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Politician members in California

  Alex-St. James — also known as "Sirknight" — of Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif. Born in Liberia. Republican. Candidate for Governor of California, 2003. Catholic. African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Knights of Columbus. Still living as of 2003.
  Angela Mia Alioto (b. 1949) — also known as Angela Alioto — of San Francisco, Calif. Born October 20, 1949. Lawyer; candidate for mayor of San Francisco, Calif., 1991, 1995, 2003. Female. Catholic. Italian ancestry. Member, NAACP. Still living as of 2014.
  Relatives: Step-daughter of Kathleen Sullivan Alioto; daughter of Joseph Lawrence Alioto and Angelina (Genaro) Alioto; married, December 8, 1968, to Adolfo Veronese; aunt of Michela Alioto-Pier.
  Political family: Alioto family of San Francisco, California.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books by Angela Alioto: Straight to the Heart
  Thomas Bradley (1917-1998) — also known as Tom Bradley — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Calvert, Robertson County, Tex., December 29, 1917. Democrat. Police officer; lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968, 1972; mayor of Los Angeles, Calif., 1973-93; defeated, 1969; candidate for Governor of California, 1982, 1986. Methodist. African ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Kappa Alpha Psi; Urban League; NAACP. Received the Spingarn Medal in 1984. Died, of a heart attack, at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., September 29, 1998 (age 80 years, 274 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Lee Thomas and Crenner (Hawkins) Thomas; married, May 4, 1941, to Ethel Mae Arnold.
  Epitaph: "Beloved Husband and Father"
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Tom Bradley: J. Gregory Payne, Tom Bradley : The Impossible Dream : A Biography
  William K. Coblentz (1922-2010) — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in San Francisco, Calif., July 28, 1922. Democrat. Lawyer; special counsel to Gov. Pat Brown, 1959-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1964 (alternate), 1968; member, University of California Board of Regents, 1964-80. Member, American Bar Association; Council on Foreign Relations; NAACP. Died in San Francisco, Calif., September 13, 2010 (age 88 years, 47 days). Burial location unknown.
  See also NNDB dossier
  Nat King Cole (1919-1965) — also known as Nathaniel Adams Coles — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala., March 17, 1919. Singer; musician; actor; honored guest, Republican National Convention, 1956 ; honored guest, Democratic National Convention, 1960. African ancestry. Member, Freemasons; NAACP. Died, from lung cancer, in St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 15, 1965 (age 45 years, 335 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
  Relatives: Married to Nadine Robinson; married, March 28, 1948, to Maria Hawkins Ellington.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Roosevelt F. Dorn — of Inglewood, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Checotah, McIntosh County, Okla. Democrat. Lawyer; superior court judge in California, 1980-97; mayor of Inglewood, Calif., 1997-; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 2000. African Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Member, National Bar Association; American Bar Association; NAACP. Still living as of 2006.
  Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (1926-2012) — also known as Mervyn M. Dymally — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Compton, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Cedros, Trinidad, May 12, 1926. Democrat. Member of California state assembly, 1963-66, 2003-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1964, 1968, 1988, 2004, 2008; member of California state senate, 1967-75; Lieutenant Governor of California, 1975-79; defeated, 1978; U.S. Representative from California 31st District, 1981-93; Honorary Consul for Benin in Inglewood, Calif., 1993-2007. Episcopalian. African ancestry. Member, Phi Kappa Phi; Kappa Alpha Psi; Freemasons; Elks; NAACP; Urban League; Council on Foreign Relations. Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., October 7, 2012 (age 86 years, 148 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Calif.
  Relatives: Married to Alice Gueno.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Harold Joseph Patrick Gibbons (1910-1982) — also known as Harold J. Gibbons — of Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo. Born in Archibald Patch, Lackawanna County, Pa., April 10, 1910. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1952, 1956. Irish ancestry. Member, Teamsters Union; NAACP; American Civil Liberties Union. The site of the original Sportsman's Park baseball stadium in St. Louis, now a neighborhood playground, was named "Harold J. Gibbons Field" for him. Died, from complications of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., November, 1982 (age 72 years, 0 days). Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery, Jennings, Mo.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Walter A. Gordon (1894-1976) — Born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., 1894. Athletic coach; police officer; lawyer; Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands, 1955-58; U.S. District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1958-68. African ancestry. Member, Alpha Phi Alpha; NAACP. Died in Oakland, Alameda County, Calif., April 1, 1976 (age about 81 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Henry B. Gordon.
  See also Wikipedia article
  John Francis Henning (b. 1915) — also known as John F. Henning — of Washington, D.C. Born in San Francisco, Calif., November 21, 1915. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1964; U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1967-69. Catholic. Member, NAACP. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Henry Henning and Lulu Frances (McLane) Henning; married, November 25, 1939, to Marguerite Morand.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
  Meldon Edises Levine (b. 1943) — also known as Mel Levine — of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., June 7, 1943. Democrat. Member of California state assembly, 1977-83; U.S. Representative from California 27th District, 1983-93; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988; member, Credentials Committee, 2008. Jewish. Member, American Jewish Committee; NAACP. Still living as of 2014.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
  Juanita Millender-McDonald (1938-2007) — also known as Juanita M. McDonald — of Carson, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., September 7, 1938. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004; member of California state assembly, 1993-96; U.S. Representative from California 37th District, 1996-2007; died in office 2007. Female. Baptist. African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha Kappa Alpha. Died, of colon cancer, in Carson, Los Angeles County, Calif., April 22, 2007 (age 68 years, 227 days). Interment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Long Beach, Long Beach, Calif.
  Relatives: Married to James McDonald, Jr.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Cecil F. Poole (1914-1997) — of California. Born in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., July 25, 1914. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1961-69; Judge of U.S. District Court, 1976-79; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1979-96. African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban League. Died, of complications of pneumonia, in a nursing home at San Rafael, Marin County, Calif., 1997 (age about 82 years). Cremated; ashes scattered in a private or family graveyard, Sonoma County, Calif.
  Leon Douglas Ralph (1932-2007) — also known as Leon D. Ralph — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Richmond, Va., August 20, 1932. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; administrative assistant to California House Speaker Jess Unruh; member of California state assembly, 1967-76; defeated, 1988; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968, 1972; minister. African Methodist Episcopal; later Church of God. African ancestry. Member, Freemasons; NAACP. Died, in Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 6, 2007 (age 74 years, 170 days). Interment at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Arthur Ralph and Leanna (Woodard) Ralph; married, September 27, 1951, to Martha Ann Morgan; married to Ruth Banda.
  Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) — also known as Frederick M. Roberts; Fred Roberts — of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, September 14, 1879. Republican. Mortician; member of California state assembly, 1919-34; defeated, 1934; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1932, 1940, 1944, 1948; candidate for U.S. Representative from California 14th District, 1946. African Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban League. First African-American state legislator in California; descendancy from Thomas Jefferson confirmed by DNA evidence in 1998. Died, from injuries received in an automobile accident the day before, in Los Angeles County General Hospital, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 19, 1952 (age 72 years, 309 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Andrew Jackson Roberts and Ellen Wayles (Hemings) Roberts; married, November 30, 1921, to Pearl W. Hinds; grandnephew of Martha Jefferson Randolph; great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson; third great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph and George Wythe Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Dabney Carr; first cousin four times removed of Richard Bland and Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; second cousin once removed of Dabney Smith Carr and John Gardner Coolidge; second cousin thrice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin once removed of John Jordan Crittenden, Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Robert Crittenden, Carter Henry Harrison and Edith Wilson; third cousin twice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry St. George Tucker; fourth cousin of Alexander Parker Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas Theodore Crittenden and Carter Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Edmund Randolph and Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr..
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Lionel Sanford Steinberg (b. 1919) — also known as Lionel Steinberg — of Fresno, Fresno County, Calif.; Palm Springs, Riverside County, Calif. Born in Fresno, Fresno County, Calif., April 20, 1919. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; farmer; business executive; chair of Fresno County Democratic Party, 1952-58; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956, 1960, 1964 (alternate). Jewish. Member, Urban League; NAACP; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Pi Gamma Mu. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Steinberg and Selma (Steinberg) Steinberg; married, April 10, 1949, to Mary Louise Endfield.
  George N. Zenovich (b. 1922) — also known as George Zenovich — of Fresno, Fresno County, Calif. Born in Fresno, Fresno County, Calif., April 29, 1922. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; member of California state assembly 32nd District, 1963-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968; member of California state senate 16th District, 1971-75. Eastern Orthodox. Serbian ancestry. Member, American Bar Association; NAACP. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
  Cross-reference: Richard H. Lehman
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