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Norwood Francis Allman (1893-1987) —
also known as Norwood F. Allman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Port Charlotte, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va., July 24,
1893.
Lawyer;
interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Antung, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Tientsin, 1918-19; Tsinanfu, as of 1919-21; Shanghai, 1921; Chungking, 1921; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1922-24.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., February
28, 1987 (age 93 years, 219
days).
Interment at Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of John Isaac Allman and Nannie Kate (English) Allman; married 1920 to Mary
Louise Hamilton; married to Dorothy Dennis. |
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memorial |
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or
Mongrelization, which advocated deportation of all Black
Americans to Africa. During the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he
called on "every red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort
to any means to keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2
primary. And if you don't know what that means, you are just not up
to your persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate,
appalled at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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Robert Buford DeBlieux (1933-2010) —
also known as Bobby DeBlieux —
of Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La.
Born in Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La., January
26, 1933.
Democrat. Hardware
business; historian; author; mayor
of Natchitoches, La., 1976-80; Louisiana State Historic
Preservation Officer, 1980-88.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Our Lady of the Lake Medical
Center, Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La., January
31, 2010 (age 77 years, 5
days).
Interment at American
Cemetery, Natchitoches, La.
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Relatives: Son
of Jefferson Davis DeBlieux and Marie Dell (Roubieu) DeBlieux;
married to JoAnn Weaver. |
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article |
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Richard Quin Edmonson Hillyer (b. 1964) —
also known as Quin Hillyer —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
16, 1964.
Republican. Newspaper
columnist; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1988;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 2013.
Still living as of 2017.
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Relatives: Son
of Haywood Hanson Hillyer III and Brenda (Edmonson)
Hillyer. |
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article |
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Harold Barnett McSween (1926-2002) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., July 19,
1926.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
writer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1959-63.
Died in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., January
12, 2002 (age 75 years, 177
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Memorial Park, Pineville, La.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist; California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968; dean,
Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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James Denson Sayers (1888-1957) —
also known as James D. Sayers —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Summerfield, Claiborne
Parish, La., March
17, 1888.
Socialist. Telegraph
operator; editor; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Texas, 1920; candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1932.
Died December
26, 1957 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David Joel Sayers and Emma Missouri (Sayers) Sayers; married to
Eda Eugenia Martin. |
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