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Politicians Who Received a Pulitzer Prize

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  Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in St. Louis, Mo., January 5, 1882. Democrat. Newspaper reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for a series of articles titled "Inside the German Empire"; executive editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his leadership, the newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service in 1922, for reporting on the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1932, 1936, 1940; elected (Wet) delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not serve. English, German, and Jewish ancestry. Died, from pneumonia, following surgery for an intestinal ailment, in Doctors Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., June 20, 1958 (age 76 years, 166 days). Cremated.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope; married 1912 to Margaret Honeyman Powell.
  See also Wikipedia article
  William Cabell Bruce (1860-1946) — of Baltimore, Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore County, Md. Born in Charlotte County, Va., March 12, 1860. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Maryland state senate, 1894-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1916 (member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1924; U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1923-29; defeated, 1928. Episcopalian. Recieved a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for his book Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed. Died in Ruxton, Baltimore County, Md., May 9, 1946 (age 86 years, 58 days). Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Owings Mills, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Bruce and Sarah (Seddon) Bruce; married, October 15, 1887, to Louise E. Fisher; father of James Bruce and David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce; nephew of James Alexander Seddon; uncle of Howard Bruce.
  Political family: Bruce-Mellon family of Virginia.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Henry Watterson Henry Watterson (1840-1921) — also known as "Marse Henry" — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1840. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; editor, Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876 (Temporary Chair), 1880 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1884, 1888 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1892; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1876-77; received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1918. Methodist. Died in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., December 22, 1921 (age 81 years, 309 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Harvey Magee Watterson and Talitha (Black) Watterson; married to Rebecca Ewing (daughter of Andrew Ewing); father of Harvey Watterson; first cousin once removed of James Harlan Cleveland Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Watterson (built 1943 at Jacksonville, Florida; sold 1947; later renamed Spartan; ran aground and wrecked at Pasa Buenavista, Cuba, 1961) was originally named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)
Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) — also known as Booth Tarkington — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., July 29, 1869. Republican. Novelist; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1903-04. Member, Sigma Chi. Won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, 1919, for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. Died in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., May 19, 1946 (age 76 years, 294 days). Entombed at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
  Relatives: Son of John Stevenson Tarkington and Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington; brother-in-law of Ovid Butler Jameson; married, June 18, 1902, to Laura Louisa Fletcher; married 1912 to Susannah Kiefer Robinson; nephew of Newton Booth; uncle of John Tarkington Jameson and Donald Ovid Butler Jameson; grandnephew of William Clayborne Tarkington; first cousin of Fenton Whitlock Booth.
  Political family: Booth-Tarkington-Jameson family of Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Tarkington Hall, at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books by Booth Tarkington: The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) — In The Arena : Stories of Political Life (1905)
  Fiction by Booth Tarkington: The Turmoil — Alice Adams — Penrod and Sam — The Magnificent Ambersons — Penrod — Seventeen — Gentle Julia — Ramsey Milholland — The Conquest of Canaan — The Two Vanrevels — Harlequin and Columbine — The Beautiful Lady — Monsieur Beaucaire — The Gibson Upright — The Guest of Quesnay — His Own People — Women — Beasley's Christmas Party
  Books about Booth Tarkington: James L. Woodress, Booth Tarkington : Gentleman from Indiana — Keith J. Fennimore, Booth Tarkington
  Image source: Time Magazine, December 21, 1925
Albert J. Beveridge Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) — also known as Albert J. Beveridge — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born in Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1862. Lawyer; historian; U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1899-1911; defeated, 1914 (Progressive), 1922 (Republican); delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1900, 1904 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1908, 1920, 1924 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of Indiana, 1912; received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 1920. Member, American Historical Association. Died in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., April 27, 1927 (age 64 years, 203 days). Interment at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Henry Beveridge and Frances Eleanor (Parkinson) Beveridge; married, November 24, 1887, to Katherine Maude Langsdale; married, August 7, 1907, to Catherine Spencer Eddy; father of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Jr..
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books by Albert J. Beveridge: The Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835 (1916) — The Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815 (1916) — The Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman 1789-1801 (1916) — The Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker (1916) — Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 (1928) — The Art of Public Speaking (1924) — The Meaning of the Times, and Other Speeches (1908) — The Russian Advance (1904) — The State of the Nation (1924) — What Is Back of the War (1915)
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902
  Charles Warren (1868-1954) — Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 9, 1868. Democrat. Lawyer; private secretary to Gov. William Eustis Russell, 1893-94; candidate for Massachusetts state senate, 1894, 1895; author; historian; assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1914-18; received a Pulitzer Prize in history, 1923, for his book History of the United States Supreme Court. Died in Washington, D.C., August 16, 1954 (age 86 years, 160 days). Interment at Vine Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Mary Lincoln (Tinkham) Warren and Winslow Warren; married 1904 to Annie Louise Bliss (sister of Robert Woods Bliss).
  Political family: Bliss-Warren family of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
William Allen White William Allen White (1868-1944) — also known as "The Sage of Emporia" — of Emporia, Lyon County, Kan. Born in Emporia, Lyon County, Kan., February 10, 1868. Republican. Newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1920 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1928 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1936 (member, Resolutions Committee); Independent candidate for Governor of Kansas, 1924. Received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for his editorial, "To An Anxious Friend". Died in Emporia, Lyon County, Kan., January 29, 1944 (age 75 years, 353 days). Interment at Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Kan.
  Relatives: Son of Dr. Allen White and Mary (Hatton) White; married, April 27, 1893, to Sallie Lindsay.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Image source: Time Magazine, August 19, 1940
  Jay Norwood Darling (1876-1962) — also known as Jay N. Darling; "Ding" — of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Born in Norwood, Charlevoix County, Mich., October 21, 1876. Republican. Cartoonist; received the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in 1924 and 1943; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1932; founder and first president, National Wildlife Federation; head of the U.S. Biological Survey (which later became the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), 1934-35; obtained millions of acres for wildlife refuges. Member, Beta Theta Pi. Died January 12, 1962 (age 85 years, 83 days). Interment at Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Marcellus Warner Darling and Clara (Woolson) Darling; married, September 19, 1911, to Genevieve Pendleton.
  The J.N. 'Ding' Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida, is named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
John J. Pershing John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) — also known as John J. Pershing; "Black Jack" — of Washington, D.C. Born in Laclede, Linn County, Mo., September 13, 1860. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920; his autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1932. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., July 15, 1948 (age 87 years, 306 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of John F. Pershing and Anne E. (Thompson) Pershing; married, June 26, 1905, to Helen Frances Warren (daughter of Francis Emroy Warren).
  Pershing County, Nev. is named for him.
  Pershing Road, in Chicago, Illinois, is named for him.
  Politician named for him: John Pershing Caulfield
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Munsey's Magazine, May 1919
  Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) — also known as Upton Sinclair — of California. Born in Baltimore, Md., September 20, 1878. Novelist and social crusader; author of The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested in 1914 for picketing in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist candidate for U.S. Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California; received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's Teeth. Member, United World Federalists; League for Industrial Democracy; American Civil Liberties Union. Died in Bound Brook, Somerset County, N.J., November 25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Cross-reference: Harry W. Laidler
  Campaign slogan (1934): "End Poverty in California."
  See also NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile
  Books by Upton Sinclair: I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked (1934)
  Fiction by Upton Sinclair: The Jungle — Oil! A Novel — The Moneychangers — Dragons Teeth — Wide is the Gate
  Books about Upton Sinclair: Lauren Coodley, ed., Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California — Greg Mitchell, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics — Kevin Mattson, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century — Anthony Arthur, Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
Bill Mauldin William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) — also known as Bill Mauldin — of New York. Born in Mountain Park, Otero County, N.M., October 29, 1921. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist, starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times newspapers, winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an actor in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of Courage; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 28th District, 1956. Died, from complications of Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia, in a nursing home at Newport Beach, Orange County, Calif., January 22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Married, February 28, 1942, to Norma Jean Humphries; married, June 27, 1947, to Natalie Sarah Evans.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Bill Mauldin campaign (1956) via Library of Congress
  James Albert Michener (1907-1997) — also known as James A. Michener — Born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., February 3, 1907. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author; received the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, 1948; candidate for U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1962; received the Medal of Freedom, 1977. Died in Austin, Travis County, Tex., October 16, 1997 (age 90 years, 255 days). Interment at Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Tex.; cenotaph at Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
  Relatives: Married 1935 to Patti Koon; married 1948 to Vange Nord; married 1955 to Mari Yoriko Sabusawa.
  Epitaph: "Traveler, Citizen, Writer."
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) — also known as Arthur Miller — of Roxbury, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., October 17, 1915. Democrat. Playwright; author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible"; received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected of ties to Communist organizations, his passport was denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political colleagues, and was found guilty of contempt of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968. Agnostic. Jewish ancestry. Died in Roxbury, Litchfield County, Conn., February 10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116 days). Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Isidore Miller and Augusta (Barnett) Miller; brother of Joan Copeland; married, August 5, 1940, to Mary Grace Slattery; married, January 29, 1956, to Marilyn Monroe; married, February 17, 1962, to Inge Morath.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) — also known as George F. Kennan — of Pennsylvania. Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis., February 16, 1904. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared him persona non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War; received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his Memoirs; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died in Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., March 17, 2005 (age 101 years, 29 days). Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about George Kenan: Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made — John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) — also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K."; "Lancer" — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., May 29, 1917. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956; received a 1957 Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Knights of Columbus; American Legion; Elks. Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Shot by a sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Dallas County, Tex., November 22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177 days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton Ivan Steers Jr.); brother of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter Lawford), Robert Francis Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith and Edward Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia Joan Bennett); married, September 12, 1953, to Jaqueline Lee Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III); father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who married Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, Mark Kennedy Shriver and Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John Francis Fitzgerald.
  Political family: Kennedy family.
  Cross-reference: John B. Connally — Henry B. Gonzalez — Henry M. Wade — Walter Rogers — Gerry E. Studds — James B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark Dalton — Waggoner Carr — Theodore C. Sorensen — Pierre Salinger — John Bartlow Martin — Abraham Davenport
  The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Louisville, Kentucky, is named for him.
  Coins and currency: His portrait appears on the U.S. half dollar coin.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage (1956)
  Books about John F. Kennedy: Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK : Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael O'Brien, John F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America — Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy — Chris Matthews, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero — Shelley Sommer, John F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young readers)
  Critical books about John F. Kennedy: Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK: the Man and the Myth
  Image source: Warren Commission report (via Wikipedia)
  John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972) — of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark. Born in Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn., November 2, 1872. Democrat. U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1913. Editor of the Arkansas Gazette newspaper, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1958. Died in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark., December 28, 1972 (age 100 years, 56 days). Interment at Mt. Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) — also known as Norman Mailer — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Long Branch, Monmouth County, N.J., January 31, 1923. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist, essayist, magazine editor, Hollywood screenwriter, director, and actor; among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper newspaper in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk at a party, he stabbed and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded guilty to third-degree assault; arrested and jailed in 1967 in connection with an antiwar protest; candidate for mayor of New York City, N.Y., 1969. Jewish ancestry. Won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980. Died, from acute renal failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., November 10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283 days). Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer; married 1944 to Beatrice 'Bea' Silverman; married 1954 to Adele Morales; married 1962 to Jeanne Campbell; married 1963 to Beverly Bentley; married 1980 to Carol Stevens; married 1981 to Norris Church; father of Michael Mailer.
  See also NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books by Norman Mailer: The Executioner's Song — The Fight
  Fiction by Norman Mailer: The Deer Park — The Naked and the Dead — An American Dream — The Gospel According to the Son
  Books about Norman Mailer: Mary V. Dearborn, Mailer : A Biography — Barry H. Leeds, The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer — Carl Rollyson, The Lives of Norman Mailer : A Biography — Jennifer Bailey, Norman Mailer: Quick Change Artist
  Critical books about Norman Mailer: Bernard Goldberg, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)
Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) — also known as Dean Acheson — of Washington, D.C. Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., April 11, 1893. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S. Secretary of State, 1949-53. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, American Bar Association; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Council on Foreign Relations. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department. Died, probably from a heart attack, over his desk in his study, Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Md., October 12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Campion Acheson and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson; married, May 5, 1917, to Alice Caroline Stanley; father of David Campion Acheson.
  Cross-reference: Lucius D. Battle — Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books by Dean Acheson: Present at the Creation : My Years in the State Department (1969)
  Books about Dean Acheson: Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made — Robert L. Beisner, Dean Acheson : A Life in the Cold War
  Image source: Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2010
  James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) — also known as James M. Burns — of Williamstown, Berkshire County, Mass. Born in Melrose, Middlesex County, Mass., August 3, 1918. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college professor; author; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952 (alternate), 1956, 1960, 1964; candidate for U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958. Member, American Philosophical Society; American Historical Association; American Civil Liberties Union; American Legion; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho. Received Pulitzer Prize in history, 1971. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married 1942 to Janet Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan Simpson Meyers.
  Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (1945-1994) — of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va. Born in Jacksonville, Onslow County, N.C., August 18, 1945. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lost both legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in South Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. Killed by a self-inflicted gunshot, in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., May 11, 1994 (age 48 years, 266 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Lewis Burwell Puller and Virginia Montague (Evans) Puller; married to Linda Todd Puller.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  William Osborne Dapping (1880-1969) — also known as William O. Dapping — of Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 12, 1880. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor and publisher; received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1930, for the Auburn Citizen's coverage of an inmate uprising at the Auburn prison; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936. Universalist. Member, Elks. Died August 1, 1969 (age 89 years, 50 days). Interment at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of William Dapping and Mathilda (Lauterbach) Dapping; married, June 3, 1911, to Ina Mae Fairchild.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
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