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Meredith Pinxton Snyder (1859-1937) —
also known as Meredith P. Snyder; Pinky
Snyder —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., October
22, 1859.
Democrat. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1896-98, 1900-04, 1919-21.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died of bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 7,
1937 (age 77 years, 167
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Wilson Bell (1897-1947) —
of Washington
County, Mo.; Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Potosi, Washington
County, Mo., May 24,
1897.
Son of Henry Bell and Mamie (Crane) Bell.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Missouri
state treasurer, 1941-45; secretary of
state of Missouri, 1945-47; died in office 1947.
Died, from metastasis of hydronephroma (renal cell carcinoma,
i.e., kidney cancer), in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., May 20,
1947 (age 49 years, 361
days).
Interment somewhere
in Potosi, Mo.
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Lewis G. Christman (1888-1979) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Archbold, Fulton
County, Ohio, March 10,
1888.
Son of Philip D. Christman and Rachel (Sprow) Christman.
Republican. Lawyer; business
executive; banker;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 1st
District, 1945-54; member of Michigan
state senate 33rd District, 1955-60; candidate in primary for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from 33rd Senatorial
District, 1961.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Exchange
Club.
Died, from complications of bladder cancer, in the Huron View
Lodge nursing
home, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 29,
1979 (age 91 years, 111
days).
Interment at Washtenong
Memorial Park, Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw County, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Arietta O. VanNess. |
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Meade Henry Esposito (1909-1993) —
also known as Meade H. Esposito; Amadeo Henry
Esposito —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
28, 1909.
Son of Felicia Esposito.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
vice-president, Lafayette National Bank, 1965;
insurance
broker; leader of
Kings County Democratic Party, 1969-83.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Indicted
in 1987 on federal charges
that he had given bribes
to U.S. Rep. Mario
Biaggi in in return for influence
on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair
company; convicted
on September 22, 1987 of giving an illegal
gratuity; fined
$500,000; indicted
in 1988 on bribery
and tax
charges,
but the case was dismissed due to his age and poor health.
Died, from renal
failure caused by a heart
attack, while suffering from lung
cancer and bladder cancer, in North Shore University Hospital,
Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
3, 1993 (age 83 years, 249
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Anne De Cunzo. |
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Albert Shanker (1928-1997) —
of Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
14, 1928.
Son of Morris Shanker and Mamie Shanker.
Democrat. School
teacher; president,
American Federation of Teachers, 1974-97; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984
(speaker),
1988,
1996.
Jewish.
Russian
ancestry. Member, American
Federation of Teachers.
Died, of complications from bladder cancer, at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 1997 (age 68 years, 161
days).
Interment at King David Cemetery, Putnam Valley, N.Y.
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Joe Serna, Jr. (c.1939-1999) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif., about 1939.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; college
professor; mayor
of Sacramento, Calif., 1993-99; died in office 1999; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1996.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died of kidney cancer and complications of diabetes,
in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
7, 1999 (age about 60
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Biagio DiLieto (1922-1999) —
also known as Ben DiLieto —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born November
25, 1922.
Democrat. Mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1979-89.
Died of lung
and bladder cancer, at Connecticut Hospice,
Branford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
8, 1999 (age 76 years, 348
days).
Interment at St.
Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Conn.
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Francis Xavier McCloskey (1939-2003) —
also known as Frank McCloskey —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 12,
1939.
Democrat. Mayor
of Bloomington, Ind., 1972-82; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1972;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1983-85, 1985-95;
defeated, 1970, 1994.
Catholic.
Died, of bladder cancer, November
2, 2003 (age 64 years, 143
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) —
also known as Warren Christopher; "The
Cardinal" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Scranton, Bowman
County, N.Dak., October
27, 1925.
Son of Ernest William Christopher and Catharine (Lemen) Christopher.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputy
U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1993-97.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
Died, from kidney and bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 18,
2011 (age 85 years, 142
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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