* 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, American politician, 75th Governor of Vermont

In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

It was Governor Thomas Dudley who, in 1650, signed the charter creating the corporation which still governs Harvard College.

Between 1780 and 1783 Allen participated, along with his brother Ira, Vermont Governor Thomas Chittenden, and others, in negotiations with Frederick Haldimand, the governor of Quebec, that were ostensibly about prisoner exchanges, but were really about establishing Vermont as a new British province and gaining military protection for its residents.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.

* 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and soldier, 6th Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1860 )

The Governor of South Australia, Alexander Hore-Ruthven, who was in England at the time, expressed his concern to British Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs James Henry Thomas that this would cause a significant impact on trade between the nations.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

* 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1788 )

By 1858 attention had swung back to local issues with a land dispute in New Plymouth prompting Governor Thomas Gore Brown to call out its Militia under Captain Charles Brown.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

* His niece Lucy Grymes married Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson Jr.

Following instructions from London to achieve economies, Governor Thomas Gore Brown ( 1851 – 1856 ) further reduced the civil establishment.

* 1818 – Thomas Talbot, American politician, 31st Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1886 )

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

* Former Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey

The petition requesting the establishment of the school, titled " The Founders ' Petition of 1785 ," was addressed to Governor Thomas Carleton and was signed by seven Loyalist men: William Paine, William Wanton, George Sproule, Zephaniah Kingsley, John Coffin, Ward Chipman, and Adino Paddock.

During the war, the capital was moved to Richmond at the urging of Governor Thomas Jefferson, who feared that Williamsburg's location would make it vulnerable to British attack.

He chose Indiana Governor Thomas R. Marshall as his running mate and selected William Frank McCombs, a New York lawyer and a friend from college days, to manage his campaign.

Governor Thomas Pitt | Thomas " Diamond " Pitt.

McKean served as President of Delaware, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and Governor of Pennsylvania.

The county was named in honor of former Pennsylvania Governor and Declaration of Independence signer Thomas McKean.

" They gathered Federalist support and in 1805 re-elected Governor Thomas McKean, who had been elected by a united Republican party in 1802 but had broken with the majority wing of the party.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Major General Henry Lee III ( Light Horse Harry ) ( 1756 – 1818 ), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter ( 1773 – 1829 ).

Leland Stanford, Governor and Senator of California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

William's father was Robert Pitt ( 1680 – 1727 ), the eldest son of Governor Pitt, who served as a Tory Member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727.

* November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.

Benjamin Franklin and Henry Tucker Sr. ( a colonel of the Bermuda Militia, and a former President of the Privy Council, whose son, Henry Tucker, was then President of the Privy Council and son-in-law to Governor Breure, and whose other two sons were a colonel in the Virginia Militia and a politician in the rebel administration ), orchestrated the theft of a hundred barrels of gunpowder from a magazine in St. George's, which was supplied to the Americans.

Their first son, George Howard, was born on November 21, 1789 in Jennings House during Howard's term as Governor.

* George William Clinton ( 1807 – 1885 ), American politician — Buffalo, New York, son of Governor DeWitt Clinton

The Empress Maria Theresa, built the Royal Villa of Monza for his son Ferdinand, Governor of Milan ( 1777 – 1780 ).

Harrison's son, Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, was born at Berkeley Plantation, as was his son William Henry Harrison, a war hero in the Battle of Tippecanoe, governor of Indiana Territory, and ninth President of the United States.

The younger son of Congressman Charles S. Dewey and his wife, Marie Suzette de Marigny Hall Dewey, and also a distant relative of New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Dewey was born in Chicago.

In order that the Yusupov name might not die out, the prince's father, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston ( October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg – June 10, 1928, Rome, Italy ), General Governor of Moscow ( 1914 – 1915 ) ( son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston ), took the surname of his wife, Princess Zenaida Nikolaievna Yusupova ( September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg – November 24, 1939, Paris ) upon their marriage, on April 4, 1882 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The charter was signed and the young college was supported by William Franklin ( 1730 – 1813 ), the last Royal Governor of New Jersey and illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.

* William Scranton, III ( born 1947 ), former Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, son of William Scranton

In 1986, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas ( former Governor of Michoacán and son of the former president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas ) formed the " Democratic Current " ( Spanish: Corriente Democrática ) of the PRI, which criticized the federal government for reducing spending on social programs to increase payments on foreign debt.

From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800 ), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and ( Mangle ) Minthorne Tompkins ( December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881 ), who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852.

His nephew and adopted son Samuel H. Huntington moved to the Ohio country that he had been instrumental in opening up, and later became the third Governor of Ohio.

John Winthrop, the Younger, son of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was designated Governor by the group that claimed possession of the land via a deed of conveyance from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Early pioneer families included the Hookers, Weeks ( after whom Lake Weeks was named ), Simmons, Mitchells, ( their son became Governor of Florida in the early 1900s ) Pembertons, Hendersons, Wheelers, Tomberlins, Morris, Harvey, Littles, O ' Briens, Beaty, Baucom, Gray and Spencer.

Colonel Posey was the son of Thomas Posey, Governor of Indiana Territory from 1813 until 1816.

Huntington City was renamed in honor of the son of William Duckett Bowie and his business partner, Oden Bowie, who was President of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad at the time, and previously Governor of Maryland.