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Werner Michael Blumenthal (b. 1926) —
also known as W. Michael Blumenthal —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Oranienburg, Germany,
January
3, 1926.
Democrat. President, Bendix International, 1967-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1984;
chairman, Burroughs
(1980-86), and Unisys
(1986-90); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Jersey, 2008;
president, Berlin Jewish Museum.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Still living as of 2020.
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Wilber Marion Brucker (1894-1968) —
also known as Wilber M. Brucker —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., June 23,
1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Saginaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1923-26; Michigan
state attorney general, 1928-30; appointed 1928; Governor of
Michigan, 1931-32; defeated, 1932; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1932,
1936,
1948,
1964
(alternate); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1936; U.S. Secretary of the Army.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Delta
Sigma Rho; Sigma
Delta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Delta; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Moose; Odd
Fellows.
Suffered an apparent heart
attack after attending an Economic Club luncheon, and died soon
after, in the emergency room at Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1968 (age 74 years, 127
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Byrnes Cudlip (1904-1988) —
also known as William B. Cudlip —
of Grosse Pointe Shores, Wayne
County, Mich.; Harbor Springs, Emmet
County, Mich.
Born in Iron Mountain, Dickinson
County, Mich., March 4,
1904.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County
13th District, 1961-62; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1964-72; defeated, 1955.
Catholic.
Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Harbor Springs, Emmet
County, Mich., November
12, 1988 (age 84 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William J. Cudlip and Luella (Byrnes) Cudlip; married to Lynwood
Rockwell Bope. |
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March
24, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Episcopalian.
English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Phi
Mu Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel,
Bal Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March
16, 1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George
Martin Dewey and Anne Louise 'Annie' (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis); nephew of Edmond
Otis Dewey; first cousin four times removed of David
Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Glasby Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Luther
Waterman and Joshua
Coit; third cousin thrice removed of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of James
Gillespie Blaine III. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Eastman
family; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Abbott
family of Salinas, California; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Herbert
Brownell, Jr. — Charles
C. Wing — Martin
T. Manton — Herman
Methfessel |
| | | The Thomas E. Dewey Thruway,
which runs through Westchester,
Rockland,
Orange,
Ulster,
Greene,
Albany,
Schenectady,
Montgomery,
Herkimer,
Oneida,
Madison,
Onondaga,
Cayuga,
Seneca,
Ontario,
Monroe,
Genesee,
Erie,
and Chautauqua
counties in New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M.
Stolberg, Fighting
Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E.
Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas
E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political
Leadership — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas
E. Dewey and His Times — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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George Clifton Edwards Jr. (1914-1995) —
also known as George Edwards —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., August
6, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1949; probate judge in Michigan, 1951-54; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1954-56; appointed 1954; resigned
1956; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1956-62; appointed 1956; resigned
1962; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1963-.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Kappa
Sigma; Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
American
Judicature Society.
Died in 1995
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Michigan Manual 1957-58 |
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Robert Strange McNamara (1916-2009) —
also known as Robert S. McNamara —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 9,
1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; president, Ford Motor
Company, 1960-61; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1961-68; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1968; president, World Bank,
1968-81; on September 29, 1972, an attacker tried to throw him
overboard from a ferry to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died July 6,
2009 (age 93 years, 27
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (1900-1990) —
also known as Joseph C. Satterthwaite —
of Tecumseh, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Tecumseh, Lenawee
County, Mich., March
14, 1900.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Guadalajara, 1927-29; U.S. Consul in Baghdad, 1937-39; Damascus, as of 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, 1949-53; Burma, 1955-57; South Africa, 1961-65.
Quaker.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died November
19, 1990 (age 90 years, 250
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield (1899-1972) —
also known as Arthur E. Summerfield —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Pinconning, Bay
County, Mich., March
17, 1899.
Republican. Real estate
business; oil
distributor; automobile
dealer; member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1944-52; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1952-53; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(speaker),
1960;
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1953-61.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Kiwanis;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., April
26, 1972 (age 73 years, 40
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Flint, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Summerfield and Cora Edith (Ellsworth) Summerfield;
married, July 22,
1918, to Miriam Wealthy Graim. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Eminent Americans
(1954) |
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