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Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) —
also known as Harold L. Ickes —
of Hubbard Woods, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.; Olney, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., March
15, 1874.
Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940,
1944;
newspaper
columnist.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and German
ancestry. Member, American Civil Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1952 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Sandy Spring Friends Cemetery, Sandy Spring, Md.
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) —
also known as Thoroughgood Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., July 2,
1908.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-65; resigned
1965; U.S. Solicitor General, 1965-67; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-91; took senior status 1991.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Civil Liberties Union.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1946 First
African-American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
24, 1993 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at Lawyers'
Mall, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives:
Married, September
4, 1929, to Vivien Burey; married, December
17, 1955, to Cecilia
Suyat; father of Thurgood
Marshall Jr.. |
| | Political family: Marshall
family of New York City, New York. |
| | Cross-reference: William
Curtis Bryson |
| | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Biographical
Directory of Federal Judges — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | Books about Thurgood Marshall: Juan
Williams, Thurgood
Marshall : American Revolutionary — Randall W. Bland,
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial
Biography — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1961-1991 — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1936-1961 — Gilbert King, Devil
in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of
a New America |
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Walter S. Orlinsky (1938-2002) —
also known as Wally Orlinsky; "Wally
Appleseed" —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 19,
1938.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates from Baltimore city 2nd District,
1967-72; candidate for Presidential Elector for Maryland; candidate
for Governor of
Maryland, 1978; pleaded
guilty to Federal charges
of accepting a bribe
from an FBI informant posing as a sludge hauler; served 4.5 months in
prison;
pardoned
by President Bill
Clinton in 2000.
Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; American Civil Liberties
Union; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died February
9, 2002 (age 63 years, 266
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Katharine Kaufman Smith (1892-1996) —
also known as Katharine K. Smith; Katharine Gladys
Kaufman —
of Massapequa, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Milbank, Grant
County, S.Dak., April 3,
1892.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state senate 1st District, 1930; candidate for New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1931, 1932, 1933;
social
worker; peace and civil rights activist; philanthropist.
Female.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP.
Died in Riverdale, Prince
George's County, Md., May 4,
1996 (age 104 years,
31 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1917 to Warren
Smith. |
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Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (b. 1931) —
also known as Pete Stark —
of Danville, Contra
Costa County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Fremont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., November
11, 1931.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state senate, 1969; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1972
(alternate), 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1973-2008 (8th District 1973-75,
9th District 1975-93, 13th District 1993-2008).
Unitarian.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Common
Cause.
Still living as of 2014.
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