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Joseph Eugene Agan (1898-1929) —
also known as Joseph E. Agan —
of Mahoningtown, Lawrence
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, July 23,
1898.
U.S. Vice Consul in Porto Alegre, as of 1921; translator; newspaper
correspondent.
Member, American
Society for International Law.
Killed
himself, by slashing
his throat and wrists with a razor blade, stabbing
himself in the heart with an ice pick, and leaping
from his apartment window to the street six floors below, in Washington,
D.C., October
11, 1929 (age 31 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James L. Agan. |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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George Edward Allen (1896-1973) —
also known as George E. Allen —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Booneville, Prentiss
County, Miss., February
29, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; hotel
business; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1933-38, 1939-40;
resigned 1938, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
District of Columbia, 1936;
Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1943; speechwriter for
Pres. Harry
Truman; director, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1946.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma.
Close friend of presidents Roosevelt,
Truman,
and Eisenhower.
Died, following a heart
attack, in the Eisenhower Medical
Center, Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., April
23, 1973 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Booneville, Miss.
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James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 17,
1784.
Playwright; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;
severely wounded in a duel,
1814; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1819-20; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1829-38.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 9,
1858 (age 73 years, 265
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
24, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; chaplain;
writer; poet; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia
or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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Joseph Battell (1839-1915) —
of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt., July 15,
1839.
Republican. Author; farmer;
member of Vermont
state senate, 1876; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Middlebury, 1910.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1915 (age 75 years, 223
days).
Interment at West
Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt.
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Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) —
also known as S. G. W. Benjamin —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born, of American parents, at Argos, Greece,
February
13, 1837.
Librarian;
author; artist;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, as of 1883-85.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Forestry Association; Navy
League.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., July 19,
1914 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Leo Brent Bozell (1926-1997) —
also known as L. Brent Bozell —
of Maryland.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., January
19, 1926.
Republican. Co-founded the Young Americans for Freedom;
speechwriter for Joseph
R. McCarthy and Barry
M. Goldwater; candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1958; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1964.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom.
Died, of pneumonia,
at a nursing
home in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April
15, 1997 (age 71 years, 86
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Patrick Joseph Buchanan (b. 1938) —
also known as Patrick J. Buchanan; Pat Buchanan;
"Pitchfork Pat" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
2, 1938.
Advisor and speechwriter to President Richard
Nixon and Vice President Spiro
Agnew; communications director for President Ronald
Reagan; newspaper
columnist, radio and
television commentator; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1992,
1996;
Reform candidate for President
of the United States, 2000.
Catholic.
Irish,
English,
and German
ancestry. Member, Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Still living as of 2020.
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George H. Butler (d. 1886) —
Born in Hamilton, Caldwell
County, Mo.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; drama critic;
U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1870.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 11,
1886.
Burial location unknown.
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John Kenneth Caldwell (1881-1982) —
also known as John K. Caldwell —
of Berea, Madison
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Piketon, Pike
County, Ohio, October
16, 1881.
Republican. Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice &
Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1909; U.S. Vice Consul in Dalny, 1911; U.S. Consul in Vladivostok, 1914-20; Kobe, 1920-21; U.S. Consul General in Sydney, 1932-35; Tientsin, 1935-38; U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, 1943-45.
Presbyterian.
Died in 1982
(age about 100
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Culver Bryant Chamberlain (1900-1972) —
also known as Culver B. Chamberlain —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Princeton, Gibson
County, Ind., July 12,
1900.
Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1923-25; Tientsin, 1925; Swatow, 1925-27; Shanghai, 1927-28; Yunnanfu, 1928-29; U.S. Consul in Yunnanfu, 1929-30; Harbin, 1931-32.
Assaulted
and beaten by Japanese soldiers in Mukden, China, January 1932.
Died April
12, 1972 (age 71 years, 275
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Norman H. Chamberlain and Ida (Ensminger)
Chamberlain. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport
application |
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Alfredo Lutz Demorest (1881-1934) —
also known as Alfredo L. Demorest —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Santiago, Chile,
of American parents, February
13, 1881.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; artist;
author; U.S. Vice Consul in Trinidad, 1922-34, died in office 1934.
Died in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
November
15, 1934 (age 53 years, 275
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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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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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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Arthur Radcliffe Getty (1861-1919) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in London, England,
1861.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; musician;
lyricist; poet; Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Chicago,
Ill., 1896-1901.
English
and Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
6, 1919 (age about 58
years).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Gibson Getty and Emily (Crossley) Getty; married, July 26,
1919, to Marie Reid. |
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Bernard Gotlieb (1893-1979) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1893.
School
teacher; interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Baghdad, 1917; Cairo, 1918-21; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1921-24; Halifax, 1924-26; Singapore, 1926-28; Wellington, 1928-33; Messina, 1933-34; Trieste, 1934-37; Nuevo Laredo, 1940-42; Santiago de Cuba, 1942-43; Havana, 1943-44; Windsor, 1944-47.
Jewish.
Died in Marin
County, Calif., March
15, 1979 (age 85 years, 128
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Hartsdale, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Henry Gotlieb and Rebecca (Wolff) Gotlieb; married, July 2,
1929, to Audrey Gwendoline Ormiston. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1918) |
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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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Smith Hempstone Jr. (1929-2006) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1929.
Newspaper
editor and columnist; U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, 1989-93.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., November
19, 2006 (age 77 years, 291
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Historian; president,
Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) —
also known as Harold L. Ickes —
of Hubbard Woods, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.; Olney, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., March
15, 1874.
Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940,
1944;
newspaper
columnist.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and German
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1952 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Sandy Spring Friends Cemetery, Sandy Spring, Md.
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Joseph Earle Jacobs (1893-1971) —
also known as Joseph E. Jacobs —
of Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C.; Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C., October
31, 1893.
Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Foochow, 1917-18; Shanghai, 1918-19; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, as of 1924, as of 1928-30; Yunnanfu, 1926-28; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948-49; Poland, 1955-57.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
5, 1971 (age 77 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 1853.
Author; poet; Editor, Century Magazine,
1909-13; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1920-21.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
14, 1937 (age 84 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dillard Brown Lasseter (1894-1973) —
also known as Dillard B. Lasseter —
of Cordele, Crisp
County, Ga.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Vienna, Dooly
County, Ga., July 21,
1894.
School
teacher; interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Tientsin, 1920-21; Antung, 1921-22; Nanking, 1922; Hankow, 1922-23; headed National Youth Administration in
Georgia; member, Regional War Manpower Commision; administrator, Farm
Security Administration, 1945-46; administrator, Farmers Home
Administration, 1946-53; lobbyist
for the American Trucking
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
2, 1973 (age 79 years, 104
days).
Interment at Oxford Historical Cemetery, Oxford, Ga.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Lee Roosevelt; "Princess
Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940
(speaker);
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Edith
Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; niece of Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandaunt of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William
Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe; Clare Boothe
Brokaw —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
10, 1903.
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Frank Fabian Mankiewicz (1924-2014) —
also known as Frank Mankiewicz —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 16,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
California
state assembly, 1950; lawyer;
author; press secretary for Robert
F. Kennedy, 1966-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1968;
campaign manager for George
McGovern's presidential campaign, 1972; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1976; president,
National Public Radio,
1977-83.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
failure while suffering from lung
problems, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., October
23, 2014 (age 90 years, 160
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas O. Marvin (b. 1867) —
of Massachusetts; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., December
10, 1867.
Minister;
newspaper
editorial writer; member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1921-26.
Universalist.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Theta
Delta Chi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas E. O. Marvin and Anne Maria (Lippitt) Marvin; married, November
15, 1894, to Flora Myrick Sugden. |
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John Stephen Monagan (1911-2005) —
also known as John S. Monagan —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., December
23, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
author; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1943-47; defeated, 1947; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1960,
1968;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1959-73; defeated,
1942, 1972.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
23, 2005 (age 93 years, 304
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) —
also known as Thomas N. Page —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., April
23, 1853.
Lawyer;
author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19.
Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., November
1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright; author of the lines which were later adapted as
the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) —
also known as Carl T. Rowan —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ravenscroft, White
County, Tenn., August
11, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; syndicated newspaper
columnist, author, biographer, television
and radio
commentator; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1963-64; in 1988, he shot
and wounded an intruder in his backyard in Washington, D.C.; he
was arrested,
charged
with a weapons
violation, and tried;
the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared;
received the Spingarn
Medal in 1997.
African
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of heart and
kidney
ailments and diabetes,
at the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., September
23, 2000 (age 75 years, 43
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Wells Russell (1856-1927) —
also known as Charles W. Russell —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), March
10, 1856.
Lawyer;
author; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1909-14.
Died April 5,
1927 (age 71 years, 26
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Clifford Stuart (1864-1952) —
also known as Henry C. Stuart; "Stuart
X" —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Mining
engineer;
real
estate investor; author; director-general, Guaremala
Central Railroad;
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1885-86; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1893.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 21,
1952 (age 87 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) —
of Alabama.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
21, 1851.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97.
Author of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1922 (age 71 years, 96
days).
Originally entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
Bisexual.
Novelist, playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Warren (1868-1954) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 9,
1868.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. William
Eustis Russell, 1893-94; candidate for Massachusetts
state senate, 1894, 1895; author; historian;
assistant U.S. Attorney General, 1914-18; received a Pulitzer
Prize in history, 1923, for his book History of the United
States Supreme Court.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
16, 1954 (age 86 years, 160
days).
Interment at Vine
Hills Cemetery, Plymouth, Mass.
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James Henry Webb Jr. (b. 1946) —
also known as Jim Webb —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., February
9, 1946.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
author; screenwriter; journalist;
U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987-88; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 2007-13; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 2008;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2016.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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John Hill Wheeler (1806-1882) —
also known as John H. Wheeler —
of Lincoln
County, N.C.
Born in Murfreesboro, Hertford
County, N.C., August
2, 1806.
Lawyer;
historian; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1828-31, 1852-53 (Hertford County
1828-31, Lincoln County 1852-53); superintendent of the U.S. Mint at
Charlotte, N.C., 1837-41; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1843-45; U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1854-56.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
7, 1882 (age 76 years, 127
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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