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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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Charles Billings —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
University professor; candidate for mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla., 1997.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 1997.
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Andrew Augustine Caffrey (1920-1993) —
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., October
2, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1960-86; took senior status
1986.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., October
6, 1993 (age 73 years, 4
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Delos Fall (1848-1921) —
of Albion, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
29, 1848.
Republican. College professor; Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1901-04; candidate for mayor of
Albion, Mich., 1906; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 9th District, 1907-08.
The Christian hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" (1912) was written in his
house in Albion, by his tenant Rev. George Bennard.
Died in Bradenton, Manatee
County, Fla., February
19, 1921 (age 73 years, 21
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albion, Mich.
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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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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
School
principal; author; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09; university professor.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma
Pi Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Cary Dayton Landis (1873-1938) —
also known as Cary D. Landis —
of DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla.
Born in Claypool, Kosciusko
County, Ind., May 10,
1873.
Democrat. School
principal; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
law professor; Florida
state attorney general, 1931-36; appointed 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Died May 10,
1938 (age 65 years, 0
days).
Interment at Ball Hill Cemetery, Cutler, Ind.
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Charles Linza McNary (1874-1944) —
also known as Charles L. McNary —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born near Salem, Marion
County, Ore., June 12,
1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
law school dean; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1913-14; appointed 1913; Oregon
Republican state chair, 1916-17; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1917-18, 1918-44; appointed 1917, 1918; died
in office 1944; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1940;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1940.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Grange.
Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., February
25, 1944 (age 69 years, 258
days).
Original interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Salem, Ore.; reinterment at Belcrest
Memorial Park, Salem, Ore.
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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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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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Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) —
also known as Ruth Bryan; Ruth Bryan Rohde; Mrs.
Borge Rohde —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., October
2, 1885.
Democrat. Lecturer; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1929-33; U.S. Minister
to Denmark, 1933-36.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Delta
Gamma.
first
woman to be elected to Congress from the South; inducted 1992 into
the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame.
Died in Copenhagen, Denmark,
July
26, 1954 (age 68 years, 297
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Ordrup
Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Robert Alonzo Rogers (1899-1970) —
also known as Robert A. Rogers —
of Parkville, Platte
County, Mo.
Born in Ohio, April
19, 1899.
Republican. College teacher; candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives from Platte County, 1945.
Died in Manatee
County, Fla., July 30,
1970 (age 71 years, 102
days).
Interment at Mansion Memorial Park & Funeral Home, Ellenton, Fla.
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Thomas J. Rooney (b. 1970) —
also known as Tom Rooney —
of Tequesta, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
21, 1970.
Republican. Staff to U.S. Sen. Connie
Mack III; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 2009-13 (16th District 2009-13, 17th
District 2013).
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Lambda
Chi Alpha.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Joseph D. Ward (1914-2003) —
of Fitchburg, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Fitchburg, Worcester
County, Mass., March
26, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1949-56; candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1958; secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1959-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1960,
1964
(alternate); candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1960; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1963-72; law professor.
Died in Ocean Ridge, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 10,
2003 (age 89 years, 45
days).
Interment at St.
Bernard's Cemetery, Fitchburg, Mass.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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