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Philip Adams (1881-1956) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, June 26,
1881.
Republican. College teacher; portrait
and landscape
painter; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1922-24; Malta, 1924-26; Campbellton, 1928-29; Sarnia, 1929-32; Saint John, 1932; London, 1938.
Unitarian.
Died in Volusia
County, Fla., March, 1956
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Interment at Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery, Edgewater, Fla.
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Jesse Corcoran Adkins (1879-1955) —
of Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., April
13, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
District of Columbia supreme court, 1930-36; U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1936-46; took senior
status 1946.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
29, 1955 (age 75 years, 350
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Arthur Ainslie Ageton (1900-1971) —
also known as Arthur A. Ageton —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Fromberg, Carbon
County, Mont., October
25, 1900.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; rear
admiral; U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1954-57; university professor.
Episcopalian.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April
23, 1971 (age 70 years, 180
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-1969) —
also known as Thurman W. Arnold —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., June 2,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1921; mayor
of Laramie, Wyo., 1923-24; dean, College of Law, West
Virginia University, 1927-30; professor of law, Yale
University, from 1931; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1943-45; resigned
1945.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks; Lions.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died two months later, in Alexandria,
Va., November
7, 1969 (age 78 years, 158
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Dorothy Wright Atkinson (b. 1911) —
also known as Dorothy W. Atkinson; Dorothy
Wright —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
31, 1911.
Democrat. School
teacher; college teacher; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from District of Columbia, 1960.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Delta
Sigma Theta; League of Women
Voters; Urban
League; American
Association of University Women.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John L. Wright and Letitia (Ferguson) Wright; married, June 23,
1930, to R. R. Atkinson. |
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Brian Norton Baird (b. 1956) —
also known as Brian Baird —
of Vancouver, Clark
County, Wash.
Born in Chama, Rio Arriba
County, N.M., March 7,
1956.
Democrat. Psychologist;
university professor; U.S.
Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1999-; defeated,
1996; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 2000,
2004,
2008.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2014.
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Arthur Alexis Birney (1852-1916) —
also known as Arthur A. Birney —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Paris, France,
May
28, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Died September
4, 1916 (age 64 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Harold Blackwell (1919-2010) —
also known as David Blackwell —
of Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Centralia, Marion
County, Ill., April
24, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1972.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Statistical Association; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, in a hospital
at Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., July 8,
2010 (age 91 years, 75
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Diane Divers Blair (1938-2000) —
also known as Diane Blair —
of Fayetteville, Washington
County, Ark.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
25, 1938.
Democrat. University professor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Arkansas.
Female.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died of lung
cancer, at Fayetteville, Washington
County, Ark., June 26,
2000 (age 61 years, 245
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Gardens, Fayetteville, Ark.
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Robert Heron Bork (1927-2012) —
also known as Robert H. Bork —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March 1,
1927.
Lawyer;
law professor; U.S. Solicitor General, 1973-77; U.S.
Attorney General, 1973-74; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1982-88; resigned
1988.
Catholic.
Member, Federalist
Society; Phi
Gamma Delta.
Nominated for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1987;
rejected by the Senate.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
19, 2012 (age 85 years, 293
days).
Interment at Fairfax
Memorial Park, Fairfax, Va.
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John Brademas (1927-2016) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Ind., March 2,
1927.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Patrick
McNamara; administrative assistant to U.S. Rep Thomas
L. Ashley; executive assistant to presidential candidate Adlai
E. Stevenson; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1959-81; defeated,
1954, 1956; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana,
1964,
1968,
1972;
president,
New York University, 1981-92.
Methodist.
Greek
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Order
of Ahepa; Eagles;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 11,
2016 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Andrew Coyle Bradley (1844-1902) —
also known as Andrew C. Bradley —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
12, 1844.
Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
District of Columbia supreme court, 1889-1902; died in office
1902.
Died May 15,
1902 (age 58 years, 92
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edgar Bernard Brossard (b. 1889) —
also known as Edgar B. Brossard —
of Utah; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oxford, Bannock
County, Idaho, April 1,
1889.
Republican. College professor; economist;
member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1925-45; chair, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1930.
Mormon.
Member, American
Economic Association; Grange;
Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Zeta; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Amable Alphonse Brossard and Mary Catherine (Hobson) Brossard;
married, August
25, 1915, to Laura P. Crowley. |
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Philip Marshall Brown (1875-1966) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Washington,
D.C.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 31,
1875.
U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1908-10; university professor.
Episcopalian.
Member, Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died, in a nursing
home at Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 10,
1966 (age 90 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sherrod Brown (b. 1952) —
of Lorain, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, November
9, 1952.
Democrat. University faculty; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1975-82; secretary
of state of Ohio, 1983-91; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1993-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Lutheran.
Still living as of 2014.
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Earl Lauer Butz (1909-2008) —
also known as Earl L. Butz —
of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Albion, Noble
County, Ind., July 3,
1909.
Economist;
university professor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76.
Member, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Zeta; Kiwanis.
Resigned
in 1976 following a furor
over a racist
joke. In 1981, he pleaded
guilty to income
tax evasion; sentenced
to five years in prison
(served 30 days) and fined
$10,000.
Died in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., February
2, 2008 (age 98 years, 214
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe
Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Ind.
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Clarence Andrew Cannon (1879-1964) —
also known as Clarence Cannon —
of Troy, Lincoln
County, Mo.; Elsberry, Lincoln
County, Mo.
Born in Elsberry, Lincoln
County, Mo., April
11, 1879.
Democrat. College professor; lawyer; farmer; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1923-64 (9th District 1923-33,
at-large 1933-35, 9th District 1935-64); died in office 1964;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1928;
Parliamentarian, 1944,
1948.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1964 (age 85 years, 31
days).
Interment at Elsberry
City Cemetery, Elsberry, Mo.
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William Richards Castle Jr. (1878-1963) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, June 19,
1878.
Republican. College instructor; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1929-30.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in 1963
(age about
85 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Royal Samuel Copeland (1868-1938) —
also known as Royal S. Copeland —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
7, 1868.
Homeopathic
physician; university professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901-03; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1923-38; died in office 1938; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1936;
candidate in Democratic primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1937.
Methodist.
English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American
Public Health Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 17,
1938 (age 69 years, 222
days).
Interment at Mahwah
Cemetery, Mahwah, N.J.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president,
Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college professor; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Frederick Morgan Davenport (1866-1956) —
also known as Frederick M. Davenport —
of Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., August
27, 1866.
College professor; member of New York
state senate 36th District, 1909-10, 1919-24; Progressive
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; Progressive candidate for Governor of
New York, 1914; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1924,
1928;
U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1925-33; defeated
(Republican), 1932, 1934.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1956 (age 90 years, 121
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976) —
also known as Paul H. Douglas —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., March
26, 1892.
Democrat. University professor; economist;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1949-67; defeated, 1942, 1966.
Unitarian
or Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
24, 1976 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
1937-39; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher — William
A. Norris |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Robert Frederick Drinan (1920-2007) —
also known as Robert F. Drinan; "Our Father Who Art In
Congress" —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
15, 1920.
Democrat. Catholic
priest; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1971-81 (3rd District 1971-73,
4th District 1973-81); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1972;
law professor.
Catholic.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from pneumonia
and congestive
heart failure, in Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 2007 (age 86 years, 74
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Dana Durand (1871-1960) —
also known as E. Dana Durand —
of Minnesota; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Romeo, Macomb
County, Mich., October
18, 1871.
Economist;
director, U.S. Census, 1909-13; university professor; member,
U.S. Tariff Commission, 1935-47.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Statistical Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
6, 1960 (age 88 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Y. Durand and Celia (Day) Durand; married, July 15,
1903, to Mary Elizabeth Bennett. |
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Henry White Edgerton (1888-1970) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rush Center, Rush
County, Kan., October
20, 1888.
Lawyer;
law professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1938-63.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died February
23, 1970 (age 81 years, 126
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Eugene Edgerton and Annie Benedict (White) Edgerton;
married, June 28,
1913, to Alice Durand. |
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Lynn Ramsay Edminster (b. 1893) —
also known as Lynn R. Edminster —
of Illinois; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chillicothe, Peoria
County, Ill., January
2, 1893.
University professor; economist;
member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1942-45.
Member, American
Economic Association; Kappa
Sigma.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Howard Simmons Edminster and Julia (Jones) Edminster; married, May 19,
1917, to Lucile Forsythe. |
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Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) —
also known as Maurice F. Egan —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 24,
1852.
University professor; author;
U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1907-17.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
15, 1924 (age 71 years, 236
days).
Interment at Old
Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Charles Calvert Ellis (1874-1950) —
also known as Charles C. Ellis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Huntingdon, Huntingdon
County, Pa.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1874.
School
teacher; pastor;
college professor; president,
Juniata College, 1930-43; Dry candidate for delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Brethren.
Died, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 27,
1950 (age 75 years, 341
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Jennings Ellis and Kate Calvert (Kane) Ellis; married, December
25, 1902, to Emma Susan Nice. |
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Simeon Davison Fess (1861-1936) —
also known as Simeon D. Fess —
of Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born near Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, December
11, 1861.
Republican. University professor; author; editor; president
of Ohio Northern University; president
of Antioch College 1907-17; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1913-23 (6th District 1913-15, 7th
District 1915-23); U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1923-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1924,
1932;
Temporary Chair, 1928;
chair, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, chair, 1928;
speaker, 1928;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1930-32.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1936 (age 75 years, 12
days).
Interment at Glen
Forest Cemetery, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Fess and Barbara (Herring) Fess; married 1890 to Eva
Candice Thomas; father of Hamilton
Lehr Fess. |
| | | Epitaph: "A great teacher and orator
whoe life and character were a source of inspiration in the lives of
thousands. Authority on history and government, leader of his
colleagues and confidant of presidents. A genuine patriot whose
loyalty and unimpeachable integrity never yielded to expediency or
compromised a conviction." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Filner (b. 1942) —
also known as Bob Filner —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
4, 1942.
Democrat. University professor; U.S.
Representative from California, 1993-2008 (50th District
1993-2003, 51st District 2003-08); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Member, Urban
League; Navy
League; Sierra
Club.
Still living as of 2014.
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Joseph Smith Fowler (1820-1902) —
also known as Joseph S. Fowler —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, August
31, 1820.
Republican. College professor; president,
Howard Female College, Gallatin, Tenn., 1856-61; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1866-71; member of Republican
National Committee from Tennessee, 1866-68; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1902 (age 81 years, 213
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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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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Betty Friedan (1921-2006) —
also known as Bettye Naomi Goldstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., February
4, 1921.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1984.
Female.
Jewish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, National
Organization for Women; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1993.
Died, of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 2006 (age 85 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Waldemar John Gallman (1899-1980) —
also known as Waldemar J. Gallman —
of Wellsville, Allegany
County, N.Y.
Born in Wellsville, Allegany
County, N.Y., April
27, 1899.
College instructor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Danzig, 1934-38; London, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1948-50; South Africa, 1951-54; Iraq, 1954; Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service,
1958-61.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 28,
1980 (age 81 years, 62
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
college professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Albert Horwell Gerberich (1898-1965) —
also known as Albert H. Gerberich —
of Pennsylvania; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Williamstown, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
23, 1898.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1919-22; Bremerhaven, as of 1922-24; U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1924-25; college professor.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1965 (age 67 years, 50
days).
Interment at Atglen
Methodist Cemetery, Atglen, Pa.
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Robert Crocker Good (1924-1984) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., April 7,
1924.
University professor; U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, 1965-68.
Died in 1984
(age about
60 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Theodore Greener (b. 1844) —
also known as Richard T. Greener; R. T.
Greener —
of Washington,
D.C.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
30, 1844.
University professor; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Bombay, 1898; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Vladivostok, 1898-1905.
African
ancestry.
First
Black graduate of Harvard, 1870.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Rush D. Holt (b. 1948) —
of Hopewell Township, Cumberland
County, N.J.; Pennington, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Weston, Lewis
County, W.Va., October
15, 1948.
Democrat. College professor; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 12th District, 1999-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 2000,
2004,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 2013.
Protestant.
Still living as of 2014.
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Perry Wilbon Howard Jr. (1877-1961) —
also known as Perry W. Howard —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born in Ebenezer, Holmes
County, Miss., June 14,
1877.
Republican. College professor; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1912,
1916,
1924,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1956;
member of Republican
National Committee from Mississippi, 1924-60.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1961 (age 83 years, 232
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Benjamin Mayham Hulley (1898-1991) —
also known as Benjamin M. Hulley —
of DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa., June 28,
1898.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; university
professor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Stockholm, 1924-29; U.S. Consul in Stockholm, 1929; Dublin, 1929-34; Nantes, 1934-37; Paris, 1937-38; Sault Ste. Marie, 1940; Reykjavik, as of 1944; Helsinki, as of 1945.
Died in January, 1991
(age 92
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Pinckney James (1818-1899) —
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 11,
1818.
Law professor; Associate
Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
1879-92; retired 1892.
Died in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., August
9, 1899 (age 81 years, 90
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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John Thomas Morris Johnston Jr. (1856-1930) —
also known as John T. M. Johnston —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ashland, Boone
County, Mo., March
17, 1856.
Democrat. Merchant;
banker;
minister;
pastor, First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Mo., 1887-97; chaplain
of Missouri Senate and Missouri State Prison; pastor, Delmar Avenue
Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo., 1897-1907; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1904 ; college professor; president, Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City, 1910-14; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1916.
Baptist.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., September
9, 1930 (age 74 years, 176
days).
Interment at New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Ashland, Mo.
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Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1897-1980) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Gardner, Worcester
County, Mass., December
22, 1897.
University professor; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1957-61.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; American
Arbitration Association; Pi Gamma
Mu; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in June, 1980
(age 82
years, 0 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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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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Edwin Freemont Ladd (1859-1925) —
also known as Edwin F. Ladd —
of Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Starks, Somerset
County, Maine, December
13, 1859.
Republican. Chemist;
college professor; president,
North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State
University), 1916-21; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1921-25; died in office 1925.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta.
Died in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., June 22,
1925 (age 65 years, 191
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Daniel William Lipinski (b. 1966) —
also known as Daniel Lipinski —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 15,
1966.
Democrat. Aide to U.S. Rep. George
Sangmeister, 1993-94; aide to U.S. Rep Jerry
Costello, 1995-96; aide to U.S. Rep. Rod
Blagojevich, 1999-2000; university professor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 2005-; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 2008.
Still living as of 2014.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1903.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining engineer;
university professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; defeated in
primary, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James William Marshall (1822-1910) —
also known as James W. Marshall —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Clarke
County, Va., August
14, 1822.
College professor; U.S. Consul in Leeds, 1861-64; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1874.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
5, 1910 (age 87 years, 175
days).
Interment somewhere
in Carlisle, Pa.
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-2005) —
also known as Eugene J. McCarthy; "Clean
Gene" —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Watkins, Meeker
County, Minn., March
29, 1916.
Democrat. School
teacher; university professor; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1949-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1952
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1992;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1968, 1976 (Independent).
Catholic.
Irish
and German
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Kappa Theta.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in the Georgetown Retirement
Residence, Washington,
D.C., December
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Woodville, Va.
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James Clark McReynolds (1862-1946) —
also known as James C. McReynolds —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Elkton, Todd
County, Ky., February
3, 1862.
Lawyer;
university professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1913-14; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1914-41; took senior status 1941.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
24, 1946 (age 84 years, 202
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Elkton, Ky.
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Richard T. McSorley (1914-2002) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
2, 1914.
Democrat. Jesuit
priest; university professor; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1968.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
17, 2002 (age 88 years, 15
days).
Interment at Georgetown University Jesuit Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Estus McVey (1885-1958) —
also known as William E. McVey —
of Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Clinton
County, Ohio, December
13, 1885.
Republican. University professor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 4th District, 1951-58; died in
office 1958.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Tau.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
10, 1958 (age 72 years, 240
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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Balthasar Henry Meyer (1866-1954) —
also known as Balthasar H. Meyer —
of Wisconsin.
Born near Mequon, Ozaukee
County, Wis., May 28,
1866.
School
teacher and principal; university professor; Wisconsin
railroad commissioner, 1905-10; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1910-39.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1954 (age 87 years, 257
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Neville Miller (1894-1977) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., February
17, 1894.
Democrat. Lawyer;
first dean, University of Louisville School of Law, 1930-33;
mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1933-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1936;
president of the National Association of Broadcasters,
1938-44.
Presbyterian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
27, 1977 (age 83 years, 38
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Robert Justin Miller (1888-1973) —
also known as Justin Miller —
of Hanford, Kings
County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Crescent City, Del Norte
County, Calif., November
17, 1888.
Lawyer;
Kings
County District Attorney, 1915-18; law professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1937-45;
resigned 1945; chairman and general counsel, National Association of
Radio and
Television Broadcasters.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Order of
the Coif; Delta
Sigma Rho; Delta
Chi; Alpha
Pi Zeta; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sigma
Nu Phi.
Died, in a hospital
at Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
17, 1973 (age 84 years, 61
days).
Interment at Grangeville
Cemetery, Armona, Calif.
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George Allen Morgan (1905-1997) —
also known as George A. Morgan —
of Washington,
D.C.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford
County, Tenn., December
2, 1905.
University professor; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Ivory Coast, 1965-69.
Died, from injuries sustained in a fall while
walking, in a hospital
at Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., June 24,
1997 (age 91 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) —
also known as Pat Moynihan —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Pindars Corners, Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., March
16, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; political
scientist; university professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S. Ambassador to India, 1973-75; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1975-76; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1977-.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of infection
from a ruptured appendix,
in Washington,
D.C., March
26, 2003 (age 76 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Omari Musa (born c.1944) —
also known as Herman Fagg —
of California; Illinois; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Washington,
D.C.
Born about 1944.
Socialist. College instructor; Socialist Workers candidate for
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1972; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from California, 1974 (28th District), 1996
(Independent, 9th District); Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1976; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1986; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 17th District, 2004; candidate for
mayor
of Miami, Fla., 2005; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Florida, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 2010.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Ralph Nader (b. 1934) —
of Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
27, 1934.
Lawyer;
university professor; consumer advocate; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996 (Green), 2000 (Green), 2004
(Independent), 2008 (Independent).
Lebanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2020.
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Gilbert Owen Nations (b. 1866) —
also known as Gilbert O. Nations —
of Farmington, St.
Francois County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Perry
County, Mo., August
18, 1866.
Lawyer;
probate judge in Missouri, 1903-11; university professor;
American candidate for President
of the United States, 1924.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James W. Nations and Caroline L. (Hart) Nations; married, December
5, 1886, to Sallie E. McFarland. |
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Stanton Judkins Peelle (1843-1928) —
also known as Stanton J. Peelle —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Wayne
County, Ind., February
11, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1877-79; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1881-84; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1888
(alternate), 1892;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1892-1913; law professor.
Presbyterian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
4, 1928 (age 85 years, 206
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Eugene Hermann Plumacher (1837-1910) —
also known as Eugene H. Plumacher —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Germany,
1837.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; university professor; inventor;
U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1883-1909.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Founded a leprosy hospital in Venezuela.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
25, 1910 (age about 73
years).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jamin Ben Raskin (b. 1962) —
also known as Jamie Raskin —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
13, 1962.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Democrats Abroad, 2004;
member of Maryland
state senate, 2007-16; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 2008;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 2017-.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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Spottswood William Robinson III (1916-1998) —
also known as Spottswood W. Robinson III —
of Richmond,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 26,
1916.
Lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1961-63;
U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1964-66; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1966-89; took
senior status 1989; senior judge, 1989-98.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
11, 1998 (age 82 years, 77
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hermann Schoenfeld (1861-1926) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oppeln, Prussia (now Opole, Poland),
January
21, 1861.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; university professor; U.S. Consul in
Riga, 1893-94; Consul-General
for Turkey in Washington,
D.C., 1899-1910.
German
ancestry.
Died in Wildwood Crest, Cape May
County, N.J., July 4,
1926 (age 65 years, 164
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Dewey Jackson Short (1898-1979) —
also known as Dewey Short; "The Ozark
Orator" —
of Galena, Stone
County, Mo.
Born in Galena, Stone
County, Mo., April 7,
1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1929-31, 1935-57 (14th District
1929-31, 7th District 1935-57); defeated, 1930 (14th District), 1956
(7th District); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1932;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1932; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Tau Delta; Pi Gamma
Mu; Lions; American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
19, 1979 (age 81 years, 226
days).
Interment at Galena
Cemetery, Galena, Mo.
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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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Herbert John Spiro (b. 1924) —
also known as Herbert Spiro —
of Washington,
D.C.; Texas.
Born in Hamburg, Germany,
September
7, 1924.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Army during
World War II; university professor; U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, 1975; Equatorial Guinea, 1975; Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 1992, 1994 (primary);
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1993.
Member, American
Association of University Professors; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sterling (1851-1930) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Redfield, Spink
County, S.Dak.; Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born near Amanda, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
20, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to South Dakota state constitutional convention, 1889; member of
South
Dakota state senate 30th District, 1889-90; dean, college
of law, University of South Dakota, 1901-11; U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1913-25; delegate to Republican
National Convention from South Dakota, 1916.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; American Bar
Association; American
Political Science Association.
Died in 1930
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946) —
also known as Harlan F. Stone —
Born in Chesterfield, Cheshire
County, N.H., October
11, 1872.
Lawyer;
Dean of Columbia University Law School; U.S.
Attorney General, 1924-25; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1925-41; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-46; died in office 1946.
Episcopalian.
Suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage, in
court, while reading his dissent in the case of Girouard v.
United States, and died later that day, in Washington,
D.C., April
22, 1946 (age 73 years, 193
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Theodore Strickland (b. 1941) —
also known as Ted Strickland —
of Lucasville, Scioto
County, Ohio.
Born in Lucasville, Scioto
County, Ohio, August
4, 1941.
Democrat. Psychologist;
college professor; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1993-95, 1997-2007;
defeated, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1994; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 2000,
2004,
2008
(speaker);
Governor
of Ohio, 2007-11; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 2016.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2016.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1890-92; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1892-1900; resigned
1900; law professor; Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; resigned 1930.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull
and Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft; half-brother of Charles
Phelps Taft; brother of Henry
Waters Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen
Louise Herron (daughter of John
Williamson Herron; sister-in-law of Henry
Frederick Lippitt; niece of William
Collins; aunt of Frederick
Lippitt; granddaughter of Ela
Collins); father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft III; second cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin; fourth cousin once removed of William
Warner Hoppin, John
Milton Thayer, Edward
M. Chapin and George
Franklin Chapin. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | The former community
of Taft, now part of Lincoln
City, Oregon, was named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in San
Antonio, Texas, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School, in Bronx, New
York (closed 2008), was named for
him. — Taft High
School, in Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — William Howard Taft High
School (opened 1960; became charter school 2013-14), in Los
Angees, California, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft — Lewis L. Gould, The
William Howard Taft Presidency |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro (1885-1971) —
also known as Sidney F. Taliaferro —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Salem,
Va., March 4,
1885.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; banker; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; director,
Washington Gas
Light Co. and Georgetown Gas
Light Co.; board member, Columbia Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Chi; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1971 (age 86 years, 109
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Van Tromp Taliaferro and Sallie (Pendleton) Taliaferro; married,
October
3, 1916, to Elizabeth Kirkwood Fulton; grandson of Albert
Gallatin Pendleton; grandnephew of John
Strother Pendleton; third great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Aylett
Hawes Buckner; first cousin four times removed of John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of William
Grayson; second cousin twice removed of Philip
Coleman Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Zachary
Taylor, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of John
Penn, James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, George
Madison, Alfred
William Grayson and Beverly
Robinson Grayson; second cousin five times removed of John
Walker, John
Tyler and Francis
Walker; third cousin once removed of Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Oscar Talle (1892-1969) —
also known as Henry O. Talle —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born near Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn., January
12, 1892.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1939-59 (4th District 1939-43, 2nd
District 1943-59); defeated, 1936 (4th District), 1958 (2nd District).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
14, 1969 (age 77 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Nicola S. Tsongas (b. 1946) —
also known as Niki Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chico, Butte
County, Calif., April
26, 1946.
Democrat. Social
worker; lawyer;
dean of external affairs, Middlesex Community College,
1997-2007; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 2007-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2008.
Female.
Still living as of 2014.
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Willis Van Devanter (1859-1941) —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Born in Marion, Grant
County, Ind., April
17, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Wyoming
territorial legislature, 1888; justice of
Wyoming territorial supreme court, 1889; member of Republican
National Committee from Wyoming, 1896; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Wyoming, 1896;
law professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1903-10; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-37; took senior status 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1941 (age 81 years, 297
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Cantwell Wallace (1866-1924) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 11,
1866.
Farmer;
college professor; magazine
editor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1921-24; died in office 1924.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
25, 1924 (age 58 years, 167
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) —
also known as Paul Wellstone; "Senator
Welfare" —
of Minnesota.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1944.
Democrat. College professor; arrested
during a Vietnam
War protest at the federal building in Minneapolis, 1970; arrested
again during a protest of
farm foreclosures at a bank in Paynesville, Minn., 1984;
candidate for Minnesota
state auditor, 1982; member of Democratic
National Committee from Minnesota, 1984-91; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1996,
2000.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed in a plane
crash, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
25, 2002 (age 58 years, 96
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) —
also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in
Politics" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Staunton,
Va., December
28, 1856.
Democrat. University professor; president
of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of
New Jersey, 1911-13; President
of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at Main Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson;
married, June 24,
1885, to Ellen
Wilson; married, December
18, 1915, to Edith
Wilson; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married William
Gibbs McAdoo); grandfather of Woodrow
Wilson Sayre. |
| | | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
C. Bullitt — Bainbridge
Colby — Joseph
E. Davies — Joseph
P. Tumulty — Thomas
H. Birch — Byron
R. Newton |
| | | Mount
Woodrow Wilson, in Fremont
County and Sublette
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Woodrow Wilson Plaza,
in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is is named for
him. — Wilson Dam
(built 1924), on the Tennessee River in Colbert
and Lauderdale
counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake
reservoir, which extends into Lawrence
county, are named for
him. — Rambla
Presidente Wilson, in Montevideo,
Uruguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Woodrow
W. Bean
— Woodrow
W. Jones
— Woodrow
W. Scott
— Tom
Woodrow Payne
— W.
W. Dumas
— Woodrow
Wilson Mann
— Woodrow
W. Lavender
— Woodrow
W. Baird
— Woodrow
W. Mathna
— Woodrow
W. Hulme
— Woodrow
W. Kline
— Woodrow
W. McDonald
— Woodrow
W. Hollan
— Woodrow
W. Carter
— Woodrow
W. Ferguson
— W.
Wilson Goode
— Woodrow
Wilson Storey
— Woodrow
W. Bean III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued
in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out
of war." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis
Auchincloss, Woodrow
Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — John Milton Cooper, Reconsidering
Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and
Peace — A. Scott Berg, Wilson —
Anne Schraff, Woodrow
Wilson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:
Jim Powell, Wilson's
War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, and World War II |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1902 |
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Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (b. 1943) —
also known as Paul Wolfowitz —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
22, 1943.
University professor; U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, 1986-89.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2014.
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