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Leopold David (1878-1924) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1920-23; trustee, Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1923-25.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
failure, November
21, 1924 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Irwin Delmore Davidson (1906-1981) —
also known as Irwin D. Davidson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
2, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1937, 1939-48 (New York County 7th District 1937,
1939-44, New York County 5th District 1945-48); resigned 1948; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1955-56; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1967-68.
Jewish.
Died in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
1, 1981 (age 75 years, 211
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Long Island Sound.
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Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) —
also known as Samuel George Davis —
Born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
8, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; singer; dancer; actor;
injured in an automobile accident in 1954, and lost his
left eye; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Jewish. African
and Cuban
ancestry.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1968.
Died, from complications of throat
cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 16,
1990 (age 64 years, 159
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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John Gunther Dean (b. 1926) —
also known as Johann Gunther Dienstfertig —
of New York.
Born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland),
February
24, 1926.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, 1974-75; Denmark, 1975-78; Lebanon, 1978-81; Thailand, 1981-85; India, 1985-88.
Jewish ancestry.
On August 27, 1980, in Beirut, his car was fired
on, but he and his family and guards were unhurt.
Still living as of 2018.
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Noach Dear (1953-2020) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
20, 1953.
Member, New York City Council, 1983-2001; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1998 (Democratic
primary), 2000 (Democratic primary), 2000 (Republican); candidate for
New
York state senate 21st District, 2002 (Democratic primary), 2002
(Conservative), 2004 (Democratic primary), 2006 (Democratic primary);
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 2015-20; died in office
2020.
Jewish.
Died, from complications of COVID-19,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 2020 (age 66 years, 151
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Bernard S. Deutsch (b. 1884) —
of Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Maryland, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Independent candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1932.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Jewish Congress; Zionist
Organization of America.
Burial location unknown.
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Peter R. Deutsch (b. 1957) —
of Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April 1,
1957.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1983-93; U.S.
Representative from Florida 20th District, 1993-2005; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996,
2000,
2004;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 2004.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2014.
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Samuel Byron Dicker (b. 1889) —
also known as Samuel B. Dicker —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1889.
Republican. Statistician;
lawyer;
director, Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad;
mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1939-55; appointed 1939; resigned 1955.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moritz Dicker and Rose (Weinberg) Dicker. |
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Samuel Dickstein (1885-1954) —
also known as "Crook" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Vilna, Lithuania,
February
5, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 4th District, 1919-22; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1923-45 (12th District 1923-45,
19th District 1945); Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1945-53.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
B'nai
B'rith; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
According to old Russian records found in
the mid-1990s, he was a paid
agent of the Soviet intelligence service while in Congress, and
received some $12,000 in 1937-40 under the Soviet code-name "Crook".
Died, in Beth Israel Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1954 (age 69 years, 76
days).
Interment at Union
Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish,
French,
Swedish,
and Jewish ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Isidore Dollinger (1903-2000) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 4th District, 1937-44; member of
New
York state senate 26th District, 1945-48; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1949-61 (24th District 1949-53,
23rd District 1953-61); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1956,
1960,
1964;
Bronx
County District Attorney, 1960-68; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1968-75.
Jewish.
Died in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
30, 2000 (age 96 years, 78
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (1919-2017) —
also known as Douglas F. Dowd —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., December
7, 1919.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; economist;
university
professor; Peace and Freedom candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968.
Jewish ancestry.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Bologna, Italy,
September
8, 2017 (age 97 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Mervyn Dowd and Sybil (Seid) Dowd; married to Zeril
Druskin. |
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Robert Jerry Dryfoos (1942-2006) —
also known as Robert J. Dryfoos —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born August
11, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972,
1980,
1988;
chief counsel for New York Lt. Gov. Mary
Ann Krupsak, 1975; member, New York City Council, 1980-91;
retired from office while under
investigation over alleged campaign
finance and federal
tax violations, but no charges were filed; lobbyist.
Jewish. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Jewish Committee.
Died, from complications of a head
injury, in New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 2,
2006 (age 63 years, 203
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Dubinsky (1892-1982) —
also known as David Dobnievski —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Brest, Belarus),
February
22, 1892.
President
of International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, from 1932; one of the
founders
of the American Labor Party in New York, 1936; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; vice-chair of New York Liberal
Party, 1944, 1958; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 20, 1969.
Died, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1982 (age 90 years, 207
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Zallel Dubinsky and Shaine (Wishingrad) Dubinsky; married 1915 to Emma
Goldberg. |
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article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 29,
1949 |
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