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Amerigo Bozzani (1883-1964) —
of Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Modena, Italy,
October
2, 1883.
Democrat. Automobile
dealer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1936,
1940
(alternate), 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1956.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks;
Americans for Democratic Action.
Died in June, 1964
(age 80
years, 0 days).
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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June Oppen Degnan (c.1918-2001) —
also known as June Degnan —
of Ross, Marin
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born about 1918.
Democrat. Member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1956; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1968
(alternate), 1972.
Female.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Author of what David Broder called "Degnan's Law": "Anybody who
deserves to be president of the United States ought to be able, in a
half-hour conversation, to express one thought I had not already
thought of myself.".
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., September
14, 2001 (age about 83
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) —
also known as Don Edwards —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., January
6, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,
10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1964,
1968,
1988;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Died in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., October
1, 2015 (age 100 years,
268 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Girvetz (1910-1974) —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in 1910.
Democrat. University
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1956.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Died in 1974
(age about
64 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Vann Rogers Jr. (1911-1993) —
also known as Will Rogers, Jr. —
of Culver City, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, October
20, 1911.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1943-44; resigned
1944; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1946; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1948.
Cherokee
Indian ancestry. Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in in Tubac, Santa Cruz
County, Ariz., July 9,
1993 (age 81 years, 262
days).
Interment at Tubac
Cemetery, Tubac, Ariz.
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James Roosevelt (1907-1991) —
also known as Jimmy Roosevelt —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
23, 1907.
Democrat. Insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1948-52; candidate for Governor of
California, 1950; U.S.
Representative from California 26th District, 1955-65; candidate
for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Americans for Democratic Action.
Died, from complications of a stroke
and Parkinson's
disease, in Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., August
13, 1991 (age 83 years, 233
days).
Interment at Pacific
View Memorial Park, Newport Beach, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor
Roosevelt; brother of Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, June 4,
1930, to Betsey Maria Cushing (who later married John
Hay Whitney); married, April
14, 1941, to Romelle Theresa Schneider; married, July 2,
1956, to Gladys Irene Owens; married, October
3, 1969, to Mary Lena Winskill; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; second great-grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Deborah A. Vollmer (b. 1948) —
of California; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born January
15, 1948.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 21st District, 1992, 1996;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1998, 2000, 2002.
Female.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 2002.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Erwin P. Vollmer and Aline Fruhauf
Vollmer. |
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Horace Jeremiah Voorhis (1901-1984) —
also known as Jerry Voorhis —
of San Dimas, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ottawa, Franklin
County, Kan., April 6,
1901.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state assembly, 1934; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1937-47; defeated,
1946; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Died, of emphysema,
at Claremont Manor retirement
home, Claremont, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
11, 1984 (age 83 years, 158
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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