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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.
  Relatives: Son of James Allen and Maryetta (Whitby) Allen; married 1947 to Faye E. Watson.
  Aris T. Allen Boulevard (Maryland Route 665), in Annapolis, Maryland, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Boce William Barlow and Ethel (Green) Barlow; married to Catherine Swanson.
  Boce Barlow Way, a street in Hartford, Connecticut, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  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.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  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.
  Relatives: Son of John James Conyers and Lucille Jane (Simpson) Conyers; brother of Nathan G. Conyers; married 1990 to Monica Esters.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Jacques Gansler and Alison Gansler; married to Laura Leedy.
  See also Wikipedia article
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Price Hoopes and Elizabeth Leora (Tucker) Hoopes; married, October 22, 1921, to Hannah Lippincott Fouke; married, October 16, 1925, to Hazelette Miller; father of Darlington Hoopes Jr.; great-grandnephew of Isaac Darlington and William Darlington (1804-1879); second great-grandnephew of Edward Darlington (1755-1825); first cousin thrice removed of William Darlington (1782-1863) and Edward Darlington (1795-1884); second cousin twice removed of Edward C. Darlington and Smedley Darlington; fourth cousin of Smedley Darlington Butler.
  Political family: Darlington-Butler family of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
  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.
  Relatives: Father of Allan H. Kittleman.
  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.
  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
  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.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of Michael Bowen Mitchell; father of Clarence M. Mitchell IV; nephew of Parren James Mitchell; uncle of Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr..
  Political family: Mitchell family of Baltimore, Maryland.
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. and Juanita Elizabeth (Jackson) Mitchell; brother of Clarence M. Mitchell III; nephew of Parren James Mitchell; uncle of Clarence M. Mitchell IV and Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr..
  Political family: Mitchell family of Baltimore, Maryland.
  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.
  Relatives: Son of Ezekiel Owens and Edna Owens; married 1956 to Ethel Werfel; married to Maria Cuprill; father of Chris Owens.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  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.
  Relatives: Married to Virginia Byrd.
  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.
  Relatives: Married 1917 to Warren Smith.
  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.
  See also NNDB dossier
  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.
  Relatives: Married to Stephanie Kerr.
  See also Wikipedia article — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  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.
  Relatives: Daughter of Rev. Whitfield Nottage and Captilda (Gardiner) Nottage; married 1951 to William L. Tucker.
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial
  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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