The Strangest Names In American Political History

From a February 1929 press photo.     Despite his lack of years Stockton, California resident Forsythe Charles "Tod" Clowds...

Portrait courtesy of the Houston Area Digital Archives website.   This dapper-looking gent is one Oliphant Lockwood Hubbard, who, dur...

Portrait from the Illinois Blue Book, 1921-22 edition.     A six-term member of the Illinois State House of Representatives, Sheadr...

Portrait from the Illinois Blue Book, 1967-68.    Noted as being a " champion of civil rights laws and women's legislation ...

 Truly Hatchett, from the Nov. 18. 1954 edition of "Jet" magazine.   Lifelong Baltimore resident Truly Hatchett etched his ...

Portrait from the Historical Souvenir of Middleburgh, N.Y., 1894.    Oddly named Schoharie County, New York resident Duryea Beekman w...

Portrait from the 1931 Minnesota State Legislative Manual.     Polk County, Minnesota was featured recently in the write-up on Thrond...

Fiori L. Palarine, from the 1937 Minnesota State Legislative Manual.    Another curiously named state legislator receives a write-up ...

Portrait courtesy of the Minnesota Digital Library.    Two-term Minnesota state representative Thrond Torsteinsen Morken joins a sho...

Zern M. Hiner, from the 1921 Purdue University "Debris" Yearbook.     Following on the heels of yesterday's profile on ...

                                                                   Portrait courtesy of the Baltimore Sun, 1964.    The life of distingu...

Portrait from "The Mayors of Cedar City", 1986.    Cedar City, Utah resident Kumen Snow Gardner was long prominent in the c...