowner. Died, probably fromacute bacterialepiglottitis, atFairfaxCounty, Va.,December14, 1799 (age67 years, 295days).Entombed atMt.Vernon, Fairfax County, Va.; memorial monument atNationalMall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1860 atWashingtonCircle, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1869 atBoston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.| | Relatives: Sonof Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington; married,January6, 1759, toMarthaDandridge Custis (aunt ofBurwellBassett); step-father ofJohnParke Custis; uncle ofBushrodWashington; granduncle by marriage ofCharlesMagill Conrad; granduncle ofJohnThornton Augustine Washington andGeorgeCorbin Washington; great-granduncle of Jane Washington AugustaThornton (who marriedJamesBurnie Beck); second great-granduncle ofGeorgeWashington Thornton Beck; first cousin six times removed ofArcherWoodford; second cousin ofHowellLewis; second cousin once removed ofMeriwetherLewis; second cousin twice removed ofHowellCobb (1772-1818),SulifandSutherland Ross andDavidShelby Walker; second cousin thrice removed ofWalkerPeyton Conway,HowellCobb (1815-1868),ThomasReade Rootes Cobb,JamesDavid Walker andDavidShelby Walker Jr.; second cousin four times removed ofAndrewJackson Cobb; second cousin five times removed ofThomasHenry Ball Jr.,Williamde Bruyn=Kops,HoraceLee Washington,EdwinMcPherson Holden,ClaudeC. Ball,ArthurWesley Holden andFranklinDelano Roosevelt; third cousin twice removed ofHenryRootes Jackson; third cousin thrice removed ofSamuelBullitt Churchill andThomasLeonidas Crittenden. | | | | Political families:FourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:HenryLee —JoshuaFry —AlexanderDimitry —TobiasLear —DavidMathews —RufusPutnam | | | | Washington counties inAla.,Ark.,Colo.,Fla.,Ga.,Idaho,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Kan.,Ky.,La.,Maine,Md.,Minn.,Miss.,Mo.,Neb.,N.Y.,N.C.,Ohio,Okla.,Ore.,Pa.,R.I.,Tenn.,Tex.,Utah,Vt.,Va. andWis. arenamed for him. | | | | ThecityofWashington,D.C., isnamed forhim. — Thestateof Washington isnamed forhim. —MountWashington (highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — Theminorplanet886 Washingtonia (discovered 1917), isnamed forhim. | | | | Other politicians named for him:GeneralWashington Johnston—GeorgeWashington Lent Marr—GeorgeWashington Heard—GeorgeWashington Barnett—GeorgeWashington Davis—GeorgeW. Owen—GeorgeW. Toland—GeorgeW. Lay—GeorgeW. Patterson—GeorgeW. B. Towns—GeorgeWashington Adams—GeorgeWashington Hockley—GeorgeW. Smyth—G.W. Ingersoll—GeorgeW. Hopkins—GeorgeWashington Montgomery—JosephGeorge Washington Duncan—GeorgeW. Kittredge—GeorgeWashington Juden, Sr.—GeorgeW. Jones—GeorgeWashington Lane—GeorgeW. Harrison—GeorgeWashington Ewing—GeorgeWashington Seabrook—GeorgeW. Morrison—GeorgeW. Woodward—GeorgeWashington Wright—GeorgeWashington Triplett—GeorgeWashington Glasscock—GeorgeW. Schuyler—GeorgeWashington Holman—GeorgeW. Greene—GeorgeW. Johnson—GeorgeW. Wolcott—GeorgeW. Paschal—GeorgeWashington Dunlap—GeorgeWashington Warren—GeorgeWashington Hill—GeorgeWashington Logan—GeorgeW. Getchell—GeorgeW. Wright—GeorgeW. Julian—GeorgeWashington Dyal—GeorgeW. Ladd—GeorgeW. Peck—GeorgeWashington Nesmith—GeorgeW. Morgan—GeorgeWashington Brooks—GeorgeWashington Cowles—GeorgeW. Geddes—GeorgeWashington Whitmore—GeorgeWashington Bridges—GeorgeW. Cate—GeorgeW. Houk—GeorgeW. Webber—GeorgeW. Bemis—GeorgeW. Batchelder—GeorgeWashington Fairbrother—GeorgeW. Glick—GeorgeW. Ryland—GeorgeW. Jones—GeorgeW. Baker—GeorgeW. Shell—GeorgeW. Anderson—GeorgeW. Crouse—GeorgeW. Hulick—GeorgeW. Allen—GeorgeW. F. Harper—GeorgeWashington Clark—GeorgeW. McCrary—GeorgeW. Gordon—GeorgeW. Kingsbury—GeorgeW. Covington—GeorgeWashington Fleeger—GeorgeW. Steele—GeorgeW. Wilson—GeorgeW. Martin—GeorgeW. E. Dorsey—GeorgeW. Plunkitt—GeorgeW. Furbush—GeorgeW. Sutton—GeorgeW. Curtin—GeorgeW. Ray—GeorgeW. Roosevelt—GeorgeW. Smith—GeorgeW. Kipp—GeorgeW. Campbell—GeorgeW. Taylor—GeorgeW. Stone—GeorgeW. Bartch—GeorgeW. Shonk—GeorgeW. Paul—GeorgeW. Cook—GeorgeW. Clarke—GeorgeW. Murray—GeorgeW. Faris—GeorgeW. Fithian—GeorgeW. Prince—GeorgeW. Buckner—GeorgeW. Cromer—GeorgeW. Donaghey—GeorgeT. Beck—GeorgeW. Aldridge—GeorgeWashington Wagoner—GeorgeWashington Goethals—GeorgeW. Armstrong—GeorgeW. Lovejoy—GeorgeW. Oakes—GeorgeW. Hays—GeorgeW. Edmonds—GeorgeW. Lindsay—GeorgeWashington Jones—T.G. W. Tarver—GeorgeW. Darden—GeorgeW. McCaskrin—GeorgeWashington English—GeorgeWashington Jones—GeorgeW. Mead—GeorgeW. Collins—GeorgeW. Gibbons—GeorgeW. List—GeorgeW. Calkin—GeorgeWashington Sullivan—GeorgeW. Rauch—GeorgeW. Michell—GeorgeWashington Jackson—GeorgeW. Blanchard—GeorgeWashington Herz—GeorgeW. Bristow—GeorgeWashington Hardy—GeorgeW. Ballard—GeorgeW. McKown—GeorgeW. Collins | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappears on the U.S. quarter (25 cent coin), and on the $1 bill. Hisportraitalso appeared on various other denominations of U.S. currency,and on the Confederate States $50 note during the Civil War. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about George Washington: RichardBrookhiser,FoundingFather: Rediscovering George Washington — James ThomasFlexner,Washington:The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall,GeorgeWashington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith,Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation —Henry Wiencek,AnImperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation ofAmerica — James MacGregor Burns,GeorgeWashington — Joseph J. Ellis,HisExcellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal,InventingA Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — David Barton,TheBulletproof George Washington: An Account of God's ProvidentialCare — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] — Wendie C. Old,GeorgeWashington (for young readers) | | | | Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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