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John Raymond Bathe (b. 1945) —
also known as John R. Bathe —
of Fullerton, Orange
County, Calif.; La Habra, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
8, 1945.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1972.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 1973.
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record
label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene
"harmful matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken
word performer; on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted
and injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frederick Elliott Biermann (1884-1968) —
also known as Fred Biermann —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., March
20, 1884.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1928,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1933-39; defeated, 1938.
Agnostic. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., July 1,
1968 (age 84 years, 103
days). His body was
donated to the Iowa Medical School.
Interment at Phelps
Cemetery, Decorah, Iowa.
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Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) —
also known as Harry Browne —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nassau
County, N.Y., June 17,
1933.
Libertarian. Writer; investment
advisor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000; radio show
host, 2003.
Agnostic.
Died, of Lou
Gehrig's disease, in Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., March 1,
2006 (age 72 years, 257
days).
Interment at Mt.
Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C.
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Brian Arthur Christeson (b. 1946) —
also known as Brian Christeson —
of Alexandria, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in a hospital
at Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore., February
10, 1946.
Libertarian. Candidate for New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1994, 1996; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 2000.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 2006.
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Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) —
also known as Leroy Cleaver —
Born in Wabbaseka, Jefferson
County, Ark., August
31, 1935.
Peace and Freedom candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Atheist; later Mormon.
African
ancestry.
Died in Pomona, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 1,
1998 (age 62 years, 243
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900) —
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., August
17, 1818.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1859-63; justice of
Idaho territorial supreme court, 1863; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1864-65.
Agnostic.
Died in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, July 19,
1900 (age 81 years, 336
days).
Interment at Tallmadge
Cemetery, Tallmadge, Ohio.
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Larry Claxton Flynt (1942-2021) —
also known as Larry Flynt; "The King of
Smut" —
of Ohio; California.
Born in Lakeville, Magoffin
County, Ky., November
1, 1942.
Democrat. Owner of night
clubs; publisher of Hustler, a pornographic
magazine;
convicted
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 on obscenity
and organized
crime charges,
and sentenced
to 25 years in prison,
but the verdict was overturned on appeal; shot by a
sniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, and paralyzed
from the waist down; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Atheist.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
10, 2021 (age 78 years, 101
days).
Interment a private or family graveyard, Magoffin County, Ky.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Job Harriman (1861-1925) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Clinton
County, Ind., January
15, 1861.
Socialist. Minister;
lawyer;
Socialist Labor candidate for Governor of
California, 1898; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1900; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1911, 1913; member of Socialist National
Committee from California, 1911; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from California, 1912.
Christian;
later Agnostic.
Founder, in 1914, of the Llano de Rio utopian community in Antelope
Valley, Calif. (relocated to Louisiana in 1918).
Died, from tuberculosis,
in Sierra Madre, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
26, 1925 (age 64 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) —
also known as Robert G. Ingersoll; "The Great
Agnostic"; "American Infidel";
"Impious Pope Bob" —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dresden, Yates
County, N.Y., August
11, 1833.
Lawyer;
Democratic candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives 5th District, 1860; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; charged
about 1864 with assault
and battery against the Peoria County Sheriff; tried;
the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case was
dismissed before a new trial could be held; Illinois
state attorney general, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1876;
made the nominating speech which dubbed James
G. Blaine as "The Plumed Knight".
Agnostic.
Died in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 21,
1899 (age 65 years, 344
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1911 at Glen
Oak Park, Peoria, Ill.
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Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) —
also known as "Dr. Death" —
Born in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., May 26,
1928.
Physician;
euthanasia advocate whose campaign of assisted
suicides of terminally ill patients in 1989-99 brought him
national publicity; his medical license was revoked
in 1990; he faced numerous murder
charges
starting in 1993; acquitted by juries several times; convicted
in 1999 and sentenced
to 10 to 25 years in prison;
released in 2007; Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 2008.
Atheist. Armenian
ancestry.
Died, from kidney
and heart
problems, in Beaumont Hospital,
Royal Oak, Oakland
County, Mich., June 3,
2011 (age 83 years, 8
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery, Troy, Mich.
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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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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright;
author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";
received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic. Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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Monica Moorehead (b. 1952) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala., 1952.
Socialist. School
teacher; Workers World candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000, 2016.
Female.
Atheist. African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) —
also known as Linus Pauling —
of California.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., February
28, 1901.
Chemist;
university
professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1962; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1954, the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1962, and the Lenin
Peace Prize in 1968-69.
Unitarian;
later Atheist.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in Big Sur, Monterey
County, Calif., August
19, 1994 (age 93 years, 172
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Oswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, Ore.
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Clarence Horatio Pitkin (b. 1849) —
also known as Clarence H. Pitkin —
of Berlin, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in East Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt., August
26, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer; Washington
County State's Attorney, 1880-82; U.S.
Attorney for Vermont, 1887-89.
Rationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Irvin Hamilton Sutley Jr. (b. 1944) —
also known as Irv Sutley —
of Mill Valley, Marin
County, Calif.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Marin
County, Calif., June 9,
1944.
California Peace and Freedom Party state chair, 1970-72; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California; Peace and Freedom candidate
for U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1978; Peace and
Freedom candidate for California
state senate 4th District, 1990, 1993; Peace and Freedom
candidate for California
state assembly 7th District, 1992, 1994, 1998.
Atheist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Jesse Ventura (b. 1951) —
also known as James George Janos; James G. Janos;
"The Body"; "Governor
Body" —
of Brooklyn Park, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., July 15,
1951.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; mayor
of Brooklyn Park, Minn., 1991-94; Governor of
Minnesota, 1999-2003; Green candidate for President
of the United States, 2020.
Atheist.
Professional wrestler;
actor,
notably in film Predator.
Still living as of 2020.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist. Bisexual.
Novelist,
playwright,
essayist,
screenwriter,
appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Ziegler (b. 1967) —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany,
March
28, 1967.
Republican. Author; radio
commentator; filmmaker;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
2008.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 2014.
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