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Albert Lange (1801-1869) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, Germany),
December
16, 1801.
Republican. He belonged to a secret society which advocated a
constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, the
conspiracy was uncovered; he was convicted
of treason
and sentenced
to fifteen years in in prison;
pardoned
in 1829, and left Germany for the United States; U.S. Consul in Amsterdam, 1849-50; Indiana
state auditor, 1861-63; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., July 25,
1869 (age 67 years, 221
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Socialist. Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder
of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war speech he made in 1918,
and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Hyman Costrell (b. 1890) —
also known as Jack Robbins —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; New York.
Born in Kurenitz, Russia (now Belarus),
October
19, 1890.
Communist. Arrested
in 1905 in Russia and jailed
three months for demonstrating and distributing
circulars against the Czarist government; naturalized U.S.
citizen; plumber;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1934.
Jewish.
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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Arthur Elmer Reimer (1882-1969) —
also known as Arthur E. Reimer —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1882.
Socialist. Tailor;
lawyer;
Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1912, 1916; Socialist Labor candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1913, 1914; jailed
in Butte, Montana, 1916, for making a radical speech.
Died in 1969
(age about
87 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Caleb Harrison —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; jailed
in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1916 for making a radical speech.
Burial location unknown.
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Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) —
also known as Earl Browder —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 20,
1891.
Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I, he was convicted
in 1917 of conspiracy
against the draft laws and sentenced
to sixteen months in prison;
imprisoned
again in 1919; pardoned
in 1933; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th
District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936, 1940; arrested
in 1939 for a passport
violation, convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison
(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the
Communist Party, 1946.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 27,
1973 (age 82 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches that
encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) —
also known as Victor L. Berger —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Nieder-Rehbach, Austria,
February
28, 1860.
Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878; school
teacher; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1911-13, 1919,
1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, International
Typographical Union.
He and Eugene
V. Debs founded the Socialist Party. He opposed U.S.
entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he was tried
and convicted
under the Espionage
Act, and sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
elected to Congress anyway, he was denied a
seat in 1919-21 to to alleged disloyalty.
In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the cases
against him were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923.
Injured in a streetcar
accident, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
7, 1929 (age 69 years, 160
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) —
also known as William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire
Socialist" —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
27, 1875.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1918; arrested
in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red flag
from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; indicted
for sedition,
1920; represented at trial by
Clarence
Darrow; convicted,
sentenced
to 1-5 years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1922.
Died, of cancer,
in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1946 (age 71 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola
Maverick and Madge Bird; grandson of William
Bross. |
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
Bookkeeper;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches that
encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialist
candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1928.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Died in 1952
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Irwin St. John Tucker —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Lecturer;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches that
encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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Adolph Germer (1881-1966) —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, Kaliningrad
Oblast), January
15, 1881.
Socialist. Miner; union
official in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of
America, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee from
Illinois, 1911; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,
Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches that
encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., May, 1966
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Maurice Sugar (1891-1974) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Brimley, Chippewa
County, Mich., August
8, 1891.
Lawyer;
Socialist candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1917, 1919; Socialist candidate
for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1917; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1918 (Socialist),
1936 (Farmer-Labor); convicted
in 1918 for resisting the draft, sentenced to a year in prison,
and disbarred;
readmitted to the Bar in 1923; pardoned
in 1933; general counsel to the United Automobile Workers, 1937-46;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Jewish
and Lithuanian
ancestry. Member, National
Lawyers Guild.
Died in Cheboygan
County, Mich., February
15, 1974 (age 82 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., about 1868.
Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; newspaper
publisher; real estate
developer; lawyer; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; charged
with assault
in connection with his participation in a Socialist rally in
Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying the speaker
and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) mayor of
Linden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, while addressing
a meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in
St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., November
12, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick J. Harwood —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; New York.
Socialist. State Secretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; when
attempting to speak to a Socialist rally in Rahway,
N.J., May 31, 1919, he was sprayed with a fire hose by Mayor David
H. Trembley; charged
with opposing
and obstructing a police officer, and fined
$50; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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David H. Trembley (b. 1858) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, 1858.
Carriage
painter; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist
orator, Frederick
Harwood, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a
fire hose; subsequently arrested
and charged
with assault
and inciting to riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of the
Peace Gustav Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a
charge of improper procedure.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) —
also known as Anita Whitney —
of California.
Born about 1868.
Communist. Social
worker; in 1919, she gave a radical speech in Oakland,
California; as a result, she was arrested,
tried,
and found
guilty of violating the state's syndicalism
law; pardoned
by Governor C. C.
Young.; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
4, 1955 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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G. August Gerber —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Socialist. Arrested
for making seditious
utterances on March 26, 1920, in Philadelphia, when police broke
up a protest meeting, and charged
with inciting
to riot; released when the charges were dropped the next day;
candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 18th District, 1921, 1922;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1932
(at-large).
Burial location unknown.
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Mary Winsor (b. 1873) —
of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
28, 1873.
Socialist. Woman suffrage activist; participant in the first U.S.
birth control conference, New York City, November 1921; on November
13, police arrived to forcibly shut down the event, and she was arrested,
along with Margaret Sanger, for attempting to speak; charged
with disorderly conduct, but released soon after; candidate for Pennsylvania
secretary of internal affairs, 1922; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1932.
Female.
Member, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Burial location unknown.
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John C. Butterworth (1870-1952) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England,
1870.
Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; silk
weaver; Socialist Labor candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1913, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943,
1949; on October 6, 1924, during a strike at the silk mills in
Paterson, N.J., while the city was under martial law, he and other
strikers and supporters were arrested
and convicted
of unlawful assembly; the convictions were later overturned by
the New Jersey Supreme Court; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1924, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1944,
1946; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., October
17, 1952 (age about 82
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Paterson (N.J.) News, October 18, 1952 |
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Max Schachtman (1904-1972) —
of Floral Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Warsaw, Poland,
September
10, 1904.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; arrested
during a demonstration on Wall Street in New York City, July
3, 1928, but charges against him were dismissed; became an open
supporter of Leon Trotsky's opposition to Stalin about 1928, and was
expelled from the Communist Party; became a major Trotskyist leader
and theoretician, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers
Party; editor of The Militant newspaper;
Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1940 (23rd District), 1946 (15th
District); Workers candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1941; broke with Trotskyism in 1948, and
became more conservative in later life.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, League
for Industrial Democracy.
Died, in Long Island Jewish Hospital,
New Hyde Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
4, 1972 (age 68 years, 55
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Schachtman and Sarah Schachtman; married to Billie
Ramloff, Edith Harvey and Yetta Barsh. |
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Philip Aaron Raymond (1899-1983) —
also known as Philip Raymond —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
4, 1899.
Communist. Labor
organizer; in January, 1930, he was arrested
in Pontiac, Mich., and charged
with leading a demonstration; again arrested
in April, 1934, in Dearborn, Mich., when he was seen talking with
strikers picketing an auto plant; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1930; Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1934; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1936, 1940; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Michigan; candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1946.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
21, 1983 (age 84 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) —
also known as William Z. Foster; William Edward
Foster —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., February
25, 1881.
Communist. Labor
organizer; helped lead steelworkers strike in 1919; candidate for
President
of the United States, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1930; arrested
after a demonstration in 1930, and jailed
for six months; indicted
on July 20, 1948 under the Smith
Act, and charged
with conspiring to advocate
the overthrow of the government; never tried due to illness.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in a sanatorium
at Moscow, Russia,
September
1, 1961 (age 80 years, 188
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Sammie A. Abbott (1908-1990) —
of New York; Takoma Park, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born April
25, 1908.
Communist. Activist and labor
organizer; arrested
about 50 times in connection with demonstrations and strikes;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1934; mayor
of Takoma Park, Md., 1980-85; defeated, 1985.
Died December
15, 1990 (age 82 years, 234
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1938 to Ruth
Gracie Yalsic. |
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George Edward Powers (b. 1892) —
also known as George E. Powers —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1892.
Sheet metal
worker; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist);
Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1930; in April 1932, he was arrested
at City Hall Park, during a demonstration which was
characaterized as "riot"; convicted
of unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932,
he was publicly accused
of taking part in an alleged Communist
conspiracy to cause bank failures in Chicago by spreading
rumors (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); he
denied this; Communist candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932; vice-president,
International Workers Order; Communist candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidate
for New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1936;
following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from the
Communist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; at Earl
Browder's trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for the
prosecution; Liberal candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1948, 1950.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Powers and Sarah Powers. |
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Ernest A. Moross (c.1874-1949) —
of Mosherville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born about 1874.
Manager for Indianapolis Speedway, and for many early 20th century race car
drivers; retired from automobile racing in 1916; candidate in
Republican primary for Michigan
state house of representatives from Hillsdale County, 1930;
Communist candidate for Michigan
state senate 10th District, 1932; in 1933, he refused to renew
his car's license
plates as a protest against the cost; when his car was
seized, he and his wife locked the doors and remained
inside it for a month; finally police broke into the car and arrested
them; convicted
of resisting arrest, and sentenced
to 30 days in jail.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 4,
1949 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) —
also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones;
Mary Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Moscow, Russia.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., December
26, 1882.
Communist. School
teacher; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym
"Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration to the New York
City Board of Education, and as a result, she was fired
from her teaching job; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for the
English-language broadcasts of Radio
Moscow, 1937-45.
African
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in the Staten Island Area Hospital,
Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., December
24, 1945 (age 62 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1909 to
Charles Burroughs. |
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article |
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1933 |
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) —
also known as Abdul Hamid; Eugene Brown; "The
Black Hitler"; "The Harlem Hitler";
"Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi Abdul
Hamid" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1903.
Self-styled cleric; labor
leader; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and a
green velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlem
whose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees;
conducted street rallies in Harlem where he denounced
Jews; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war against
the Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933; arrested
in October 1934; tried and
found guilty on misdemeanor charges of making a public
speech without a permit, and selling books without a license, and
sentenced
to ten days in jail;
later suspected
of inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led to injunctions
against his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife,
Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, and shot
at him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded the
Buddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility.
Buddhist
or Muslim.
African
ancestry.
Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out of
fuel and crashed
near Wantagh, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 30,
1938 (age 35 years, 205
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer
under several different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
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article |
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George Thomas Bardwell (1901-1947) —
also known as George Bardwell; Thomas George
Bardwell —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Lake City, Hinsdale
County, Colo., October
18, 1901.
Communist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1934; arrested
and prosecuted
in the 1930s in connection with a strike; acquitted.
Died in a hospital,
Denver,
Colo., January
19, 1947 (age 45 years, 93
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Relatives: Son
of George D. Bardwell and Hannah J. (Cunningham) Bardwell; married,
April
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Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) —
also known as "Commodore" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
13, 1877.
Republican. Engineer;
president, Jahncke Dry
Docks, New Orleans; U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy,
1929-33; named a Commodore in 1931, and a Rear Admiral in the naval
reserve in 1955; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1932,
1936
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
German
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Expelled
from the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking a
strong stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games.
Died in Pass Christian, Harrison
County, Miss., November
16, 1960 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Entombed at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) —
also known as Joe McWilliams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hitchcock, Blaine
County, Okla., 1904.
Gave street-corner speeches in New York City, in which he denounced
Jews and praised
Adolf Hitler; arrested
in 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1940.
Died in 1996
(age about
92 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Nathan Pressman (1912-1993) —
of Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 24,
1912.
Socialist. Longtime Socialist Labor Party activist; jailed
briefly during World War II for draft resistance, but
subsequently accepted induction into the U.S. Army; several time
candidate for mayor of Ellenville, N.Y.; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; expelled from Socialist Labor Party, 1984.
Died, in Ellenville Community Hospital,
Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., September
25, 1993 (age 81 years, 93
days).
Interment at Workmen's
Circle Cemetery, Wawarsing town, Ulster County, N.Y.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Progressive. University
professor; novelist;
playwright;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Glen Hearst Taylor (1904-1984) —
also known as Glen H. Taylor —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., April
12, 1904.
Country-western
singer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Idaho, 1938; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1945-51; defeated, 1940 (Democratic), 1942
(Democratic), 1956 (Independent); arrested
on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, for attempting to use
a door reserved for Negroes, rather than the whites-only door; convicted
in 1949 of disorderly conduct; Progressive candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died April
28, 1984 (age 80 years, 16
days).
Interment at Skylawn
Memorial Park, San Mateo, Calif.
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Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) —
also known as Anne Braden; Anne McCarty —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 28,
1924.
Newspaper
reporter; labor
organizer; civil rights activist starting in the 1940s; in May
1954, to fight segregation, she and her husband bought a house
in a white neighborhood on behalf of a Black family; this sparked
furious and violent opposition and the bombing of the house; she and
others were charged
with sedition;
her husband was the first to be convicted, but then, in 1956, all
state sedition laws were struck down; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Kentucky.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., March 6,
2006 (age 81 years, 221
days).
Interment at Eminence
Cemetery, Eminence, Ky.
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Clennon Washington King Jr. (c.1921-2000) —
also known as Clennon King; "The Black Don
Quixote" —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born about 1921.
Minister;
Independent Afro-American candidate for President
of the United States, 1960; candidate for mayor of
Miami, Fla., 1996.
African
ancestry.
Attempted to enroll in the then-all-white University of
Mississippi in 1958, and was sent to the state's insane
asylum; attempted to join and integrate Jimmy
Carter's all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on the eve of
the 1976 presidential election. Jailed
on numerous occasions for his flamboyant tactics.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., February
12, 2000 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albany, Ga.
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Byron Mark Baer (1929-2007) —
also known as Byron M. Baer —
of Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born October
8, 1929.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1972-93 (District 13-B 1972-73,
37th District 1974-93); member of New
Jersey state senate 37th District, 1994-2005; resigned 2005;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1996,
2000.
While working as a Freedom Rider, registering voters in
Mississippi in 1961, was arrested
and jailed
for 45 days.
Died, from complications of congestive
heart failure, in an assisted
living facility, Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., June 24,
2007 (age 77 years, 259
days).
Cremated.
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George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 9,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy
during the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National
Committee to Free America from Jewish
Domination (later known as the American Nazi
Party); arrested
at various demonstrations during the 1960s; American Nazi
candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1965.
Shot
and killed by
a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while driving his
car in the parking lot of Dominion Hills Shopping
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., August
25, 1967 (age 49 years, 169
days); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20
years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into
Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his
supporters.
Cremated.
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Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) —
also known as Fannie Lou Townsend —
Born in Montgomery
County, Miss., October
6, 1917.
Civil rights and voting rights activist; founder of Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party; in September 1962, in retaliation for her
attempt to vote, she was shot
at in a drive-by shooting; in 1963, along with other civil
rights activists en route to a conference, she was arrested,
and suffered an almost
fatal beating by police; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1964; candidate for Mississippi
state senate, 1971.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1995.
Died in Mound Bayou, Bolivar
County, Miss., March
14, 1977 (age 59 years, 159
days).
Interment at Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden, Ruleville, Miss.
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Relatives:
Daughter of James Lee Townsend and Ella Townsend; married 1945 to Perry
Hamer. |
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Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) —
also known as Hosea Williams —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Decatur, DeKalb
County, Ga.
Born in Attapulgus, Decatur
County, Ga., January
5, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; walked
with a cane due to wartime injury; ordained
minister; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972; member of Georgia
state house of representatives 54th District, 1975-85; candidate
for mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1989.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Phi
Beta Sigma; Elks; Freemasons;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion.
Civil rights leader; active in sit-ins and protest
marches in Savannah and elsewhere; arrested
at least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general"
in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965
Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for Black
voting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated. Convicted
in 1981 of leaving
the scene of an accident, and jailed
for six months.
Died, of cancer,
at Piedmont Hospital,
Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., November
16, 2000 (age 74 years, 316
days).
Entombed at Lincoln
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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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.
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Mortimer Thomas Furay (1910-1972) —
also known as Mort Furay —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., July 23,
1910.
Democrat. President,
Local 705, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union; vice-president,
AFL-CIO Union Label Trade Department; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1944; candidate in primary for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1949; in 1967, at an intersection in Highland
Park, Mich., he witnessed a woman being beaten by her husband, and
summoned police; when the police officers decided not to arrest the
man, he protested, and was arrested
for interfering
with police; he pleaded not guilty, and a trial date was set, but
apparently the case was dropped.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
12, 1972 (age 61 years, 233
days); body was
donated to Wayne State University Medical School.
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Relatives: Son
of Mortimer John Furay and Florence Bell (Kratz) Furay; married 1932 to
Corinne Kelly. |
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Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., June 25,
1944.
College
instructor; in 1968, he was indicted
and tried
for his refusal to comply with the military draft, but was
acquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978; candidate for mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1979; president, Minneapolis city council.
Gay.
One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians.
Died, from AIDS-related
complications, August
23, 1991 (age 47 years, 59
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor;
leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating in support of a garbage workers' strike in
Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting apartheid at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C., 1984; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 2008.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Bobby Seale (b. 1936) —
also known as Robert George Seale —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., October
22, 1936.
Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955; charged
with insubordination
and being AWOL,
and dishonorably
discharged; sheet metal
worker; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party,
1966; one of eight defendants charged
in 1969 with crossing state lines to incite a riot at the 1968
Democratic National Convention in Chicago; the judge ordered him bound and
gagged during the trial, and sentenced
him to four years in prison
for contempt
of court; Peace and Freedom candidate for California
state assembly 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he was charged
in New Haven, Conn., with ordering
the murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed to
being a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and
the charges were eventually dropped; candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) —
also known as Paul Wellstone; "Senator
Welfare" —
of Minnesota.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1944.
Democrat. College
professor; arrested
during a Vietnam War protest at the federal building in
Minneapolis, 1970; arrested
again during a protest of farm foreclosures at a bank in
Paynesville, Minn., 1984; candidate for Minnesota
state auditor, 1982; member of Democratic
National Committee from Minnesota, 1984-91; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1996,
2000.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed in a plane
crash, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
25, 2002 (age 58 years, 96
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019) —
also known as John Conyers, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); resigned 2017;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African
Embassy in Washington, 1984; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1989; in 2017, it was reported that a former
member of Conyers' staff had alleged
that he had sexually
harassed her, and had been paid a settlement of $27,000;
subsequently, the House Ethics Committee started an investigation
into multiple such allegations; he subsequently resigned
from Congress.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Recipient of the Spingarn
Medal, 2007.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
27, 2019 (age 90 years, 164
days).
Entombed at Detroit
Memorial Park East, Warren, Mich.
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Ronald Vernie Dellums (1935-2018) —
also known as Ronald V. Dellums —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., November
24, 1935.
Democrat. Social
worker; U.S.
Representative from California, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75,
8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98); arrested
during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1988,
1996,
2008;
mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 2007-11.
Protestant.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 30,
2018 (age 82 years, 248
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) —
also known as Don Edwards —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., January
6, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,
10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1964,
1968,
1988;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., October
1, 2015 (age 100 years,
268 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) —
also known as Charles A. Hayes —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill., February
17, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in
primary, 1992; arrested
during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
African
ancestry. Member, United
Food and Commercial Workers.
Died, from complications of lung
cancer, at South Suburban Hospital,
Hazel Crest, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1997 (age 79 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) —
also known as Walter E. Fauntroy —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
6, 1933.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1972,
1980,
1988
(speaker);
arrested
during an anti-apartheid sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1990.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Charged
in federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements on financial
disclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000
to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to make
it appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outside
income, and that he had failed
to disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200. Pleaded
guilty to one felony count, and sentenced
to probation.
Still living as of 2014.
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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,
1988;
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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William H. Simons —
also known as Bill Simons —
of Washington,
D.C.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; school
teacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District
of Columbia, 1968,
1980,
1996,
2000;
president,
Washington Teachers Union; vice-president,
American Federation of Teachers; arrested
during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984; candidate for Presidential Elector for District
of Columbia.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1938.
Lawyer;
writer;
university
professor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004;
chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99; arrested
during an anti-apartheid sit-in at the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ezola Broussard Foster (b. 1938) —
also known as Ezola B. Foster; Ezola
Broussard —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Maurice, Vermilion
Parish, La., August
9, 1938.
School
teacher; Republican candidate for California
state assembly, 1984; arrested
with others while protesting recognition of the gay Log Cabin
Republican organization, at the California Republican state
convention, 1987; Reform candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2000.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, John
Birch Society.
Still living as of 2018.
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John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) —
also known as J. Quinn Brisben —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Enid, Garfield
County, Okla., September
6, 1934.
Socialist. School
teacher; poet;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976; briefly jailed
in Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rights
demonstration in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate for President
of the United States, 1992.
Member, American
Federation of Teachers.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
17, 2012 (age 77 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Nelson (b. 1962) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born, in a hospital
at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, April 7,
1962.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1996,
2000.
Gay.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; National Rifle
Association.
Convicted
on a misdemeanor act of civil disobedience, 1995 Recipient of
Democratic National Committee's Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award,
1998.
Still living as of 2004.
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Michael Badnarik (b. 1954) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Hammond, Lake
County, Ind., August
1, 1954.
Libertarian. Software
engineer;
candidate for Texas
state house of representatives, 2000 (47th District), 2002 (48th
District); candidate for President
of the United States, 2004; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 2006.
Slovak
ancestry.
Arrested,
in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Green Party
presidential nominee David
Cobb, while protesting their exclusion from presidential
debates.
Still living as of 2007.
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David Keith Cobb (b. 1962) —
also known as David Cobb —
Born in San Leon, Galveston
County, Tex., December
24, 1962.
Green. Lawyer;
candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 2002; candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Arrested,
in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Libertarian Party
presidential nominee Michael
Bednarik, while protesting their exclusion from
presidential debates.
Still living as of 2004.
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Leslie L. Farr II (born c.1978) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born about 1978.
Republican. Train
conductor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 2004;
Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 1st District, 2004, 2006 (primary);
suspended
without pay in October 2004, for making a political
statement (critical of Democratic presidential candidate John
Kerry) over the public address system of an Amtrak train; political
consultant.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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Joshua Selassie Wolf (b. 1982) —
also known as Josh Wolf —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in California, June 8,
1982.
Video
journalist; jailed
226 days by a federal court for his refusal
to turn over to prosecutors his tapes of anarchist protesters
clashing with police during a 2005 demonstration; released in April
2007; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2007.
Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2007.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University
professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest genocide in Darfur, in
front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Gordon James Klingenschmitt (b. 1968) —
also known as Gordon Klingenschmitt —
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., June 5,
1968.
Republican. Chaplain;
wore his Navy uniform at a 2006 political protest, with Roy
Moore, in front of the White House; subsequently court-martialed
for disobeying
a lawful order; he had been prohibited from appearing at
political events in uniform; ultimately discharged
from the Navy; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 2015-16; candidate for Colorado
state senate, 2016.
Evangelical
Christian.
Still living as of 2016.
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Addison Graves Wilson (b. 1947) —
also known as Joe Wilson —
of West Columbia, Lexington
County, S.C.; Springdale, Lexington
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 31,
1947.
Republican. Staff for U.S. Sen. Strom
Thurmond, and for U.S. Rep. Floyd
Spence; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972,
2008;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1984-2001; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 2001-; rebuked
by the House of Representatives in September, 2009, for a breach of
decorum; he had shouted "You Lie!" during an address by
President Barack
Obama.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2018.
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Yari Osorio —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Cali, Colombia.
Socialist. Emergency
medical technician; anti-war and social justice activist; arrested
in October, 2011, along with hundreds of others, during an Occupy
Wall Street demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
City; Socialism and Liberation candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2012.
Colombian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2012.
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