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Robert Bernerd Anderson (1910-1989) —
also known as Robert B. Anderson —
of Texas.
Born in Burleson, Johnson
County, Tex., June 4,
1910.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1932; Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1955; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Delta Phi; Order of the Coif.
Pleaded
guilty in 1987 to charges
of evading
taxes by illegally operating an offshore
bank; sentenced
to jail, house
arrest, and probation;
disbarred
in 1988.
Died, of complications from surgery on cancer
of the esophagus, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
14, 1989 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Rosehill Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Herbert Brownell Jr. (1904-1996) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peru, Nemaha
County, Neb., February
20, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer;
counsel for hotel
associations; author, "Manual of New York Hotel
and Restaurant
Law"; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1933-37;
defeated, 1931; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1936,
1944,
1948;
campaign manager, Thomas
E. Dewey for Governor of New York and for President; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1944-46; U.S.
Attorney General, 1953-57.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; Order of the Coif.
Died of cancer,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1996 (age 92 years, 71
days).
Interment at Hilltop Cemetery, Mendham, N.J.
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Jerome New Frank (1889-1957) —
also known as Jerome Frank —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
10, 1889.
Lawyer;
member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1937-41; chair, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1939-41; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1941-57; died in
office 1957.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., January
13, 1957 (age 67 years, 125
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harrison J. Goldin (b. 1936) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., February
23, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1966-73 (31st District 1966, 30th District
1967-73); New York City Comptroller, 1974-89; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1984;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1989.
Jewish.
Member, Order of the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Jewish Congress; NAACP; B'nai
B'rith; American
Jewish Committee; American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2001.
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Austin Hoyt (b. 1915) —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Beacon, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April
26, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado,
1956.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of the Coif.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Mary Gardiner Jones (b. 1920) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1920.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, Federal Trade Commission, 1964-73.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Order of the Coif; American
Arbitration Association.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Charles Herbert Jones and Anna Livingston (Short)
Jones. |
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Paul Vories McNutt (1891-1955) —
also known as Paul V. McNutt —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Franklin, Johnson
County, Ind., July 19,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; law
professor; national commander, American Legion, 1928-29; Governor of
Indiana, 1933-37; High Commissioner to the Philippines, 1937-39,
1945-46; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1940;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1940,
1944;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1944;
U.S. Ambassador to Philippines, 1946-47; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Delta Chi; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary;
Kiwanis.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
24, 1955 (age 63 years, 248
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) —
also known as Richard M. Nixon; "Tricky
Dick"; "Searchlight" —
of Whittier, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Yorba Linda, Orange
County, Calif., January
9, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 12th District, 1947-50; U.S.
Senator from California, 1950-53; appointed 1950; resigned 1953;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
Vice
President of the United States, 1953-61; President
of the United States, 1969-74; defeated, 1960; candidate for Governor of
California, 1962; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Order of the Coif.
Discredited by the Watergate scandal,
as many of his subordinates were charged with crimes; in July 1974,
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted three articles of
impeachment against him, over obstruction
of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt
of Congress; soon after, a tape recording emerged which directly
implicated
him in the Watergate
break-in; with impeachment certain, he resigned;
pardoned
in 1974 by President Gerald
R. Ford.
Died, from a stroke,
at New York
Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1994 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Anthony 'Frank' Nixon and Hannah (Milhous) Nixon; married,
June
21, 1940, to Thelma
Catherine Ryan; father of Julie Nixon (daughter-in-law of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; granddaughter-in-law of Dwight
David Eisenhower); second cousin of John
Duffy Alderson. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Carroll
family of Maryland; Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Maurice
H. Stans — John
H. Holdridge — Clark
MacGregor — Harry
L. Sears — Harry
S. Dent — Christian
A. Herter, Jr. — John
N. Mitchell — G.
Bradford Cook — Raymond
Moley — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Nils
A. Boe — Murray
M. Chotiner — Richard
Blumenthal — G.
Gordon Liddy — Robert
D. Sack — Edward
G. Latch — William
O. Mills — Meyer
Kestnbaum |
| | | Campaign slogan (1968): "Nixon's the
One!" |
| | | Epitaph: "The greatest honor history
can bestow is the title of peacemaker." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Richard M. Nixon: RN
: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) — Beyond
Peace (1994) — 1999:
Victory Without War (1988) — Leaders
(1982) — Memoirs —
Six
Crises (1962) — The
Challenges We Face (1960) — In
the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal
(1990) — No
More Vietnams (1985) — The
Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon (1974) — Real
Peace (1984) — The
Real War (1980) — Seize
The Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World
(1992) |
| | | Books about Richard M. Nixon: Melvin
Small, The
Presidency of Richard Nixon — Joan Hoff, Nixon
Reconsidered — Jonathan Aitken, Nixon
: A Life — Garry Wills, Nixon
Agonistes : The Crisis of the Self-Made Man — Thomas
Monsell, Nixon
on Stage and Screen : The Thirty-Seventh President As Depicted in
Films, Television, Plays and Opera — Stephen E.
Ambrose, Nixon
: Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 — Richard
Reeves, President
Nixon: Alone in the White House — Roger Morris, Richard
Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician —
Robert Mason, Richard
Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority — Jules
Witcover, Very
Strange Bedfellows : The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon
& Spiro Agnew |
| | | Critical books about Richard M. Nixon:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents — Lance Morrow,
The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Don Fulsom, Nixon's
Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled
President |
| | | Image source: United States Mint
engraving |
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William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) —
also known as William P. Rogers —
Born in Norfolk, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., June 23,
1913.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1957-61; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1969-73.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the Coif.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1973.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
2, 2001 (age 87 years, 193
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Fred Joseph Slater (1885-1943) —
also known as Fred J. Slater —
of Greece, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Greece, Monroe
County, N.Y., June 26,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer; real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 4th District, 1925-28; member
of New
York state senate 46th District, 1929-34; defeated, 1934, 1936.
Member, Order of the Coif; Farm
Bureau; Elks; Moose.
Died, following a heart
attack, at I. M. Bassett Hospital,
Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
20, 1943 (age 58 years, 55
days).
Interment at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery, Greece, N.Y.
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Joseph Tyree Sneed III (1920-2008) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Calvert, Robertson
County, Tex., July 21,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; law
professor; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1973-87; took
senior status 1987.
Member, Order of the Coif.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
9, 2008 (age 87 years, 203
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (1928-2010) —
also known as Theodore C. Sorensen; Ted
Sorensen —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., May 8,
1928.
Democrat. Lawyer;
special counsel to President John
F. Kennedy, 1961-63; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1970; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1984.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif.
Died in 2010
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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C. Tracey Stagg (1878-1939) —
of Cayuga Heights, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., December
16, 1878.
Republican. Lawyer; law
professor; member of New York
state senate 41st District, 1935-39; died in office 1939.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Acacia;
Order of the Coif; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died July 14,
1939 (age 60 years, 210
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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Eric N. Vitaliano (b. 1948) —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., February
27, 1948.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
clerk for U.S. District Judge Mark
A. Costantino; chief of staff for U.S. Rep. John
M. Murphy; member of New York
state assembly, 1983-2001 (59th District 1983-92, 60th District
1993-2001); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1997.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Order of the Coif; American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Still living as of 2001.
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Lowell Curtis Wadmond (1896-1986) —
also known as Lowell Wadmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., March
16, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the Coif; Freemasons.
Died September
25, 1986 (age 90 years, 193
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Lakeland, Fla.
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