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Katherine Thompson Becker (1916-1996) —
also known as Katherine Thompson Brown —
of Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., October
10, 1916.
Republican. Member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1942-50; vice-chair of
California Republican Party, 1948-50.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Danish,
Dutch, and English
ancestry. Member, League of Women
Voters.
Died in San Joaquin
County, Calif., February
25, 1996 (age 79 years, 138
days).
Entombed at Casa
Bonita Mausoleum, Stockton, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Charles Henry Brown and Annette (Thompson) Brown; married
to Howard E. Becker. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Clinton Eastwood Jr. (b. 1930) —
also known as Clint Eastwood —
of Pebble Beach, Monterey
County, Calif.; Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in St. Mary's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., May 31,
1930.
Republican. Movie
actor, producer,
director;
restaurant
and hotel
owner; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
speaker, 2012;
mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1986-88.
Scottish,
Irish,
Dutch, and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Adolphus Van Hemert Engert (b. 1887) —
also known as Adolph V. Engert —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria
of Dutch parents, December
31, 1887.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, as of 1916-17.
Dutch ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Cornelius Van Hemert Engert (1887-1985) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria
of Dutch parents, December
31, 1887.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, 1915-16; U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, 1936; Afghanistan, 1942-45.
Dutch ancestry.
Died in 1985
(age about
97 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) —
also known as Francis Brett Hart —
of Union (now Arcata), Humboldt
County, Calif.; London, England.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., August
25, 1836.
Writer;
editor;
U.S. Consul in Crefeld, 1878-80; Glasgow, 1880-85.
English,
Dutch, and Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Camberley, England,
May
2, 1902 (age 65 years, 250
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England.
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Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) —
also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great
Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in West Branch, Cedar
County, Iowa, August
10, 1874.
Republican. Mining engineer;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-28; President
of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker,
Republican National Convention, 1940,
1952,
1960.
Quaker.
Swiss
and Dutch ancestry.
Inducted into the National Mining Hall of
Fame, Leadville, Colorado.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1964 (age 90 years, 71
days).
Interment at Herbert
Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover; married,
February
10, 1899, to Lou
Hoover; father of Herbert
Clark Hoover Jr.; distant cousin *** of Charles
Lewis Hoover. |
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family of Palo Alto, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss — Clarence
C. Stetson |
| | | Hoover Dam
(built 1931-36 as Boulder Dam; renamed 1947), on the Colorado River
between Clark
County, Nevada, and Mohave
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Glendale,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Des
Moines, Iowa, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in San Diego,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Elkview,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — The minor
planets (asteroids) 932 Hooveria (discovered 1920), and
1363 Herberta (discovered 1935), are named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| | | Books about Herbert Hoover: Martin L.
Fausold, The
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover — Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert
Hoover : Forgotten Progressive — George H. Nash, Life
of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 —
George H. Nash, The
Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies,
1917-1918 — William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert
Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933 — Glen
Jeansonne, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 —
Kendrick A. Clements, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary,
1918-1928 — David Holford, Herbert
Hoover (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1965) |
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George J. G. Marsily (1855-1946) —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Netherlands,
1855.
Consul
for Netherlands in San
Francisco, Calif., 1903.
Dutch ancestry.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 17,
1946 (age about 90
years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Victor Ponet (1836-1914) —
of Sherman (now West Hollywood), Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Belgium,
1836.
Real
estate developer; Consular
Agent for Belgium in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1894-99; Vice-Consul
for Belgium in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1900-03.
Belgian ancestry.
Died, from prostate
cancer and liver
cancer, in Sherman (now West Hollywood), Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
8, 1914 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Drake Sloat (1781-1867) —
Born in Sloatsburg, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 6,
1781.
Commodore in U.S. Navy; claimed California for the United States on
July 7, 1846; Military
Governor of California, 1846.
Dutch ancestry.
Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
28, 1867 (age 86 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Presidio
of Monterey, Monterey, Calif.
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Franklin Swart (b. 1876) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Redwood City, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Indiana, June 25,
1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1916;
San
Mateo County District Attorney.
Dutch ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Adele Beckman. |
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James Peter Van Ness (1808-1872) —
also known as James P. Van Ness —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; San
Francisco, Calif.; San Luis Obispo, San Luis
Obispo County, Calif.
Born in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., 1808.
Lawyer;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1855-56; member of California
state senate, 1871.
Dutch ancestry.
Died in San Luis Obispo, San Luis
Obispo County, Calif., December
28, 1872 (age about 64
years).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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