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James Marshall Carter (1904-1979) —
also known as James M. Carter —
Born in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., March
11, 1904.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of California, 1946-49; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1949-67;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1967-71; took
senior status 1971; senior judge, 1971-79.
Member, Order of the Coif; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Eagles;
Elks.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., November
18, 1979 (age 75 years, 252
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Madison Carter and Belle Carter; married 1927 to
Dorothy Freeland; married 1938 to Ruth
Doty; married 1953 to Bina
Cheney. |
| | | Cross-reference: Michael
D. Crapo |
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Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) —
also known as Warren Christopher; "The
Cardinal" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Scranton, Bowman
County, N.Dak., October
27, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputy
U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1993-97.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the Coif; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
Died, from kidney
and bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
18, 2011 (age 85 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Caswell Jones Crebs (1912-1988) —
also known as Caswell J. Crebs —
of Robinson, Crawford
County, Ill.
Born in Carmi, White
County, Ill., January
14, 1912.
Lawyer;
circuit judge in Illinois 2nd Circuit, 1945-64; justice of
Illinois state supreme court 5th District, 1969-70, 1975-76.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose;
Grange;
Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of the Coif; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in Fountain Valley, Orange
County, Calif., March 5,
1988 (age 76 years, 51
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mark Egerman —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Beverly Hills, Calif., 2001.
Member, Order of the Coif.
Still living as of 2001.
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George Juan Hatfield (1887-1953) —
also known as George J. Hatfield —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Stevinson, Merced
County, Calif.
Born, of American parents, in Waterloo, Ontario,
October
29, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1922-36; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1925-33; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1935-39; member of California
state senate, 1943-53; died in office 1953.
Episcopalian.
Member, Order of the Coif; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Reserve
Officers Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Eagles;
Moose.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., November
15, 1953 (age 66 years, 17
days).
Interment at Stevinson Sunnyside Cemetery, Stevinson, Calif.
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David F. Levi (b. 1951) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
29, 1951.
Republican. Lawyer;
clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin
C. Duniway, 1980-81, and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis
Powell, 1981-82; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1987-90; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 1990-2007.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Still living as of 2007.
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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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William Micajah Martin (1917-1992) —
also known as William M. Martin —
of Hanford, Kings
County, Calif.; West Covina, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 30,
1917.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1950-53; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1952;
member of California
Republican State Executive Committee, 1952-53; municipal judge in
California, 1957-62.
Presbyterian.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; Order of the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Chi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Moose; Kiwanis;
Exchange
Club.
Died May 8,
1992 (age 74 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Alfred Martin and Caroline (Mandel) Martin; married, November
27, 1956, to Verna Jean Hill. |
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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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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Order of the Coif.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke,
at New York
Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,
June
21, 1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower); second cousin of John
Duffy Alderson. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry
S. Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal — G.
Gordon Liddy — Robert
D. Sack — Edward
G. Latch — William
O. Mills — Meyer
Kestnbaum |
| | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom, Nixon's
Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled
President |
| | | Image source: United States Mint
engraving |
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Victor Henry Palmieri (b. 1930) —
also known as Victor H. Palmieri —
of Malibu, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
16, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer; business
executive; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to , 1979-81.
Member, Order of the Coif; Beta
Gamma Sigma.
Still living as of 1991.
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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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Indira Talwani (b. 1960) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., October
6, 1960.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 2014-.
Female.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry. Member, Order of the Coif.
Still living as of 2021.
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Mathew Oscar Tobriner (1904-1982) —
also known as Mathew O. Tobriner —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April 2,
1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956;
Judge,
California Court of Appeal 1st District, 1959-62; justice of
California state supreme court, 1962-82.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Order of the Coif.
Died, from heart
trouble, at Mt. Zion Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., April 7,
1982 (age 78 years, 5
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Chesley Mathew Walter (b. 1889) —
also known as Chesley M. Walter —
of Savanna, Carroll
County, Ill.; Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Savanna, Carroll
County, Ill., November
19, 1889.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1944.
Member, Kiwanis;
Order of the Coif; Phi
Alpha Delta; American
Legion; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Walter and Catherine (Duffy) Walter; married 1912 to Fannie
Machen; married, May 24,
1941, to Dorothy Mills Smith. |
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George Thomas Washington (1908-1971) —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit
County, Ohio, June 24,
1908.
Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1949-65.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Died August
21, 1971 (age 63 years, 58
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: George
Washington |
| | | Relatives: Son of William Morrow
Washington and Janet Margaret (Thomas) Washington; married 1953 to Helen
Goodner. |
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