1776 Biographical Directory York for a fourteen-year term; died in Bronx, N.Y., Decem- R ber 23, 1974; interment in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Hacken- sack, N.J. RABAUT, Louis Charles, a Representative from Michi- gan; born in Detroit, Mich., December 5, 1886; attended QUINN, Terence John, a Representative from New parochial schools; graduated from Detroit (Mich.) College, York; born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October 16, 1836; educated at a private school and the Boys’ Academy 1909; graduated from Detroit College of Law, 1912; admitted in his native city; early in life entered the brewery business to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Detroit; also with his father and subsequently became senior member engaged in the building business; delegate to the Democratic of the firm; at the outbreak of the Civil War was second National Conventions, 1936 and 1940; delegate to the Inter- lieutenant in Company B, Twenty-fifth Regiment, New York parliamentary Union at Oslo, Norway, 1939; elected as a State Militia Volunteers, which was ordered to the defense Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the five succeeding of Washington, D.C., in April 1861 and assigned to duty Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful at Arlington Heights; member of the common council of Al- candidate for reelection to the Eightieth Congress in 1946; bany 1869-1872; elected a member of the State assembly elected to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Con- in 1873; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress gresses (January 3, 1949-November 12, 1961); died on No- and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Albany, vember 12, 1961, in Hamtramck, Mich; interment in Mount N.Y., June 18, 1878; interment in St. Agnes’ Cemetery. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. QUINN, Thomas Vincent, a Representative from New RABIN, Benjamin J., a Representative from New York; York; born in Long Island City, Queens County, N.Y., March born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., June 3, 1896; at- 16, 1903; attended the grade and high schools of Queens tended the public schools of his native city, and New York County, N.Y.; graduated from Fordham University Law University until May 30, 1917, when he enlisted in the School in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1924 and com- United States Navy as a seaman; was subsequently commis- menced the practice of law in New York City in June 1925; sioned as an ensign and served until January 1919; dis- assistant district attorney of Queens County from September charged as an ensign from the Naval Reserve in May 1921; 1931 to August 1934; assistant United States attorney, east- reentered New York University and was graduated from ern district of New York, 1934-1947; Assistant Attorney the law department in 1919; was admitted to the bar the General of the United States from July 21, 1947, until his same year and commenced practice in New York City; coun- resignation August 10, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the sel to the New York State joint legislative committee inves- Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from tigating guaranteed mortgages in 1934 and 1935; counsel January 3, 1949, until his resignation December 30, 1951, to the Mortgage Commission of the State of New York 1935- to become district attorney of Queens County, N.Y., and 1937 and served as chairman 1937-1939; elected as a Demo- served until December 31, 1955; unsuccessful for the Demo- crat to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses and cratic nomination for district attorney of Queens County served from January 3, 1945, until his resignation effective in 1955; appointed a city magistrate, April 30, 1957, and midnight December 31, 1947, having been elected a justice served until that office merged with the criminal court of of the New York State Supreme Court and took the oath New York City in 1962; subsequently served as a judge of office on January 5, 1948; designated by the Governor of the criminal court until his retirement on September 15, as associate justice of appellate division in January 1955 1972; was a resident of Venice, Fla., until his death there for the term ending December 31, 1961; reelected for a four- on March 1, 1982. teen-year term; died in Palm Beach, Fla., February 22, 1969; QUITMAN, John Anthony, a Representative from Mis- interment in Riverside Cemetery, Rochelle Park, N.J. sissippi; born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., Sep- RACE, John Abner, a Representative from Wisconsin; tember 1, 1799; pursued classical studies and was graduated born in Fond du Lac, Wis., May 12, 1914; attended the from Hartwick Seminary in 1816; instructor in Mount Airy public schools of Fond du Lac and the University of Wis- College, Pennsylvania, in 1818; studied law; was admitted consin; employed in the machine-tool industry as a spe- to the bar; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1820, and thence cialist, 1942-1965; member of the State Coordinating Com- to Natchez, Miss., in 1821, where he practiced law; member mittee for Higher Education, 1963-1964; member of the Wis- of the State house of representatives in 1826 and 1827; consin State Board of Vocational and Adult Education, 1960- chancellor of the State from 1828 until 1835, when he re- 1965; elected Fond du Lac County supervisor in 1958 and signed; member of the State constitutional convention in reelected in 1960 and 1962; chairman of Fond du Lac County 1832; served in the State senate in 1835 and 1836 and Democratic Party, 1959-1965; vice chairman of the Sixth was made its president; Acting Governor of Mississippi in District Democratic Party, 1961-1964; elected as a Democrat 1835 and 1836; judge of the high court of errors and appeals in 1838; during the Mexican War was appointed a brigadier to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, general of Volunteers July 1, 1846; commissioned a major 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the general in the Regular Army April 14, 1847, and honorably Ninetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for Wisconsin discharged July 20, 1848; Governor of Mississippi in 1850 State assembly in 1970; salesman, Central Electric Supply and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth and Co.; was a resident of Fond du Lac, Wis. until his death Thirty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1855, until there November 9, 1983; interment in Estabrooks Cemetery, his death on his plantation, ‘‘Monmouth,’’ near Natchez, Fond du Lac, Wis. Miss., July 17, 1858, presumably from the effects of National RADANOVICH, George P., a Representative from Cali- Hotel disease contracted in Washington, D.C., during the fornia; born in Mariposa, Mariposa County, Calif., June 20, inauguration of President Buchanan; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Con- 1955; B.S., California State Polytechnic University, San Luis gresses); interment in the Natchez City Cemetery. Obispo, Calif., 1978; bank executive; business owner; mem- Bibliography: Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck. Life and Cor- ber of the Mariposa County, Calif., planning commission, respondence of John A. Quitman. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Bros., 1982-1986, chair, 1985-1986; member of the Mariposa Coun- 1860; May, Robert E. John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. Baton ty, Calif., board of supervisors, 1988-1992, chair, 1991; un- Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. successful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred Biographies 1777 Third Congress in 1992; elected as a Republican to the One versity of Buffalo Law School in 1934; athletic coach of East Hundred Fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Jan- High School, Buffalo, N.Y., 1929-1934; was admitted to the uary 3, 1995-present). bar in 1935 and commenced the practice of law in Buffalo, N.Y.; village attorney of Sloan, N.Y., 1938-1940; served as RADCLIFFE, Amos Henry, a Representative from New a corporal in the United States Army 1943-1945; member Jersey; born in Paterson, N.J., January 16, 1870; attended of the State senate from 1945 to December 31, 1950; elected the public schools of Paterson; was graduated from the New as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the three suc- York Trade School; blacksmith and ornamental and struc- ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); was tural iron worker; sergeant in the National Guard of New not a candidate for renomination in 1958; died in Buffalo, Jersey 1888-1893; in 1896 became associated with his fa- N.Y., September 7, 1959; interment in St. Stanislaus Ceme- ther’s firm and in 1907 was made secretary of James Rad- tery. cliffe & Sons Co., a structural iron manufacturing company; member of the State house of assembly 1907-1912; delegate RAGON, Heartsill, a Representative from Arkansas; to the Republican State conventions in 1910, 1911, and 1912; born in Dublin, Logan County, Ark., March 20, 1885; at- sheriff of Passaic County 1912-1915; fish and game commis- tended the common schools, the Clarksville High School, sioner 1914-1919; mayor of Paterson 1916-1919; elected as the College of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Ark., and the Univer- a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- sity of Arkansas at Fayetteville; was graduated from the gresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful law department of Washington and Lee University, Lex- candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Con- ington, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced gress; resumed active interests in Radcliffe & Sons Company practice in Clarksville, Ark.; member of the State house and was treasurer at the time of his death; founder and of representatives 1911-1913; district attorney 1916-1920; a former president of the Franklin Trust Company, of secretary of the Democratic State convention in 1918; chair- Paterson, and served as chairman of the board; in 1925 man of the Democratic State convention in 1920; delegate became a member of the Board of Standards and Appeals, to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; elected as Paterson, N.J.; died in Baleville, N.J., on December 29, 1950; a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.