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Morris Atlas (b. 1926) —
of McAllen, Hidalgo
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., December
25, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
director, McAllen General Hospital,
Texas Commerce Bank;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1968,
1972;
chair
of Hidalgo County Democratic Party, 1968-80.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Alpha
Epsilon Pi; American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 1983.
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Relatives: Son
of Sam Atlas and Bertha (Cohen) Atlas; married 1947 to Rita
Wilner. |
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Mose R. Blumrosen (1886-1958) —
of Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex.
Born in Ennis, Ellis
County, Tex., January
2, 1886.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1932,
1940,
1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1950.
Jewish.
Died, in the Navarro Clinic,
Corsicana, Navarro
County, Tex., December
2, 1958 (age 72 years, 334
days).
Interment at Hebrew Cemetery, Corsicana, Tex.
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Charles Louis Brachfield (1871-1947) —
also known as Charles L. Brachfield —
of Henderson, Rusk
County, Tex.
Born in Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss., January
10, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state senate 8th District, 1903-06; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1916;
Rusk
County Judge.
Jewish.
Died in Henderson, Rusk
County, Tex., June 6,
1947 (age 76 years, 147
days).
Interment at Beth
Israel Cemetery, Palestine, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Brachfield and Henrietta 'Yetta'
Brachfield. |
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Wilbur Joseph Cohen (1913-1987) —
also known as Wilbur J. Cohen —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., June 10,
1913.
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1968-69.
Jewish. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Common
Cause.
Leading expert on Social Security.
Died in a hotel
room in Seoul, South
Korea, May 17,
1987 (age 73 years, 341
days).
Interment at Garden
of Memories Cemetery, Kerrville, Tex.
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Martin Daneman —
of Texas.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Texas.
Jewish. Member, National Rifle
Association; Disabled
American Veterans.
Still living as of 2001.
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Jonas Martin Frost (b. 1942) —
also known as Martin Frost —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
1, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas 24th District, 1979-; defeated, 2004;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1988
(co-chair, Rules
Committee; speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Committee.
Still living as of 2014.
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Irving Loeb Goldberg (1906-1995) —
also known as Irving L. Goldberg —
Born in Port Arthur, Jefferson
County, Tex., June 29,
1906.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1966-95.
Jewish.
Died, from complications of a neurological
disorder, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., February
11, 1995 (age 88 years, 227
days).
Interment at Emanu-El
Cemetery, Dallas, Tex.
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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) —
Born in London, England,
January
27, 1850.
Democrat. Cigar
maker; Founder and
president, American Federation of Labor; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
13, 1924 (age 74 years, 321
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; memorial monument at Gompers Square, Washington, D.C.; statue at Gompers Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Terry Jesmore (born c.1941) —
of Tarrant
County, Tex.; Tene Omarim, West
Bank.
Born about 1941.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1994, 1996 (primary).
Jewish.
Still living as of 2006.
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David Spangler Kaufman (1813-1851) —
also known as David S. Kaufman —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in Boiling Springs, Cumberland
County, Pa., December
18, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1839-41; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1843-45; U.S.
Representative from Texas 1st District, 1846-51; died in office
1851.
Jewish. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
31, 1851 (age 37 years, 44
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1932 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Isaac Herbert Kempner —
also known as Isaac H. Kempner —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Mayor
of Galveston, Tex., 1917-19.
Jewish.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Harris Kempner; married 1902 to
Henrietta Blum. |
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Adrian Levy (b. 1895) —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Born in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., October
29, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Galveston, Tex., 1935-39.
Jewish.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Adam Mosbacher, Sr. (1927-2010) —
also known as Robert Mosbacher —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., March
11, 1927.
Republican. Founder, Mosbacher Energy
Company; member, board of directors and Executive Committee, American
Petroleum
Institute; director, Texas Commerce Bank;
director, New York Life
Insurance Company; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1989-92.
Jewish; later Presbyterian.
German
ancestry.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in the M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
24, 2010 (age 82 years, 319
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Stanley Mosk (1912-2001) —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., September
12, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior court judge in
California, 1943-58; California
state attorney general, 1959-64; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1960-64; justice of
California state supreme court, 1964-2001; appointed 1964; died
in office 2001.
Jewish. Member, American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Phi
Alpha Delta; B'nai
B'rith.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 19,
2001 (age 88 years, 280
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Hillside
Memorial Park, Culver City, Calif.; statue at Capitol
Grounds, Sacramento, Calif.
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Samuel Irving Rosenman (1896-1973) —
also known as Samuel I. Rosenman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., February
13, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1922-26; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1934-43; resigned 1943;
special counsel to presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry
Truman, 1943-46.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in 1973
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Morris Schreiber (1901-1951) —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Born in New York, October
3, 1901.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; customs
inspector; laundry and
dry cleaning business; jeweler;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 9th District, 1947; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1948.
Jewish.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., June 2,
1951 (age 49 years, 242
days).
Interment at Beth
Jacob Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.
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Marianne Deborah Williamson (b. 1952) —
also known as Marianne Williamson —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 8,
1952.
Author;
lecturer;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 33rd District, 2014; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 2020.
Female.
Russian
and Jewish ancestry.
Still living as of 2021.
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Steven Dennis Wolens —
also known as Steven D. Wolens —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives 103rd District, 1983-2004.
Jewish. Member, Lions.
Still living as of 2008.
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