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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Norman H. Chamberlain and Ida (Ensminger)
Chamberlain. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport
application |
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Spaulding Churchill and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill;
married, October
22, 1895, to Mabel H. Hall. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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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.
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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.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, July 2,
1956 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Relatives:
Married 1940 to Isabel
Puryear. |
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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.
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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.
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