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• Burdick, Clark    b. January 13, 1868  d. August 27, 1948
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Rhode island's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1919 to 1933. Also served as a Member of the Rhode island State Senate in 1915, Member of the Rhode Island State House of representatives in 1906 and Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917. (Bio by: K)
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Gibbs, Alfred    b. April 22, 1823  d. December 26, 1868
  Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A career US Army officer, he graduated from West Point in in 1846 and served in the Mounted Rifles. At the start of the Civil War, he was a Captain in charge of recruiting for the New York Volunteer Cavalry. In 1862, he was commissioned a Colonel and commanded the 19th New York Cavalry Brigade during most of the Virginia operations and was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers in October 1864. After the war, he remained in the Regular Army as a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Luce, Stephen Bleecker    b. March 25, 1827  d. July 28, 1917
  US Navy Admiral. He became a Midshipman in 1841, from 1845 to 1848 he participated in James Biddle's expedition that circumnavigated the globe, and during the Mexican War he served off California. At the start of the Civil War he was assigned to blockade duty on USS Wabash, and from 1864 to 1865 he participated in several South Carolina attacks as a squadron commander. From 1866 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Parker, Cortlandt   b. December 10, 1884  d. January 18, 1960
  United States Army General. The son of Major General James Parker (a CMOH recipient), he served in both World War I and World War II. As a Major General in the United States Army during World War II, he commanded the 5th Infantry Division (known as the "Red Diamond" Division") from August 1941 to June 1943. Before the war, he served as a Military Attache to Great Britain (1931 to 1935) and was commander of first the 8th Field Artillery regiment, then the 19th Field Artillery regiment. From 1943...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Parker, James   b. February 20, 1854  d. June 2, 1934
  Philippine Insurrection Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He rose to Major General in the United States Army. He was awarded the CMOH while a Lieutenant Colonel in the 45th United States Volunteer Infantry, for action in Vigan, Luzon, Philippine Islands on December 4, 1899. His citation reads "While in command of a small garrison repulsed a savage night attack by overwhelming numbers of the enemy, fighting at close quarters in the dark for several hours." His son, Cortland Parker, alos...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling    b. July 6, 1884  d. July 4, 1970
  Businessman, Yachtsman. Vanderbilt was a director of the New York Central Railroad from 1913 and was a driving force behind the rail network until he was defeated for the control of the company in 1954. In 1925 Vanderbilt invented the game of contract bridge, which was later replaced by auction bridge. In the 1930s Vanderbilt successfully defended the America's Cup in international yachting competition with the "Enterprise" (1930), the "Rainbow" (1934) and the "Ranger" in 1937. In 1928 the...[Read More]
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Von Bulow (Crawford), Sunny (Martha Sharp)    b. September 1, 1931  d. December 6, 2008
  American heiress, socialite, and philanthropist. Her husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted of twice attempting her murder by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. A second trial found him not guilty, after experts opined that there was no insulin injection and that her symptoms were attributable to over-use of prescription drugs. The story was dramatized in the book and movie, Reversal of Fortune. Sunny von Bulow continued to live almost 28 years in a persistent...[Read More]
  Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
   

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