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Hugh Gardner Ackley (1915-1998) —
also known as H. Gardner Ackley —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 30,
1915.
Son of Hugh M. Ackley and Margaret (McKenzie) Ackley.
University
professor; economist; chair, U.S. Council of Economic
Advisors, 1964-68; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1968-69.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Delta Pi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Kappa Phi; Trilateral
Commission; American
Economic Association; American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Huron Woods nursing
home, Superior Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
12, 1998 (age 82 years, 227
days).
Cremated.
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Martha Ann Adelsheim (1915-1994) —
also known as Martha Ann Henderson —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 28,
1915.
Daughter of Stuart Llewellyn Henderson and Gertrude Alcliffe (Mevis)
Henderson.
Democrat. Economist; vice-chair of
Oregon Democratic Party, 1962-64; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1964;
Oregon
Democratic state chair, 1964-66.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters.
Died December
23, 1994 (age 79 years, 178
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Marcus Alexis (b. 1932) —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
26, 1932.
Democrat. Economist; university
professor; member,
Interstate Commerce Commission, 1979-81.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Economic Association.
Still living as of 1994.
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J. Haden Alldredge (1887-1962) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Brooksville, Blount
County, Ala., July 28,
1887.
Son of Patrick Griffin Alldredge and Sophia (Haden) Alldredge.
Democrat. Lawyer;
economist; member,
Interstate Commerce Commission, 1939-55.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., December
5, 1962 (age 75 years, 130
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Griffin Alldredge and Sophia (Haden) Alldredge; married 1907 to Mildred
Chilton (died 1923); married, January
12, 1927, to Adna Eley. |
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Frederick Hobbes Allen (1858-1937) —
also known as Frederick H. Allen —
of Pelham Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, May 30,
1858.
Son of Elisha
Hunt Allen and Mary Harrod (Hobbes) Allen.
Democrat. Lawyer;
economist; village president of Pelham Manor, N.Y., 1904-06;
chair
of Westchester County Democratic Party, 1904-14; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1908,
1920
(alternate); served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Newport Hospital,
Newport, Newport
County, R.I., December
3, 1937 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Everett Anderson (1869-1940) —
also known as George E. Anderson —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., August
20, 1869.
Son of Orson B. Anderson and Harriet V. (Smith) Anderson.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; economist; U.S. Consul in Hangchow, 1904-05; Amoy, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, 1906-10; Hong Kong, 1910-20; Rotterdam, 1920-24.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 17,
1940 (age 70 years, 210
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Marianna, Fla.
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Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) —
also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley
Hills" —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1875.
Son of Nathaniel Babson (1850-1927) and Ellen (Stearns) Babson
(1850-1929).
Statistician;
economist; Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1940.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Author
of many books on business and religion; famed for predicting the 1929
stock market crash; founder
of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber
College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla.,
and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan.
Died in Mountain Lake, Polk
County, Fla., March 5,
1967 (age 91 years, 242
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederic Pearson Bartlett (1909-1970) —
also known as Frederic P. Bartlett —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1909.
Son of Frederic Huntington Bartlett and Eleanor Brooks (Pearson)
Bartlett.
Economist; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, 1960-62.
Died, in University of North Carolina Memorial Hospital,
Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., January
10, 1970 (age 60 years, 56
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederic Huntington Bartlett and Eleanor Brooks (Pearson)
Bartlett; married to Gladys Irene Jones; married, May 29,
1963, to Jessie (Hendrick) Hardie. |
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Wilson Thomas Moore Beale, Jr. (1909-1997) —
of Falmouth, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury, Wicomico
County, Md., July 22,
1909.
Son of Wilson Thomas Moore Beale (1876-1959) and Mary Dutton (Harlan)
Beale.
Economist; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, 1965-67.
Died in 1997
(age about
87 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Burke Belknap (1885-1965) —
also known as William B. Belknap —
of Goshen, Oldham
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., April 18,
1885.
Son of Alice Trumbull (Silliman) Belknap (1846-1890) and William
Richardson Belknap (1849-1914).
Democrat. Stock
breeder; economist; college
teacher; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives 59th District, 1924-28, 1934-35;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1933.
Member, American
Economic Association; Zeta
Psi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died September
7, 1965 (age 80 years, 142
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (1895-1971) —
also known as Adolf A. Berle; A. A. Berle —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
29, 1895.
Son of Adolf Augustus Berle (born 1866; clergyman) and Augusta
(Wright) Berle.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
economist; law
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.
Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-46.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a stroke, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 19
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (b. 1940) —
of Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
18, 1940.
Son of Thomas
Hale Boggs, Sr. and Corinne
Claiborne Boggs.
Democrat. Economist; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1970.
Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Delta
Theta Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Clarence A. Boonstra (b. 1914) —
of Michigan.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., January
5, 1914.
Son of James Boonstra and Jennie (Brouwer) Boonstra.
Economist; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1967-69.
Still living as of 1991.
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Relatives: Son
of James Boonstra and Jennie (Brouwer) Boonstra; married, October
27, 1944, to Mildred Sharp Fereira (died); married, August
13, 1966, to Margaret Ellen Beshore. |
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Edgar Bernard Brossard (b. 1889) —
also known as Edgar B. Brossard —
of Utah; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oxford, Bannock
County, Idaho, April 1,
1889.
Son of Amable Alphonse Brossard and Mary Catherine (Hobson) Brossard.
Republican. College
professor; economist; member, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1925-45; chair, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1930.
Mormon.
Member, American
Economic Association; Grange; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur Frank Burns (1904-1987) —
also known as Arthur F. Burns —
Born in Stanyslawow, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine),
April
27, 1904.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist; chairman, Council of
Economic Advisors, 1953-56; chairman, Federal Reserve, 1970-78; U.S.
Ambassador to Germany, 1981-85.
Jewish.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., June 6,
1987 (age 83 years, 40
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Edward Burton (b. 1908) —
also known as John E. Burton —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in North Bloomfield, Trumbull
County, Ohio, March 2,
1908.
Son of Josh Henry Burton and Lena Eudora (Hyde) Burton.
Republican. Economist; New York State Budget Director,
1943-50; chairman, New York State Power Authority, 1950-54
vice-president, Cornell University; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Disciples
of Christ.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Earl Lauer Butz (1909-2008) —
also known as Earl L. Butz —
of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Albion, Noble
County, Ind., July 3,
1909.
Son of Herman Lee Butz and Ada Tillie (Lower) Butz.
Economist; university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76.
Member, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Zeta; Kiwanis.
Resigned
in 1976 following a furor
over a racist
joke. In 1981, he pleaded
guilty to income
tax evasion; sentenced
to five years in prison
(served 30 days) and fined
$10,000.
Died in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., February
2, 2008 (age 98 years, 214
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Ind.
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Louis Calvin Chappell (1910-1991) —
also known as Louis C. Chappell —
of South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich.
Born in Mancelona, Antrim
County, Mich., January
8, 1910.
Son of Harry Louis Chappell and Alta (Coblentz) Chappell.
Republican. School
teacher; economist; lawyer;
candidate in primary for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Van Buren
County, 1961.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Theta Phi; Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich., September
28, 1991 (age 81 years, 263
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Smith Culbertson (1884-1966) —
also known as William S. Culbertson —
of Kansas; Charmian, Franklin
County, Pa.
Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August 5,
1884.
Son of George Culbertson and Jennie (Smith) Culbertson.
Republican. Lawyer;
economist; university
professor; member, U.S.
Tariff Commission, 1921-25; U.S. Minister to Romania, 1925-28; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1928-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Phi Epsilon; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1966
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Francis Darlington, Jr. (1904-1986) —
also known as Charles F. Darlington —
of Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
13, 1904.
Son of Charles Francis Darlington and Letitia Craig (O'Neill)
Darlington.
Democrat. Economist; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; oil
executive; U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, 1961-64.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 11,
1986 (age 81 years, 210
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Shelby Cullom Davis (1909-1994) —
also known as Shelby Davis —
of New York.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., 1909.
Journalist;
economist; investment
banker; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1969-75.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Hobe Sound, Martin
County, Fla., May 29,
1994 (age about 84
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976) —
also known as Paul H. Douglas —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., March 26,
1892.
Son of James Howard Douglas and Annie (Smith) Douglas.
Democrat. University
professor; economist; served in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1949-67; defeated, 1966.
Unitarian
or Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
24, 1976 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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John Thomas Dunlop (1914-2003) —
also known as John T. Dunlop —
Born in Placerville, El Dorado
County, Calif., July 5,
1914.
University
professor; economist; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1975-76.
Died, in Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 2003 (age 89 years, 89
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Dana Durand (1871-1960) —
also known as E. Dana Durand —
of Minnesota; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Romeo, Macomb
County, Mich., October
18, 1871.
Son of Cyrus Y. Durand and Celia (Day) Durand.
Economist; director, U.S. Census, 1909-13; university
professor; member, U.S.
Tariff Commission, 1935-47.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
6, 1960 (age 88 years, 80
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lynn Ramsay Edminster (b. 1893) —
also known as Lynn R. Edminster —
of Illinois; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chillicothe, Peoria
County, Ill., January
2, 1893.
Son of Howard Simmons Edminster and Julia (Jones) Edminster.
University
professor; economist; member, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1942-45.
Member, American
Economic Association; Kappa
Sigma.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Crosby Emery (b. 1872) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, December
21, 1872.
Son of Lucilius
Alonzo Emery and Annie S. (Crosby) Emery.
Economist; university
professor; chairman, U.S. Tariff Board, 1909-13.
Burial
location unknown.
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B. Joseph Fuhrig (b. 1947) —
of Newark, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
9, 1947.
Son of George Hobson Fuhrig and Anne Loretta (Smith) Fuhrig.
Libertarian. Economist; university
professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for Governor of
California, 1986.
Still living as of 1990.
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Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth —
of Tennessee.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Republican. Economist; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1997-2001.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Still living as of 2001.
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James Kenneth Galbraith (born c.1952) —
also known as James K. Galbraith —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born about 1952.
Son of John
Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine (Atwater) Galbraith.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972;
economist; university
professor.
Member, American
Economic Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Son of William Archibald 'Archie' Galbraith and Catherine (Kendall)
Galbraith.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 29,
2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jule Lawrence Goetzman (1912-1956) —
also known as Jule L. Goetzman —
of Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
12, 1912.
Son of George L. Goetzman and Myrtle (Rinehart) Goetzman.
Foreign Service officer; economist; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1937-39; Yokohama, 1939-41; Bilbao, 1942-46.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died July 23,
1956 (age 43 years, 224
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1937
to Charlotte Ehler. |
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William Raymond Green (1856-1947) —
also known as William R. Green —
of Audubon, Audubon
County, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa.
Born in Colchester, New London
County, Conn., November
7, 1856.
Son of Timothy Franklin Green and Sarah Maria (Raymond) Green.
Republican. Lawyer;
economist; district judge in Iowa 15th District, 1894-1911; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1911-28; Judge of
U.S. Court of Claims, 1928-40.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died in Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 11,
1947 (age 90 years, 216
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Hope Harvey (1851-1936) —
also known as William H. Harvey; Coin
Harvey —
of Monte Ne, Benton
County, Ark.
Born near Buffalo, Putnam
County, Va. (now W.Va.), August
16, 1851.
Economist; Liberty candidate for President
of the United States, 1932.
Died in Monte Ne, Benton
County, Ark., February
11, 1936 (age 84 years, 179
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry H. Heimann (1891-1958) —
of Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Aviston, Clinton
County, Ill., September
26, 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer; accountant;
business
executive; economist; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1928,
1932
(alternate); Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1929-31.
Member, Rotary; Union
League.
Died in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
September
12, 1958 (age 66 years, 351
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Leon Henderson (1895-1986) —
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., 1895.
Economist; member,
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1939-41; administrator,
Office of Price Administration, 1941-42.
Died in 1986
(age about
91 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Claude Burton Hutchison (1885-1980) —
also known as Claude B. Hutchison —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo., April 9,
1885.
Son of William Moses Hutchison and Ada (Smith) Hutchison.
Botanist;
agricultural economist; university
professor; mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1955-63.
Member, Alpha
Phi Omega.
Hutchison Hall, at the University of California at Davis, is named for
him.
Died August
25, 1980 (age 95 years, 138
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Byron Lindberg Johnson (1917-2000) —
also known as Byron L. Johnson —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
12, 1917.
Democrat. Economist; university
professor; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1955-56; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1959-61; defeated,
1956, 1960, 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Colorado, 1960,
1968.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Association of University Professors; Phi
Kappa Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Englewood, Arapahoe
County, Colo., January
6, 2000 (age 82 years, 86
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913-2007) —
also known as Philip M. Kaiser —
of New York; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 12,
1913.
Son of Morris Kazas and Temma (Sloven) Kazas.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; economist; U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1961-64; Mauritania, 1961-64; Hungary, 1977-80; Austria, 1980-81.
Ukrainian
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 24,
2007 (age 93 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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David Matthew Kennedy (1905-1996) —
also known as David M. Kennedy —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Randolph, Rich
County, Utah, July 21,
1905.
Son of George Kennedy and Katherine Kennedy.
Economist; banker; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71; U.S. Ambassador to , 1971-73.
Mormon.
Member, American
Economic Association; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, May 1,
1996 (age 90 years, 285
days).
Interment at Randolph
Cemetery, Randolph, Utah.
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William Sterling Byrd Lacy (1910-1979) —
also known as William S. B. Lacy —
of Virginia; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mesa, Mesa
County, Colo., February
5, 1910.
Son of Sterling
Byrd Lacy and Della Margaret (Lumsden) Lacy.
Secretary to U.S. Sen Alva
B. Adams, 1933-34; economist; U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1955.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta.
Died in 1979
(age about
69 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Wellington Laidler (1884-1970) —
also known as Harry W. Laidler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
18, 1884.
Son of William Ebenezer Laidler and Julia (Heary) Laidler.
Socialist. Newspaper
reporter; author;
economist; one of the founders (along with Upton
Sinclair and others) of the League for Industrial Democracy
(originally Intercollegiate Socialist Society); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1920 (3rd District), 1932 (6th
District); candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1923; candidate
for New
York state senate 6th District, 1928; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1930; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1936; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1938.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Chi.
Died July 14,
1970 (age 86 years, 146
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Owen Lane (1914-1974) —
also known as Samuel O. Lane —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Flora, Clay
County, Ill., July 20,
1914.
Son of Volney Dorsey Lane and Catherine Virginia (Todd) Lane.
Economist; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Vienna, 1954-55; Seoul, 1955-57; U.S. Consul General in Guayaquil, 1962; Quito, 1962-66; Hermosillo, 1966.
Member, Sigma
Chi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Beta
Gamma Sigma; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Died July 4,
1974 (age 59 years, 349
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Jett Lauck (b. 1879) —
also known as W. Jett Lauck —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born August 2,
1879.
Democrat. Economist; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from District of Columbia, 1924
(alternate), 1940.
Burial
location unknown.
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Hyrum Rex Lee (1910-2001) —
also known as H. Rex Lee —
of Washington,
D.C.; La Mesa, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Rigby, Jefferson
County, Idaho, April 8,
1910.
Son of Hyrum Lee and Eliza (Farnsworth) Lee.
Democrat. Economist; Governor of
American Samoa, 1961-67, 1977-78; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1968-73.
Protestant.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., July 26,
2001 (age 91 years, 109
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Lee (b. 1901) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1901.
Son of Joseph Lee and Margaret Copley (Cabot) Lee.
Democrat. Economist; candidate for Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1940; candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1941, 1945; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1942.
Unitarian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Southard Little (b. 1918) —
of Ohio.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, July 20,
1918.
Son of Herbert Woodruff Little and Sara Marie (Southard) Little.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Chad, 1974-76.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Still living as of 1991.
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Henry L. Loucks (b. 1846) —
of South Dakota.
Born in Ontario,
May
24, 1846.
Economist; Populist candidate for Governor of
South Dakota, 1890; Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1914, 1924.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin McCammon Martin (1908-2002) —
also known as Edwin M. Martin —
of Ohio; Paris, France.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, May 21,
1908.
Son of Harry Judson Martin and Clara (McCammon) Martin.
Economist; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1964-68.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Audubon
Society; Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 2002 (age 93 years, 236
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lucille Maurer (1922-1996) —
also known as Lucy Maurer; Lucille Shirley
Darvin —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born, in Bushwick Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
21, 1922.
Democrat. Economist; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1967-68; member of
Maryland
state house of delegates, 1969-87; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1970; Maryland
state treasurer, 1987-96; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1988.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League
of Women Voters; National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American
Association of University Women; National
Organization for Women.
Elected to Maryland Women's Hall of
Fame, 1990.
Died of a brain
tumor, in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., June 17,
1996 (age 73 years, 209
days).
Interment at Jewish
Community Cemetery, New Hempstead, N.Y.
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Dana Gardner Munro (1892-1990) —
also known as Dana G. Munro —
of New Jersey.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., July 18,
1892.
Son of Dana Carleton Munro and Alice Gardner (Beecher) Munro.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; economist; Foreign
Service officer; U.S. Consul in Valparaiso, 1920-21; U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1930-32.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1990
(age about
97 years).
Interment somewhere
in Waquoit, Mass.
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Relatives:
Married 1920
to Margaret Bennett Wiley. |
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Charles Lathrop Pack (1857-1937) —
also known as Charles L. Pack —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Lexington, Sanilac
County, Mich., May 7,
1857.
Son of George Willis Pack and Frances (Farman) Pack.
Republican. Forester;
president, American Forestry
Association, 1916-20; economist; director, Seaboard National
Bank,
New York; founder, Cleveland Trust Co.;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1924.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Beta
Theta Pi; American
Forestry Association.
Died June 14,
1937 (age 80 years, 38
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1886
to Alice Gertrude Hatch. |
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Luther Felix Renee (b. 1948) —
also known as Luther F. Renee —
of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin
Islands.
Born in St.
Lucia, October
28, 1948.
School
teacher; economist; member of Virgin
Islands legislature from St. Croix, 2003-; defeated
(Independent), 2000.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Roland Roger Renne (1905-1989) —
also known as Roland Renne —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Greenwich, Cumberland
County, N.J., December
12, 1905.
Son of Fred Christian Renne and Caroline Augusta (Young) Renne.
Economist; college
professor; president,
Montana State College, Bozeman, 1943-64; candidate for Governor of
Montana, 1964.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
Member, Rotary; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta.
The Renne Library at Montana State University is named for
him.
Died August
30, 1989 (age 83 years, 261
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner;
lawyer;
went to
the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist; writer;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Robert Edward Rubin (b. 1938) —
also known as Robert Rubin —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August
29, 1938.
Son of Alexander Rubin and Sylvia (Seiderman) Rubin.
Lawyer;
economist; investment
banker; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-99.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Antoinette C. Samuels —
also known as Antoinette Chautemps —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Daughter of Camille Chautemps (1885-1963; Premier of France).
Democrat. Economist; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1984.
Female.
Still living as of 1984.
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Lewis William Seidman (b. 1921) —
also known as L. William Seidman —
of Michigan; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., April 29,
1921.
Son of Frank E. Seidman and Esther (Lubetsky) Seidman.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; accountant;
lawyer;
economist; candidate for Michigan
state auditor general, 1962; economic advisor to President Gerald
Ford, 1974-76, and to Ronald
Reagan, 1982-84; chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
1985-91; chairman, Resolution Trust Corporation, 1989-91.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Pratt Shultz (b. 1920) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Son of Birl E. Shultz and Margaret Lennox (Pratt) Shultz.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
economist; university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Survived an assassination
attempt in South America, August 1988; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Still living as of 2009.
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Lawrence Henry Summers (b. 1954) —
also known as Lawrence H. Summers; Larry
Summers —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
30, 1954.
Economist; university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1999-2001; president
of Harvard University, 2001-06.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Still living as of 2009.
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Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) —
also known as Frank W. Taussig; "The American
Marshall" —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
28, 1859.
Son of William Taussig and Adele (Wurpel) Taussig.
University
professor; economist; chair, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1917-19.
Member, American
Economic Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
11, 1940 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Henry Junior Taylor (1902-1984) —
also known as Henry J. Taylor —
of Virginia.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
2, 1902.
Son of Henry Noble Taylor and Eileen Louise (O'Hare) Taylor.
Republican. Pulp and
paper industry; trustee, Manhattan Savings Bank;
director, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; author; newspaper
correspondent; economist; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-61.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Loyal
Legion.
Died in 1984
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Noble Taylor and Eileen Louise (O'Hare) Taylor; married, March 2,
1928, to Olivia Fay Kimbro; married, July 3,
1970, to Marion J. E. Richardson. |
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Mark Thornton (b. 1960) —
of Auburn, Lee
County, Ala.
Born in Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y., June 7,
1960.
Libertarian. Economist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1984; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1996; university
professor.
The first
person to win election in Alabama on the Libertarian Party ticket, as
Lee County Constable in 1988.
Still living as of 2002.
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Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) —
also known as Rexford G. Tugwell; "Rex the
Red" —
Born in Sinclairville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 10,
1891.
Son of Charles Henry Tugwell and Dessie (Rexford) Tugwell.
Economist; university
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1941-46.
Member, American
Political Science Association.
Died, in Cottage Hospital,
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., July 21,
1979 (age 88 years, 11
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Henry Tugwell and Dessie (Rexford) Tugwell; married, June 7,
1914, to Florence E. Arnold (divorced 1938); married 1938 to Grace
Foulke. |
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Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) —
also known as Robert C. Weaver —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1907.
Son of Mortimer G. Weaver and Florence (Freeman) Weaver.
Economist; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1962; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-68; first
black cabinet member; president,
Baruch College, 1969; trustee, Mount Sinai Medical
Center.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
The H.U.D. Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. was named for
him in 2000.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1997 (age 89 years, 200
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Zazachilds Westerfield, Jr. (1919-1972) —
also known as Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. —
Born November
15, 1919.
Son of Samuel Zaza Childs Westerfield.
Economist; U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, 1969-72, died in office 1972.
African
ancestry.
Died, from a coronary
thrombosis, in Monrovia, Liberia,
July
19, 1972 (age 52 years, 247
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alan Dupree Wheat (b. 1951) —
also known as Alan D. Wheat —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
16, 1951.
Democrat. Economist; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1977-82; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1983-95; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1994.
Church
of Christ. African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Gary Wolfram (b. 1950) —
of Hillsdale, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Redding, Shasta
County, Calif., November
1, 1950.
Republican. College
professor; economist; candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1998.
Still living as of 1998.
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Chase Going Woodhouse (1890-1984) —
also known as Chase Going; Mrs. E. J.
Woodhouse —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.; Baltic, Sprague, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Victoria, British
Columbia, of American parents, March 3,
1890.
Daughter of Seymour Going and Harriet (Jackson) Going.
Democrat. Economist; college
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1941-43; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1945-47, 1949-51;
defeated, 1946, 1950; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1965.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women; Altrusa;
Pi
Lambda Theta; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
12, 1984 (age 94 years, 284
days).
Cremated.
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Philip Young (1910-1987) —
of New York; Great Falls (unknown
county), Va.
Born in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 9,
1910.
Son of Josephine Sheldon (Edmonds) Young (1870-1935) and Owen
D. Young.
Republican. Economist; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; business
executive; dean of the
Columbia University business school, 1948-53; chair, U.S. Civil Service
Commission, 1953-57; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1957-60.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Arlington Hospital,
Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., January
15, 1987 (age 76 years, 251
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Michael J. Zucchet (b. 1969) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
24, 1969.
Economist; mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 2005; convicted
in federal court on conspiracy, wire fraud and extortion
charges,
2005; the convictions were later overturned.
Still living as of 2005.
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