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Arnold P. Abbott (b. 1924) —
of Jenkintown, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., April
12, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1964,
1968.
Jewish. Member, United
World Federalists; NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Melvin M. Rosenbloom and Rebecca (Marcy) Rosenbloom; married, June 20,
1948, to Charlotte Ruth Brody. |
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Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000) —
also known as Morris Abram —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill
County, Ga., June 19,
1918.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; served on
prosecution staff at Nuremburg war crimes trials; U.S. Representative
to United Nations European office; worked on Marshall Plan for
postwar reconstruction of Europe; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1952; candidate for
nomination for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968; president
of Brandeis University, 1968-70; member, U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, 1984-86.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Jewish Committee; Urban
League; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from a viral
infection, in a hospital
at Geneva, Switzerland,
March
16, 2000 (age 81 years, 271
days).
Interment at Woodside
Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Abram and Irene (Cohen) Abram; married, December
23, 1944, to Jane Isabella Maguire; married, January
25, 1975, to Carlyn (Feldman) Fisher; married, August
26, 1990, to Bruna Molina. |
| | | Epitaph: He established "one man, one
vote" as a principle of American law. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) —
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1876.
Author;
translator;
journalist;
founder and editor of The Day, Jewish daily newspaper;
published the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," secret telegrams between
the Kaiser and the Czar, 1918; sued Henry
Ford for libel over anti-Semitic statements published in the
Dearborn Independent newspaper, and won a retraction; author of book
The History of a Lie (1921) which exposed "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" as fraudulent; U.S. Minister to Albania, 1930-33.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Committee; Zionist
Organization of America.
Died in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
31, 1935 (age 58 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg (b. 1942) —
also known as Michael Bloomberg —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, in St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Brighton, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
14, 1942.
Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2002-13; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 2020.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Still living as of 2021.
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) —
also known as Louis D. Brandeis —
of Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
13, 1856.
Lawyer;
law clerk to Justice Horace
Gray, 1879-80; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-39; took senior status 1939.
Jewish.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
5, 1941 (age 84 years, 326
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at University
of Louisville Law School, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Adolph Brandeis and Fredericka (Dembitz) Brandeis; brother of
Fannie Brandeis (who married Charles
Nagel) and Alfred Brandeis (brother-in-law of Walter
M. Taussig); married, March
23, 1891, to Alice Goldmark. |
| | | Political family: Taussig
family of St. Louis, Missouri. |
| | | Cross-reference: Dean
Acheson — James
M. Landis — Calvert
Magruder |
| | | Brandeis University,
in Waltham,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — The Louis D. Brandeis School
of Law, in Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Louis D. Brandeis: Lewis J.
Paper, Brandeis:
An Intimate Biography of One of America's Truly Great Supreme Court
Justices — Stephen W. Baskerville, Of
Laws and Limitations : An Intellectual Portrait of Louis Dembitz
Brandeis — Philippa Strum, Louis
D. Brandeis: Justice for the People — Robert A. Burt,
Two
Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land |
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Elizabeth S. Brater (b. 1951) —
also known as Liz Brater —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
12, 1951.
Democrat. Mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1991-93; defeated, 1993; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 53rd District, 1995-2002; member
of Michigan
state senate 18th District, 2003-.
Female.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2020.
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (b. 1938) —
also known as Stephen G. Breyer —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
15, 1938.
Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg, 1964-65; lawyer; law
professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1980-94; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1994-.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2017.
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Matthew Brown (1905-2003) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., March
26, 1905.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1960.
Jewish.
Died September
5, 2003 (age 98 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin D. Burdick (1903-1987) —
also known as Ben Burdick —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., July 2,
1903.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1930; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1948,
1956
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1960
(alternate); member of Wayne State
University board of governors; elected 1959; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1963-77; appointed 1963.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
B'nai
B'rith; American
Jewish Congress; American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
5, 1987 (age 84 years, 156
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Harry Cohen (b. 1892) —
also known as George H. Cohen —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
5, 1892.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; magazine
editor; U.S.
Attorney for Connecticut, 1934.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; B'nai
B'rith; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham L. Cohen and Sarah (Grodjiensky) Cohen; married, August
25, 1931, to Pauline Kaufman. |
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Susan A. Davis (b. 1944) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
13, 1944.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1994-2001; U.S.
Representative from California, 2001-08 (49th District 2001-03,
53rd District 2003-08); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 2004,
2008.
Female.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Daniel Englander —
of Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Mayor
of Pittsfield, Mass., 1902.
Jewish.
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel L. Fein (b. 1899) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Russia,
June
8, 1899.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1932.
Jewish. Member, B'nai
B'rith; Tau
Epsilon Phi; Elks; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abraham Fein and Sarah (Schwartz) Fein; married, December
31, 1922, to Mildred B. Sherman. |
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George Joseph Feldman (1904-1994) —
also known as George J. Feldman —
of New York.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
6, 1904.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador to
Malta, 1965-67; Luxembourg, 1967-69.
Jewish.
Chief author of a Congressional study which led to the creation of
NASA as a civilian space agency.
Died in the Bryn Mawr Terrace Nursing
Home, Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., November
22, 1994 (age 90 years, 16
days).
Interment at Jewish
Community Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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George Fingold (d. 1958) —
of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1953-58; died in office 1958.
Jewish.
Died August
31, 1958.
Interment at Pride
of Boston Cemetery, Woburn, Mass.
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Barney Frank (b. 1940) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., March
31, 1940.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1973-80; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1981-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish. Gay.
Admitted
in 1990 to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male
prostitute, for sex, subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal
assistant, and getting 33 parking tickets dismissed for him; Gobie
also used the congressman's apartment for prostitution. A move to expel
Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a 38 to 390 vote; a
motion to censure
him failed 141-287; finally, the House voted to reprimand
him by a vote of 408 to 18.
Still living as of 2014.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
November
15, 1882.
Law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.
Jewish. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Frank Harlan Freedman (1924-2003) —
also known as Frank H. Freedman —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., December
15, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; mayor
of Springfield, Mass., 1968-72; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1972;
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1972-92; took senior status
1992; senior judge, 1992-2003.
Jewish.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., August
21, 2003 (age 78 years, 249
days).
Interment at Beth El Cemetery, West Springfield, Mass.
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Bernard Ginsburg (b. 1898) —
of Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine,
August
1, 1898.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1925-26, 1929-30; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1932-36; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1932.
Jewish. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; B'nai
B'rith.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Myer Ginsburg and Sonia (Segal) Ginsburg; married, November
27, 1927, to Mildred Fishman. |
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Louis H. Glaser (1910-1989) —
of Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Poland,
June
15, 1910.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952;
candidate for mayor of
Malden, Mass., 1953.
Jewish. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Jewish
War Veterans.
Died October
4, 1989 (age 79 years, 111
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Glaser and Lillian (Burstein) Glaser; married, November
2, 1947, to Estelle Vineberg. |
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Joseph B. Grossman (b. 1892) —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 15,
1892.
Republican. Building
materials merchant; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1927-28; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council 2nd District, 1933-36.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Grotto;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary;
Order
Brith Abraham.
Burial location unknown.
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Maxwell Bernard Grossman (b. 1897) —
also known as Maxwell B. Grossman —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in East Boston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
21, 1897.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948.
Jewish. Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons.
President, Massachusetts Envelope Co.
Burial location unknown.
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Donald H. Hackel (b. 1925) —
of Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
1, 1925.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Vermont, 1956;
member of Vermont
Democratic State Committee, 1961-67.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Myer Jacob Hackel and Rose (Milhender) Hackel; married, August
14, 1949, to Stella Bloomberg. |
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Robert James Harris (1930-2005) —
also known as Robert J. Harris; Bob Harris —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
5, 1930.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; law
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1969-73.
Jewish. Lithuanian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
Died, of brain
lymphoma, in Scio Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., July 10,
2005 (age 74 years, 278
days).
Interment at Arborcrest
Memorial Park, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Samuel Kalesky (1877-1957) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
13, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1932.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Congress; Order
Brith Abraham.
Died October
28, 1957 (age 80 years, 288
days).
Interment at Temple Ohabei Shalom Cemetery, East Boston, Boston, Mass.
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Israel Katz (1907-1979) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Russia,
May
20, 1907.
Mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1974-75.
Jewish.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., August
13, 1979 (age 72 years, 85
days).
Interment at Worcester Hebrew Cemetery, Auburn, Mass.
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John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943) —
also known as John F. Kerry;
"Liveshot" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital,
Aurora, Adams
County, Colo., December
11, 1943.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1972; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1983-85; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-2013; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004.
Catholic.
English
and Jewish ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Skull
and Bones.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives: Son
of Rosemary Isabel (Forbes) Kerry and Richard John Kerry; married, May 23,
1970, to Julia Stimson Thorne; married, May 26,
1995, to Teresa (Simoes-Ferreira) Heinz (widow of Henry
John Heinz III); second great-grandson of Robert
Charles Winthrop; third great-grandson of Thomas
Lindall Winthrop and Jeremiah
Mason; fourth great-grandnephew of George
Cabot; fifth great-grandson of James
Bowdoin; fifth great-grandnephew of Timothy
Pickering; sixth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); first cousin four times removed of David
Sears and Jane
Pierce; first cousin seven times removed of John
Alsop; second cousin twice removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; third cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of William
Cameron Forbes; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge, John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; fourth cousin of William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Francis Adams; eighth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; King-Hazard
family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman
family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Leslie
L. Farr II |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kerry: A
Call to Service : My Vision for a Better America
(2003) — The
New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
(1997) — Our
Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World, with
John Edwards (2004) |
| | | Books about John F. Kerry: Douglas
Brinkley, Tour
of Duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War — Michael
Kranish et al, John
F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best — Paul Alexander, The
Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White
House — George Butler, John
Kerry: A Portrait — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kerry:
John E. O'Neill & Jerome R. Corsi, Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John
Kerry — David N. Bossie, The
Many Faces of John Kerry |
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Gertrude F. Koskoff (1911-1992) —
of Plainville, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., May 30,
1911.
Republican. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Plainville, 1953-58.
Female.
Jewish.
Died November
12, 1992 (age 81 years, 166
days).
Interment at Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Joseph M. Levenson (b. 1881) —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1916.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Levenson and Fannie (Heifetz) Levenson; married 1918 to
Frances Anna Hahn. |
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
newspaper
in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk
at a party, he stabbed
and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested
and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded
guilty to third-degree
assault; arrested
and jailed
in 1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
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Hyman Mann (1898-1972) —
also known as Honey Mann; Hyman Manevitch —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1898.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1930.
Jewish.
Died, in the Veterans Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 16,
1972 (age 74 years, 12
days).
Interment at Montefiore
Cemetery, Woburn, Mass.
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Theodore D. Mann (c.1923-1994) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born about 1923.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1960; mayor of
Newton, Mass., 1972-94.
Jewish.
Died of leukemia,
April
9, 1994 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Mishkan
Tefila Cemetery, West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.
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Louis Burt Mayer (1884-1957) —
also known as Louis B. Mayer; Lazar Meir —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Dymer, Russia (now Ukraine),
July
12, 1884.
Republican. Owned movie
theaters in New England; moved into the movie
production business starting in 1916; head of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) movie
studio, 1924-51; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1928,
1932;
vice-chair
of California Republican Party, 1931-32; California
Republican state chair, 1932-33.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of leukemia
and a kidney
infection, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1957 (age 73 years, 109
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Home
of Peace Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah (Meltzer) Mayer and Jacob Mayer; married, June 14,
1903, to Margaret
Shenberg (1883-1955) and Margaret Shenberg (divorced 1944);
married, December
4, 1948, to Lorena L. Danker; father of Edith 'Edie' Mayer (who
married William
Goetz) and Irene Gladys Mayer (who married David
Oliver Selznick). |
| | | Political family: Mayer
family of Los Angeles, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Dore
Schary |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Louis B. Mayer: Charles
Higham, Merchant
of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, MGM, and the Secret
Hollywood — Gary Carey, All
the stars in heaven : Louis B. Mayer's MGM — Diana
Altman, Hollywood
East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio
System — Charles Higham, The
Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. Mayer |
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Margaret Mayer (1883-1955) —
also known as Margaret Shenberg; Mrs. Louis B.
Mayer —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., October
3, 1883.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1932.
Female.
Jewish.
Died in 1955
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Leopold Morse (1831-1892) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Wachenheim, Bavaria (now Germany),
August
15, 1831.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1876;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1877-85, 1887-89 (4th District
1877-83, 5th District 1883-85, 3rd District 1887-89); defeated, 1870,
1872.
Jewish.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
15, 1892 (age 61 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Judah Nadich —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Republican. Rabbi; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1956.
Jewish.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Pack (1899-1945) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., January
25, 1899.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1931-38; member of
New
York state senate, 1939-45 (22nd District 1939-44, 25th District
1945); died in office 1945.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Congress; B'nai
B'rith; Freemasons.
Died August
7, 1945 (age 46 years, 194
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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H. Murray Pakulski (b. 1880) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
30, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1908,
1912
(alternate).
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Pakulski and Rosalie (Davidson) Pakulski; married, June 30,
1904, to Ada S. Feldman. |
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Howard Phillips (1941-2013) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
6, 1941.
Candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1978; U.S. Taxpayers candidate for President
of the United States, 1992, 1996, 2000.
Jewish; later Evangelical
Christian.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va., April
20, 2013 (age 72 years, 73
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Viola R. Pinanski (1897-1994) —
also known as Viola Rottenberg —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 24,
1897.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956
(alternate); hospital
trustee.
Female.
Jewish.
Died January
11, 1994 (age 96 years, 201
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Julius Rottenberg and Fannie (Berg) Rottenberg; married,
August
10, 1920, to Abraham E. Pinanski. |
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Maxwell Milton Rabb (1910-2002) —
also known as Maxwell M. Rabb —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
28, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1937-43, and U.S. Sen. Sinclair
Weeks, 1944; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1976,
1980;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89.
Jewish. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
2002 (age 91 years, 254
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Abraham Captain Ratshesky (1864-1943) —
also known as Abraham C. Ratshesky; A. C.
Ratshesky —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
6, 1864.
Republican. Banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1892,
1904,
1916,
1924;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1892-94; U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, 1930-32.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Committee.
Died in 1943
(age about
78 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick William Richmond (b. 1923) —
also known as Frederick W. Richmond; Fred
Richmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, November
15, 1923.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1975-82.
Jewish.
Arrested
in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting
sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer; pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor. In 1982, charged
with tax
evasion, marijuana
possession, and improper
payments to a federal employee, he pleaded
guilty and was sentenced
to a year and a day in prison;
served nine months.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Warren Bruce Rudman (1930-2012) —
also known as Warren B. Rudman —
of Nashua, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 18,
1930.
Republican. New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1970-76; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1980-93; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1988.
Jewish. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
19, 2012 (age 82 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Adam B. Schiff (b. 1960) —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 20,
1960.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of California
state senate, 1996-2001; U.S.
Representative from California, 2001-08 (27th District 2001-03,
29th District 2003-08); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 2004,
2008
(member, Platform
Committee).
Jewish.
Still living as of 2008.
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Harvey L. Schwamm (c.1905-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1905.
Republican. Real estate
broker; banker;
candidate for New York
state senate 15th District, 1938, 1940; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Jewish.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy
fog, crashed
and burned,
about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age about 53
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1924 to
Lillian Tverskoi. |
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Jacob J. Spiegel (b. 1901) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
24, 1901.
Lawyer;
legislative secretary to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1937; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1939-60; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1961-72.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Israel Spiegel and Mollie (Greenbaum) Spiegel; married, August
26, 1941, to Peggy Schwarz. |
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Jill Ellen Stein (b. 1950) —
also known as Jill Stein —
of Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 14,
1950.
Green. Physician;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 2002, 2010; candidate for Massachusetts
state house of representatives Ninth Middlesex District, 2004;
candidate for President
of the United States, 2012, 2016.
Female.
Jewish ancestry.
Still living as of 2020.
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Benjamin Harrison Swig (1893-1980) —
also known as Benjamin H. Swig —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., November
17, 1893.
Democrat. Chairman, Fairmont Hotel
Co.; chairman, Western Dairy
Products, Inc.; president, Security Title Insurance
Co., Benefit Standard Life
Insurance Co., Beneficial Fire and
Casualty Insurance Co.; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960,
1964.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Committee.
Died in 1980
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Winfield (1897-1975) —
also known as Sam Winfield; Samuel
Weinfield —
of Opa-Locka, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miramar, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
3, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; served in the
U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; mayor
of Miramar, Fla., 1959; resigned 1959.
Jewish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Lions.
Died in Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla., March
30, 1975 (age 77 years, 117
days).
Interment at Oaklawn Cemetery, Richland, Mo.
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