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Reilly Atkinson Sr. (b. 1880) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
7, 1880.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho, 1944;
Idaho
Republican state chair, 1945; candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 1948.
Catholic.
Member, Phi Delta Phi; Rotary.
Interment somewhere
in Boise, Idaho.
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Maxwell F. Badgley (1898-1969) —
also known as Max Badgley —
of Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., December
9, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1944.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi Delta Phi.
Died in May, 1969
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Jackson, Mich.
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Owen Jenks Cleary (1900-1960) —
also known as Owen J. Cleary —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
4, 1900.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; president,
Cleary College; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1946; Michigan
Republican state chair, 1949-53; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1956
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1952-53; secretary
of state of Michigan, 1953-54; defeated, 1954; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1954.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion; Rotary;
American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Sigma; Phi Delta Phi; Delta
Theta Phi; Moose.
Died September
10, 1960 (age 60 years, 219
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Roger Cleary and Helen Clarke (Jenks) Cleary; married to
Marie DeWaele. |
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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 Bradford Curtis (1911-1993) —
also known as Thomas B. Curtis —
of Webster Groves, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 14,
1911.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1951-69 (12th District 1951-53, 2nd
District 1953-69); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1968, 1974.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Phi Delta Phi; Phi
Sigma Kappa; Lions; American
Legion.
Died in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., January
10, 1993 (age 81 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Denby (1870-1929) —
also known as Ned Denby —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., February
18, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1903-04; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1917; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1921-24; persuaded by Secretary of State
Albert
B. Fall to transfer control of the Navy's oil leases to the
Interior Department; Fall then accepted large bribes
to sell the leases to his friends, in what became known as the Teapot
Dome scandal;
in 1924, Denby was forced to
resign as Secretary of the Navy.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi Delta Phi.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
8, 1929 (age 58 years, 356
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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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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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913-2006) —
also known as Gerald R. Ford; Jerry Ford; Leslie
Lynch King Jr.; "Passkey" —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., July 14,
1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1949-73; resigned
1973; member, President's Commission on the Assassination of
President KNDY, 1963-64; Vice
President of the United States, 1973-74; President
of the United States, 1974-77; defeated, 1976.
Episcopalian.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Forty and
Eight; Jaycees;
Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Delta Phi; Humane
Society; Elks; American Bar
Association.
Shot
at in two separate incidents in San Francisco in September 1975.
On September 5, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, follower of murderous cult
leader Charles Manson, got close to the President with a loaded
pistol, and squeezed the trigger at close range; the gun misfired.
On September 22, Sara Jane Moore fired a
shot at him, but a bystander deflected her aim. Both women were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1999.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., December
26, 2006 (age 93 years, 165
days).
Interment at Gerald
R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Gerald Rudolph Ford, Sr.; son of Leslie Lynch King, Sr.
and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King Ford; half-brother of Thomas
G. Ford Sr.; married, October
15, 1948, to Betty
Warren. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Richard
M. Nixon — L.
William Seidman |
| | | The Gerald R. Ford Freeway
(I-196), in Kent,
Ottawa,
and Allegan
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford International
Airport (opened 1963, given present name 1999), near Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford Federal
Building and U.S.
Courthouse, in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Gerald R. Ford: A
Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(1983) |
| | | Books about Gerald R. Ford: John Robert
Greene, The
Presidency of Gerald R. Ford — Edward L. Schapsmeier,
Gerald
R. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography —
James Cannon, Time
and Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History —
Douglas Brinkley, Gerald
R. Ford |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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William David Ford (1927-2004) —
also known as William D. Ford —
of Taylor, Wayne
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
6, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County
19th District, 1961-62; member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1963-64; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-95 (15th District 1965-93,
13th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1968,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1992.
United
Church of Christ. Scottish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
Phi Delta Phi; Jaycees;
Moose;
Eagles.
Died in Ypsilanti Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August
14, 2004 (age 77 years, 8
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Harry G. Gault (b. 1892) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Mt. Morris Township, Genesee
County, Mich., January
25, 1892.
Republican. Lawyer; Genesee
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1921-24; director and general
counsel, First National Bank and
Trust Co. of Flint; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Michigan, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Theta
Chi; Phi Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Gault and Nora (Ryan) Gault; married, June 30,
1917, to Alice Margaret Wiard. |
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Horace Weldon Gilmore (1918-2010) —
also known as Horace W. Gilmore —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, April 4,
1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1956-80; appointed 1956;
candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1972; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1980-91;
took senior status 1991.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Delta Phi; NAACP.
Died January
25, 2010 (age 91 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Hale (1874-1963) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
7, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1905-06; member of Republican
National Committee from Maine, 1912-18; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1917-41.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi Delta Phi; American Bar
Association.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
28, 1963 (age 88 years, 356
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.
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Hazen van den Berg Hatch (b. 1932) —
also known as H. V. Hatch —
of Marshall, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., January
18, 1932.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Calhoun County
1st District, 1961-62; candidate in primary for Judge,
Michigan Court of Appeals 3rd District, 1974.
Episcopalian.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Sigma
Nu; Phi Delta Phi; Rotary.
Still living as of 2003.
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James H. Heinze (b. 1914) —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., September
4, 1914.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; insurance
executive; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 45th District, 1967-72; defeated
in primary, 1972.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Lions;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; Delta
Tau Delta; Navy
League.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Roberts P. Hudson (b. 1872) —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.
Born in Howell, Livingston
County, Mich., 1872.
Lawyer;
circuit
judge in Michigan 11th Circuit, 1912; appointed 1912.
Member, Phi Delta Phi; American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Francis McAllister (1896-1976) —
also known as Thomas F. McAllister —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., March 4,
1896.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1934, 1936; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1938-41; resigned 1941; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1941-63; took
senior status 1963.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; National
Lawyers Guild; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Elks; Eagles;
Moose;
Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi Delta Phi; Pi
Delta Epsilon; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died November
10, 1976 (age 80 years, 251
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Barratt O'Hara (1882-1969) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich., April
28, 1882.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1913-17; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1915; major in the U.S. Army during World
War I; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1920; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1949-51, 1953-69;
defeated, 1938 (at-large), 1950 (2nd District).
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi Delta Phi; United
Spanish War Veterans.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
11, 1969 (age 87 years, 105
days).
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Edmund Claude Shields (1871-1947) —
also known as Edmund C. Shields —
of Howell, Livingston
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Howell, Livingston
County, Mich., December
30, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Livingston
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1901-04; Michigan
Democratic state chair, 1909-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1912
(speaker),
1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1920,
1924
(alternate), 1928,
1932
(alternate), 1940,
1944;
member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1933-35, 1938-45; defeated, 1901,
1923, 1929; appointed 1933; defeated, 1935; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 1937-44.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi Delta Phi.
Died in 1947
(age about
75 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dennis Shields and Lydia (Lonergan) Shields; married, December
28, 1900, to Mary Foley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Byron
L. Ballard |
| | | Image source: Ingham County News, May
7, 1936 |
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Talbot Smith (1899-1978) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Fayette, Howard
County, Mo., October
11, 1899.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1955-61; defeated, 1953; appointed
1955; resigned 1961; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1961-71;
took senior status 1971.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Died, of heart
disease, in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Superior Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., December
21, 1978 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Cremated.
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Myron H. Walker (b. 1855) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., January
17, 1855.
Lawyer;
Prohibition candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1892; Prohibition candidate for justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1893; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1894 (Prohibition),
1902 (Democratic); Democratic candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1909; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 17th Circuit, 1911, 1922, 1923 (Democratic);
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, 1914-22; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Phi Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas Walker, Jr. and Louisa (Everett) Walker; married 1888 to Nettie
Stevens. |
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Gerhard Mennen Williams (1911-1988) —
also known as G. Mennen Williams;
"Soapy" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
23, 1911.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Governor of
Michigan, 1949-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1966; U.S. Ambassador to Philippines, 1968-69; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1971-86; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1983-86.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Eagles;
Elks; Moose; Amvets;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Order of
Ahepa; Grange;
Americans
for Democratic Action; United
World Federalists.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
2, 1988 (age 76 years, 344
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Mich.
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Rollin Robbins Winslow (b. 1893) —
also known as Rollin R. Winslow —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Benton Harbor, Berrien
County, Mich., August
11, 1893.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Florence, 1920-21; Vladivostok, 1922-23; Batavia, 1923; Soerabaya, 1923-25; U.S. Consul in Soerabaya, 1925; Winnipeg, 1926-28; Trieste, 1930-34; Plymouth, 1934-35; Quebec City, as of 1940-43.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Delta Phi; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Bertrand Winslow and Cynthia Kelly (Robbins) Winslow;
married 1922 to Mary
Locke Macgowan. |
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