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Rodney Dennis Chandler (b. 1942) —
also known as Rod D. Chandler —
of Bellevue, King
County, Wash.; Aurora, Adams
County, Colo.
Born in La Grande, Union
County, Ore., July 13,
1942.
Republican. Television reporter; public
relations consultant; member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1974-82; U.S.
Representative from Washington 8th District, 1983-93; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1992.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Andrew Cherberg (1910-1992) —
also known as John A. Cherberg —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., October
17, 1910.
School
teacher; athletic
coach; Lieutenant
Governor of Washington, 1957-89; candidate for mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1964; account executive, KIRO-TV television
station.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Moose; Eagles;
Sigma
Nu.
Died April 8,
1992 (age 81 years, 174
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Cherberg and Annie (Rand) Cherberg; married, August
17, 1935, to Elizabeth Ann Walker. |
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Russ Francis (b. 1953) —
of Hawaii.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., April 3,
1953.
Republican. Professional football
player for the New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers; sports
broadcaster for ABC, CBS, and ESPN; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Hawaii 2nd District, 2000.
Still living as of 2000.
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John O. W. Jarstad (1920-1998) —
of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., July 22,
1920.
Republican. Television sportscaster;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 6th District, 1970.
Died, of heart
failure and diabetes
at Auburn Rehabilitation
Center, Auburn, King
County, Wash., June 12,
1998 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Haven
of Rest Cemetery, Gig Harbor, Wash.
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Daniel Lapin (b. 1947) —
of California; Mercer Island, King
County, Wash.
Born in Johannesburg, South
Africa, January
1, 1947.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; rabbi; author;
radio show host; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1996.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2021.
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Catherine Dean Barnes May (1914-2004) —
also known as Catherine Dean May; Catherine Dean
Barnes; Mrs. James O. May —
of Yakima, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Yakima, Yakima
County, Wash., May 18,
1914.
Republican. School
teacher; radio writer and commentator; member of Washington
state house of representatives 14th District, 1952-58; U.S.
Representative from Washington 4th District, 1959-71; defeated,
1970.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., May 28,
2004 (age 90 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Allen Miller —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Manager of radio and television for Washington State
University; mayor
of Pullman, Wash., 1958-61.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Hector O'Brien (1904-1997) —
also known as Robert H. O'Brien —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., September
15, 1904.
Mining
engineer;
lawyer;
member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1942-44; special
assistant to Barney Balaban, president of Paramount Pictures,
and director, Paramount International Films;
when the companies split in 1949, he became secretary-treasurer of
the movie
theater chain, United Paramount Theaters; following a merger with
American Broadcasting Company, he became financial vice-president of
the ABC television network; in 1957, he joined the Loew's movie
theater chain as vice-president and treasurer; president of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie
studio, 1963-69.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, of a stroke,
in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
6, 1997 (age 93 years, 21
days).
Interment somewhere
in Butte, Mont.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Grant O'Brien and Margaret (Flanagan) O'Brien; married, August
27, 1927, to Ellen Ford. |
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Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) —
also known as Marguerite Ray —
of Washington.
Born in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., September
3, 1914.
Democrat. University
professor; marine
biologist; host of weekly television show "Animals of the
Sea," on KCTS-TV in Seattle; member, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,
1972-75; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1973-75; Governor of
Washington, 1977-81; defeated in primary, 1980.
Female.
Died, from a bronchial
infection,
in Fox Island, Pierce
County, Wash., January
2, 1994 (age 79 years, 121
days).
Interment at Fox
Island Cemetery, Fox Island, Wash.
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Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco
County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
23, 1910.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated
and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish
entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid
escorts, and paid hotel
bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to
persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for
purchase by the U.S. military;
owned a radio station in Texas; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Colorado, 1960;
mayor
of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69; member of Democratic
National Committee from Florida, 1968; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1968.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor
Roosevelt; brother of James
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.; married, January
16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner; married, July 22,
1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins; married, December
3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson; married, March
15, 1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross; married, November
3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; great-grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; second great-grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; third great-grandson of Edward
Hutchinson Robbins; third great-grandnephew of William
Bellinger Bulloch; fourth great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin once removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Warren
Delano Robbins, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Monroe; first cousin five times removed of Ebenezer
Huntington; first cousin seven times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Corinne
A. Chubb and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin once removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Laurence Gouverneur; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr., Philip
DePeyster and Jabez
Williams Huntington. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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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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