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María Concepcíon Bechily (b. 1949) —
also known as María C. Bechily —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Matanzas, Cuba,
February
20, 1949.
Democrat. Social
worker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1980;
staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Alan
J. Dixon, 1981-83; host and assistant producer, WSNS
television, Chicago, 1984-85; public
relations business.
Female.
Cuban
ancestry.
Still living as of 1985.
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Bill Bradbury —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Television news reporter, director and producer;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1981-85; member of Oregon
state senate, 1985-95; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oregon, 1996,
2008;
secretary
of state of Oregon, 1999-2003; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 2002; member of Democratic
National Committee from Oregon, 2008.
Still living as of 2008.
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James B. Goetz (b. 1936) —
of Winona, Winona
County, Minn.
Born in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., May 28,
1936.
Republican. Owner and president of radio station KAGE, Winona;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota,
1964;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1967-71.
Still living as of 1971.
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Relatives:
Married to Ruth Elbert. |
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James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) —
also known as James G. Harbord —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March
21, 1866.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and
chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad;
director, Bankers Trust Co.;
director, National Broadcasting Co.; director,
Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York Life Insurance
Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924,
1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union
League.
Died in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Cecil Landau Heftel (1924-2010) —
also known as Cecil Heftel —
of Hawaii.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
30, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; owner of
radio and television stations; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1970; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Hawaii, 1972;
U.S.
Representative from Hawaii 1st District, 1977-86; resigned 1986;
candidate for Governor of
Hawaii, 1986.
Mormon.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Honolulu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, February
4, 2010 (age 85 years, 127
days).
Interment at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery, Kaneohe, Island of Oahu,
Hawaii.
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Richard William Hoffman (1893-1975) —
also known as Richard W. Hoffman —
of Riverside, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
23, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; publishing
business; radio station owner; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1949-57; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1964.
Died in Maywood, Cook
County, Ill., July 6,
1975 (age 81 years, 195
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in the St. Albans Naval Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
7, 1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper
columnist;
radio talk show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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Charlie Kirk (b. 1993) —
Born in Arlington Heights, Cook
County, Ill., October
14, 1993.
Republican. Radio talk show host; co-founder and executive
director, Turning Point USA; speaker, Republican National Convention,
2016,
2020.
Evangelical
Christian.
Still living as of 2021.
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John Jeffry Louis Jr. (1925-1995) —
also known as John J. Louis, Jr. —
of Illinois.
Born in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., June 10,
1925.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; chairman, KetchikanAR
Broadcasting, Phoenix, Ariz., 1961-68; chairman, Combined
Communications Corporation, 1968-; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1981-83.
Died February
15, 1995 (age 69 years, 250
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Arthur Phillips (b. 1952) —
also known as Ed Phillips —
of Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born, in Alton Memorial Hospital,
Alton, Madison
County, Ill., July 30,
1952.
Republican. Meteorologist;
radio and television broadcaster; airplane and
helicopter pilot; member of Arizona
state senate 28th District, 1991-94.
Episcopalian;
later Jewish.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2010.
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Relatives: Son
of Edwin Charles Phillips and Ada Mae (Russell)
Phillips. |
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Harlan Eugene Read (1880-1963) —
also known as Harlan E. Read —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., May 7,
1880.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1918; author;
radio commentator.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February, 1963
(age 82
years, 0 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, 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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James William Schwantz (b. 1970) —
also known as Jim Schwantz —
of Palatine, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Palatine, Cook
County, Ill., January
23, 1970.
Played professional football
in 1992-98; national account sales manager for Von Sydow's Moving &
Storage; radio show co-host; mayor
of Palatine, Ill., 2009-.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Joseph Walsh (b. 1961) —
also known as Joe Walsh —
of Illinois.
Born in North Barrington, Lake
County, Ill., December
27, 1961.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 2011-13; defeated,
1996; radio show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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John C. Youle (1916-1999) —
also known as Clint Youle —
of Illinois.
Born April 4,
1916.
Republican. Broadcaster; one of the first to
present the weather on television, in 1948; member of Illinois
state house of representatives; elected 1964.
Died in a hospital
at Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., July 23,
1999 (age 83 years, 110
days).
Burial location unknown.
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