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Anthony Boyce Akers (1914-1976) —
also known as Anthony B. Akers —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born near Charlotte, Atascosa
County, Tex., October
19, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1954, 1956, 1958;
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1961-63.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover
County, N.C., April 1,
1976 (age 61 years, 165
days).
Interment at Berkeley Memorial Cemetery, Middletown, R.I.
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Diego Cortes Asencio (b. 1931) —
also known as Diego C. Asencio —
of Florida.
Born in Almeria, Spain,
July
15, 1931.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1977; Brazil, 1983-86.
Spanish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Elaine Bloom (b. 1937) —
of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1937.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 106th District, 1974-78,
1986-2000; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,
1976
(alternate), 1992,
1996;
candidate for Florida
state senate 36th District, 1978; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 22nd District, 2000.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League of Women
Voters; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2000.
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Frances D. Cook (b. 1945) —
of Florida.
Born in 1945.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Burundi, 1980; Cameroon, 1989; Oman, 1995-99.
Female.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2001.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March
24, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Episcopalian.
English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Phi
Mu Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel,
Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March
16, 1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Martin Dewey and Anne Louise 'Annie' (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis); nephew of Edmond
Otis Dewey; first cousin four times removed of David
Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Glasby Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Luther
Waterman and Joshua
Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Eastman
family; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Abbott
family of Salinas, California; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Herbert
Brownell, Jr. — Charles
C. Wing — Martin
T. Manton — Herman
Methfessel |
| | | The Thomas E. Dewey Thruway,
which runs through Westchester,
Rockland,
Orange,
Ulster,
Greene,
Albany,
Schenectady,
Montgomery,
Herkimer,
Oneida,
Madison,
Onondaga,
Cayuga,
Seneca,
Ontario,
Monroe,
Genesee,
Erie,
and Chautauqua
counties in New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M.
Stolberg, Fighting
Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E.
Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas
E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political
Leadership — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas
E. Dewey and His Times — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1930-2011) —
also known as Lawrence Eagleburger; Larry Eagleburger;
"The Eagle" —
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
1, 1930.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1977-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1992-93; director, Phillips Petroleum
corporation, 1993-2000.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the University of Virginia Medical
Center, Charlottesville,
Va., June 4,
2011 (age 80 years, 307
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dante Bruno Fascell (1917-1998) —
also known as Dante B. Fascell —
of Coral Gables, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Bridgehampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March 9,
1917.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1951-54; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1955-93 (4th District 1955-67, 12th
District 1967-73, 15th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-93);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1956
(delegation vice-chair), 1968
(alternate).
Italian
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Lions; American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Military
Order of the World Wars; Jaycees;
Kappa
Sigma.
Received Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1998.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla., November
28, 1998 (age 81 years, 264
days).
Interment at Sylvan
Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Fla.
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Foy David Kohler (1908-1990) —
also known as Foy D. Kohler —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Oakwood, Paulding
County, Ohio, February
15, 1908.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Athens, 1938; U.S. Consul in Moscow, as of 1947; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1962-66.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Gamma Sigma; Delta
Upsilon.
Died in Jupiter, Palm Beach
County, Fla., December
23, 1990 (age 82 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Harting Percy (1919-2011) —
also known as Charles H. Percy —
of Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; Wilmette, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., September
27, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; President
and CEO, Bell & Howell, 1949-63; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1964,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1964; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1967-85; defeated, 1984.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died September
17, 2011 (age 91 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Leland H. Rayson (1921-2001) —
of Tinley Park, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill., August
23, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1960;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1965-77 (at-large 1965-67, 9th
District 1967-77).
Methodist.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of metastatic
melanoma, in Stuart, Martin
County, Fla., January
8, 2001 (age 79 years, 138
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Donna Edna Shalala (b. 1941) —
also known as Donna E. Shalala —
of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; university
professor; president,
Hunter College, City University of New York, 1980-88; chancellor,
University of Wisconsin, 1988-92; U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001; president,
University of Miami, 2001-15; U.S.
Representative from Florida 27th District, 2019-.
Female.
Lebanese
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission; American
Federation of Teachers.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 2011.
Still living as of 2019.
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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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Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield (1899-1972) —
also known as Arthur E. Summerfield —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Pinconning, Bay
County, Mich., March
17, 1899.
Republican. Real estate
business; oil
distributor; automobile
dealer; member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1944-52; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1952-53; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(speaker),
1960;
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1953-61.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Kiwanis;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., April
26, 1972 (age 73 years, 40
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Flint, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Summerfield and Cora Edith (Ellsworth) Summerfield;
married, July 22,
1918, to Miriam Wealthy Graim. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Eminent Americans
(1954) |
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