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William Loren Batt Jr. (b. 1916) —
also known as William L. Batt, Jr. —
of Montgomery
County, Pa.; Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
30, 1916.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 16th District, 1946.
Protestant.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Frances Catherine Baur (b. 1949) —
also known as Frances C. Baur —
of McKeesport, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
21, 1949.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1972.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Robert Matthew Baur and Louise (Owen)
Baur. |
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Francis Beverley Biddle (1886-1968) —
also known as Francis Biddle —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born, in Paris, France,
of American parents, May 9,
1886.
Democrat. Lawyer;
personal secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes, 1911-12; served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1939-40; resigned
1940; U.S. Solicitor General, 1940-41; U.S.
Attorney General, 1941-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1944;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1952.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union; Freemasons.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Wellfleet, Barnstable
County, Mass., October
4, 1968 (age 82 years, 148
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Algernon Sydney Biddle and Frances (Robinson) Biddle; married, April
27, 1918, to Katherine Garrison Chapin; great-grandnephew of Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); second great-grandson of Edmund
Jenings Randolph; second great-grandnephew of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; third great-grandson of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); third great-grandnephew of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin twice removed of John
Cadwalader (1805-1879), Edmund
Randolph and Thomas
Biddle; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin four times removed of
Edward
Biddle and Charles
Biddle; first cousin five times removed of Richard
Bland and Benjamin
Harrison; second cousin once removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke and John
Cadwalader (1843-1925); second cousin twice removed of Charles
Bingham Penrose and Peter
Myndert Dox; second cousin thrice removed of James
Biddle, John
Biddle (1792-1859) and Richard
Biddle; second cousin four times removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Beverley
Randolph, Carter
Bassett Harrison, John
Randolph of Roanoke and William
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Harry
Bartow Hawes; third cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Edward
MacFunn Biddle, James
Stokes Biddle and Charles
John Biddle; third cousin thrice removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Henry
St. George Tucker and John
Scott Harrison; fourth cousin of Boies
Penrose and Spencer
Penrose; fourth cousin once removed of John
Biddle (1859-1936). |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Genevieve Blatt (1913-1996) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in East Brady, Clarion
County, Pa., June 19,
1913.
Democrat. Lawyer; secretary of
Pennsylvania Democratic Party, 1948; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1948
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
candidate for Pennsylvania
state auditor general, 1952; Pennsylvania
secretary of internal affairs, 1955-66; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1960; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1964; Judge, Pennsylvania Commonwealth
Court, 1972-93.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American
Association of University Women; League of Women
Voters; Americans for Democratic Action; American Bar
Association; Delta
Sigma Rho; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Died in a retirement
home at Hampden Township, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 4,
1996 (age 83 years, 15
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Near Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa.
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Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (1901-1990) —
also known as Joseph S. Clark, Jr. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; served
in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1952-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69; defeated, 1968.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; American Bar
Association; United
World Federalists; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
12, 1990 (age 88 years, 83
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.
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Roger E. Craig (b. 1933) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Blairsville, Indiana
County, Pa., April
23, 1933.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 10th District, 1965-70; defeated in primary, 1970.
Protestant.
Member, Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; American Civil
Liberties Union; Americans for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 1970.
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Thomas Knight Finletter (1893-1980) —
also known as Thomas K. Finletter —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, 1941-44; Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, 1950-53; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S. Ambassador to NationalO, 1961-65.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta
Phi; Americans for Democratic Action; United
World Federalists.
Died in 1980
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Hastie (1904-1976) —
also known as William H. Hastie —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., November
17, 1904.
Lawyer;
law
professor; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1937-39; dean,
Howard University law school, 1939-46; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1946-49; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1949-71; took
senior status 1971.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omega
Psi Phi; Freemasons;
American
Civil Liberties Union; Americans for Democratic Action.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1943.
Died, at Suburban General Hospital,
East Norriton, Montgomery
County, Pa., April
14, 1976 (age 71 years, 149
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) —
also known as Alfred B. Lewis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 20,
1897.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
secretary of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate
for Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1944; vice-president, later
president, Union Casualty insurance
company.
Episcopalian.
Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Federation of Teachers; Americans for Democratic Action.
Died about 1980 (age about 83
years).
Interment somewhere
in Fairfield County, Conn.
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Francis John Myers (1901-1956) —
also known as Francis J. Myers —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
18, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 6th District, 1939-45; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1944
(alternate), 1948
(chair, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1952,
1956;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1945-51.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action.
Died in 1956
(age about
54 years).
Interment at Holy
Sepulchre Cemetery, Cheltenham, Pa.
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Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) —
also known as Dorothy Stecker —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1905.
Democrat. Writer; photographer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1948.
Female.
Member, Americans for Democratic Action; Urban
League.
Died in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
12, 1997 (age about 91
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Molly Yard (1912-2005) —
also known as Mary Alexander Yard; Molly Yard
Garrett —
of Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Cook Township, Westmoreland
County, Pa.
Born in Shanghai, China
to American parents, July 6,
1912.
Democrat. Candidate for Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 5th
District, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1972;
president, National Organization for Women, 1987-92.
Female.
Member, National
Organization for Women; Americans for Democratic Action.
Died, in the Fair Oaks Nursing
Home, Dormont, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
21, 2005 (age 93 years, 77
days).
Burial location unknown.
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