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John Raymond Bathe (b. 1945) —
also known as John R. Bathe —
of Fullerton, Orange
County, Calif.; La Habra, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
8, 1945.
Son of Ernest Otto Bathe and Lora Gertrude Bathe.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1972.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 1973.
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Son of Stanley Boucher and Virginia Boucher.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record
label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene
"harmful matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken
word performer; on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted
and injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Frederick Elliott Biermann (1884-1968) —
also known as Fred Biermann —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., March 20,
1884.
Son of E. E. Biermann and Martha Biermann.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1928,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1933-39; defeated, 1938.
Agnostic. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., July 1,
1968 (age 84 years, 103
days); body
donated to Iowa Medical School.
Interment at Phelps
Cemetery, Decorah, Iowa.
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Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) —
also known as Harry Browne —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nassau
County, N.Y., June 17,
1933.
Son of Edson Bradford Browne and Cecil Margaret (Davis) Browne.
Libertarian. Writer; investment
advisor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000; radio show
host, 2003.
Agnostic.
Died, of Lou
Gehrig's disease, in Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., March 1,
2006 (age 72 years, 257
days).
Interment at Mt.
Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C.
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Brian Arthur Christeson (b. 1946) —
also known as Brian Christeson —
of Alexandria, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in a hospital
at Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore., February
10, 1946.
Libertarian. Candidate for New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1994, 1996; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 2000.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 2006.
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Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900) —
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., August
17, 1818.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1859-63; justice of
Idaho territorial supreme court, 1863; Governor of
Montana Territory, 1864-65.
Agnostic.
Died in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, July 19,
1900 (age 81 years, 336
days).
Interment at Tallmadge
Cemetery, Tallmadge, Ohio.
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Larry Flynt (b. 1942) —
also known as "The King of Smut" —
of California.
Born in Salyersville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity
and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a
sniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed
from the waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Son of David Julius and Elizabeth (Zamost) Julius.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books";
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried and
convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days); possible suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death accidental.
Burial
location unknown.
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Job Harriman (1861-1925) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Clinton
County, Ind., January
15, 1861.
Minister;
lawyer;
Socialist Labor candidate for Governor of
California, 1898; Socialist candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1900; Socialist candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1911, 1913.
Christian;
later Agnostic.
Founder, in 1914, of the Llano de Rio utopian community in Antelope
Valley, Calif. (relocated to Louisiana in 1918).
Died, from tuberculosis,
in Sierra Madre, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
26, 1925 (age 64 years, 284
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) —
also known as Robert G. Ingersoll; "The Great
Agnostic"; "American Infidel";
"Impious Pope Bob" —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in Dresden, Yates
County, N.Y., August
11, 1833.
Son of Rev. John Ingersoll (1792-1759) and Mary (Livingston)
Ingersoll (died 1835).
Lawyer;
Democratic candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives 5th District, 1860; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; charged
about 1864 with assault and
battery against the Peoria County Sheriff; tried;
the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case was
dismissed before a new trial could be held; Illinois
state attorney general, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1876;
made the nominating speech which dubbed James
G. Blaine as "The Plumed Knight".
Agnostic.
Died in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 21,
1899 (age 65 years, 344
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue at Glen
Oak Park, Peoria, Ill.
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Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) —
also known as "Dr. Death" —
Born in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., May 26,
1928.
Son of Levon Kevorkian.
Physician;
euthanasia advocate whose campaign of assisted
suicides of terminally ill patients in 1989-99 brought him
national publicity; his medical license was revoked
in 1990; he faced numerous murder
charges
starting in 1993; acquitted by juries several times; convicted
in 1999 and sentenced
to 10 to 25 years in prison;
released in 2007; Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 2008.
Atheist. Armenian
ancestry.
Died, from kidney and
heart
problems, in Beaumont Hospital,
Royal Oak, Oakland
County, Mich., June 3,
2011 (age 83 years, 8
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Cemetery, Troy, Mich.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Son of Augustus Sidney Lovett and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett.
University
professor; novelist;
playwright;
secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Monica Moorehead (b. 1952) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., 1952.
School
teacher; Workers World candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000.
Female.
Atheist. African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Clarence Horatio Pitkin (b. 1849) —
also known as Clarence H. Pitkin —
of Berlin, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in East Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt., August
26, 1849.
Son of Perley Peabody Pitkin (1826-1891) and Caroline Matilda
(Templeton) Pitkin (1827-1883).
Democrat. Lawyer; Washington
County State's Attorney, 1880-82; U.S.
Attorney for Vermont, 1887-89.
Rationalist.
Burial
location unknown.
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Irvin Hamilton Sutley, Jr. (b. 1944) —
also known as Irv Sutley —
of Mill Valley, Marin
County, Calif.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Marin
County, Calif., June 9,
1944.
Son of Irvin Hamilton Sutley (1917-1998) and Willetta Rosine (West)
Sutley (1919-2002).
California Peace and Freedom Party state chair, 1970-72; Peace and
Freedom candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1972;
Peace and Freedom candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1978; Peace and
Freedom candidate for California
state senate 4th District, 1990, 1993; Peace and Freedom
candidate for California
state assembly 7th District, 1992, 1994, 1998.
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. (b. 1925) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Son of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina
Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1960; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
novelist,
playwright,
essayist,
screenwriter,
appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Still living as of 2009.
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