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Raburn, William – Rainey, Joseph H
Raburn, William
lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born April 8, 1771, in Halifax county, N. C. He was a judge of the inferior court, was a member of the assembly; was a state senator; and was governor of Georgia from 1817 to 1819. He died Oct. 23, 1819, in Hancock county, Ga.
Rademacher, Joseph
Roman catholic bishop, was born Dec. 3, 1840, in Westphalia, Mich. He was nominated to the see of Nashville and was consecrated bishop in 1883.
Rader, Cary Melvin
lawyer, politician, was born July 27, 1868, in Carroll county, Ind. He received a thorough education, and in 1891 graduated from the law department of the Central Normal college of Danville, Ind. The following year he located in Walla Walla, Wash.; has been city attorney and filled various other public positions of trust.
Rader, Lewis Ellsworth
journalist, legislator, was born March 16, 1864, in Hazel Dell, Ill. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Washington legislature from Pierce county, and in 1896 he received the re-election. He is a successful journalist, poet, and for several years was editor of the Walla Walla Daily Statesman.
Radford, William
naval officer, was born March 1, 1808, in Fincastle, Va.
He was appointed rear-admiral in 1866; commanded the European squadron in 1869-70, and was retired in March, 1870.
He died Jan. 8, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Radford, William
merchant, congressman, was born June 24, 1814, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-ninth congress. He died Jan. 18, 1870, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Raff, George Wertz
banker, author, was born March 24, 1825, in Tuscarawas, Ohio. He was a savings bank president of Canton, Ohio, and the author of Guide to Executors and Administrators in Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; and War Claimant's Guide. He died April 14, 1888, in Canton, Ohio.
Ragan, Willis Eugene
merchant, was born Jan. 12, 1852, in Albany, N. Y.
In 1878 he became a member of one of the largest wholesale dry goods houses in the south, and is president of the Southern Railway Equipment company.
Ragland, Charles A
lawyer, was born Aug. 2, 1844, in Halifax county, Va.
He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Stockton, Mo.; has been city attorney, justice of the peace, mayor of his city, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Raguet, Condy
lawyer, state senator, author, was born Jan. 28, 1784, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1815 he was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, and afterward of the state senate. He was editor of several journals; and the author of The Principles of Free Trade; A Treatise on Currency and Banking; and other works. He died March 22, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Raines, John
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 6, 1840, in Canandaigua, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly of the state of New York in 1881, 1882 and 1885, and was state senator in 1886-89. He was elected to the fifty-first and re-elected to the fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Rainey, Joseph H
state senator, congressman, was born June 21, 1832, in Georgetown, S. C. He was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1868, and was a member of the state senate of South Carolina in 1870.
He was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-first, fortysecond, forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican. He died Aug. 1, 1887, in Georgetown, S. C.