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Edward Arnold (1890-1956) —
also known as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1890.
Republican. Actor;
appeared in more than 150 movies,
most during 1932-56; president, Screen Actors Guild, 1940-42;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
German
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
26, 1956 (age 66 years, 68
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Mission Cemetery, San Fernando, Calif.
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Arthur A. Arvizu (1927-1997) —
of Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Arvin, Kern
County, Calif., February
11, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; fire
fighter; president, Kern County Fire Fighters Union; chair of
Kern County Democratic Party, 1964-66; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1968,
1972
(alternate).
Catholic.
Died December
5, 1997 (age 70 years, 297
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Bakersfield, Calif.
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Charles Edward Bartlett (b. 1887) —
also known as Charles E. Bartlett —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 16,
1887.
Republican. Electrician;
worked for the Chicago Telephone
Company, the Michigan State Telephone
Company, and Detroit Edison (electric
utility); member, legislative committee, Detroit
Federation of Labor and Michigan State Federation of Labor; member of
Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1923-32; defeated, 1932, 1934; elected (Wet) delegate
to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Wayne County
1st District 1933, but did not serve; candidate for Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1936.
Member, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Burial location unknown.
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Max Bedacht (1883-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Munich (München), Germany,
October
13, 1883.
Communist. Barber;
president, Swiss National Barbers' Union, 1907; Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1936 (14th
District); candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; national secretary,
International Workers Order; expelled from the Communist Party in
1948 over factional differences.
German
ancestry.
Died July 4,
1972 (age 88 years, 265
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy (1904-1991) —
also known as Ralph Bellamy —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 17,
1904.
Democrat. Actor;
appeared in more than 100 movies; his most famous role was as Franklin
D. Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello"; board member,
Screen Actors Guild; president, Actors Equity; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, from a lung
ailment, in St. John's Health
Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
29, 1991 (age 87 years, 165
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) —
also known as César Estrada Chávez —
of Delano, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Yuma, Yuma
County, Ariz., March
31, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; farm
worker; co-founded the National Farm Workers Association,
which became the United Farm Workers; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1968.
Catholic.
Mexican
ancestry.
Awarded posthumously the Medal
of Freedom, in 1994.
Died in San Luis, Yuma
County, Ariz., April
23, 1993 (age 66 years, 23
days).
Interment at Cesar Chavez National Monument, Keene, Calif.
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Edgar Erastus Clark (1856-1930) —
also known as Edgar E. Clark —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Lima, Livingston
County, N.Y., February
18, 1856.
Republican. Train
conductor; Grand Senior Conductor (1889), and Grand
Chief Conductor (1890-1906), of the Order of Railway Conductors
of America; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1904;
member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1906-21; chair, Interstate
Commerce Commission, 1913-14, 1918-21.
Member, Order
of Railway Conductors; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
1, 1930 (age 74 years, 286
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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Wendell Reid Corey (1914-1968) —
also known as Wendell Corey —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
20, 1914.
Republican. Actor
on Broadway, in movies, and on television; president of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1961-63; board member,
Screen Actors Guild; member, Santa Monica city council, 1965-68;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956,
1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1966.
Died, from liver
cirrhosis, in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital,
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
8, 1968 (age 54 years, 233
days).
Interment at Washington Cemetery, Washington, Mass.
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; New York.
Born in Queen City, Schuyler
County, Mo., July 25,
1907.
Socialist. Truck
driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in
Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a general strike;
joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted
in 1941 of treason
under the anti-Communist Smith
Act, and served one year in prison;
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary
of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian.
Member, Teamsters
Union.
Died in Pinole, Contra
Costa County, Calif., October
31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, July 2,
1956 |
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Lawrence James Flaherty (1878-1926) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif., July 4,
1878.
Republican. Cement
mason; president, San Francisco Building Trades Council;
member of California
state senate, 1915-22; U.S.
Representative from California 5th District, 1925-26; died in
office 1926.
Died, in the Hotel
Marseilles, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 13,
1926 (age 47 years, 344
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Edward Foglia —
also known as Ed Foglia —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Democrat. President, California Teachers Association; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988
(speaker),
2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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John Anthony Gavin (b. 1931) —
also known as John A. Gavin; Jack Gavin; John
Anthony Golenor —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 8,
1931.
Actor
in many movies
since 1956; president, Screen Actors Guild, 1971-73; U.S.
Ambassador to Mexico, 1981-86.
Still living as of 2003.
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Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (b. 1930) —
also known as Dolores C. Huerta —
of Delano, Kern
County, Calif.; Keene, Kern
County, Calif.; Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Dawson, Colfax
County, N.M., April
10, 1930.
Democrat. School
teacher; co-founded the National Farm Workers Association,
which became the United Farm Workers; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1968
(alternate), 1972,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; received the Medal
of Freedom in 2012.
Female.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez; married to Ralph Head
and Ventura Huerta. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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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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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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George Lloyd Murphy (1902-1992) —
also known as George L. Murphy —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 4,
1902.
Republican. Professional actor
and dancer in
1934-52; appeared in films
such as For Me And My Gal, Battleground;
president, Screen Actors Guild, 1944-46; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(speaker),
1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Senator from California, 1965-71; defeated, 1970.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, of leukemia,
in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 3,
1992 (age 89 years, 304
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Philip Murray (1886-1952) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Blantyre, Scotland,
May
25, 1886.
Democrat. Miner;
president, local union of the United Mine Workers of America
(UMWA), 1905; district president in 1912;
vice-president in 1917; chairman, Steelworkers
Organizing Committee (SWOC); (SWOC), 1935-42, and president of
the successor United Steelworkers of America, 1942-52
president, Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1940;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1940,
1944,
1952.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., November
9, 1952 (age 66 years, 168
days).
Interment at St.
Ann's Cemetery, Castle Shannon, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Murray and Rose (Layden) Murray. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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John Ignatius Nolan (1874-1922) —
also known as John I. Nolan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
14, 1874.
Republican. Iron molder;
officer, International Iron Moulders Union; secretary,
San Francisco Labor Council, 1912; U.S.
Representative from California 5th District, 1913-22; died in
office 1922.
Died November
18, 1922 (age 48 years, 308
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Philip Aaron Raymond (1899-1983) —
also known as Philip Raymond —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
4, 1899.
Communist. Labor organizer; in January, 1930, he was arrested
in Pontiac, Mich., and charged
with leading a
demonstration; again arrested
in April, 1934, in Dearborn, Mich., when he was seen talking with
strikers picketing an auto plant; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1930; Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1934; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1936, 1940; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Michigan; candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1946.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
21, 1983 (age 84 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52,
1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia
and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress)
and Nancy
Davis (1921-2016); father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Political family: Reagan
family of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
(opened 1941; renamed 1998), in Arlington,
Virginia, is named for
him. — Mount
Reagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan, My
Father at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.
Bossie, Ronald
Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,
The
Reagan I Knew — Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years — William
Kleinknecht, The
Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street
America |
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Paul Schrade (b. 1924) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Newhall (now part of Santa Clarita), Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., December
17, 1924.
Democrat. Aerospace
manufacturing worker; president, United Auto Workers local
representing workers at North American Aviation; later, western
regional director, United Auto Workers; early supporter of Cesar
Chavez's efforts to unionize farm workers; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956,
1968,
1972;
supported and worked for Robert
F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, and on June 5, 1968, when
Kennedy was shot, Schrade was one of five others who were also shot and
wounded.
German
ancestry.
Still living as of 2018.
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Relatives: Son
of Florence Anna (Keil) Schrade and William Theodore Schrade; nephew
of Henry
Gottlieb Schrade. |
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Clara Lemlich Shavelson (1886-1982) —
also known as Clara Shavelson; Clara Lemlich; Clara
Goldman —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Gorodok, Ukraine,
March
28, 1886.
Communist. Labor organizer; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 2nd District, 1936.
Female.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 25,
1982 (age 96 years, 119
days).
Interment at New
Montefiore Cemetery, Pinelawn, Long Island, N.Y.
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John Francis Shelley (1905-1974) —
also known as John F. Shelley; Jack
Shelley —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., September
3, 1905.
Democrat. President, San Francisco Labor Council, 1937-49;
president, California AFL, 1947; member of California
state senate, 1939-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1946; U.S.
Representative from California 5th District, 1949-64; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1964-68.
Catholic.
Member, Eagles;
Native
Sons of the Golden West; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., September
1, 1974 (age 68 years, 363
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Ignatius Augustine Sullivan (1867-1928) —
also known as Ignatius A. Sullivan —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Canton, Norfolk
County, Mass., August
20, 1867.
Democrat. President, Hartford Central Labor Union;
president, Connecticut Federation of Labor; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1902-04; defeated, 1904; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
11, 1928 (age 60 years, 175
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Sullivan and Catharine Sullivan; married, September
29, 1891, to Sarah A. Clancy. |
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Jack B. Tenney (1898-1970) —
also known as "California's McCarthy" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in 1898.
Musician;
writer of the song "Mexicali Rose" ; president of
the Los Angeles musicians union; member of California
state assembly, 1936-42; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; member of California
state senate, 1942-54; defeated in Republican primary, 1954;
candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1949.
Died in 1970
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Irving Charles Velson (1913-1976) —
also known as Irving C. Velson; Irving Charles
Shavelson; Charles Wilson; "Nick";
"Shavey" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 3,
1913.
Machinist;
boilermaker;
shipfitter;
president, Local 13, Shipbuilders
Union; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; in 1951 and 1953, he was brought to testify before
Congressional committees about his Communist and Soviet activities,
including efforts to infiltrate
the U.S. military with Soviet spies; he repeatedly refused to answer
questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination;
as a result, he was "barred for
life" by the Shipbuilders' union; later, served as
international representative for the (West Coast)
International Longshoreman's and Warehousemen's Union.
Venona Project documents (decrypted Soviet messages from the World
War II era), released in 1995, show that he was an agent
for Soviet military intelligence under the code name "Nick".
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
18, 1976 (age 62 years, 260
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.
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Maurice Jerome Walker (b. 1954) —
also known as Maurice J. Walker —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
3, 1954.
Green. President, Local 616, Service Employees International
Union; real estate
appraiser; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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