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Carol Mueller Alexander (1925-1998) —
also known as Carol M. Alexander; Carol
Mueller —
of Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 18,
1925.
Democrat. College instructor; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1972.
Female.
Protestant.
Member, League of Women
Voters; National
Organization for Women.
Died April 2,
1998 (age 72 years, 288
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Hans F. Mueller and Laura (Portmann) Mueller; married 1947 to Thomas
R. Alexander. |
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Constance Dean Armitage (b. 1920) —
also known as Constance D. Armitage; Constance Dean;
Mrs. Norman C. Armitage —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 13,
1920.
Republican. College professor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from South Carolina, 1960
(alternate), 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of South Carolina Republican Party, 1960-62.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Robert Armstrong Dean and Constance (Lawrence) Dean;
married, September
20, 1941, to Norman Cudworth Armitage. |
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Thomas Swain Barclay (1892-1993) —
also known as Thomas S. Barclay; Tom
Barclay —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
26, 1892.
Democrat. Professor of political science at Stanford
University, 1927-57; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1948.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., December
21, 1993 (age 101 years,
329 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Reppert Barclay and Lillie (Swain) Barclay. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Guy Vernon Bennett (b. 1880) —
also known as G. Vernon Bennett —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Waverly, Bremer
County, Iowa, February
17, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; superintendent
of schools; university professor; member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938-40, 1948; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles M. Berlese —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
College instructor; candidate for California
superintendent of public instruction, 1962.
Still living as of 1962.
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David Harold Blackwell (1919-2010) —
also known as David Blackwell —
of Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Centralia, Marion
County, Ill., April
24, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1972.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Statistical Association; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, in a hospital
at Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., July 8,
2010 (age 91 years, 75
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Silas Walter Bond (1864-1939) —
also known as Silas W. Bond —
of Houghton, Allegany
County, N.Y.; Miltonvale, Cloud
County, Kan.; Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Nora, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
13, 1864.
Minister;
professor, Houghton Seminary, Houghton, N.Y.; Prohibition
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1904; president,
Miltonvale Wesleyan College, Miltonvale, Kan.; Prohibition candidate
for Governor of
Kansas, 1914; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Wesleyan
Methodist.
Died in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., December
3, 1939 (age 75 years, 324
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Williams Bond and Matilda (Shaw) Bond; married, August
11, 1896, to Harriet 'Hattie' West; married, November
26, 1931, to Jessie LaVinia Ward. |
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William G. Bonelli (born c.1895) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Kingman, Mohave
County, Ariz., about 1895.
Republican. Lawyer;
college instructor; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1929, 1932; member of California
state assembly 54th District, 1931-32.
Presbyterian.
Burial location unknown.
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Marie Caroline Brehm (1859-1926) —
also known as Marie C. Brehm —
of Illinois; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio, June 30,
1859.
Lecturer; Prohibition candidate for University
of Illinois trustee, 1902, 1904, 1908; Prohibition candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1924.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Died January
26, 1926 (age 66 years, 210
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Henry Brehm and Elizabeth (Rhode)
Brehm. |
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (b. 1938) —
also known as Stephen G. Breyer —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
15, 1938.
Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg, 1964-65; lawyer;
law professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1980-94; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1994-.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2017.
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George Augustus Bucklin Jr. (b. 1875) —
also known as George A. Bucklin, Jr. —
of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Norman, Cleveland
County, Okla.
Born in West Hartford, Ralls
County, Mo., October
5, 1875.
University professor; U.S. Consul in San Luis Potosi, 1908-10; Bordeaux, 1914-19; Acapulco, 1922-24; Victoria, 1924-32; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1910-14.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Augustus Bucklin and Mary Ann (Williamson) Bucklin; married
1904 to
Emeline Wood Porter. |
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Thomas J. Campbell (b. 1952) —
also known as Tom Campbell —
of Campbell, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
14, 1952.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Representative from California, 1989-93, 1995-2001 (12th District
1989-93, 15th District 1995-2001); Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1992 (primary), 2000; member of California
state senate, 1993-95.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Paul Joseph Cook (b. 1943) —
also known as Paul Cook —
of Yucca Valley, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., March 3,
1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
college professor; mayor
of Yucca Valley, Calif., 1990; member of California
state assembly 65th District, 2006-12; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 2008;
U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 2013-.
Still living as of 2018.
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Arthur Bledsoe Cooke (b. 1869) —
also known as Arthur B. Cooke —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Meltons, Louisa
County, Va., June 15,
1869.
Democrat. College professor; U.S. Consul in Patras, 1910-19; Swansea, 1919-26; Plymouth, 1926-34.
Methodist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washington Cooke and Sallie Farrar (Anderson) Cooke;
married, September
26, 1899, to Stella Viola Crider. |
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Emerson Hugh De Lacy (1910-1986) —
also known as Hugh De Lacy —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 9,
1910.
Democrat. College instructor; machinist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 1940;
U.S.
Representative from Washington 1st District, 1945-47; defeated,
1946; carpenter.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; International
Association of Machinists.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Dominican Hospital,
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif., August
19, 1986 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Interment at Home of Peace Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical
researcher;
helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of
Fame, 1978.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., January
30, 2015 (age 91 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (1919-2017) —
also known as Douglas F. Dowd —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., December
7, 1919.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; economist;
university professor; Peace and Freedom candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Bologna, Italy,
September
8, 2017 (age 97 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Mervyn Dowd and Sybil (Seid) Dowd; married to Zeril
Druskin. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
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John Thomas Dunlop (1914-2003) —
also known as John T. Dunlop —
Born in Placerville, El Dorado
County, Calif., July 5,
1914.
University professor; economist;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1975-76.
Died, in Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 2003 (age 89 years, 89
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Christopher Edley Jr. (b. 1951) —
also known as Chris Edley —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in 1951.
Democrat. Law professor; dean of the School of Law (Boalt
Hall), University of California Berkeley; member, U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, 1999-2005; member, Credentials Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Joyce A. Fadem (b. 1932) —
also known as Joyce Abrams —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
25, 1932.
Democrat. College instructor; member of California
Democratic State Committee, 1960-64, 1966-72; secretary of
California Democratic Party, 1963-67; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1964.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Lambda Theta; Pi Gamma
Mu; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 1973.
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Robert Filner (b. 1942) —
also known as Bob Filner —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
4, 1942.
Democrat. University professor; U.S.
Representative from California, 1993-2008 (50th District
1993-2003, 51st District 2003-08); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Member, Urban
League; Navy
League; Sierra
Club.
Still living as of 2014.
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B. Joseph Fuhrig (b. 1947) —
of Newark, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
9, 1947.
Libertarian. Economist;
university professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for Governor of
California, 1986.
Still living as of 1990.
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Relatives: Son
of George Hobson Fuhrig and Anne Loretta (Smith) Fuhrig; married, September
11, 1983, to Martha Lee Nye. |
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; college professor; president,
Talladega College, 1933-43; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher;
married, September
1, 1927, to June Lucille Sampson. |
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John William Gardner (1912-2002) —
also known as John W. Gardner —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
8, 1912.
Republican. University professor; served in the U.S. Marine
Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Sigma
Xi; Kappa
Delta Pi; American
Psychological Association; Common
Cause.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder of Common Cause in 1970.
Died, from complications of prostate
cancer, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
16, 2002 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
college professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Charles B. Garrigus (1914-2000) —
also known as Gus Garrigus —
of Reedley, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born June 13,
1914.
Democrat. College professor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California; member of California
state assembly, 1958-66; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1960.
California poet
laureate, 1996-2000.
Died, of colon
cancer, at Hinds Hospice,
Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., 2000
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Reedley
Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
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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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John Randolph Hubbard (1918-2011) —
also known as John R. Hubbard; Jack
Hubbard —
Born December
3, 1918.
University professor; historian;
president,
University of Southern California, 1970-80; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1988-89.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., August
21, 2011 (age 92 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler (1925-2016) —
also known as Shirley Hufstedler —
Born in Denver,
Colo., August
24, 1925.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1961-66; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1966-68; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1968-79; resigned
1979; U.S.
Secretary of Education, 1979-81; law professor.
Female.
Died in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
30, 2016 (age 90 years, 219
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Stuart Hughes (1916-1999) —
also known as H. Stuart Hughes —
of Massachusetts.
Born in New York, May 7,
1916.
University professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., October
21, 1999 (age 83 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Claude Burton Hutchison (1885-1980) —
also known as Claude B. Hutchison —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo., April 9,
1885.
Botanist;
agricultural
economist; university professor; mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1955-63.
Member, Alpha
Phi Omega.
Died August
25, 1980 (age 95 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Chester G. Jaeger (1896-1983) —
of Claremont, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born August
22, 1896.
College professor; mayor
of Claremont, Calif., 1954-58.
Died in April, 1983
(age 86
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elias Finley Johnson (1860-1933) —
also known as E. Finley Johnson —
of Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manila, Philippines.
Born in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, June 24,
1860.
Republican. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1885-87; law professor;
member of Michigan
state board of education, 1898-1901; appointed 1898; resigned
1901; justice of
Phillipine Islands supreme court, 1901-.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., July 31,
1933 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.
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Edwin A. Jones —
also known as Ed Jones —
of Thousand Oaks, Ventura
County, Calif.
College professor; mayor
of Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1972-73.
Still living as of 2022.
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Image source:
City of Thousand Oaks |
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George Ross Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) —
also known as George R. Kirkpatrick; Kirk
Kirkpatrick —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; California.
Born in West Lafayette, Coshocton
County, Ohio, February
24, 1867.
Socialist. Lecturer; candidate for New York
state senate 17th District, 1912; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1932, 1934 (Socialist).
Died in 1937
(age about
70 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Taft Alfred Larson (1910-2001) —
also known as T. A. 'Al' Larson —
of Wyoming.
Born near Wakefield, Dixon
County, Neb., January
18, 1910.
University professor; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1976-84.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Santa Ana, Orange
County, Calif., January
26, 2001 (age 91 years, 8
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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William Stowell Leavenworth (1862-1943) —
also known as William S. Leavenworth —
of Olivet, Eaton
County, Mich.; Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill.
Born in Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., July 28,
1862.
Progressive. Chemist;
college professor; candidate for Michigan
state senate 15th District, 1914; candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1915.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., June 30,
1943 (age 80 years, 337
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Evelina (Griggs) Leavenworth and Abel Edgar Leavenworth;
married, December
15, 1892, to Sophia Holt Shepard. |
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Albert Levitt (1887-1968) —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbine, Carroll
County, Md., March
14, 1887.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; chaplain;
lawyer;
law professor; Independent Republican candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1930; Independent
candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1932; Independent Citizen candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1934; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1935-36; as judge in 1935,
ordered election officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands to allow women
to vote; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950; candidate in Republican primary
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1960.
Died June 18,
1968 (age 81 years, 96
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lena Morrow Lewis —
of California.
Socialist. Lecturer; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from California, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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Willard Frank Libby (1908-1980) —
also known as Willard Libby —
Born in Grand Valley, Garfield
County, Colo., December
17, 1908.
Physical
chemist; university professor; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1954; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1960, for leading the team that developed
Carbon-14 dating.
Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma.
Died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
8, 1980 (age 71 years, 266
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Luna —
of Atascadero, San Luis
Obispo County, Calif.
University professor; mayor
of Atascadero, Calif., 2004, 2007.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Image source:
ICLEI / Local Governments for Sustainability USA |
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Flavel Sweeten Luther (1850-1928) —
also known as Flavel S. Luther —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., March
26, 1850.
Republican. School
teacher; college professor; president,
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1904-19; member of Connecticut
state senate 1st District, 1907-08.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Died in 1928
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Flavel S. Luther and Jane (Lillie) Luther; married, November
2, 1871, to Isabel Blake Ely. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Legislative History and
Souvenir of Connecticut |
|
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Julian William Mack (1866-1943) —
also known as Julian W. Mack —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 19,
1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; circuit judge in Illinois, 1904-05; Judge,
Illinois Appellate Court, 1905-11; Judge
of U.S. Commerce Court, 1911-13; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for
the 7th Circuit, 1911; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1911-29; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1929-30; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1929-40; took
senior status 1940; senior judge, 1940-43.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Zionist
Organization of America; American
Jewish Congress; American
Jewish Committee.
Died, in his room at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
5, 1943 (age 77 years, 48
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Warren Madden (1890-1972) —
also known as J. Warren Madden —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in Damascus, Stephenson
County, Ill., January
17, 1890.
Democrat. Law professor; member, National Labor Relations
Board, 1935-40; chair, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-40; Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1941-61; took senior status 1961.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of
the Coif.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1947.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1972 (age 82 years, 31
days).
Interment somewhere
in Falls Church, Va.
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Dean E. McHenry —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
University professor; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1950.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Meese III (b. 1931) —
also known as Ed Meese; "Reagan's
Geographer" —
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
2, 1931.
Lawyer;
legal affairs secretary to Gov. Ronald
Reagan, 1967-68; executive assistant and chief of staff, 1969-74;
law professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1985-88.
Lutheran.
Member, Federalist
Society.
The independent counsel who investigated
the Wedtech scandal
reported that Meese, who had worked as a lobbyist
for Wedtech, was complicit
in the company's bribery
and fraud;
following this disclosure, he resigned
from the Cabinet.
Still living as of 2020.
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Robert Justin Miller (1888-1973) —
also known as Justin Miller —
of Hanford, Kings
County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Crescent City, Del Norte
County, Calif., November
17, 1888.
Lawyer;
Kings
County District Attorney, 1915-18; law professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1937-45;
resigned 1945; chairman and general counsel, National Association of
Radio and
Television Broadcasters.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Order of
the Coif; Delta
Sigma Rho; Delta
Chi; Alpha
Pi Zeta; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sigma
Nu Phi.
Died, in a hospital
at Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
17, 1973 (age 84 years, 61
days).
Interment at Grangeville
Cemetery, Armona, Calif.
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Omari Musa (born c.1944) —
also known as Herman Fagg —
of California; Illinois; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Washington,
D.C.
Born about 1944.
Socialist. College instructor; Socialist Workers candidate for
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1972; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from California, 1974 (28th District), 1996
(Independent, 9th District); Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1976; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1986; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 17th District, 2004; candidate for
mayor
of Miami, Fla., 2005; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Florida, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 2010.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Julian Nava (b. 1927) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 19,
1927.
University professor; candidate for California
superintendent of public instruction, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1980-81; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1993.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 1993.
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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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Frank Cecil Newman (1917-1996) —
also known as Frank C. Newman —
of California.
Born in Eureka, Humboldt
County, Calif., July 17,
1917.
Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
California state supreme court, 1977-82.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of heart
failure, in a hospital
at Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
18, 1996 (age 78 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Johnston Newman and Anna (Dunn) Newman; married, January
14, 1940, to Frances Burks. |
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Warren Olney Jr. (b. 1870) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
15, 1870.
Lawyer;
law professor; general counsel and receiver, Western Pacific
Railway;
justice
of California state supreme court, 1919-21.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) —
also known as Linus Pauling —
of California.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., February
28, 1901.
Chemist;
university professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1962; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1954, the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1962, and the Lenin
Peace Prize in 1968-69.
Unitarian;
later Atheist.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Big Sur, Monterey
County, Calif., August
19, 1994 (age 93 years, 172
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Oswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, Ore.
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Paul Martin Pearson (1871-1938) —
Born in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
22, 1871.
College professor; author; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1931-35; forced to
resign in July, 1935 during a Congressional investigation
of financial
mismanagement in the Islands government.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a month later, March
26, 1938 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Max Radin (1880-1950) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Kempen, Poland,
March
29, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1940.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; American
Association of University Professors.
Died, from an intestinal
obstruction, in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 22,
1950 (age 70 years, 85
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin and Johanna (Theodor) Radin; married, July 2,
1909, to Rose Jaffe; married, June 30,
1922, to Dorothea Prall (sister-in-law of Sherwood
Anderson). |
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968; dean, Education Department,
Troy State University, 1971-82.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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Condoleezza Rice (b. 1954) —
also known as Condi Rice; "Guru";
"The Steel Magnolia" —
of Stanford, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., November
14, 1954.
Republican. University professor; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1992;
U.S. National Security Advisor, 2001-05; U.S.
Secretary of State, 2005-.
Female.
Presbyterian.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John Wesley Rice, Jr. and Angelena (Ray)
Rice. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Condoleeza Rice: No
Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
(2011) — Extraordinary,
Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010) |
| | | Books about Condoleeza Rice: Dick
Morris and Eileen McGann, Condi
vs. Hillary : The Next Great Presidential Race —
Marcus Mabry, Twice
As Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power — Mary
Dodson Wade, Condoleezza
Rice : Being the Best (for young readers) — Christin
Ditchfield, Condoleezza
Rice: National Security Advisor (for young readers) —
Kevin Cunningham, Condoleezza
Rice: U.s. Secretary Of State (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Condoleezza Rice:
Clint Willis, The
I Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . .
Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America |
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Chester Harvey Rowell (1867-1948) —
also known as Chester H. Rowell —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., November
1, 1867.
College instructor; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of California
Republican State Committee, 1906-11; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1912,
1928,
1936;
delegate to Progressive National Convention from California, 1912;
member, University of California Board of Regents, 1914-48; California
Republican state chair, 1916-18; member, U.S. Shipping Board,
1920-21.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Tau Delta; Union
League.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., April
12, 1948 (age 80 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Clifford Sadler (1891-1959) —
also known as Walter C. Sadler —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., February
15, 1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; worked on railroad
and hydroelectric
projects; lawyer;
university professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1937-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Sigma
Pi; Tau Beta
Pi.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
14, 1959 (age 68 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Lincoln Sadler and Eleanore Elizabeth (Walter) Sadler;
married, July 21,
1917, to Hariette P. Jamieson. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999) —
also known as Glenn T. Seaborg; Glenn Teodor
Sjöberg —
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., April
19, 1912.
Democrat. Physical
chemist; university professor; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1951; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,
1961-71.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Chemical Society.
Died in Lafayette, Contra
Costa County, Calif., February
25, 1999 (age 86 years, 312
days).
Cremated.
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Joe Serna Jr. (c.1939-1999) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif., about 1939.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; college professor; mayor
of Sacramento, Calif., 1993-99; died in office 1999; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1996.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died of kidney
cancer and complications of diabetes,
in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
7, 1999 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Pratt Shultz (1920-2021) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; economist;
university professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89; survived an assassination
attempt in South America, August 1988; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1989.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
6, 2021 (age 100 years,
55 days).
Interment at Dawes Cemetery, Cummington, Mass.
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Joseph Tyree Sneed III (1920-2008) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Calvert, Robertson
County, Tex., July 21,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
law professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1973-87; took
senior status 1987.
Member, Order of
the Coif.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
9, 2008 (age 87 years, 203
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Roscoe B. Turner Steffen (1893-1976) —
also known as Roscoe Steffen —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., April 9,
1893.
Democrat. Law professor; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hamden, 1932, 1934.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 8,
1976 (age 83 years, 60
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Step-son of William L. Turner; son of John Bonard Steffen and Grace
May (Brazelton) Turner; married 1919 to Ona
Belle Raymond. |
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William Marshall Thomas (b. 1941) —
also known as William M. Thomas; Bill
Thomas —
of Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Wallace, Shoshone
County, Idaho, December
6, 1941.
Republican. College professor; member of California
state assembly, 1975-78; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2007 (18th District 1979-83,
20th District 1983-93, 21st District 1993-2003, 22nd District
2003-07).
Baptist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Fernando M. Torres-Gil —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Salinas, Monterey
County, Calif.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2005.
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Roger John Traynor (b. 1900) —
also known as Roger J. Traynor —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Park City, Summit
County, Utah, February
12, 1900.
Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
California state supreme court, 1940-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1964-70.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Felix Traynor and Elizabeth Josephine (O'Hagan) Traynor; married,
August
23, 1933, to Madeleine Lackman. |
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Nicola S. Tsongas (b. 1946) —
also known as Niki Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chico, Butte
County, Calif., April
26, 1946.
Democrat. Social
worker; lawyer;
dean of external affairs, Middlesex Community College,
1997-2007; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 2007-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2008.
Female.
Still living as of 2014.
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Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) —
also known as Rexford G. Tugwell; "Rex the
Red" —
Born in Sinclairville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 10,
1891.
Economist;
university professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which
advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1941-46.
Member, American
Political Science Association.
Died, in Cottage Hospital,
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., July 21,
1979 (age 88 years, 11
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Sinclairville, N.Y.
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Martin Joseph Wade (1861-1931) —
also known as Martin J. Wade —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., October
20, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Iowa 8th District, 1893-1903; law professor;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1903-05; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1912;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Iowa, 1912; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, 1915-31; died
in office 1931.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
16, 1931 (age 69 years, 178
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Myra Tanner Weiss (1917-1997) —
also known as Myra Tanner —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born May 17,
1917.
Cannery
worker; lecturer; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1945, 1949 (primary), 1953 (primary);
Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 19th District, 1948, 1950;
Socialist Workers candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960.
Female.
Died September
13, 1997 (age 80 years, 119
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1942 to Murry
Weiss. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, May 5,
1958 |
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949) —
also known as Ray L. Wilbur —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Boonesborough (now Boone), Boone
County, Iowa, April
13, 1875.
Republican. Physician;
dean of Stanford University Medical School, 1911-16; president
of Stanford University, 1916-43; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1929-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Newcomen
Society.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 26,
1949 (age 74 years, 74
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Marianne Deborah Williamson (b. 1952) —
also known as Marianne Williamson —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 8,
1952.
Author;
lecturer; Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 33rd District, 2014; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 2020.
Female.
Russian
and Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2021.
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Frances Elizabeth Willis (1899-1983) —
also known as Frances E. Willis —
of Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Metropolis, Massac
County, Ill., May 20,
1899.
College professor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul
in Valparaiso, 1928-31; Santiago, 1931-32; U.S. Consul in Madrid, 1940-43; London, 1947-50; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1953-57; Norway, 1957-61; Ceylon, 1961-64.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
She was the first
female career foreign service officer to serve as Ambassador.
Died in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., July 23,
1983 (age 84 years, 64
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Gary Wolfram (b. 1950) —
of Hillsdale, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Redding, Shasta
County, Calif., November
1, 1950.
Republican. College professor; economist;
candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1998.
Still living as of 1998.
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