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Olympia Dukakis (b. 1931) —
of Upper Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 20,
1931.
Democrat. Actress;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1988
(speaker).
Female.
Greek
ancestry. Member, American Civil Liberties Union; National
Organization for Women.
Still living as of 2014.
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Barry W. Jackson (b. 1930) —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
27, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1965-66.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Theta Phi; American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Kiwanis;
Elks; NAACP;
American Civil Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1967.
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Relatives: Son
of Rodney H. Jackson and Marion (Englebright) Jackson; married, June 4,
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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