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Politicians in Radio and Television Broadcasting in Colorado

Alva Blanchard Adams Jr. (1915-1981) — also known as Alva B. Adams, Jr. — of Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colo. Born in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colo., October 21, 1915. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; hardware business; banker; corporate director, Standard Fire Brick Co., KCRT radio station, Trinidad, Colo.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1948 (alternate), 1952, 1960; candidate for U.S. Representative from Colorado 3rd District, 1954, 1956. Member, American Legion; Freemasons; Shriners; Elks; Eagles; Kiwanis; Toastmasters. Died, while being treated for a heart condition, in a hospital at Denver, Colo., December 3, 1981 (age 66 years, 43 days). Interment at Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.   Relatives: Son of Alva Blanchard Adams and Elizabeth (Matty) Adams; married, November 19, 1945, to Loretta Kissell; married to Martha 'Marty' Brown; grandson of Alva Adams.   Political family: Adams family of Pueblo, Colorado.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William Lester Armstrong (1937-2016) — also known as William L. Armstrong; Bill Armstrong — of Aurora, Adams County, Colo.; Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colo. Born in Fremont, Dodge County, Neb., March 16, 1937. Republican. Radio station president; banker; member of Colorado state house of representatives, 1963-64; member of Colorado state senate, 1965-72; U.S. Representative from Colorado 5th District, 1973-79; U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1979-91; president, Colorado Christian University, 2006. Died, from cancer, in Denver, Colo., July 5, 2016 (age 79 years, 111 days). Burial location unknown.   Cross-reference: Dudley Brown   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Ben Bezoff (1914-1979) — of Denver, Colo. Born in Denver, Colo., April 18, 1914. Democrat. Radio broadcaster; advertising business; member of Colorado state house of representatives, 1947-54; Speaker of the Colorado State House of Representatives, 1950; member of Colorado state senate, 1950. Jewish. Member, Freemasons; B'nai B'rith. Died in 1979 (age about 65 years). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married, October 10, 1934, to Cherie Carlson.   Rodney Dennis Chandler (b. 1942) — also known as Rod D. Chandler — of Bellevue, King County, Wash.; Aurora, Adams County, Colo. Born in La Grande, Union County, Ore., July 13, 1942. Republican. Television reporter; public relations consultant; member of Washington state house of representatives, 1974-82; U.S. Representative from Washington 8th District, 1983-93; candidate for U.S. Senator from Washington, 1992. Still living as of 2014.   Relatives: Second great-grandnephew of Zachariah Chandler.   Political families: Chandler-Hale family of Portland, Maine; Woodbury-Holden family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier   Rex George Howell (b. 1907) — also known as Rex Howell — of Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colo.; Denver, Colo. Born in Norton, Norton County, Kan., May 22, 1907. Republican. Owner-Manager, Western Slope Broadcasting Co. (KFXJ Radio); delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1956. Member, Sigma Delta Chi; Alpha Delta Sigma; Humane Society. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married 1927 to Lucille Auth.   Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) — of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade County), Fla.; Seattle, King County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Ariz. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., September 23, 1910. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid escorts, and paid hotel bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for purchase by the U.S. military; owned a radio station in Texas; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1960; mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69; member of Democratic National Committee from Florida, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1968. Died, of congestive heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Ariz., October 27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt; brother of James Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, January 16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, July 22, 1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, December 3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, March 15, 1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, November 3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of Theodore Roosevelt and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; second great-grandnephew of James I. Roosevelt; third great-grandson of Edward Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Warren Delano Robbins, Corinne Robinson Alsop, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and William Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Corinne A. Chubb and John deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas Roosevelt Jr., Philip DePeyster and Jabez Williams Huntington.   Political families: Roosevelt family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article

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