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Texas Angel (1839-1903)
From the Idaho Statesman, April 6, 1903. December 31 is upon us and with that comes our Strangest Name of the Year. As is the custom over the past decade, the final posting of the year is dedicated...
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Missouri Hennegar Whaley (1836-1904)
Portrait courtesy of the Legislative Reference Library of Texas. An obscure resident of Montague County, Texas, Missouri Hennegar Whaley represented that county for one term in his state's House of...
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Vermont Marston Finley (1880-1958)
From the Indiana University "Arbutus", 1909. A leading attorney based in Kendallville, Indiana, Vermont Marston Finley shares his first name with the Green Mountain State and made his political mark...
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Nevada Northrop Stranahan (1861-1928)
Portrait from Prominent and Progressive Americans, Vol. II, 1904. "Mr. Stranahan's career is distinguished by a series of success achieved by few men of his age...such achievements speak louder than...
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Ohio Whitney Jr. (1813-1879)
From the History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, 1887. For many years a leading resident in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Ohio Whitney Jr. shares his first name with the Buckeye State, but left his mark in...
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Wyoming Benjamin Paris (1906-2001)
From the Wichita Beacon, July 31, 1972. The name would be Wyoming B. Paris. A curious name at that, and hiding behind that name lies the colorful story of a man who rose from humble origins in...
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Montana Wanda Smith (1914-1981)
From the 1945 Year Book of the State of Colorado. Our theme of politicians named in honor of states continues with a peek at the life of Montana Wanda Smith, who, while named after the nation's 41st...
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Maryland Bullard Huggins (1870-1951)
From the South Carolina state legislative manual, 1943. A three-term member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Maryland Bullard Huggins was a lifelong resident of the Tar Heel state and...
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Tennessee Chesmond Brister (1896-1976)
Portrait from the Alexandria Weekly Town Talk, January 8, 1944. A leading figure in the political and business life of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Tennessee Chesmond "T.C." Brister was a veteran of...
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Electious Williams Davis (1874-1947)
From the Mississippi Official and Statistical Register, 1924-28. Certainly one of the more unusual names to be found among past Mississippi state representatives, Electious Williams Davis represented...
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Greenland Thompson Federer (1888-1961)
From the 1926 West Virginia Blue Book. The Strangest Names in American Political History makes its first stop in West Virginia for 2023 with a profile on Greenland Thompson Federer, a one-term member...
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Septimus Bonham Sightler (1863-1952), Septimus Augustus Harvin Jr....
From the Montgomery Advertiser, April 29, 1934. A quintet of politicians named Septimus is profiled today, and it is worth noting that four of the five share a first name with its origins in ancient...
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Leeman Brackett Wormhood (1881-1960)
From Madbury Its People and Places, 1968. In its long history, the town of Madbury, New Hampshire was represented in the legislature by two curiously named men, Eloi Augustus Adams (profiled here on...
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Constant Sweeney Lake (1840-1917)
The second posting for this new year takes us to Iowa and Constant Sweeney Lake, a longtime Marengo resident who was active in Democratic politics in that region. A veteran of the Civil War, Lake...
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Ledyard Romulus Tucker (1845-1920), Ledyard Park Hale (1854-1926)
From the Colorado Assembly composite photo, 1891. The first of two political figures named Ledyard, Ledyard Romulus Tucker was an obscure resident of Colorado who served one term in that state's...
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Bloomfield Drummond Woolley (1876-1957), Bloomfield Holmes Minch (1864-1929),...
From the Asbury Park Shore Press, October 28, 1899. A trio of Bloomfields is highlighted in the following profile, and it is interesting to note that two of these men with the flowery name served in...
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Desoto Shelton Hollowell (1870-1951)
Portrait courtesy of the Texas Legislative Reference Library. One of a number of oddly named Texas state representatives to be profiled here on the site, Desoto Shelton Hollowell briefly represented...
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Javan Fox Clark (1852-1938)
Portrait courtesy of the Lucy Bensley Center/Concord Historical Society. Possessing a unique first name, Javan Fox Clark was for many years at the forefront of...
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Ladurna Ballard (1836-1908)
Ladurna Ballard during his assembly term, 1882. Another in a long line of oddly named men who peopled the halls of the New York state assembly in the 19th century, Ladurna Ballard represented the town...
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Severyn Bruyn Sharpe (1857-1929)
From the 1915 Manual of the New York Constitutional Convention. A leading lawmaker in Ulster County, New York in the late 19th and early 20th century, Severyn Bruyn Sharp served briefly as Ulster...
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