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Elmer T. Allison Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) — of Seattle, King County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield County, Conn.; Washington. Born in Houstonia, Pettis County, Mo., December 5, 1883. Communist. Sawmill worker; arrested in Cleveland, 1919, on charges of violating the state's criminal syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York state senate 14th District, 1926; poet. Member, Industrial Workers of the World. Died in Olympia, Thurston County, Wash., July 18, 1982 (age 98 years, 225 days). Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison; brother of Hortense Allison (who married Alfred Wagenknecht); married 1908 to Anna Theresa Swanson; married 1922 to Rose Rosen; uncle of Helen Allison Winter (who married Carl Winter).
  Political family: Winter-Wagenknecht family.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Image source: Marxists Internet Archive
  Orland Kay Armstrong (1893-1987) — also known as Orland K. Armstrong; O. K. Armstrong — of Springfield, Greene County, Mo. Born in Willow Springs, Howell County, Mo., October 2, 1893. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I; newspaper correspondent; author; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Greene County 3rd District, 1933-36, 1943-44; defeated, 1936, 1940; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1944; U.S. Representative from Missouri 6th District, 1951-53. Baptist. Scotch-Irish and English ancestry. Member, American Legion; Kiwanis. Died in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., April 15, 1987 (age 93 years, 195 days). Interment at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Springfield, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of William Calvin Armstrong and Ternitia Agnes (Brockus) Armstrong; married, May 21, 1922, to Louise McCool; married, December 11, 1949, to Marjorie Moore.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles U. Becker (1868-1934) — of Wishart, Polk County, Mo.; Bolivar, Polk County, Mo. Born near New Haven, Franklin County, Mo., October 21, 1868. Republican. Farmer; writer; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Polk County, 1915-20; secretary of state of Missouri, 1921-33. German and French ancestry. Died, from cirrhosis of the liver, in Missouri Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., May 21, 1934 (age 65 years, 212 days). Interment at Riverview Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Hermann Becker and Sarah (Maupin) Becker; married, May 13, 1920, to Mary B. Tolson.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Julian Pleasant Bretz (1876-1951) — also known as Julian P. Bretz — of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y. Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., December 29, 1876. Democrat. University professor; historian; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York, 1930 (Democratic, 37th District), 1932 (Democratic, 37th District), 1934 (Democratic, 37th District), 1944 (American Labor, 39th District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936; chair of Tompkins County Democratic Party, 1936; member of New York Democratic State Committee, 1942. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa Alpha Order. Died June 15, 1951 (age 74 years, 168 days). Interment at Davis Chapel Cemetery, Dearborn, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Grizelda (Shull) Bretz and James Polk Bretz.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Clark C. Brown (b. 1858) — of Union, Franklin County, Mo. Born in Momence, Kankakee County, Ill., September 19, 1858. Republican. Writer; postmaster at Union, Mo., 1901; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Franklin County, 1921-22. Burial location unknown.
  George H. Butler (d. 1886) — Born in Hamilton, Caldwell County, Mo. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; drama critic; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1870. Died in Washington, D.C., May 11, 1886. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married 1869 to Rose Eytinge.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
Culver B. Chamberlain Culver Bryant Chamberlain (1900-1972) — also known as Culver B. Chamberlain — of Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo.; Washington, D.C. Born in Princeton, Gibson County, Ind., July 12, 1900. Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1923-25; Tientsin, 1925; Swatow, 1925-27; Shanghai, 1927-28; Yunnanfu, 1928-29; U.S. Consul in Yunnanfu, 1929-30; Harbin, 1931-32. Assaulted and beaten by Japanese soldiers in Mukden, China, January 1932. Died April 12, 1972 (age 71 years, 275 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Norman H. Chamberlain and Ida (Ensminger) Chamberlain.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: U.S. passport application
  Winston Churchill (1871-1947) — of Cornish, Sullivan County, N.H.; Plainfield, Sullivan County, N.H. Born in St. Louis, Mo., November 10, 1871. Novelist; historian; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903-05; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, 1912. Died in Winter Park, Orange County, Fla., March 12, 1947 (age 75 years, 122 days). Interment somewhere in Plainfield, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Spaulding Churchill and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill; married, October 22, 1895, to Mabel H. Hall.
  See also NNDB dossier
  Fred Morris Dearing (1879-1963) — of Missouri. Born in Columbia, Boone County, Mo., November 19, 1879. Translator; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1922-30; Sweden, 1937-38; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1930-37. Died in 1963 (age about 83 years). Burial location unknown.
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary
Farrell Dobbs Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) — of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn.; New York. Born in Queen City, Schuyler County, Mo., July 25, 1907. Socialist. Truck driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a general strike; joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted in 1941 of treason under the anti-Communist Smith Act, and served one year in prison; Socialist Workers candidate for President of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian. Member, Teamsters Union. Died in Pinole, Contra Costa County, Calif., October 31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac T. Dobbs.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Image source: The Militant, July 2, 1956
  Cynthia Noland Dunbar (b. 1964) — also known as Cynthia Dunbar — of Richmond, Fort Bend County, Tex.; Forest, Bedford County, Va. Born in Osage Beach, Camden County, Mo., June 27, 1964. Republican. Lawyer; author; member of Texas state board of education 10th District, 2007-10; member of Republican National Committee from Virginia, 2016-; candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia 6th District, 2018. Female. Still living as of 2018.
  See also Wikipedia article — Encyclopedia of American Loons
  Books by Cynthia Dunbar: One Nation Under God: How the Left is Trying to Erase What Made Us Great (2008)
  William J. Federer (b. 1957) — also known as Bill Federer — of Oakville, St. Louis County, Mo. Born October 1, 1957. Republican. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Missouri 3rd District, 1998, 2000, 2004; author; radio show host. Still living as of 2004.
  See also Wikipedia article — Encyclopedia of American Loons
  Bayard Taylor Hainer (1860-1933) — also known as Bayard T. Hainer — of Perry, Noble County, Okla. Born in Columbia, Boone County, Mo., May 31, 1860. Republican. Lawyer; journalist; author; justice of Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1898; candidate for U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 5th District, 1920; chief counsel, Federal Trade Commission, 1925-27. Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Okla., July 10, 1933 (age 73 years, 40 days). Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
  Relatives: Married, October 6, 1891, to Florence Weatherby.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964) — of St. Louis, Mo.; Winchester, Franklin County, Tenn.; Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn.; Jackson, Jackson County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Oakland, Garrett County, Md.; Charlottesville, Va.; Stanardsville, Greene County, Va. Born in Halifax, Halifax County, Va., November 14, 1878. Democrat. Episcopal priest; rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, Barton Heights, Va., until 1908, when he resigned following a widely reported fist fight with his father-in-law, Rev. Dr. E. H. Pitt; composer; poet; translator; prolific writer of opinion pieces for newspapers, expressing moderate pacifist views, along with strong support for the League of Nations; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention, 1924 ; in 1928, he toured the country giving speeches in support of Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith; initially supported President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, but in the late 1930s turned toward isolationism and anti-Communism. Episcopalian. Died, from cerebral vascular accident, while suffering from chronic brain syndrome due to cerebral arteriosclerosis, in DeJarnette State Sanatorium, a mental hospital, in Augusta County, Va., December 21, 1964 (age 86 years, 37 days). Interment at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Ovid Americus Kinsolving and Roberta Elizabeth (Cary) Kinsolving; married, December 27, 1906, to Annie Laurie Pitt; granduncle of Charles McIlvaine Kinsolving Jr.; great-grandson of John Mathews; great-grandnephew of James William Mathews; second cousin once removed of Peter Johnston Otey; second cousin twice removed of Neal Arlon Kinsolving.
  Political family: Kinsolving-Mathews family of Virginia.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Wideman Lee (1849-1919) — also known as James W. Lee — of Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga.; St. Louis, Mo. Born in Rockbridge, Gwinnett County, Ga., November 28, 1849. Democrat. Minister; writer; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention, 1916. Southern Methodist. Died in St. Louis, Mo., October 4, 1919 (age 69 years, 310 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Zachery James Lee and Emily Harris (Wideman) Lee; married to Emma Eufaula Ledbetter.
  Epitaph: "Servant of God and Lover of Man. Forty-Five Years a Methodist Preacher Who Lived and Died to Make Earth and Heaven One."
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Klarenc Wade Mak (1861-1930) — of Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo.; Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis. Born in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, 1861. Physician; poet; author; lecturer. Advocate of phonetic spelling. Died in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., March 31, 1930 (age about 68 years). Burial location unknown.
  Harlan Eugene Read (1880-1963) — also known as Harlan E. Read — of St. Louis, Mo.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., May 7, 1880. Democrat. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1918; author; radio commentator. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., February, 1963 (age 82 years, 0 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Justus Vinton Read and Clara Lee (woods) Read; married, June 5, 1908, to Julia Edna Hatch.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (1924-2016) — also known as Phyllis Schlafly; Phyllis McAlpin Stewart — of Alton, Madison County, Ill.; Ladue, St. Louis County, Mo. Born in St. Louis, Mo., August 15, 1924. Republican. Candidate for U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1952 (24th District), 1970 (23rd District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1956, 1960 (alternate), 1964, 1968; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 2004, 2008 (alternate), 2012, 2016. Female. Catholic. Member, Daughters of the American Revolution; Junior League; Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma Alpha. Author of A Choice Not An Echo and other books; leader of opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment; founder and president of the Eagle Forum. Died, from cancer, in Ladue, St. Louis County, Mo., September 5, 2016 (age 92 years, 21 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Daughter of John Bruce Stewart; married, October 20, 1949, to John Fred Schlafly Jr..
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Encyclopedia of American Loons
  Books by Phyllis Schlafly: Feminist Fantasies (2003) — A Choice, Not an Echo (1964) — Equal Pay for Unequal Work (1984) — Pornography's Victims (1987) — Safe Not Sorry (1967) — Kissinger on the Couch (1975) — No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom, with George Neumayr
  Books about Phyllis Schlafly: Carol Felsenthal, Sweetheart of the Silent Majority
  Joe Taylor (b. 1907) — of Noel, McDonald County, Mo.; South West City, McDonald County, Mo.; Neosho, Newton County, Mo. Born in Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Okla., August 21, 1907. Republican. Writer; newspaper editor; printing business; member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1935-38, 1953-58, 1963-64 (McDonald County 1935-38, Newton County 1953-58, 1963-64); defeated, 1938; served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Member, Lions; American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married 1940 to Isabel Puryear.
  James Henry Webb Jr. (b. 1946) — also known as Jim Webb — of Falls Church, Va. Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., February 9, 1946. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer; author; screenwriter; journalist; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987-88; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 2007-13; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 2008; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2016. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Still living as of 2016.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Oliver B. Whitaker (1869-1942) — of Weaubleau, Hickory County, Mo. Born in Weaubleau, Hickory County, Mo., July 20, 1869. Republican. President of Weaubleau College, Missouri; of Lincoln College, Kansas; and Union College, Indiana; author; banker; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Hickory County, 1913-14, 1917-24, 1929-36, 1939-42; died in office 1942; candidate for U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1924 (7th District), 1936 (2nd District). Died May 4, 1942 (age 72 years, 288 days). Interment at Weaubleau Congregational Christian Cemetery, Weaubleau, Mo.
  Relatives: Married, July 20, 1893, to Annetta R. Boyles.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
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