Richard Carlson (politician)
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Richard Carlson is the current Kansas Secretary of Transportation, a position in which he has served since 2016.
Previously, between 2005 and 2015, he was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 61st district.
He was given a 100% evaluation by the American Conservative Union
Robert Digby, 3rd Baron Digby
Robert Digby, 3rd Baron Digby( 30 April 1654 – 29 December 1677), was an Irish peer and English Member of Parliament.
Digby was the son of Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby, and Mary Gardiner.
In 1661, aged 7, he succeeded his father as third Baron Digby.
Mary did not remarry, and arranged for the education of her children by a clergyman, William Rawlins.
He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 6 November 1670, traveled on the Continent from 1673 to 1676, and received his Master of Arts on 11 July 1676.
When Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke, succeeded to the peerage in 1677 and vacated his seat for Warwick, he supported Digby to succeed him at the ensuing by-election, which occurred in May, without opposition.
Digby was also appointed a commissioner of assessment for Warwickshire.
He was accounted a member of the Country Party, but never took his seat, as he died on 29 December of that year.
Digby was buried at the family estate of Coleshill, Warwickshire, and was succeeded by his younger brother Simon.
Richard Carlson (author)
Richard Carlson( May 16, 1961 – December 13, 2006) was an American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker.
His book," Do n’t Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it ’s all Small Stuff"( 1997), was" USA Today's" bestselling book for two consecutive years.
and spent over 101 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
It was published in 135 countries and translated into Latvian, Polish, Icelandic, Serbian and 26 other languages.
Carlson went on to write 20 books.
Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby
Edward Henry Kenelm Digby, 12th Baron Digby,( 24 July 1924 – 1 April 2018), was a British peer and British Army( Coldstream Guards) officer.
He was the son of the Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, whom he succeeded as Baron Digby in 1964.
He studied at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, and trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He served as an army officer in World War II, Malaya, and the British Army of the Rhine.
As a cadet, he received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant on 15 February 1945, relinquished this commission on 22 May 1946 and received a regular commission in the Coldstream Guards from the same date.
In 1952 he married Dione Sherbrooke, daughter of Rear- Adm.
Robert Sherbrooke.
They had two sons and a daughter.
The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords.
He served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1984 – 1999, and was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1999 New Year Honours.
He died on 1 April 2018 at the age of 93.
Essex Digby
Essex Digby, DD was an English Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Digby came from an eminent family.
He was the son of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire and Lettice FitzGerald, of Geashill, Ireland, granddaughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare.
John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, was his uncle, Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, his brother and Simon Digby his son.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Dean of Cashel from 1661 until 1671 and Bishop of Dromore from his consecration on 27 February 1671 until his death on 12 May 1683.
Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby
Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby (died 6 June 1642), was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Digby was the son of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire, and Lettice FitzGerald, of Geashill, Ireland, granddaughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare.
John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, was his uncle, and Essex Digby, Bishop of Dromore, his brother.
Digby notably served as Governor of King's County in Ireland.
In 1620, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Digby, of Geashill.
He married, firstly, Lady Sarah Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, and Catherine Fenton; this marriage produced a son, Kildare Digby (c. 1627 – 1661).
Digby married secondly, Elizabeth Altham, daughter of Sir James Altham and his second wife, Mary Stapers.
Digby died in 1642 and was succeeded in the barony by his son Kildare.
Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby
Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby( 21 July 1731 – 25 September 1793) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Digby was the younger son of Hon. Edward Digby, son of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby.
His mother was Charlotte Fox, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox.
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, was his uncle and Charles James Fox his cousin.
Digby was elected to the House of Commons for Ludgershall in 1755, a seat he held until 1761, and then represented Wells between 1761 and 1765.
From 1763 to 1765, he was a Lord of the Admiralty.
In 1757 he succeeded his elder brother as the 7th Baron Digby but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to sit in the British House of Lords and did not force him to resign his seat in the House of Commons.
It did however give him ownership of the family seat of Sherborne Castle.
In 1765 Digby was created 1st Baron Digby, of Sherborne in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of Great Britain with remainder to the male issue of his father.
He had then to give up his seat in the Commons and join his peers in the Lords.
From 1771 to 1793 Lord Digby served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset.
In 1790 he was further honoured when he was 1st Viscount Coleshill and 1st Earl Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, with remainder to his heirs male.
Lord Digby married, firstly, Elizabeth Feilding, daughter of Hon. Charles Feilding, in 1763.
They had one son, Hon. Edward Digby( 19 June 1764 – 15 July 1764).
After his first wife's death in 1765 he married, secondly, Mary Knowler, daughter of John Knowler, in 1779.
They had five children: Lord Digby died in September 1793, aged 62, and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son Edward.
The Countess Digby died in 1794.
Edward Digby, 9th Baron Digby
Edward St Vincent Digby, 9th Baron Digby( 21 June 1809 – 16 October 1889), also 3rd Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer.
Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby
Edward Kenelm Digby, 11th Baron Digby, (1 August 1894 – 29 January 1964), also 5th Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer, soldier and politician.
Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby
Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby( c. 1627 – 11 July 1661), was an Irish nobleman.
Kildare was a minor when he succeeded his father, Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, in 1642.
Upon the English Restoration, he sat in the Irish House of Lords in the Parliament of 1661, and was appointed Governor of Kings County, like his father.
However, he died at Dublin in July.
By his wife Mary( d. 23 December 1692), the daughter of Robert Gardiner of London, he had four sons and three daughters:
He was buried at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and his widow and children afterwards lived at the Digby estate of Coleshill, Warwickshire, where she erected a monument to him.

Question: Who died earlier, Richard Carlson (Author) or Robert Digby, 1St Baron Digby?
Answer: Robert Digby, 1St Baron Digby