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Morton Isaac Abramowitz (b. 1933) —
also known as Morton I. Abramowitz —
of Massachusetts; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J., January
20, 1933.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Hong Kong, 1963-66; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1978-81; Turkey, 1989-91.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2014.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) —
also known as Theodore C. Achilles —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
29, 1905.
Newspaper
work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, as of 1932; Rome, as of 1933; while serving as director of the State
Department's Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one
of the main architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding
document of NationalO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Council on Foreign Relations.
Suffered an embolism,
and died, in the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1986 (age 80 years, 100
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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George Whelan Anderson Jr. (1906-1992) —
also known as George W. Anderson, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
15, 1906.
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, 1961-63; U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1963-66.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in the Arleigh Burke Pavilion nursing
home, McLean, Fairfax
County, Va., March
20, 1992 (age 85 years, 96
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Anderson (1922-1996) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
6, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1946-47; U.S. Consul in Bordeaux, 1959-61; U.S. Ambassador to Dahomey, 1972-74; Morocco, 1976-78; Dominican Republic, 1982-85.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at Fairfax Hospital,
Fairfax,
Va., April 5,
1996 (age 74 years, 90
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Leslie Aspin (1938-1995) —
also known as Les Aspin —
of Racine, Racine
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., July 21,
1938.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1971-93; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1993-94.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Zeta
Psi.
Died, from a stroke,
at Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., May 21,
1995 (age 56 years, 304
days).
Interment at Wisconsin
Memorial Park, Brookfield, Wis.
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Alfred Leroy Atherton Jr. (1921-2002) —
also known as Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
22, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Stuttgart, 1947-50; U.S. Consul in Aleppo, 1957-58; Calcutta, 1962-65; U.S. Ambassador to , 1978-79; Egypt, 1979.
Unitarian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died October
30, 2002 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Leland Judd Barrows (1906-1988) —
also known as Leland J. Barrows —
of Kansas.
Born in Hutchinson, Reno
County, Kan., October
27, 1906.
Newspaper
reporter; radio
broadcaster; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, 1960-66; Togo, 1960-61.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 3,
1988 (age 81 years, 128
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Lucius Durham Battle (1918-2008) —
also known as Lucius D. Battle; Luke
Battle —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., June 1,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; personal aide to Secretary of State Dean
Acheson; U.S. Ambassador to United Arab Republic, 1964-67.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease, in Washington,
D.C., May 13,
2008 (age 89 years, 347
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., August
5, 1875.
U.S. Consul in Venice, as of 1903; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to
Sweden, 1923-27; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1927-33.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter
protesting U.S. Sen. Joe
McCarthy's attacks on the Foreign Service. Donated his Georgetown
estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard University in 1940; after the war,
it was the scene of the conference that led to the creation of the
United Nations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
19, 1962 (age 86 years, 257
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Dumbarton
Oaks Rose Garden, Washington, D.C.
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David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) —
also known as David K. E. Bruce —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Charlotte Court House, Charlotte
County, Va.; Elkridge, Howard
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
12, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; farmer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1924-26; U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, as of 1926; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1940-43; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1949-52; Germany, 1957-59; Great Britain, 1961-69; U.S. Liaison to China, 1973-74.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1976.
Died, as a result of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., December
5, 1977 (age 79 years, 296
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clifford Philip Case (1904-1982) —
also known as Clifford P. Case —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Franklin Park, Somerset
County, N.J., April
16, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1943-44; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 6th District, 1945-53; resigned
1953; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1955-79; defeated in primary, 1978;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1956,
1964,
1968;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1968.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; Elks; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from lung
cancer, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March 5,
1982 (age 77 years, 323
days).
Interment at New Somerville Cemetery, Somerville, N.J.
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Selden Chapin (1899-1963) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., September
19, 1899.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1925-27; U.S. Consul in Montevideo, 1940; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1947-49; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1949-53; Panama, 1953-55; Iran, 1955-58; Peru, 1960.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in National City, San Diego
County, Calif., March
26, 1963 (age 63 years, 188
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederic L. Chapin and Grace Card (Selden) Chapin; married, March
30, 1927, to Mary Paul Noyes; father of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; grandnephew of Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); second great-grandson of Roger
Griswold; third great-grandson of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799); third great-grandnephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Gillett Chapin; first cousin four times removed of James
Hillhouse, Oliver
Wolcott Jr. and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin twice removed of John
William Allen and Henry
Titus Backus; second cousin four times removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin and Daniel
Chapin; third cousin twice removed of James
Samuel Wadsworth, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Zenas
Ferry Moody and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Woodbridge, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Isaac
Backus, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Albert
Haller Tracy, Marshall
Chapin and Thomas
Worcester Hyde; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, George
Frederick Stone, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination
attempt against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual
contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted
by the Senate.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary
Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky); third cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart. |
| | | Political families: Clinton
family of Wadesboro, North Carolina; Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. — Walter
S. Orlinsky — Charles
F. C. Ruff — Sean
Patrick Maloney — Lanny
J. Davis |
| | | The William Jefferson Clinton Federal
Building (built 1934; renamed 2012) in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Michael Takiff,
A
Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know
Him — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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Jeffery Cohelan (1914-1999) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 24,
1914.
Democrat. Secretary-treasurer,
Local 302, Milk Drivers and Dairy Employees union, 1942-58; U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1959-71; defeated in
primary, 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1960,
1964.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Moose; Eagles;
Teamsters
Union; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease and cancer,
in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1999 (age 84 years, 236
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Christopher John Dodd (b. 1944) —
also known as Christopher J. Dodd; Chris
Dodd —
of North Stonington, New London
County, Conn.; Norwich, New London
County, Conn.; East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Willimantic, Windham
County, Conn., May 27,
1944.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1975-81; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1981-2011; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1995-97; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 2008.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) —
also known as Allen W. Dulles;
"Spymaster" —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April 7,
1893.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1938; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1953-61; member,
President's Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY,
1963-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from influenza
and pneumonia,
in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 296
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer
and pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith F. (Foster) Dulles; brother of Allen
Welsh Dulles; married, June 26,
1912, to Janet Pomeroy Avery; grandson of John
Watson Foster; great-grandnephew of John
Welsh; third great-grandnephew of Joshua
Coit; first cousin twice removed of Langdon
Cheves Jr.; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Welsh; second cousin thrice removed of Robert
Coit Jr.; second cousin four times removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Abel
Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin of Lewis
Wardlaw Haskell; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell and William
Brainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Henry
Titus Backus and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
Corsi |
| | | Washington Dulles International Airport
(opened 1962), in Loudoun
and Fairfax
counties, Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 13,
1951 |
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II; president
of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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Edward Francis Feely (1880-1964) —
also known as Edward F. Feely —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 6,
1880.
Republican. Exporter;
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1930-33.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon.
Died of a stroke,
at St. Mary's Hospital,
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., August
30, 1964 (age 84 years, 177
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Stephen Foley (1929-2013) —
also known as Thomas S. Foley; Tom Foley —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., March
26, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1965-95; defeated,
1994; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1989-95; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Washington, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1997-2001.
Member, Grange;
Elks; Moose;
Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, from pneumonia
and complications of a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., October
18, 2013 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
November
15, 1882.
Law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Richard Andrew Gephardt (b. 1941) —
also known as Richard A. Gephardt; Dick
Gephardt —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
31, 1941.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 3rd District, 1977-2005; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1988,
2004;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Kiwanis.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) —
also known as Joan Ruth Bader —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
15, 1933.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1980-93; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1993-.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Jewish Congress; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 2002.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
18, 2020 (age 87 years, 187
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; writer; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Jane Frank Harman (b. 1945) —
also known as Jane F. Harman; Jane Lakes; Jane
Frank —
of Venice, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1945.
Democrat. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. John
V. Tunney, 1972; counsel for congressional subcommittees; deputy
secretary to the Cabinet in the Jimmy
Carter White House, 1977-78; U.S.
Representative from California 36th District, 1993-99, 2001-;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1996,
2004,
2008;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1998.
Female.
Jewish.
Polish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Christian Archibald Herter Jr. (1919-2007) —
also known as Christian A. Herter, Jr. —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
29, 1919.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, 1953-54; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1958; vice-president, Socony Mobil Oil
Company, 1961-67; director, Berkshire Life
Insurance Company; law
professor.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, in Washington,
D.C., September
16, 2007 (age 88 years, 230
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eleanor Holmes=Norton (b. 1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 13,
1937.
Democrat. Lawyer; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1972;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1991-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1996
(delegation chair), 2000,
2004,
2008.
Female.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 2019.
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Jesse Louis Jackson (b. 1941) —
also known as Jesse L. Jackson;
"Thunder" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., October
8, 1941.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1972;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1984,
1988;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Council on Foreign Relations; Omega
Psi Phi.
Civil rights leader; associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;
recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 1989.
Still living as of 2021.
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Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913-2007) —
also known as Philip M. Kaiser —
of New York; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 12,
1913.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; economist;
U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1961-64; Mauritania, 1961-64; Hungary, 1977-80; Austria, 1980-81.
Ukrainian
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 24,
2007 (age 93 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (1922-2012) —
also known as Nicholas de B. Katzenbach —
of North Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; law
professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1965-66; general counsel for IBM,
1969-86; director, MCI Communications,
2002-04; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Skillman, Somerset
County, N.J., May 8,
2012 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Cremated.
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John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) —
also known as John F. Kerry;
"Liveshot" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital,
Aurora, Adams
County, Colo., December
11, 1943.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1972; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-85; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-2013; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Catholic.
English
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Skull
and Bones.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Rosemary Isabel (Forbes) Kerry and Richard John Kerry; married, May 23,
1970, to Julia Stimson Thorne; married, May 26,
1995, to Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz (widow of Henry
John Heinz III); second great-grandson of Robert
Charles Winthrop; third great-grandson of Thomas
Lindall Winthrop and Jeremiah
Mason; fourth great-grandnephew of George
Cabot; fifth great-grandson of James
Bowdoin; fifth great-grandnephew of Timothy
Pickering; sixth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); first cousin four times removed of David
Sears and Jane
Pierce; first cousin seven times removed of John
Alsop; second cousin twice removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; third cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of William
Cameron Forbes; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge, John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; fourth cousin of William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Francis Adams; eighth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; King-Hazard
family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman
family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Leslie
L. Farr II |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kerry: A
Call to Service : My Vision for a Better America
(2003) — The
New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
(1997) — Our
Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World, with
John Edwards (2004) |
| | | Books about John F. Kerry: Douglas
Brinkley, Tour
of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War — Michael
Kranish et al, John
F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best — Paul Alexander, The
Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White
House — George Butler, John
Kerry: A Portrait — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kerry:
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi, Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry — David N. Bossie, The
Many Faces of John Kerry |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger (b. 1923) —
also known as Henry A. Kissinger; Heinz Alfred
Kissinger —
Born in Fürth, Germany,
May
27, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1973-77.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1973; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Married, February
6, 1949, to Anne Fleischer; married, March
30, 1974, to Nancy Maginnes. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
H. Holdridge |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Henry Kissinger: Years
of Renewal (1999) — Years
of Upheaval (1982) — American
Foreign Policy (1974) — Diplomacy
(1994) — Nuclear
Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957) — The
White House Years (1979) — A
World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace,
1812-22 (1957) |
| | | Books about Henry Kissinger: Walter
Isaacson, Kissinger:
A Biography — Phyllis Schlafly, Kissinger
on the Couch — Robert D. Sulzinger, Henry
Kissinger : Doctor of Diplomacy — Alistair Horne, Kissinger:
1973, the Crucial Year |
| | | Critical books about Henry Kissinger:
Christopher Hitchens, The
Trial of Henry Kissinger |
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Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. (1904-1987) —
also known as Henry R. Labouisse, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1904.
Lawyer;
U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1962-65.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1987
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Walter Landau (b. 1920) —
also known as George W. Landau —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born March 4,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1972-77; Chile, 1977-82; Venezuela, 1982-85.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Bliss Lane (1894-1956) —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 16,
1894.
U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1933-36; Estonia, 1936-37; Latvia, 1936-37; Lithuania, 1936-37; Yugoslavia, 1937-41; Costa Rica, 1941-42; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1942-44; Poland, 1944-47.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from acute
hepatitis, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
13, 1956 (age 62 years, 58
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Isadore Lieberman (b. 1942) —
also known as Joseph I. Lieberman; "Holy
Joe"; "Traitor Joe" —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
24, 1942.
Democrat. Member of Connecticut
state senate 11th District, 1971-80; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1980; Connecticut
state attorney general, 1983-89; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1989-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 1996,
2000,
2004;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2000; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 2004.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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James Gordon Lowenstein (b. 1927) —
also known as James G. Lowenstein —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., August
6, 1927.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1977-81.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 1994.
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Douglas MacArthur II (1909-1997) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., July 5,
1909.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, as of 1935; Naples, as of 1937-38; Paris, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1957-61; Belgium, 1961-65; Austria, 1967-69; Iran, 1969-72.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, after a stroke
and heart
attack, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
15, 1997 (age 88 years, 133
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edwin McCammon Martin (1908-2002) —
also known as Edwin M. Martin —
of Ohio; Paris, France.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, May 21,
1908.
Economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1964-68.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations; Audubon
Society; Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 2002 (age 93 years, 236
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Takeo Matsui (1941-2005) —
also known as Robert T. Matsui —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., September
17, 1941.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2005 (3rd District 1979-93,
5th District 1993-2005); died in office 2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of pneumonia
and myelodysplastic
syndrome, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
1, 2005 (age 63 years, 106
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Calif.
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Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903-1976) —
also known as Livingston T. Merchant —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1903.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1956-58, 1961-62.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1976
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George John Mitchell (b. 1933) —
also known as George J. Mitchell —
of South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
20, 1933.
Democrat. Lawyer;
aide to U.S. Sen. Edmund
Muskie, 1962-65; also deputy director of Muskie's
vice-presidential campaign in 1968, and presidential campaign in
1972; Maine
Democratic state chair, 1966-68; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1969-77; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1974; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1977-79; U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1979-80; resigned 1980; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1980-95; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1984,
1996,
2000,
2004;
chairman, Walt
Disney Company (major movie
studio, operator of theme parks, and owner of the ABC television
network), 2004-07; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 2008.
Catholic.
Lebanese
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ronald DeWayne Palmer (b. 1932) —
also known as Ronald D. Palmer —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., May 22,
1932.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Togo, 1976-78; Malaysia, 1981-83; Mauritius, 1986-89.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Donald Milford Payne (1934-2012) —
also known as Donald M. Payne —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., July 16,
1934.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 10th District, 1989-; defeated in
primary, 1980, 1986; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New Jersey, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died March 6,
2012 (age 77 years, 234
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Christopher Hallowell Phillips (b. 1920) —
also known as Christopher H. Phillips —
of Beverly, Essex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands,
December
6, 1920.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1948-53; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1952,
1960;
U.S. Ambassador to Brunei, 1989-91.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on Foreign Relations.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Warren Bruce Rudman (1930-2012) —
also known as Warren B. Rudman —
of Nashua, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 18,
1930.
Republican. New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1970-76; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1980-93; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1988.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
19, 2012 (age 82 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Laurence Hirsch Silberman (b. 1935) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., October
12, 1935.
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1975-77; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1985-2000; took
senior status 2000.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Elliott Percival Skinner (1924-2007) —
also known as Elliott P. Skinner —
Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
June
20, 1924.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; naturalized U.S.
citizen; anthropologist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
2007 (age 82 years, 285
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James William Spain (1926-2008) —
also known as James W. Spain —
of Florida; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 22,
1926.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Karachi, 1951; U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, 1970-72; U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, 1975-79; Turkey, 1980-81; Sri Lanka, 1985-89; Maldive Islands, 1985-89.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., January
2, 2008 (age 81 years, 164
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Healy Sullivan (1922-2013) —
also known as William H. Sullivan —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Cranston, Providence
County, R.I., October
12, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1964-69; Philippines, 1973-77; Iran, 1977-79.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
11, 2013 (age 90 years, 364
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Stuart Symington (1901-1988) —
also known as Stuart Symington —
of Creve Coeur, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 26,
1901.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; secretary of
the Air Force, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1953-76; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1956,
1960;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1956,
1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died December
14, 1988 (age 87 years, 171
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Phillips Talbot (1915-2010) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 7,
1915.
Newspaper
reporter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
1, 2010 (age 95 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander Buel Trowbridge (1929-2006) —
also known as Alexander B. Trowbridge —
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., December
12, 1929.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict;
president, Esso Standard Oil Puerto
Rico; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68; vice-chairman, Allied Chemical
Corporation.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
27, 2006 (age 76 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of A. Buel Trowbridge; married to Nancy Horst and Eleanor 'Ellie'
Hutzler. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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James Jermiah Wadsworth (1905-1984) —
also known as James J. Wadsworth —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., June 12,
1905.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1932-41; resigned 1941;
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1960-61; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; United
World Federalists.
Died in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., March
13, 1984 (age 78 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Alice Evelyn (Hay) Wadsworth; brother
of Evelyn Wadsworth (who married William
Stuart Symington); married, June 16,
1927, to Harty Griggs Tilton; nephew of Adelbert
Stone Hay; uncle of James
Wadsworth Symington; grandson of John
Milton Hay and James
Wolcott Wadsworth; grandnephew of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; great-grandson of James
Samuel Wadsworth; second great-grandson of Reverdy
Johnson; second great-grandnephew of Thomas
Fielder Bowie; third great-grandson of John
Johnson; third great-grandnephew of Robert
William Bowie (1787-1848); fourth great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott and Robert
William Bowie (1750-1818); fourth great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr., Benjamin
Mackall IV, Walter
Bowie and Thomas
Mackall; fifth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin of John
Hay Whitney; first cousin five times removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Margaret
Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of James
Hodges; third cousin thrice removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900). |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1961) —
also known as Sumner Welles —
of Oxon Hill, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
14, 1892.
Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1933; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maryland, 1936,
1940;
U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1937-43.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died September
24, 1961 (age 68 years, 345
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Sidney Richard Yates (1909-2000) —
also known as Sidney R. Yates —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
27, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1949-63, 1965-99;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1964,
1996.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died, of kidney
failure and complications of pneumonia,
in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2000 (age 91 years, 39
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Charles Woodruff Yost (1907-1981) —
also known as Charles W. Yost —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
6, 1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Alexandria, 1931-32; Warsaw, 1932-33; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Thailand, 1946; U.S. Minister to Laos, 1954-55; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1955-56; Syria, 1957-58; Morocco, 1958-61; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1969-71.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Society for International Law; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, from cancer,
in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 21,
1981 (age 73 years, 196
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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