The Strangest Names In American Political History

Major Wetherford Funk, 1849-1917.   This dapper-looking mustachioed man is Major Wetherford Funk, a prominent Harrison County, Indian...

Portrait from the Star-News, January 18, 1963.    An attorney and Democratic political figure in New Hanover County, North Carolina, ...

Portrait from the Gadsden Times, April 2, 1966.   Gadsden, Alabama resident Hobdy Greer Rains distinguished himself in a number of ci...

Portrait from the Sheboygan Press, April 8, 1937.    For many years a distinguished figure in the city of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Osuld To...

Portrait from the Legislative Manual of Minnesota, 1953.     A one-term member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the cou...

Portrait from the Men of Mark in Virginia, Vol. III, 1907.     A recent discovery as far as strange names are concerned, Gancelo Stan...

Portrait from the Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, 1910.    A six-term Mayor of Findlay, Ohio, Esba Lincoln G...

Portrait from the Denison Iowa Review, March 17, 1920.     The life of career diplomat Boaz Walton Long is highlighted today, and it ...

Portrait courtesy of the Whitford family at Rootsweb .    Hailing from a state that h asn't been featured here since November 201...

Menzus R. Bump, from the Spokane Spokesman Review, May 7, 1913.    The Wisconsin State Assembly has had several of its members profil...

Portrait from the Abilene Register-News, October 6, 1948.    A  well-known physician based in Stamford, Texas, Eutus Poland Bunkley p...

Portrait from the August 1923 North Carolina Journal of Pharmacology.    Following North Carolina legislator Gladstone D. Gatling...