Converse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Amasa Converse
Amasa Converse (August 21, 1795 – December 9, 1872) was an American Presbyterian minister and senior editor of the ''Christian Observer''. Converse performed the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe to Poe's teenage cousin, Virginia Clemm Poe.
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(1795-1872), American Presbyterian minister and newspaper editor
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Charles Crozat Converse
Charles Crozat Converse (October 7, 1832 – October 18, 1918) was an American Lawyer, attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Hav ...
(1832-1918), American Attorney and composer
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Connie Converse
Elizabeth Eaton Converse (born August 3, 1924, disappeared August 1974), known professionally as Connie Converse, was an American singer-songwriter and musician, active in New York City in the 1950s. Her work is among the earliest known recordin ...
(born 1924), American singer-songwriter
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Florence Converse
Florence Converse (1871–1967) was an American author.
Biography
Florence Converse was born in New Orleans in 1871.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1893 and was a member of the editorial staff of ''The Churchman'' from 1900 to 1908, wh ...
(1871–1967), American author
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Frank Converse
Frank Converse (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor.
Early life
Converse was born in 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1962, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in ...
(born 1938), American actor
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Frederick Converse
Frederick Shepherd Converse (January 5, 1871 – June 8, 1940), was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies.
Life and career
Converse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Edmund Winche ...
(1871–1940), American composer of classical music
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George A. Converse (1844–1909), United States Navy rear admiral
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George L. Converse
George Leroy Converse (June 4, 1827 – March 30, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio, representing three different districts from 1879 to 1885.
Life and career
Born in Georgesvi ...
(1827–1897), American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1879 to 1881
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Harriet Maxwell Converse
Harriet Maxwell Converse (née, Harriet Arnot Maxwell; Seneca clan name, Gayaneshaoh; Seneca tribal name, “Ya-ie-wa-noh, meaning ‘she watches over us.’” (11 January 1836 - 18 November 1903) was an American author of Scottish and Irish he ...
(1836–1903), American author and folklorist
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Julius Converse
Julius Converse (December 27, 1798August 16, 1885) was the 34th governor of Vermont, from 1872 to 1874 and the 17th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1850 to 1852.
Early life and start of political career
Julius Converse was born in Staffor ...
(1798–1885), American politician, Governor of Vermont from 1872 to 1874
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Larry Converse
Larry Converse (born 18 November 1942) is a Democratic politician from Claremont, New Hampshire. He was 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire#District 2, the 1984 Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Represen ...
, American politician, Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2014 to 2016
* Marquis Mills Converse (1861–1931), American founder of the
Converse Rubber Shoe Company
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Peggy Converse
Peggy Converse (April 3, 1905, Oregon City, Oregon – March 2, 2001, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage, film, and television actress whose lengthy career spanned seven decades.
She began acting at the age of 16 in Los Angeles. ...
(1905–2001), American actress
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Philip Converse
Philip Ernest Converse (November 17, 1928 – December 30, 2014) was an American political scientist. He was a professor in political science and sociology at the University of Michigan who conducted research on public opinion, survey research, an ...
(1928-2014), American political scientist
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