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Leonard Ackerman II (b. 1921) —
also known as Lee Ackerman —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Clayton, St. Louis
County, Mo., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; airplane
pilot; newspaper reporter; advertising
business; real estate
investor; member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1951-52.
Presbyterian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Melville Ackerman and Ruth (Corday) Ackerman; married, December
22, 1943, to Leslie Rogers. |
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Jesse Samuel Cottrell (1878-1944) —
also known as Jesse S. Cottrell —
of Tennessee; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., October
23, 1878.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1907-09; secretary to U.S. Sen.
Newell
Sanders, 1910-11; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1921-28.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Died March
24, 1944 (age 65 years, 153
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867-1935) —
also known as Frank H. Hitchcock —
of Massachusetts; Arizona.
Born in Amherst, Lorain
County, Ohio, October
5, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1908-09; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1909-13; newspaper publisher; member
of Republican
National Committee from Arizona, 1932-33.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., August
25, 1935 (age 67 years, 324
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Chapman Hitchcock and Mary Laurette (Harris)
Hitchcock. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1908 |
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Charles Warner Landis (1867-1925) —
also known as Charles W. Landis —
of Osborne, Osborne
County, Kan.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pennsylvania, October
21, 1867.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1908.
Died, from tuberculosis,
in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., May 11,
1925 (age 57 years, 202
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Landis and Christiana (Shelly) Landis; married 1892 to Eva
Patterson. |
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Myron Hawley McCord (1840-1908) —
also known as Myron H. McCord —
of Shawano, Shawano
County, Wis.; Merrill, Lincoln
County, Wis.; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Ceres, McKean
County, Pa., November
26, 1840.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; lumberman;
farmer;
member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1873-74; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Wisconsin, 1876;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1880-82; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 9th District, 1889-91; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Arizona Territory, 1896;
Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1897-98; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Spanish-American War.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of Bright's
disease, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., April
27, 1908 (age 67 years, 153
days).
Interment at Merrill
Memorial Park Cemetery, Merrill, Wis.
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Samuel Roy McKelvie (1881-1956) —
also known as Sam R. McKelvie —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Fairfield, Clay
County, Neb., April
15, 1881.
Republican. Publisher, The Nebraska Farmer magazine; member of
Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1911-13; Lieutenant
Governor of Nebraska, 1913-15; Governor of
Nebraska, 1919-23; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Nebraska, 1928
(speaker),
1932,
1936,
1944.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Arizona, October
6, 1956 (age 75 years, 174
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Evan Mecham (1924-2008) —
of Ajo, Pima
County, Ariz.; Glendale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Duchesne, Duchesne
County, Utah, May 12,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; automobile
dealer; newspaper publisher; candidate for Arizona
state house of representatives, 1952; member of Arizona
state senate, 1960-62; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1962 (Republican), 1992 (Independent); Governor of
Arizona, 1987-88; defeated, 1964, 1974, 1978, 1982.
Mormon.
Member, John
Birch Society.
Indicted
in 1988 on six felony counts of perjury
and filing a false
campaign report, specifically of failing
to report a $350,000 loan to his campaign by Barry Wolfson, a
real estate developer; later acquitted of these charges. Impeached
by the Arizona House of Representatives on February 5, 1988, on charges
of obstructing
justice and illegally lending
state money to his business; convicted
and removed from office by the Arizona Senate on April 4, 1988. A
recall
election was scheduled against him, but it was cancelled by the
Arizona Supreme Court.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
22, 2008 (age 83 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond Charles Moley (1886-1975) —
also known as Raymond Moley; Ray Moley —
Born in Berea, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, September
27, 1886.
Mayor of Olmsted Falls, Ohio; university
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1933; broke with
Roosevelt in 1936, and later became senior advisor to Republicans Wendell
Willkie, Barry
Goldwater, and Richard
Nixon; columnist
for Newsweek magazine; received the Medal
of Freedom in 1970.
Irish
and French
ancestry.
Died February
18, 1975 (age 88 years, 144
days).
Interment somewhere
in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Relatives: Son
of Felix James Moley and Agnes (Fairchild) Moley; married 1916 to Eva
Dall; married 1949 to
Frances Hebard. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Sidney Preston Osborn (1884-1948) —
also known as Sidney P. Osborn —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., May 17,
1884.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; delegate
to Arizona state constitutional convention, 1910; secretary
of state of Arizona, 1912-18; newspaper editor; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue for Arizona, 1933-34; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1934; Governor of
Arizona, 1941-48; defeated in primary, 1918, 1924, 1938; died in
office 1948.
Died, from Lou Gehrig's
disease, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., May 25,
1948 (age 64 years, 8
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Ariz.
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John O. Patten (d. 1899) —
of Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine.
Newspaper publisher; mayor of
Bath, Maine, 1851-52; member of Maine state legislature, 1880.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., 1899.
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Collins Pulliam (1889-1975) —
also known as Eugene C. Pulliam —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born, in a sod
dugout, in Grant
County, Kan., May 3,
1889.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; director, New York
Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., June 23,
1975 (age 86 years, 51
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Ind.
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William D. Tarrant (1929-1998) —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 4,
1929.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; Gun Dog
editor for Field & Stream magazine; twice named Dog
Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America; electrical
equipment manufacturer; mayor
of Wichita, Kan., 1965-66; college
professor.
Died in Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., November
22, 1998 (age 69 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Church of the Red Rocks Columbarium, Sedona, Ariz.
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Mary Rose Wilcox (b. 1949) —
also known as Mary Rose Garrido —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Superior, Pinal
County, Ariz., November
21, 1949.
Democrat. Special assistant to U.S. Sen. Dennis
DeConcini, 1977-83; member Phoenix City Council, 1983-93; Maricopa
County Commissioner, 1993-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arizona, 1996,
2000,
2004
(alternate), 2008;
shot
and wounded on August 13, 1997, by Larry Marvin Naman, who was
angry over her support for a quarter-cent sales tax to fund a sports
stadium; newspaper publisher; restaurant
owner.
Female.
Catholic.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John Garrido and Betty (Nunez) Garrido; married 1971 to Earl
V. Wilcox. |
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John Richard Williams (1909-1998) —
also known as John R. Williams; Jack
Williams —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1909.
Republican. Program director, KOY radio
station; director, KetchikanUC radio
station; newspaper columnist;
mayor
of Phoenix, Ariz., 1956-60; Governor of
Arizona, 1967-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Arizona, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Member, Jaycees.
Died August
24, 1998 (age 88 years, 299
days).
Burial location unknown.
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