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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur Ralph and Leanna (Woodard) Ralph; married, September
27, 1951, to Martha Ann Morgan; married to Ruth
Banda. |
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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.
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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). |
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of William Steinberg and Selma (Steinberg) Steinberg; married, April
10, 1949, to Mary Louise Endfield. |
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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.
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