Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Walter Holden Capps (1934-1997) —
also known as Walter H. Capps —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 5,
1934.
Democrat. University
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1996;
U.S.
Representative from California 22nd District, 1997; defeated,
1994; died in office 1997.
Suffered a heart
attack while on a flight from California to Washington,
D.C., and died shortly afterward in a hospital
at Reston, Fairfax
County, Va., October
28, 1997 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Tauese Pita Fiti Sunia (1941-2003) —
also known as Tauese P. F. Sunia —
Born in Fagatogo, American
Samoa, August
29, 1941.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Lieutenant
Governor of American Samoa, 1993-97; Governor of
American Samoa, 1997-2003; died in office 2003; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from American Samoa, 2000.
Congregationalist.
Samoan
ancestry.
Died, on a flight to Hawaii for medical treatment, over the Pacific
Ocean, March
26, 2003 (age 61 years, 209
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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