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Norman Mark Aaronson (b. 1946) —
also known as Norman M. Aaronson —
of Chester, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., October
7, 1946.
Son of Isadore Aaronson and Betty (Brody) Aaronson.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1972.
Jewish.
Member, Common Cause; League of Women
Voters.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Married 1968
to Carol Cutler. |
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Merry Baker (b. 1937) —
also known as Merry Smith —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
24, 1937.
Daughter of Rudie Smith and Thelma Smith.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1972.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, League
of Women Voters; Common Cause.
Still living as of 1973.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Oxford, England.
Born in Longmeadow, Hampden
County, Mass., June 17,
1919.
Son of Kingman Brewster and Florence Foster (Besse) Brewster.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
professor; President
of Yale University, 1963-77; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1977-81.
Member, Common Cause.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, England,
November
8, 1988 (age 69 years, 144
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Winston Perry Bullard (1942-1998) —
also known as Perry Bullard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, September
2, 1942.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; member of
Michigan
state house of representatives 53rd District, 1973-92.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Common Cause.
Died in Canton, Wayne
County, Mich., October
15, 1998 (age 56 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Renee Vera Cafiero (b. 1943) —
also known as Renee Vera Pachter —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
3, 1943.
Daughter of Henry M. Pachter and Hedwig (Rösler) Pachter.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1972.
Female.
Deist.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Common Cause; Lesbian.
Still living as of 1993.
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Relatives:
Married 1961
to Arthur D. Cafiero (divorced). |
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Milton Robert Carr (b. 1943) —
also known as Bob Carr —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Janesville, Rock
County, Wis., March 27,
1943.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1975-81, 1983-95 (6th District
1975-81, 1983-93, 8th District 1993-95); defeated, 1972, 1980;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1980;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1994.
Baptist.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Common Cause; NAACP.
Still living as of 2009.
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Archibald Cox (1912-2004) —
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., May 17,
1912.
Son of Archibald Cox and Frances (Perkins) Cox.
Lawyer;
law
professor; U.S.
Solicitor General, 1961-65; special prosecutor in Watergate
scandal, 1973.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Common Cause.
Died in Brooksville, Hancock
County, Maine, May 29,
2004 (age 92 years, 12
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Anthony Scully Earl (b. 1936) —
also known as Anthony S. Earl —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., April 12,
1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1969-74; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1983-87; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1988.
Member, Common Cause.
Still living as of 2009.
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John William Gardner (1912-2002) —
also known as John W. Gardner —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
8, 1912.
Son of William Gardner and Marie Flora Gardner.
Republican. University
professor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Sigma
Xi; Kappa
Delta Pi; American
Psychological Association; Common Cause.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder of Common Cause in 1970.
Died, from complications of prostate
cancer, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
16, 2002 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joan Anderson Growe (b. 1935) —
of Minnesota.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., September
28, 1935.
Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1973-74; secretary of
state of Minnesota, 1975-.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women; Common Cause; National
Organization for Women; Zonta.
Still living as of 1983.
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Victoria P. Guillebeau —
of Oregon.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1996, 1996.
Female.
Member, Common Cause; Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom.
Still living as of 1996.
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Floyd Kirk Haskell (1916-1998) —
also known as Floyd K. Haskell —
of Colorado.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., February
7, 1916.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1965-69; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1973-79; defeated, 1978.
Member, Common Cause.
Died of pneumonia,
a complication of a brain hemorrhage which resulted from a fall on an
icy sidewalk, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1998 (age 82 years, 199
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward J. Healey (1924-2000) —
of Florida.
Born in Elmhurst, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., July 26,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1974-80, 1982-84, 1986-2000 (81st
District 1974-80, 86th District 1982-84, 1986-2000); defeated, 1972
(81st District), 1980 (81st District), 1984 (86th District); died in
office 2000.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Association of Retired Persons; Audubon
Society; American
Legion; Sierra
Club; Urban
League; Common Cause.
While attending a primary victory rally
for Al Gore, suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage, and died the next day at a hospital
at Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March 15,
2000 (age 75 years, 233
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter D. Hoagland (1941-2007) —
of Nebraska.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., November
17, 1941.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer; law
clerk for U.S. District Judge Oliver
Gasch, 1969-70; member of Nebraska
unicameral legislature 6th District, 1979-86; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 2nd District, 1989-95; defeated,
1994.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Common Cause.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Washington,
D.C., October
30, 2007 (age 65 years, 347
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Francis Kelly (b. 1949) —
also known as John F. Kelly —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Woods, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
6, 1949.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate in primary for Michigan
state house of representatives 11th District, 1976; member of Michigan
state senate 1st District, 1979-94; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 14th District, 1980, 1992; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1994; candidate for Wayne State
University board of governors, 1998; Presidential Elector for
Michigan, 2000.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Common Cause; Jaycees.
Still living as of 2000.
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Leslie Ferris Lokken (b. 1926) —
also known as Leslie Lokken —
of Okemos, Ingham
County, Mich.; East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Colfax, Whitman
County, Wash., April 3,
1926.
Daughter of Robert Donald Ferris and Leslie (Smith) Ferris.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1972;
member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1973.
Female.
Unitarian.
Member, Theta
Sigma Phi; Common Cause; National
Organization for Women; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1997.
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Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919-2001) —
also known as L. Richardson Preyer —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., January
11, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1956; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina,
1961-63; candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from North Carolina, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1969-81.
Presbyterian.
Member, Common Cause.
The federal building in Greensboro, N.C. was named for him in 1988.
Died, of cancer, in
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital,
Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., April 3,
2001 (age 82 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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Douglas Ross (b. 1942) —
also known as Doug Ross —
of Oak Park, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 15,
1942.
Democrat. Economist;
legislative aide to U.S. Rep. Neil
Staebler, 1963; to U.S. Rep. John
Dingell, 1965; to U.S. Sen. Joseph
Tydings, 1969-70; founder, Michigan Citizens Lobby, 1973;
executive director, Michigan Common Cause, 1975; member of Michigan
state senate 15th District, 1979-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1980;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1982; candidate in
primary for Governor of
Michigan, 1998.
Jewish.
Member, Common Cause.
Still living as of 1998.
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Coleen Seng (b. 1936) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa, February
8, 1936.
Democrat. Mayor of
Lincoln, Neb., 2003-07.
Female.
Member, Rotary;
Common Cause.
Still living as of 2007.
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Fortney Hillman Stark, Jr. (b. 1931) —
also known as Pete Stark —
of Danville, Contra
Costa County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Fremont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
11, 1931.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state senate, 1969; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1972
(alternate), 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1973-2008 (8th District 1973-75,
9th District 1975-93, 13th District 1993-2008).
Unitarian.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Common Cause.
Still living as of 2009.
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James Hugh Joseph Tate (b. 1910) —
also known as James H. J. Tate —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 10,
1910.
Son of James E. Tate.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1940-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960,
1964,
1968,
1972;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1962-72; member of Pennsylvania
Democratic State Committee, 1972-73.
Catholic.
Member, Common Cause; Federal
Bar Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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David James Vostrizansky (b. 1953) —
also known as David J. Vostrizansky —
of Bannister, Gratiot
County, Mich.
Born in St. Johns, Clinton
County, Mich., August
26, 1953.
Son of Joe Vostrizansky and Stephanie (Luznak) Vostrizansky.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1975-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1980.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Common Cause.
Still living as of 1981.
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Richard Zimmer (b. 1944) —
also known as Dick Zimmer —
of Flemington, Hunterdon
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
16, 1944.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1982-87; defeated, 1979; member
of New
Jersey state senate, 1987-91; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 12th District, 1991-97; defeated,
2000; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1996; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Common Cause.
Still living as of 2009.
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