Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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George Washington Aldridge (1856-1922) —
also known as George W. Aldridge; "The Boss";
"The Big Fellow" —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Michigan City, LaPorte
County, Ind., December
28, 1856.
Republican. Manufacturer;
mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1894; New York State Superintendent of Public
Works, 1895-99; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 32nd District, 1910; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died suddenly, from a heart
attack or stroke,
while golfing at the Biltmore Country Club, near Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 13,
1922 (age 65 years, 167
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Oliver Ames Spencer (1860-1923) —
also known as Oliver A. Spencer —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
8, 1860.
Banker;
Consular
Agent for Italy in Seattle,
Wash., 1890-1903.
Just after finishing a game of golf, he collapsed and died,
from heart
disease or apoplexy,
in Seattle, King
County, Wash., September
8, 1923 (age 63 years, 212
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Herbert F. Lemp (1884-1927) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, June 24,
1884.
Mayor
of Boise, Idaho, 1927; died in office 1927.
Injured in a polo accident, and died a few years later, Boise,
Ada
County, Idaho, May 6,
1927 (age 42 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Boise |
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Thomas F. Larkin (c.1872-1928) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1872.
Democrat. Contractor;
business partner of James
J. Lynch; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1928; died in office 1928; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928.
Died, of apoplexy,
while playing golf, at the 13th tee of the Briarcliff Lodge
golf course, in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 25,
1928 (age about 56
years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Charles Blakeslee Law (1872-1929) —
also known as Charles B. Law —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hannibal, Oswego
County, N.Y., February
5, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; state court judge in New York, 1916; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Union
League.
Died while swimming (presumably drowned)
at his summer home on Kattskill Bay, near Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., September
15, 1929 (age 57 years, 222
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Jordan, N.Y.
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Edward Livingston Robertson (1876-1937) —
also known as Edward L. Robertson —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
23, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 5th District, 1935-37; died in office 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Chi Phi.
Attended a Cornell v. Syracuse football game, and died shortly
afterwards, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in his car, on
the Cornell University campus, in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., October
16, 1937 (age 61 years, 23
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Edward
Livingston |
| | | Relatives: Son of Charles Robertson and
Rebecca (Duane) Robertson; married to Elizabeth
Comstock. |
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Clarence A. Dahle (1894-1949) —
also known as "Whiff" —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
22, 1894.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 57, 1933-36; member of
Minnesota
state senate 57th District, 1937-49; died in office 1949.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Freemasons;
Elks.
During a fishing
trip, he drowned
while swimming off an island in Lake Kabetogama, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 26,
1949 (age 55 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Lane Anderson (1907-1951) —
of Marion, Smyth
County, Va.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, August
16, 1907.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor of
Marion, Va., 1948-51; died in office 1951.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died, from a heart
attack while golfing, in Marion, Smyth
County, Va., June 7,
1951 (age 43 years, 295
days).
Interment at Rose Lawn Cemetery, Marion, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Sherwood Anderson and Cornelia Pratt (Lane) Anderson; married to
Mary Chryst. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Julian Power Alexander (1887-1953) —
also known as Julian P. Alexander —
of Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., December
7, 1887.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, 1919-21;
circuit judge in Mississippi, 1934-39; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1941-53; died in office 1953.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
American Bar
Association; Newcomen
Society; Kappa
Sigma.
Died, from coronary
thrombosis, while a spectator at the Sugar Bowl football
game, in Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
1, 1953 (age 65 years, 25
days).
Interment at Cedarlawn
Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
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Van Heflin (1910-1971) —
also known as Emmett Evan Heflin Jr. —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Walters, Cotton
County, Okla., December
13, 1910.
Democrat. Actor;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1948.
Irish
and French
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Suffered a heart
attack while swimming, and died six weeks later, in Cedars
of Lebanon Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 23,
1971 (age 60 years, 222
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Fulton Freeman (1915-1974) —
of Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 17,
1915.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Mexico City, 1939; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1961-64; Mexico, 1964-69.
Suffered heart
attack while playing golf, and died, in Carmel, Monterey
County, Calif., December
14, 1974 (age 59 years, 211
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Renz L. Jennings (1899-1983) —
also known as Lorenzo Jennings —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Taylor, Navajo
County, Ariz., August
5, 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1931-32; Maricopa
County Attorney, 1933-34; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1934, 1964; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arizona, 1942; superior court judge in
Arizona, 1949-60; justice of
Arizona state supreme court, 1960-64; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arizona, 1960,
1968
(alternate).
Mormon.
Member, Eagles;
Moose;
Woodmen
of the World.
Suffered a heart
attack in his swimming pool, and drowned,
in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
11, 1983 (age 83 years, 190
days).
Interment at Phoenix Memorial Park & Mortuary, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Townsend F. Beaman (1906-1983) —
also known as Towny Beaman —
of Summit Township, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Vandercook Lake, Jackson
County, Mich., May 12,
1906.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1974.
Methodist.
Suffered a heart
attack while golfing at the Country Club of Jackson, and
died soon after, at Foote Hospital
West, Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., June 12,
1983 (age 77 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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James Benjamin Payton (1943-1994) —
also known as James Payton —
of Sylacauga, Talladega
County, Ala.
Born June 12,
1943.
Mayor
of Sylacauga, Ala., 1984-94; died in office 1994.
Drowned
while swimming to retrieve a radio-controlled miniature boat,
in Lake Howard, Sylacauga, Talladega
County, Ala., July 28,
1994 (age 51 years, 46
days).
Interment at Fort Williams Cemetery, Sylacauga, Ala.
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William Austin Meehan (1924-1994) —
also known as Billy Meehan —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
4, 1924.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1956;
general counsel and Republican political boss of Philadelphia,
1961-94.
Died, from heart
disease, while playing golf in Royersford, Montgomery
County, Pa., September
13, 1994 (age 69 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Angier Biddle Duke (1915-1995) —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1915.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1952-53; Spain, 1965-68; Denmark, 1968-69; Morocco, 1979-81.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Chancellor
of Southampton College.
Hit by a car
while rollerblading, and died as a result, in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
29, 1995 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Entombed at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Pamela Harriman (1920-1997) —
also known as Pamela Beryl Digby; Pamela Churchill;
Pamela Hayward —
Born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England,
March
20, 1920.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1993-97, died in office 1997.
Female.
Catholic.
Suffered a stroke
while swimming in the pool at the Paris Ritz Hotel,
and died at the American Hospital,
near Paris, France,
February
5, 1997 (age 76 years, 322
days).
Interment at Arden
Farm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Edward Kenelm Digby and Constance Pamela Alice (Bruce)
Digby; married, September
27, 1971, to William
Averell Harriman; married, October
4, 1939, to Randolph Churchill (son of Winston Churchill);
married, May 4,
1960, to Leland Hayward (grandson of Monroe
Leland Hayward). |
| | | Political families: Whitney-Nye-Lincoln-Hay
family of Massachusetts; Harriman
family of Arden, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Pamela Harriman: Sally
Bedell Smith, Reflected
Glory : The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman |
| | | Critical books about Pamela Harriman:
Christopher Ogden, Life
of the Party : The Biography of Pamela Digby
Churchill — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, The
Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print |
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Sonny Bono (1935-1998) —
also known as Salvatore Philip Bono; Sonny Christie;
Ronny Sommers; Prince Carter —
of Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
16, 1935.
Republican. Songwriter,
actor,
member of the Sonny & Cher singing and
comedy
duo;; restaurant
owner; mayor
of Palm Springs, Calif., 1988-92; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1992; U.S.
Representative from California 44th District, 1995-98; died in
office 1998.
Catholic
or Scientologist.
Italian
ancestry.
Killed in a skiing accident, South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado
County, Calif., January
5, 1998 (age 62 years, 323
days).
Interment at Desert
Memorial Park, Cathedral City, Calif.
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Marshall Green (1916-1998) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., January
27, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1961-63; U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, 1965-69; Australia, 1973-75; Nauru, 1974-75.
Suffered a heart
attack while playing golf, and died soon after at Suburban
Hospital,
Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., June 6,
1998 (age 82 years, 130
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jerry Thomas Twiggs (1933-2000) —
also known as Jerry Twiggs —
of Idaho.
Born in Thomas, Bingham
County, Idaho, March
25, 1933.
Farmer;
member of Idaho
state senate, 1985-2000; died in office 2000.
Mormon.
Member, Lions.
Died of a heart
attack while jogging, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, January
10, 2000 (age 66 years, 291
days).
Interment at Riverside-Thomas
Cemetery, Blackfoot, Idaho.
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Richard Nevins (1921-2001) —
also known as Dick Nevins —
of Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
21, 1921.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Died, in a bodysurfing accident, on the beach at Oceanside, San Diego
County, Calif., July 29,
2001 (age 80 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Laurence Gadola (1933-2003) —
also known as Thomas L. Gadola —
of Grand Blanc, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born January
6, 1933.
Lawyer;
probate judge in Michigan, 1977-2003.
Died while attending a University of Michigan football game,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., September
27, 2003 (age 70 years, 264
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Grand Blanc, Mich.
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Dolores Dee Bielecki (1933-2006) —
also known as Dee Bielecki; Rose Bielecki —
of Oconee
County, S.C.
Born March
29, 1933.
Democrat. School
teacher; college
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 2000.
Female.
At a charity golf tournament, she fell,
struck her head, was hospitalized,
and died from the injury six weeks later, in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., July 8,
2006 (age 73 years, 101
days).
Burial location unknown.
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