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Aris Tee Allen (1910-1991) —
also known as Aris T. Allen —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
27, 1910.
Republican. Physician;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1967-74, 1991; died in office 1991;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1972
(delegation chair); Maryland
Republican state chair, 1977-79; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 1978; member of Maryland
state senate 30th District, 1979-81.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Medical
Association; American
Legion; NAACP.
Following a diagnosis of cancer,
he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his parked rental
car, in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., February
5, 1991 (age 80 years, 40
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Boce William Barlow Jr. (1915-2005) —
also known as Boce W. Barlow, Jr. —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Americus, Sumter
County, Ga., August
8, 1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of Connecticut
state senate; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 1968;
member of Connecticut
Democratic State Central Committee, 1977.
Congregationalist.
Member, NAACP; Prince
Hall Masons; Elks; Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., January
31, 2005 (age 89 years, 176
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry A. Cole (1921-1999) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 4th District, 1955-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1956;
Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1977-90.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., February
14, 1999 (age 78 years, 44
days).
Interment at Baltimore
National Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019) —
also known as John Conyers, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Highland Park, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); resigned 2017;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1989; in 2017, it was reported that a former
member of Conyers' staff had alleged
that he had sexually
harassed her, and had been paid a settlement of $27,000;
subsequently, the House Ethics Committee started an investigation
into multiple such allegations; he subsequently resigned
from Congress.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Recipient of the Spingarn
Medal, 2007.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
27, 2019 (age 90 years, 164
days).
Entombed at Detroit
Memorial Park East, Warren, Mich.
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Douglas F. Gansler (b. 1962) —
also known as Doug Gansler —
of Montgomery
County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in 1962.
Democrat. Lawyer; Montgomery
County State's Attorney, 1999-2007; Maryland
state attorney general, 2007-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 2008.
Jewish.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 2008.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacques Gansler and Alison Gansler; married to Laura
Leedy. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Darlington Hoopes (1896-1989) —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Vale, Harford
County, Md., September
11, 1896.
Socialist. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1930-36; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1944; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1952, 1958;
delegate to Socialist National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960.
Quaker.
Member, American Bar
Association; Eagles;
NAACP.
Died September
25, 1989 (age 93 years, 14
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert H. Kittleman (d. 2004) —
also known as Bob Kittleman —
of West Friendship, Howard
County, Md.
Republican. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1981-2000; member of Maryland
state senate 9th District, 2001-04; died in office 2004.
Member, NAACP.
Died September
11, 2004.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Kweisi Mfume (b. 1948) —
also known as Frizzell Gerard Tate; Frizzell Gerard
Gray —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., October
24, 1948.
Democrat. University
professor; program director for a radio
station; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1987-96; resigned
1996; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1988;
chief executive officer of the NAACP.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2014.
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Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
14, 1939.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66; member of Maryland
state senate District 10, 1967-86; Indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of obstructing
an investigation of Baltimore drug
dealer Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
charged
in 1988 with failure to file income
tax returns; tried
and acquitted.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Freemasons;
Jaycees.
Still living as of 1988.
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Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945) —
also known as Michael B. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
7, 1945.
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 39th District, 1987; indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of forging
documents to obtain
$77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder
victim, and sentenced
to six years in prison.
Methodist.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 1988.
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Major Robert Odell Owens (1936-2013) —
also known as Major R. Owens —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Collierville, Shelby
County, Tenn., June 28,
1936.
Democrat. Librarian;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1975-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1983-2007 (12th District 1983-93,
11th District 1993-2007).
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died, from renal
failure and heart
failure, in New York University Langone Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 2013 (age 77 years, 115
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry G. Parks Jr. (born c.1917) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., about 1917.
Democrat. Founder and chairman, H. G. Parks Inc. (meat
products); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1964.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Married to Virginia Byrd. |
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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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Michael S. Steele (b. 1958) —
of Largo, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., October
19, 1958.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Prince George's County Republican Party, 1994-2000; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1996
(alternate), 2000,
2004;
candidate for Maryland
state comptroller, 1998; Maryland
Republican state chair, 2000-02; Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 2003-.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Knights
of Columbus; Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Still living as of 2014.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; as Miami city
commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Cynthia DeLores Tucker (1927-2005) —
also known as C. DeLores Tucker; Cynthia DeLores
Nottage —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
4, 1927.
Democrat. Secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1971-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1972,
1996,
2000,
2004;
speaker, 1984;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1978; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1980; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 2004.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha
Kappa Alpha.
Died, in Suburban Woods Health
Center, Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
12, 2005 (age 78 years, 8
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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William A. Wallace (b. 1867) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Maryland, June 6,
1867.
Democrat. Postal
worker; land title
worker; merchant;
member of Illinois
state senate 3rd District; elected 1938; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1940.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP.
Burial location unknown.
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