The Strangest Names In American Political History

Dedicated to American political figures with strange, odd, and unusual names! ©

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1859-1913)

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  From The Irrigation Age, Volume 17, published in 1902.     A distinguished figure in Utah legal circles during the late 19th and ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Telesphore LeBoeuf (1881-1946)

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 From "The Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention".   Hailing from the city of Webster in Massachusetts, T...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Romanzo Norton Bunn (1829-1909)

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From the "Notable Men of Wisconsin", published 1902.     A New Yorker by birth, Romanzo Norton Bunn later removed to Wiscon...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Ibzan William Middlebrook (1837-1899)

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                                           From the Personnel of the Texas State Government, 1889 edition.    The Lonestar State yields ...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Maple Talbot Harl (1893-1957)

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                                              Portrait courtesy of the website  www.fdic.gov .     Following on this week's earlier ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Westbrook Schoonmaker Decker (1839-1903)

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                          From the Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vacinity, 1905.     A descendant of an old establ...
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Chelius Clifton Benefield (1867-1951)

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From the Official and Statistical Register of Mississippi, 1912 edition.    A successful businessman and political figure who made hi...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Primus Jones Comes Alive!

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     After two years of compiling and posting over 350 articles on all of these oddly named political figures I can honestly state that...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Amalphus Pinkney Mays (1862-1947)

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From the 1913-14 Tennessee General Assembly composite portrait.     An obscure resident of the county of Davidson in Tennessee, Amalp...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Usco Alonzo Gentry (1888-1976)

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From the Arkansas Insurance Department Annual Report, 2009.    Continuing on our theme of oddly named political figures from Arkansas, ...
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