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Nancy Merritt Boykin (1919-2006) —
also known as Nancy M. Boykin; Nancy Merritt; Nancy
Smith —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Washington,
D.C., March
20, 1919.
Republican. Social
worker; founder (1966) and head (1966-87) of Detroit Public
Schools Continuing Education for Girls; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1972
(alternate), 1976;
Republican Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1976
(voted for Gerald
R. Ford and Bob
Dole); member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1975-80, 1983-2006.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Died January
28, 2006 (age 86 years, 314
days).
Interment at Detroit Memorial Park West, Redford Township, Wayne County,
Mich.
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Cora M. Brown (1914-1972) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Bessemer, Jefferson
County, Ala., April
19, 1914.
Democrat. Social
worker; police
officer; member of Michigan
state senate, 1953-56 (2nd District 1953-54, 3rd District
1955-56); defeated in primary, 1950, 1951; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1956.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
17, 1972 (age 58 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Cynthia Moore Chestnut (b. 1949) —
of Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., July 25,
1949.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 23rd District, 1991-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1996,
2008;
Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida, 2020
(on behalf of Joseph
R. Biden, Jr. and Kamala
D. Harris).
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Junior
League; Alpha Kappa Alpha; NAACP; Altrusa;
Rotary.
Still living as of 2020.
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Dawnna Mathilda Dukes (b. 1963) —
also known as Dawnna Dukes —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Pflugerville, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., September
3, 1963.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1995-2013 (50th District
1995-2002, 46th District 2003-13); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1996,
2000,
2004.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2014.
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Marguerite Eaglin (1920-2004) —
also known as Marguerite Davis —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Waxahachie, Ellis
County, Tex., June 8,
1920.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1973.
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP;
Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Died, in Glacier Hills Nursing
Center, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., December
20, 2004 (age 84 years, 195
days).
Interment at St.
John Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Mich.
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C. Virginia Fields (b. 1946) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., August
4, 1946.
Democrat. Social
worker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1998-2005; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2005.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha; Urban
League; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Still living as of 2008.
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Addie L. Greene (b. 1943) —
of Mangonia Park, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Black Creek, Choctaw
County, Ala., January
21, 1943.
Democrat. Mayor of Magnolia Park, Fla., 1991-92; member of Florida
state house of representatives 84th District, 1993-.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha; NAACP; Urban
League.
Still living as of 1999.
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Sheila Jackson=Lee (b. 1950) —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
12, 1950.
Democrat. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Texas, 1987-90; U.S.
Representative from Texas 18th District, 1995-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Female.
Seventh-Day
Adventist. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha; Urban
League; American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 2012.
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Eddie Bernice Johnson (b. 1935) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., December
3, 1935.
Democrat. Nurse;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1972-77; member of Texas
state senate, 1987-92; U.S.
Representative from Texas 30th District, 1993-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Texas, 2004-08.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Urban
League; Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2019.
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Sharon Pratt Kelly (b. 1944) —
also known as Sharon Pratt; Sharon Pratt
Dixon —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
30, 1944.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Democratic
National Committee from District of Columbia, 1977-90; Treasurer
of Democratic National Committee, 1985-89; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1988
(speaker),
1996;
mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1991-95; defeated in primary, 1994.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 1996.
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Barbara Roberts Mason (b. 1940) —
also known as Barbara Roberts —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Dimondale, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
8, 1940.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1975-98; defeated, 1998; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984 ;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives 69th District, 1994.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 1998.
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Juanita Millender-McDonald (1938-2007) —
also known as Juanita M. McDonald —
of Carson, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., September
7, 1938.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1984,
1992,
1996,
2000,
2004;
member of California
state assembly, 1993-96; U.S.
Representative from California 37th District, 1996-2007; died in
office 2007.
Female.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP;
Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Carson, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
22, 2007 (age 68 years, 227
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Long Beach, Long Beach, Calif.
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Mrs. Barrington Parker —
of Washington,
D.C.
Republican. Speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 1956.
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Pauline Sims Puryear (b. 1900) —
also known as Pauline Puryear —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., June 6,
1900.
Republican. Social
worker; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1948.
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Burial location unknown.
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Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake (b. 1970) —
also known as Stephanie C. Rawlings —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., March
17, 1970.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 2000;
mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 2010-.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Federal
Bar Association; Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2014.
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Leah Ward Sears (b. 1955) —
Born in Heidelberg, Germany,
of American parents, June 13,
1955.
Lawyer;
justice
of Georgia state supreme court, 1992-2005; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 2005-.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; National
Bar Association; Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2014.
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Terrycina Andrea Sewell (b. 1965) —
also known as Terri A. Sewell —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., January
1, 1965.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member, Rules Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008 ; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 2011-.
Female.
Baptist
or African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2018.
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Marietta Peabody Tree (1917-1991) —
also known as Marietta Tree; Mary Endicott Peabody;
Marietta FitzGerald —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., April
17, 1917.
Democrat. Member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1954-60; Democratic candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York, 1956;
U.S. Representative to United Nations Commission on Human Rights,
1961-64; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Female.
Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
She was walking with Adlai
Stevenson in London in 1965, when he suffered a fatal heart
attack.
Died, from breast
cancer, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
15, 1991 (age 74 years, 120
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest Hill Cemetery, Northeast Harbor, Mt. Desert, Maine.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Rev. Malcolm Endicott Peabody and Mary Elizabeth
(Parkman) Peabody; sister of Endicott
Peabody; married, September
2, 1939, to Desmond FitzGerald; married, July 26,
1947, to Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree (grandson of Lambert
Tree and Marshall Field; first cousin of Marshall
Field III); mother of Frances FitzGerald; grandniece of Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; great-granddaughter of John
Cortlandt Parker; second great-granddaughter of James
Parker; fourth great-grandniece of George
Cabot, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fifth great-granddaughter of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandniece of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747) and Timothy
Pickering; first cousin twice removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; first cousin thrice removed of William
Crowninshield Endicott; first cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; second cousin twice removed of William
Caleb Loring and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Henry
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston, William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
P. Schuyler, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay, Judah
Dana and Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; third cousin of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and Henry
Cabot Lodge; fourth cousin of William
Amory Gardner Minot and John
Forbes Kerry; fourth cousin once removed of William
Goodrich Morrell Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Parker-Schuyler
family of Perth Amboy, New Jersey (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Cynthia DeLores Tucker (1927-2005) —
also known as C. DeLores Tucker; Cynthia DeLores
Nottage —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
4, 1927.
Democrat. Secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1971-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1972,
1996,
2000,
2004;
speaker, 1984;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1978; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1980; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 2004.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP;
Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Died, in Suburban Woods Health
Center, Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
12, 2005 (age 78 years, 8
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Diane Edith Watson (b. 1933) —
also known as Diane E. Watson —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
12, 1933.
Democrat. Psychologist;
member of California
state senate, 1978-98; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1988,
1996,
2004,
2008;
U.S. Ambassador to Micronesia, 1999-2000; U.S.
Representative from California, 2001-11 (32nd District 2001-03,
33rd District 2003-11); member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 2004; Democratic Presidential
Elector for California, 2012
(voted for Barack
Obama and Joseph
R. Biden, Jr.).
Female.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2014.
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Bonnie Watson=Coleman (b. 1945) —
also known as Bonnie Watson —
of Ewing, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., February
6, 1945.
Democrat. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly 15th District, 1998-2014; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 2000,
2004,
2008;
New Jersey
Democratic state chair, 2002-06; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Jersey, 2004; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 12th District, 2015-.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2018.
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Frederica Smith Wilson (b. 1942) —
also known as Frederica S. Wilson; Frederica Patricia
Smith —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., November
5, 1942.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 104th District, 1999-2002; member
of Florida
state senate 33rd District, 2003-10; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from Florida, 2011-18 (17th District 2011-13, 24th
District 2013-18).
Female.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Still living as of 2018.
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