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The Political Graveyard
by Elonka at 2:45 pm EDT, Apr 29, 2005

] The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S.
] Political Biography,
]
] or,
]
] The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are
] Buried

I was doing genealogical research, and ran across this site. Sure enough, it listed my great-uncle Alfred Niezychowski, who was a (defeated) Democratic candidate from Michigan for the U.S. House of Representatives. 1932, 1st District.

I'd heard that he, or possibly my great-grandfather Edward Werner, had pulled strings with (Republican) Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan, to get some war-orphaned children from Poland, along with their Auschwitz-survivor aunt, into the United States. The family stories which I've heard, say that Senator Ferguson got a rider added to a bill somewhere, to allow for the children to immigrate.

I'd very much like to see the text of that bill.

Why am I so interested? One of those refugee children was my father.


 
 
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