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Loren D. Anderson (1919-1982) —
of Waterford Township, Oakland
County, Mich.; Riverview, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill., November
21, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1967-74 (61st District 1967-72,
60th District 1973-74); defeated, 1974.
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons;
Fraternal Order of Police; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in April, 1982
(age 62
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Annunzio (1915-2001) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
12, 1915.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1965-93 (7th District 1965-73, 11th
District 1973-93); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1984.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; United Steelworkers of America.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease, in Lincolnwood, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
2001 (age 86 years, 86
days).
Interment at Queen
of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Ill.
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Abraham Lincoln Auth (1877-1968) —
also known as A. L. Auth —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
19, 1877.
Democrat. Printer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 27th District, 1925-27, 1929-39,
1941-49.
Member, Elks;
Typographical Union.
Died March
27, 1968 (age 90 years, 160
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John Mahlon Barnes (1866-1934) —
also known as J. Mahlon Barnes —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 22,
1866.
Socialist. Cigar
maker; Socialist Labor candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1898; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Pennsylvania, 1912.
Member, Knights of Labor.
Died, from a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1934 (age 67 years, 245
days).
Cremated.
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George Becker (1928-2007) —
of Allison Park, Allegheny
County, Pa.; West Deer, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Madison, Madison
County, Ill., October
20, 1928.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; steelworker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1984
(alternate), 1996,
2000;
president,
United Steelworkers of America, 1993-2000.
Member, United Steelworkers of America.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in West Deer, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
3, 2007 (age 78 years, 106
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Becker and Frances Becker; married 1950 to Jane
Goforth. |
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article |
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy (1904-1991) —
also known as Ralph Bellamy —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 17,
1904.
Democrat. Actor;
appeared in more than 100 movies; his most famous role was as Franklin
D. Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello"; board
member, Screen Actors Guild; president,
Actors Equity; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Member, Screen Actors Guild.
Died, from a lung
ailment, in St. John's Health
Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
29, 1991 (age 87 years, 165
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Edwin W. Blomquist (1896-1963) —
of Adams, Adams
County, Wis.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
30, 1896.
Progressive. Locomotive
engineer; locomotive
fireman; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Adams and Marquette counties; elected 1936;
defeated, 1938, 1940.
Died in 1963
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Mt. Repose Cemetery, Friendship, Wis.
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John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) —
also known as J. Quinn Brisben —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Enid, Garfield
County, Okla., September
6, 1934.
Socialist. School
teacher; poet;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976; briefly jailed
in Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rights demonstration
in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate for President
of the United States, 1992.
Member, American Federation of Teachers.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
17, 2012 (age 77 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Buchanan (1862-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., June 14,
1862.
Democrat. Ironworker;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1911-17; in 1915, when
the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was president of
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; when a grand jury
investigation was announced, he retaliated by introducing
resolutions to impeach U.S. Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Buchanan; he was not re-tried.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
18, 1930 (age 67 years, 308
days).
Interment at Irving
Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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James Vincent Buckley (1894-1954) —
also known as James V. Buckley —
of Lansing, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Saginaw
County, Mich., May 15,
1894.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 4th District, 1949-51; defeated,
1950.
Member, United Auto Workers.
Died in Hammond, Lake
County, Ind., July 30,
1954 (age 60 years, 76
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Portage, Ind.
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Edward Capps (1866-1950) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., December
21, 1866.
University
professor; U.S. Minister to Greece, 1920.
Member, American Association of University Professors; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in 1950
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Diamond
Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Socialist. Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder
of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Debra DeLee (b. 1948) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1948.
Democrat. School
teacher; lobbyist;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1994-95; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1996,
2000;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2004,
2008;
president, Americans for Peace Now.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, National Education Association.
Still living as of 2008.
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Martin Patrick Durkin (1894-1955) —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
18, 1894.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1953.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
13, 1955 (age 61 years, 240
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Grant Edens (1863-1957) —
also known as William G. Edens —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., November
27, 1863.
Republican. Railway
conductor; banker;
president, Illinois Highway Improvement Association, 1912-20; leading
advocate for construction of hard surface roads; campaign manager for
U.S. Sen William
B. McKinley, 1920 and 1926; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1934.
Methodist.
Member, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; American
Bankers Association; Knights
of Pythias; Moose.
Died, in the Villa St. Cyril old
age home, Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., November
14, 1957 (age 93 years, 352
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) —
also known as "Rebel Girl" —
of New York.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
7, 1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer
for the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") in 1906-16; one
of the founders
of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which later expelled
her for being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (Communist, at-large), 1954
(Peoples' Rights, 24th District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961.
Female.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Industrial Workers of the World.
Died in Russia,
September
5, 1964 (age 74 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Joseph Germano —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964.
Catholic.
Member, United Steelworkers of America.
Director
of District 31, United Steelworkers of America; president,
Illinois Industrial Union Council.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Adolph Germer (1881-1966) —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, Kaliningrad
Oblast), January
15, 1881.
Socialist. Miner; union
official in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of
America, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee from
Illinois, 1911; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,
Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.
Member, United Mine Workers.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., May, 1966
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) —
Born in London, England,
January
27, 1850.
Democrat. Cigar
maker; Founder and
president, American Federation of Labor; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
13, 1924 (age 74 years, 321
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; memorial monument at Gompers Square, Washington, D.C.; statue at Gompers Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Leaun Harrelson (1918-1973) —
of Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Equality, Gallatin
County, Ill., July 10,
1918.
Democrat. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Oakland County 2nd District,
1949-54; defeated in primary, 1954; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1952.
Member, Freemasons;
United Auto Workers; Teamsters Union; Eagles.
Died July 14,
1973 (age 55 years, 4
days).
Interment at Ottawa
Park Cemetery, Clarkston, Mich.
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Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) —
also known as Charles A. Hayes —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill., February
17, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in
primary, 1992; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
African
ancestry. Member, United Food and Commercial Workers.
Died, from complications of lung
cancer, at South Suburban Hospital,
Hazel Crest, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1997 (age 79 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank J. Hayes (b. 1882) —
of Idaho Springs, Clear
Creek County, Colo.
Born in Mt. Olive, Macoupin
County, Ill., May 4,
1882.
Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1937-39.
Member, United Mine Workers.
President
of United Mine Workers in 1918; noted orator
and poet.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Johanik (1927-2007) —
of Westmont, DuPage
County, Ill.; Lombard, DuPage
County, Ill.
Born in 1927.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; carpenter;
hardware
store owner; village
president of Westmont, Illinois, 1961-65.
Czech
ancestry. Member, Moose; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in Central DuPage Hospital,
Winfield, DuPage
County, Ill., May 4,
2007 (age about 79
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Byron Lindberg Johnson (1917-2000) —
also known as Byron L. Johnson —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
12, 1917.
Democrat. Economist;
university
professor; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1955-56; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1959-61; defeated,
1956, 1960, 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Colorado, 1960,
1968.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Political Science Association; American Association of
University Professors; Phi
Kappa Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Englewood, Arapahoe
County, Colo., January
6, 2000 (age 82 years, 86
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Arthur M. Kaindl (1887-1967) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
5, 1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; elected Illinois
state house of representatives 23rd District 1934.
Catholic.
German
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1967 (age 80 years, 62
days).
Interment at Queen
of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Sebastian Kaindl and Pauline (Felder) Kaindl; married to
Marguerite Farley. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frank Leonard Kaminski (1897-1955) —
also known as Frank L. Kaminski —
of Calumet City, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Melrose Park, Cook
County, Ill., October
10, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; justice of the
peace; mayor
of Calumet City, Ill., 1945-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1948.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Moose; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus; Holy
Name Society; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; Lions; Polish
National Alliance.
Died November
23, 1955 (age 58 years, 44
days).
Interment at Fort
Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Leonard Kaminski and Emilia (Ostrowski) Kaminski; married to
Cecilia Walczak. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Nick Keller (b. 1893) —
Born in Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill., September
29, 1893.
Republican. Steelworker;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president,
Waukegan local, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers
of America (AFL); Waukegan Commissioner of Public Works, 1923-31; property
manager; baseball
talent scout; elected Illinois
state house of representatives 8th District 1940.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to Anna
Onan. |
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David Phillip Lindberg (1903-1981) —
also known as David P. Lindberg; "Boxcar
Mayor" —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.; Green Valley, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., March
16, 1903.
Railroad
worker; mayor
of Galesburg, Ill., 1941-45.
Lutheran.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Died in Green Valley, Pima
County, Ariz., January
15, 1981 (age 77 years, 305
days).
Cremated.
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Frank Lovell (1913-1998) —
also known as Frederick J. Lang —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ipava, Fulton
County, Ill., July 24,
1913.
Socialist. Seaman;
automobile
worker; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1953; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1954, 1958, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1960; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan; Socialist Workers candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1968.
Member, United Auto Workers.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1998 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1949 to Sarah
Zucker. |
| | | Image source: The Militant, October 27,
1958 |
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William Casey Marland (1918-1965) —
also known as William C. Marland —
of Glen Rogers, Wyoming
County, W.Va.
Born in Johnston City, Williamson
County, Ill., March
26, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1948-52; Governor of
West Virginia, 1953-57; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from West Virginia, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1956.
Methodist.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Phi
Delta Phi; Lambda
Chi Alpha; United Mine Workers; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Moose.
Died of pancreatic
cancer, in Barrington, Cook
County, Ill., November
26, 1965 (age 47 years, 245
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Floyd J. Mattheeussen (1930-2005) —
of Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
29, 1930.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; fruit
farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives 44th District, 1965-66; defeated,
1966.
United
Church of Christ. Member, American Federation of
Teachers; NAACP.
Died August
26, 2005 (age 75 years, 150
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Barbara Marie Schindler. |
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Martin J. Moylan (born c.1951) —
also known as Marty Moylan —
of Des Plaines, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1951.
Democrat. Electrician;
business
representative, Local 134, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers; mayor
of Des Plaines, Ill., 2009-13; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 55th District, 2013-.
Catholic.
Member, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Still living as of 2014.
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Walter Nesbit (1878-1938) —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., May 1,
1878.
Coal
miner; Secretary-Treasurer,
District 12, United Mine Workers of America, 1917-33; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1933-35; defeated, 1930
(Democratic), 1934 (Democratic primary), 1934 (National Progressive).
Member, United Mine Workers.
Died in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., December
6, 1938 (age 60 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Belleville, Ill.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia
and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress)
and Nancy
Davis (1921-2016); father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Political family: Reagan
family of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
(opened 1941; renamed 1998), in Arlington,
Virginia, is named for
him. — Mount
Reagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan, My
Father at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.
Bossie, Ronald
Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,
The
Reagan I Knew — Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years — William
Kleinknecht, The
Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street
America |
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Benjamin S. Rhodes (1889-1969) —
also known as Ben S. Rhodes —
of Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.; Normal, McLean
County, Ill.
Born in Saunemin, Livingston
County, Ill., April
11, 1889.
Republican. Plasterer;
president
of the Plasterer's Union; mayor
of Bloomington, Ill., 1927-33; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 26th District, 1939-64.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died July 21,
1969 (age 80 years, 101
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah J. Rhodes and Mary (Gahagan) Rhodes; married to Julie
O'Neil. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Darwin Gale Schisler (b. 1933) —
also known as Gale Schisler —
of Illinois.
Born in Knox
County, Ill., March 2,
1933.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1965-67; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1969-80.
Protestant.
Member, National Education Association; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Amvets.
Still living as of 1998.
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Arthur Schultz —
of Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; police
officer; mayor of
Joliet, Ill., 1991-.
Member, Moose;
Fraternal Order of Police; American
Legion.
Still living as of 2007.
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Joseph Sieb (d. 1998) —
of Norridge, Cook
County, Ill.
Village
president of Norridge, Illinois, 1951-98; appointed 1951; died in
office 1998.
Member, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Died June 23,
1998.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Joseph Tobin (1875-1955) —
also known as Daniel J. Tobin —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in County Clare, Ireland,
April, 1875.
Democrat. General
president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1907-52; secretary-treasurer,
American Federation of Labor, 1917-28; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1948.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Teamsters Union.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
14, 1955 (age 80 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Emmett Whealan (1875-1950) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 4,
1875.
Democrat. Printing
business; real estate
business; Cook
County Commissioner, 1919-31; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1928,
1932.
Member, Typographical Union; Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in 1950
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Alsip, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of James Whealan and Johanna (Dewey) Whealan; married, November
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Charles O. Zollar (1914-1988) —
of Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich.; Benton Township, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
6, 1914.
Republican. Fruit
farmer;
real
estate business; member of Michigan
state senate 22nd District, 1965-78; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 4th District, 1972; supervisor
of Benton Township, Michigan, 1981.
Lutheran.
Member, Elks; Rotary;
American
Legion; Moose;
Fraternal Order of Police; Farm
Bureau.
Died in St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich., February
24, 1988 (age 74 years, 49
days).
Interment at Riverview Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mich.
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