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Donald Cogley Bruce (1921-1969) —
also known as Donald C. Bruce —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Troutville, Clearfield
County, Pa., April
27, 1921.
Republican. News commentator, program director, business manager at
radio station WIRE, Indianapolis; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1961-65; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1964.
Lutheran.
Among the founders of the American Conservative Union in 1964.
Died, apparently from a heart
attack, in Round Hill, Loudoun
County, Va., August
31, 1969 (age 48 years, 126
days).
Interment at Ebenezer
Cemetery, Near Round Hill, Loudoun County, Va.
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Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) —
also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones;
Mary Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Moscow, Russia.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., December
26, 1882.
Communist. School
teacher; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym
"Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration
to the New York City Board of Education, and as a result, she was fired
from her teaching job; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for the
English-language broadcasts of Radio Moscow, 1937-45.
African
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in the Staten Island Area Hospital,
Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., December
24, 1945 (age 62 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1909 to
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Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven (b. 1893) —
also known as T. A. M. Craven —
of Washington,
D.C.; Virginia.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; radio engineer;
member, Federal Communications Commission, 1937-44, 1956-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven; married, September
25, 1915, to Josephine La Tourette; married 1931 to Emma
Stoner. |
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Robert Kenneth Dornan (b. 1933) —
also known as Bob Dornan; "B-1
Bob" —
of Garden Grove, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1933.
Broadcaster, journalist, television
producer; won two Emmy awards for his television
show; appeared in several movies
including The Starfighters, To The Shores of Hell, and
Hell on Wheels; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1973; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1976,
1992;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1977-83, 1985-97 (27th District
1977-83, 38th District 1985-93, 46th District 1993-97); defeated
(Republican), 1996, 1998, 2004; candidate in Republican primary for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996;
American Independent candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 2016
(on behalf of Donald
Trump and Mike
Pence).
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Still living as of 2016.
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Jerry Lamon Falwell (1933-2007) —
also known as Jerry Falwell —
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., August
11, 1933.
Republican. Pastor;
television evangelist; founder
(1971) of Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University; also
served as its chancellor;
founder of the Moral Majority, political group advocating
conservative Christian views; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1996.
Baptist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Suffered cardiac
arrythmia, collapsed in his office
at Liberty University, and died soon after at Lynchburg General Hospital,
Lynchburg,
Va., May 15,
2007 (age 73 years, 277
days).
Interment at Montview
Grounds, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.
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Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (1924-2010) —
also known as Alexander M. Haig, Jr. —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
2, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; target of an assassination
attempt in Belgium, June 25, 1979; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1980,
1984,
1988;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1980,
1988;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1981-82; host, World Business Review
television news show.
Catholic.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from an infection,
at John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., February
20, 2010 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University
professor; television news commentator; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Gordon Battle Liddy (1930-2021) —
also known as G. Gordon Liddy —
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., November
30, 1930.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; FBI
agent; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1968; organized and
directed the burglaries
of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate
complex in May and June 1972; the resulting Watergate scandal
led to President Richard
Nixon's resignation in 1974; convicted
on charges of burglary
and wiretapping;
sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $40,000; released in 1977
after serving four and a half years; became a popular radio talk
show host.
Irish
and Italian
ancestry.
Died in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., March
30, 2021 (age 90 years, 120
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Roger Lea MacBride (1929-1995) —
also known as Roger MacBride —
Born in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
6, 1929.
Lawyer;
television producer; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1963; candidate in Republican
primary for Governor of
Vermont, 1964; Republican Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1972
(voted for John
Hospers and Theodora
Nathan); Libertarian candidate for President
of the United States, 1976.
Heir to the estate of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House
on the Prairie.
Died in Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., March 5,
1995 (age 65 years, 211
days).
Interment at Wicks Cemetery, Halifax, Vt.
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk show in
1995-2003, and is a television commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2014.
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Marion Gordon Robertson (b. 1930) —
also known as Pat Robertson —
Born in Lexington,
Va., March
22, 1930.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean
conflict; minister;
host of the "700 Club" television show; founder and chairman,
Christian Broadcasting Network; founder, Christian Coalition;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1988.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2020.
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Allan Byron Swift (1935-2018) —
also known as Al Swift —
of Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Wash.
Born in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., September
12, 1935.
Democrat. Broadcaster, public affairs director, KVOS-TV;
administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Lloyd
Meeds, 1965-69; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1979-95.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., April
20, 2018 (age 82 years, 220
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George William Whitehurst (b. 1925) —
also known as G. William Whitehurst —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., March
12, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; college
professor; television journalist; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1969-87.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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