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Walter C. Adams, Jr. (b. 1936) —
of Kent, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in Newtown, Bucks
County, Pa., August
22, 1936.
Son of Walter C. Adams and Hazel (Worthington) Adams.
Democrat. Scientist; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio,
1972.
Protestant.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Married 1962
to Nancy L. Baier. |
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Fred Joseph Agnich (1913-2004) —
also known as Fred Agnich —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 19,
1913.
Son of John Agnich and Angeleine (Germaine) Agnich.
Republican. Geophysicist; executive vice-president,
Geophysical Services; vice-president, Texas Instruments
Inc.; director, Texas Mid-Continet Oil and Gas
Association; chair of
Dallas County Republican Party, 1967-79, 1971-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1968,
1972;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1971-82; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1972-76.
Presbyterian.
Died October
28, 2004 (age 91 years, 101
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Anderson (b. 1888) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., October
25, 1888.
Son of Edward Anderson and Maren (Olausen) Anderson.
Political scientist; university
professor; member,
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Member, American
Political Science Association; American
Association of University Professors; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leroy George Augenstein (1928-1969) —
also known as Leroy G. Augenstein —
of Holt, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., March 6,
1928.
Son of Roy H. Augenstein.
Republican. Biophysicist; university
professor; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1967-69; died in office 1969.
Protestant.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Killed when his twin-engine plane crashed
during the landing approach to Beech Airport,
near Charlotte, Eaton
County, Mich., November
8, 1969 (age 41 years, 247
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Carlos Avery (1868-1930) —
of Hutchinson, McLeod
County, Minn.; Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Minooka, Grundy
County, Ill., January
25, 1868.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; naturalist; Minnesota Fish and Game
Commissioner; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1924.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
4, 1930 (age 62 years, 252
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Hutchinson, Minn.
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Louis Henri Aymé (1855-1912) —
also known as Louis H. Aymé —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1855.
Son of Dr. Henry Aymé and Elizabeth Geraldine (Fitzgerald)
Aymé.
Republican. Ethnologist; newspaper
correspondent; U.S. Consul in Mérida, 1880-84; Guadeloupe, 1898-99; Pará, 1903-06; U.S. Consul General in Lisbon, 1906-12, died in office 1912.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Sons
of Veterans.
Died, from "locomotor ataxia" (presumably syphilis),
in Lisbon, Portugal,
May
16, 1912 (age 56 years, 353
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Charles Harry Benedict (b. 1876) —
of Lake Linden, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
24, 1876.
Son of Joseph Benedict and Hannah (Goldsmith) Benedict.
Democrat. Metallurgist; worked for copper mining
companies; inventor,
ammonia leaching process for copper; director, Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, 1919-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1920,
1928
(alternate).
Jewish.
Member, American
Chemical Society; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Addison Brown (1830-1913) —
of New York.
Born in West Newbury, Essex
County, Mass., February
21, 1830.
Son of Addison Brown and Catherine Babson (Griffin) Brown.
Lawyer;
botanist; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1881-1901;
retired 1901.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1913 (age 83 years, 47
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Mary Ingraham Bunting (1910-1998) —
also known as Mary I. Bunting; Polly Bunting; Mary
Ingraham; Mary Bunting-Smith —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 10,
1910.
Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham.
Democrat. Microbiologist; college
professor; president,
Radcliffe College, 1960-72; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Female.
Died, in Kendal at Hanover continuing
care community, Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., January
21, 1998 (age 87 years, 195
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham; married
1937 to
Henry Bunting (died 1954); married 1975 to Clement
A. Smith (died 1988). |
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Joseph E. Caudle (b. 1945) —
of Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va.
Born in Camp Lejeune, Onslow
County, N.C., June 3,
1945.
Son of Robert E. Caudle and Marjorie Jeanne (Lyerla) Caudle.
Democrat. Physicist; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates 35th District, 1975-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Jaycees;
Kiwanis.
Still living as of 1980.
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Darius Nash Couch (1822-1897) —
also known as Darius N. Couch —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Putnam
County, N.Y., July 23,
1822.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
naturalist; merchant;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1865; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1866-67.
Died in Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
12, 1897 (age 74 years, 204
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Mass.
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Joseph Wayne De Bolt (b. 1939) —
also known as Joe De Bolt —
of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Sebring, Mahoning
County, Ohio, December
23, 1939.
Son of Joseph Whitlach and Dolores De Bolt.
Democrat. Played
saxophone in rock'n'roll band, The Twisting Countdowns, 1960-62;
manager for performers
and night
club acts; sociologist; university
professor; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 100th District, 1970.
Eastern
Orthodox.
Still living as of 2007.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Whitlach and Dolores De Bolt; step-son of Melvin Blake;
married, March 20,
1962, to Beverly Denise Gallagher (divorced). |
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Samuel Byron Dicker (b. 1889) —
also known as Samuel B. Dicker —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1889.
Son of Moritz Dicker and Rose (Weinberg) Dicker.
Republican. Statistician; lawyer;
director, Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad;
mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1939-55; appointed 1939; resigned 1955.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Dimitry (1805-1883) —
also known as Tobias Guarneriius —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
7, 1805.
Newspaper
editor; college
professor; linguist; as a young man, took part in several
duels;
Louisiana
superintendent of public instruction, 1848-51; U.S. Minister to
Costa Rica, 1859-61; Nicaragua, 1859-61.
Greek
and Alabama
Indian ancestry.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
30, 1883 (age 77 years, 357
days).
Interment at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.
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Carl Djerassi (b. 1923) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university
professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical
researcher; helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of
Fame, 1978.
Still living as of 2006.
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John Drayton (1767-1822) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 22,
1767.
Son of William
Henry Drayton and Dorothy (Golightly) Drayton (1747-1780).
Lawyer;
author;
botanist; Governor of
South Carolina, 1800-02, 1808-10; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1802-04; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1803-04; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1804-08; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1812-22.
Died in South Carolina, November
27, 1822 (age 55 years, 158
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
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Livingston Farrand (1867-1939) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 14,
1867.
Son of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise (Wilson) Farrand.
Physician;
anthropologist; psychologist;
university
professor; president,
University of Colorado, 1914-19; chairman, Central Committee of the
American Red Cross, 1919-21; president,
Cornell University, 1921-37; elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, American
Public Health Association; American
Psychological Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New
York Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1939 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Michael Ference, Jr. (1911-1996) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Whiting, Lake
County, Ind., November
6, 1911.
Democrat. University
professor; scientist; vice-president for research, Ford Motor
Company; member of Wayne State
University board of governors, 1960-63; defeated, 1963.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 24,
1996 (age 84 years, 261
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene Benjamin Germany (1892-1971) —
also known as E. B. 'Gene' Germany —
of Highland Park, Dallas
County, Tex.; Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Sweetwater, Nolan
County, Tex., September
18, 1892.
Son of Arona
Lea Germany.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; geologist; oil
producer; industrialist;
founder of Preston State Bank,
Dallas, Tex.; founder of Cozby-Germany Hospital, Grand Saline, Tex.;
founder and president of Lone Star Steel Company; mayor
of Highland Park, Tex., 1934-40; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1940,
1944
(alternate); Texas
Democratic state chair, 1944; Presidential Elector for Texas, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., July 12,
1971 (age 78 years, 297
days).
Interment at Woodside
Cemetery, Grand Saline, Tex.
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James Arthur Gibbons (b. 1944) —
also known as Jim Gibbons —
of Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Sparks, Washoe
County, Nev., December
16, 1944.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War;
geologist; airline
pilot; lawyer;
member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1989-93; U.S.
Representative from Nevada 2nd District, 1997-2006; Governor of
Nevada, 2007-; defeated, 1994.
Mormon.
Still living as of 2009.
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Ernest William Gibson (1901-1969) —
of Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., March 6,
1901.
Son of Ernest
Willard Gibson and Fullerton (Hadley) Gibson.
Republican. School
teacher; athletic
coach; mathematician; lawyer; Windham
County State's Attorney, 1929-32; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1940-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II; Governor of
Vermont, 1947-50; U.S.
District Judge for Vermont, 1950-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Eagles; Phi
Delta Phi; Theta
Chi.
Died in Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., November
4, 1969 (age 68 years, 243
days).
Interment at Morningside
Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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Addison Loomis Green (1862-1942) —
also known as Addison L. Green —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
23, 1862.
Son of Thomas Jefferson Green and Alvira Eunice (Loomis) Green.
Lawyer;
archaeologist; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1894; became
involved in the textile
business; vice-president, Association of Woolen
Manufacturers of America; studied archeological sites in Spain and
France with Charles
G. Dawes, 1930.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died June 24,
1942 (age 79 years, 244
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Samuel Hagelin (b. 1954) —
also known as John Hagelin —
of Fairfield, Jefferson
County, Iowa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 9,
1954.
University
professor; physicist; Natural Law candidate for President
of the United States, 1992, 1996, 2000.
Still living as of 2010.
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Alfred R. Halvorson —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Crop and soil scientist; university
professor; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1991-95.
Still living as of 1995.
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Butler Black Hare (1875-1967) —
also known as Butler B. Hare —
of Saluda, Saluda
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield County (part now in Saluda
County), S.C., November
25, 1875.
Son of James Hare and Elizabeth (Black) Hare.
Democrat. School
teacher; secretary to U.S. Reps. George
W. Croft and Theodore
G. Croft; statistician; lawyer;
vice-president, Farmers Bank of
Saluda; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1925-33, 1939-47 (2nd
District 1925-33, 3rd District 1939-47); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1936
(alternate), 1940.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Saluda, Saluda
County, S.C., December
30, 1967 (age 92 years, 35
days).
Interment at Travis
Park Cemetery, Saluda, S.C.
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John Wright Hickenlooper (b. 1952) —
also known as John Hickenlooper —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Narberth, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
7, 1952.
Democrat. Geologist; restaurant
owner; mayor of
Denver, Colo., 2003-10; Governor of
Colorado, 2011-.
Still living as of 2011.
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Charles Lewis Hoover (1872-1949) —
also known as Charles L. Hoover —
of Edgemont, Fall River
County, S.Dak.; Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Oskaloosa, Mahaska
County, Iowa, January
11, 1872.
Son of Samuel A. Hoover and Miriam J. (Beardsley) Hoover.
Superintendent
of schools; botanist; linguist; divisional
superintendent of schools, Philippine Islands, 1902-09; U.S. Consul
in Madrid, 1909-12; Carlsbad, 1912-14; Prague, 1914-16; Sao Paulo, 1916-20; Danzig, 1922; Batavia, 1926; U.S. Consul General in Amsterdam, 1928-32.
Presbyterian.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 30,
1949 (age 77 years, 109
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Herbert Clark Hoover, Jr. (1903-1969) —
also known as Herbert Hoover, Jr. —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.; San Marino, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
August
4, 1903.
Son of Herbert
Clark Hoover and Lou (Henry) Hoover.
Republican. Petroleum
geologist; mining engineer;
inventor;
president, Aeronautical
Radio,
Inc., 1930; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1954-57; director, Monsanto
Chemical
Company; director, Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation; director, Southern California Edison
Company; director, Hanna Mining
Company; director, Pacific Mutual Insurance
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1960.
Herbert Hoover Jr. High School, in San Jose, Calif., is named for
him.
Died, of cancer, in
Huntington Community Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 9,
1969 (age 65 years, 248
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Douglass Houghton (1809-1845) —
of Michigan.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
21, 1809.
Geologist; mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1842.
Drowned
with four others, when a sudden
storm overturned their
boat, at Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw
County, Mich., October
13, 1845 (age 36 years, 22
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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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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Ivan Itkin (b. 1936) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., March 29,
1936.
Son of Abraham Aaron Itkin and Eda (Kreger) Itkin.
Democrat. Nuclear engineer; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives 23rd District, 1973-81;
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1992,
1996;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1996.
Jewish.
Member, Zionist
Organization of America.
Still living as of 1996.
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William Marion Jardine (1879-1955) —
also known as William M. Jardine —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Oneida
County, Idaho, January
16, 1879.
Son of William Jardine and Rebecca J. (Dudley) Jardine.
College
professor; agronomist; president,
Kansas State Agricultural College, 1918-25; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1930; Kansas
state treasurer, 1933-34; appointed 1933; resigned 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Beta
Theta Pi; Alpha
Zeta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Gamma
Sigma Delta; Freemasons;
Rotary;
American
Forestry Association; Farm
Bureau.
Died January
17, 1955 (age 76 years, 1
days).
Interment at Logan
City Cemetery, Logan, Utah.
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Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) —
also known as Willard Libby —
Born in Grand Valley, Garfield
County, Colo., December
17, 1908.
Physical chemist; university
professor; member, U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission, 1954; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1960, for leading the team that developed
Carbon-14 dating.
Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma.
Died September
8, 1980 (age 71 years, 266
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1966
to Leona (Woods) Marshall (1919-1986; physicist). |
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Lodian W. Lodian (b. 1866) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hartford
County, Conn., July 15,
1866.
Son of Kalos I. Lodian and Anita (Mana) Lodian.
Civil
engineer; metallurgist; world traveler; inventor;
claimed to be first
American to cross the Himalayan mountains, 1895; secretary,
international antisemitic convention, Paris, 1900; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 1st District, 1918
(Prohibition), 1921 (Prohibition), 1933 (Law Preservation);
Prohibition candidate for New York
state senate 12th District, 1922; Law Preservation candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Magee McClung (b. 1916) —
of Fayetteville, Fayette
County, W.Va.
Born in Fayetteville, Fayette
County, W.Va., August 4,
1916.
Son of Magee McClung and Rachel B. (Selvey) McClung.
Democrat. Accountant;
statistician; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Fayette County, 1939-42,
1945-46.
Baptist.
Member, Moose.
Still living as of 1946.
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George Crews McGhee (1912-2005) —
also known as George C. McGhee —
of Texas.
Born in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., March 10,
1912.
Rhodes
scholar; geologist; oil
producer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Turkey, 1952-53; Germany, 1963-68; , 1968-69.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Loudoun Hospital
Center, Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., July 4,
2005 (age 93 years, 116
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clint Moore (born c.1957) —
of Spring, Harris
County, Tex.
Born about 1957.
Republican. Petroleum
geologist; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Texas, 2004,
2008.
Still living as of 2008.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) —
also known as Pat Moynihan —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Pindars Corners, Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., March 16,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; political
scientist; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1960
(alternate), 1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S. Ambassador to India, 1973-75; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1975-76; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1977-.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of infection
from a ruptured appendix,
in Washington,
D.C., March 26,
2003 (age 76 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817-1879) —
also known as Benjamin F. Mudge —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Cloverport, Breckinridge
County, Ky.; Quindaro (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.
Born in Orrington, Penobscot
County, Maine, August
11, 1817.
Son of James Mudge and Ruth Mudge.
Lawyer;
school
teacher; chemist;
geologist; mayor of
Lynn, Mass., 1852-53.
Died November
21, 1879 (age 62 years, 102
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Philleo Nash (1909-1987) —
of Wisconsin Rapids, Wood
County, Wis.
Born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wood
County, Wis., October
25, 1909.
Son of Guy Nash and Florence (Philleo) Nash.
Democrat. Anthropologist; cranberry
grower; Wisconsin
Democratic state chair, 1955-57; Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1959-61; Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs, 1961-66.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Theta
Delta Chi.
Died October
12, 1987 (age 77 years, 352
days).
Cremated.
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Leland M. Olds (b. 1890) —
of Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
31, 1890.
Son of George D. Olds and Marion (Leland) Olds.
Statistician; member,
Federal Power Commission, 1939-44; chair, Federal Power
Commission, 1940-44, 1945-47.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frances Perkins (1882-1965) —
also known as Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wilson —
of Newcastle, Lincoln
County, Maine.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 10,
1882.
Daughter of Frederick W. Perkins and Susan Perkins.
Democrat. Sociologist; New York State Industrial Commissioner,
1929-33; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1933-45; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1948.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
First
woman to serve in the Cabinet.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 14,
1965 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Interment at Cemetery
on River Road, Newcastle, Maine.
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Russell Wilber Peterson (b. 1916) —
also known as Russell W. Peterson —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Portage, Columbia
County, Wis., October
3, 1916.
Son of Anton Peterson and Emma (Anthony) Peterson.
Republican. Textile
researcher for du Pont chemical
company; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
Delaware, 1969-73; defeated, 1972.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Chemical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Phi Eta
Sigma.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alexander Hamilton Phillips (1866-1937) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Lawrenceville, Mercer
County, N.J., May 15,
1866.
Son of John Feaster Phillips and Hannah (Warne) Phillips.
Republican. University
professor; geologist; mayor
of Princeton, N.J., 1911-16.
Episcopalian.
Died January
20, 1937 (age 70 years, 250
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Arthur Phillips (b. 1952) —
also known as Ed Phillips —
of Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born, in Alton Memorial Hospital,
Alton, Madison
County, Ill., July 30,
1952.
Son of Edwin Charles Phillips and Ada Mae (Russell) Phillips.
Republican. Meteorologist; radio and
television broadcaster; airplane and
helicopter pilot; member of Arizona
state senate 28th District, 1991-94.
Episcopalian;
later Jewish.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2010.
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Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) —
also known as Marguerite Ray —
of Washington.
Born in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., September
3, 1914.
Democrat. University
professor; marine biologist; host of weekly television
show "Animals of the Sea," on KCTS-TV in Seattle; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1972-75; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1973-75; Governor of
Washington, 1977-81; defeated in primary, 1980.
Female.
Died, from a bronchial infection,
in Fox Island, Pierce
County, Wash., January
2, 1994 (age 79 years, 121
days).
Interment at Fox
Island Cemetery, Fox Island, Wash.
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Arthur B. Robinson (b. 1942) —
also known as Art Robinson —
Born in 1942.
Republican. Biochemist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 4th District, 2010.
Still living as of 2010.
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Henry Salvatori (1901-1997) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Rome, Italy,
March
28, 1901.
Son of Frank Salvatori and Francis (DiGiulio) Salvatori.
Republican. Geophysicist; petroleum
geologist; founder and chairman, Western Geophysical Corp.;
director, Litton Industries; director, Transamerica Corp.; director,
Citizens National Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1960,
1964,
1968,
1972;
helped launch Ronald
Reagan's political career in 1964-66; Presidential Elector for
California, 1968.
Italian
ancestry.
Died July 7,
1997 (age 96 years, 101
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) —
also known as Glenn Teodor Sjöberg —
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., April 19,
1912.
Son of Herman Theodore 'Ted' Seaborg and Selma Olivia (Erickson)
Seaborg.
Democrat. Physical chemist; university
professor; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1951; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1961-71.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Chemical Society.
Died in Lafayette, Contra Costa
County, Calif., February
25, 1999 (age 86 years, 312
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Otis Smith (1871-1944) —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, February
22, 1871.
Son of Joseph O. Smith and Emma (Mayo) Smith.
Republican. Geologist; director, U.S. Geological Survey,
1907-30 (except 1922-23); chair, Federal Power
Commission, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, American
Forestry Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Suffered a heart
attack during a meeting
of the board of directors of the Central Maine Power Company, and
died soon after, in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
10, 1944 (age 72 years, 322
days).
Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
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Larry Stevens (born c.1956) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.
Born about 1956.
Republican. Research scientist; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Texas, 2004.
Still living as of 2004.
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John Carter Van Hoy (born c.1958) —
also known as John Van Hoy —
of Fredericksburg,
Va.
Born about 1958.
Republican. Geologist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 2004,
2008.
Still living as of 2008.
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