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Ned Culbertson Abbott (1874-1960) —
of Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.
Born in Fremont, Dodge
County, Neb., March 9,
1874.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; lawyer; newspaper
reporter; author; instructor in U.S. schools in Philippine
Islands, 1901-04; superintendent
of schools; candidate for Nebraska
superintendent of public instruction, 1908; superintendent,
Nebraska School for the Blind, from 1913.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Rotary.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
24, 1960 (age 85 years, 352
days).
Interment at Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.
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George Edward Allen (1896-1973) —
also known as George E. Allen —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Booneville, Prentiss
County, Miss., February
29, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; hotel
business; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1933-38, 1939-40;
resigned 1938, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
District of Columbia, 1936;
Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1943; speechwriter for
Pres. Harry
Truman; director, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1946.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma.
Close friend of presidents Roosevelt,
Truman,
and Eisenhower.
Died, following a heart
attack, in the Eisenhower Medical
Center, Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., April
23, 1973 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Booneville, Miss.
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Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) —
also known as Gertrude Franklin Horn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1857.
Democrat. Author; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1928.
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 14,
1948 (age 90 years, 228
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Terry Joan Baum (b. 1946) —
also known as Terry Baum —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born November
27, 1946.
Green. Playwright; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 2004; candidate for
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2011.
Female.
Lesbian.
Still living as of 2011.
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Paul Bowerman (b. 1898) —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
16, 1898.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; writer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Berlin, 1923-27; Ottawa, as of 1927; U.S. Consul in Ottawa, 1928-29; Zagreb, 1929-32; Salonika, 1932-33.
Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Beagle Bowerman and Margaret (Fisher) Bowerman; married,
May
8, 1923, to Helen Grace Robson. |
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John Ross Browne (1817-1875) —
also known as J. Ross Browne —
of California.
Born in Dublin, Ireland,
February
11, 1817.
Author; U.S. Minister to China, 1868-69.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
9, 1875 (age 58 years, 301
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard G. Capen, Jr. —
of La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif.; Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in 1934.
Republican. Author; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93.
Still living as of 2002.
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1865-1945) —
also known as Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor; Hobart Chatfield
Taylor; Hobart C. Taylor —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
24, 1865.
Author; novelist; biographer; Consul
for Spain in Chicago,
Ill., 1892-98.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
16, 1945 (age 79 years, 298
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Sherman Day (1806-1884) —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
11, 1806.
Engineer;
historian; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1855-56; U.S. Surveyor General of California,
1868-71.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., December
14, 1884 (age 78 years, 307
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Erle Roy Dickover (1888-1963) —
also known as Erle R. Dickover —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1888.
Bookkeeper;
manager of an auto
livery company, 1909; interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Dairen, 1916; Kobe, 1916-21; U.S. Consul in Kobe, 1921-32; U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, as of 1943.
Episcopalian.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died April
18, 1963 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university
professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical
researcher;
helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of
Fame, 1978.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., January
30, 2015 (age 91 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; New York.
Born in Queen City, Schuyler
County, Mo., July 25,
1907.
Socialist. Truck
driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in
Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a
general strike; joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted
in 1941 of treason
under the anti-Communist Smith
Act, and served one year in prison;
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary
of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian.
Member, Teamsters
Union.
Died in Pinole, Contra
Costa County, Calif., October
31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, July 2,
1956 |
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Boutwell Dunlap (1877-1930) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
14, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
historian; nominated for U.S.
Representative from California 1st District 1904, but withdrew
before election; Vice-Consul
for Argentina in San
Francisco, Calif., 1909-30.
Member, Kappa
Sigma; Delta
Chi; Society
of Colonial Wars; American
Political Science Association; American
Historical Association.
Died in his room at the Graystone Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., December
22, 1930 (age 53 years, 38
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Old Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Dunlap and Sarah Jane (Robinson) Dunlap. |
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Charles B. Garrigus (1914-2000) —
also known as Gus Garrigus —
of Reedley, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born June 13,
1914.
Democrat. College
professor; candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
member of California
state assembly, 1958-66; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1960.
California poet laureate, 1996-2000.
Died, of colon
cancer, at Hinds Hospice,
Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., 2000
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Reedley
Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
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Harvey Treadway Goodier (1893-1976) —
also known as Harvey T. Goodier —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 7,
1893.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1918-20, 1921, 1922; Dairen, 1920-21; Nagoya, 1921-22; U.S. Consul in Taihoku, 1922-24; Nagoya, 1924-28; Vancouver, 1928-33; Fort William, as of 1938-43; Port Arthur, as of 1938-43.
Died in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
28, 1976 (age 83 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Bernard Gotlieb (1893-1979) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1893.
School
teacher; interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Baghdad, 1917; Cairo, 1918-21; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1921-24; Halifax, 1924-26; Singapore, 1926-28; Wellington, 1928-33; Messina, 1933-34; Trieste, 1934-37; Nuevo Laredo, 1940-42; Santiago de Cuba, 1942-43; Havana, 1943-44; Windsor, 1944-47.
Jewish.
Died in Marin
County, Calif., March
15, 1979 (age 85 years, 128
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Hartsdale, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Henry Gotlieb and Rebecca (Wolff) Gotlieb; married, July 2,
1929, to Audrey Gwendoline Ormiston. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1918) |
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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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Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) —
also known as Milford W. Howard —
of Fort Payne, DeKalb
County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., February
18, 1862.
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99;
novelist; appeared as an actor
in a silent
movie based on one of his novels; one of the editors of the
conservative magazine
The Awakener in the 1930s.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sallie
Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
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John Randolph Hubbard (1918-2011) —
also known as John R. Hubbard; Jack
Hubbard —
Born December
3, 1918.
University
professor; historian; president,
University of Southern California, 1970-80; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1988-89.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., August
21, 2011 (age 92 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jay C. Huston —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Indiana.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1917-18, 1920-21; Nanking, as of 1919; U.S. Consul in Tientsin, as of 1924; Hankow, as of 1926; Canton, as of 1927; Shanghai, as of 1929-32.
Burial location unknown.
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Bob Kramer —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Painting
contractor; newspaper
columnist; mayor
of Burbank, Calif., 1997-98, 2001-02.
Still living as of 2002.
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Daniel Lapin (b. 1947) —
of California; Mercer Island, King
County, Wash.
Born in Johannesburg, South
Africa, January
1, 1947.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; rabbi;
author; radio show
host; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1996.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2021.
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David Laurell —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Writer, producer, and director for television,
radio,
and film;
mayor
of Burbank, Calif., 2002-03.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives:
Married to Maxine 'Max' Andrews. |
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Jack Griffith London (1876-1916) —
also known as Jack London; John Griffith
Chaney —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
12, 1876.
Socialist. Novelist; candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist).
Died in Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif., November
22, 1916 (age 40 years, 315
days).
Interment at Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery, Glen Ellen, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married 1900 to
Elizabeth May Maddern; married 1905 to
Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge. |
| | | Mount
London, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Haines
Borough, Alaska, is named for
him. — Jack London Square (entertainment and business
development),
and the surrounding Jack London District neighborhood,
in Oakland,
California, are named for
him. — Jack London Lake
(Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London Nature
Park, in Magadan
Oblast, Russia, are named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jack London (built 1943 at Sausalito,
California; scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Don Martin Mankiewicz (1922-2015) —
also known as Don M. Mankiewicz —
of East Norwich, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
January
30, 1922.
Democrat. Novelist; screenwriter for dozens of television
shows; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1960
(alternate), 1972;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 2015 (age 93 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Fabian Mankiewicz (1924-2014) —
also known as Frank Mankiewicz —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 16,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
California
state assembly, 1950; lawyer;
author; press secretary for Robert
F. Kennedy, 1966-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1968;
campaign manager for George
McGovern's presidential campaign, 1972; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1976; president,
National Public Radio,
1977-83.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
failure while suffering from lung
problems, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., October
23, 2014 (age 90 years, 160
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Steven McGroarty (1862-1944) —
of California.
Born in Foster Township, Luzerne
County, Pa., August
20, 1862.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1935-39; candidate
for secretary
of state of California, 1938.
Catholic.
Elected poet laureate of California by the state legislature
in 1933.
Died, at St. Vincent's Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
7, 1944 (age 81 years, 353
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Selah Merrill (1837-1909) —
of Andover, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Canton Center, Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., May 2,
1837.
Clergyman;
author; archaeologist;
U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, 1882-86, 1891-1905.
Congregationalist.
Died in Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1909 (age 71 years, 265
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Merrill and Lydia (Richards) Merrill; married, April
29, 1875, to Adelaide Brewster Taylor; first cousin once removed
of Greene
Carrier Bronson; first cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; second cousin once removed of John
Russell Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Hezekiah
Case; second cousin thrice removed of Noah
Phelps; third cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, George
Smith Catlin, Francis
William Kellogg and Edward
Russell Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Jonathan
Brace, Augustus
Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Elisha
Phelps, Timothy
Merrill, Rufus
Pettibone, Amos
Pettibone and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of Asahel
Pierson Case, Hiram
Bidwell Case and Arthur
Tappan Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg, Theodore
Davenport, Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, William
Alfred Buckingham, Norman
A. Phelps, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, John
Smith Phelps, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Augustus
Herman Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903), Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler, Joseph
Wells Holcomb and William
Lucius Case. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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M. Garet Rogers Miller (1920-1996) —
also known as M. Garet Miller —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ohio, October
26, 1920.
Lawyer;
author; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1961.
Female.
Died in Ventura
County, Calif., November
24, 1996 (age 76 years, 29
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) —
also known as Thomas N. Page —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., April
23, 1853.
Lawyer;
author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19.
Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., November
1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Carroll Wilmot Parcher (1903-1992) —
also known as Carroll W. Parcher; "Mr.
Glendale" —
of Tujunga, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Glendale, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
13, 1903.
Republican. Newspaper
editor-publisher, columnist; candidate for California
state assembly, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1952,
1956
(alternate); mayor
of Glendale, Calif., 1977-78, 1979-81, 1984-85.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis.
Died, of cancer,
in Glendale Adventist Medical
Center, Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
31, 1992 (age 88 years, 200
days).
Interment at Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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James Stephen Peace (b. 1953) —
also known as J. Stephen Peace; Steve
Peace —
of California.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
30, 1953.
Member of California
state assembly, 1982-93; member of California
state senate, 1993-2002.
Screenwriter, producer,
and actor
for the film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which received
backhanded acclaim as one of the worst movies ever made.
Still living as of 2014.
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Paul Martin Pearson (1871-1938) —
Born in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
22, 1871.
College
professor; author; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1931-35; forced to
resign in July, 1935 during a Congressional investigation
of financial
mismanagement in the Islands government.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a month later, March
26, 1938 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Bill Prady (b. 1960) —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 7,
1960.
Democrat. Writer and producer for television
sitcoms,
including Dharma & Gregg and Good Morning Miami; 1990
Emmy Award nominee; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist; California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968; dean,
Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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Harlan Eugene Read (1880-1963) —
also known as Harlan E. Read —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., May 7,
1880.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1918; author;
radio
commentator.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February, 1963
(age 82
years, 0 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Luis J. Rodriguez (b. 1954) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., 1954.
Poet; novelist; Justice candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2012.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2012.
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Isadore Schary (1905-1980) —
also known as Dore Schary —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
31, 1905.
Democrat. Actor,
playwright, screenwriter, movie
producer; replaced Louis
B. Mayer as head of M-G-M Studios in 1951; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died July 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin McLaine Spock (1903-1998) —
also known as Benjamin Spock —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., May 2,
1903.
Won an Olympic
gold medal in rowing at the 1924 Paris games; physician;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author of
influential book, Baby and Child Care; People's candidate for
President
of the United States, 1972; People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., March
15, 1998 (age 94 years, 317
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Clifford Stuart (1864-1952) —
also known as Henry C. Stuart; "Stuart
X" —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Mining
engineer;
real
estate investor; author; director-general, Guaremala
Central Railroad;
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1885-86; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1893.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 21,
1952 (age 87 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., September
24, 1838.
Lawyer;
poet; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1907-10.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 5,
1923 (age 84 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Cephas Tillson (1890-1951) —
also known as Frank C. Tillson —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in 1890.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; dentist;
author; poet; mayor
of Burbank, Calif., 1934-41.
Died in 1951
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ernest Untermann (1864-1956) —
of Idaho; California.
Born in Brandenburg, Prussia (now Germany),
November
6, 1864.
Socialist. Sailor;
naturalized U.S. citizen; author; translator; first
American translator of Das Kapital by Karl Marx; candidate for
Governor
of Idaho, 1908; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1914.
German
ancestry.
Died in Vernal, Uintah
County, Utah, January
5, 1956 (age 91 years, 60
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
Bisexual.
Novelist, playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Eugene Walker (1908-1972) —
also known as James E. Walker —
of Orange, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Miles City, Custer
County, Mont., July 19,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
writer; candidate for California
state assembly, 1940; member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1940-54; chair of
Orange County Democratic Party, 1942-44; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1944; served in the U.S. Army Air
Force in World War II; member of California
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1946-52; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Society for International Law; American
Political Science Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in May, 1972
(age 63
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Sharpless Walker and Gladys (James) Walker; married, June 10,
1930, to Murrel K. Knox. |
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March
16, 1822.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist; invented
an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college
professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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John Richard Williams (1909-1998) —
also known as John R. Williams; Jack
Williams —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1909.
Republican. Program director, KOY radio
station; director, KetchikanUC radio
station; newspaper
columnist; mayor
of Phoenix, Ariz., 1956-60; Governor of
Arizona, 1967-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Arizona, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Member, Jaycees.
Died August
24, 1998 (age 88 years, 299
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Marianne Deborah Williamson (b. 1952) —
also known as Marianne Williamson —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 8,
1952.
Author; lecturer;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 33rd District, 2014; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 2020.
Female.
Russian
and Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2021.
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Alfred A. Wright (born c.1870) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1870.
Accountant;
writer; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1921.
Burial location unknown.
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John Ziegler (b. 1967) —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany,
March
28, 1967.
Republican. Author; radio
commentator; filmmaker;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
2008.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 2014.
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