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Politician members in Connecticut

Boce William Barlow Jr. (1915-2005) — also known as Boce W. Barlow, Jr. — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Americus, Sumter County, Ga., August 8, 1915. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of Connecticut state senate; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1977. Congregationalist. Member, NAACP; Prince Hall Masons; Elks; Kappa Alpha Psi. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., January 31, 2005 (age 89 years, 176 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Boce William Barlow and Ethel (Green) Barlow; married to Catherine Swanson.   Boce Barlow Way, a street in Hartford, Connecticut, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial Hamilton Holt (1872-1951) — of Connecticut. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., August 18, 1872. Democrat. Magazine editor and publisher; one of the founding members of the NAACP, 1909; candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1924; president, Rollins College, 1925-49. Member, NAACP. Died in Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., April 26, 1951 (age 78 years, 251 days). Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.   Relatives: Son of George Chandler Holt and Mary Louisa (Bowen) Holt; married 1899 to Alexina Crawford Smith.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Library of Congress   Gerald A. Lamb (b. 1924) — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C., August 25, 1924. Democrat. Connecticut state treasurer, 1963-70; resigned 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968. African ancestry. Member, Elks; NAACP. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.   Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) — also known as Alfred B. Lewis — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; Cambridge, Middlesex County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., May 20, 1897. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; secretary of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives, 1944; vice-president, later president, Union Casualty insurance company. Episcopalian. Member, NAACP; American Civil Liberties Union; American Federation of Teachers; Americans for Democratic Action. Died about 1980 (age about 83 years). Interment somewhere in Fairfield County, Conn.   Relatives: Son of John Frederick Lewis and Anne Henrietta Rush (Baker) Lewis; married, November 20, 1924, to Lena Greenspan; married, October 14, 1939, to Eileen B. Lane.   Alvin W. Penn — of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn. Democrat. Member of Connecticut state senate 23rd District, 1993-. African ancestry. Member, Urban League; NAACP. Still living as of 2002.   Wilber G. Smith — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Democrat. Independent candidate for mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1969; member of Connecticut state senate 2nd District; elected 1970. African ancestry. Member, NAACP. Still living as of 1970.

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