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Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor (1863-1950) —
also known as Mary H. Armor —
of Eastman, Dodge
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Penfield, Greene
County, Ga., March 9,
1863.
Democrat. Orator; evangelist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1924,
1928.
Female.
Southern
Methodist. Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union; League of Women
Voters; United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died November
6, 1950 (age 87 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Eastman, Ga.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Lindsay Manning Harris and Sarah Fanny (Johnson)
Harris; married to Walter Florence Armor. |
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Michael Curb (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Curb —
of California; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
24, 1944.
Republican. Musician;
record company executive; race
car owner; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1977; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate for Governor of
California, 1982.
In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2014.
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Laurent de Give (1828-1910) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Belgium,
January
31, 1828.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Belgium in Atlanta,
Ga., 1860-1903; opera house proprietor; movie
theater owner.
Catholic.
Belgian
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in Rockledge, Brevard
County, Fla., March
17, 1910 (age 82 years, 45
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer, director of many motion pictures;
worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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John Temple Graves (1856-1925) —
of Florida; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Willington, Abbeville District (now McCormick
County), S.C., November
9, 1856.
Newspaper
editor; orator; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Florida; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; Independence
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1908; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
8, 1925 (age 68 years, 272
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) —
also known as Milford W. Howard —
of Fort Payne, DeKalb
County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., February
18, 1862.
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99; novelist;
appeared as an actor in a silent movie based on one of
his novels; one of the editors of the conservative magazine
The Awakener in the 1930s.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sallie
Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
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Ben L. Jones (b. 1941) —
also known as Ben Jones;
"Cooter" —
of Georgia.
Born in Tarboro, Edgecombe
County, N.C., August
30, 1941.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1989-93; defeated, 1986
(4th District), 1992 (10th District), 1994 (6th District); candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 2002.
Professional actor, best known for his role as "Cooter
Davenport" in the 1979-85 television series "Dukes of
Hazzard".
Still living as of 2014.
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Judson Whitlocke Lyons (1860-1924) —
also known as Judson W. Lyons —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in slavery,
in Burke
County, Ga., August
15, 1860.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Georgia,
1880,
1892,
1896,
1904,
1908;
lawyer;
first
African-American licensed to practice law in Georgia; orator;
member of Republican
National Committee from Georgia, 1896-1908; Register of the U.S.
Treasury, 1898-1906.
African
ancestry.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., June 22,
1924 (age 63 years, 312
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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James Melton (1904-1961) —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Moultrie, Colquitt
County, Ga., January
2, 1904.
Republican. Professional
singer; actor; performed, Republican National Convention, 1952.
Died, from lobar
pneumonia, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
21, 1961 (age 57 years, 109
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Ocala, Fla.
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Danny O'Neil (1920-2002) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill.; Haines City, Polk
County, Fla.
Born in Georgia, December
12, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; singer; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1944 ; game show host.
Died, from heart
failure, in a rehab
center at Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 20,
2002 (age 81 years, 159
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Brothrton Petree and Nancy Louise (Ruelle) Petree; married
to Patricia Geraghty and Geraldine Mae Healy. |
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Cicely Tyson (b. 1924) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1924.
Democrat. Model; actress; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Delta
Sigma Theta.
Recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 2010, and the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 2016.
Still living as of 2019.
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Kanye Omari West (b. 1977) —
also known as Kanye West —
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., June 8,
1977.
Rap
musician; music producer; The Birthday Party candidate for
President
of the United States, 2020; Alliance candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2020.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2021.
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