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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) — also known as William O. Douglas — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima County, Wash. Born in Maine, Otter Tail County, Minn., October 16, 1898. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; law professor; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1948. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; United World Federalists; American Bar Association; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Alpha Delta; Delta Sigma Rho; Phi Beta Kappa. Died in Washington, D.C., January 19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August 16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to Kathleen Heffernan.   Cross-reference: Warren Christopher — William A. Norris   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Arlington National Cemetery unofficial website   Books by William O. Douglas: Of Men and Mountains (1982) — My wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go East, Young Man (1974) — The Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (1980)   Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce Allen Murphy, Wild Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas — Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas   Neal Randolph Fosseen (1908-2004) — also known as Neal R. Fosseen — of Spokane, Spokane County, Wash. Born in Yakima, Yakima County, Wash., November 27, 1908. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; brick and clay tile products manufacturer; mayor of Spokane, Wash., 1960-67. Episcopalian. Member, Alpha Kappa Psi; Beta Theta Pi; American Legion; Military Order of the World Wars; Reserve Officers Association. Died July 21, 2004 (age 95 years, 237 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Arthur Benjamin Fosseen and Florence Vance (Neal) Fosseen; married, September 26, 1936, to Helen Witherspoon; nephew of Manley Lewis Fosseen; grandnephew of Samuel Richolson.   Political family: Fosseen family.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Abe McGregor Goff (1899-1984) — of Moscow, Latah County, Idaho. Born in Colfax, Whitman County, Wash., December 21, 1899. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Latah County Prosecuting Attorney, 1926-34; member of Idaho state senate, 1941-42; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Representative from Idaho 1st District, 1947-49; defeated, 1948; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1958-67. Episcopalian. Member, Beta Theta Pi; Federal Bar Association; American Bar Association; American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons. Died in Moscow, Latah County, Idaho, November 23, 1984 (age 84 years, 338 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Moscow Cemetery, Moscow, Idaho.   Relatives: Son of Herbert William Goff and Mary (Dorsey) Goff; married, August 24, 1927, to Florence Leticia Richardson.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Elmer Ely Todd (b. 1873) — also known as Elmer E. Todd — of Seattle, King County, Wash. Born in Dixon, Lee County, Ill., May 7, 1873. Republican. Lawyer; member of Washington state house of representatives, 1905; U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1907-12. Member, American Bar Association; Beta Theta Pi. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of James Harvey Todd and Charlotte Thomas (Little) Todd; married, March 9, 1904, to Relura Pardee Hunt.

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