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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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Max Bedacht (1883-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Munich (München), Germany,
October
13, 1883.
Communist. Barber;
president, Swiss National Barbers' Union, 1907; Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1936 (14th
District); candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; national secretary,
International Workers Order; expelled from the Communist Party in
1948 over factional differences.
German
ancestry.
Died July 4,
1972 (age 88 years, 265
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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George Sylvester Counts (1889-1974) —
also known as George S. Counts —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born near Baldwin City, Douglas
County, Kan., December
9, 1889.
University
professor; author;
president, American Federation of Teachers, 1939-42; New York
American Labor Party state chair, 1942-44; Liberal candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952; New York Liberal Party state chair,
1955-59.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two weeks later, in a hospital
at Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
10, 1974 (age 84 years, 336
days). His body was
donated to Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wilson Counts and Mertie Florella (Gamble)
Counts. |
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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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Eugene Dennis (1905-1961) —
also known as Francis Xavier Waldron; Tim
Ryan —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August
10, 1905.
Communist. Union organizer; fled
to the Soviet Union in 1929 to avoid prosecution;
returned to the U.S. in 1935; General Secretary, Communist Party,
1946-59, and Chairman, 1959-61; arrested
in 1948, along with other party leaders, and charged
with advocating
the violent overthrow of the United States; convicted
in 1949, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Died, from cancer,
in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1961 (age 55 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, 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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William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) —
also known as William Z. Foster; William Edward
Foster —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., February
25, 1881.
Communist. Labor organizer; helped lead steelworkers strike in
1919; candidate for President
of the United States, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1930; arrested
after a demonstration
in 1930, and jailed
for six months; indicted
on July 20, 1948 under the Smith
Act, and charged
with conspiring to advocate
the overthrow of the government; never tried due to illness.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in a sanatorium
at Moscow, Russia,
September
1, 1961 (age 80 years, 188
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph 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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Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908-1990) —
also known as Arthur J. Goldberg —
of Illinois; New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
8, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; general counsel,
Congress of Industrial Organizations; helped merge that group with
the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO, 1955; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1960;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1961-62; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-65; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1965-68; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to , 1977-78.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1978.
Died of coronary
artery disease, in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1990 (age 81 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers'
strike in 1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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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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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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Andrew Lafin —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Labor organizer; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1920, 1924; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1922.
Burial location unknown.
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William Aloysius Lee (1895-1984) —
also known as William A. Lee —
of River Forest, Cook
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
11, 1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
President of Bakery Drivers Local 734, 1926-60, and
vice-president of the Teamsters' Union; president of
the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1946-84; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from cardiac
arrest, in Northwestern Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 16,
1984 (age 89 years, 66
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Mahoney (1869-1952) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
13, 1869.
Pressman;
labor leader; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Minnesota; founder and editor, Minnesota
Union Advocate newspaper,
1920-32; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1932-34; Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1943.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
17, 1952 (age 83 years, 217
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Arthur G. McDowell (d. 1966) —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1934; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1936; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1940; Director of Government, Education, and
Civic Affairs for the Upholsterers' Union of North America.
Died in a one-car
accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, near York, York
County, Pa., October
6, 1966.
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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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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Percy Pepoon (1861-1939) —
of Hardy, Sharp
County, Ark.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Warren, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., November
11, 1861.
Democrat. Printer;
president, St. Louis Typographical Union No. 8; executive
board member, Central Trades and Labor Union of St. Louis;
candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 2nd District,
1910; member of Missouri
state senate 30th District, 1935-39; died in office 1939.
Died September
7, 1939 (age 77 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, April 8,
1885, to Beatrice Trenchard Viggers. |
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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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Gene A. Saari (1909-1990) —
of Houghton, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Chisholm, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 21,
1909.
Democrat. Labor leader; candidate for Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1944, 1946; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1948; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Lutheran.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 7,
1990 (age 80 years, 290
days).
Interment at Sugar
Island Cemetery, Sugar Island, Mich.
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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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Maurice Jerome Walker (b. 1954) —
also known as Maurice J. Walker —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
3, 1954.
Green. President, Local 616, Service Employees International
Union; real estate
appraiser; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Carl Young (b. 1859) —
of Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich.
Born in Augusta, Hancock
County, Ill., August
11, 1859.
Republican. Carpenter;
general organizer, Carpenter's Union, 1906-16; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Muskegon County, 1917-20.
Burial location unknown.
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