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George Monroe Beebe (1836-1927) —
also known as George M. Beebe —
of Troy, Doniphan
County, Kan.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Monticello, Sullivan
County, N.Y.; Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in New Vernon, Orange
County, N.Y., October
28, 1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1860-61; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1860, 1860-61; candidate for justice of
Nevada state supreme court, 1865; candidate for New York
state senate 10th District, 1871; member of New York
state assembly from Sullivan County, 1873-74; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1875-79; defeated,
1878; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876,
1880
(speaker),
1892;
Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1883-1900.
Died in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 1,
1927 (age 90 years, 124
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
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Helen Delich Bentley (1923-2016) —
also known as Helen Delich —
of Lutherville, Baltimore
County, Md.; Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Ruth, White Pine
County, Nev., November
28, 1923.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; campaign manager for Nevada
U.S. Sen. James
G. Scrugham, 1942; chair, Federal Maritime Commission, 1969; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1985-95; defeated,
1980, 1982, 2002; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1994.
Female.
Eastern
Orthodox. Serbian
ancestry. Member, Theta
Sigma Phi.
Died in Timonium, Baltimore
County, Md., August
6, 2016 (age 92 years, 252
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Orion Clemens (1825-1897) —
of Hannibal, Marion
County, Mo.; Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in Missouri, October
6, 1825.
Newspaper publisher; lawyer; secretary
of Nevada Territory, 1861-64; member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1865.
Died in Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa, December
11, 1897 (age 72 years, 66
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Hannibal, Mo.
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Denver Sylvester Dickerson (1872-1925) —
also known as Denver S. Dickerson —
of Nevada.
Born in Millville, Shasta
County, Calif., January
24, 1872.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper editor; Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada, 1907-10; Governor of
Nevada, 1908-11; defeated, 1910.
Died November
28, 1925 (age 53 years, 308
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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Ira Daniel Hansen (b. 1960) —
also known as Ira Hansen —
of Sparks, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., October
5, 1960.
Republican. Plumbing
business; animal
trapper; newspaper columnist;
member of Nevada
state house of representatives 32nd District, 2011-18; in
November 2014, when he was about to become Speaker of the Nevada
House, a furor
erupted over columns he wrote in the 1990s for the Sparks
Tribune; among other things, he referred
to Black people as simple-minded darkies, and to Martin Luther King,
Jr., as "a liar, a phony, and a fraud"; an NAACP leader said of
Hansen that "he has beaten the drum of intolerance
for decades; amid calls for his ouster,
he withdrew
as Speaker-designate, but retained his House seat; member of Nevada
state senate 14th District, 2019-.
Mormon.
Still living as of 2021.
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Charles West Kendall (1828-1914) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Hamilton, White Pine
County, Nev.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Searsmont, Waldo
County, Maine, April
22, 1828.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper editor; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 12th District, 1862-63; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1871-75.
Died in Mt. Rainier, Prince
George's County, Md., June 25,
1914 (age 86 years, 64
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Lorna J. Kesterson (1925-2012) —
also known as Lorna Jolley —
of Henderson, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in St. George, Washington
County, Utah, December
30, 1925.
Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; mayor
of Henderson, Nev., 1985-93.
Female.
Mormon.
Died, in her doctor's
office, Henderson, Clark
County, Nev., January
16, 2012 (age 86 years, 17
days).
Interment at Southern
Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Boulder City, Nev.
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Mike O'Callaghan (1929-2004) —
also known as Donal Neil O'Callaghan —
of Henderson, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., September
10, 1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; hit by
a mortar round and lost his
lower left leg; legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Howard
W. Cannon; Governor of
Nevada, 1971-79; executive editor, Las Vegas Sun
newspaper.
Catholic.
Suffered a heart
attack at St. Viator Catholic Church,
and died soon after in a hospital,
Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., March 5,
2004 (age 74 years, 177
days).
Interment at Southern
Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Boulder City, Nev.
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Vail Montgomery Pittman (1880-1964) —
also known as Vail Pittman —
of Tonopah, Nye
County, Nev.; Ely, White Pine
County, Nev.; Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., September
17, 1880.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; member of Nevada
state senate, 1930; Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada; elected 1942; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1944; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nevada, 1944,
1956;
Governor
of Nevada, 1945-51; defeated, 1950, 1954.
Died, from lung
cancer, in St. Mary's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., January
29, 1964 (age 83 years, 134
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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James Graves Scrugham (1880-1945) —
also known as James G. Scrugham; J. G.
Scrugham —
of Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
19, 1880.
Democrat. University
professor; newspaper editor and publisher; Governor of
Nevada, 1923-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1933-42; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Nevada, 1940,
1944;
U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1942-45; died in office 1945.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles.
Died June 23,
1945 (age 65 years, 155
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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William D. Tarrant (1929-1998) —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 4,
1929.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; Gun Dog
editor for Field & Stream magazine; twice named Dog
Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America; electrical
equipment manufacturer; mayor
of Wichita, Kan., 1965-66; college
professor.
Died in Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., November
22, 1998 (age 69 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Church of the Red Rocks Columbarium, Sedona, Ariz.
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