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Viggo Egede Baerresen (1858-1940) —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark,
March
13, 1858.
Vice-Consul
for Denmark in Denver,
Colo., 1903-07.
Danish ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., March
21, 1940 (age 82 years, 8
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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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. |
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memorial |
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Joseph Norman Bergan (1906-1968) —
also known as J. N. Bergan —
of South Shore, Codington
County, S.Dak.
Born in Codington
County, S.Dak., October
2, 1906.
Democrat. Member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 29th District, 1931-34.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died in El Cajon, San Diego
County, Calif., July 30,
1968 (age 61 years, 302
days).
Interment at Bergen Cemetery, Watertown, S.Dak.
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H. H. Birkholm (1847-1912) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Denmark,
September
23, 1847.
Ship
captain; hotelier;
Consul
for Denmark in San
Francisco, Calif., 1898-1910.
Danish ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., January
8, 1912 (age 64 years, 107
days).
Interment at Olivet
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Eric Magnus Engelbert (1859-1937) —
also known as Eric M. Engelbert —
of Winthrop, Sibley
County, Minn.; Bronson (now Lake Bronson), Kittson
County, Minn.; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Högsäter, Sweden,
April
22, 1859.
Democrat. Farmer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 18, 1891-92; real estate
business; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1916.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
24, 1937 (age 78 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eric Hass (1905-1980) —
of Oregon; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., 1905.
Socialist. Advertising
business; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1936; editor
of The Weekly People, 1938-68; Industrial Government candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1944; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949 (Industrial Government), 1957
(Socialist Labor), 1961 (Socialist Labor), 1965 (Socialist Labor);
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (Industrial Government), 1958 (Socialist Labor),
1962 (Socialist Labor); Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964; librarian.
German
and Danish ancestry.
Resigned or expelled from the Socialist Labor Party, 1969.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Community Hospital,
Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., October
2, 1980 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.), April 14,
1948 |
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Oscar L. Hauge (1868-1945) —
of St. Paul Park, Washington
County, Minn.; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Faribault
County, Minn., September
17, 1868.
Republican. Dentist;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 31, 1911-12; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1927-30; member, Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors, 1938-44.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, June 23,
1945 (age 76 years, 279
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Knute Hill (1876-1963) —
also known as "Little Giant" —
of Prosser, Benton
County, Wash.
Born near Creston, Ogle
County, Ill., July 31,
1876.
Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1927-32; U.S.
Representative from Washington 4th District, 1933-43; defeated,
1920 (Farmer-Labor, 4th District), 1924 (Farmer-Labor, 4th District),
1946 (Independent Progressive, 5th District).
Norwegian ancestry. Member, Grange;
Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Desert Hot Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., December
3, 1963 (age 87 years, 125
days).
Interment at Yakima
Calvary Cemetery, Yakima, Wash.
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Phyllis Kirk (1927-2006) —
also known as Phyllis Kirkegaard —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., September
18, 1927.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Danish ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
aneurysm, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
19, 2006 (age 79 years, 31
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Taft Alfred Larson (1910-2001) —
also known as T. A. 'Al' Larson —
of Wyoming.
Born near Wakefield, Dixon
County, Neb., January
18, 1910.
University
professor; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1976-84.
Swedish ancestry.
Died in Santa Ana, Orange
County, Calif., January
26, 2001 (age 91 years, 8
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Janet Leigh (1927-2004) —
also known as Jeanette Helen Morrison —
Born in Merced, Merced
County, Calif., July 6,
1927.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Danish, Scotch-Irish,
and German
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack while also suffering from vasculitis,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
3, 2004 (age 77 years, 89
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Frederick Robert Morrison and Helen Lita (Westergaard)
Morrison; married, June 4,
1951, to Tony
Curtis; married, August
1, 1942, to John Kenneth Carlisle; married, October
5, 1945, to Stanley Reames; married, September
15, 1962, to Robert Brandt. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Lund Jr. (1870-1925) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Germany,
1870.
Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in San
Francisco, Calif., 1901-03.
Norwegian and German
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
30, 1925 (age about 55
years).
Entombed at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Daniel Edward Lungren (b. 1946) —
also known as Dan Lungren —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Roseville, Placer
County, Calif.; Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Gold River, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
22, 1946.
Republican. Lawyer;
staff for U.S. Sens. George
Murphy and Bill
Brock; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-89, 2005-13 (34th District
1979-83, 42nd District 1983-89, 3rd District 2005-13); defeated,
2012; California
state attorney general, 1991-99; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1992,
2008;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1998.
Irish
and Swedish ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mads Hansen Madsen (1863-1944) —
also known as Mads H. Madsen —
of Kimballton, Audubon
County, Iowa; Solvang, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Denmark,
March
28, 1863.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; farmer; inventor;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1924.
Danish ancestry.
Patented several farm
implements, including a wagon brake (1894), a corn-husking
machine (1899), a hay-handling mechanism (1909), a manure spreader
(1914), and a corn-planter dropper mechanism (1917).
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
21, 1944 (age 81 years, 24
days).
Interment at Solvang Cemetery, Solvang, Calif.
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Epitaph:
"KÆMP FOR ALT HVAD DU HAR KÆRT" ("Fight for everything
you hold dear", from a Danish hymn) |
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memorial |
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Laura Emelia Naplin (1893-1985) —
also known as Laura E. Naplin; Laura Emelia
Johnson —
of Thief River Falls, Pennington
County, Minn.
Born in Brookings, Brookings
County, S.Dak., February
14, 1893.
School
teacher; member of Minnesota
state senate 65th District, 1927-34.
Female.
Norwegian ancestry.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., 1985
(age about
92 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Patrick Layton Paulsen (1927-1997) —
also known as Pat Paulsen —
Born in South Bend, Pacific
County, Wash., July 6,
1927.
Actor;
comedian;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1992;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1996.
Norwegian ancestry.
Ill with colon
and brain
cancer, he died of complications from pneumonia
and kidney
failure, in Tijuana, Baja
California, April
24, 1997 (age 69 years, 292
days).
Burial location unknown.
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C. Norris Poulson (1895-1982) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Haines, Baker
County, Ore., July 23,
1895.
Republican. Accountant;
member of California
state assembly, 1938-42; U.S.
Representative from California, 1943-45, 1947-53 (13th District
1943-45, 1947-53, 24th District 1953); defeated, 1944; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1953-61; defeated, 1961; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1956.
Danish ancestry.
Died in Orange, Orange
County, Calif., September
25, 1982 (age 87 years, 64
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Baker City, Ore.
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999) —
also known as Glenn T. Seaborg; Glenn Teodor
Sjöberg —
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., April
19, 1912.
Democrat. Physical
chemist; university
professor; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1951; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,
1961-71.
Swedish ancestry. Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Chemical Society.
Died in Lafayette, Contra
Costa County, Calif., February
25, 1999 (age 86 years, 312
days).
Cremated.
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Inger Stevens (1934-1970) —
also known as Inger Stensland; "Kay
Palmer" —
Born in Stockholm, Sweden,
October
18, 1934.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Swedish ancestry.
Died, from acute
barbiturate poisoning, (later ruled to be suicide),
in the ambulance
on the way to the hospital, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
30, 1970 (age 35 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
19, 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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