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Robert Treat (1625-1710) —
of Milford, New Haven
County, Conn.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Pitminster, Somerset, England,
1625.
Colonial
Governor of Connecticut, 1683-98.
Founder of Milford, Connecticut and Newark, New Jersey.
Died in Milford, New Haven
County, Conn., July 12,
1710 (age about 85
years).
Interment at Milford
Cemetery, Milford, Conn.
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Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804) —
also known as Philip Schuyler —
of New York.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
20, 1733.
Son of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Cornelia (Van Cortlandt) Schuyler (born
1698).
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1768; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775, 1777, 1779-80;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Western District, 1780-84, 1785-89, 1791-97; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1789-91, 1797-98.
Built the first flax mill
in America.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
18, 1804 (age 70 years, 364
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Albany County, N.Y.; reinterment at
Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue erected 1925 at Albany
City Hall Grounds, Albany, N.Y.
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Felix Robertson (1781-1865) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., January
11, 1781, the first white male child to be born in what is
now the city of Nashville.
Son of James Robertson (1742-1814; founder of Nashville).
Mayor
of Nashville, Tenn., 1818-19, 1826-28.
Died July 10,
1865 (age 84 years, 180
days).
Interment at Nashville
City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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George Washington (1732-1799) —
also known as "Father of His Country" —
of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732.
Son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and Mary (Ball) Washington
(c.1709-1789).
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first President and stepped down after two
terms. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. quarter
(25
cent coin), and on the one
dollar bill. His portrait also appeared on various other
denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50
note during the Civil War.
Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Va.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and Mary (Ball) Washington
(c.1709-1789); married, January
6, 1759, to Martha (Dandridge) Custis (1731-1802); uncle of Bushrod
Washington; uncle by marriage of Burwell
Bassett; granduncle of George
Corbin Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad; second cousin five times removed of Horace
Lee Washington. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
Lee — Joshua
Fry — Alexander
Dimitry — Tobias
Lear — David
Matthews — Rufus
Putnam |
| | | Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: George
Washington Lent Marr
— George
Washington Heard
— George
Washington Barnett
— George
Washington Davis
— George
W. Owen
— George
W. Toland
— George
W. Lay
— George
W. Patterson
— George
W. B. Towns
— George
Washington Adams
— George
Washington Hockley
— George
W. Smyth
— G.
W. Ingersoll
— George
W. Hopkins
— George
Washington Montgomery
— George
W. Kittredge
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Harrison
— George
Washington Ewing
— George
W. Morrison
— George
Washington Woodward
— George
Washington Wright
— George
Washington Triplett
— George
Washington Glasscock
— George
Washington Holman
— George
Washington Dunlap
— George
Washington Warren
— George
Washington Hill
— George
Washington Logan
— George
W. Getchell
— George
Washington Wright
— George
W. Julian
— George
Washington Dyal
— George
Washington Ladd
— George
W. Peck
— George
Washington Nesmith
— George
W. Morgan
— George
Washington Brooks
— George
Washington Cowles
— George
W. Geddes
— George
Washington Whitmore
— George
Washington Bridges
— George
W. Cate
— George
W. Houk
— George
W. Webber
— George
Washington Fairbrother
— George
Washington Glick
— George
Washington Jones
— George
Washington Baker
— George
W. Shell
— George
W. Anderson
— George
W. Crouse
— George
W. Hulick
— George
W. F. Harper
— George
Washington McCrary
— George
W. Gordon
— George
W. Kingsbury
— George
W. Covington
— George
Washington Fleeger
— George
W. Steele
— George
W. Wilson
— George
W. E. Dorsey
— George
W. Plunkitt
— George
W. Furbush
— George
W. Sutton
— George
W. Curtin
— George W.
Ray
— George
W. Allen
— George
W. Roosevelt
— George
W. Smith
— George
W. Kipp
— George
W. Campbell
— George
W. Taylor
— George
W. Stone
— George
W. Shonk
— George
W. Cook
— George
W. Murray
— George
W. Faris
— George
W. Fithian
— George
W. Prince
— George
W. Buckner
— George
W. Cromer
— George
W. Donaghey
— George
W. Aldridge
— George
Washington Goethals
— George
W. Armstrong
— George
Washington Oakes
— George
Washington Hays
— George
W. Edmonds
— George
W. Lindsay
— George
Washington Jones
— George
W. Darden
— George
W. Gibbons
— George
W. List
— George
W. Rauch
— George
W. Michell
— George
Washington Jackson
— George
W. Blanchard
— George
Washington Herz
— George
W. Bristow
— George
Washington Hardy
— George
W. Ballard
— George
W. McKown
— George
Thomas Washington
— George
W. Collins
— George
A. Washington
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington — James Thomas
Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man — Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life — Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation —
Henry Wiencek, An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America — James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington — Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — Wendie C.
Old, George
Washington (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Pennsylvania, April 8,
1732.
Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1777-89.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Astronomer, mathematician, financier, clockmaker, surveyor,
first director of the U.S. Mint.
Died in Pennsylvania, June 26,
1796 (age 64 years, 79
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Franklin Gorin (1798-1877) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Barren
County, Ky., May 3,
1798.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1874.
First white child born in Barren County; one-time owner of
Mammoth Cave.
Died December
10, 1877 (age 79 years, 221
days).
Interment at Glasgow
Cemetery, Glasgow, Ky.
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James Kent (1763-1847) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Doansburg, Putnam
County, N.Y., July 31,
1763.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1790-91, 1792-93, 1796-97 (Dutchess County
1790-91, 1792-93, New York County 1796-97); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1793; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1798.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Author
of Commentaries on American Law, the first
comprehensive treatment of the subject. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1847 (age 84 years, 134
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fishkill, N.Y.
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Humphrey Marshall (1760-1841) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Orlean, Fauquier
County, Va., 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1793-94, 1807-09; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1795-1801.
In 1809, he opposed Henry
Clay's proposal to require all Kentucky legislators to wear
domestic homespun instead of British broadcloth; this clash resulted
in a duel
in which both men were wounded. Author of
the first history of Kentucky, published in 1812.
Died near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 3,
1841 (age about 81
years).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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David Porter (1780-1843) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in 1780.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812; captain of the United
States frigate Essex, the the first U.S. war vessel to
carry the Stars and Stripes in a naval battle, March 25, 1813; U.S.
Consul General in Algiers, 1830-31; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Turkey, 1831-39; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1839-43, died in office 1843.
Died in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey,
March
3, 1843 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Martin Beaty (1784-1856) —
of Kentucky.
Born October
8, 1784.
Whig. Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1824-28; Presidential Elector for Kentucky, 1832,
1836;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1833-35; defeated,
1828, 1830, 1834; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1848.
In Kentucky in 1818, he drilled the world's first oil well.
Died in Belmont, Gonzales
County, Tex., June 17,
1856 (age 71 years, 253
days).
Interment at Belmont
Cemetery, Belmont, Tex.
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William Nesbit (c.1789-1863) —
of Gwinnett
County, Ga.
Born about 1789.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state senate, 1829, 1833.
First sheriff of Gwinnett County, 1820.
Died June 27,
1863 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Nesbit
Family Cemetery, Norcross, Ga.
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José Francisco Ruiz (1783-1840) —
also known as Francisco Ruiz —
of Texas.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
29, 1783.
Delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Bexar, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1836-37.
Catholic.
First schoolmaster in San Antonio, Texas.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
19, 1840 (age 56 years, 355
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Cemetery #1, San Antonio, Tex.
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Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
1, 1764.
Son of Catharina (Livingston) Van Rensselaer and Stephen Van
Rensselaer (1742-1769).
Member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1789-90, 1807-10, 1817-18;
member of New York
state senate Western District, 1790-95; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1795-1801; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1813; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1822-29 (9th District 1822-23, 10th
District 1823-29).
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Albany's last Dutch Patroon; took the first train ride in
U.S.; founded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
26, 1839 (age 74 years, 86
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., January
9, 1781.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811-14, 1820, 1829; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1821-22; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1830-60.
Drew up the first charter of the city of Boston in 1822-23;
wrote the decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842, which
exempted labor unions from the criminal conspiracy law. Related by
marriage to the author Herman Melville.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 30,
1861 (age 80 years, 80
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Alexander Bryan (1794-1864) —
also known as John A. Bryan —
of Ellicottville, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Menasha, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April 13,
1794.
Lawyer;
Ohio
auditor of state, 1833-39; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Peru, 1845.
Member, Freemasons.
One of the founders of Bryan, Ohio.
Died in Menasha, Winnebago
County, Wis., May 24,
1864 (age 70 years, 41
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wis.
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Edward Kavanagh (1795-1844) —
of Damariscotta Mills, Lincoln
County, Maine.
Born in Newcastle, Lincoln
County, Maine, April 27,
1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1831-35; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Portugal, 1835-41; member of Maine
state senate, 1842; Governor of
Maine, 1843-44.
Catholic.
First Catholic member of Congress from New England.
Died January
22, 1844 (age 48 years, 270
days).
Interment at St.
Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Damariscotta Mills, Maine.
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Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) —
also known as Roger B. Taney —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., March 17,
1777.
Son of Michael Taney and Monica (Brooke) Taney.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1799-1800; member of Maryland
state senate, 1816-21; Maryland
state attorney general, 1827-31; U.S.
Attorney General, 1831-33; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-34; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-64; died in office 1864.
Catholic.
First Catholic to hold a U.S. cabinet position.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
12, 1864 (age 87 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; statue at State
House Grounds, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Taney and Monica (Brooke) Taney; married, January
7, 1806, to Anne Phoebe Charlton Key (niece of Philip
Barton Key (1757-1815); sister of Francis
Scott Key; aunt of Philip
Barton Key (1818-1859)). See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Taney County,
Mo. is named for him. |
| | | Epitaph: "He was a profound and able
lawyer, an upright and fearless judge, a pious and exemplary
Christian." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Roger Taney: Memoir
of Roger Brooke Taney : Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.
S. |
| | | Books about Roger Taney: Bernard
Christian Steiner, Life
of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court (out of print) — Charles Smith, Roger
B. Taney : Jacksonian Jurist — Suzanne Freedman, Roger
Taney : The Dred Scott Legacy (for young readers) |
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James Appleton (1785-1862) —
also known as "Father of Prohibition" —
of Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., February
14, 1785.
Son of Mary (White) Appleton (1749-1834) and Samuel Appleton
(c.1739-1819).
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1813-14; first to propose
state prohibition on the manufacture and sale of liquor, 1832; member
of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-37; Liberty candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1842, 1843, 1844.
Died in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., August
25, 1862 (age 77 years, 192
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Messinger (1771-1846) —
of St.
Clair County, Ill.
Born in 1771.
Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention St. Clair County,
1818.
Land surveyor; in 1835, he produced the first map of Illinois
based on the official U.S. survey.
Died in 1846
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Unnamed
Cemetery, Near Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.
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Peter Cooper (1791-1883) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1791.
Manufacturer,
inventor,
philanthropist, creator of first U.S. steam
locomotive; founder
of Cooper Union; Greenback candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1883 (age 92 years, 51
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) —
also known as John P. Richmond —
of Schuyler
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Frederick
County, Md., August
11, 1811.
Son of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
in 1840, he officiated at the first Protestant wedding in what
is now the state of Washington; in 1841, he delivered the
first Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of
Illinois
state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1855-56; Presidential Elector for
Illinois, 1856;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Schuyler County,
1862; postmaster.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Dakota, August
28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Tyndall
Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond;
married 1835
to America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty
Gristy. |
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Austin Blair (1818-1894) —
also known as "The War Governor" —
of Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Caroline, Tompkins
County, N.Y., February
8, 1818.
Son of Rhoda (Blackman) Mann Blair and George Blair (1796-1869).
Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Jackson County, 1846;
instrumental in the 1846 abolition of capital punishment in Michigan,
the first English-speaking jurisdiction to do so; Jackson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1853-54, 1885-86; member of Michigan
state senate 12th District, 1855-56; Governor of
Michigan, 1861-65; defeated (Liberty), 1872; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1867-73; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1881-89; appointed 1881.
Unitarian.
Died in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., August 6,
1894 (age 76 years, 179
days).
Interment at Mt.
Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Mich.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Lansing, Mich.
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Elihu Anthony (1818-1905) —
of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif.
Born in Greenfield, Saratoga
County, N.Y., November
30, 1818.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Methodist
minister; member of California
state assembly 6th District, 1880-81.
Methodist.
Came overland to California in 1847. First postmaster of Santa
Cruz; started the first foundry there; built the first
wharf; founded the first Protestant church.
Died in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif., August
15, 1905 (age 86 years, 258
days).
Interment at Oddfellows
Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Calif.
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John Porter Brown (d. 1872) —
of Ohio.
Born in Ohio.
U.S. Consul in Constantinople, 1835-36; U.S. Consul General in Constantinople, 1857-59.
Spoke Turkish, Arabic, and Farsi, and is considered the first
Orientalist in the U.S. Foreign Service.
Died in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey,
1872.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alex Faribault —
of Minnesota.
Member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 7th District, 1851.
founder of city of Faribault, Minnesota.
Interment at Catholic
Cemetery, Faribault, Minn.
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Isaac M. Jordan (1835-1890) —
of Ohio.
Born in Mifflinburg, Union
County, Pa., May 5,
1835.
Democrat. One of the founders of Sigma Chi fraternity in 1855;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1883-85.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Died from injuries received in an elevator
accident in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
3, 1890 (age 55 years, 212
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) —
also known as Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil
Dan" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Shot and killed
Philip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder,
but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first successful plea
of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history. Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a
leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army
Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it in later years.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914 (age 94 years, 195
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) —
also known as George S. Boutwell —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
28, 1818.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1842-50; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1851-53; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860;
first U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1863-69 (7th District 1863-69,
9th District 1869); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1869-73; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1873-77.
Died in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
27, 1905 (age 87 years, 30
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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William Pickering (1798-1873) —
Born in Yorkshire, England,
March
15, 1798.
Republican. Member of Illinois state legislature, 1842-52; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1860;
Governor
of Washington Territory, 1862-66.
On September 4, 1864, he sent the first message over a
transcontinental telegraph
line.
Died in Illinois, April 22,
1873 (age 75 years, 38
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) —
Born in New Market, Frederick
County, Md., December
23, 1815.
Minister;
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1881-82, died in office 1882.
Presbyterian.
African
ancestry.
On February 12, 1865, was the first black person to make a
speech to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Died in Liberia,
February
13, 1882 (age 66 years, 52
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Stough Bobbs (1809-1870) —
also known as John S. Bobbs —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Green Village, Franklin
County, Pa., December
22, 1809.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1857-59; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1860;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Performed the first gall-bladder surgery in the nation, 1867.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 1,
1870 (age 60 years, 130
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Agnes Mason Giddings (1867-1927) —
also known as Agnes Giddings; Agnes Eurelia Mason;
Mrs. E. C. Giddings; "Famous
Feminist" —
of Fort Collins, Larimer
County, Colo.
Born in a log
cabin, in Fort Collins, Larimer
County, Colo., October
31, 1867; she was the first pioneer child born at Fort
Collins, and the cabin is preserved at the Fort Collins Historical
Museum.
Daughter of Augustine Mason and Charlotte Mason.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1924;
Presidential Elector for Colorado, 1924.
Female.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star.
Died, from a paralytic
stroke, in Fort Collins, Larimer
County, Colo., June 18,
1927 (age 59 years, 230
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Fort Collins, Colo.
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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (1833-1908) —
also known as Ebenezer D. Bassett —
of Pennsylvania; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., October
16, 1833.
U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1869-77; U.S. Consul General in Port-au-Prince, 1874.
African
and Pequot
Indian ancestry.
First black American to be appointed a diplomat to a foreign
country.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
14, 1908 (age 75 years, 29
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
16, 1834.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869-71; Labor Reform candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1871; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1883.
African
ancestry.
First black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1886 (age 51 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Richard Theodore Greener (b. 1844) —
also known as R. T. Greener —
of Washington,
D.C.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
30, 1844.
University
professor; lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Bombay, 1898; Vladivostok, 1898-1901; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Vladivostok, 1902-05.
African
ancestry.
First black graduate of Harvard, 1870.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Hayne Rainey (1832-1887) —
also known as Joseph H. Rainey —
of Georgetown
County, S.C.
Born in slavery
in Georgetown, Georgetown
County, S.C., June 21,
1832.
Republican. Barber; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Georgetown
County, 1868; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1869; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1870-79.
African
ancestry.
First black to serve in U.S. House of Representatives.
Died in Georgetown, Georgetown
County, S.C., August 2,
1887 (age 55 years, 42
days).
Interment at Baptist
Cemetery, Georgetown, S.C.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., September
27, 1827.
Republican. Member of Mississippi
state senate, 1870; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1870-71; secretary of
state of Mississippi, 1873.
African
and Lumbee
Indian ancestry.
First black member of the U.S. Senate.
Died, from a stroke,
while attending a church conference,
in Aberdeen, Monroe
County, Miss., January
16, 1901 (age 73 years, 111
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Holly Springs, Miss.
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Henry Sterling Magoon (1832-1889) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Monticello, Green
County, Wis., January
31, 1832.
Republican. Member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1871-72; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1875-77.
First Wisconsin native to serve in that state's legislature.
Died in Darlington, Lafayette
County, Wis., March 3,
1889 (age 57 years, 31
days).
Interment at Union
Grove Cemetery, Darlington, Wis.
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Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) —
also known as Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first state park in the U.S.); led crusade to
consolidate the five boroughs into today's New York City; helped
create the New York Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural
institutions. Green Island, near Niagara Falls, is named for
him.
Shot
and killed, by
a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in front of his home, on
Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903 (age 83 years, 38
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) —
also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
26, 1837.
Son of Eliphalet
Adams Bulkeley and Lydia S. Bulkeley (died 1894).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president,
Aetna Life
Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; Governor of
Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1896;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1896;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution.
First president of the National League of Professional Base
Ball Clubs in 1876.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837-1927) —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
25, 1837.
Son of Thomas Russell Gerry (1794-1845) and Hannah Green (Goelet)
Gerry (1804-1845).
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; founder
and president, New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (said to be the "parent of all child protective
organizations in the world"); governor of New York Hospital,
1878-1912; chairman, New York State Commission on Capital Punishment
(replaced hanging with the electric chair), 1886-88; trustee, New
York Life
Insurance Co.; chairman, New York City Commission on Insanity,
1892.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Broke his hip in a fall, and
died two weeks later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1927 (age 89 years, 55
days).
Entombed at St.
James' Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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James Sidney Hinton (1834-1892) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born near Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., December
25, 1834.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1872;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1881.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
First black member of the Indiana legislature.
Died of a heart
attack while making a speech,
in Brazil, Clay
County, Ind., November
6, 1892 (age 57 years, 317
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Edward Rawles —
also known as Ned Rawles —
of North Carolina.
Born in Garysburg, Northampton
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1884, 1897.
African
ancestry.
One of the first black members of the North Carolina
legislature.
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906) —
also known as Benjamin W. Arnett —
of Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., March 16,
1838.
Son of Samuel G. Arnett and Mary Louisa Arnett.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; ordained
minister; member of Ohio state
house of representatives from Greene County, 1886-87;
first black state legislator elected to represent a majority
white constituency; bishop; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1896.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African,
Scottish,
American
Indian, and Irish
ancestry.
Lost a
leg due to a tumor in 1858.
Died, of uremia, in
Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio, October
9, 1906 (age 68 years, 207
days).
Interment at Tarbox
Cemetery, Wilberforce, Ohio.
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Hugh O'Brien (1827-1895) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Ireland,
July
13, 1827.
Democrat. Mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1885-88; defeated, 1888.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
First Irish Catholic mayor of Boston.
Died August 1,
1895 (age 68 years, 19
days).
Interment at Holyhood
Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Josiah Cohen (1840-1930) —
of Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Plymouth, Cornwall, England,
November
29, 1840.
Son of Henry Cohen and Rose Cohen.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Allegheny County Republican Party, 1882; Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania, 1884;
orphan's court judge in Pennsylvania, 1901-07; common pleas court
judge in Pennsylvania 5th District, 1907-29.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Among the founders of the Union of American Hebrew Hebrew
Congregations (denominational body, now the Union for Reform
Judaism); also a founder,
in 1875, of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
Died June 11,
1930 (age 89 years, 194
days).
Interment at West
View Jewish Cemetery, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Charles Francis Craver (1842-1925) —
of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Franklinville, Gloucester
County, N.J., September
3, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1876.
Methodist.
One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers;
invented
the first successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and
binding small grain; later, he was an oil producer
based in Oklahoma.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1925 (age 82 years, 251
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
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George E. Macomber (b. 1853) —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, June 6,
1853.
Son of George W. Macomber and Hannah L. (Kalloch) Macomber.
Republican. Banker; mayor of
Augusta, Maine, 1886-88; built first electric
railway in Maine, 1890; member of Maine
state house of representatives; member of Maine
state senate.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Son of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first black
All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African
ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Caroline Clyde Holt Holly (d. 1943) —
also known as Carrie Holly —
of Colorado.
Member of Colorado state legislature, 1894.
Female.
One of the first three women state legislators in the U.S.
Died in Castle Rock, Cowlitz
County, Wash., July 16,
1943.
Cremated.
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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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John Howard McLean (1860-1933) —
also known as John H. McLean —
of Iron Mountain, Dickinson
County, Mich.; Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.
Born in Neenah, Winnebago
County, Wis., June 6,
1860.
Republican. Mining and
railroad
executive; founder of Iron Mountain Press newspaper;
Dickinson
County Treasurer, 1897-98; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1904.
Catholic;
later Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of a stroke, in
Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
1933 (age 72 years, 334
days).
Interment at Fort
Howard Cemetery, Green Bay, Wis.
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Martha Maria Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) —
also known as Martha Hughes Cannon; Mattie Cannon;
Martha Maria Hughes —
of Utah; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born near Llandudno, Wales,
July
1, 1857.
Daughter of Peter Hughes (1824-1861) and Elizabeth (Evans) Hughes
(1833-1923).
Physician;
member of Utah state
senate, 1897-1905.
Female.
Mormon.
First woman state senator in the U.S.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 10,
1932 (age 75 years, 9
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Charles Albert Reynolds (1848-1936) —
also known as Charles A. Reynolds —
of Forsyth
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., November
10, 1848.
Civil
engineer; helped build North Carolina's first hydroelectric
plant, on the Yadkin River, 1897; Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1897-1901.
Died in Colfax, Guilford
County, N.C., July 2,
1936 (age 87 years, 235
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Church Cemetery, Leaksville, N.C.
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Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950) —
also known as Ransom E. Olds —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Geneva, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, June 3,
1864.
Son of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah (Whipple) Olds.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan,
1908.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Founder in 1897 of Olds Motor
Vehicle Company, maker of the first commercially
successful American-made automobile.
Founder in 1905 of the REO Motor Car
Company. Later the Olds company became the Oldsmobile division of General
Motors, and Reo became part of truck
manufacturer Diamond Reo. Also owner of several hotels.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., August
26, 1950 (age 86 years, 84
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Lucy Louisa Flower (1837-1921) —
also known as Lucy L. Flower; Lucy L. Coues;
"The Mother of the Juvenile Court" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 10,
1837.
Republican. School
teacher; social reformer; founder of nursing school; advocate for
the creation of a "parental court" to handle cases of delinquent
children; her efforts led to the world's first juvenile court
legislation, which created the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1899; University
of Illinois trustee; elected 1894.
Female.
Lucy L. Flower Vocational High School, and Lucy Flower Park, both in
Chicago, were named for
her.
Died in Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif., April 27,
1921 (age 83 years, 352
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Nils Nyquist (b. 1846) —
of Blue
Earth County, Minn.
Born in Värmland, Sweden,
1846.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1897-1903 (10th District 1897-98,
11th District 1899-1903).
Owned the first automobile in Blue Earth County.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Loeb, Jr. (1866-1937) —
also known as "Stonewall Loeb" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., October
9, 1866.
Son of William Loeb and Louisa (Meyer) Loeb.
Secretary to President Theodore
Roosevelt, 1903-09, and as such, the first presidential
press secretary; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1909-13; vice-president, American Smelting and
Refining Co., owner of copper mines
and processing plants.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
19, 1937 (age 70 years, 345
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Loeb and Louisa (Meyer) Loeb; married 1902 to
Katharine W. Dorr (1876-1968); father of William Loeb III (1905-1981;
publisher of the Manchester, N.H. Union-Leader
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Henry Mason Wheeler (1854-1930) —
of Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak.
Born in 1854.
Physician;
mayor
of Grand Forks, N.Dak., 1917-18.
Member, Freemasons.
He helped stop a bank robbery by the Jesse James gang, in Northfield,
Minnesota, September 7, 1876. He owned the first automobile
in Grand Forks.
Died April 13,
1930 (age about 75
years).
Interment somewhere
in Northfield, Minn.
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Francis Patrick Corrigan (1881-1968) —
also known as Frank P. Corrigan —
of Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, July 14,
1881.
Physician;
U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-37; Panama, 1937-39; U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, 1939-47.
Catholic.
Member, American Medical
Association; Rotary.
Assisted with the first modern blood transfusion, in 1906 at
the Cleveland Clinic.
Died in 1968
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926) —
also known as Oscar S. Straus —
of New York.
Born in Germany,
December
23, 1850.
Son of Lazarus Straus and Sara Straus.
Progressive. Lawyer; U.S.
Minister to Turkey, 1887-89, 1898-99; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1906-09; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1909-10; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1912.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
First Jewish U.S. cabinet member.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 3,
1926 (age 75 years, 131
days).
Interment at Beth-El
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Thomas Pryor Gore (1870-1949) —
also known as Thomas P. Gore —
of Lawton, Comanche
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born near Embry, Webster
County, Miss., December
10, 1870.
Son of Tom M. Gore and Carrie E. (Wingo) Gore.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1898; member
Oklahoma territorial council, 1903-05; U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1907-21, 1931-37; defeated, 1920, 1936;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(speaker),
1928;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1912-16.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Woodmen;
Elks.
Blind
due to an accident suffered when he was a boy; first blind
member of the U.S. Senate.
Died March 16,
1949 (age 78 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Okla.; later interred in 1949 at
Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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George Lawson Sheldon (1870-1960) —
also known as George L. Sheldon —
of Nehawka, Cass
County, Neb.
Born in Nehawka, Cass
County, Neb., May 31,
1870.
Son of Lawson
Sheldon and Julia A. (Pallord) Lawson.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
Governor
of Nebraska, 1907-09; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1908;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1908;
U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for Mississippi, 1932; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Mississippi, 1956.
Member, Freemasons.
First native of Nebraska to serve as Governor.
Died in Mississippi, April 4,
1960 (age 89 years, 309
days).
Interment at Greenville
Cemetery, Greenville, Miss.
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Edmund Favor Noel (1856-1927) —
of Lexington, Holmes
County, Miss.
Born near Lexington, Holmes
County, Miss., March 4,
1856.
Son of Leland Noel and Margaret A. (Sanders) Noel.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1881-82; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1895-1903, 1920-27; served in the U.S. Army during
the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1908-12; first chairman of first
conference of governors, 1908.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died July 30,
1927 (age 71 years, 148
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, Miss.
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Walter Perry Johnson (1887-1946) —
also known as Walter P. Johnson —
of Germantown, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born near Humboldt, Allen
County, Kan., November
6, 1887.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1940.
Professional baseball
pitcher with Washington Senators, 1907-27; won 417 games, second only
to Cy Young; held major league record in career strikeouts (3508)
from 1921 until 1983; holds record for career shutouts (110) and
other records; was pitcher at the 1910 baseball game at which William
H. Taft became the first President to attend Opening Day;
also was manager of the Washington Senators and the Cleveland
Indians; elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
Died, of a brain
tumor in Georgetown Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
10, 1946 (age 59 years, 34
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Rockville, Md.
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Mary Bellamy (1861-1955) —
also known as Marie Godat; Mrs. Charles
Bellamy —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Richwoods, Washington
County, Mo., December
13, 1861.
Daughter of Charles Augustus Godat (1808-1860) and Catherine (Horine)
Godat (1822-1908).
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1911; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Wyoming, 1916.
Female.
Swiss,
Dutch,
and English
ancestry.
First woman legislator in Wyoming.
Died in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., January
28, 1955 (age 93 years, 46
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Married 1886
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Bainbridge Colby (1869-1950) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
22, 1869.
Son of John Peck Colby and Frances (Bainbridge) Colby.
Lawyer;
attorney for author Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"); member of New York
state assembly from New York County 29th District, 1902; among
the founders of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party in 1912;
Progressive candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1914, 1916; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1920-21; law partner of Woodrow
Wilson 1921-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1924.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Bemus Point, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., April 11,
1950 (age 80 years, 110
days).
Interment at Bemus
Point Cemetery, Bemus Point, N.Y.
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Martin Henry Glynn (1871-1924) —
also known as Martin H. Glynn —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Valatie, Columbia
County, N.Y., September
27, 1871.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; postmaster;
lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1899-1901; New York
state comptroller, 1907-08; defeated, 1908; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1913; Governor of
New York, 1913-15; defeated, 1914; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1916
(Temporary
Chair), 1924.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Owner and editor of Albany Times-Union newspaper.
First Catholic governor of New York State.
Committed suicide,
in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., December
14, 1924 (age 53 years, 78
days).
Interment at St.
Agnes Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Francis Preston Blair Lee (1857-1944) —
also known as Blair Lee —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., August 9,
1857.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state senate, 1906-12; candidate for nomination for Governor of
Maryland, 1911; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1914-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1916.
Episcopalian.
First U.S. Senator elected by the direct vote of the people,
under the 17th Amendment to the Constitution.
Died in Norwood, Montgomery
County, Md., December
25, 1944 (age 87 years, 138
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Helen Ring Robinson (1860-1923) —
also known as Helen Ring —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Eastport, Washington
County, Maine, February
21, 1860.
Daughter of Thomas Warren Ring and Mary Margaret (Thompson) Ring.
Democrat. Writer;
member of Colorado
state senate, 1913-16.
Female.
Episcopalian.
First woman elected to Colorado Senate; second woman state
senator in the United States. Author of a minimum wage law for
women; also introduced a bill allowing women to serve as jurors.
Died in Denver,
Colo., July 10,
1923 (age 63 years, 139
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert R. Church —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Tennessee, 1900,
1912,
1916,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940.
African
ancestry.
One of the founders, in 1916, of the Lincoln League, an
African-American political organization in western Tennessee.
Burial
location unknown.
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Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
19, 1870.
Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton.
Democrat. College
professor; Texas
superintendent of public instruction, 1919-23.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy; Phi
Beta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi; Pi
Lambda Theta; Pi Gamma
Mu; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; Maccabees.
First woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas.
Died October
2, 1945 (age 75 years, 44
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) —
also known as Frederick M. Roberts; Fred
Roberts —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, September
14, 1879.
Son of Ellen Wayles (Hemings) Roberts.
Republican. Mortician;
member of California
state assembly, 1919-34; defeated, 1934; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1932,
1940,
1944,
1948;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1946.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League.
First African-American state legislator in California;
descendancy from Thomas Jefferson confirmed by DNA evidence in 1998.
Died, from injuries received in an automobile
accident the day before, in Los Angeles County General Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 19,
1952 (age 72 years, 309
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Eva McCall Hamilton (1871-1948) —
also known as Eva M. Hamilton —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Memphis, St. Clair
County, Mich., December
13, 1871.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1921-22; defeated in primary, 1922.
Female.
First woman elected to Michigan Senate.
Died, of heart
failure, in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., January
28, 1948 (age 76 years, 46
days).
Cremated.
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Dora Hall Stockman (1872-1948) —
also known as Dora H. Stockman; Dora Hall; Dora
Weinkauf —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin at Marilla, Manistee
County, Mich., August 4,
1872.
Daughter of Leander Hall and Lucy Jane (Bennet) Hall.
Republican. School
teacher; lecturer of the Michigan State Grange, and editor of the
Grange paper, the Michigan Patron; member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1920-31; Dry candidate for delegate to
Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Ingham County
2nd District, 1933; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ingham County 2nd District,
1939-46.
Female.
Member, Grange; Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
First woman to hold statewide elective office in Michigan.
Died in California, 1948
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Hurd
Cemetery, DeWitt Township, Clinton County, Mich.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Leander Hall and Lucy Jane (Bennet) Hall; married, August 8,
1889, to Francis M. Stockman (died 1932); married 1947 to Gustof
Weinkauf. |
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Edna Louisa Beard (1877-1928) —
also known as Edna L. Beard —
of Orange, Orange
County, Vt.
Born in Chenoa, McLean
County, Ill., July 25,
1877.
Daughter of Royal Edson Beard (1845-1912) and Flora (Curtiss) Beard
(1849-1920).
School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1921-22; member of Vermont
state senate from Orange County, 1923-24.
Female.
Congregationalist.
First woman member of the Vermont legislature.
Died in Orange, Orange
County, Vt., September
18, 1928 (age 51 years, 55
days).
Interment at Orange
Center Cemetery, Orange, Vt.
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Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) —
also known as Rebecca Ann Latimer —
of Cartersville, Bartow
County, Ga.
Born near Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga., June 10,
1835.
Daughter of Charles Latimer and Eleanor Ann (Swift) Latimer.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1922.
Female.
First woman in the U.S. Senate.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
24, 1930 (age 94 years, 228
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) —
also known as "Rebel Girl" —
of New York.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., August 7,
1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer for
the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") in 1906-16; one of
the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
which later expelled her for being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (at-large), 1954 (24th
District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961.
Female.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Russia,
September
5, 1964 (age 74 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Son of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding (1843-1910) and George
Tryon Harding (1844-1928).
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio state
senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Phi
Alpha Delta.
First president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio,
June 14, 1922.
Died in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August 2,
1923 (age 57 years, 273
days); the claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Original interment at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Tomb, Marion, Ohio.
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Relatives:
Married, July 8,
1891, to Florence Mabel Kling (1860-1924). |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His Times (out of
print) — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding (out of
print) — John W. Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
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Lottie Holman O'Neill (1878-1967) —
of Downers Grove, DuPage
County, Ill.
Born November
17, 1878.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1923-31, 1933-51; Independent
Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1930; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1944
(alternate), 1956;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1951-64.
Female.
First woman elected to Illinois General Assembly.
Died in Downers Grove, DuPage
County, Ill., February
17, 1967 (age 88 years, 92
days).
Interment at Oak
Crest Cemetery, Downers Grove, Ill.
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Edith Eunice Therrel Wilmans (1882-1966) —
also known as Edith Wilmans —
of Grand Prairie, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born December
21, 1882.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1922; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 13th District, 1951.
Female.
First woman to serve in the Texas legislature.
Died March 21,
1966 (age 83 years, 90
days).
Interment at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Rhoda Fox Graves (1877-1950) —
of Gouverneur, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Fowler town, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., 1877.
Republican. Farmer; school
teacher; member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County 1st District, 1925-32;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
member of New York
state senate, 1935-48 (34th District 1935-44, 39th District
1945-48).
Female.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Order of the
Eastern Star.
First woman elected to the New York State Senate.
Died in Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla., January
25, 1950 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Gouverneur, N.Y.
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Mary Teresa Norton (1875-1959) —
also known as Mary T. Norton; Mary Teresa
Hopkins —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., March 7,
1875.
Daughter of Thomas Hopkins and Marie Hopkins.
Democrat. Member of New Jersey
Democratic State Committee, 1920; vice-chair of
New Jersey Democratic Party, 1921-32; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948
(chair, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1925-51 (12th District 1925-33,
13th District 1933-51).
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
First woman elected to Congress from the eastern U.S.;
first Democratic woman ever to serve.
Died in 1959
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Flora Morris Vare —
also known as Flora M. Vare —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in New London, New London
County, Conn.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 1st District, 1925-28; defeated, 1928; elected
first woman member of the Pennsylvania state senate, 1924.
Female.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Florence Fifer Bohrer —
also known as Florence Fifer —
of Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Daughter of Joseph
Wilson Fifer.
Member of Illinois
state senate, 1925-27.
Female.
First woman ever elected to the Illinois State Senate.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) —
also known as Nellie Davis Tayloe —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., November
29, 1876.
Daughter of James Wynns Tayloe and Elizabeth Blair (Green) Tayloe.
Democrat. Governor of
Wyoming, 1925-27; defeated, 1926; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Wyoming, 1928,
1940,
1944,
1948
(alternate); Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1929.
Female.
Episcopalian.
First woman governor in the U.S.
Died December
19, 1977 (age 101 years, 20
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Nellie Nugent Somerville —
of Greenville, Washington
County, Miss.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Mississippi, 1924;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives.
Female.
Member, American
Association of University Women.
First woman to serve in Mississippi legislature.
Burial
location unknown.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia (Cutter) Knight.
Republican. Lecturer;
writer;
mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Harold Clayton Lloyd (1893-1971) —
also known as Harold Lloyd —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Burchard, Pawnee
County, Neb., April 20,
1893.
Son of James Darsie Lloyd and Sarah Elizabeth (Fraser) Lloyd.
Republican. Actor,
comedian,
film
producer; appeared in over 200 motion
pictures; one of the founders, in 1927, of the Academy of
Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1948,
1952.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Lost
two fingers in a 1919 accident.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
1971 (age 77 years, 322
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) —
also known as Ruth Bryan; Ruth Bryan Rohde; Mrs.
Borge Rohde —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., October
2, 1885.
Daughter of William
Jennings Bryan and Mary Elizabeth (Baird) Bryan (1861-1930).
Democrat. Lecturer;
U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1929-33; U.S. Minister
to Denmark, 1933-36.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Delta
Gamma.
first woman to be elected to Congress from the South; inducted
1992 into the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame.
Died in Copenhagen, Denmark,
July
26, 1954 (age 68 years, 297
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Ordrup
Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Thomas Stephen Hogan (1869-1957) —
also known as Thomas S. Hogan —
of Montana.
Born in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa
County, Wis., December
23, 1869.
Candidate for Montana
state house of representatives, 1894; secretary of
state of Montana, 1897-1901; candidate for Governor of
Montana, 1900; member of Montana
state senate, 1910-14.
In 1929, built the first "skyscaper" (12 stories) in Midland,
Texas.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
25, 1957 (age 87 years, 276
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980) —
also known as Paul R. Williams —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
18, 1894.
Son of C. S. Williams and Lila A. (Wright) Williams.
Republican. Architect;
first African-American architect west of the Mississippi, and
first to be member of the American Institute of Architects; designed
many Southern California landmarks, including the homes of Hollywood
celebrities; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1953; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1952,
1960;
member, California Housing Commission and California Civil Rights
Commission.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Institute of Architects; Freemasons.
Died, from diabetes,
in California Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
23, 1980 (age 85 years, 339
days).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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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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Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1883-1968) —
also known as Arthur W. Mitchell —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Lafayette, Chambers
County, Ala., December
22, 1883.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1935-43; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1940.
African
ancestry.
While a student at Tuskegee Institute, he served as office boy for
Booker T. Washington. First African-American Democrat ever
elected to the U.S. Congress.
Died near Petersburg, Dinwiddie
County, Va., May 9,
1968 (age 84 years, 139
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Dinwiddie County, Va.
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Fleming Adolphus Jones, Jr. (b. 1895) —
also known as Fleming A. Jones, Jr. —
of Welch, McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born in Gaffney, Cherokee
County, S.C., October
10, 1895.
Son of Felix Jones and Emeline (Young) Jones.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from McDowell County, 1935-42,
1945-48; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
West Virginia, 1952.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Phi
Beta Sigma; American
Legion.
First Democratic black member of West Virginia House of
Delegates.
Burial
location unknown.
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Hollis Monroe Peavey (b. 1897) —
also known as Hollis M. Peavey —
of Huntington Park, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Riceville, Mitchell
County, Iowa, March 27,
1897.
Republican. Mayor
of Huntington Park, Calif., 1942-44, 1947-48; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Musician
and leader of Peavy's Jazz Bandits, one of the first jazz
bands.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles W. Anderson, Jr. (1907-1960) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 26,
1907.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives 58th District, 1936-47; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1940.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
First African-American to be elected to a Southern state
legislature in the 20th century.
Killed in a car-train
accident, in Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ky., June 14,
1960 (age 53 years, 19
days).
Interment at Eastern
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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David Dubinsky (1892-1982) —
also known as David Dobnievski —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Brest, Belarus),
February
22, 1892.
Son of Zallel Dubinsky and Shaine (Wishingrad) Dubinsky.
President
of International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, from 1932; one of the
founders of the American Labor Party in New York, 1936;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1936;
vice-chair of New York
Liberal Party, 1944, 1958; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 20, 1969.
Died, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1982 (age 90 years, 207
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Myles Anderson Paige (c.1898-1983) —
also known as Myles A. Paige —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., about 1898.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Pullman car
porter; lawyer;
Republican candidate for New York
state senate 19th District, 1926; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
justice, New York City Court of Special Sessions, 1940-58; judge,
Court of Domestic Relations (later Family Court).
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Urban
League; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American
Legion; Catholic
Lawyers Guild.
New York City's first black magistrate, 1936, and first
black judge, 1940.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 30,
1983 (age about 85
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Milton Lipson (1913-2003) —
also known as Mitch Lipson —
of Sea Cliff, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1913.
Secret
Service agent; One of the first Jews in the U.S. Secret
Service; worked as bodyguard for Presidents Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Harry
S. Truman; lawyer.
Jewish.
Died in Sea Cliff, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
22, 2003 (age about 89
years).
Cremated.
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Roy Claxton Acuff (1903-1992) —
also known as Roy Acuff; "The King of Country
Music" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Maynardville, Union
County, Tenn., September
15, 1903.
Son of Simon E. Neill Acuff and Ida (Carr) Acuff.
Republican. Country
musician; co-founder of Acuff-Rose Publication Company, the
first country music publishing
house; appeared in seven Hollywood movies
in the 1940s; owner and operator of Dunbar Cave Hotel
near Nashville; candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1948.
Elected to Country Music Hall of
Fame, 1962.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
23, 1992 (age 89 years, 69
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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Roscoe Conkling Simmons (d. 1951) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mississippi.
Republican. Orator,
writer,
columnist
for the Chicago Tribune; first African-American
columnist for a Chicago daily newspaper;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1928
(alternate), 1932,
1936,
1948;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1938.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1951.
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Roscoe
Conkling |
| | | Relatives: Nephew by marriage of Booker
T. Washington. |
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Herbert Young Cho Choy (1916-2004) —
also known as Herbert Y. C. Choy —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Makaweli, Island of Kauai, Kauai
County, Hawaii, January
6, 1916.
Son of Doo Wook Choy and Helen (Nahm) Choy.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; law partner of Hiram
Fong; Hawaii
territory attorney general, 1957-58; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1971-84; took senior
status 1984.
Korean
ancestry.
First person of Korean ancestry to be admitted to the practice
of law in the United States; first Asian-American federal
judge.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, March 10,
2004 (age 88 years, 64
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Poletti (1903-2002) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Barre, Washington
County, Vt., July 2,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936
(alternate), 1940;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1937-38; appointed 1937;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1939-42; defeated, 1942; Governor of
New York, 1942-43; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Baptist.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; American Bar
Association; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Phi
Beta Kappa.
First American of Italian ancestry to serve as a Governor.
During World War II, he was a senior officer in the Allied Military
Government of occupied Italy. The New York Power Authority's plant in
Astoria, Queens, is named for him.
Died in Marco Island, Collier
County, Fla., August 7,
2002 (age 99 years, 36
days).
Interment somewhere
in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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Arcada Stark Balz (1879-1973) —
also known as Arcada Balz —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Monroe
County, Ind., December
31, 1879.
Republican. School
teacher; member of Indiana
state senate, 1943; First woman elected to Indiana State
Senate; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1944.
Female.
Methodist.
Died August
18, 1973 (age 93 years, 230
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Jacqueline Cochran Odlum (1906-1980) —
also known as Jacqueline C. Odlum; Jackie Odlum;
Bessie Lee Pittman; Jacqueline Cochran —
Born in Muscogee, Escambia
County, Fla., May 11,
1906.
Daughter of Ira Pittman and Mary (Grant) Pittman.
Republican. Beautician;
airplane
pilot; during World War II, she trained many women pilots for
duty ferrying supplies; she was the first woman ever to take
off and land on an aircraft carrier, the first woman pilot
ever to break the sound barrier, and to exceed Mach 2; in 1952, she
was one of the leaders of the "Draft Ike" movement to nominate Dwight
D. Eisenhower for president; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 29th District, 1956; elected to
Aviation Hall of
Fame, 1971.
Female.
Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal, Calif., is named for
her.
Died in Indio, Riverside
County, Calif., August 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 88
days).
Interment at Coachella
Valley Public Cemetery, Coachella, Calif.
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Mildred Frick Taylor (1905-1981) —
also known as Mildred F. Taylor —
of Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y.
Born April 21,
1905.
Republican. Coal
dealer; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1940,
1948,
1952
(alternate), 1960;
chair
of Wayne County Republican Party, 1943-56; member of New York
Republican State Executive Committee, 1945; member of New York
state assembly from Wayne County, 1947-60; Presidential Elector
for New York, 1956.
Female.
First woman to be elected a Republican county chair in New
York State. The Mildred Frick Taylor Award, for significant
contributions to the Wayne County Historical Archive, is named for
her.
Died, in Clifton Springs Hospital,
Clifton Springs, Ontario
County, N.Y., January
4, 1981 (age 75 years, 258
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Paul Taylor (died 1969). |
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Janet Hill Gordon (1915-1990) —
also known as Janet Hill —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
11, 1915.
Daughter of James
P. Hill and Florine Hill.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1942-46; Chenango
County Attorney, 1944-45; first woman county attorney in
New York State; member of New York
state assembly from Chenango County, 1947-58; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948;
member of New York
state senate 46th District, 1959-62.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Daughters of the
American Revolution; Grange; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; American
Legion Auxiliary.
Died September
17, 1990 (age 75 years, 249
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Norwich, N.Y.
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Harry S. McAlpin (b. 1906) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., July 21,
1906.
Son of Harry S. McAlpin, Sr. and Louise (Scott) McAlpin.
Democrat. Newspaper
correspondent; in 1944, was the first African-American
reporter to attend a White House news conference; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1956.
Congregationalist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha
Phi Alpha; Freemasons;
Elks.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1929
to Alice Stokes. |
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Frank John Calvert (1875-1947) —
also known as Frank J. Calvert —
of Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill., March 2,
1875.
Son of John Calvert (born 1834) and Mary (Threadgould) Calvert.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 2nd District,
1929-47; died in office 1947.
First member of the Michigan House of Representatives to serve
ten consecutive terms.
Died in Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich., August
29, 1947 (age 72 years, 180
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) —
also known as Theodore C. Achilles —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
29, 1905.
Son of Henry Laurence Achilles and Gertrude (Strong) Achilles.
Newspaper
work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1932; Rome, 1933; while serving as director of the State Department's
Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one of the main
architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding document
of NATO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1986 (age 80 years, 100
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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John C. Youle (1916-1999) —
also known as Clint Youle —
of Illinois.
Born April 4,
1916.
Republican. Broadcaster;
one of the first to present the weather on television,
in 1948; member of Illinois
state house of representatives; elected 1964.
Died in a hospital
at Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., July 23,
1999 (age 83 years, 110
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Mary V. Beck (1908-2005) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Ford City, Armstrong
County, Pa., February
29, 1908.
Daughter of Michael Beck and Anna (Woytowych) Beck.
Democrat. Social
worker; lawyer;
member, Detroit City Council, 1950-70 (first woman to be
elected); candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 16th District, 1950; candidate in
primary for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1969.
Female.
Eastern
Orthodox. Ukrainian
ancestry.
Died, in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Clinton Township, Macomb
County, Mich., January
30, 2005 (age 97 years, 0
days).
Interment at St.
Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery, South Bound Brook, N.J.
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Campaign slogan
(1969): "Sweep the Deck with Mary Beck." |
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Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) —
also known as Walt Disney; "Uncle
Walt" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901.
Son of Elias Disney (1859-1941) and Flora (Call) Disney (1868-1938).
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1944.
Irish
ancestry.
Producer
or director
of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first theme park; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. In honor of his
invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National
Inventors Hall of
Fame.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966 (age 65 years, 10
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds (1899-1997). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
J. Mitchell |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Walt Disney: Richard
Schickel, The
Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt
Disney — Leonard Mosley, Disney's
World: A Biography — Katherine Greene & Richard
Greene, The
Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — Bob
Thomas, Walt
Disney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Discovering
Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for young
readers) |
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Carolyn C. Moore (b. 1904) —
also known as Carrie Moore —
of Franklin, Simpson
County, Ky.
Born in 1904.
Member of Kentucky
state senate 5th District, 1950.
Female.
First woman to serve in Kentucky Senate.
Interment somewhere
in Franklin, Ky.
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Ruth Thompson (1887-1970) —
of Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich.; Whitehall, Muskegon
County, Mich.
Born in Whitehall, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
15, 1887.
Daughter of Tom Thompson and Brita (Nelson) Thompson.
Republican. Muskegon
County Register of Probate, 1905-25; probate judge in Michigan,
1925-36; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Muskegon County 1st District,
1939-40; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 1951-57; defeated in
primary, 1956.
Female.
Congregationalist
or Methodist.
First woman to represent Michigan in Congress; first
woman to serve in the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
Died in Plainwell Sanatorium,
Plainwell, Allegan
County, Mich., April 5,
1970 (age 82 years, 202
days).
Interment at Oakhurst
Cemetery, Whitehall, Mich.
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Dalip Singh Saund (1899-1973) —
also known as D. S. Saund —
of Westmorland, Imperial
County, Calif.
Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India,
September
20, 1899.
Son of Natha Singh Saund and Jeoni (Kaur) Saund.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; farmer; fertilizer
dealer; state court judge in California, 1952-57; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960;
U.S.
Representative from California 29th District, 1957-63.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry. Member, Lions; Toastmasters.
First native of India to be elected to a U.S. public office.
Died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 22,
1973 (age 73 years, 214
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Samuel Roman (1910-1998) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, in a hospital,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
26, 1910.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1947-54;
defeated, 1944, 1954.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Author and sponsor of nation's first law against racial
discrimination in places of public accomodation, 1953.
Died, of a stroke, in
Spring Valley, Rockland
County, N.Y., September
11, 1998 (age 88 years, 16
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Saddle Brook, N.J.
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Frances Payne Bolton (1885-1977) —
also known as Frances P. Bolton; Frances Payne
Bingham —
of Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March 29,
1885.
Daughter of Charles William Bingham and Mary Perry (Payne) Bingham.
Republican. Member of Ohio
Republican State Central Committee, 1938-40; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 22nd District, 1940-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1948
(speaker),
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, League
of Women Voters; National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Daughters of the
American Revolution.
First woman member of Congress to head a mission abroad, 1955.
Died in Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March 9,
1977 (age 91 years, 345
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Bessie Allison Buchanan (1902-1980) —
also known as Bessie A. Buchanan —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 7,
1902.
Democrat. Actress;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1955-62;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1956.
Female.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Urban
League.
First black woman member of the New York legislature.
Died in September, 1980
(age 78
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Charles P. Buchanan. |
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William Cato Cramer (1922-2003) —
also known as William C. Cramer; Bill Cramer;
"Mr. Republican" —
of St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla.; Tarpon Springs, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Denver,
Colo., August 4,
1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Florida state legislature, 1950-52; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1955-71 (1st District 1955-63, 12th
District 1963-67, 8th District 1967-71); defeated, 1952; first
Republican congressman from Florida since Reconstruction; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Florida, 1960,
1972;
member of Republican
National Committee from Florida, 1964-68; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1970; Presidential Elector for Florida, 1972.
Methodist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Amvets; Elks; Moose; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Order of
Ahepa.
Died, from complications of a heart
attack, in South Pasadena, Pinellas
County, Fla., October
18, 2003 (age 81 years, 75
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George William Crockett, Jr. (1909-1997) —
also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; National
Lawyers Guild.
Served four months in federal prison
for contempt
of court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader on
trial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Among the founders of the nation's first interracial law firm.
Ill with bone
cancer in 1997, he suffered a stroke and
died five days later, in Washington Home and Hospice,
Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1997 (age 88 years, 28
days).
Cremated.
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Margaret Towsley (1906-1994) —
also known as Margaret Grace Dow —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born January
3, 1906.
Daughter of Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930; founder, Dow Chemical).
Republican. First woman member of the Ann Arbor City Council;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1964.
Female.
Died, of a stroke, at
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Superior Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 2,
1994 (age 88 years, 119
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Stephen Cornelius O'Connell (1916-2001) —
also known as Stephen C. O'Connell —
of Florida.
Born in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
22, 1916.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1955-67; appointed 1955; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1966-67; first
Catholic to win a statewide election in Florida, 1956; president
of the University of Florida, 1967-73; the sports arena there is
named for him.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in
Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April 13,
2001 (age 85 years, 81
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John W. Gibson (1910-1976) —
of Michigan.
Born in Harrisburg, Saline
County, Ill., August
23, 1910.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1948.
Assistant secretary of labor in the Truman Administration. In 1957,
was one of the first owners of a McDonald's Hamburgers
franchise in the Washington area.
Died, following a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Lewes, Sussex
County, Del., October
22, 1976 (age 66 years, 60
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Robert Anderson (1921-2007) —
also known as William R. Anderson —
of Waverly, Humphreys
County, Tenn.; Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Bakerville, Humphreys
County, Tenn., June 17,
1921.
Son of David Hensley Anderson and Mary (McKelvey) Anderson.
Independent candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1962; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1965-73.
Protestant.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets.
Commanded the U.S.S. Nautilus on the first under-ice crossing
of the North Pole, 1958.
Died in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., February
25, 2007 (age 85 years, 253
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Daniel Ken Inouye (b. 1924) —
also known as Daniel K. Inouye —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
7, 1924.
Son of Hyotaro I. Inouye and Kame Imanaga Inouye.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1954-58; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1956;
member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1958-59; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii at-large, 1959-63; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Hawaii, 1960,
1972,
1980,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008
(delegation chair); Co-Chair, 1984;
U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1963-.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Disabled
American Veterans; Phi
Delta Phi; Lions.
Lost
his right arm as the result of a combat injury in Italy during
World War II. His Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded in 2000
to a Medal
of Honor. First American of Japanese descent to serve in
Congress.
Still living as of 2012.
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Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. (1922-1998) —
also known as Charles C. Diggs, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
2, 1922.
Son of Charles
Coles Diggs, Sr..
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mortician;
member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1951-54; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1955-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1956.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Elks; Freemasons;
American
Legion.
First chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; charged
in March 1978 with taking kickbacks
from staff whose salaries he raised; convicted,
October 7, 1978, on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false
payroll forms; insisted he had done nothing wrong, and was re-elected
while awaiting sentencing; censured
by the House on July 31, 1979; sentenced
to three years in prison
and served 14 months.
Died, of a stroke, at
Greater Southwest Community Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., August
24, 1998 (age 75 years, 265
days).
Interment at Detroit
Memorial Park, Warren, Mich.
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Horacio Rivero (1910-2000) —
also known as "Rivets" —
of California.
Born in Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico, May 16,
1910.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean conflict; U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1972-74.
Puerto
Rican ancestry.
First U.S. Navy four-star admiral of Hispanic heritage.
Died in Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif., September
24, 2000 (age 90 years, 131
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Fort
Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married to Hazel Rivero (1908-1997). |
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Charles Evans Boineau, Jr. (b. 1923) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., September
27, 1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1961-62; defeated, 1962,
1964; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina,
1964.
Member, Rotary.
Elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in August
1961; he was the first Republican representative since 1900.
Still living as of 1964.
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Otis M. Smith (1922-1994) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., February
20, 1922.
Democrat. Lawyer; Michigan
state auditor general, 1959-61; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1960;
justice
of Michigan state supreme court, 1961-66; appointed 1961;
defeated, 1966; first black member of the Michigan Supreme
Court; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1967-71; Presidential Elector for
Michigan, 1968;
vice-president and general counsel of General
Motors.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; Kiwanis.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 29,
1994 (age 72 years, 129
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. 1921) —
also known as John Glenn —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, July 18,
1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; Astronaut;
in February 1962, first American to orbit the earth; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1975-99; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1984;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1996,
2004,
2008.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Still living as of 2009.
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Sarah Tilghman Hughes (1896-1985) —
of Texas.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August 2,
1896.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1931-35; district judge in Texas,
1935-61; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, 1961.
Female.
In 1963, she became the first woman to swear in a President of
the United States.
Died April 23,
1985 (age 88 years, 264
days).
Interment at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Elizabeth McCullough Johnson (1909-1973) —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1909.
Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1959-62; member of Florida
state senate, 1963-67.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters.
first woman to serve in the Florida Senate; inducted 1986 into
the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
Died in 1973
(age about
64 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John William King (1918-1996) —
also known as John W. King —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Goffstown, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
10, 1918.
Democrat. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1954-62; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Manchester
10th Ward, 1956; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1963-69; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1968; superior court judge in New
Hampshire, 1969-79; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1979-81; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1981-86.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Eagles; Moose.
Started the first modern state lottery in 1963.
Died, of heart
trouble, at a nursing
home in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
9, 1996 (age 77 years, 365
days).
Interment at New
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Bedford, N.H.
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Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr. (1922-2000) —
also known as Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.; "Silent
Sam" —
Born in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
8, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1981-89.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
First black partner of a major New York City law firm.
First black member of the board of directors of a Fortune 500
corporation. Only black member of the Reagan Cabinet. An independent
counsel appointed in March 1990 found "a
pervasive pattern of improper and illegal behavior" within HUD,
amounting to a "monumental and calculated abuse of the public trust."
Pierce acknowledged
that he helped
create a climate in which the corruption took place, and in
return for that statement, prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges
against him.
Died October
31, 2000 (age 78 years, 53
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Fitts Ryan (1922-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albion, Orleans
County, N.Y., June 28,
1922.
Son of Bernard
Ryan, Sr..
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1961-72; died in
office 1972; candidate in primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1968.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
First member of the U.S. House to speak out against the
Vietnam War.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1972 (age 50 years, 81
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Church Cemetery, Croom, Md.
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Harvey B. Gantt (b. 1943) —
of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., 1943.
Democrat. First black student at Clemson University in South
Carolina; graduated with honors in 1965; architect;
mayor
of Charlotte, N.C., 1983-87; candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1990, 1996; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1996.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 1996.
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Dorothy Haener (1917-2001) —
of New Boston, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., 1917.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1976,
1980
(alternate).
Female.
Member, National
Organization for Women; United
Auto Workers.
Among the founders of the National Organization for Women in
1966.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Oakwood Hospital
Seaway Center, Trenton, Wayne
County, Mich., January
6, 2001 (age about 83
years).
Interment at Michigan
Memorial Park, Huron Township, Wayne County, Mich.
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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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Herbert Arlene (1917-1989) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Harrison, Washington
County, Ga., September
5, 1917.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1959-66; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960
(alternate), 1964;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 3rd District, 1967-80.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
First black member of the Pennsylvania state senate.
Died November
9, 1989 (age 72 years, 65
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward William Brooke III (b. 1919) —
also known as Edward W. Brooke —
of Newton Center, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
26, 1919.
Son of Edward W. Brooke and Helen (Seldon) Brooke.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for secretary of
state of Massachusetts, 1960; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1963-67; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1967-79; defeated, 1978.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Amvets; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
First black U.S. Senator in the 20th century; recipient of the
Spingarn
Medal in 1967.
Still living as of 2009.
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) —
also known as Thoroughgood Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., July 2,
1908.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-65; U.S. Solicitor General,
1965-67; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-91.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1946 First African-American Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
24, 1993 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at Lawyers'
Mall, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives:
Married, September
4, 1929, to Vivien Burey (died 1955); married, December
17, 1955, to Cecilia
Suyat; father of Thurgood
Marshall, Jr.. See Marshall
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
Curtis Bryson |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Thurgood Marshall: Juan
Williams, Thurgood
Marshall : American Revolutionary — Randall W. Bland,
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial
Biography — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1961-1991 — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1936-1961 |
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Frank Savickas (1935-2001) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 14,
1935.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives 27th District, 1967-71; member of
Illinois
state senate, 1971-93 (27th District 1971-83, 15th District
1983-93).
Catholic.
Lithuanian
ancestry. Member, Moose; Knights
of Columbus.
First Lithuanian-American member of the Illinois legislature.
Died in Venice, Sarasota
County, Fla., May 14,
2001 (age 66 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Hirsch Levi (1911-2000) —
also known as Edward H. Levi —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 26,
1911.
Son of Gerson B. Levi and Elsa B. (Hirsch) Levi.
Lawyer;
law
professor; president
of the University of Chicago, 1968-75; first Jewish president
of a major U.S. university; U.S.
Attorney General, 1975-77.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 7,
2000 (age 88 years, 255
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lois Shaw —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1972;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
1980.
Female.
First woman elected to the city council in Jersey City.
Still living as of 2012.
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David W. Williams (1910-2000) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 20,
1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in California, 1956-62; superior court judge in
California, 1963-69; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1969-81.
African
ancestry.
First black federal judge west of the Mississippi.
Died, of pneumonia,
at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
2000 (age 90 years, 47
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gwendolyn Sawyer Cherry (1923-1979) —
also known as Gwen Cherry —
of Florida.
Born in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., 1923.
Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1971-79.
Female.
African
ancestry.
first black woman elected to the Florida legislature; inducted
1986 into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
Died, in an automobile
accident, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., 1979
(age about
56 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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George M. Michaels (c.1910-1992) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born about 1910.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1961-66, 1969-70 (Cayuga County 1961-65, 137th
District 1966, 122nd District 1969-70); defeated, 1942.
Jewish.
In April 1970, when the vote in the State Assembly was tied, he
changed his vote and passed the bill which made New York the
first state to legalize abortion.
Died in 1992
(age about
82 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lucy Phelps Patterson (c.1932-2000) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., about 1932.
Republican. Social
worker; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 24th District, 1982.
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
First black woman ever elected to Dallas city council.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 15,
2000 (age about 68
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Betty Wilson (c.1915-2000) —
of Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born about 1915.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state senate 33rd District, 1976.
Female.
One of the founders and leaders of the city of Santa Fe
Springs.
Died in Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 14,
2000 (age about 85
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Herman Badillo (b. 1929) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Caguas, Caguas
Municipio, Puerto Rico, August
21, 1929.
Son of Francisco Badillo and Carmen (Rivera) Badillo.
Lawyer;
accountant;
borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1966-69; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 29th District, 1967;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1980,
1988;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969 (Democratic primary), 1973
(Democratic primary), 1977 (Democratic primary), 2001 (Republican
primary); U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1971-77; Democratic
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1986.
Protestant.
Puerto
Rican ancestry. Member, Beta
Gamma Sigma.
First person of Puerto Rican birth to have a vote in the U.S.
Congress.
Still living as of 2009.
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Patience Latting (b. 1918) —
also known as Patience Sewell; Mrs. Trimble B.
Latting —
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Texhoma, Texas
County, Okla., August
27, 1918.
Daughter of Frank Asa Sewell and Leila (Yates) Sewell.
Mayor
of Oklahoma City, Okla., 1971-83.
Female.
Member, American
Association of University Women; League of Women
Voters; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi Beta
Phi.
First woman to be mayor of a U.S. city over 350,000
population.
Still living as of 1983.
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Theodore Moody Berry (1905-2000) —
also known as Theodore M. Berry; Ted Berry —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., November
5, 1905.
Son of Daniel Berry and Cora (Parks) Berry.
Democrat. Lawyer;
associate general counsel, Dunbar Life
Insurance Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1972;
mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1972-75.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
Urban
League; Alpha
Phi Alpha; Sigma Pi
Phi.
First black mayor of Cincinnati.
Died October
15, 2000 (age 94 years, 345
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Theodora Nathalia Nathan (b. 1923) —
also known as Theodora Nathan; Tonie
Nathan —
of Oregon.
Born February
9, 1923.
Libertarian. Candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1972; first woman in U.S.
history to receive an Electoral College vote; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1980; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 4th District, 1990, 1996.
Female.
Still living as of 2002.
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Mark Wampler (born c.1952) —
Born about 1952.
Republican. Presidential Elector for Iowa, 1972.
First presidential elector under the age of 21.
Still living as of 2010.
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Elizabeth Richards Andujar (1912-1997) —
also known as Betty Andujar; Elizabeth
Richards —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., November
6, 1912.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1968,
1976;
member of Texas
state senate, 1973-82; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1976-82.
Female.
Presbyterian.
First woman member of the Texas Senate; first
Republican member of the Texas Senate since Reconstruction.
Died June 8,
1997 (age 84 years, 214
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Peter John Daley II (b. 1950) —
also known as Peter J. Daley II; Pete
Daley —
of Coal Center, Washington
County, Pa.; California, Washington
County, Pa.
Born in Brownsville General Hospital,
Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., August 8,
1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1972;
mayor of the Borough of California, Pa., 1973-81; youngest
mayor in Pennsylvania at age 22; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives 49th District, 1983-2003.
United
Church of Christ or Disciples
of Christ. Member, Optimist
Club.
Still living as of 2003.
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Arie Parks Taylor (1927-2003) —
also known as Arie P. Taylor; "Denver's Bella
Abzug" —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Bedford, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1927.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado,
1968;
member of Colorado
state house of representatives 7th District, 1973-84; Denver
clerk and recorder, 1991-95.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Colorado's first African-American woman legislator.
Died, in Presbyterian/St. Luke's Hospital,
Denver,
Colo., September
27, 2003 (age about 76
years).
Interment at Fort
Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Abraham David Beame (1906-2001) —
also known as Abraham D. Beame; Abe Beame;
"Spunky" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in London, England,
March
20, 1906.
Democrat. Accountant;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1964,
1980;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1974-77; defeated, 1965, 1977; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1967.
Jewish.
First Jewish mayor of New York City.
Died, from complications after heart
surgery, in New York University Medical
Center, New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
10, 2001 (age 94 years, 327
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Noel C. Taylor (1924-1998) —
of Roanoke,
Va.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., July 15,
1924.
Republican. Baptist
minister; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1972;
mayor
of Roanoke, Va., 1975-92.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP.
First black mayor of Roanoke.
Died in Roanoke,
Va., October
29, 1998 (age 74 years, 106
days).
Interment somewhere
in Bedford County, Va.
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Irma Rangel (1931-2003) —
of Kingsville, Kleberg
County, Tex.
Born in Kingsville, Kleberg
County, Tex., May 15,
1931.
Daughter of P. M. Rangel and Herminia L. Rangel.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives 43rd District, 1977-2003; died in
office 2003.
Female.
Mexican
ancestry.
In 1976, was the first Mexican-American woman elected to the
Texas House.
Died, of brain
cancer, in Brackinridge Hospital,
March
18, 2003 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985) —
also known as Patricia Roberts —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mattoon, Coles
County, Ill., May 31,
1924.
Democrat. Presidential Elector for District of Columbia, 1964;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1964;
U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1977-79; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1979-80; U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1980-81.
Female.
African
ancestry.
First African-American woman cabinet member.
Died March 23,
1985 (age 60 years, 296
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Rose Ann Vuich (c.1927-2001) —
of Dinuba, Tulare
County, Calif.
Born about 1927.
Democrat. Accountant;
farmer;
member of California
state senate, 1977-92.
Female.
Serbian
ancestry.
First woman member of the California Senate.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease and Alzheimer's
disease, in Dinuba, Tulare
County, Calif., August
30, 2001 (age about 74
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ann Smith Bedsole (b. 1930) —
also known as Ann Bedsole; Ann Smith; Mrs. Palmer
Bedsole —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., January
7, 1930.
Daughter of Malcolm White Smith and Sybil (Huey) Smith.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama,
1964
(alternate), 1972;
member of Alabama
Republican State Executive Committee, 1966; Presidential Elector
for Alabama, 1972;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1979-82; first Republican
woman to be elected to the Alabama House; member of Alabama
state senate, 1983-94; candidate for mayor of
Mobile, Ala., 2005.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Junior
League.
Still living as of 2006.
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Relatives:
Married 1958
to Massey Palmer Bedsole, Jr. |
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Oscar William Adams, Jr. (1925-1997) —
also known as Oscar W. Adams —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., February
7, 1925.
Lawyer;
associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1980-93.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Omega
Psi Phi; NAACP.
First African-American ever elected to statewide office in
Alabama.
Died of an infection
related to cancer, in
Baptist Medical
Center-Montclair, Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., February
15, 1997 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Sherry Lansing (b. 1944) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 31,
1944.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
2000.
Female.
Had a brief acting
career; became a motion
picture executive; as president of 20th Century Fox in 1980, was
first woman to head a major studio; producer
of five films,
including Fatal Attraction, The Accused, and
Indecent Proposal.
Still living as of 2009.
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Marie L. Garibaldi (b. 1934) —
of Weehawken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., November
26, 1934.
Municipal judge in New Jersey, 1973-75; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1982-.
Female.
First woman to serve on New Jersey's highest court.
Still living as of 1994.
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Richard A. Heyman (c.1935-1994) —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Born about 1935.
Mayor
of Key West, Fla., 1983-85, 1987-89.
Gay.
One of the first openly gay public officials.
Died of AIDS-related
pneumonia,
September
16, 1994 (age about 59
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gerry Eastman Studds (1937-2006) —
also known as Gerry E. Studds —
of Cohasset, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Mineola, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 12,
1937.
Democrat. Foreign Service officer; member of White House staff during
the administration of President John
F. Kennedy, 1962-63; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Harrison
A. Williams, 1964; state coordinator for U.S. Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy's presidential primary campaign, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1968,
1996;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1973-97 (12th District
1973-83, 10th District 1983-97).
Episcopalian.
Gay.
First openly gay member of Congress. Censured
by the House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for having sexual
relations with a teenage House page ten years earlier.
Died, of respiratory
failure, in Boston Medical
Center, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
14, 2006 (age 69 years, 155
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Roxanne Jones (c.1928-1996) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born about 1928.
Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 3rd District, 1985-96; died in office 1996.
Female.
African
ancestry.
First black woman elected to the Pennsylvania state senate.
Died of a heart
attack, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 19,
1996 (age about 68
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Cal Anderson (1948-1995) —
of Washington.
Born May 2,
1948.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington,
1984;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1987-95; member of Washington
state senate, 1995; died in office 1995.
Gay.
First openly gay member of the Washington state legislature.
Died from complications of AIDS, August 4,
1995 (age 47 years, 94
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clarence H. Burns (1918-2003) —
also known as Du Burns —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born September
17, 1918.
Democrat. Mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1987; defeated in primary, 1987, 1991.
African
ancestry.
First African-American mayor of Baltimore.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., January
12, 2003 (age 84 years, 117
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Robert D. Glass (c.1923-2001) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Wetumpka, Elmore
County, Ala., about 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
superior court judge in Connecticut, 1978-86; justice of
Connecticut state supreme court, 1987-92.
African
ancestry.
First black member of Connecticut's highest court.
Died November
27, 2001 (age about 78
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Carrie Saxon Perry (b. 1931) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born August
30, 1931.
Democrat. Mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1987-93; defeated, 1993; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1988
(speaker).
Female.
African
ancestry.
First woman to be mayor of Hartford; first black woman
to be mayor of a large city.
Still living as of 1993.
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James W. Clifton —
also known as Jimmy Clifton —
of Addison, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Libertarian. Candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1988.
Elected to Addison City Council in 1988; first Libertarian
elected on party ticket in Michigan history.
Still living as of 2001.
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Sophie Masloff (b. 1917) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., December
21, 1917.
Democrat. Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1988-94; Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania, 1996;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 2004-08.
Female.
Jewish.
Romanian
ancestry.
First woman and first Jewish mayor of Pittsburgh.
Still living as of 2008.
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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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David Norman Dinkins (b. 1927) —
also known as David N. Dinkins —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., July 10,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict;
lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly 78th District, 1966; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984,
1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1986-89; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1990-93; defeated, 1993; Presidential
Elector for New York, 1992.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP.
First black mayor of New York City.
Still living as of 2009.
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Joan Finney (1925-2001) —
also known as Joan McInroy —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., February
12, 1925.
Candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1972; Kansas
state treasurer, 1975-91; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kansas, 1984,
2000;
Governor
of Kansas, 1991-95; candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1996.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
First woman governor of Kansas.
Died, from complications of liver
cancer, in St. Francis Hospital
and Medical Center, Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., July 28,
2001 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Interment at Mt.
Calvary Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Carrie P. Meek (b. 1926) —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April 29,
1926.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1979-83; member of Florida
state senate, 1983-92; U.S.
Representative from Florida 17th District, 1993-2003; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996,
2000,
2004.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
First black women elected to Congress from Florida; inducted
1992 into the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2009.
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Carol Moseley Braun (b. 1947) —
also known as Carol Elizabeth Moseley —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
16, 1947.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1979-88; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1993-99; defeated, 1998; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1996;
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1999-2001; Samoa, 1999-2001; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 2004;
candidate for mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 2011.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, Delta
Sigma Theta.
First African-American woman to be elected to U.S. Senate.
Still living as of 2011.
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Roberta Achtenberg (b. 1950) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born July 20,
1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for California
state assembly, 1988; Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development, 1993-95; first openly gay
person to be confirmed for appointment by the U.S. Senate; candidate
for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1995; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1996,
2000.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, National
Lawyers Guild; Lesbian.
Still living as of 2000.
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Tom Fetzer —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1988; mayor of
Raleigh, N.C., 1993-99.
First Republican elected mayor in Raleigh history.
Still living as of 2001.
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Janet Reno (b. 1938) —
of Florida.
Born in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 21,
1938.
Daughter of Henry Reno and Jane (Wood) Reno.
Democrat. Lawyer; Dade
County State's Attorney, 1978-93; U.S.
Attorney General, 1993-2001; the first female U.S.
attorney general; candidate in primary for Governor of
Florida, 2002.
Female.
Danish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame, 1993; National Women's Hall of
Fame, 2000.
Still living as of 2009.
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Samuel Mitchell (b. 1957) —
also known as Sam Mitchell; "Psycho
Sam" —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., November
18, 1957.
Democrat. Submarine
mechanic at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard;
president,
Machinist & Aerospace Workers Local 1998; vice-president,
Federal Employees Metal Trades Council; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Hawaii, 1996.
Scottish
ancestry.
First federal employee to be a political party delegate after
the repeal of the Hatch Act.
Still living as of 2004.
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Madeleine Korbel Albright (b. 1937) —
also known as Madeleine K. Albright; Marie Jana
Korbelova; Madeleine Korbel —
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech
Republic), May 15,
1937.
Daughter of Josef Korbel and Anna Spiegelova.
University
professor; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1993; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1997-2001.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Czech
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
First woman to serve as Secretary of State.
Still living as of 2009.
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Donna Marie Christian-Christensen (b. 1945) —
also known as Donna M. Christian-Christensen; Donna
Christian; Donna Christian-Green —
of St. Croix, Virgin
Islands.
Born in Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J., September
19, 1945.
Daughter of Almeric Christian and Virginia (Sterling) Christian.
Democrat. Physician;
television
journalist; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virgin Islands, 1984,
1988,
1992,
2000,
2004,
2008
(member, Platform
Committee); Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the Virgin Islands, 1997-2003.
Female.
African
ancestry.
First female physician in the U.S. Congress.
Still living as of 2008.
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Gary Faye Locke (b. 1950) —
also known as Gary Locke —
of Washington.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., January
21, 1950.
Son of James Locke and Julia Locke.
Democrat. Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1983-93; Governor of
Washington, 1997-; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Washington, 2000,
2004;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Washington, 2004.
Baptist.
Chinese
ancestry.
First Chinese-American governor in U.S. history.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charlotte Gentry Burks —
also known as Charlotte Rose Gentry —
of near Monterey, Putnam
County, Tenn.
Member of Tennessee
state senate; elected 1998.
Female.
Running in place of her murdered husband, became the first
write-in candidate ever elected to the Tennessee State Senate.
Still living as of 1999.
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Danny Smith —
of Virginia.
Republican. Candidate for Virginia
state house of delegates 38th District, 2001; first openly
gay candidate for state office in Virginia.
Gay.
Still living as of 2001.
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