Politics

1239
1240		 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford was the High Sheriff of Kent.
1285 Eleanor of Castile was the High Sheriff of Somerset.
1418 Hugh Courtenay was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1481 Thomas Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1486 Thomas Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1511 Roger Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1522
1523		 Richard Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall. John Mundy was the Lord Mayor of London.
1527 Richard Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1529 Richard Grenville was a Member of Parliament from Cornwall.
1533 Richard Grenville was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1545
1547		 Richard Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall. Roger Prideaux was a Member of Parliament from Devon.
1572 Richard Drake was a Member of Parliament from Northumberland.
1578 Roger Prideaux was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1584 Richard Drake was a Member of Parliament from Norfolk.
1597 Bernard Grenville was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1605 John Drake was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1614
1629		 Francis Drake, 1st Baronet and John Drake were Members of Parliament from Devon. Bevil Grenville was a Member of Parliament from Cornwall.
1633 Francis Drake, 1st Baronet was the High Sheriff of Devon.
1640
1659		 Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet was the High Sheriff of Devon and a Member of Parliament from Devon. Bevil Grenville was a Member of Parliament from Cornwall. Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament from Dorset.
1660
1662		 Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet and Bernard Granville were Members of Parliament from Cornwall. John Drake, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament from Dorset and the High Sheriff of Devon. Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet was a Member of Parliament from Devon.
1672
1695		 Richard Betts was the High Sheriff of York Shire. Bernard Granville and Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet were Members of Parliament from Cornwall. John Platt and Mark Sension were Deputies in the Connecticut legislature. Edmund Prideaux, 2nd Baronet was a Member of Parliament from Somerset. John Woodruff was the High Sheriff of Essex (Union) County, New Jersey.
1703
1752		 Bevil Granville was the Governor of Barbados. Eliphalet Lockwood, James Lockwood, and Joseph Platt were Representatives in the Connecticut legislature. Wrightson Mundy was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire. Johnson Vivian was the Mayor of Truro.
1754 Johnson Vivian was the Mayor of Truro.
1772 James Vivian was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1778
1858		 Mahlon Betts was a Representative in the Delaware legislature and a Senator in the Delaware legislature. Samuel Fowler I was a Representative from New Jersey in Congress. Overton Smith Gildersleeve was the Mayor of Kingston, Ontario. John Isaac Guion was the Governor of Mississippi. Samuel Drake Lockwood was a Justice of the Illinois supreme court. Lewis McKune was a Senator in the Minnesota legislature. Edward Miller Mundy was a Member of Parliament from Derbyshire. Francis Mundy was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire and a Member of Parliament from Derbyshire. George Mundy was a Member of Parliament from Yorkshire. William Mundy was the High Sheriff of Derbyshire and a Member of Parliament from Derbyshire. Jonas Platt was a Representative from New York in Congress. Nehemiah Platt was a Senator in the New York legislature. Stephen St. John was a Representative in the Connecticut legislature. Thomas Richard Whitney was a Senator in the New York legislature and a Representative from New York in Congress. John Vivian was the High Sheriff of Cornwall.
1859
1865		 Overton Smith Gildersleeve was the Mayor of Kingston, Ontario. William Mundy was a Member of Parliament from Derbyshire.
1866
1867		 John Shurman Fowler was the Mayor of Auburn, New York. Moss Kent Platt was a Senator in the New York legislature.
1873
1911		 John Robert Comfort was a Representative in the Montana territorial legislature. Samuel Fowler III was a Representative from New Jersey in Congress. Charles Fuller Gildersleeve was the Mayor of Kingston, Ontario. Henry Alger Gildersleeve was a Justice of the New York supreme court. Belva Ann Lockwood ran for president in two consecutive elections. Daniel Newton Lockwood was a Representative from New York in Congress. George Earl Maney was a Senator in the Tennessee legislature. Robert Hayworth McKune was the Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Orville Hitchcock Platt was a Senator from Connecticut in Congress. Thomas Collier Platt was a Representative from New York in Congress and a Senator from New York in Congress. John Pierce St. John was the Governor of Kansas.
1917
1924		 George William Fowler was a Senator from New Brunswick in Parliament. Walter Guion was a Senator from Louisiana in Congress.
1939
1948		 Virginia Gildersleeve was a Delegate to the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood was a Representative in the Arizona legislature.
1961
1975		 Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood was a Justice of the Arizona supreme court.
1978 Freddie Woodruff joined the Central Intelligence Agency.
1993 Freddie Woodruff was killed.