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Ralph Armstrong (1909-1998) —
of Longview, Cowlitz
County, Wash.
Born in Auburn, King
County, Wash., September
26, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1941-45; member of Washington
Democratic State Central Committee, 1942-43; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Washington, 1952;
superior court judge in Washington, 1957-63.
Member, Phi Alpha Delta; Elks; Eagles.
Died November
12, 1998 (age 89 years, 47
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward K. Armstrong and Lena (Zech) Armstrong; married, November
9, 1936, to Jessie Brewster; married, December
2, 1950, to Dorothy Bollinger. |
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Russell Anderson Austin Jr. —
also known as Russell A. Austin, Jr. —
of Aberdeen, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Washington, 1968,
1972;
member of Washington
Republican State Committee, 1970-73.
Protestant.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives: Son
of Russell Anderson Austin and Amanda (Ficks) Austin; married, June 23,
1953, to Barbara Fortnum. |
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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.
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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 |
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Roy C. Fox (b. 1890) —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Cincinnati, Appanoose
County, Iowa, October
10, 1890.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Lincoln
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1920-26; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, 1926-34.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi Alpha Delta.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wesley Fox and Sarah Louise (McMahon) Fox; married, May 6,
1922, to Frankie A. Juvinall. |
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) —
also known as Warren G. Harding —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio, November
2, 1865.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Ohio
state senate 13th District, 1901-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker);
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1910; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1915-21; President
of the United States, 1921-23; died in office 1923.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; Phi Alpha Delta.
First
president ever to have his voice broadcast on the radio, June 14,
1922.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in a room at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., August
2, 1923 (age 57 years, 273
days). The claim that he was poisoned by his wife is not accepted
by historians.
Originally entombed at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio; reinterment in 1927 at Harding
Memorial Park, Marion, Ohio; memorial monument (now gone) at Woodland Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding and George Tryon Harding;
married, July 8,
1891, to Florence
Harding. |
| | | Harding County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Harding High
School, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding High
School, in Warren,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Warren G. Harding Middle
School, in Frankford,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The community
of Harding
Township, New Jersey (created 1922) is named for
him. — Warren Street,
G Street,
and Harding Street
(now Boardwalk), in Ketchikan,
Alaska, were all named for
him. — Harding Mountain,
in Chelan
County, Washington, is named for
him. — Mount
Harding, in Skagway,
Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "Remember there are two
sides to every question. Get both." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1920): "Back to
normalcy with Harding." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Warren G. Harding: Francis
Russell, The
Shadow of Blooming Grove : Warren G. Harding In His
Times — Robert K. Murray, The
Harding Era : Warren G. Harding and His
Administration — Eugene P. Trani & David L. Wilson, The
Presidency of Warren G. Harding — Harry M. Daugherty,
Inside
Story of the Harding Tragedy — Charles L. Mee, The
Ohio Gang : The World of Warren G. Harding — John W.
Dean, Warren
G. Harding — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Strange Deaths of President Harding — Russell Roberts,
Warren
G. Harding (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Warren G. Harding:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Ralph Julian Rivers (1903-1976) —
also known as Ralph J. Rivers —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 23,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the 4th District of Alaska Territory, 1933-44; Alaska
territory attorney general, 1945-49; mayor
of Fairbanks, Alaska, 1952-54; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1952;
member of Alaska
territorial senate 4th District, 1955-56; delegate
to Alaska state constitutional convention, 1955-56; U.S.
Representative from Alaska at-large, 1959-67; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960
(alternate), 1968.
Member, Elks; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sigma
Chi; Phi Alpha Delta.
Died in Chehalis, Lewis
County, Wash., August
14, 1976 (age 73 years, 83
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sunset
Memorial Gardens, Chehalis, Wash.
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