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Lawrence William Cramer (1897-1978) —
also known as Lawrence W. Cramer —
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
26, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; Lieutenant
Governor of Virgin Islands, 1931-35; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-40; major in the U.S. Army during World
War II.
Member, Chi Psi;
American
Legion.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., October
18, 1978 (age 80 years, 296
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, N.C.
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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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Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) —
also known as Robert Herrick —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
21, 1868.
Novelist;
university professor; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, December
23, 1938 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Levitt (1887-1968) —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbine, Carroll
County, Md., March
14, 1887.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; chaplain;
lawyer;
law professor; Independent Republican candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1930; Independent
candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1932; Independent Citizen candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1934; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1935-36; as judge in 1935,
ordered election officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands to allow women
to vote; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950; candidate in Republican primary
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1960.
Died June 18,
1968 (age 81 years, 96
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Progressive. University professor; novelist;
playwright;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Paul Martin Pearson (1871-1938) —
Born in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
22, 1871.
College professor; author; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1931-35; forced to
resign in July, 1935 during a Congressional investigation
of financial
mismanagement in the Islands government.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a month later, March
26, 1938 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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