Very incomplete list!
See also pages about politicians who died of specific cancers: bladder,
brain,
breast,
colon,
leukemia,
liver,
lung,
mouth,
pancreas,
prostate,
stomach,
throat.
in chronological order
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Moses Fowler Odell (1818-1866) —
of New York.
Born in New York, February
24, 1818.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1861-65 (2nd District 1861-63, 3rd
District 1863-65).
Died, of cancer, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 13,
1866 (age 48 years, 109
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823-1882) —
also known as Benjamin H. Hill —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Jasper
County, Ga., September
14, 1823.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1851; candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1857; delegate
to Georgia secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator
from Georgia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 9th District, 1875-77; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1877-82; died in office 1882.
Slaveowner.
Died of cancer in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
16, 1882 (age 58 years, 336
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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John Palmer Usher (1816-1889) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Brookfield, Madison
County, N.Y., January
9, 1816.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1850-51; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1856; Indiana
state attorney general, 1861-62; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1863-65.
Died of cancer at University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
13, 1889 (age 73 years, 94
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Usher and Lucy (Palmer) Usher; married, January
26, 1844, to Margaret Patterson; first cousin once removed of Jonathan
Usher; second cousin of Robert
Cleveland Usher; second cousin twice removed of Rollin
Usher Tyler; third cousin of Francis
Landon Cleveland and Roland
Greene Usher; third cousin once removed of Grover
Cleveland and James
Harlan Cleveland; third cousin twice removed of Ephraim
Safford, Isaiah
Kidder, Samuel
Lord, James
Harlan Cleveland Jr. and Richard
Folsom Cleveland; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Wheeler Bloodgood; fourth cousin once removed of Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Charles
Stetson, James
Safford, Luther
Kidder and Isaiah
Stetson. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
22, 1819.
Writer,
poet,
critic,
professor,
and abolitionist; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877-80; Great Britain, 1880-85.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died of cancer, in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
12, 1891 (age 72 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Rugee (1827-1894) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Lübeck, Germany,
January
3, 1827.
Architect;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1861; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin.
Designed breweries, churches, grain elevators, and many bridges.
Died of cancer, in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., March 7,
1894 (age 67 years, 63
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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John Francis Lewis (1818-1895) —
also known as John F. Lewis —
of Port Republic, Rockingham
County, Va.
Born in Lynnwood, Rockingham
County, Va., March 1,
1818.
Republican. Delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Rockingham County, 1861; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1869-70, 1882; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1870-75.
Slaveowner.
Died, from cancer, in Lynnwood, Rockingham
County, Va., September
2, 1895 (age 77 years, 185
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Rockingham County, Va.
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Horace B. Tibbets (1840-1896) —
of Berwick, York
County, Maine.
Born in Berwick, York
County, Maine, August
7, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; carpenter;
postmaster at Berwick,
Maine, 1885-89, 1893-96.
Died from abdominal sarcoma, in Berwick, York
County, Maine, August
23, 1896 (age 56 years, 16
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, York County, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Tibbets and Betsy (Roberts) Tibbets. |
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William A. French (1849-1903) —
also known as Billy French —
of Dundee, Monroe
County, Mich.; Bell, Presque
Isle County, Mich.
Born in Pelham, Ontario,
March
2, 1849.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County 2nd District,
1883-84; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1884;
Michigan
land commissioner, 1894-1900; appointed 1894.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cancer, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., February
28, 1903 (age 53 years, 363
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Dundee, Mich.
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John Murray Mitchell (1858-1905) —
also known as John M. Mitchell —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1896-99; defeated,
1894, 1898; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1900.
Died, from cancer, in Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y., May 31,
1905 (age 47 years, 74
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Alexander Huston (1855-1911) —
of Tuscola, Tuscola
County, Mich.
Born in Blenheim, Ontario,
January
17, 1855.
Republican. Farmer; furniture
and undertaking
business; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1908.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Maccabees;
Gleaners.
Died, of cancer, in Millington, Tuscola
County, Mich., May 12,
1911 (age 56 years, 115
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Cloughen (c.1849-1911) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1849.
Contractor;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1909.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
27, 1911 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Father of Robert Cloughen. |
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Charles Frederick Bishop (1844-1913) —
also known as Charles F. Bishop; Charles Frederick
Bischoff —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsville, Erie
County, N.Y., October
14, 1844.
Democrat. Dealer in tea, coffee,
and spices; mayor
of Buffalo, N.Y., 1890-94.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of cancer, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1913 (age 68 years, 335
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Robert Gunn Bremner (1874-1914) —
also known as Robert G. Bremner —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland,
December
17, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1913-14; died in
office 1914.
Scottish
ancestry.
Afflicted with cancer, which spread from his neck to his left
shoulder, he was treated with then-experimental radiation therapy.
National news media followed his progress in detail for weeks. In Dr.
Howard A. Kelley's hospital,
tubes containing $100,000 worth of radium
(almost half of the entire U.S. supply) were temporarily inserted
into the tumor. The treatment was unsuccessful and probably harmful,
and he died, in Baltimore,
Md., February
5, 1914 (age 39 years, 50
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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Alexander Wilson (1851-1915) —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in Indiana
County, Pa., October
1, 1851.
Republican. Coal
dealer; mayor
of Johnstown, Pa., 1908-11.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from cancer, in Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa., August
30, 1915 (age 63 years, 333
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Southmont, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Wilson and Mary A. Wilson. |
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Alexander David McDonald (1861-1919) —
of Montana.
Born in 1861.
Member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1905-07, 1911-15.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of cancer in Galen, Deer Lodge
County, Mont., April 5,
1919 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Conrad
Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Mont.
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Charles P. Kellison (1850-1921) —
of Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind.
Born near Hornellsville (now Hornell), Steuben
County, N.Y., June 17,
1850.
Democrat. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885-87; hotel
proprietor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1896.
Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of cancer, in Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind., January
27, 1921 (age 70 years, 224
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Ind.
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Ellis Loring Dresel (1865-1925) —
also known as Ellis L. Dresel —
Born in 1865.
Lawyer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Germany, 1921-22.
Gay.
Died of cancer, September
19, 1925 (age about 60
years).
Interment at Beverly
Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass.
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Albert Waller Gilchrist (1858-1926) —
also known as Albert W. Gilchrist —
of Punta Gorda, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Greenwood, Greenwood
County, S.C., January
15, 1858.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; real estate
dealer; orange
grower; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1893-96, 1903-06; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1905; served in the
U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Florida, 1909-13; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1912
(speaker),
1924;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from a tumor of the thigh, in the Hospital
for the Ruptured and Crippled, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 15,
1926 (age 68 years, 120
days).
Interment at Indian
Spring Cemetery, Punta Gorda, Fla.
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Richard Charles Flannigan (1857-1928) —
also known as Richard C. Flannigan —
of Norway, Dickinson
County, Mich.
Born in Ontonagon, Ontonagon
County, Mich., December
12, 1857.
Lawyer;
Marquette
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1881-82, 1885-86; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1888;
mayor of Norway, Mich., 1891; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 31st District,
1907-08; circuit
judge in Michigan 25th Circuit, 1910-27; appointed 1910;
resigned 1927; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1927-28; appointed 1927; died in
office 1928; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1928; died in office
1928.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
17, 1928 (age 70 years, 67
days).
Entombed at Holy Cross Cemetery, Trowbridge Park, Mich.
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Julius Halpern (c.1859-1928) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
about 1859.
Socialist. Physician;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1918, 1920; candidate
for New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1921.
Jewish.
Member, American Medical
Association.
Died, of cancer, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
24, 1928 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Alice Mary Robertson (1854-1931) —
also known as Alice M. Robertson —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Tullahassee, Creek Nation County, Indian Territory (now Wagoner
County, Okla.), January
2, 1854.
Republican. Postmaster at Muskogee,
Indian Territory, 1904-13; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 2nd District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922.
Female.
Died of carcinoma, Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla., July 1,
1931 (age 77 years, 180
days).
Interment at Greenhill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
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Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932) —
also known as A. Scott Bullitt —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
23, 1877.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington,
1924
(alternate), 1928;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1926; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1928.
Died of cancer, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., April
10, 1932 (age 55 years, 78
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Walker Bullitt and Annie Priscilla (Logan) Bullitt; brother
of William
Marshall Bullitt (who married Nora
Iasigi); married, May 16,
1918, to Dorothy Frances Stimson; great-grandson of Alexander
Scott Bullitt (1761-1816) and William
Logan; great-grandnephew of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall; second great-grandson of John
Fry and Cuthbert
Bullitt; second great-grandnephew of William
Christian; third great-grandson of Joshua
Fry; fourth great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of William
Christian Bullitt (1856-1914); first cousin once removed of James
Speed and William
Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); first cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall and James
Keith Marshall; first cousin five times removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin once removed of John
Augustine Marshall; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; second cousin four times removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; fourth cousin of Hugh
Kennedy Bullitt; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Hilda Goldstein Claessens (c.1890-1932) —
also known as Hilda G. Claessens; Hilda
Goldstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
about 1890.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1916 (13th District), 1928 (13th
District), 1930 (16th District).
Female.
Died, of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 10,
1932 (age about 42
years).
Interment at Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Jane Addams (1860-1935) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cedarville, Stephenson
County, Ill., September
6, 1860.
Progressive. Social
worker; sociologist;
lecturer;
woman suffrage activist; pacifist; delegate to Progressive National
Convention from Illinois, 1912; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Illinois; received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931.
Female.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Lesbian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Civil
Liberties Union; Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; NAACP.
Died, from cancer, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 21,
1935 (age 74 years, 257
days).
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Jacob Roll (1875-1939) —
also known as Jake Roll —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born in Ohio, September
19, 1875.
Democrat. Postmaster at Newport,
Ky., 1913-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kentucky, 1928.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Moose.
Died, of cancer, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., April
18, 1939 (age 63 years, 211
days).
Interment at St.
Stephen's Cemetery, Fort Thomas, Ky.
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Salvatore A. Cotillo (1886-1939) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Italy,
November
19, 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 28th District, 1913, 1915-16;
member of New York
state senate, 1917-23 (20th District 1917-18, 18th District
1919-23); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1920;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1924-39; died in office
1939.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Sons of
Italy.
Died, following an operation for a chest tumor, in
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 27,
1939 (age 52 years, 250
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Edward Held Wilson (1874-1942) —
also known as Edward H. Wilson —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
24, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1936;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1940.
Died, of cancer, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
26, 1942 (age 68 years, 94
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Crawford 'Ike' Wilson and Elvina P. Wilson; married to Eva
Capron. |
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Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (1889-1943) —
also known as W. S. Van Dyke; "One-Take
Woody" —
of West Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
21, 1889.
Democrat. Child actor
in vaudeville; director
of dozens of movies,
1917-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Ill with cancer, he died by suicide,
in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
5, 1943 (age 53 years, 321
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Gordon Auchincloss (c.1887-1943) —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1887.
Lawyer;
assistant treasurer, Democratic National Committee, 1916; secretary
to his father-in-law, Col. Edward M. House, during negotiations of
the Armistice in 1918 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919;
director, Chase National Bank and
International Paper
Company; bankruptcy trustee and receiver.
Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Died, from Hodgkin's disease, in the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1943 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Kopp (1881-1943) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Belarus),
February
27, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Nathan
D. Perlman from 1909, Samuel Markewich in 1910-33, and Samuel
Null in 1927-33; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 6th District, 1910-12;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912,
1916.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1943 (age 62 years, 242
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Thomas Yancey Williams (1866-1946) —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, S.C.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster District (now Lancaster
County), S.C., August
20, 1866.
Farmer;
lawyer;
banker;
vice-president, Springs Cotton
Mills; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Lancaster County,
1896-1904, 1932-36; member of South
Carolina state senate from Lancaster County, 1906-10.
Died, from cancer and malnutrition,
in Marion Sims Memorial Hospital,
Lancaster, Lancaster
County, S.C., June 5,
1946 (age 79 years, 289
days).
Interment at Westside
Cemetery, Lancaster, S.C.
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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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Junius Edgar West (1866-1947) —
also known as Junius E. West —
of Waverly, Sussex
County, Va.; Suffolk,
Va.
Born near Waverly, Sussex
County, Va., July 12,
1866.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; insurance
business; lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1896,
1936;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Nansemond County, 1910-11; member
of Virginia
state senate 30th District, 1912-21; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1922-30.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Rotary;
Junior
Order; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Richmond,
Va., January
1, 1947 (age 80 years, 173
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
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Arthur Mastick Hyde (1877-1947) —
also known as Arthur M. Hyde —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, Mo.; Trenton, Grundy
County, Mo.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, Mo., July 12,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
mayor of Princeton, Mo., 1908-10; Progressive candidate for Missouri
state attorney general, 1912; Governor of
Missouri, 1921-25; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Missouri, 1924,
1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1932;
president, Sentinel Life
Insurance Company of Kansas City; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1929-33.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Delta
Upsilon.
Died, following cancer surgery, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1947 (age 70 years, 97
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Trenton, Mo.
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Henry Dimin (c.1886-1948) —
also known as Harry Dimin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
about 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1920; defeated,
1918.
Died of cancer, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
25, 1948 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Bailey Peyton Wootton (1870-1949) —
also known as Bailey P. Wootton —
of Hazard, Perry
County, Ky.
Born in Muhlenberg
County, Ky., May 20,
1870.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1916;
Kentucky
state attorney general, 1932-36; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1935.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of cancer, in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., April
16, 1949 (age 78 years, 331
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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James Emerson Fraser (1916-1950) —
also known as James E. Fraser;
"Sonny" —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.
Born August
4, 1916.
Deputy
sheriff; secretary to State Sen. Frank
S. Farley, 1944; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1948-50;
died in office 1950; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1950; died in office 1950.
Champion amateur golfer. Confined to a wheelchair
starting in 1949.
Died, from Hodgkin's disease, in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
29, 1950 (age 34 years, 25
days).
Interment at Absecon Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Absecon, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Jim 'Jolly Jim' Fraser and Milly Fraser; married 1944 to
Madolin Martha Vautrinot. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Lee Gaston (1876-1951) —
of Chester, Chester
County, S.C.
Born in Chester, Chester
County, S.C., August
14, 1876.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Chester County,
1900-06; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1920;
director of banks and
cotton
mills.
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary.
Died, from Hodgkins lymphoma, in Charlotte Memorial Hospital,
Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., August
13, 1951 (age 74 years, 364
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, S.C.
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Albert Davis Lasker (1880-1952) —
also known as Albert D. Lasker; "The Father of Modern
Advertising" —
of Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, of American parents, in Freiburg (Freiburg im Breisgau), Germany,
May
1, 1880.
Republican. Advertising
business; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1921-23; resigned 1923;
chair, U.S. Shipping Board, 1921-23; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940;
University
of Illinois trustee, 1937-42.
Jewish.
German
ancestry. Member, American
Jewish Committee.
As part owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball
team, devised "Lasker Plan" for reorganization of baseball, 1920.
Established the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation for promotion of
medical research.
Died, of cancer, in the Harkness Pavilion of the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 30,
1952 (age 72 years, 29
days).
Entombed at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John J. Maher (1889-1953) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Carsonville, Sanilac
County, Mich., April 8,
1889.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; recorder's court judge in
Michigan, 1930-53; appointed 1929; died in office 1953.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of cancer, in February
3, 1953 (age 63 years, 301
days).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Maher and Catherine (O'Mara) Maher; married 1920 to Agnes
Catherine O'Leary. |
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Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953) —
also known as Robert A. Taft; "Mr.
Republican"; "Mr. Integrity"; "Our
Illustrious Dunderhead" —
of Indian Hill, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
8, 1889.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1921-26; Speaker of
the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1926; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1932,
1944;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1931-32; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1939-53; died in office 1953; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952.
Episcopalian.
Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Co-sponsor of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Died, from malignant tumors, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 31,
1953 (age 63 years, 326
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Indian Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio;
memorial monument at Capitol
Grounds, Washington, D.C.
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Edward C. Peirce (c.1895-1955) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born about 1895.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1944,
1952;
mayor
of New Bedford, Mass., 1952-53; convicted
in 1953 on charges of conspiracy to
protect gambling, and sentenced
to four years in prison;
served twenty months.
Died, of cancer, in a nursing
home at New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
31, 1955 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Philip Bracken Fleming (1887-1955) —
also known as Philip B. Fleming —
of Washington,
D.C.; New Hampshire.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, October
15, 1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the
U.S. Army during World War II; head of Federal Works Agency and of
Federal Maritime Commission; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1951-53.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Delta
Upsilon.
Died, of cancer, in Washington,
D.C., October
6, 1955 (age 67 years, 356
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Warren Irving Glover (1879-1956) —
also known as W. Irving Glover —
of Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
2, 1879.
Republican. Bergen
County Freeholder, 1915; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1917-21; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1920; Assistant
Postmaster General, 1921-32.
Died, from cancer, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
29, 1956 (age 76 years, 210
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Larry Brunk (1883-1956) —
of Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo.
Born in Franklin
County, Mo., February
9, 1883.
Republican. Mayor of
Aurora, Mo., 1910; member of Missouri
state senate 18th District, 1923-28; Missouri
state treasurer, 1929-33.
Died, from gall bladder carcinoma, in Aurora Hospital,
Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo., November
22, 1956 (age 73 years, 287
days).
Interment at Maple
Park Cemetery, Aurora, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Brunk and Martha (Hamilton) Brunk. |
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Raphael Floyd Clough (1886-1956) —
also known as Ray F. Clough —
of Mason City, Cerro
Gordo County, Iowa.
Born in Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista
County, Iowa, May 10,
1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
delegate
to Iowa convention to ratify 21st amendment from Cerro Gordo
County, 1933; candidate for Presidential Elector for Iowa.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks; Freemasons;
Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died, from cancer, in a hospital
at Mason City, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa, December
7, 1956 (age 70 years, 211
days).
Interment at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City, Iowa.
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Evered Vivian Jolliffe (1884-1957) —
also known as Evered V. Jolliffe —
of Plymouth, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Blenheim, Ontario,
May
2, 1884.
Sales
manager; automobile
dealer; Dry candidate for delegate
to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Wayne County
5th District, 1933.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary.
Died, from cancer, August
28, 1957 (age 73 years, 118
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Riverside
Cemetery, Plymouth, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Jolliffe and Theresa (Whaley) Jolliffe; married 1913 to Grace
Ethel Wise. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Jolliffe
family |
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Matthew Mansfield Neely (1874-1958) —
also known as Matthew M. Neely —
of Fairmont, Marion
County, W.Va.
Born in Grove, Doddridge
County, W.Va., November
9, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; mayor
of Fairmont, W.Va., 1908-10; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1913-21, 1945-47;
defeated, 1920, 1946; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1923-29, 1931-41, 1949-58; defeated,
1928; resigned 1941; defeated, 1942; died in office 1958; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1952,
1956;
Governor
of West Virginia, 1941-45.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Eagles;
Delta
Chi; Phi
Sigma Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Americans
for Democratic Action; United
Spanish War Veterans.
Died, from cancer, in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
18, 1958 (age 83 years, 70
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Fairmont, W.Va.
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Frank L. Shaw (1877-1958) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Warwick, Ontario,
February
1, 1877.
Republican. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1933-38; recalled 1938; defeated, 1941; a
recall
campaign against him in 1938 charged that he was associated with
unspecified "racketeers"
and "underworld
characters", and that his administration tolerated
vice in the city; meanwhile, Harry J. Raymond, a private
investigator nearly killed in a January 1938 bombing, charged,
in a civil lawsuit for damages, that the mayor had been part of a
plot by gambling and vice interests to murder
him.
Died, from cancer, in California Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
24, 1958 (age 80 years, 357
days).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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George Wadsworth II (1893-1958) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April 3,
1893.
University
professor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Nantes, 1917-19; Constantinople, 1919-20; Sofia, 1920; Alexandria, 1920-21; U.S. Consul in Cairo, 1922-24, 1928-31; U.S. Consul General in Bucharest, 1935; Jerusalem, 1936-40; Damascus, 1942-44; Beirut, 1942-44; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Syria, 1942-44; Lebanon, 1942-44; U.S. Minister to Lebanon, 1944-47; Syria, 1944-47; Iraq, 1946-48; Yemen, 1953-57; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1948-52; Czechoslovakia, 1952-53; Saudi Arabia, 1953-58.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died, of cancer, March 5,
1958 (age 64 years, 336
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer and pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith F. (Foster) Dulles; brother of Allen
Welsh Dulles; married, June 26,
1912, to Janet Pomeroy Avery; grandson of John
Watson Foster; great-grandnephew of John
Welsh; third great-grandnephew of Joshua
Coit; first cousin twice removed of Langdon
Cheves Jr.; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Welsh; second cousin thrice removed of Robert
Coit Jr.; second cousin four times removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Abel
Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin of Lewis
Wardlaw Haskell; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell and William
Brainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Henry
Titus Backus and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
Corsi |
| | | Washington Dulles International Airport
(opened 1962), in Loudoun
and Fairfax
counties, Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 13,
1951 |
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Leone Fairbanks Burrell (1900-1959) —
also known as Leone Burrell —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., February
18, 1900.
Republican. School
teacher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Michigan, 1940.
Female.
Died, from cervical cancer, in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 15,
1959 (age 59 years, 117
days).
Interment at Denton Cemetery, Van Buren Township, Wayne County, Mich.
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Eugene Isaac Meyer (1875-1959) —
also known as Eugene Meyer —
of Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
31, 1875.
Republican. Stockbroker;
banker;
instrumental in the merger of five chemical companies to create
Allied Chemical
and Dye Corporation, 1920; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1928;
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
1930-33; bought the Washington Post newspaper
in 1933, and was its publisher
until 1946; president, World Bank, 1946.
Jewish.
Died, from heart
disease and cancer, at George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., July 17,
1959 (age 83 years, 259
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Marc Eugene Meyer and Harriet (Newmark) Meyer; married 1910 to Agnes
Elizabeth Ernst; father of Katherine Graham. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, May 31,
1932 |
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Steven V. Carter (1915-1959) —
of Iowa.
Born in Carterville (now part of Provo), Utah
County, Utah, October
8, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1959; defeated, 1948,
1950, 1956; died in office 1959.
Died, of cancer, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., November
4, 1959 (age 44 years, 27
days).
Interment at Leon
Cemetery, Leon, Iowa.
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Charles Wesley Lyon (1887-1960) —
also known as Charles W. Lyon —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in California, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1915-17, 1933-49, 1951-57; Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1943-46; member of California
state senate, 1917-29; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1944.
Died, of cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 20,
1960 (age about 73
years).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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Eugene Dennis (1905-1961) —
also known as Francis Xavier Waldron; Tim
Ryan —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August
10, 1905.
Communist. Union
organizer; fled
to the Soviet Union in 1929 to avoid prosecution;
returned to the U.S. in 1935; General Secretary, Communist Party,
1946-59, and Chairman, 1959-61; arrested
in 1948, along with other party leaders, and charged
with advocating
the violent overthrow of the United States; convicted
in 1949, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Died, from cancer, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1961 (age 55 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Paris Montrose (c.1895-1961) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1895.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 22nd District, 1927, 1928.
In 1929, he was one of several Brooklyn lawyers who were disciplined
for ambulance
chasing activities and paying
insurance company adjusters for favorable settlement of claims; his
license to practice law was suspended
for two years.
Died, of cancer, in the Memorial Center
for Cancer and Allied Diseases of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Institute, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1961 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Charles Killough Jr. (1906-1961) —
also known as Robert C. Killough, Jr. —
of Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y.; Loudonville, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y., November
8, 1906.
Republican. Lawyer;
exempted from military service because childhood polio resulted in atrophy
of lower leg muscles and feet, though he learned to walk almost
normally using orthopedic shoes; candidate for New York
state assembly from Albany County 3rd District, 1930; Assistant
Commissioner for Professional Education, New York State Education
Department.
Presbyterian.
Irish
and English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of cancer, in Loudonville, Albany
County, N.Y., November
14, 1961 (age 55 years, 6
days).
Interment at St.
Agnes Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert C. Killough and Anna E. (Iverson) Killough; married, April 3,
1937, to Margaret Agnes Casey. |
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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (1882-1961) —
also known as Sam Rayburn —
of Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex.
Born in Kingston, Roane
County, Tenn., January
6, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1907-13; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1911-13; U.S.
Representative from Texas 4th District, 1913-61; died in office
1961; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61; died in office 1961;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1936,
1940,
1944,
1948
(Permanent
Chair; chair, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1956.
Died of cancer, in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., November
16, 1961 (age 79 years, 314
days).
Interment at Willow
Wild Cemetery, Bonham, Tex.
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Andrew Frank Schoeppel (1894-1962) —
also known as Andrew F. Schoeppel —
of Ness City, Ness
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born near Claflin, Barton
County, Kan., November
23, 1894.
Republican. Athletic
coach; lawyer; Governor of
Kansas, 1943-47; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1949-62; died in office 1962; member,
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Nu; Phi
Alpha Delta; Rotary;
Lions;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died of abdominal cancer, at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
21, 1962 (age 67 years, 59
days).
Interment at Old
Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kan.
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Robert C. Crane (c.1921-1962) —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.; Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; newspaper
editor and publisher; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
Jersey; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1952;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Union County, 1956-62; resigned 1962.
Died, of cancer, in Elizabeth General Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April
24, 1962 (age about 41
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick L. Crane and Gwendolyn (Kershner) Crane; married to
Frances H. Adams. |
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Mark Vern Weatherford (1886-1962) —
also known as Mark V. Weatherford —
of Albany, Linn
County, Ore.
Born in Arlington, Gilliam
County, Ore., March 5,
1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; rancher;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 1st District, 1916; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; invented
a mobile artillery repair unit, which became widely used during the
war; mayor of
Albany, Ore., 1927-28; Oregon
Democratic state chair, 1930.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, from cancer, in Albany, Linn
County, Ore., September
11, 1962 (age 76 years, 190
days).
Interment at Masonic Cemetery, Albany, Ore.
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Relatives: Son
of William Washington Weatherford and Samantha Alice (Sperry)
Weatherford; married, September
7, 1911, to Emmaline Joyce 'Emma' Kuhn. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Eminent Americans
(1954) |
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John Edward Reilly Sr. (1893-1963) —
also known as John E. Reilly, Sr. —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., July 27,
1893.
Democrat. Machinist;
fire
fighter; cafe
manager; member of Delaware
state house of representatives from New Castle County 1st
District, 1945-46; defeated, 1946; member of Delaware
state senate from New Castle County 2nd District, 1949-63; died
in office 1963.
Catholic.
Member, Holy
Name Society; Knights
of Columbus; Moose; Eagles.
Died, from cancer, in St. Francis Hospital,
Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February
26, 1963 (age 69 years, 214
days).
Interment at Cathedral
Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Canavan) Reilly and James P. Reilly; married 1917 to Alice
Magdala Scanlan. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Cronin (c.1863-1963) —
also known as Will Cronin —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Waterford, Ireland,
about 1863.
Democrat. Chair of
Westchester County Democratic Party, 1933-39; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936;
postmaster at Yonkers,
N.Y., 1936-51 (acting, 1936).
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died, of cancer, in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., March
10, 1963 (age about 100
years).
Interment at Holy
Hope Cemetery, Tucson, Ariz.
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Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1889-1963) —
also known as Mabel Walker; "First Lady of
Law"; "Prohibition Portia" —
of Temple City, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Indio, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Woodsdale, Stevens
County, Kan., May 23,
1889.
Republican. Lawyer;
Assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1921-29; directed Prohibition
prosecutions; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1928
(chair, Credentials
Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1932.
Female.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of cancer, in Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif., April 6,
1963 (age 73 years, 318
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of David William Walker and Myrtle S. (Eaton) Walker;
married 1910 to A. F.
Willebrandt. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
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Florence Riddick Boys (1873-1963) —
also known as Florence R. Boys; Florence Alice Riddick;
Mrs. S. E. Boys —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.; Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind.
Born in Faribault
County, Minn., December
3, 1873.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1924,
1932
(alternate).
Female.
Died, from lympho-sarcoma (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma), in
Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind., May 10,
1963 (age 89 years, 158
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Ind.
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Lyman B. Sutter (1904-1963) —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, June 14,
1904.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1953-54; municipal judge in California,
1950.
Died of cancer in August
22, 1963 (age 59 years, 69
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lucile Bailey Conger (1882-1965) —
also known as Lucile B. Conger; Lucile
Bailey —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Leslie, Ingham
County, Mich., October
14, 1882.
Republican. Member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1949-51.
Female.
Died, from cancer, in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 131
days).
Interment at Lakeside
Cemetery, Port Huron, Mich.
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John Finley Baldwin Jr. (1915-1966) —
also known as John F. Baldwin, Jr. —
of Martinez, Contra
Costa County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 28,
1915.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1955-66 (6th District 1955-63,
14th District 1963-66); died in office 1966.
Member, Sierra
Club; Kiwanis.
Died, of cancer, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March 9,
1966 (age 50 years, 254
days).
Interment at Oakmont
Memorial Park, Lafayette, Calif.
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Ralph W. Humphrey (c.1906-1967) —
of Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak.
Born in Granite Falls, Yellow
Medicine County, Minn., about 1906.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Dakota, 1956.
Died, of cancer, in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., August
22, 1967 (age about 61
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Jefferson Head (c.1906-1968) —
also known as Sam J. Head —
of Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz.
Born in Piedmont, Calhoun
County, Ala., about 1906.
Democrat. Member of Arizona
state senate, 1950.
Died, of cancer, in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., 1968
(age about
62 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John R. Head and Haley (Lorren) Head; married to Trulia Golden
Grace. |
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Lurleen Burns Wallace (1926-1968) —
also known as Lurleen B. Wallace; Lurleen Brigham
Burns —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., September
19, 1926.
Democrat. Governor of
Alabama, 1967-68; died in office 1968.
Female.
Methodist.
Died, of uterine cancer, in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., May 7,
1968 (age 41 years, 231
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry Burns and Estelle (Burroughs) Burns; married, May 21,
1943, to George
Corley Wallace Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Wallace-Folsom
family of Montgomery, Alabama. |
| | | The Lurleen Wallace Tumor
Institute, at the University
of Alabama Birmingham,
is named for
her. — Lurleen B. Wallace Community
College (established 1967 as Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College),
with campuses in Covington,
Butler,
and Crenshaw
counties, Alabama, is named for
her. — Lake
Lurleen, and Lake Lurleen State
Park, in Tuscaloosa
County, Alabama, are named for
her. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier |
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Louis Gary Clemente (1908-1968) —
also known as L. Gary Clemente —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 10,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; vice-president and
director, Unexcelled Chemical
Corporation; executive with Moderne Paint
Company, Premier Chemical
Corporation, and Ohio Bronze
Company; director, Mary Immaculate Hospital;
U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1949-53; defeated,
1952.
Catholic.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans.
Died, from cancer, in Mary Immaculate Hospital,
Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 13,
1968 (age 59 years, 338
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. (1903-1969) —
also known as Herbert Hoover, Jr. —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
August
4, 1903.
Republican. Petroleum
geologist;
mining
engineer;
inventor;
president, Aeronautical
Radio,
Inc., 1930; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1954-57; director, Monsanto
Chemical
Company; director, Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation; director, Southern California Edison
Company; director, Hanna Mining
Company; director, Pacific Mutual Insurance
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1960.
Died, of cancer, in Huntington Community Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 9,
1969 (age 65 years, 248
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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William Goetz (1903-1969) —
of Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
24, 1903.
Democrat. Hollywood movie
producer and studio executive; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
15, 1969 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Interment at Hillside
Memorial Park, Culver City, Calif.
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Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971) —
also known as Harry F. Guggenheim —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in West End, Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., August
23, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining and
smelting
business; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-33; co-founder, with his wife Alicia, of
Newsday, the daily newspaper
of Long Island, New York.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer, in Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1971 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Harold John Arthur (1904-1971) —
also known as Harold J. Arthur —
of Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Whitehall, Washington
County, N.Y., February
9, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1949-50; Governor of
Vermont, 1950-51; Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Vermont at-large, 1950 (primary), 1958.
Unitarian.
Member, United
Commercial Travelers; American
Legion; Amvets;
Farm
Bureau; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Grange;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Eagles;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died, from cancer, in the Air Force Base Hospital,
Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., July 19,
1971 (age 67 years, 160
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. (1904-1972) —
of Colorado; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Las Animas, Bent
County, Colo., August
24, 1904.
Accountant;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Colombo, 1929-32; Geneva, 1933-36; U.S. Consul in Geneva, 1937-38; Moscow, 1941-43; U.S. Ambassador to Austria, 1952-57; Soviet Union, 1957-62, 1966-69; , 1962-66.
Died of cancer, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
6, 1972 (age 67 years, 166
days).
Interment at Las
Animas Cemetery, Las Animas, Colo.
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Pasquale Caggiano (1909-1972) —
also known as Patsy Caggiano —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
31, 1909.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; funeral
director; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twelfth Essex District, 1953-56;
mayor
of Lynn, Mass., 1972; died in office 1972.
Died, of cancer, April
13, 1972 (age 62 years, 226
days).
Interment at St. Joseph Cemetery, Lynn, Mass.
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Richard Alexander Crooks (1900-1972) —
also known as Richard Crooks —
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 26,
1900.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; performed, Republican National Convention, 1940.
Died, from cancer, in Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif., September
29, 1972 (age 72 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Milton Fred Napier (1900-1972) —
also known as Milton F. Napier —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
3, 1900.
Republican. Lawyer; accountant;
criminal court judge in Missouri, 1930; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 1st District,
1943-44; defeated, 1944; member of Missouri
state senate 2nd District, 1947-50; defeated, 1950 (2nd
District), 1956 (1st District), 1960 (1st District), 1964 (1st
District).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died, from cancer, in Lutheran Medical
Center, St.
Louis, Mo., October
11, 1972 (age 72 years, 38
days).
Interment at Concordia
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Neil Hosler McElroy (1904-1972) —
also known as Neil H. McElroy —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berea, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, October
30, 1904.
President, Proctor & Gamble, 1948-57; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1957-59.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died, of cancer, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
30, 1972 (age 68 years, 31
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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J. Donald Clark (d. 1973) —
also known as Don Clark —
of Bluefield, Mercer
County, W.Va.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 5th District, 1968.
Died, of cancer, in Bluefield Sanitarium,
Bluefield, Mercer
County, W.Va., April
18, 1973.
Interment at Monte
Vista Park Cemetery, Bluefield, W.Va.
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Clarence James Henry (1902-1973) —
also known as Clarence J. Henry; Cass
Henry —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., August
15, 1902.
Republican. Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1961-70.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from multiple myeloma, in a hospital
at Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., August
23, 1973 (age 71 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Gordon Clyde Preble (1909-1973) —
also known as Gordon C. Preble —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., December
6, 1909.
Democrat. Steelworker;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; president and
business agent, Iron Workers Local 53; president,
Nebraska Federation of Labor; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nebraska, 1956.
Died, from cancer, in Perham, Otter Tail
County, Minn., September
17, 1973 (age 63 years, 285
days).
Interment at St. Johns Lutheran Church North Cemetery, Perham, Minn.
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Relatives: Son
of Gordon Cecil Preble and Sarah (Holland) Preble; married 1943 to
Roberta Virginia Lewis. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Eustis Bohlen (1904-1974) —
also known as Charles E. Bohlen; Chip
Bohlen —
of Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Clayton, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
30, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Prague, 1929-31; Paris, 1931-34; Moscow, 1934; U.S. Consul in Moscow, 1938-40; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1953-57; Philippines, 1957-59; France, 1962-68.
Died of cancer, at Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1974 (age 69 years, 124
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Paul Case Aiken (1910-1974) —
also known as Paul C. Aiken —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Macksville, Stafford
County, Kan.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Macksville, Stafford
County, Kan., July 24,
1910.
Democrat. Lawyer; business
executive; Assistant U.S. Postmaster
General, 1947-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Kansas, 1948;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1950.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Died, from multiple myeloma, in Washington,
D.C., May 25,
1974 (age 63 years, 305
days).
Cremated.
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; writer; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Earl William Brydges (1905-1975) —
also known as Earl W. Brydges —
of Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Wilson, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y., May 25,
1905.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1949-72 (52nd District 1949-54, 54th District
1955-65, 60th District 1966, 52nd District 1967-72); delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 52nd District, 1967.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Lewiston, Niagara
County, N.Y., March
30, 1975 (age 69 years, 309
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ivy Baker Priest (1905-1975) —
also known as Ivy Baker; Ivy Baker P.
Stevens —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Kimberly, Piute
County, Utah, September
7, 1905.
Republican. Candidate for Utah
state house of representatives, 1934; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Utah 2nd District, 1950; Treasurer of the
United States, 1953-60; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1964,
1972;
California
state treasurer, 1967-75; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California.
Female.
Mormon.
Died, of cancer, June 23,
1975 (age 69 years, 289
days).
Interment at Wasatch
Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Utah.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Orange D. Baker and Clara (Fernly) Baker; married 1935 to Roy F.
Priest; married 1961 to Sidney
Stevens. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Otto Kerner Jr. (1908-1976) —
of Glenview, Cook
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
15, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1947-54; county
judge in Illinois, 1954-60; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1960,
1964;
Governor
of Illinois, 1961-68; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1968-74; resigned
1974.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum; Military
Order of the World Wars; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of
over $300,000 in a stock deal which prosecutors later characterized
as bribery.
Convicted
in 1973 on 17 counts of bribery,
conspiracy, perjury,
and related charges; sentenced
to three years in federal prison
and fined
$50,000.
Died of cancer, May 9,
1976 (age 67 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Irving H. Saypol (1905-1977) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
3, 1905.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1949-51;
prosecuted Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on espionage charges; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1952-68.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Knights
of Pythias.
Indicted
in May 1976, along with Surrogate S.
Samuel DiFalco, on bribery
and perjury
charges,
in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain appraisal and auction
commissions for Saypol's son;
the charges were later dismissed.
Died, of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 30,
1977 (age 71 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Louis Saypol and Minnie (Michakin) Saypol; married, September
29, 1925, to Adele D. Kaplan. |
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Ralph Tucker (1906-1977) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Hymera, Sullivan
County, Ind., September
30, 1906.
Democrat. Mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1948-68; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1956,
1964;
candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1956.
Died of cancer, in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
12, 1977 (age 71 years, 43
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978) —
also known as Hubert H. Humphrey; "H.H.H.";
"The Happy Warrior"; "The
Hump" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Wallace, Codington
County, S.Dak., May 27,
1911.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952,
1960,
1964;
mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1945-48; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1949-64, 1971-78; died in office 1978;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; candidate
for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960,
1972;
Vice
President of the United States, 1965-69; candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Congregationalist.
English
and Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Federation of Teachers.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1980.
Died, of cancer, at Waverly, Wright
County, Minn., January
13, 1978 (age 66 years, 231
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue at Minneapolis City Hall Grounds, Minneapolis, Minn.
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John A. Lynch (1908-1978) —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., March
10, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer; Middlesex
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1941-46; mayor
of New Brunswick, N.J., 1951-55; member of New
Jersey state senate, 1956-77 (Middlesex County 1956-65, District
7 1966-73, 17th District 1974-77).
Died, of cancer, in Whitestone Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March 3,
1978 (age 69 years, 358
days). The John A. Lynch Memorial Bridge, which takes Route 18
across the Raritan River, is named for
him.
Interment at Resurrection Burial Park, Piscataway, N.J.
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George John Urban (1906-1978) —
also known as George J. Urban —
of South Euclid, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, May 14,
1906.
Republican. Mayor
of South Euclid, Ohio, 1948-72.
Methodist.
German
and Czech
ancestry. Member, Lions.
Died, of cancer, in a nursing
home at Oil City, Venango
County, Pa., March
25, 1978 (age 71 years, 315
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Knollwood
Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
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Edward Joseph Breen (1899-1978) —
also known as Edward Breen —
of Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa.
Born in Estherville, Emmet
County, Iowa, March
18, 1899.
Democrat. Lawyer; Webster
County Attorney, 1933-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Iowa, 1936;
member of Iowa
state senate, 1937-41; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 6th District, 1942; president, KVFO radio
station.
Member, American
Legion; Elks.
Died, of cancer, June 15,
1978 (age 79 years, 89
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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Luther Wallace Youngdahl (1896-1978) —
also known as Luther W. Youngdahl —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., May 29,
1896.
Republican. District judge in Minnesota, 1936-42; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1942-47; Governor of
Minnesota, 1947-51; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1948;
Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1951-66.
Died of cancer, in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1978 (age 82 years, 23
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Gene Archer (1913-1978) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Brookeville, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va., September
15, 1913.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; radio show
host; singer;
performed, Republican National Convention, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
board member, Washington Redskins football
team, 1956-73; also provided halftime entertainment at games; president,
Washington-Baltimore local, American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists, 1969-70.
Died, from cancer, in the Montgomery General Hospital,
Olney, Montgomery
County, Md., October
4, 1978 (age 65 years, 19
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Ulysses Grant Archer and Alice (Jarett) Archer; married to Juanita
White. |
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Guy R. Brewer (c.1904-1978) —
of Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born about 1904.
Democrat. Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 8th District, 1967;
member of New York
state assembly, 1969-77 (26th District 1969-72, 29th District
1973-77).
African
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
31, 1978 (age about 74
years).
Burial location unknown.
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David John McDonald (1902-1979) —
also known as David J. McDonald —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
22, 1902.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1948
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
president,
United Steel
Workers of America, 1952-65.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., August
8, 1979 (age 76 years, 259
days).
Interment at Desert
Memorial Park, Cathedral City, Calif.
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Lucile Vogeler (1914-1979) —
also known as Lucile Eykens —
of Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Ghent (Gent), Belgium,
March
22, 1914.
Republican. When her husband, Robert, was arrested in Hungary and
charged with espionage, she carried on a tireless and ultimately
successful campaign to get him released; honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1952 ; cosmetics
executive.
Female.
Belgian
ancestry.
Died of cancer, in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
2, 1979 (age 65 years, 164
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roy Chamberlain (1905-1979) —
of Lusk, Niobrara
County, Wyo.
Born in Brownville, Nemaha
County, Neb., June 4,
1905.
Republican. Hotel
owner; oil
business; member of Wyoming
state senate, 1943-53.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Died, of cancer, in Niobrara County Memorial Hospital,
Lusk, Niobrara
County, Wyo., September
19, 1979 (age 74 years, 107
days).
Interment at Lusk
Cemetery, Lusk, Wyo.
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Samuel David Berger (1911-1980) —
also known as Samuel D. Berger —
of Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y.
Born in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., December
6, 1911.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1961-64.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer, Washington,
D.C., February
12, 1980 (age 68 years, 68
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James E. Wells (1931-1980) —
of Southfield, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March 2,
1931.
Conservative candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1972; candidate in Democratic primary
for Governor of
Michigan, 1974; American Independent candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1976; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan; American Independent candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1978.
Died of cancer, May, 1980
(age 49
years, 0 days).
Interment at Acacia
Park Cemetery, Beverly Hills, Mich.
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) —
also known as Helen Gahagan; "The Pink
Lady" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boonton, Morris
County, N.J., November
25, 1900.
Actress
and opera
singer, 1922-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1940-44; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(speaker),
1948;
vice-chair
of California Democratic Party, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1945-51; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950 (Democratic), 1952 (Independent).
Female.
Scottish
and Irish
ancestry. Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of cancer, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1980 (age 79 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Judith A. Herndon (1941-1980) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Ohio
County, W.Va., June 5,
1941.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1970-74;
appointed 1970; member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1974-80; appointed 1974; died
in office 1980.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from cancer, in a hospital
at Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., November
19, 1980 (age 39 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Richard G. Herndon and Virginia (Holler)
Herndon. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Charles Woodruff Yost (1907-1981) —
also known as Charles W. Yost —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
6, 1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Alexandria, 1931-32; Warsaw, 1932-33; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Thailand, 1946; U.S. Minister to Laos, 1954-55; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1955-56; Syria, 1957-58; Morocco, 1958-61; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1969-71.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Society for International Law; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, from cancer, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 21,
1981 (age 73 years, 196
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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Joseph Edward Curran (1906-1981) —
also known as Joseph Curran; Joe Curran; "Big
Joe" —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1906.
Merchant
seaman; president,
National Maritime Union (NMU), 1937-73; vice-president,
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 1940-55; American Labor
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1940; vice-chair of
New York American Labor Party, 1945.
Died, of cancer, in Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., August
14, 1981 (age 75 years, 166
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1939 to Retta
Toble; married 1965 to
Florence Stetler. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, June 17,
1946 |
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Edward A. Teichert (1903-1981) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born November
14, 1903.
Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Pennsylvania.
Died, probably of cancer, in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., August
16, 1981 (age 77 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Marilyn Hare (1923-1981) —
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., October
13, 1923.
Democrat. Singer; actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, from cancer, in a hospital
at Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
9, 1981 (age 57 years, 361
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Eugene Thomas Conley (1908-1981) —
also known as Eugene Conley —
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March
12, 1908.
Republican. Opera
singer; performed, Republican National Convention, 1952.
Died, from cancer, in Westgate Hospital,
Denton, Denton
County, Tex., December
18, 1981 (age 73 years, 281
days).
Interment at Roselawn Memorial Park, Denton, Tex.
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John D. Caemmerer (1928-1982) —
also known as "The Snorting Bull" —
of East Williston, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
19, 1928.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1966-82 (8th District 1966, 5th District 1967-72,
7th District 1973-82); died in office 1982.
Catholic.
Member, Holy
Name Society; Kiwanis;
Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Catholic
Lawyers Guild.
Died, of cancer, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1982 (age 54 years, 19
days).
Interment at Holy
Rood Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Joan L. Holt. |
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Duncan Howard Pyscher, Sr. (1917-1982) —
also known as Duncan H. Pyscher —
of Michigan.
Born in Birch Run, Saginaw
County, Mich., April 2,
1917.
Prohibition candidate for Michigan
state senate 22nd District, 1958; Prohibition candidate for Wayne State
University board of governors, 1959.
Died of cancer, Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., April
15, 1982 (age 65 years, 13
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Gardens, Saginaw, Mich.
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John Leonard Swigert Jr. (1931-1982) —
also known as Jack Swigert —
of Colorado.
Born in Denver,
Colo., August
30, 1931.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1978; elected U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1982, but died before taking office.
Astronaut
on Apollo 13 moon mission in April 1970, which was aborted when an
oxygen tank ruptured, but returned safely to earth. Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1970.
Died, of bone marrow cancer, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
27, 1982 (age 51 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Clarence Maurice Weidemeyer (1906-1983) —
also known as C. Maurice Weidemeyer —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Hebbville, Baltimore
County, Md., October
22, 1906.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Republican candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1944, 1948; chair of
Anne Arundel County Republican Party, 1950; candidate for Maryland
state senate, 1950 (Republican), 1966 (Democratic); Republican
candidate for Maryland
state attorney general, 1958; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66, 1971-74; defeated
(Democratic), 1974; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1972.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Royal
Arch Masons; Shriners;
Moose;
Elks.
Died of metastastic liposarcoma, in Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla., February
7, 1983 (age 76 years, 108
days).
Interment at Lorraine
Cemetery, Woodlawn, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Monterey F. W. Weidemeyer and Annie E. (Reiblich)
Weidemeyer. |
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James C. Sheridan (1896-1983) —
also known as Jim Sheridan —
of Long Island City, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
14, 1896.
Democrat. Chair of
Queens County Democratic Party, 1934-38; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1936.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 1,
1983 (age 86 years, 138
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of the Holy Rood, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
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Roland Ellsworth Harry Kannenberg (1907-1983) —
also known as Roland E. Kannenberg —
of Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis.; Mercer, Iron
County, Wis.
Born in Kenosha
County, Wis., September
25, 1907.
Member of Wisconsin
state senate 25th District, 1935-38; defeated, 1938 (Progressive,
25th District), 1956 (Democratic, 12th District); Democratic
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 10th District, 1952.
Protestant.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died, of cancer, in University Hospital,
Madison, Dane
County, Wis., November
15, 1983 (age 76 years, 51
days).
Interment at Mercer
Cemetery, Mercer, Wis.
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Alousius Pancratius Kaufmann (1902-1984) —
also known as Aloys P. Kaufmann —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
23, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1943-49; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Missouri, 1948,
1960
(alternate), 1964
(alternate).
Catholic.
Died, from cancer and heart
trouble, in Barnes Hospital,
St.
Louis, Mo., February
12, 1984 (age 81 years, 51
days). His body was
donated to Washington University.
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Relatives: Son
of John B. Kaufman and Sophia Maria (Woehr) Kaufman; married 1943 to
Margaret Cordelia Uding. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Albert Howard Blumenthal (1928-1984) —
also known as Albert H. Blumenthal —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
13, 1928.
Liberal. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1963-76 (New York County 5th District 1963-65,
73rd District 1966, 67th District 1967-72, 69th District 1973-76);
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1973.
Jewish.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Jewish Congress; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
In December, 1975, he was indicted
on perjury
charges over his testimony about a 1971 meeting where he was alleged
to intercede on behalf of a nursing home operator; later, bribery
charges were added; in April, 1976, all the charges were ruled to be
without factual basis, and dismissed.
Died, presumably from cancer, in the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 8,
1984 (age 55 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Bennet M. Blumenthal and Matilda Blumenthal; married, May 18,
1958, to Joel Marie Winik. |
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Calvin Robert McCullough (1902-1984) —
also known as Calvin R. McCullough —
of Holloway Terrace, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., September
29, 1902.
Democrat. Contractor;
bank
director; member of Delaware
state house of representatives from New Castle County 10th
District, 1949-50; member of Delaware
state senate, 1955-80 (New Castle County 5th District 1955-64,
11th District 1965-72, 12th District 1973-80); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Delaware, 1968.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Moose.
Died, from cancer, in Holloway Terrace, New Castle
County, Del., October
8, 1984 (age 82 years, 9
days).
Interment at Gracelawn Memorial Park, New Castle, Del.
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James L. Maxwell (1926-1984) —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; florist;
mayor
of Tulsa, Okla., 1958-66; defeated, 1966, 1968.
Presbyterian.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; Sigma
Chi.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., October
18, 1984 (age 58 years, 159
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
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Relatives: Son
of William B. Maxwell and Mary Pauline (O'Donnell)
Maxwell. |
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Milton Stover Eisenhower (1899-1985) —
also known as Milton S. Eisenhower —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Abilene, Dickinson
County, Kan., September
15, 1899.
Republican. President
of Kansas State University, 1943-50; Pennsylvania State University,
1950-56; and Johns Hopkins University, 1956-67 and 1971-72; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died, of cancer, in Baltimore,
Md., May 2,
1985 (age 85 years, 229
days).
Interment at Centre County Memorial Park, State College, Pa.
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Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy Jr. (c.1908-1985) —
also known as Grayson M. P. Murphy, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., about 1908.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 13,
1985 (age about 77
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Mario Joseph Cariello (1907-1985) —
also known as Mario J. Cariello —
of Long Island City, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
23, 1907.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1936-41; resigned
1941; municipal judge in New York, 1941-62; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1963-68; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1969-77.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Elks; Order of
Ahepa; Moose; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of cancer, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
9, 1985 (age 78 years, 198
days).
Entombed at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Lee Pallante. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Charles Kimball Fletcher (1902-1985) —
also known as Charles K. Fletcher —
of Del Mar, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
15, 1902.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 23rd District, 1947-49; defeated,
1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1956,
1964.
Congregationalist.
Founder in 1934 of Home Federal Savings & Loan.
Died, of cancer, at Mercy Hospital,
San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., September
29, 1985 (age 82 years, 288
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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James E. Murphy (d. 1985) —
also known as Murph Murphy —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Democrat. Real estate
agent; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1964;
Campbell
County Sheriff; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1970.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Optimist
Club.
Died, of cancer, in St. Luke Hospital,
Fort Thomas, Campbell
County, Ky., September
29, 1985.
Interment at St.
Stephen's Cemetery, Fort Thomas, Ky.
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Joseph Patrick Addabbo (1925-1986) —
also known as Joseph P. Addabbo —
of New York.
Born in Ozone Park, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
17, 1925.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1961-86 (5th District 1961-63, 7th
District 1963-83, 6th District 1983-86); died in office 1986.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from cancer and a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., April
10, 1986 (age 61 years, 24
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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William M. Tendy (c.1915-1986) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born about 1915.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1956; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1980.
Catholic.
Died, from cancer, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1986 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Max J. Pincus (d. 1987) —
of Michigan.
Democrat. Member of Wayne State
University board of governors, 1971-87; died in office 1987.
Died, of cancer, 1987.
Burial location unknown.
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Iorwith Wilbur Abel (1908-1987) —
also known as I. W. Abel —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Sun City, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Magnolia, Stark
County, Ohio, August
11, 1908.
Democrat. President,
United Steelworkers, 1965-77; vice-president,
AFL-CIO; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1968,
1972.
Died, of cancer, in Malvern, Carroll
County, Ohio, August
10, 1987 (age 78 years, 364
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Magnolia, Ohio; cenotaph at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, Ariz.
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Wade Hampton McCree Jr. (1920-1987) —
also known as Wade H. McCree, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, July 3,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1954-61; appointed 1954; resigned
1961; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1961-66; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1966-77; resigned
1977; U.S. Solicitor General, 1977-81; law
professor.
Unitarian.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a heart
attack and bone cancer in Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
30, 1987 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Francis Edwin Dorn (1911-1987) —
also known as Francis E. Dorn —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
18, 1911.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1941-42;
defeated, 1937, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1953-61; defeated,
1948 (7th District), 1949 (7th District), 1950 (7th District), 1960
(12th District), 1962 (15th District); candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1961.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Catholic
Lawyers Guild; Eagles;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of cancer, in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1987 (age 76 years, 152
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Channing Emery Phillips (1928-1987) —
also known as Channing E. Phillips —
of Washington,
D.C.; New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
23, 1928.
Democrat. Minister;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1968;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1968.
United
Church of Christ. African
ancestry.
Died, from cancer, at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1987 (age 59 years, 233
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Merrill K. Riddick (1895-1988) —
of Philipsburg, Granite
County, Mont.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., March 7,
1895.
Aviator;
candidate in Democratic primary for Governor of
Montana, 1960, 1968; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1972.
Died, of cancer, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., March 9,
1988 (age 93 years, 2
days).
Interment at Baltimore
National Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Thomas G. Atkinson (1928-1988) —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis., March 9,
1928.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor
of Green Bay, Wis., 1973-75; defeated, 1979, 1987.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; National Rifle
Association; Eagles;
Moose.
Died, of cancer, on June 10,
1988 (age 60 years, 93
days).
Interment at Fort
Howard Memorial Park, Green Bay, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Atkinson and Evelyn (Piron) Atkinson; married to Patricia
Liebergen. |
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James V. Mangano (c.1905-1988) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1905.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 8th District, 1935-37; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936
(alternate), 1940,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Kings
County Sheriff, 1938-42; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1948.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
28, 1988 (age about 83
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose Mancaruso; father of Guy
James Mangano. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Gordon Llewellyn Allott (1907-1989) —
also known as Gordon Allott —
of Lamar, Prowers
County, Colo.; Englewood, Arapahoe
County, Colo.
Born in Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo., January
2, 1907.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1948,
1952,
1956
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1964
(delegation chair), 1972;
Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1950-55; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1955-73; defeated, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Rotary;
American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Delta
Sigma Pi.
Died, of cancer, in Swedish Medical
Center, Englewood, Arapahoe
County, Colo., January
17, 1989 (age 82 years, 15
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Norris H. Cotton (1900-1989) —
also known as Norris Cotton —
of Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Warren, Grafton
County, N.H., May 11,
1900.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1923, 1943-45; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1945; secretary
to U.S. Sen. George
H. Moses, 1924-28; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Hampshire, 1944
(alternate), 1952;
U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1947-54; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1954-74, 1975.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
Beta
Theta Pi.
Died, from cancer, in Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H., February
24, 1989 (age 88 years, 289
days).
Interment at School
Street Cemetery, Lebanon, N.H.
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Albert Jason Lima (1907-1989) —
also known as Albert J. Lima —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Mendocino
County, Calif., August
31, 1907.
Communist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1940, 1942;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Convicted
in 1952 of conspiracy to overthrow
the United States government; the verdict was overturned on appeal.
Died, of cancer, in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 3,
1989 (age 81 years, 276
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Woodrow Wilson Lavender (1916-1989) —
also known as Woodrow W. Lavender —
of Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga.; Bowman, Elbert
County, Ga.
Born May 8,
1916.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1968.
Died, from cancer, in Bowman, Elbert
County, Ga., July 7,
1989 (age 73 years, 60
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery, Bowman, Ga.
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Frederic Lincoln Chapin (1929-1989) —
also known as Frederic L. Chapin —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., July 13,
1929.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Sao Paulo, 1972-78; U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1978-80; Guatemala, 1981-84.
Died, of cancer, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., September
8, 1989 (age 60 years, 57
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Melba Till Allen (1933-1989) —
also known as Melba Till —
of Hope Hull, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Grady, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Marbury, Autauga
County, Ala.
Born in Friendship Community, Butler
County, Ala., March 3,
1933.
Democrat. Alabama
state auditor, 1967-75; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1972; Alabama
state treasurer, 1975-78; Convicted
in 1978 of using her position as state treasurer to obtain bank
loans to build a theme park, and for failing
to disclose her personal finances; she denied any wrongdoing; sentenced
to six years in jail,
but spent most of her sentence working as a bookkeeper in a
retirement home.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star.
Died, of cancer, in Baptist Medical
Center, Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., October
20, 1989 (age 56 years, 231
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Samuel Ben Till and Gertrude (Johnson) Till; married, December
24, 1950, to Marvin E. Allen. |
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Dean Alfange (1899-1989) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey,
December
2, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1941 (Democratic, 17th District),
1948 (Liberal, 24th District); American Labor candidate for Governor of
New York, 1942.
Greek
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Order of
Ahepa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Delta Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho.
One of the founders of the Liberal Party of New York.
Died, of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
24, 1989 (age 89 years, 326
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur John Holland (1918-1989) —
also known as Arthur J. Holland —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
24, 1918.
Democrat. Mayor
of Trenton, N.J., 1959-66, 1970-89; died in office 1989; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1976,
1988.
Died, from cancer, in St Francis Medical
Center, Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., November
9, 1989 (age 71 years, 16
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arnold Bauman (1914-1989) —
of Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 25,
1914.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1971-74;
resigned 1974.
Died, from cancer, at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
21, 1989 (age 75 years, 119
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Bernice Rechtman. |
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Daniel L. Burrows (1908-1990) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cape Charles, Northampton
County, Va., January
23, 1908.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1939-44;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1940.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Elks.
Died, from cancer, in Calvary Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., June 3,
1990 (age 82 years, 131
days).
Cremated.
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Taylor Garrison Belcher (1920-1990) —
also known as Taylor G. Belcher —
of Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., July 1,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Consul in Glasgow, 1950-54; U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, 1964-69; Peru, 1969-74.
Died, of cancer, in Peekskill Community Hospital,
Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
6, 1990 (age 70 years, 36
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Lawrence Francis O'Brien (1917-1990) —
also known as Lawrence F. O'Brien; Larry
O'Brien —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., July 17,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; administrative
assistant to U.S. Rep. Foster
Furcolo, 1948-50; public
relations business; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1965-68; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1968-69, 1970-72; his office
was the target of the Watergate burglary, 1972; commissioner,
National Basketball
Association, 1975-84.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; American
Legion.
Died, of cancer, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
28, 1990 (age 73 years, 73
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Scott Milne Matheson (1929-1990) —
also known as Scott M. Matheson —
of Utah.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
8, 1929.
Lawyer;
Governor
of Utah, 1977-85.
Died of cancer, October
7, 1990 (age 61 years, 272
days).
Interment at Parowan
City Cemetery, Parowan, Utah.
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William French Smith (1917-1990) —
of San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Wilton, Hillsborough
County, N.H., August
26, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1968
(delegation chair), 1972,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; U.S.
Attorney General, 1981-85.
Member, American
Judicature Society.
Died, of cancer, October
29, 1990 (age 73 years, 64
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Nancy Jane Kulp (1921-1991) —
also known as Nancy Kulp; "Slim" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., August
28, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II;
professional actress,
best known for her role as "Jane Hathaway"in the 1962-71 television
comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies".; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1984.
Female.
Bisexual.
Died, of cancer, in Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., February
3, 1991 (age 69 years, 159
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Mifflintown, Pa.
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Aris Tee Allen (1910-1991) —
also known as Aris T. Allen —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
27, 1910.
Republican. Physician;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1967-74, 1991; died in office 1991;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1972
(delegation chair); Maryland
Republican state chair, 1977-79; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1978; member of Maryland
state senate 30th District, 1979-81.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Medical
Association; American
Legion; NAACP.
Following a diagnosis of cancer, he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his parked rental
car, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
5, 1991 (age 80 years, 40
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Silvio Ottavio Conte (1921-1991) —
also known as Silvio O. Conte —
of Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., November
9, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1951-58; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1959-91; died in
office 1991; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1972,
1988.
Catholic.
Died, from complications of cancer, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
8, 1991 (age 69 years, 91
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass.
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Richard Paul Gilbert (1924-1991) —
also known as Richard P. Gilbert; Dick
Gilbert —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
5, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for Maryland
state senate, 1954; Traffic Court Magistrate, 1956-59; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1960;
Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1971-90.
Lutheran.
Member, Sigma
Delta Kappa.
Died, of cancer, in Baltimore
County, Md., March
11, 1991 (age 67 years, 34
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Baltimore
National Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Thomas LeRoy Collins (1909-1991) —
also known as LeRoy Collins —
of Florida.
Born in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March
10, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1934-40; member of Florida
state senate 8th District, 1940-54; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; Governor of
Florida, 1955-61; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died of cancer, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March
12, 1991 (age 82 years, 2
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Leon County, Fla.
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Bettye Fahrenkamp (1923-1991) —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Wilder, Fentress
County, Tenn., September
6, 1923.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1972;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Alaska, 1972-79; staff member for U.S.
Sen. Mike
Gravel, 1975-78; member of Alaska
state senate, 1979-91; died in office 1991.
Female.
Died, from bone cancer, August
12, 1991 (age 67 years, 340
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to G. B. 'Gib' Fahrenkamp. |
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Julius Gayle Windsor Jr. (1920-1991) —
also known as J. Gayle Windsor, Jr. —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., June 4,
1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1957-62, 1967-80.
Baptist.
English
and German
ancestry. Member, Lions; Theta
Chi.
Cast the only opposing vote in the legislature to Gov. Orval
Faubus's plan to fight desegregation of the Little Rock schools
in 1958.
Died, of cancer, in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., September
28, 1991 (age 71 years, 116
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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Albert Lee Philpott (1919-1991) —
also known as A. L. Philpott —
Born in Philpott, Henry
County, Va., July 29,
1919.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Henry
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1952-57; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1959-91; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1980.
Died, of cancer, in Philpott, Henry
County, Va., September
28, 1991 (age 72 years, 61
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Burial Park, Martinsville, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Elkanah Philpott and Mary Gertrude (Prillaman) Philpott;
married to Katherine Addison. |
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Frank G. Binswanger (1902-1991) —
of Elkins Park, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1902.
Republican. Real estate
broker; real estate
developer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1952
(alternate), 1956.
Died, from cancer, heart
disease, and pneumonia,
in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
1, 1991 (age 88 years, 354
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Carroll Wilmot Parcher (1903-1992) —
also known as Carroll W. Parcher; "Mr.
Glendale" —
of Tujunga, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Glendale, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
13, 1903.
Republican. Newspaper
editor-publisher, columnist;
candidate for California
state assembly, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1952,
1956
(alternate); mayor
of Glendale, Calif., 1977-78, 1979-81, 1984-85.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis.
Died, of cancer, in Glendale Adventist Medical
Center, Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
31, 1992 (age 88 years, 200
days).
Interment at Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Merrill Robert Ebner (1902-1992) —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Born in Cando, Towner
County, N.Dak., June 14,
1902.
Banker;
mayor
of Pullman, Wash., 1944-48.
Died, of cancer, in Virginia Mason Hospital,
Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
12, 1992 (age 90 years, 181
days).
Interment at Associated
Order of United Workers Cemetery, Pullman, Wash.
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William Clyde Trueheart (1918-1992) —
also known as William C. Trueheart; Bill
Trueheart —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chester, Chesterfield
County, Va., December
18, 1918.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, 1969-71.
Died, of cancer, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1992 (age 74 years, 6
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William E. Cleator Sr. (c.1928-1993) —
also known as Bill Cleator —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born about 1928.
Mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 1983; defeated, 1983, 1986.
Caused an uproar in February 1983, during a visit by Britain's Queen
Elizabeth, when he briefly touched the queen's back as he said "This
way, Your Majesty." A British tabloid story was headlined "GET YOUR
HANDS OFF OUR QUEEN.".
Died of cancer, in Point Loma, San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., February
10, 1993 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Fort
Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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George Hughes Revercomb (1929-1993) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., June 3,
1929.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in District of Columbia, 1970-85; U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1985-93; died in
office 1993.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of cancer, at Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., August
1, 1993 (age 64 years, 59
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Meade Henry Esposito (1909-1993) —
also known as Meade H. Esposito; Amadeo Henry
Esposito —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
28, 1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
vice-president, Lafayette National Bank,
1965; insurance
broker; leader of
Kings County Democratic Party, 1969-83.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Indicted
in 1987 on federal charges
that he had given bribes
to U.S. Rep. Mario
Biaggi in in return for influence
on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair
company; convicted
on September 22, 1987 of giving an illegal
gratuity; fined
$500,000; indicted
in 1988 on bribery
and tax
charges,
but the case was dismissed due to his age and poor health.
Died, from renal
failure caused by a heart
attack, while suffering from lung
cancer and bladder
cancer, in North Shore University Hospital,
Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
3, 1993 (age 83 years, 249
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Felicia Esposito; married to Anne De Cunzo. |
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Henry Alfred Byroade (1913-1993) —
also known as Henry A. Byroade —
of Woodburn, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Maumee Township, Allen
County, Ind., July 24,
1913.
General in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service
officer; U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, 1955-56; South Africa, 1956-59; Afghanistan, 1959-62; Burma, 1963-68; Philippines, 1969-73; Pakistan, 1973-77.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, several months after cancer surgery, of cardiopulmonary
arrest, at Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., December
31, 1993 (age 80 years, 160
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ivan Warner (1919-1994) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1919.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 6th District, 1958-60; member of
New
York state senate 27th District, 1961-65, 1967-68; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1964; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1970.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Lions.
Died, of cancer, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., 1994
(age about
75 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Vroman James Dorman (c.1909-1994) —
also known as Vroman J. Dorman —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.; Lemon Grove, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Parlier, Fresno
County, Calif., about 1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1944,
1952.
Member, Lions.
Died, of cancer, in Lemon Grove, San Diego
County, Calif., January
14, 1994 (age about 85
years).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Henry Osborne Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1916-1994) —
also known as Harry Frelinghuysen —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1960.
Died, of cancer, in Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J., March
30, 1994 (age 78 years, 72
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lois Goldstein Forer (c.1913-1994) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., about 1913.
Common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1971-87.
Female.
Died, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, at Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 9,
1994 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) —
also known as Jackie Onassis; Jaqueline Lee Bouvier;
Jacqueline Kennedy —
Born in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 28,
1929.
First
Lady of the United States, 1961-63.
Female.
Catholic.
Died, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 19,
1994 (age 64 years, 295
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet
Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III; married, September
12, 1953, to John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; brother of Jean
Kennedy Smith; grandson of John
Francis Fitzgerald); married 1968 to
Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High
School for International Careers, in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall,
at George Washington University,
Washington,
D.C., is named for
her. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir,
in Central Park,
Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Cornelius Patrick Callahan II (1915-1994) —
also known as C. Patrick Callahan II —
of Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont., October
17, 1915.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor
of Coronado, Calif., 1978-84.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif., June 12,
1994 (age 78 years, 238
days).
Interment at Fort
Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Sarah Lovell (1922-1994) —
also known as Sarah Rebecca Hellman; Sarah
Zucker —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 8,
1922.
Socialist. Candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1957; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Michigan; Socialist Workers candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1961; Socialist Workers candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 18th District, 1968.
Female.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, International
Typographical Union; National
Organization for Women.
Died, of cancer, in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 14,
1994 (age 72 years, 37
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Sol Hellman and Yetta (Yankowitz) Hellman; married 1949 to Frank
Lovell; married to Frank Zucker. |
| | | Image source: The Militant, January 6,
1958 |
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Charles W. Flanagan (c.1934-1995) —
of Pembroke Pines, Broward
County, Fla.
Born about 1934.
Republican. Mayor
of Pembroke Pines, Fla., 1971-76, 1982-95; died in office 1995;
candidate for Florida
state house of representatives 96th District, 1978.
Catholic.
Died, from cancer, in Pembroke Pines, Broward
County, Fla., January
20, 1995 (age about 61
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Vincent Lyons Broderick (1920-1995) —
also known as Vincent L. Broderick —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
26, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1962; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1976-88;
took senior status 1988.
New York City Police Commissioner, 1965-66.
Died, of cancer, at the Stanley R. Tippett Hospice,
Needham, Norfolk
County, Mass., March 3,
1995 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Broderick. |
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James Bryan McMillan (1916-1995) —
also known as James B. McMillan —
of Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C., December
19, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina,
1968-89; took senior status 1989.
Died, of cancer, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., March 4,
1995 (age 78 years, 75
days).
Interment at Iona
Presbyterian Church, McDonald, N.C.
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William Manning Rountree (1917-1995) —
also known as William M. Rountree —
of Maryland; Florida.
Born in Swainsboro, Emanuel
County, Ga., March
28, 1917.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1959-62; Sudan, 1962-65; South Africa, 1965-70; Brazil, 1970-73.
Died, of cancer, in Shands Hospital,
Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., March
11, 1995 (age 77 years, 348
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Harry Earl Bergold Jr. (1931-1995) —
also known as Harry E. Bergold, Jr. —
of Florida; Vienna, Austria;
Paris, France.
Born in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., November
11, 1931.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1980-83; Nicaragua, 1984-87.
Information he disclosed to the press led to the discovery that Lt.
Col. Oliver
North had been funneling U.S. money to fighters who were trying
to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
Died, of cancer, in Paris, France,
May
16, 1995 (age 63 years, 186
days).
Interment at Dearborn
Memorial Park, Poway, Calif.
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Thomas Tang (1922-1995) —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
11, 1922.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; superior court
judge in Arizona, 1964-70; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1977-93; took
senior status 1993.
Chinese
ancestry.
Died, from cancer, in the Good Samaritan Hospital,
Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 18,
1995 (age 73 years, 188
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Thompson (c.1913-1995) —
of New York.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., about 1913.
Democrat. Justice of
New York Supreme Court 11th District, 1964-77.
Died of cancer, in Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
5, 1995 (age about 82
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Loree Collins (1927-1995) —
also known as Rip Collins —
of Summit, Union
County, N.J.
Born November
10, 1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1964-65;
defeated, 1965; chair of
Union County Republican Party, 1966-68.
Died, of cancer, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1995 (age 68 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Jennings Dyess (1929-1996) —
also known as Billy Dyess —
of Alabama.
Born in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., August
1, 1929.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1981-83.
Died, of cancer, in Washington,
D.C., January
6, 1996 (age 66 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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Clare Berryhill (c.1926-1996) —
of California.
Born about 1926.
Member of California
state assembly, 1969-70; member of California
state senate, 1972-76; California director of Food and
Agriculture, 1983-87.
Died of cancer, in Ceres, Stanislaus
County, Calif., March
18, 1996 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Leslie T. Young (1930-1996) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born May 26,
1930.
Stockbroker;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1984-96; died in office 1996.
Died of cancer, March
21, 1996 (age 65 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Burton Stokes (1927-1996) —
also known as Carl B. Stokes —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1927.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1962; mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1968-71; defeated, 1965; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1972;
municipal judge in Ohio, 1983-94; U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles, 1994-95.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Died of cancer, Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April 3,
1996 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Abbot Low Moffat (1901-1996) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Hightstown, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 12,
1901.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1929-43; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938.
Died, of cancer, at a retirement
home in Hightstown, Mercer
County, N.J., April
17, 1996 (age 94 years, 341
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Herbert Brownell Jr. (1904-1996) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peru, Nemaha
County, Neb., February
20, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer;
counsel for hotel
associations; author, "Manual of New York Hotel
and Restaurant
Law"; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1933-37;
defeated, 1931; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1936,
1944,
1948;
campaign manager, Thomas
E. Dewey for Governor of New York and for President; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1944-46; U.S.
Attorney General, 1953-57.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Died of cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1996 (age 92 years, 71
days).
Interment at Hilltop Cemetery, Mendham, N.J.
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Lydia Baird Muncy (1902-1996) —
also known as Lydia B. Muncy; Lydia Low
Baird —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Monument, El Paso
County, Colo.; Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Marine City, St. Clair
County, Mich., February
10, 1902.
Socialist. School
teacher; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan;
Socialist Labor candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1968.
Female.
Scottish,
English,
and German
ancestry.
Died, of malignant lymphoma, in Glacier Hills nursing
home, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 1,
1996 (age 94 years, 81
days). Her body was
donated to the University of Michigan Medical School.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, St. Clair, Mich.
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Joseph E. Gardner (c.1946-1996) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1946.
Democrat. Candidate for mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1995.
Died of cancer, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1996 (age about 50
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas F. X. Smith (1928-1996) —
also known as Tommie Smith; "The Mouth that
Roared" —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., July 5,
1928.
Democrat. Mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1977-81; defeated, 1989; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1981.
Catholic.
Professional basketball
player for the New York Knicks in 1951.
Died of cancer, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., May 31,
1996 (age 67 years, 331
days).
Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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T. F. Gilroy Daly (1931-1996) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
25, 1931.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1970; U.S.
District Judge for Connecticut, 1977-96; died in office 1996.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died of melanoma, July 11,
1996 (age 65 years, 137
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Loret Miller Ruppe (1936-1996) —
also known as Loret Ruppe; Loret Miller —
of Houghton, Houghton
County, Mich.; Maryland.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., January
3, 1936.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan;
director, Peace Corps, 1981-89; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1989-93.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, League of Women
Voters.
Died, of ovarian cancer, August
7, 1996 (age 60 years, 217
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Wills Tuthill (1910-1996) —
of Illinois.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., November
10, 1910.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Ottawa, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, 1966-69.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., September
9, 1996 (age 85 years, 304
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Leo Isacson (1910-1996) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Eastchester, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
20, 1910.
Member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 13th District, 1945-46; defeated
(American Labor), 1946; American Labor candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1945, 1949; U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1948-49; defeated
(American Labor), 1948; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party,
1949.
Jewish.
Member, Alpha
Epsilon Pi.
Died of cancer in a hospital
at Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., September
21, 1996 (age 86 years, 154
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Franklin Battin (1925-1996) —
also known as James F. Battin —
of Montana.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., February
13, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1959-60; U.S.
Representative from Montana 2nd District, 1961-69; U.S.
District Judge for Montana, 1969-90; took senior status 1990.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Delta
Theta Phi; Elks; Eagles;
Moose.
Died, of cancer, in Billings, Yellowstone
County, Mont., September
27, 1996 (age 71 years, 227
days).
Cremated.
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Peter Joseph Brennan (1918-1996) —
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; president,
Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1973-75.
Died of lymphatic cancer in Massapequa, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
2, 1996 (age 78 years, 131
days).
Interment at St.
Charles Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Lee Alexander (1927-1996) —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., May 18,
1927.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 34th District, 1962; mayor
of Syracuse, N.Y., 1970-85; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1980;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1984.
Was indicted
in July 1987 over a $1.5 million kickback
scandal,
and pleaded
guilty in January 1988 to racketeering and tax
evasion charges;
served six years in prison.
Died, of cancer, in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., December
25, 1996 (age 69 years, 221
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Alexander and Rita (Rouatcos) Alexander; married 1957 to
Elizabeth Strates. |
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Peter Zack Geer Jr. (1928-1997) —
of Georgia.
Born in Colquitt, Miller
County, Ga., August
24, 1928.
Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1963-67.
Died of cancer, January
5, 1997 (age 68 years, 134
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Colquitt, Ga.
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Paul Efthemios Tsongas (1941-1997) —
also known as Paul E. Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1975-79; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1979-85; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1992.
Greek
ancestry.
Died of liver
damage caused by cancer treatment, and pneumonia,
at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1997 (age 55 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Walter L. Kennedy (c.1921-1997) —
also known as Peanut Kennedy —
of Chelsea, Orange
County, Vt.
Born about 1921.
Republican. Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1960-74; Speaker of
the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1971-74; candidate
for Governor of
Vermont, 1974; Vermont
Republican state chair, 1975-76.
Died of cancer, January
22, 1997 (age about 76
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Roscoe Kintner (1915-1997) —
also known as William R. Kintner —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in 1915.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean conflict; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1973-75.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Co-founder, with Robert
Strausz-Hupé, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in
Philadelphia.
Died of cancer, February
1, 1997 (age about 81
years).
Interment somewhere
in Bryn Athyn, Pa.
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Oscar William Adams Jr. (1925-1997) —
also known as Oscar W. Adams —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., February
7, 1925.
Lawyer;
associate
justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1980-93.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Omega
Psi Phi; NAACP.
First
African-American ever elected to statewide office in Alabama.
Died of an infection
related to cancer, in Baptist Medical
Center-Montclair, Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., February
15, 1997 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Stanley Fink (1936-1997) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
6, 1936.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly 39th District, 1969-86; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1979-86; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1984.
Died of heart
failure and cancer, at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 4,
1997 (age 61 years, 26
days).
Interment at Mt.
Ararat Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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Richard H. Lewis (c.1938-1997) —
of Benton, Marshall
County, Ky.
Born about 1938.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1970-75, 1988-95; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1979.
Died of cancer, March
11, 1997 (age about 59
years).
Interment at Benton
City Cemetery, Benton, Ky.
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James Joseph McConn (1928-1997) —
also known as Jim McConn —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., March
15, 1928.
Republican. Mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1978-81; defeated, 1981.
Died, from cancer, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., March
14, 1997 (age 68 years, 364
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Robert Richey (1923-1997) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Middleburg, Logan
County, Ohio, October
16, 1923.
U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1971-97; died in
office 1997.
Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died, of cancer, in the Washington Home Hospice,
Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1997 (age 73 years, 154
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Tali Coleman (1919-1997) —
of Pago Pago, American
Samoa.
Born in Pago Pago, American
Samoa, December
8, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; American
Samoa territory attorney general, 1955-56; Governor of
American Samoa, 1956-61, 1978-85, 1989-93; Honorary
Consul for Nauru in Pago
Pago, American Samoa, 1985.
Catholic.
Samoan
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April
28, 1997 (age 77 years, 141
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (1925-1997) —
also known as Vern Riffe, Jr. —
of New Boston, Scioto
County, Ohio.
Born June 26,
1925.
Democrat. Mayor of New Boston, Ohio, 1949; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1959-95; Speaker of
the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1975-94; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1996.
Died of cancer, July 31,
1997 (age 72 years, 35
days).
Interment at Memorial
Burial Park, Wheelersburg, Ohio.
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Harriet R. Taylor (c.1932-1997) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., about 1932.
Superior court judge in District of Columbia, 1979-97.
Female.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died of cancer, August
18, 1997 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Jean Westwood (1923-1997) —
also known as Jean Miles —
of West Jordan, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Price, Carbon
County, Utah, November
22, 1923.
Democrat. Mink
raiser; writer;
staff member for U.S. Rep. David
S. King, 1965-66; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Utah, 1972;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1972; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arizona, 1996.
Female.
Died, of pituitary cancer, in American Fork Hospital,
American Fork, Utah
County, Utah, August
18, 1997 (age 73 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Francis Marion Miles and Nettie (Potter) Miles; married
1941 to
Richard E. Westwood. |
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J. Louis Watkins Jr. (c.1929-1997) —
of Louisiana.
Born about 1929.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1972; Judge,
Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-97; died in office 1997.
Died, of cancer, in Houma, Terrebonne
Parish, La., August
29, 1997 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997) —
also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984,
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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Joel McFee Pritchard (1925-1997) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Washington, 1925.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Washington, 1956;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1959-67; member of Washington
state senate, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative from Washington 1st District, 1973-85; Lieutenant
Governor of Washington, 1987.
Died, of lymphoma, in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., October
9, 1997 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Basil W. Brown (1927-1997) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Vandalia, Cass
County, Mich., March
20, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate, 1957-88 (3rd District 1957-64, 6th District
1965-74, 3rd District 1975-82, 2nd District 1983-88); resigned 1988;
in 1985, a prostitute working for the police went to visit him
several times, and exchanged
sex for marijuana
and cocaine;
arrested
November 8, 1985; pleaded
guilty in 1987 and resigned
from the Senate; sentenced
to six months in jail, fines, and probation; his law license was also
suspended; the state supreme court threw out the conviction in 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
NAACP.
Injured in a fire at his
home, while also suffering cancer, and died two weeks later,
in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1997 (age 70 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alex Giuliani (c.1927-1997) —
of Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born about 1927.
Police
officer; mayor
of Hayward, Calif., 1982-90.
Died, of cancer of the aorta and spine, at Majestic Pines
Convalescent Hospital,
Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif., December
5, 1997 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Wayne Winpisinger (1924-1997) —
also known as William W. Winpisinger;
"Wimpy" —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.; Columbia, Howard
County, Md.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
10, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mechanic;
president,
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
1977-89; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1988.
Member, International
Association of Machinists; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of cancer, in the Howard County Memorial Hospital,
Columbia, Howard
County, Md., December
11, 1997 (age 73 years, 1
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edna Flannery Kelly (1906-1997) —
also known as Edna F. Kelly; Edna Patricia
Flannery —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
20, 1906.
Democrat. Member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1948; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1949-69 (10th District 1949-63,
12th District 1963-69); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1956
(alternate), 1968;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1956-68.
Female.
Died of cancer and a series of strokes,
in Alexandria,
Va., December
14, 1997 (age 91 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard W. O'Dea (1916-1998) —
also known as Dick O'Dea —
of Willernie, Washington
County, Minn.; Mahtomedi, Washington
County, Minn.
Born July 7,
1916.
Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1953-72 (District 43 1953-62,
District 50 1963-66, District 8 1967-72).
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Died, from cancer, January
10, 1998 (age 81 years, 187
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Penny Lee Severns (1952-1998) —
also known as Penny L. Severns —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., January
21, 1952.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1972
(alternate), 1996;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 21st District, 1980; member of Illinois
state senate, 1987-98; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1994.
Female.
Died of cancer, in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., February
21, 1998 (age 46 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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Steven Harvey Schiff (1947-1998) —
also known as Steven Schiff —
of New Mexico.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
18, 1947.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Mexico 1st District, 1989-98; died in
office 1998.
Died, of squamous-cell skin cancer, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., March
25, 1998 (age 51 years, 7
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Dorothy Irene Hokr (1923-1998) —
also known as Dorothy I. Hokr; Dorothy Irene
Freer —
of New Hope, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., June 22,
1923.
Republican. Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1981-84 (District 44-B 1981-82,
District 46-A 1983-84).
Female.
Catholic.
Died, from cancer, in a hospital
at Lady Lake, Lake
County, Fla., March
26, 1998 (age 74 years, 277
days).
Interment at Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Fla.
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Byron Lee Cate Sr. (c.1942-1998) —
of Oklahoma.
Born about 1942.
Member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1966-73; member of Oklahoma
state senate, 1973-86.
Died of cancer, April
10, 1998 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Terry Sanford (1917-1998) —
also known as Terry Sanford —
of Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C.; Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Laurinburg, Scotland
County, N.C., August
20, 1917.
Democrat. FBI
agent; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1953-55; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1956,
1964;
Governor
of North Carolina, 1961-65; president
of Duke University, 1969-85; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1972,
1976;
U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1986-93; defeated, 1992.
Methodist.
Died, of cancer, in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., April
18, 1998 (age 80 years, 241
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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Marjorie Lansing (1916-1998) —
also known as Marjorie Tillis —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born April 2,
1916.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1960,
1976;
candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1972; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1974.
Female.
Died, of cancer, at a hospital
in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 1,
1998 (age 82 years, 29
days).
Interment at Geneva Cemetery, Geneva, Fla.
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Robert Willis Warren (1925-1998) —
also known as Robert W. Warren —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Raton, Colfax
County, N.M., August
30, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; Brown
County District Attorney, 1961-64; member of Wisconsin
state senate 2nd District, 1965-68; Wisconsin
state attorney general, 1969-74; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1972
(delegation chair); U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1974-91.
Methodist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Purple
Heart.
Died, of cancer, at Columbia Hospital,
Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
20, 1998 (age 72 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George F. Roskie (1912-1998) —
of Montana.
Born in Brookings, Brookings
County, S.Dak., August
28, 1912.
Member of Montana
state senate, 1975-80.
Died of cancer, in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., November
24, 1998 (age 86 years, 88
days).
Cremated.
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Thomas W. Klein (1914-1998) —
also known as Tommy Klein; "Perennial
Klein" —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born January
26, 1914.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1974, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1996;
candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1975, 1995; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1976;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1978, 1982, 1988,
1992, 1994; candidate for Kentucky
commissioner of agriculture, 1979; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1983, 1987, 1991; candidate for mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1993.
Died of cancer, December
1, 1998 (age 84 years, 309
days). His body was donated to
science.
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Dorothy B. Haskell Bradley (c.1914-1998) —
also known as Dorothy B. Bradley; Dorothy
Haskell —
of California.
Born in Whittier, Los Angeles
County, Calif., about 1914.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1976
(alternate), 1980.
Female.
Died, of complications from cancer and strokes,
in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
13, 1998 (age about 84
years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Greenwood
Memorial Park, San Diego, Calif.
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Annette Strauss (c.1924-1998) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., about 1924.
Democrat. Mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1987-91.
Female.
Died, of cancer, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., December
14, 1998 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Anne Hanlon Charles (c.1941-1999) —
of California.
Born about 1941.
Candidate for California
state assembly, 1980.
Female.
Died, of cancer, in Marin General Hospital,
Marin
County, Calif., 1999
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Jeffery Cohelan (1914-1999) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 24,
1914.
Democrat. Secretary-treasurer,
Local 302, Milk Drivers and Dairy Employees union, 1942-58; U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1959-71; defeated in
primary, 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1960,
1964.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Moose; Eagles;
Teamsters
Union; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease and cancer, in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1999 (age 84 years, 236
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dorothy Ann DiGirolamo Cody (1935-1999) —
of Montana.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., November
22, 1935.
Member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1983-91.
Female.
Died, of cancer, in Wolf Point, Roosevelt
County, Mont., May 27,
1999 (age 63 years, 186
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Wolf Point, Mont.
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Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916-1999) —
also known as Robert G. Neumann —
of California.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
January
2, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1966-73; Morocco, 1973-76; Saudi Arabia, 1981.
Died of cancer, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 18,
1999 (age 83 years, 167
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Oliver Ocasek (1925-1999) —
of Northfield, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Bedford, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
2, 1925.
Democrat. Candidate for Ohio
state house of representatives, 1946; member of Ohio
state senate, 1959-87; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1962, 1968, 1986
(primary); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1964,
1972;
member of Ohio state
board of education, 1993-98.
Died, of cancer, at Hospice
Care Center, Copley Township, Summit
County, Ohio, June 25,
1999 (age 73 years, 235
days).
Interment at Northfield
Macedonia Cemetery, Northfield, Ohio.
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Lillian A. Hart (c.1934-1999) —
of Falmouth, Pendleton
County, Ky.
Born about 1934.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1992.
Female.
Member, Habitat
for Humanity.
State executive director of the Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service, 1981-89.
Died, of cancer, in Falmouth, Pendleton
County, Ky., July 2,
1999 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Homer Mollohan (1909-1999) —
also known as Bob Mollohan —
of Fairmont, Marion
County, W.Va.
Born in Grantsville, Calhoun
County, W.Va., September
18, 1909.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1953-57, 1969-83;
defeated, 1958; candidate for Governor of
West Virginia, 1956; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from West Virginia, 1960,
1972.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Moose.
Died, of cancer, at the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., August
3, 1999 (age 89 years, 319
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Grove (1923-1999) —
of Colorado.
Born in Millport, Lamar
County, Ala., December
14, 1923.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1960.
Sponsored legislation to create Colorado's prison work release
program. Served ten years on Colorado's State Adult Parole Board
before being fired in
1984 over allegations of sexual
harassment; later reinstated; the sexual harassment allegations
were never substantiated.
Died of bone cancer, in Denver,
Colo., September
13, 1999 (age 75 years, 273
days).
Interment at Fort
Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. (1920-1999) —
also known as W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 20,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1961-66; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1966-85.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Ordered the desegregation of Boston schools in 1974.
Died, of cancer, in Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., September
16, 1999 (age 79 years, 88
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Wellesley, Mass.
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Fred B. Roti (1920-1999) —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
18, 1920.
Member of Illinois
state senate, 1951-56.
Convicted
of extortion
and racketeering, 1993; served four years in federal prison.
Died, of cancer, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
20, 1999 (age 78 years, 276
days).
Interment at Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Ill.
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Timothy Coleman Barnhart (1956-1999) —
also known as Timothy Barnhart; Tim
Barnhart —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, October
31, 1956.
Democrat. Chair of
Ross County Democratic Party, 1980; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1988,
1992;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, September
27, 1999 (age 42 years, 331
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ed Gochenour (c.1953-1999) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born about 1953.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1980.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., November
7, 1999 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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Pat McMullen (c.1945-1999) —
of Washington.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., about 1945.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1983-87; member of Washington
state senate, 1987-92.
Died of cancer, in Mt. Vernon, Skagit
County, Wash., November
12, 1999 (age about 54
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (1920-2000) —
also known as Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.; Bud
Zumwalt —
of Virginia.
Born in Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif., November
29, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Chief of U.S. naval operations
in 1970-74; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1976.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1998.
Died, following two cancer surgeries, at Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
2, 2000 (age 79 years, 34
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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John Chrystal (c.1926-2000) —
of Iowa.
Born about 1926.
Democrat. Farmer; banker;
candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1990.
Agricultural advisor for the Soviet Union.
Died of cancer, in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, January
19, 2000 (age about 74
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lido M. Bucci (1940-2000) —
of Michigan.
Born September
11, 1940.
Circuit
judge in Michigan, 1992-2000.
Died of cancer, January
20, 2000 (age 59 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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D. Brook Bartlett (1937-2000) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., February
22, 1937.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, 1981-2000;
died in office 2000.
Died of multiple myeloma, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., January
21, 2000 (age 62 years, 333
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Patrick L. Ryan (1928-2000) —
of Montana.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., May 15,
1928.
Member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1977-79; member of Montana
state senate, 1979-82.
Died, of cancer, in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., January
24, 2000 (age 71 years, 254
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Mont.
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Andronic Pappas (d. 2000) —
of Altoona, Blair
County, Pa.
Talk
show host; mayor
of Altoona, Pa., 1971.
Died of cancer, February
11, 2000.
Burial location unknown.
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Elaine Gordon (1931-2000) —
of Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in New York, 1931.
Democrat. Legislative assistant to State Rep. George
Firestone, 1968; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1973-94.
Female.
Inducted into Florida Women's Hall of
Fame, 1982.
Died, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., February
25, 2000 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Harold M. Mulvey (1914-2000) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
5, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer; Connecticut
state attorney general, 1963-67; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1968-84.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Presided over the trial of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale.
Died, of cancer, at Whitney Center Convalescent
Home, Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn., February
27, 2000 (age 85 years, 84
days).
Interment at St.
Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Conn.
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Byron M. Tunnell (c.1926-2000) —
of Texas.
Born about 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1956-64; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1963-64; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1964;
Texas
railroad commissioner, 1965-73.
Died, of cancer, in Tyler, Smith
County, Tex., March 7,
2000 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Raymond L. Marsh (1926-2000) —
of California.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., September
6, 1926.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for California
state assembly, 1966; municipal judge in California, 1975-78;
superior court judge in California, 1978-96.
Died, of cancer, at Alta Bates Medical
Center, Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., March 9,
2000 (age 73 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Kenneth Boyle (1937-2000) —
of Chatham, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., November
27, 1937.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives 49th District, 1971-76; University
of Illinois trustee, 1991-94.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
11, 2000 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment at Virden
Cemetery, Virden, Ill.
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Richard L. Livingston (1940-2000) —
also known as Dick Livingston —
of Pulaski, Scott
County, Miss.
Born March
22, 1940.
Real
estate broker; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1972-2000; died in office 2000.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Farm
Bureau; Lions.
Died, of cancer, at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., March
28, 2000 (age 60 years, 6
days).
Interment at Independence
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Near Morton, Scott County, Miss.
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Jeanie R. Austin (1933-2000) —
also known as Jeanie Reed; Jeanie Teague —
of Florida.
Born in Jamestown, Independence
County, Ark., November
23, 1933.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida.
Female.
Died, from bone cancer, in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla., April
22, 2000 (age 66 years, 151
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Millard Teague; married 1964 to Jim
Austin. |
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Laurie Calvin Battle (1912-2000) —
also known as Laurie C. Battle —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Wilsonville, Shelby
County, Ala., May 10,
1912.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 9th District, 1947-55; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1954; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1956;
candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kappa
Phi Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Gamma Mu; Elks; Eagles;
Lions.
Sponsored Battle Act, which banned U.S. assistance to countries doing
business with the Soviet Union, but allowed the President flexibility
to waive the ban.
Died, from cancer, at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
2000 (age 87 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Earl O'Neal (1928-2000) —
also known as Coach O'Neal —
of Conyers, Rockdale
County, Ga.
Born in Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga., July 20,
1928.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives 75th District, 1993-2000; died in
office 2000.
Died, of cancer, in Rockdale Hospital,
Conyers, Rockdale
County, Ga., June 13,
2000 (age 71 years, 329
days).
Interment at Green
Meadow Memorial Gardens, Conyers, Ga.
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Joe J. Fisher (1910-2000) —
of Texas.
Born in Bland Lake, San
Augustine County, Tex., April
16, 1910.
Lawyer;
district judge in Texas, 1957-59; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, 1959-84.
Died, of cancer, in Beaumont, Jefferson
County, Tex., June 19,
2000 (age 90 years, 64
days).
Interment at Liberty
Hill Cemetery, Near Bland Lake, San Augustine County, Tex.
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Pat Thomas (1933-2000) —
of Florida.
Born in Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla., November
21, 1933.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; Florida
Democratic state chair, 1966-70; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1968;
candidate for nomination for Lieutenant
Governor of Florida, 1970; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1973-74; member of Florida
state senate, 1975-2000.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of multiple myeloma, in Quincy, Gadsden
County, Fla., June 21,
2000 (age 66 years, 213
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Quincy, Fla.
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Dorothy Legrand (d. 2000) —
of Minnesota.
Republican. Independent Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 5th District, 1994.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, August, 2000.
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond Joseph Broderick (1914-2000) —
also known as Raymond J. Broderick —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 29,
1914.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1967; Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967-71; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1970; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1971-84;
took senior status 1984.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America.
Died, of cancer, in Gladwyne, Montgomery
County, Pa., August
6, 2000 (age 86 years, 69
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Patti Knox (c.1925-2000) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born about 1925.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1968,
1976,
1980,
1988;
vice-chair
of Michigan Democratic Party, 1969.
Female.
Died, of cancer, August
22, 2000 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Koln Gunn McKay (1925-2000) —
also known as K. Gunn McKay —
of Utah.
Born in Ogden, Weber
County, Utah, February
23, 1925.
Democrat. Member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1963-67; U.S.
Representative from Utah 1st District, 1971-81; defeated, 1980,
1986, 1988.
Mormon.
Died, of cancer, in Huntsville, Weber
County, Utah, October
6, 2000 (age 75 years, 226
days).
Interment at Huntsville
Cemetery, Huntsville, Utah.
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John Thomas Connor (1914-2000) —
also known as John T. Connor; Jack Connor —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., November
3, 1914.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1965-67.
Catholic.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Kappa Psi.
President and CEO of the Merck pharmaceutical
company from 1955; chairman and CEO of Allied Chemical,
1967-79.
Died, of cancer, at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
6, 2000 (age 85 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mosswood
Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
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Lester Ellis Anderson (1921-2000) —
also known as Les Anderson —
of Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.; Aspen, Pitkin
County, Colo.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., December
5, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor of
Eugene, Ore., 1969-77.
Member, Rotary.
Died, of cancer, in Eugene, Lane
County, Ore., October
8, 2000 (age 78 years, 308
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Willamette
National Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Epitaph: "Look
to the mountains for strength." |
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Leona A. Kelley (1919-2000) —
of Peace Dale, South Kingstown, Washington
County, R.I.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., 1919.
Republican. School
teacher; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives 49th District, 1985-2000;
died in office 2000; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Rhode Island, 1988,
1992,
1996,
2000
(alternate).
Female.
Died, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in South County Hospital,
South Kingstown, Washington
County, R.I., November
7, 2000 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Wakefield, South Kingstown, R.I.
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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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Lenore Carrero Nesbitt (1932-2001) —
of Florida.
Born in 1932.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1983.
Female.
Inducted into Florida Women's Hall of Fame, 2001.
Died, of cancer, 2001
(age about
69 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Leland H. Rayson (1921-2001) —
of Tinley Park, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill., August
23, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1960;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1965-77 (at-large 1965-67, 9th
District 1967-77).
Methodist.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, of metastatic melanoma, in Stuart, Martin
County, Fla., January
8, 2001 (age 79 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Ewing Duffield (1922-2001) —
also known as William E. Duffield —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Cherry Tree, Indiana
County, Pa., January
7, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 32nd District, 1971-78.
Presbyterian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks.
Disbarred
in 1975 for mishandling
cases and client funds; reinstated to the bar in 1978. Convicted
in 1980 on 11 federal counts of mail fraud and one count of perjury;
served six months in federal prison.
Disbarred
again in 1994 for mishandling
a murder case.
Died, of cancer and strokes,
in Uniontown Hospital,
Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., January
14, 2001 (age 79 years, 7
days).
Interment at Sylvan
Heights Cemetery, Oliver, Pa.
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Santiago E. Campos (1926-2001) —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Santa Rosa, Guadalupe
County, N.M., December
25, 1926.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
district judge in New Mexico, 1971-78; U.S.
District Judge for New Mexico, 1978-92; took senior status 1992.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., January
20, 2001 (age 74 years, 26
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Steve Vossmeyer (1944-2001) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March
14, 1944.
Democrat. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Thomas
F. Eagleton, 1969-72; member of Missouri
state house of representatives 86th District, 1973-82.
Died, of cancer, in St.
Louis, Mo., March 9,
2001 (age 56 years, 360
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001) —
also known as Andy Guest —
of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
29, 1939.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1973-99.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Rotary;
Izaak
Walton League; Ruritan.
Died, of cancer, in Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., April 2,
2001 (age 61 years, 185
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Va.
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Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919-2001) —
also known as L. Richardson Preyer —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., January
11, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1956; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina,
1961-63; candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from North Carolina, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1969-81.
Presbyterian.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died, of cancer, in Moses Cone Memorial Hospital,
Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., April 3,
2001 (age 82 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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Stephen Cornelius O'Connell (1916-2001) —
also known as Stephen C. O'Connell —
of Florida.
Born in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
22, 1916.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1955-67; appointed 1955; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1966-67; first
Catholic to win a statewide election in Florida, 1956; president,
University of Florida, 1967-73.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April
13, 2001 (age 85 years, 81
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Ferraro (1924-2001) —
also known as "Big John" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Cudahy, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 14,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1964;
candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1985.
Italian
ancestry.
Football player for University of Southern California; played in
three Rose Bowls; all-American in 1944 and 1947; named to the
National Football Hall of Fame. He was the longest-serving city
council member in Los Angeles history: 1966 to 2001.
Died, of spleen cancer, in St. John's Health
Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
17, 2001 (age 76 years, 338
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert James Huber (1922-2001) —
also known as Robert J. Huber —
of Troy, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
29, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; president,
Michigan Chrome and Chemical
Inc.; mayor of
Troy, Mich., 1959-64; member of Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1965-70; defeated in primary, 1962;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 18th District, 1973-75; defeated,
1974.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary;
Elks; American
Legion; Catholic
War Veterans.
Died, of cancer, in Beaumont Hospital,
Royal Oak, Oakland
County, Mich., April
23, 2001 (age 78 years, 237
days).
Interment at Memory
Gardens Cemetery, Hope, Ark.
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Robinson McIlvaine (1913-2001) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Downingtown, Chester
County, Pa., 1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Dahomey, 1961-64; Guinea, 1966-69; Kenya, 1969.
One of the organizers of the Eisenhower for President campaign in
1952.
Died, of melanoma, in Washington,
D.C., June 24,
2001 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Sheldon Whitehouse (1921-2001) —
also known as Charles S. Whitehouse —
of Virginia.
Born in Paris, France
of American parents, November
5, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; Foreign Service
officer; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1973-75; Thailand, 1975-78.
Successfully opposed the Disney company's proposal to build a history
theme park in Prince William County, Va.
Died, of cancer, in Marshall, Fauquier
County, Va., June 25,
2001 (age 79 years, 232
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James H. DeAtley (c.1952-2001) —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Washington,
D.C., about 1952.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Texas, 1993-96; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, 1997-98.
Died, of cancer, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 21,
2001 (age about 49
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roger B. Andewelt (1946-2001) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
4, 1946.
Lawyer;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1987-2001; died in office 2001.
Died, of cancer, in Washington,
D.C., August
7, 2001 (age 55 years, 3
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941-2001) —
also known as Maureen Reagan;
"Radiant" —
of California.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
4, 1941.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 36th District, 1992.
Female.
Catholic.
Died, of malignant melanoma, in Granite Bay, Placer
County, Calif., August
8, 2001 (age 60 years, 216
days).
Interment at Calvary
Catholic Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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Henry Raymond Kozak (1917-2001) —
also known as Henry R. Kozak —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
1, 1917.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1945-50; defeated in primary, 1955;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 14th District,
1960; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1964.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Eagles;
Polish
National Alliance.
Died, of cancer, at Bon Secours Hospital,
Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich., August
23, 2001 (age 84 years, 234
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Genieve Traczuk. |
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James H. Brickley (1928-2001) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Okemos, Ingham
County, Mich.; Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich.
Born in Flint, Genesee
County, Mich., November
15, 1928.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals 1st District, 1966; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1969-70; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1971-74, 1979-82; resigned 1982; president,
Eastern Michigan University, 1975-78; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1982; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1982-99; appointed 1982; resigned
1999; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1995-96.
Catholic.
Member, Delta
Theta Phi; American Bar
Association.
Died, of multiple myeloma and Alzheimer's
disease, on September
28, 2001 (age 72 years, 317
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lawrence P. Doss (1927-2001) —
of Michigan.
Born in 1927.
Democrat. Candidate for Michigan
State University board of trustees, 1990.
African
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, October
28, 2001 (age about 74
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Milan D. Bish (1929-2001) —
of Grand Island, Hall
County, Neb.
Born near Giltner, Hamilton
County, Neb., July 1,
1929.
Republican. Farm
implement dealer; Nebraska
Republican state chair, 1971-73; U.S. Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, 1981-84; Barbados, 1981-84; Dominica, 1981-84; St. Lucia, 1981-84; St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1981-84; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Nebraska, 1988.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease and cancer, at Tiffany Square care
center, Grand Island, Hall
County, Neb., November
5, 2001 (age 72 years, 127
days).
Interment at Grand
Island Cemetery, Grand Island, Neb.
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Paula J. Carter (c.1940-2001) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., about 1940.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1987-99; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1996,
2000;
member of Missouri
state senate 5th District, 1999-2001; died in office 2001.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, in Barnes Hospital,
St.
Louis, Mo., November
5, 2001 (age about 61
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. (1919-2001) —
also known as Harrison A. Williams; Pete
Williams —
of Westfield, Union
County, N.J.; Bedminster, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., December
10, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1951; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 6th District, 1953-57; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1959-82; resigned 1982; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1964,
1968,
1980.
Member, Elks; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a
titanium mine; indicted
on October 30, 1980; convicted
on May 1, 1981, of nine counts of bribery,
conspiracy, receiving an unlawful
gratuity, conflict
of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering; resigned
his seat March 11, 1982, when it appeared that the Senate would vote
to expel
him; sentenced
to three years in prison
and fined
$50,000; released in 1986.
Died, of cancer and heart
ailments, in St. Clare's Hospital,
Denville, Morris
County, N.J., November
17, 2001 (age 81 years, 342
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mary Stallings Coleman (1914-2001) —
also known as Mary S. Coleman; Mary Leslie
Stallings —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Forney, Kaufman
County, Tex., June 24,
1914.
Republican. Lawyer;
probate judge in Michigan, 1961-72; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1973-82; resigned 1982; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1979-82; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1984.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Junior
League; Altrusa;
American
Legion Auxiliary; American
Association of University Women; Beta
Sigma Phi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Omicron Pi.
Died, of cancer, in Ocala, Marion
County, Fla., November
27, 2001 (age 87 years, 156
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Oakridge
Cemetery, Marshall, Mich.
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Laurence J. Kirwan (c.1942-2002) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, about 1942.
Democrat. Insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1980,
1984
(alternate), 1988
(delegation chair); New York
Democratic state chair, 1984-89.
Died, of cancer, in Wellfleet, Barnstable
County, Mass., January
31, 2002 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Louis Crosby Wyman (1917-2002) —
also known as Louis C. Wyman —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., March
16, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1953-61; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1956,
1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1963-65, 1967-74;
defeated, 1964; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1974-75; defeated, 1975; superior
court judge in New Hampshire, 1978-87.
Died, from cancer, in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 5,
2002 (age 85 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Wallace G. Wilkinson (1941-2002) —
also known as "The Weasel" —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Casey
County, Ky., December
12, 1941.
Democrat. Governor of
Kentucky, 1987-91.
During bankruptcy proceedings in 2001, it was revealed that Wilkinson
had been operating a Ponzi
scheme, and that his liabilities exceeded his assets by $300
million; he repeatedly refused to answer questions under oath,
invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
However, he died before any prosecution could take place.
Died, of lymphatic cancer and a stroke,
in St. Joseph Hospital,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., July 5,
2002 (age 60 years, 205
days).
Entombed at Sarasota Memorial Park, Sarasota, Fla.
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Richard McGarrah Helms (1913-2002) —
also known as Richard Helms —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in St. Davids, Delaware
County, Pa., March
30, 1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Director, U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, 1966-73; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1973-77; pleaded
guilty in 1977 to perjury
charges,
over his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Member, Chi Psi;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of multiple myeloma, in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 2002 (age 89 years, 206
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joseph Phillip Vigorito (1918-2003) —
also known as Joseph P. Vigorito —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, November
10, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 24th District, 1965-77;
defeated, 1976, 1978.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, of lymphoma, in Walter
Reed Army Hospital Center, Washington,
D.C., February
5, 2003 (age 84 years, 87
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Judith Dennehy Doran (c.1943-2003) —
also known as Judith D. Doran —
of Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, about 1943.
Lawyer;
candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 6th Circuit, 1978.
Female.
Member, National
Organization for Women.
Died, of cancer, on February
24, 2003 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Walter John Giller (1938-2003) —
also known as John Giller —
of El Dorado, Union
County, Ark.
Born in El Dorado, Union
County, Ark., December
28, 1938.
Republican. Orthopedic
surgeon; delegate
to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1979; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1980.
Episcopalian.
Died, of cancer, in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., March
13, 2003 (age 64 years, 75
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Eladio Armesto Garcia (1936-2003) —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Miami Lakes, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Bayamo, Cuba,
November
27, 1936.
Republican. Real
estate and insurance
business; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Florida, 1984,
1988,
1992;
member of Florida
state house of representatives 117th District, 1993-94; defeated,
1976.
Catholic.
Cuban
ancestry.
Died, of respiratory
arrest and cancer, in Zion, Lake
County, Ill., March
24, 2003 (age 66 years, 117
days).
Interment at Miami
Memorial Park, Miami, Fla.
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Mary A. Warner (1932-2003) —
also known as Mary A. Whedon —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Quincy, Branch
County, Mich., November
26, 1932.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1988;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Female.
Died, of cancer, in a hospital
at Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., April
11, 2003 (age 70 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Donald Thomas Regan (1918-2003) —
also known as Donald T. Regan; Don Regan —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
21, 1918.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85; White House Chief of Staff
for President Ronald
Reagan, 1985-87.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, of cancer and heart
failure, in a hospital
at Williamsburg,
Va., June 10,
2003 (age 84 years, 171
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Lester Garfield Maddox (1915-2003) —
also known as Lester Maddox —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., September
30, 1915.
Restaurant
owner; became nationally known as an outspoken racial
segregationist; closed his restaurant rather than serve Black
customers; Governor of
Georgia, 1967-71; candidate in inconclusive election,
subsequently chosen 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Georgia, 1968;
Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1971-75; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 1976.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Moose;
Junior
Order.
Died, while suffering from cancer and the effects of a fall, in a
hospice
at Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., June 25,
2003 (age 87 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington
Memorial Park, Sandy Springs, Atlanta, Ga.
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Jacob Edward Gunther III (1953-2003) —
also known as Jacob E. Gunther III; Jake
Gunther —
of Forestburgh, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., June 11,
1953.
Democrat. Glass
business; member of New York
state assembly 98th District, 1993-2003; died in office 2003.
Presbyterian.
Died, of neck cancer, in St. Peter's Hospital,
Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 9,
2003 (age 50 years, 28
days).
Cremated.
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Howard Peters Rawlings (1937-2003) —
also known as Pete Rawlings —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March
17, 1937.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 40, 1979-2003; died in office
2003; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1988,
1996,
2000.
African
ancestry.
Died, of cancer, November
14, 2003 (age 66 years, 242
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Irvine H. Sprague (1921-2004) —
of College Park, Prince
George's County, Md.; Great Falls, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 4,
1921.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; staff member
for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur in Japan; newspaper
reporter; congressional aide to Rep. John
J. McFall, 1957; director of the House Whip Office; lobbyist
for the State of California in Congress, 1963; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1964;
special assistant to Pres. Lyndon
Johnson, 1967-68; board member, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 1969-72, 1979-85; chairman, 1979-81.
Died, of cancer, in the Arlington Hospice
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
17, 2004 (age 82 years, 228
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Married to Margery Craw. |
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Elaine F. Guiney (c.1945-2004) —
of Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born about 1945.
Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996;
Massachusetts director for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Female.
Died, of cancer, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
20, 2004 (age about 59
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Vincent Waggoner Carr (1918-2004) —
also known as Waggoner Carr —
of Lubbock
County, Tex.
Born in Fairlie, Hunt
County, Tex., October
1, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; Lubbock
County Attorney, 1948-50; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1951-61; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1957-61; Texas
state attorney general, 1963-67; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1966; candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1968.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Lions.
Breakfasted with Pres. John
F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on the morning of his
assassination, November 22, 1963.
Died, of cancer, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., February
25, 2004 (age 85 years, 147
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Ralph A. Liberato (1923-2004) —
of Warren, Macomb
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
18, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; mechanic;
union
representative; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from 11th Senatorial
District, 1961-62; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1964
(alternate), 1968
(alternate), 1976,
1984;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; Macomb
County Commissioner.
Catholic.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
AFSCME.
Died, from cancer, in Warren, Macomb
County, Mich., March
15, 2004 (age 80 years, 88
days).
Interment at Resurrection
Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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James W. Broyles (1949-2004) —
also known as Jim Broyles —
of Texas.
Born September
22, 1949.
Republican. Fire
fighter; Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 11th District, 1992, 1994, 1996
(primary).
Died, of cancer, in Hewitt, McLennan
County, Tex., April 8,
2004 (age 54 years, 199
days).
Cremated.
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Decatur W. Trotter (1932-2004) —
also known as Bucky Trotter;
"Zeus" —
of Glenarden, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
8, 1932.
Democrat. Mayor
of Glenarden, Md., 1970-74; member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 25, 1975-80; orphan's court
judge in Maryland, 1982-83; member of Maryland
state senate 24th District, 1983-98; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maryland, 1988,
1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Died, of bone cancer, in John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., May 3,
2004 (age 72 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Sheppard Arnold (1936-2004) —
also known as Richard S. Arnold —
of Texarkana, Miller
County, Ark.; Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Texarkana, Bowie
County, Tex., March
26, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1966, 1972; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1968;
delegate
to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1969-70; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, 1978-80; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 1978-80; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1980-2001; took
senior status 2001.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of lymphoma, in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., September
23, 2004 (age 68 years, 181
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St.
Margaret's Episcopal Church Columbarium, Little Rock, Ark.
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Gerald Raymond Dunn (1934-2005) —
also known as Gerald R. Dunn —
of Flushing, Genesee
County, Mich.; Williamston, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., December
20, 1934.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Michigan
state senate 25th District, 1965-66; defeated, 1966; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1968;
member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1969-84.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, in Garden City, Wayne
County, Mich., March
22, 2005 (age 70 years, 92
days). His body was donated
to the University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Anatomy.
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Relatives: Son
of Roy Dunn and Mae Dunn. |
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Donald Dean Noble (1936-2005) —
also known as Donald D. Noble —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., March 3,
1936.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,
1968;
member, Louisville Board of Alderman, 1968-70.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer, April
29, 2005 (age 69 years, 57
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld (1919-2005) —
also known as Abraham J. Hirschfeld; Abe Hirschfeld;
"Honest Abe" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Tarnow, Poland,
December
12, 1919.
Real
estate developer; hotel
owner; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974 (Democratic primary), 1976
(Democratic primary), 2004 (Builders); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1992 (Independent
Fusion), 1994 (Democratic primary); Republican candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1997; Independence candidate
for New
York state comptroller, 1998.
In 1998, offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment
lawsuit against President Bill
Clinton; later sued by Jones when he tried to back out of the
offer. Indicted
in 2000 of trying to hire
a hit man to kill
his former business partner Stanley Stahl; also charged
with tax
evasion; briefly jailed
for violating
a court order against discussing the trial with the media;
ultimately convicted,
and served two years in prison.
Died, from complications of cancer, in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., August
9, 2005 (age 85 years, 240
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lloyd Meeds (1927-2005) —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Dillon, Beaverhead
County, Mont., December
11, 1927.
Democrat. Gasoline
station business; lawyer; Snohomish
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1962-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1965-79.
Member, Kiwanis;
Eagles.
Died, of cancer, in Church Creek, Dorchester
County, Md., August
17, 2005 (age 77 years, 249
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Clarence Charles Newcomer (1923-2005) —
of Stone Harbor, Cape May
County, N.J.
Born in Mt. Joy, Lancaster
County, Pa., January
18, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1971-88;
took senior status 1988.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Sertoma.
Died, from melanoma, in Stone Harbor, Cape May
County, N.J., August
22, 2005 (age 82 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Louise Gore (1925-2005) —
of Rockville, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., March 8,
1925.
Republican. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-67; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1964; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1964,
1972;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1967-69; Republican candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1974, 1978 (primary).
Female.
Died, from cancer, in a hospice
at Washington,
D.C., October
6, 2005 (age 80 years, 212
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Howard McNamara (1926-2006) —
also known as Edward H. McNamara; "Big
Mac" —
of Livonia, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
21, 1926.
Democrat. Candidate for Michigan
state senate 14th District, 1965; mayor
of Livonia, Mich., 1970-86; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1970; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1976,
1996,
2000;
Wayne
County Executive, 1987-2002.
Died, of heart
failure and cancer, in Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
19, 2006 (age 79 years, 151
days).
Interment at Parkview Memorial Cemetery, Livonia, Mich.
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Daniel Schaefer (1936-2006) —
also known as Dan Schaefer —
of Lakewood, Jefferson
County, Colo.
Born in Guttenberg, Clayton
County, Iowa, January
25, 1936.
Republican. School
teacher; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1977-78; member of Colorado
state senate, 1979-82; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 6th District, 1983-99.
Catholic.
Member, Jaycees.
Died, of cancer, in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson
County, Colo., April
16, 2006 (age 70 years, 81
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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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Paul H. Rappaport (1934-2006) —
of Ellicott City, Howard
County, Md.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
20, 1934.
Republican. Howard County police
chief; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1994; candidate for Maryland
state attorney general, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 2000.
Jewish.
Died, of spindle cell sarcoma, in Mercy Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., September
10, 2006 (age 72 years, 143
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Monroe Mark Sweetland Jr. (1910-2006) —
also known as Monroe M. Sweetland —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Milwaukie, Clackamas
County, Ore.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., January
20, 1910.
Socialist candidate for New York
state senate 41st District, 1934; Socialist candidate for New York
state assembly from Tompkins County, 1935; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Oregon; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Oregon, 1940
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956,
1964;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1953-54; member of Oregon
state senate 11th District, 1955-62; defeated (Democratic), 1998;
Democratic candidate for secretary
of state of Oregon, 1956, 1960; newspaper
publisher.
Died, from cancer, in Milwaukie, Clackamas
County, Ore., September
10, 2006 (age 96 years, 233
days); body
donated to Oregon Health and Science University.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Idlewild
Cemetery, Hood River, Ore.
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Thomas J. Gilloon (1949-2006) —
of Dyersville, Dubuque
County, Iowa; Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in North Arlington, Bergen
County, N.J., September
11, 1949.
Lawyer;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1975-78.
Died, of cancer, October
11, 2006 (age 57 years, 30
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas J. Gilloon and Margaret (Kelly) Gilloon; grandnephew of Frank
D. Gilloon. |
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William Kennedy Shearer (1931-2007) —
also known as William K. Shearer —
Born in 1931.
Lawyer;
American Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 1970; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California.
Died, of cancer, in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 3,
2007 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas P. Shoesmith (1922-2007) —
Born in Palmerton, Carbon
County, Pa., January
25, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Consul in Seoul, 1958-60; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1977-81; U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia, 1983-87.
Episcopalian.
Died, of cancer, in Springfield, Fairfax
County, Va., April
26, 2007 (age 85 years, 91
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Virginia Johnson (1928-2007) —
also known as Virginia Lillian Morris —
of Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark.
Born in Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark., January
21, 1928.
Democrat. Legal
secretary; candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, 1968.
Female.
Segregationist.
Died, from cancer, in Conway, Faulkner
County, Ark., June 27,
2007 (age 79 years, 157
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Conway, Ark.
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Calvin Lewellyn Rampton (1913-2007) —
also known as Calvin L. Rampton; Cal
Rampton —
of Davis
County, Utah; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah, November
6, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. J.
W. Robinson, 1936-38; Davis
County Attorney, 1939-41; major in the U.S. Army during World War
II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952,
1972;
Governor
of Utah, 1965-77.
Mormon.
Died, of cancer, in CareSource Hospice,
Holladay, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
16, 2007 (age 93 years, 314
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Diana Margaret Keller (1944-2008) —
also known as Diana M. Keller —
of Riverview, Wayne
County, Mich.; Wyandotte, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born December
26, 1944.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1976,
1980;
president,
AFSCME Local 1659.
Female.
Died, of cancer, July 19,
2008 (age 63 years, 206
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Joseph Keller and Naomi Dobrovalski. |
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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) —
also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs.
Tobin Armstrong —
of Armstrong, Kenedy
County, Tex.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
27, 1927.
Republican. Member of Texas
Republican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1976-77; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Texas.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died, of cancer, in a hospice
at Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 30,
2008 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Peter Miguel Camejo (1939-2008) —
also known as Peter Camejo —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., December
31, 1939.
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1976; Green candidate for Governor of
California, 2002, 2003, 2006; Independent candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2004.
Venezuelan
ancestry.
Died, from lymphoma, in Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif., September
13, 2008 (age 68 years, 257
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Catherine Baker Knoll (1930-2008) —
also known as Catherine Baker —
of McKees Rocks, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in McKees Rocks, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
3, 1930.
Democrat. Pennsylvania
state treasurer, 1989-97; defeated, 1976, 2000; candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1994; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Pennsylvania, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 2003-08; died in office 2008.
Female.
Catholic.
Died, from neuroendocrine cancer, in Mt. Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
12, 2008 (age 78 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jack French Kemp (1935-2009) —
also known as Jack Kemp —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Hamburg, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 13,
1935.
Republican. Professional football
player, National and American Football Leagues, 1957-70; cofounder
and president,
American Football League Players Association; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1971-89 (39th District 1971-73,
38th District 1973-83, 31st District 1983-89); candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1988;
U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1989-93; candidate
for Vice
President of the United States, 1996.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega.
Died, of cancer, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
2009 (age 73 years, 293
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Morris Edward Lasker (1917-2009) —
also known as Morris E. Lasker; Edward Morris
Lasker —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 17,
1917.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1950; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1968-83;
took senior status 1983.
Died, of cancer, in Mount Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
25, 2009 (age 92 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Creswell Gardner (1924-2010) —
also known as James C. Gardner; Jim Gardner;
"Mr. Shreveport" —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., July 17,
1924.
Democrat. Power
company executive; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1952-54; mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1954-58; defeated, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary.
Died, from cancer in Willis-Knighton Pierremont Medical
Center, Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., August
27, 2010 (age 86 years, 41
days).
Interment at Forest
Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Steve Lampi (1954-2011) —
of Brooklyn Park, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born March
28, 1954.
Ice cream
business; mayor
of Brooklyn Park, Minn., 2003-11; died in office 2011.
Died, from cancer, in Brooklyn Park, Hennepin
County, Minn., February
26, 2011 (age 56 years, 335
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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.
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 for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1992, 1998.
Female.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1994.
Died, from multiple myeloma, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
26, 2011 (age 75 years, 212
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Ned Ray McWherter (1930-2011) —
also known as Ned McWherter —
of Dresden, Weakley
County, Tenn.
Born in Palmersville, Weakley
County, Tenn., October
15, 1930.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1980,
1996
(delegation chair), 2000,
2008;
Governor
of Tennessee, 1987-95; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Tennessee.
Died, of cancer, at Centennial Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April 4,
2011 (age 80 years, 171
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Matthew Kipling Fong (1953-2011) —
also known as Matt Fong —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., November
20, 1953.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for California
state controller, 1990; California
state treasurer, 1995-99; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1998; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 2008.
Chinese
ancestry.
Died, from cancer, in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 1,
2011 (age 57 years, 193
days).
Interment at U.S.
Air Force Academy Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Peter J. Biondi (1942-2011) —
also known as Pete Biondi —
of Hillsborough, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 23,
1942.
Republican. Mayor
of Hillsborough Township, N.J., 1986-93; Somerset
County Freeholder, 1994-97; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 16th District, 1998-2011; died in
office 2011.
Member, Rotary;
Elks.
Died, from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, November
10, 2011 (age 69 years, 140
days).
Interment at New Somerville Cemetery, Somerville, N.J.
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Norman Frederick Lent Jr. (1931-2012) —
also known as Norman F. Lent —
of East Rockaway, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Oceanside, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
23, 1931.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
confidential law secretary to Justice Thomas
P. Farley, 1960-62; member of New York
state senate, 1963-70 (2nd District 1963-65, 6th District 1966,
7th District 1967-70); U.S.
Representative from New York, 1971-93 (5th District 1971-73, 4th
District 1973-93); delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1972.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from cancer, in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., June 11,
2012 (age 81 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Reginald Bartholomew (1936-2012) —
of Virginia.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
17, 1936.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, 1983-86; Spain, 1986-89; Italy, 1993-97.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
26, 2012 (age 76 years, 191
days).
Cremated.
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Arlen Specter (1930-2012) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., February
12, 1930.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
Republican candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1967; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1972,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011; defeated in Democratic
primary, 2010.
Jewish.
Died, from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
14, 2012 (age 82 years, 245
days).
Interment at Shalom
Memorial Park, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
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James Francis O'Neill (c.1926-2012) —
also known as James F. O'Neill; Jim O'Neill;
"Shirt-sleeves" —
of Bel Air, Harford
County, Md.
Born about 1926.
Town
commission chairman of Bel Air, Maryland, 1970-74.
Died, from cancer, in Stella Maris Hospice,
Timonium, Baltimore
County, Md., November
12, 2012 (age about 86
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Betsy Diane Sayre (1947-2013) —
also known as Diane Sayre —
of Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo.
Born in Cottonwood Point, Pemiscot
County, Mo., July 31,
1947.
School
teacher and principal; mayor
of Caruthersville, Mo., 1986-94, 1998-2013; died in office 2013.
Female.
Died, from cancer, in Caruthersville, Pemiscot
County, Mo., May 2,
2013 (age 65 years, 275
days).
Interment at Maple Cemetery, Caruthersville, Mo.
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Thomas Penfield Jackson (1937-2013) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
10, 1937.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1982-2002; took
senior status 2002; senior judge, 2002-04.
Member, Delta
Upsilon.
Died, of cancer, in Compton, St. Mary's
County, Md., June 15,
2013 (age 76 years, 156
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Yetter McCollister (1921-2013) —
also known as John Y. McCollister —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa, June 10,
1921.
Republican. Douglas
County Commissioner, 1965-70; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nebraska, 1968;
U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 2nd District, 1971-77; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1976; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Nebraska.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Kiwanis;
Freemasons.
Died, from cancer, in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., November
1, 2013 (age 92 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Michael Menino (1942-2014) —
also known as Thomas M. Menino; "Mayor
Mumbles" —
of Hyde Park, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Readville, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
27, 1942.
Democrat. Mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1993-2014; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from cancer, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
30, 2014 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park, Boston, Mass.
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Elois Zeanah (1941-2015) —
also known as Eleanor Elois Kennedy —
of Thousand Oaks, Ventura
County, Calif.; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Fayette, Fayette
County, Ala., October
25, 1941.
Republican. Mayor
of Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1993-94.
Female.
Died, from lymphoma, in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., January
23, 2015 (age 73 years, 90
days).
Interment at Gordo City Cemetery, Gordo, Ala.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Aaron Scott Kennedy and Martha Sue Kennedy; married to
James Henley Zeanah. |
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memorial |
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Oaks |
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Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III (1927-2015) —
also known as Hugh D. Auchincloss III; Yusha
Auchincloss —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1927.
Independent candidate for Rhode
Island state senate 50th District, 1992.
Died, from cancer, in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 13,
2015 (age 87 years, 270
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.
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Brandon Hambright Grove Jr. (1929-2016) —
also known as Brandon Grove —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1929.
Staff member for U.S. Rep. Chester
Bowles; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Zaire, 1984-87; director, Foreign Service Institute, 1988-92.
Died, from complications of cancer, in Washington,
D.C., May 20,
2016 (age 87 years, 42
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mary McClure Bibby (1939-2016) —
also known as Mary Anne Burges; Mary
McClure —
of Redfield, Spink
County, S.Dak.; Brookings, Brookings
County, S.Dak.; Spicer, Kandiyohi
County, Minn.
Born in Milbank, Grant
County, S.Dak., April
21, 1939.
Republican. Fulbright scholar; member of South
Dakota state senate, 1975-89; delegate to Republican National
Convention from South Dakota, 1976,
1992,
2008
(alternate); special assistant for intergovernmental affairs, under
President George
H. W. Bush, 1989-92.
Female.
Congregationalist;
later Methodist.
Member, Order
of the Eastern Star; Rotary.
Died, from cancer, in Spicer, Kandiyohi
County, Minn., July 2,
2016 (age 77 years, 72
days).
Interment at Spicer Cemetery, Spicer, Minn.
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William Lester Armstrong (1937-2016) —
also known as William L. Armstrong; Bill
Armstrong —
of Aurora, Adams
County, Colo.; Littleton, Arapahoe
County, Colo.
Born in Fremont, Dodge
County, Neb., March
16, 1937.
Republican. Radio station
president; banker;
member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1963-64; member of Colorado
state senate, 1965-72; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 5th District, 1973-79; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1979-91; president,
Colorado Christian University, 2006.
Died, from cancer, in Denver,
Colo., July 5,
2016 (age 79 years, 111
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (1924-2016) —
also known as Phyllis Schlafly; Phyllis McAlpin
Stewart —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.; Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., August
15, 1924.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1952 (24th District), 1970 (23rd
District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1956,
1960
(alternate), 1964,
1968;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 2004,
2008
(alternate), 2012,
2016.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Junior
League; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Author
of A Choice Not An Echo and other books; leader of opposition
to the Equal Rights Amendment; founder and president of the Eagle
Forum.
Died, from cancer, in Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo., September
5, 2016 (age 92 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mary B. Schroer (1947-2017) —
also known as Mary B. White —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Chelsea, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in St. Marys, Auglaize
County, Ohio, February
11, 1947.
Democrat. Legislative assistant to State Sen. Lana
Pollack; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 52nd District, 1993-98; defeated,
1988.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, League of Women
Voters.
Died, from cancer, in Arbor Hospice,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
3, 2017 (age 70 years, 234
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John Crane White and Louise (Koch) White; married 1967 to J.
Michael Schroer. |
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Orval Howard Hansen (1926-2017) —
also known as Orval H. Hansen —
of Idaho.
Born in Firth, Bingham
County, Idaho, August
3, 1926.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1957-62, 1965-66; member of Idaho
state senate, 1967-68; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1969-75; defeated, 1962,
1974.
Danish
and Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from cancer, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, November
2, 2017 (age 91 years, 91
days).
Burial location unknown.
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