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Ben Hill Brown, Jr. (1914-1989) —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., February
8, 1914.
Son of Ben
Hill Brown and Clara Twitty (Colcock) Brown.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, 1960; U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, 1964.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Kappa
Alpha Order; Pi
Kappa Delta; Sigma Upsilon; Freemasons.
Died in 1989
(age about
75 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Main Coffee (1897-1983) —
also known as John M. Coffee —
of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., January
23, 1897.
Son of William B. Coffee and Anne (Rae) Coffee.
Democrat. Lawyer;
secretary to U.S. Sen. C.
C. Dill, 1923-24; U.S.
Representative from Washington 6th District, 1937-47; defeated,
1946; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Washington, 1940.
Unitarian.
Member, Elks; Eagles; Grange; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Sigma Upsilon.
Died June 3,
1983 (age 86 years, 131
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Puget Sound.
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Samuel James Ervin, Jr. (1896-1985) —
also known as Sam J. Ervin, Jr. —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
27, 1896.
Son of Samuel James Ervin and Laura Theresa (Powe) Ervin.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1923-25, 1931; chair of
Burke County Democratic Party, 1924; member of North Carolina
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1930-37; superior court
judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1946-47; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1948-54; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1956,
1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Historical Association; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Grange; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Order of
Ahepa; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Junior
Order; Newcomen
Society; Sigma Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., April 23,
1985 (age 88 years, 208
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Morganton, N.C.
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Matthew M. Levy (1899-1971) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Belarus),
March
1, 1899.
Son of Aaron Levy and Rachel Levy.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
American Labor candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1941; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1951-71; defeated, 1932
(Socialist), 1943 (American Labor); died in office 1971.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American Civil
Liberties Union; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma Upsilon.
Died, in Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Center, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., September
4, 1971 (age 72 years, 187
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1922
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Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989) —
also known as Claude Pepper —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born near Dudleyville, Chambers
County, Ala., September
8, 1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1936-51; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1960,
1964,
1968;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1963-89 (3rd District 1963-67, 11th
District 1967-73, 14th District 1973-83, 18th District 1983-89); died
in office 1989.
Baptist.
Member, Moose; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis;
American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma Upsilon; Kappa
Alpha Order; United
World Federalists.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1989 (age 88 years, 264
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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