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Politicians Who Died at Age 40

  40 years, 0 days: George H. Proffit (1807-1847)Mathew C. Moore (1837-1877)
  40 years, 8 days: Edwin J. Jorden (1863-1903)Houston H. Buckley (1901-1941)
  40 years, 9 days: Jacob E. Meeker (1878-1918)
  40 years, 15 days: John E. Bouligny (1824-1864)
  40 years, 17 days: James T. Archer (1819-1859)
  40 years, 24 days: James Mitchell Varnum (1748-1789)
  40 years, 25 days: Arthur W. Aleshire (1900-1940)
  40 years, 26 days: William Breitenbach (1897-1937)
  40 years, 30 days: Lee Atwater (1951-1991)
  40 years, 36 days: Samuel Eden Gaillard (1839-1879)
  40 years, 51 days: Evarts Worcester Farr (1840-1880)
  40 years, 58 days: James Laird (1849-1889)
  40 years, 63 days: Charles A. Sulzer (1879-1919)
  40 years, 66 days: Abraham S. Aaronson (1883-1923)
  40 years, 79 days: J. Paul Clarke (1880-1920)
  40 years, 94 days: R. A. Packer (1842-1883)
  40 years, 97 days: Franklin P. Ambler (1825-1865)
  40 years, 101 days: Samuel D. Haight (1839-1880)
  40 years, 104 days: David Kawananakoa (1868-1908)
  40 years, 111 days: Franklin W. Bowdon (1817-1857)
  40 years, 113 days: Robert Lee Russell, Jr. (1925-1965)
  40 years, 114 days: Leon S. Wiles (1878-1918)
  40 years, 118 days: Davis Dimock, Jr. (1801-1842)
  40 years, 122 days: William M. Lowe (1842-1882)
  40 years, 135 days: William Columbus Cauthen (1824-1865)
  40 years, 152 days: Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894)
  40 years, 158 days: Leon R. Taylor (1883-1924)
  40 years, 164 days: Henry O. Kahan (1891-1932)
  40 years, 168 days: George B. Shaw (1854-1894)
  40 years, 172 days: John F. Mims (1815-1856)
  40 years, 193 days: Nick Begich (1932-1972)
  40 years, 196 days: Stephen Grady Miller (1891-1932)
  40 years, 197 days: Vincent F. Harrington (1903-1943)Albert W. Weisbrod (1851-1892)
  40 years, 203 days: William A. Steiger (1938-1978)
  40 years, 204 days: Stuart Allen (1902-1943)
  40 years, 205 days: Martin Ward (1874-1914)
  40 years, 206 days: Oran Gray Otis (1795-1836)
  40 years, 210 days: Allison Nelson (1822-1862)
  40 years, 212 days: Lackland M. Stone (1801-1842)
  40 years, 217 days: Maurice E. Crumpacker (1886-1927)
  40 years, 224 days: Francis Mellus (1824-1864)
  40 years, 226 days: John Willis Ellis (1820-1861)
  40 years, 228 days: Willsie E. Brisbin (1908-1948)
  40 years, 231 days: William Theopilus Jones (1842-1882)
  40 years, 234 days: William T. Haskell (1818-1859)
  40 years, 243 days: Thomas C. Hindman (1828-1868)
  40 years, 254 days: Benjamin F. Hopkins (1829-1870)Warren G. Hooper (1904-1945)
  40 years, 258 days: William Lowndes (1782-1822)
  40 years, 260 days: James Monroe Hale (1865-1906)
  40 years, 267 days: Joe E. Moreno (1964-2005)
  40 years, 275 days: Peter P. Mahoney (1848-1889)
  40 years, 280 days: Charles Robert Sherman (1788-1829)
  40 years, 284 days: Samuel P. Carson (1798-1838)Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829)Jedediah M. Grant (1816-1856)
  40 years, 286 days: John T. Manning (1892-1933)
  40 years, 296 days: Vernon H. Vaughan (1838-1878)
  40 years, 300 days: Amos Davis (1794-1835)
  40 years, 302 days: George W. Owen (1796-1837)Marshall Chapin (1798-1838)Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861)
  40 years, 315 days: Jack London (1876-1916)
  40 years, 320 days: John F. Parrish (1887-1928)
  40 years, 328 days: Philip Barton Key (1818-1859)
  40 years, 330 days: Edward King (1795-1836)
  40 years, 338 days: William A. Burwell (1780-1821)
  40 years, 349 days: James Carr (1777-1818)
  40 years, 351 days: Amos E. Wood (1810-1850)
  40 years, 358 days: Henry Mills Fuller (1820-1860)
  40 years, 360 days: Cass J. Jankowski (1889-1930)
  40 years, 361 days: Henry C. Burnett (1825-1866)
  Approximately 40 years: Jesse Slocumb (1780-1820)Josiah Tattnall (1762-1803)John Richardson Thurman (1814-1854)Robert Brooke (c.1760-1800)Michael Walsh Cluskey (1832-1873)Benjamin Lewis Hodge (1824-1864)Milton Carpenter (1808-1848)Sidney Dole (1788-1828)Solomon D. Sutherland (1762-1802)William McMillan (1764-1804)Arthur G. Lewis (1860-1900)James S. Slingerland (1834-1874)Erasmus B. Collins (1825-1866)Donald E. Sias (1894-1934)Roderick White (c.1816-1856)William J. Fallon (1886-1927)Donald McIntosh (1797-1837)Stephen Trigg (1742-1782)Charles P. McCarty (1933-1974)W. Irvin Shaw (1860-1900)G. I. Ruden (1885-1926)Herbert W. Hale (1872-1912)Harry B. Parker (1854-1895)Phillip French (1667-1707)
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