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Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Anson
County, N.C., April 24,
1837.
Son of Andrew Polk and Sereba Autry Polk.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1866; newspaper
editor; North
Carolina commissioner of agriculture, 1877-80; national president
of the Farmers' Alliance.
Baptist.
Member, Grange.
Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural
Hall of Fame in 1957.
Died from a bladder
hemorrhage, in Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1892 (age 55 years, 48
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Joseph Jacob Foss (1915-2003) —
also known as Joe Foss; "The American Ace of
Aces" —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak., April 17,
1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
received the Medal
of Honor for action over Guadalcanal in 1942-43; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1948
(alternate), 1956;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 10th District, 1949-50,
1953-54; Governor of
South Dakota, 1955-59; candidate for U.S.
Representative from South Dakota, 1958; Commissioner, American Football
League, 1960; elected to National Aviation Hall of Fame, 1984;
president, National Rifle Association, 1988-90.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, from the effects of a stroke, in
Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
1, 2003 (age 87 years, 259
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Donald L. Mason —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Zanesville, Ohio, 1984-91; member, Public Utilities Commission
of Ohio, 1998-.
Member, Rotary.
Elected to Muskingum College Athletic Hall of Fame, 1992.
Still living as of 2004.
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Betty Castor (b. 1941) —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Glassboro, Gloucester
County, N.J., May 11,
1941.
Daughter of Joseph L. Bowe and Gladys Wright Bowe.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state senate, 1977-78, 1983-86 (23rd District 1977-78, 21st
District 1983-86); candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Florida, 1978; Florida Commissioner of Education,
1986; President
of of the University of South Florida, 1994; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 2004;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 2004.
Female.
Lutheran.
Member, League
of Women Voters; American
Association of University Women; Sierra
Club.
Inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame, 1996.
Still living as of 2004.
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Ernest Robinson Ackerman (1863-1931) —
also known as Ernest R. Ackerman —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 17,
1863.
Son of James Harvey Ackerman.
Republican. President, Lawrence Portland
Cement Company; banker;
Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1896;
member of New Jersey
state senate from Union County, 1906-11; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1908,
1916;
member of New Jersey
state board of education, 1918-20; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1919-31; died in
office 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union
League.
He was elected to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame
in 2000.
Died, of heart
disease, in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., October
18, 1931 (age 68 years, 123
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Plainfield, N.J.
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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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Carl Bert Albert (1908-2000) —
also known as Carl Albert; "The Little Giant from
Little Dixie" —
of McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla.
Born in McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla., May 10,
1908.
Son of Ernest Homer Albert and Leona Ann (Scott) Albert.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 3rd District, 1947-77; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1971-77; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Oklahoma, 1952,
1964
(chair, Resolutions
and Platform Committee), 1968,
1992,
1996.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Lions; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Izaak
Walton League; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Died, at McAlester Regional Health
Center, McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla., February
4, 2000 (age 91 years, 270
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, McAlester, Okla.
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Henry Justin Allen (1868-1950) —
also known as Henry J. Allen —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Pittsfield, Warren
County, Pa., September
11, 1868.
Son of John Allen and Rebecca (Goodin) Allen.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Kansas, 1912,
1936;
Governor
of Kansas, 1919-23; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1929-30; defeated, 1930.
Methodist.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Kiwanis.
Inducted to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Died of cerebral
thrombosis, in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., January
17, 1950 (age 81 years, 128
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Kan.
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Charles R. Anthony (1885-1976) —
also known as C. R. Anthony —
of Edmond, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born near Trenton, Gibson
County, Tenn., August
10, 1885.
Son of Zachary Cicero Anthony and Elvira Ann (Pennington) Anthony.
Democrat. Merchant;
banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1956.
Member, Rotary.
Named to Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Died in June, 1976
(age 90
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Hugh Arrington (1904-1979) —
also known as James H. Arrington —
of Stillwater, Payne
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Jethro, Franklin
County, Ark., May 23,
1904.
Son of William H. Arrington and Laura T. (Fulks) Arrington.
Democrat. School
teacher; athletic
coach; superintendent
of schools; oil drilling
business; Oklahoma
Democratic state chair, 1940-46; member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1942-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1948,
1952,
1956;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1956.
Presbyterian.
Member, Izaak
Walton League; Sigma
Nu; Lions.
Named to Oklahoma State University Alumni Hall of Fame.
Died March 8,
1979 (age 74 years, 289
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Stillwater, Okla.
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Margaret Culkin Banning (1891-1982) —
also known as Margaret Frances Culkin —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Buffalo, Wright
County, Minn., March 18,
1891.
Daughter of William
Edgar Culkin and Hannah Alice (Young) Culkin.
Republican. Novelist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1924
(alternate), 1936.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Association of University Women; League of Women
Voters.
Elected to Duluth Hall of Fame.
Died in Tryon, Polk
County, N.C., January
4, 1982 (age 90 years, 292
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Page Henry Belcher (1899-1980) —
also known as Page Belcher —
of Enid, Garfield
County, Okla.
Born in Jefferson, Grant
County, Okla., April 21,
1899.
Son of George Harvey Belcher and Jessie (Ray) Belcher.
Republican. Lawyer;
secretary to U.S. Rep. Ross
Rizley, 1941; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma, 1951-73 (8th District 1951-53, 1st
District 1953-73).
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Odd
Fellows.
Named to Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Died in Midwest City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., August 2,
1980 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Enid, Okla.
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Lucile Elizabeth Belen (1912-2010) —
also known as Lucile E. Belen —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Laingsburg, Shiawassee
County, Mich., December
28, 1912.
Daughter of Christopher Belen (1882-1960) and Elizabeth
Lehman Belen.
Democrat. Florist;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Ingham County 1st District,
1942; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1952;
member, Lansing City Council, 1955-92; candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Ingham County
1st District, 1961.
Female.
Member, Zonta; Rotary.
Inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, 2001.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., June 2,
2010 (age 97 years, 156
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Loren Murphy Berry (1888-1980) —
also known as Loren M. Berry; "Mr. Yellow
Pages" —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Oakwood, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind., July 24,
1888.
Son of Charles D. Berry and Elizabeth (Murphy) Berry.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; advertising
salesman who popularized the Yellow Pages business section in telephone
directories nationwide; founded L. M. Berry Co.; director of telephone
companies; Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1956,
1972;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1960,
1964.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis.
Elected to Telephone
Hall of Fame in 1982.
Died in Oakwood, Montgomery
County, Ohio, February
10, 1980 (age 91 years, 201
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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David Bing (b. 1943) —
also known as Dave Bing —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
24, 1943.
Played professional
basketball for the Detroit Pistons and other teams, 1966-75;
named to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990; founder,
president, and chairman of Bing Steel (later
The Bing Group), supplier to automobile
manufacturers; mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 2009-.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2012.
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Roxcy O'Neal Bolton (b. 1926) —
also known as "Florida's Pioneer
Feminist" —
Born in Mississippi, 1926.
.
Female.
Member, National
Organization for Women.
In 1974, founded the first Rape Treatment Center in the country at
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami; inducted 1984 into the Florida
Women's Hall of Fame.
Still living as of 2001.
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Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone (1895-1983) —
also known as Reva Beck Bosone; Reva Zilpha
Beck —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in American Fork, Utah
County, Utah, April 2,
1895.
Daughter of Christian Matheus Beck and Zilpha Ann (Chipman) Beck.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Utah state
house of representatives, 1933-35; municipal judge in Utah,
1936-48; U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1949-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952,
1956.
Female.
Member, Utah Hall of Fame.
Died in Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va., July 21,
1983 (age 88 years, 110
days).
Interment at American
Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah.
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William Warren Bradley (b. 1943) —
also known as Bill Bradley; "Dollar
Bill" —
of Denville, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Crystal City, Jefferson
County, Mo., July 28,
1943.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1979-97; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Jersey, 1988,
1996;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2000.
Protestant.
At the 1964 Olympic
Games, won a gold medal as part of the U.S. basketball team;
professional basketball
player for the New York Knicks, 1967-77; elected to the Basketball
Hall of Fame in 1983.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Taylor Brown (1876-1951) —
also known as John T. Brown —
of Mechanicsburg, Champaign
County, Ohio.
Born in Plain City, Madison
County, Ohio, March 14,
1876.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1921-28; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1929-31; defeated, 1930; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Grange;
Farm
Bureau.
Enshrined in Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, 1968.
Died, of heart
failure, in Mechanicsburg, Champaign
County, Ohio, January
18, 1951 (age 74 years, 310
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
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James Paul David Bunning (b. 1931) —
also known as Jim Bunning —
of Fort Thomas, Campbell
County, Ky.; Southgate, Campbell
County, Ky.; Fort Wright, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Southgate, Campbell
County, Ky., October
23, 1931.
Republican. Professional baseball
player, 1950-71; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, N.Y.; member of Kentucky
state senate 11th District, 1980-83; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1983; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1987-99; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1999-; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Kentucky, 2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2009.
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Michael Curb (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Curb —
of California; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
24, 1944.
Republican. Musician; record
company executive; race car
owner; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1977; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate in
primary for Governor of
California, 1982.
The Curb Event Center at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn., is named for
him. In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2009.
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James Houston Davis (1899-2000) —
also known as Jimmie Davis; "The Singing
Governor" —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Quitman, Jackson
Parish, La., September
11, 1899.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana,
1944,
1960;
Governor
of Louisiana, 1944-48, 1960-64.
Country
musician and author of hit song "You Are My Sunshine"; elected to
the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1972; star of the movie
Louisiana, as himself.
Died in Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., November
5, 2000 (age 101 years, 55
days).
Interment at Davis
Cemetery, Jackson Parish, La.
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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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Carl Djerassi (b. 1923) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university
professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical
researcher;
helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1978.
Still living as of 2006.
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Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1935-2011) —
also known as Geraldine Ferraro —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., August
26, 1935.
Daughter of Dominick Ferraro and Antonetta (Corrieri) Ferraro.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1979-85; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984
(chair, Platform
Committee), 1996;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1984; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1992, 1998.
Female.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Died, from multiple
myeloma, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 26,
2011 (age 75 years, 212
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Betty Friedan (1921-2006) —
also known as Bettye Naomi Goldstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., February
4, 1921.
Daughter of Harry Goldstein and Miriam (Horowitz) Goldstein.
Democrat. University
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1984.
Female.
Jewish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, National
Organization for Women; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to National Women's Hall of Fame.
Died, of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 2006 (age 85 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (b. 1959) —
also known as Jennifer M. Granholm; Jennifer Judith Alfreda
Granholm —
of Northville Township, Wayne
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Vancouver, British
Columbia, February
5, 1959.
Daughter of Victor Ivar Granholm and Shirley Alfreda (Dowden)
Granholm.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
Michigan
state attorney general, 1999-2002; Governor of
Michigan, 2003-.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, 2004.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Semple Green (1832-1905) —
also known as Will S. Green —
of Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif.
Born December
26, 1832.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; hotel-keeper;
steamboat
captain; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of California
state assembly 25th District, 1867-69; California
state treasurer, 1898-99; promoter of irrigation projects.
Elected to the California Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Died July 2,
1905 (age 72 years, 188
days).
Interment somewhere
in Colusa, Calif.; memorial monument at Will
S. Green Memorial, Near Hamilton City, Glenn County, Calif.
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Carl Stuart Hamblen (1908-1989) —
also known as Stuart Hamblen —
of California.
Born in Kellyville, Marion
County, Tex., October
20, 1908.
Musician;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1952.
Inducted into Country/Western Songwriters Hall of Fame and
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.
Died, of brain
cancer, in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
1989 (age 80 years, 139
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Kim Crane Hammond (b. 1944) —
also known as Kim Hammond —
of Flagler
County, Fla.
Born in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., October
12, 1944.
Professional football
player, as a quarterback for Miami (1968) and Boston (1969) in the
National Football League; circuit judge in Florida, 2000-07.
Member, Florida State University Hall of Fame.
Still living as of 2007.
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George P. Harlamon (b. 1919) —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., February
7, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1968-69; defeated, 1969.
Eastern
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry. Member, Elks; Exchange
Club.
Elected to Waterbury Hall of Fame, 2003.
Still living as of 2004.
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Paula Hawkins (1927-2009) —
also known as Paula Fickes; "The Battling Maitland
Housewife" —
of Maitland, Orange
County, Fla.
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
24, 1927.
Daughter of Paul Burt Fickes and Mary Leoan (Staley) Fickes.
Republican. Model;
member of Republican
National Committee from Florida, 1968-86; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Florida, 1972;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1972;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Florida, 1978; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1981-87; defeated, 1986.
Female.
Mormon.
Inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame, 2000.
Died in Winter Park, Orange
County, Fla., December
3, 2009 (age 82 years, 313
days).
Interment at Palm
Cemetery, Winter Park, Fla.
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Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) —
also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great
Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in West Branch, Cedar
County, Iowa, August
10, 1874.
Son of Jesse Clark Hoover (1847-1880) and Hulda Randall (Minthorn)
Hoover (1848-1883).
Republican. Mining engineer;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-28; President
of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1960.
Quaker.
Swiss
and Dutch
ancestry.
Inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame, Leadville,
Colorado.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers Hotel, New
York, New
York County, N.Y., October
20, 1964 (age 90 years, 71
days).
Interment at Herbert
Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Clark Hoover (1847-1880) and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover
(1848-1883); distant cousin of Charles
Lewis Hoover; married, February
10, 1899, to Lou Henry (1874-1944); father of Herbert
Clark Hoover, Jr.. See Hoover
family of California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss |
| | | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| | | Books about Herbert Hoover: Martin L.
Fausold, The
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover — Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert
Hoover : Forgotten Progressive — George H. Nash, Life
of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 —
George H. Nash, The
Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies,
1917-1918 — David Holford, Herbert
Hoover (for young readers) |
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Garrison Keillor (b. 1942) —
also known as Gary Edward Keillor —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., August 7,
1942.
Son of John Philip Keillor and Grace Ruth (Denham) Keillor.
Democrat. Writer; radio show
host; comedian;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.
Scottish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Winona LaDuke (b. 1959) —
of Ponsford, Becker
County, Minn.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., 1959.
Daughter of Vincent LaDuke and Betty LaDuke.
Green. Candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1996, 2000.
Female.
Ojibwe
Indian ancestry.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, 2007.
Still living as of 2000.
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Stephen Michael Largent (b. 1954) —
also known as Steve Largent —
of Oklahoma.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., September
28, 1954.
Republican. Played professional football
for the Seattle Seahawks, as a wide receiver, 1976-89; elected to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1995; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 1st District, 1994-2002; appointed
1994; resigned 2002; candidate for Governor of
Oklahoma, 2002.
Still living as of 2009.
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Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) —
also known as Herbert H. Lehman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 28,
1878.
Son of Mayer Lehman (1830-1897) and Babette (Newgass) Lehman.
Democrat. Director, Consolidated Cotton Duck
Co., Imperial Cotton Co.,
U.S. Cotton
Duck Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World
War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1929-32; Governor of
New York, 1933-42; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Gamma Delta; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1963; inducted into the
Jewish-American Hall of Fame in 1974.
Died December
5, 1963 (age 85 years, 252
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Robert Bruce Mathias (1930-2006) —
also known as Bob Mathias —
of Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif.; Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif., November
17, 1930.
Son of Charles Milfred Mathias and Lillian (Harris) Mathias.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 18th District, 1967-75.
Methodist.
Won Olympic
gold medals in decathalon in 1948 and 1952; starred as himself in
a 1954 movie,
"The Bob Mathias Story"; inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of
Fame, 1983.
Died, of cancer, in
Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., September
2, 2006 (age 75 years, 289
days).
Interment at Tulare
Cemetery, Tulare, Calif.
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Lucille Maurer (1922-1996) —
also known as Lucy Maurer; Lucille Shirley
Darvin —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born, in Bushwick Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
21, 1922.
Democrat. Economist;
delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1967-68; member of
Maryland
state house of delegates, 1969-87; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1970; Maryland
state treasurer, 1987-96; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1988.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League
of Women Voters; National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American
Association of University Women; National
Organization for Women.
Elected to Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, 1990.
Died of a brain
tumor, in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., June 17,
1996 (age 73 years, 209
days).
Interment at Jewish
Community Cemetery, New Hempstead, N.Y.
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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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Robert H. Bob Menke, Sr. (1919-2008) —
also known as Bob Menke —
Born in Huntingburg, Dubois
County, Ind., October
15, 1919.
Son of William Menke and Clara (Moenkhaus) Menke.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; furniture
business; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1953-54.
A standout basketball player in high school and at Indiana
University; inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
in 1982.
Died, from Lewy body
dementia, March 30,
2008 (age 88 years, 167
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Fairmount
Cemetery, Huntingburg, Ind.
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George Mikan (1924-2005) —
Born in Joliet, Will
County, Ill., June 18,
1924.
Republican. Professional basketball
player and coach for the
Minneapolis Lakers in the 1940s and 1950s; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 3rd District, 1956; member,
Basketball Hall of Fame.
Croatian
ancestry.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., June 1,
2005 (age 80 years, 348
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Thomas William Osborne (b. 1937) —
also known as Tom Osborne —
of LeMoyne, Keith
County, Neb.
Born in Hastings, Adams
County, Neb., February
23, 1937.
Republican. Played pro football
as a receiver with the NFL Washington Redskins, 1960-61; football
coach with the University of Nebraska, 1973-97, where he won 13
conference titles and three national championships, and was inducted
into the College Football Hall of Fame; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 3rd District, 2001-; candidate in
primary for Governor of
Nebraska, 2006.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2009.
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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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Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, September
13, 1922.
Democrat. School
teacher; welder; social
worker; founder, in 1961, of ASPIRA, a non-profit organization
which promotes education and community for Puerto Rican and other
Latino youth; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967;
received the Medal
of Freedom, 1996; inducted into the Hunter College Hall of
Fame.
Female.
Puerto
Rican ancestry. Lesbian.
Died, of cancer, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
2002 (age 79 years, 253
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright;
author of the lines which were later adapted as the song "Home Sweet
Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Richard Lee Petty (b. 1937) —
also known as Richard Petty; "The
King" —
of North Carolina.
Born in Level Cross, Randolph
County, N.C., July 2,
1937.
Republican. NASCAR race car
driver, 1958-92; winner of the Grand Nationals in 1964 and 1967,
and the Winston Cup in 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979; winner of the
Daytona 500 seven times; winner of 200 NASCAR races -- a record, and
95 more than any other driver; inducted into the Motorsports Hall
of Fame of America in 1989.; candidate for secretary of
state of North Carolina, 1996.
Still living as of 2009.
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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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Wilhelmina Jackson Rolark (1916-2006) —
also known as Wilhelmina J. Rolark; M. Wilhelmina
Jackson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Portsmouth,
Va., September
12, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer;
co-founder of Washington Informer newspaper;
member, Washington, D.C. city council, 1977-92; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1980.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Inducted in 2001 to the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Greater Southeast Community Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
14, 2006 (age 89 years, 155
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Ronald Ryun (b. 1947) —
also known as Jim Ryun —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., April 29,
1947.
Republican. Silver medallist, 1968 Olympic
games; inducted into National Distance Running Hall of
Fame; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1996-.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Patricia Scott Schroeder (b. 1940) —
also known as Patricia Schroeder; Patricia Nell
Scott —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 30,
1940.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1973-97; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1996;
Co-Chair, 1984.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; League of Women
Voters.
Inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame, 1995.
Still living as of 2009.
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Lynn Curtis Swann (b. 1952) —
also known as Lynn Swann —
of Sewickley Heights, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Alcoa, Blount
County, Tenn., March 7,
1952.
Pro
football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1974-82; member of
the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall
of Fame; Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, 2006.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Janet Voinovich —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 2004,
2008.
Female.
Inducted into Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, 1999.
Still living as of 2008.
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Jackie Washington —
of Michigan.
Democrat. Social
worker; president and CEO, Pontiac Urban League, 1985-92;
president and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Southeast Michigan, 1992-;
member of Wayne State
University board of governors, 2001; inductee, Michigan Women's
Hall of Fame.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; American Civil
Liberties Union; National
Organization for Women; NAACP.
Still living as of 2002.
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Herman John Wedemeyer (1924-1999) —
also known as Herman Wedemeyer; "Squirmin'
Herman"; "Hula Hips"; "The
Hula-Hipped Hawaiian"; "The Hawaiian
Hurricane"; "The Hawaiian
Centipede" —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born near Hilo, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
County, Hawaii, May 20,
1924.
College football star; elected to the National Football Foundation
College Hall of Fame and the Hawaii Sports Hall of
Fame; played pro football
for the Los Angeles Dons and the Baltimore Colts in 1948-49; played
pro baseball
for the Salt Lake City Bees (farm team for the San Francisco Seals)
in 1950; member of Hawaii
state house of representatives, 1971-74; as an actor,
he was a regular on the television
series "Hawaii Five-O," playing the role of Duke Lakela, 1971-80.
Hawaiian,
German,
Irish,
English,
Chinese,
French,
and Tahitan
ancestry.
Died, of complications from a heart
attack, at Queens Hospital,
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, January
25, 1999 (age 74 years, 250
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Ralph H. Young (1889-1962) —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Crown Point, Lake
County, Ind., December
17, 1889.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; athletic
coach; Michigan State College athletic director; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ingham County 2nd District,
1957-62; died in office 1962.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Rotary; Phi
Gamma Delta.
Elected to Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
Died in East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., January
23, 1962 (age 72 years, 37
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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