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Byron Kilbourn Kilbourn was an American surveyor, railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the 3rd and 8th mayor of Milwa...

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Robert Hutchins Jeffrey Jeffrey was the 35th mayor of Columbus, Ohio and the 32nd person to serve in that office. He was elected April 4, 1903. He served Columbus for one term and an addition...

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Philo Hopkins Olmsted Olmsted was born in Simsbury, Connecticut. He came to the Central Ohio area in 1808 with his father, American Revolution solider Francis Caldwell Olmsted, who opened t...

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John Edgar Reyburn, U.S. Representative Reyburn (father of William Stuart Reyburn) was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio, February 7, 1845; w...

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Bishop David Nelson Beal Nelson, the fourth LDS Bishop of the Ephraim North Ward, Sanpete County, Utah, was born November 15, 1863, at Ephraim, the son of Henry Beal and Mary Thorp. He was baptize...

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Raymond Leo Flynn (born July 22, 1939) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from ...

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Roger Wayles Harrison Mayor of Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina (1933-1939) Son of Edmond Harrison & Kate Steger, and the husband of Evie Louise Nash.

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William Alanson Abbe Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, In memory of John Abbe and His Descendants on page 303 states: 615. ALANSON (7) ABBE, son of John Simons (6) and Hannah (Billing) Abbe, born in Enfield...

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Dr. George Walker Gilmer . Gilmer served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1746 to 1747. Gilmer was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1700. He studied medicine at the Edinburgh Univer...

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John Francis Fitzgerald, Sr. Irish-American politician and the maternal grandfather of US President John F. Kennedy. Fitzgerald was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Irish immigrants, Tho...

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Brigadier General Egbert Benson Brown Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was the son of General Joseph White Brown and Cornelia Tryon. He married Mary Sarah Davidson on October 13, 1845, i...

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Obituary: George Zeissner of Spring Valley was born on May 5, 1879, in Wasurlosen, a small farming community in Germany. He came to America, landing in New York, at the age of 23, with exactly 60 cents...

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Horace Baldwin, Mayor of Houston, Texas Find A Grave Memorial ID # 61215358 Wiki List of Houston Mayors American Peerage of Mayors World Statesmen Mayors Horace Baldwin, son of Dr. Jonas ...

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David Daggett Senator Daggett's Wikipedia Page Find A Grave Memorial ID # 7778041 Letter from President James Madison to Senator David Daggett, 1817 January 1 David Daggett's Papers at Yale ...

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Loni Hancock (born Ilona Harrington; April 10, 1940) is an American politician and a former member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, she represented the 9th Senate District, which encompass...

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Thomas H. Bates (born February 9, 1938) was the 21st mayor of Berkeley, California, and a member of the California State Assembly. Bates is married to Loni Hancock, another former mayor of Berkeley a...

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William Mitchell Miller Miller was born in Williston, Vermont on 24 February 1826; died in Saginaw, Michigan on 24 April 1872. He was a lawyer, administrator 51; pr Burlington and Suspension Bridg...

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Dr. William Patton Thornton (February 6, 1817 – October 10, 1883) was a physician, educator, author, and politician. Education and career Thorton graduated from Kemper's Medical College in St. Loui...

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Charles Hiram Burnett Jr. was a Seattle City Councilor, President of the Seattle City Council and Acting Mayor of Seattle. Burnett officiated at the grand opening of Pike Place Market with fellow City ...

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North Carolina 40 years as Solicitor and Superior Court Judge. James L. Webb was a North Carolina state senator and superior court judge. James Landrum Webb (November 12, 1854 – October 1, 1930) wa...

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