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Wade Hampton Ballard III (1924-2006) —
also known as Wade H. Ballard III; Jim
Ballard —
of Peterstown, Monroe
County, W.Va.
Born November
30, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 5th District, 1964; chair of
Monroe County Republican Party, 1968; campaign manager for Gov.
Arch
A. Moore, 1968; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1969-70;
candidate for West
Virginia state senate 10th District, 1970.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Rotary;
Odd
Fellows; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died June 29,
2006 (age 81 years, 211
days).
Interment at Peterstown
Cemetery, Rich Creek, Va.
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Herbert Harvell Bateman (1928-2000) —
also known as Herbert H. Bateman —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank
County, N.C., August
7, 1928.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state senate, 1968-82 (27th District 1968-71, 2nd District
1972-82); resigned 1982; candidate in Republican primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1981; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1983-2000; died in
office 2000.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; American Judicature Society; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, of lung
cancer and prostate
cancer, at Loudoun Hospital
Center, Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., September
11, 2000 (age 72 years, 35
days).
Interment at Peninsula
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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Warren Earl Burger (1907-1995) —
also known as Warren E. Burger —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., September
17, 1907.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1944,
1948
(alternate), 1952
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker);
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1956-69; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-86; took senior status 1986.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; Federal
Bar Association.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1988.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Alexandria,
Va., June 25,
1995 (age 87 years, 281
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ramsey Clark (1927-2021) —
also known as William Ramsey Clark —
of near Falls Church, Fairfax
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., December
18, 1927.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney General, 1967-69; law
professor; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1974, 1976 (primary); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1976.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American Judicature Society; Delta
Tau Delta.
Defended many controversial figures during his legal and political
career, including David Koresh, Lyndon
LaRouche, Leonard
Peltier, Radovan Karadzic, Slobodan Milosevic, and Saddam Hussein.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
2021 (age 93 years, 112
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George North Craig (1909-1992) —
also known as George N. Craig —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Annandale, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Brazil, Clay
County, Ind., August
6, 1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Governor of
Indiana, 1953-57; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1956.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; American
Legion; Delta
Chi; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
17, 1992 (age 83 years, 133
days).
Interment at Clearview
Cemetery, Brazil, Ind.
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Clarence Watson Meadows (1904-1961) —
also known as Clarence W. Meadows —
of Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.; Clifton Forge, Alleghany
County, Va.
Born in Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va., February
11, 1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Raleigh County, 1931-32;
Raleigh
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1933-36; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1937-42; circuit judge in West
Virginia, 1942-44; Governor of
West Virginia, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from West Virginia, 1948,
1952;
campaign manager for Claude
Pepper, in 1958 U.S. Senate campaign.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; Phi
Alpha Delta; Alpha
Kappa Psi; Pi
Kappa Alpha; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Lions; Rotary.
Died, following a heart
attack in Chesapeake and Ohio Hospital,
Clifton Forge, Alleghany
County, Va., September
12, 1961 (age 57 years, 213
days).
Interment at Wildwood
Cemetery, Beckley, W.Va.
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Richard Dudley Obenshain (1935-1978) —
also known as Richard D. Obenshain —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., October
31, 1935.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1964; candidate for Virginia
state attorney general, 1969; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1972-73; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia 1978, but died before election.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Killed when his small plane
crashed during a nighttime landing at Chesterfield County Airport,
Chesterfield
County, Va., August
2, 1978 (age 42 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Willis Smith (1887-1953) —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., December
19, 1887.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1927-32; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1931-32;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1944
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1952;
U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1950-53; died in office 1953.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; Order of
the Coif; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Kiwanis.
Died in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 26,
1953 (age 65 years, 189
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Frank Stacy Tavenner Jr. (b. 1895) —
also known as Frank S. Tavenner, Jr. —
of Woodstock, Shenandoah
County, Va.
Born in Woodstock, Shenandoah
County, Va., July 12,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1940-48; acting
chief counsel, International Prosecutions Section, Tokyo, Japan, 1947.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Judicature Society; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sigma
Upsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Stacy Tavenner and Lou Lazear (Stephenson) Tavenner;
married, December
28, 1920, to Sarah Ellen Zea. |
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