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Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908-1987) —
also known as Homer M. Byington, Jr. —
of Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Naples, Italy
of American parents, May 31,
1908.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Naples, 1938-39; U.S. Ambassador to Malaya, 1957-61; U.S. Consul General in Naples, 1963-73.
Protestant.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1946.
Died, of a heart
attack, aboard
the Vista Fjord, a Norwegian cruise ship, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, November
2, 1987 (age 79 years, 155
days).
Interment at St.
Georges Cemetery, St. Georges, Del.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
29, 2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Joseph Warren Madden (1890-1972) —
also known as J. Warren Madden —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in Damascus, Stephenson
County, Ill., January
17, 1890.
Democrat. Law
professor; member, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-40;
chair, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-40; Judge
of U.S. Court of Claims, 1941-61; took senior status 1961.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Order of
the Coif.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1947.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1972 (age 82 years, 31
days).
Interment somewhere
in Falls Church, Va.
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Robert Bernerd Anderson (1910-1989) —
also known as Robert B. Anderson —
of Texas.
Born in Burleson, Johnson
County, Tex., June 4,
1910.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1932; Received the Medal of
Freedom in 1955; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Delta Phi; Order of
the Coif.
Pleaded
guilty in 1987 to charges
of evading
taxes by illegally operating an offshore
bank; sentenced
to jail, house
arrest, and probation;
disbarred
in 1988.
Died, of complications from surgery on cancer
of the esophagus, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
14, 1989 (age 79 years, 71
days).
Interment at Rosehill Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Neil Hosler McElroy (1904-1972) —
also known as Neil H. McElroy —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berea, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, October
30, 1904.
President, Proctor & Gamble, 1948-57; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1957-59.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1959.
Died, of cancer,
in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
30, 1972 (age 68 years, 31
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer
and pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith F. (Foster) Dulles; brother of Allen
Welsh Dulles; married, June 26,
1912, to Janet Pomeroy Avery; grandson of John
Watson Foster; great-grandnephew of John
Welsh; third great-grandnephew of Joshua
Coit; first cousin twice removed of Langdon
Cheves Jr.; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Welsh; second cousin thrice removed of Robert
Coit Jr.; second cousin four times removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Abel
Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin of Lewis
Wardlaw Haskell; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell and William
Brainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Henry
Titus Backus and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
Corsi |
| | | Washington Dulles International Airport
(opened 1962), in Loudoun
and Fairfax
counties, Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 13,
1951 |
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Christian Archibald Herter (1895-1966) —
also known as Christian A. Herter —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Millis, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Paris, France
of American parents, March
28, 1895.
Republican. Personal assistant to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover, 1921-24; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1931-43; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1939-43;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932,
1940,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1956;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1943-53; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1953-57; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1956;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1959-61.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1961.
Died December
30, 1966 (age 71 years, 277
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Millis, Mass.
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Director and officer, National Sugar
Refining Company; director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and
in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
November
15, 1882.
Law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) —
also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K.";
"Lancer" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
received a 1957 Pulitzer
Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President
of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; American
Legion; Elks.
Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in 1963.
Shot
by a sniper,
Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a
motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital,
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177
days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy;
step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married Newton
Ivan Steers Jr.); brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia
Joan Bennett); married, September
12, 1953, to Jaqueline
Lee Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III); father of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who
married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
B. Connally — Henry
B. Gonzalez — Henry
M. Wade — Walter
Rogers — Gerry
E. Studds — James
B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark
Dalton — Waggoner
Carr — Theodore
C. Sorensen — Pierre
Salinger — John
Bartlow Martin — Abraham
Davenport |
| | | The John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
(opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from
Jeffersonville,
Indiana, to Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. half dollar coin. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles
in Courage (1956) |
| | | Books about John F. Kennedy:
Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK
: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An
Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael
O'Brien, John
F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask
Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed
America — Thomas Reeves, A
Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —
Chris Matthews, Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero — Shelley Sommer, John
F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:
Seymour Hersh, The
Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK:
the Man and the Myth |
| | | Image source: Warren Commission report
(via Wikipedia) |
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Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) —
also known as Herbert H. Lehman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
28, 1878.
Democrat. Director, Consolidated Cotton Duck
Co., Imperial Cotton Co.,
U.S. Cotton
Duck Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World
War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1929-32; Governor of
New York, 1933-42; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Gamma Delta; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1963; inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of
Fame in 1974.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
5, 1963 (age 85 years, 252
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) —
also known as Robert A. Lovett —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., September
14, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; partner, Brown Brothers
Harriman; director of several railroad
companies; director, Presbyterian Hospital
of New York; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1951-53.
Member, Skull
and Bones.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 7,
1986 (age 90 years, 235
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y.
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Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1917-2015) —
also known as Theodore Hesburgh; "Father
Ted" —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., May 25,
1917.
Catholic
priest; president,
Notre Dame University, 1952-87; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission,
1957-72.
Catholic.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom, 1964.
Died in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., February
26, 2015 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Notre Dame, Ind.
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Carl Vinson (1883-1981) —
also known as "Father of the Two-Ocean
Navy" —
of Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga.
Born in Baldwin
County, Ga., November
18, 1883.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1909-12; county judge in Georgia,
1912-14; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1914-65 (10th District 1914-33, 6th
District 1933-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died in Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., June 1,
1981 (age 97 years, 195
days).
Interment at Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Thomas John Watson Jr. (1914-1993) —
also known as Thomas J. Watson, Jr. —
of Connecticut.
Born January
14, 1914.
President, IBM,
1952-71; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1979-81.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom, 1964.
Died, from complications of a stroke,
in Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
31, 1993 (age 79 years, 351
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a
Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) —
also known as Walt Disney; "Uncle
Walt" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Irish
ancestry.
Producer
or director
of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first
theme park; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on
September 14, 1964. In honor of his invention of the multiplane
camera, he is an inductee to the National Inventors Hall of
Fame.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966 (age 65 years, 10
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Elias Disney and Flora (Call) Disney; married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds. |
| | | Cross-reference: George
J. Mitchell |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Walt Disney: Richard
Schickel, The
Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt
Disney — Leonard Mosley, Disney's
World: A Biography — Katherine Greene & Richard
Greene, The
Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — Bob
Thomas, Walt
Disney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Discovering
Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: Boy Scouts of
America |
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John William Gardner (1912-2002) —
also known as John W. Gardner —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
8, 1912.
Republican. University
professor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Sigma
Xi; Kappa
Delta Pi; American
Psychological Association; Common
Cause.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder of
Common Cause in 1970.
Died, from complications of prostate
cancer, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
16, 2002 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) —
also known as Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wright City, Warren
County, Mo., June 21,
1892.
Pastor;
professor,
Union Theological Seminary, 1928-60; Socialist candidate for New York
state senate 19th District, 1930; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1932; Socialist
candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
vice-chair of New York Liberal Party, 1958.
Protestant.
German
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Theologian; Socialist and pacifist until World War II; received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., June 1,
1971 (age 78 years, 345
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) —
also known as A. Philip Randolph —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., April
15, 1889.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1919;
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1924; organizer,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; vice-president,
AFL-CIO, 1957; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American Civil
Liberties Union; United
World Federalists.
Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September
14, 1964.
Died May 16,
1979 (age 90 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Director and officer, National Sugar
Refining Company; director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and
in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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Robert William Komer (1922-2000) —
also known as Robert Komer; "Blowtorch
Bob" —
of Virginia.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
23, 1922.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1968-69.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1967.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., April 9,
2000 (age 78 years, 46
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Murphy Locke (1918-1972) —
also known as Eugene M. Locke —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., January
6, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1964;
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1966-67; candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1968.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1967.
Died April
28, 1972 (age 54 years, 113
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Dallas, Tex.
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Robert Strange McNamara (1916-2009) —
also known as Robert S. McNamara —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 9,
1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; president, Ford Motor
Company, 1960-61; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1961-68; received the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, 1968; president, World Bank,
1968-81; on September 29, 1972, an attacker tried to throw him
overboard from a ferry to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died July 6,
2009 (age 93 years, 27
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) —
also known as Dean Rusk —
Born in Cherokee
County, Ga., February
9, 1909.
Rhodes
scholar; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1961-69.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died of congestive
heart failure, in Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., December
20, 1994 (age 85 years, 314
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Clark McAdams Clifford (1906-1998) —
also known as Clark M. Clifford —
Born in Fort Scott, Bourbon
County, Kan., December
25, 1906.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1968-69.
Member, American Bar
Association; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 20,
1969.
Died October
10, 1998 (age 91 years, 289
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Dubinsky (1892-1982) —
also known as David Dobnievski —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Brest, Belarus),
February
22, 1892.
President
of International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, from 1932; one of the
founders
of the American Labor Party in New York, 1936; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; vice-chair of New York Liberal
Party, 1944, 1958; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 20,
1969.
Died, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1982 (age 90 years, 207
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Zallel Dubinsky and Shaine (Wishingrad) Dubinsky; married 1915 to Emma
Goldberg. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 29,
1949 |
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William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) —
also known as W. Averell Harriman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1891.
Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1943-46; Great Britain, 1946; , 1961, 1965-69; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1946-48; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Governor
of New York, 1955-59; defeated, 1958.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Skull
and Bones.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died in Yorktown Heights, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 26,
1986 (age 94 years, 253
days).
Interment at Arden
Farm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Henry Harriman; married, September
21, 1915, to Kitty Lawrence; married, February
21, 1930, to Marie (Norton) Whitney (ex-wife of Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney); married, September
27, 1971, to Pamela
Hayward. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
B. Bingham |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Averell Harriman: Walter
Isaacson, The
Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made |
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Cyrus Roberts Vance (1917-2002) —
also known as Cyrus R. Vance —
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., March
27, 1917.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1977-80.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died, of Alzheimer's
disease, at Mt. Sinai Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 2002 (age 84 years, 291
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish,
French,
Swedish,
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 6,
1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond Charles Moley (1886-1975) —
also known as Raymond Moley; Ray Moley —
Born in Berea, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, September
27, 1886.
Mayor of Olmsted Falls, Ohio; university
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1933; broke with
Roosevelt in 1936, and later became senior advisor to Republicans Wendell
Willkie, Barry
Goldwater, and Richard
Nixon; columnist
for Newsweek magazine;
received the Medal of Freedom in 1970.
Irish
and French
ancestry.
Died February
18, 1975 (age 88 years, 144
days).
Interment somewhere
in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Relatives: Son
of Felix James Moley and Agnes (Fairchild) Moley; married 1916 to Eva
Dall; married 1949 to
Frances Hebard. |
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article |
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Frederick Andrew Seaton (1909-1974) —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Hastings, Adams
County, Neb.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
11, 1909.
Republican. Radio
announcer; sports
reporter; editor, manager, and publisher of newspapers;
vice-chair
of Kansas Republican Party, 1934-37; campaign secretary for Gov.
Alfred
M. Landon, 1936; member of Nebraska
unicameral legislature, 1945-49; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1951-52; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1962.
Methodist
or Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Rotary;
Navy
League; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Beta
Theta Pi; Pi
Kappa Delta.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom.
Died in St. Mary's Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., January
16, 1974 (age 64 years, 36
days).
Interment at Parkview
Cemetery, Hastings, Neb.
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John Leonard Swigert Jr. (1931-1982) —
also known as Jack Swigert —
of Colorado.
Born in Denver,
Colo., August
30, 1931.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1978; elected U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1982, but died before taking office.
Astronaut
on Apollo 13 moon mission in April 1970, which was aborted when an
oxygen tank ruptured, but returned safely to earth. Received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.
Died, of bone marrow
cancer, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
27, 1982 (age 51 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) —
also known as William P. Rogers —
Born in Norfolk, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., June 23,
1913.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1957-61; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1969-73.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of
the Coif.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1973.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
2, 2001 (age 87 years, 193
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (1922-2016) —
also known as Melvin R. Laird —
of Marshfield, Wood
County, Wis.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., September
1, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Wisconsin
state senate 24th District, 1947-52; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956
(speaker),
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 7th District, 1953-69; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1969-73.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Freemasons;
Elks; United
Commercial Travelers; Purple
Heart.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1974.
Died in Fort Myers, Lee
County, Fla., November
16, 2016 (age 94 years, 76
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) —
also known as David K. E. Bruce —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Charlotte Court House, Charlotte
County, Va.; Elkridge, Howard
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
12, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; farmer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1924-26; U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, as of 1926; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1940-43; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1949-52; Germany, 1957-59; Great Britain, 1961-69; U.S. Liaison to China, 1973-74.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976.
Died, as a result of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., December
5, 1977 (age 79 years, 296
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Alfred Kissinger (b. 1923) —
also known as Henry A. Kissinger; Heinz Alfred
Kissinger —
Born in Fürth, Germany,
May
27, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1973-77.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1973; received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in 1977.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Married, February
6, 1949, to Anne Fleischer; married, March
30, 1974, to Nancy Maginnes. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
H. Holdridge |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Henry Kissinger: Years
of Renewal (1999) — Years
of Upheaval (1982) — American
Foreign Policy (1974) — Diplomacy
(1994) — Nuclear
Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957) — The
White House Years (1979) — A
World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace,
1812-22 (1957) |
| | | Books about Henry Kissinger: Walter
Isaacson, Kissinger:
A Biography — Phyllis Schlafly, Kissinger
on the Couch — Robert D. Sulzinger, Henry
Kissinger : Doctor of Diplomacy — Alistair Horne, Kissinger:
1973, the Crucial Year |
| | | Critical books about Henry Kissinger:
Christopher Hitchens, The
Trial of Henry Kissinger |
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James Albert Michener (1907-1997) —
also known as James A. Michener —
Born in Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa., February
3, 1907.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author;
received the Pulitzer
Prize in Literature, 1948; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1962; received the
Medal of Freedom, 1977.
Died in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., October
16, 1997 (age 90 years, 255
days).
Interment at Austin
Memorial Park, Austin, Tex.; cenotaph at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) —
also known as Nelson A. Rockefeller;
"Rocky" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bar Harbor, Hancock
County, Maine, July 8,
1908.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); Governor of
New York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1974-77.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias.
Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died, of a massive heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1979 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rockefeller
Family Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby (Aldrich) Rockefeller;
brother of Winthrop
Rockefeller; married, June 23,
1930, to Mary Todhunter Clark; married, May 4,
1963, to Margaretta 'Happy' (Fitler) Murphy (great-granddaughter
of Edwin
Henry Fitler; third great-granddaughter of John
Sergeant); married 1963 to Happy
Murphy; nephew of Richard
Steere Aldrich and Winthrop
Williams Aldrich; uncle of John
Davison Rockefeller IV and Winthrop
Paul Rockefeller; grandson of Nelson
Wilmarth Aldrich; first cousin four times removed of Simon
S. Rockefeller; first cousin five times removed of Henry
Rockefeller; second cousin of David Hunter McAlpin (who married
Nina
Underwood); second cousin thrice removed of John
Phillips Rockefeller; fourth cousin once removed of Lewis
Kirby Rockefeller. |
| | | Political family: Rockefeller
family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Stewart
G. Anderson — John
H. Terry |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Nelson A. Rockefeller: Cary
Reich, The
Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller : Worlds to Conquer,
1908-1958 — Joseph H. Boyd, Oreos
and Dubonnet: Remembering Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller |
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Henry Jacob Friendly (1903-1986) —
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., July 3,
1903.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1959-74.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died in 1986
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld (b. 1932) —
also known as Donald Rumsfeld;
"Rummy" —
of Illinois.
Born in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., July 9,
1932.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1963-69; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1975-77, 2001-.
Presbyterian.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Still living as of 2019.
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Cross-reference:
Jim
Leach |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Donald Rumsfeld: Known
and Unknown: A Memoir (2011) |
| | | Books about Donald Rumsfeld: Midge
Decter, Rumsfeld
: A Personal Portrait — Rowan Scarborough, Rumsfeld's
War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist
Commander — Jeffrey A. Krames, The
Rumsfeld Way: The Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened
Maverick |
| | | Critical books about Donald Rumsfeld:
Clint Willis, The
I Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . .
Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America — Dan
Piraro, The
Three Little Pigs Buy the White House — Andrew
Cockburn, Rumsfeld
: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy |
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Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908-1990) —
also known as Arthur J. Goldberg —
of Illinois; New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
8, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; general
counsel, Congress of Industrial Organizations; helped merge that
group with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO,
1955; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1960;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1961-62; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-65; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1965-68; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to , 1977-78.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1978.
Died of coronary
artery disease, in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1990 (age 81 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978) —
also known as Hubert H. Humphrey; "H.H.H.";
"The Happy Warrior"; "The
Hump" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Wallace, Codington
County, S.Dak., May 27,
1911.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952,
1960,
1964;
mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1945-48; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1949-64, 1971-78; died in office 1978;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; candidate
for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960,
1972;
Vice
President of the United States, 1965-69; candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Congregationalist.
English
and Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Federation of Teachers.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1980.
Died, of cancer,
at Waverly, Wright
County, Minn., January
13, 1978 (age 66 years, 231
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue at Minneapolis City Hall Grounds, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) —
also known as Lyndon B. Johnson; "L.B.J.";
"Landslide Lyndon"; "Preacher
Lyndon"; "The Accidental President";
"Volunteer"; "Light Bulb
Johnson" —
of Johnson City, Blanco
County, Tex.
Born near Stonewall, Gillespie
County, Tex., August
27, 1908.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 1937-49; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940,
1956;
U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1949-61; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1956,
1960,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1961-63; President
of the United States, 1963-69.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1980.
Died from a heart
attack, in Gillespie
County, Tex., January
22, 1973 (age 64 years, 148
days).
Interment at LBJ
Ranch, Stonewall, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Sam Ealy Johnson and Rebekah (Baines) Johnson; married, November
17, 1934, to Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor and Claudia
Alta Taylor; father of Lynda Bird Johnson (who married Charles
Spittal Robb). |
| | | Political family: Johnson
family of Stonewall, Texas. |
| | | Cross-reference: Roger
Kent — Irvine
H. Sprague — A.
W. Moursund — Eliot
Janeway — Barefoot
Sanders |
| | | Lake
LBJ (created as Lake Granite Shoals; renamed in 1965), in Burnet
and Llano
counties, Texas, is named for
him. — The village
of Kampung LB Johnson, Malaysia,
is named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1964): "All The Way
With L.B.J." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lyndon B. Johnson: Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon
Johnson and the American Dream — Robert Dallek, Flawed
Giant : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 — Sean
J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Robert A. Caro, The
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Mark
Updegrove, Indomitable
Will: LBJ in the Presidency — Nicholas deB.
Katzenbach, Some
of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ — Robert A.
Caro, The
Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.
IV — Michael A. Schuman, Lyndon
B. Johnson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Lyndon B. Johnson:
Robert A. Caro, Years
of Lyndon Johnson : The Path to Power — Robert A.
Caro, Years
of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent — Robert A. Caro,
Years
of Lyndon Johnson : Master of the Senate — Lance
Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1973) |
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Harold Brown (b. 1927) —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
19, 1927.
Physicist;
president,
California Institute of Technology, 1969-77; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1977-81.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Still living as of 2018.
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Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932) —
also known as Andy Young —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
12, 1932.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; one of the founders of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. until his assassination; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1973-77; defeated,
1970; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1977-79; mayor
of Atlanta, Ga., 1982-90; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
candidate for Governor of
Georgia, 1990.
United
Church of Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Prince
Hall Masons.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1978; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1981.
Still living as of 2021.
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Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) —
also known as Warren Christopher; "The
Cardinal" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Scranton, Bowman
County, N.Dak., October
27, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputy
U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1993-97.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of
the Coif; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16,
1981.
Died, from kidney
and bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
18, 2011 (age 85 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996) —
also known as Edmund S. Muskie; "Mr.
Clean" —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Rumford, Oxford
County, Maine, March
28, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1947-51; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1952-54; Governor of
Maine, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1956,
1964;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1959-80; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1980-81.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Lions; Elks; Amvets;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March
26, 1996 (age 81 years, 364
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Gerard Coad Smith (1914-1994) —
also known as Gerard C. Smith —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born May 4,
1914.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1977-80.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died July 4,
1994 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert Schwarz Strauss (1918-2014) —
also known as Robert S. Strauss; Bob
Strauss —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Lockhart, Caldwell
County, Tex., October
19, 1918.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1964
(alternate), 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1972-77; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1991; Russia, 1992.
Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 16,
1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 2014 (age 95 years, 151
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) —
also known as Elbert P. Tuttle —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 17,
1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Georgia, 1948,
1952
(member, Credentials
Committee); Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1954-68; took
senior status 1968.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., June 23,
1996 (age 98 years, 342
days).
Interment at All
Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
19, 1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's
Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ella Tambussi Grasso (1919-1981) —
also known as Ella T. Grasso; Ella Rose
Tambussi —
of Windsor Locks, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor Locks, Hartford
County, Conn., May 10,
1919.
Democrat. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1953-57; member of Democratic
National Committee from Connecticut, 1956-58; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1968;
co-chair, Resolutions and Platform Committee, co-chair, 1964,
co-chair, 1968;
secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1959-71; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District,
1965; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1971-75; Governor of
Connecticut, 1975-80; resigned 1980.
Female.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; American
Association of University Women; League of Women
Voters; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1981; inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1993.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., February
5, 1981 (age 61 years, 271
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Windsor Locks, Conn.
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Walter Henry Judd (1898-1994) —
also known as Walter H. Judd —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Rising City, Butler
County, Neb., September
25, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; physician;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 5th District, 1943-63; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate; speaker),
1956
(speaker),
1960,
1964.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died in Mitchellville, Prince
George's County, Md., February
13, 1994 (age 95 years, 141
days).
Interment at Blue
Valley Cemetery, Surprise, Neb.
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Philip Charles Habib (1920-1992) —
also known as Philip C. Habib —
of California.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
25, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74; helped negotiate the 1978 Camp David
accords between Egypt and Israel.
Lebanese
ancestry.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Puligny-Montrachet, France,
May
25, 1992 (age 72 years, 90
days).
Interment at Veterans
Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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Jacob Koppel Javits (1904-1986) —
also known as Jacob K. Javits —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 18,
1904.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1947-54; New York
state attorney general, 1955-57; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1957-81; defeated, 1980 (primary), 1980
(Liberal); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.
Jewish.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Jewish
War Veterans; United
World Federalists; Amvets.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, of ALS (Lou Gehrig's
disease), in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., March 7,
1986 (age 81 years, 293
days).
Interment at Linden
Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe; Clare Boothe
Brokaw —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
10, 1903.
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1925-2014) —
also known as Howard H. Baker —
of Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn.
Born in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., November
15, 1925.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1967-85; defeated, 1964; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Tennessee, 1972;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
White House Chief of Staff, 1987-88; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Tennessee; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 2001-05.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Pi
Kappa Phi.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984.
Died in Huntsville, Scott
County, Tenn., June 26,
2014 (age 88 years, 223
days).
Interment at Mossop Cemetery, Huntsville, Tenn.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Irene
Bailey Baker; son of Dora (Ladd) Baker and Howard
Henry Baker; married, December
22, 1951, to Joy Dirksen (daughter of Everett
McKinley Dirksen); married, December
7, 1996, to Nancy
Landon Kassebaum (daughter of Alfred
Mossman Landon). |
| | | Political family: Baker-Dirksen
family of Huntsville and Alcoa, Tennessee. |
| | | Cross-reference: Victor
Ashe |
| | | Howard Baker Jr. Avenue,
in Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Martin Jackson (1912-1983) —
also known as Henry M. Jackson;
"Scoop" —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., May 31,
1912.
Democrat. Lawyer; Snohomish
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1938-40; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1941-53; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1953-83; died in office 1983; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1960-61; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1972,
1976.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Chi.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1984.
Died in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., September
1, 1983 (age 71 years, 93
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Everett, Wash.
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James Maitland Stewart (1908-1997) —
also known as Jimmy Stewart —
Born in Indiana, Indiana
County, Pa., May 20,
1908.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; one of
America's most famous film
actors; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Moose.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom, 1985.
Died, from pulmonary
embolism and cardiac
arrest, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 2,
1997 (age 89 years, 43
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) —
also known as Jeane J. Kirkpatrick; Jeane Duane
Jordan —
Born in Duncan, Stephens
County, Okla., November
19, 1926.
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1981-85.
Female.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., December
7, 2006 (age 80 years, 18
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Paul Henry Nitze (1907-2004) —
also known as Paul H. Nitze —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
16, 1907.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1986-89.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 2004 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Charles County, Md.
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Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002) —
also known as Walter H. Annenberg —
of Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., March
13, 1908.
Vice-president of his father's company, which published the Racing
Form and other newspapers;
he and his father were indicted
for tax
evasion in 1939, but the charges against him were dismissed as
part of a plea bargain; inherited the company when his father died;
founder of Seventeen and TV Guide; owner of radio and
television stations; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1969-74.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Newcomen
Society; Phi
Sigma Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Zeta
Beta Tau.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
1, 2002 (age 94 years, 202
days).
Interment at Sunnyland
Estate, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) —
also known as Barry M. Goldwater; "Mr.
Conservative" —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
1, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87; received one electoral
vote for Vice-President, 1960;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1964.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sigma
Chi.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1986.
Died in Paradise Valley, Maricopa
County, Ariz., May 29,
1998 (age 89 years, 148
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Christ
Church of the Ascension Memorial Garden, Paradise Valley, Ariz.;
statue at Goldwater
Memorial Park, Paradise Valley, Ariz.
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Relatives:
Married, September
22, 1934, to Margaret Johnson; married, February
9, 1992, to Susan Shaffer Wechsler; father of Barry
Morris Goldwater Jr.; grandson of Michael
Goldwater. |
| | | Political family: Goldwater
family of Prescott, Arizona. |
| | | Cross-reference: L.
Brent Bozell — Raymond
Moley |
| | | Campaign slogan: "In your heart, you
know he's right." |
| | | Opposition slogan: "In your guts, you
know he's nuts." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Barry M. Goldwater: Goldwater
(1988) — With
no apologies: The personal and political memoirs of United States
Senator Barry Goldwater (1979) |
| | | Books about Barry M. Goldwater: Rick
Perlstein, Before
the Storm : Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus — Robert Alan Goldberg, Barry
Goldwater — Lee Edwards, Goldwater:
The Man Who Made a Revolution — Scott Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation |
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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) —
also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs.
Tobin Armstrong —
of Armstrong, Kenedy
County, Tex.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
27, 1927.
Republican. Member of Texas
Republican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1976-77; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Texas.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died, of cancer,
in a hospice
at Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 30,
2008 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Irving Robert Kaufman (1910-1992) —
also known as Irving R. Kaufman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 24,
1910.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1949-61; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-87.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died February
1, 1992 (age 81 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Herman Kaufman and Rose (Spielberg) Kaufman; married, June 23,
1936, to Helen Ruth Rosenberg. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leonard
B. Sand |
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade Commission,
1969-70; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade
Commission; director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987. To
forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia,
in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March
28, 2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Howard Malcolm Baldrige (1922-1987) —
also known as Malcolm Baldrige; Mac
Baldrige —
of Woodbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., October
4, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; business
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1964,
1968,
1972;
delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District,
1965; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1981-87; died in office 1987.
Congregationalist.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in
1988.
Died after falling
off a horse
while practicing rodeo, July 25,
1987 (age 64 years, 294
days).
Interment at New
North Cemetery, Woodbury, Conn.
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Warren Earl Burger (1907-1995) —
also known as Warren E. Burger —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., September
17, 1907.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1944,
1948
(alternate), 1952
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker);
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1956-69; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-86; took senior status 1986.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Federal
Bar Association.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Alexandria,
Va., June 25,
1995 (age 87 years, 281
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1903.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining engineer;
university
professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; defeated in
primary, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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George Pratt Shultz (1920-2021) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89; survived an assassination
attempt in South America, August 1988; received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1989.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
6, 2021 (age 100 years,
55 days).
Interment at Dawes Cemetery, Cummington, Mass.
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Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989) —
also known as Claude Pepper —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born near Dudleyville, Chambers
County, Ala., September
8, 1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1936-51; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1960,
1964,
1968
(alternate); member, Platform and Resolutions Committee, 1944;
speaker, 1944,
1988;
U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1963-89 (3rd District 1963-67, 11th
District 1967-73, 14th District 1973-83, 18th District 1983-89); died
in office 1989.
Baptist.
Member, Moose; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis;
American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma
Upsilon; Kappa
Alpha Order; United
World Federalists.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1989 (age 88 years, 264
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) —
also known as George F. Kennan —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
16, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared
him persona
non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War;
received the 1968 Pulitzer
Prize in Biography for his Memoirs; received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
17, 2005 (age 101 years,
29 days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) —
also known as Margaret Chase —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine, December
14, 1897.
Republican. School
teacher; business executive for Maine Telephone
& Telegraph
Co., for a country newspaper,
and for the Cummings Woolen Co.;
member of Maine
Republican State Committee, 1930-36; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1940-49; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1949-73; defeated, 1972; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1964.
Female.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1973; received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, 1989.
Died May 29,
1995 (age 97 years, 166
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Margaret
Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan, Maine.
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William Joseph Brennan Jr. (1906-1997) —
also known as William J. Brennan, Jr. —
of New Jersey.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
25, 1906.
Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior court judge in
New Jersey, 1949-52; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1952-56; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1956-90; took senior status 1990.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Died in a nursing
home in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., July 24,
1997 (age 91 years, 90
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William J. Brennan and Agnes (McDermott) Brennan; married, May 5,
1928, to Marjorie Leonard. |
| | | Cross-reference: Michael
Chertoff — Abraham
David Sofaer |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about William J. Brennan: Kim
Isaac Eisler, A
Justice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That
Transformed America — David E. Marion, The
Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. —
Hunter R. Clark, Justice
Brennan: The Great Conciliator — Charles M. Haar &
Jerold S. Kayden, Landmark
Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's
Communities — Frank I. Michelman, Brennan
and Democracy |
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Richard Bruce Cheney (b. 1941) —
also known as Richard B. Cheney; Dick Cheney;
"Shooter" —
of Casper, Natrona
County, Wyo.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., January
30, 1941.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Wyoming at-large, 1979-89; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1989-93; Vice
President of the United States, 2001-09.
Methodist.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 3, 1991.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Married, August
29, 1964, to Lynne Ann Vincent. |
| | | Cross-reference: Don
Evans |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Richard B. Cheney: Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History, with Lynne V. Cheney (1996) — In
My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (2011) |
| | | Books about Richard B. Cheney: Stephen
F. Hayes, Cheney
: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice
President — Barton Gellman, Angler:
The Cheney Vice Presidency |
| | | Critical books about Richard B. Cheney:
John Nichols, Dick:
The Man Who is President — Clint Willis, The
I Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . .
Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America — Dan
Piraro, The
Three Little Pigs Buy the White House — Lou Dubose and
Jake Bernstein, Vice:
Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American
Presidency |
| | | Fiction about Richard B. Cheney: Henry
Beard, The
Dick Cheney Code : A Parody |
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William Hedgcock Webster (b. 1924) —
also known as William H. Webster —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March 6,
1924.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1959-61; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1970-73; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1973-78; director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1978-87; director of Central
Intelligence, 1987-91.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Still living as of 2014.
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James Addison Baker III (b. 1930) —
also known as James A. Baker III —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., April
28, 1930.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas, 1972
(alternate), 1988;
candidate for Texas
state attorney general, 1978; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1985-88; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1989-92.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Still living as of 2020.
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Colin Luther Powell (1937-2021) —
also known as Colin L. Powell;
"Balloonfoot" —
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1937.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S. Army
general; National Security Advisor, 1987-89; chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff, 1989-93; U.S.
Secretary of State, 2001-05; received 3 electoral votes for
President, 2016.
African
ancestry.
Recipient of the Spingarn
medal, 1991; twice recipient of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, in 1991 and again in 1995.
Died, from COVID-19,
at Walter
Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., October
18, 2021 (age 84 years, 196
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull
and Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author
and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential Medal
of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brother
of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) — The
Reagan I Knew (2008) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe
McCarthy |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —
Lee Edwards, William
F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.
Bogus, Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American
Conservatism |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jr. (1912-1994) —
also known as Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.;
"Tip" —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
9, 1912.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1937-52; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1949-52;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952,
1960,
1964;
Honorary Chair, 1984;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1953-87 (11th District
1953-63, 8th District 1963-87); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1977-87.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Died, of cardiac
arrest, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
5, 1994 (age 81 years, 27
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Harwich Port, Harwich, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas P. O'Neill and Rose Anne (Tolan) O'Neill; married, June 17,
1941, to Mildred Anne Miller; father of Thomas
P. O'Neill III. |
| | | The O'Neill Tunnel
(opened 2003), which carries Interstate 93, Highway 1, and Route 3,
in Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by Thomas P. O'Neill: Man
of the House : The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip
O'Neill (1989) |
| | | Books about Thomas P. O'Neill: John
Aloysius Farrell, Tip
O' Neill and the Democratic Century: A Biography —
Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Image source: Public Officers of
Massachusetts, 1979-80 |
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Vernon Anthony Walters (1917-2002) —
also known as Vernon A. Walters —
of Florida.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
3, 1917.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; deputy chief of the
Central Intelligence Agency, 1972-76; U.S. Ambassador to , 1981-85; Germany, 1989-91; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1985-89.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Died, at Good Samaritan Medical
Center, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
10, 2002 (age 85 years, 38
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential Medal
of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia
and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress)
and Nancy
Davis (1921-2016); father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Political family: Reagan
family of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
(opened 1941; renamed 1998), in Arlington,
Virginia, is named for
him. — Mount
Reagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan, My
Father at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.
Bossie, Ronald
Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,
The
Reagan I Knew — Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years — William
Kleinknecht, The
Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street
America |
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Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) —
also known as César Estrada Chávez —
of Delano, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Yuma, Yuma
County, Ariz., March
31, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; farm
worker; co-founded
the National Farm Workers Association, which became the United Farm
Workers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1968.
Catholic.
Mexican
ancestry.
Awarded posthumously the Medal of Freedom, in 1994.
Died in San Luis, Yuma
County, Ariz., April
23, 1993 (age 66 years, 23
days).
Interment at Cesar Chavez National Monument, Keene, Calif.
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Arthur Sherwood Flemming (1905-1996) —
also known as Arthur S. Flemming —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio; Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., June 12,
1905.
Republican. Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1939-48; president,
Ohio-Wesleyan University, 1948-53; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1958-61; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1960;
president,
University of Oregon, 1961-68; president,
Macalester College, 1968-71.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society for Public Administration; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Died of acute renal
failure, at a retirement
home in Alexandria,
Va., September
7, 1996 (age 91 years, 87
days).
Interment at Montrepose
Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
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Robert Henry Michel (1923-2017) —
also known as Robert H. Michel —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., March 2,
1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Harold
Velde, 1949-56; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 18th District, 1957-95; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1964,
1968,
1972.
Member, Order of
Ahepa; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Amvets;
Sigma
Nu; Pi
Kappa Delta; Purple
Heart; Jaycees.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
17, 2017 (age 93 years, 352
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Barbara Charline Jordan (1936-1996) —
also known as Barbara Jordan —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., February
21, 1936.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state senate, 1967; U.S.
Representative from Texas 18th District, 1973-79; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988.
Female.
African
ancestry. Lesbian.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1990; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1992, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
1994.
Died of leukemia
and multiple
sclerosis, January
17, 1996 (age 59 years, 330
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (1915-2011) —
also known as R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.;
"Sarge" —
Born in Westminster, Carroll
County, Md., November
9, 1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
organized and directed the Peace Corps, 1961-66; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1968-70; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1972; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1976.
Catholic.
German
ancestry. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
Died, from Alzheimer's
disease, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
18, 2011 (age 95 years, 70
days).
Interment at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Centerville, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Sargent Shriver and Hilda (Shriver) Shriver; married, May 23,
1953, to Eunice Mary Kennedy (daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; sister of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; aunt of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend); father of Maria Owings Shriver (who married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger) and Mark
Kennedy Shriver; nephew of James
Causten Shriver; grandson of Thomas
Herbert Shriver; great-grandson of Thomas
Johns Perry. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | Sargent Shriver Elementary
School, in Silver
Spring, Maryland, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about R. Sargent Shriver: Scott
Stossel, Sarge:
The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver — Mark Shriver,
A
Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent
Shriver |
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1928-1998) —
also known as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
25, 1928.
Member, Federal Trade Commission, 1962-64; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1964-77;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1977-93.
African
ancestry.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995; received
the Spingarn
Medal in 1996.
Died, following a series of strokes,
in a hospital
at Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1998 (age 70 years, 292
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (1918-1999) —
also known as Frank M. Johnson, Jr. —
of Jasper, Walker
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Haleyville, Winston
County, Ala., October
30, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1948;
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1953-55; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, 1955-; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1979-81; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-92.
Legendary for civil rights decisions; recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
Died of pneumonia,
in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., July 23,
1999 (age 80 years, 266
days).
Interment at Hill
Crest City Cemetery, Haleyville, Ala.
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Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, September
13, 1922.
Democrat. School
teacher; welder; social
worker; founder, in 1961, of ASPIRA, a non-profit organization
which promotes education and community for Puerto Rican and other
Latino youth; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967;
received the Medal of Freedom, 1996; inducted into the Hunter
College Hall of
Fame.
Female.
Puerto
Rican ancestry. Lesbian.
Died, of cancer,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
2002 (age 79 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Morris King Udall (1922-1998) —
also known as Morris K. Udall; Mo Udall —
of Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born in St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz., June 15,
1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; played
professional basketball
with the Denver Nuggets, 1948-49; lawyer;
co-founder and director, Bank of
Tucson; Pima
County Attorney, 1953-54; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arizona, 1956,
1972;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
U.S.
Representative from Arizona 2nd District, 1961-91; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1976.
Mormon.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Lost
an eye in an accident when he was a boy. Received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease, in the Veterans Administration Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
12, 1998 (age 76 years, 180
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Pima County, Ariz.; cenotaph at St.
Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.
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William James Perry (b. 1927) —
Born in Vandergrift, Westmoreland
County, Pa., October
11, 1927.
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1994-97.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1997.
Still living as of 2014.
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Robert Joseph Dole (1923-2021) —
also known as Bob Dole —
of Russell, Russell
County, Kan.
Born in Russell, Russell
County, Kan., July 22,
1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1951-53; U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1961-69 (6th District 1961-63, 1st
District 1963-69); U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1969-96; resigned 1996; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1971-73; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1980,
1988;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1996.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Elks; American Bar
Association; Disabled
American Veterans; Kappa
Sigma.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1997.
Died, from lung
cancer, December
5, 2021 (age 98 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dante Bruno Fascell (1917-1998) —
also known as Dante B. Fascell —
of Coral Gables, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Bridgehampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March 9,
1917.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1951-54; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1955-93 (4th District 1955-67, 12th
District 1967-73, 15th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-93);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1956
(delegation vice-chair), 1968
(alternate).
Italian
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Lions; American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Military
Order of the World Wars; Jaycees;
Kappa
Sigma.
Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1998.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla., November
28, 1998 (age 81 years, 264
days).
Interment at Sylvan
Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Fla.
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Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (1920-2000) —
also known as Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.; Bud
Zumwalt —
of Virginia.
Born in Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif., November
29, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Chief of U.S. naval operations
in 1970-74; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1976.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.
Died, following two cancer
surgeries, at Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
2, 2000 (age 79 years, 34
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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Evelyn Dubrow (1917-2006) —
also known as Evy Dubrow —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J., May 6,
1917.
Democrat. Labor
organizer; vice
president and lobbyist
for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for many years;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1984,
1988,
1996.
Female.
Received the Medal of Freedom in 1999.
Died, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., June 20,
2006 (age 89 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913-2006) —
also known as Gerald R. Ford; Jerry Ford; Leslie
Lynch King Jr.; "Passkey" —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., July 14,
1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1948,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1949-73; resigned
1973; member, President's Commission on the Assassination of
President KNDY, 1963-64; Vice
President of the United States, 1973-74; President
of the United States, 1974-77; defeated, 1976.
Episcopalian.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Forty and
Eight; Jaycees;
Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Humane
Society; Elks; American Bar
Association.
Shot
at in two separate incidents in San Francisco in September 1975.
On September 5, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, follower of murderous cult
leader Charles Manson, got close to the President with a loaded
pistol, and squeezed the trigger at close range; the gun misfired.
On September 22, Sara Jane Moore fired a
shot at him, but a bystander deflected her aim. Both women were
convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Received the Medal of
Freedom in 1999.
Died in Rancho Mirage, Riverside
County, Calif., December
26, 2006 (age 93 years, 165
days).
Interment at Gerald
R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Gerald Rudolph Ford, Sr.; son of Leslie Lynch King, Sr.
and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King Ford; half-brother of Thomas
G. Ford Sr.; married, October
15, 1948, to Betty
Warren. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Richard
M. Nixon — L.
William Seidman |
| | | The Gerald R. Ford Freeway
(I-196), in Kent,
Ottawa,
and Allegan
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford International
Airport (opened 1963, given present name 1999), near Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Gerald R. Ford Federal
Building and U.S.
Courthouse, in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Gerald R. Ford: A
Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(1983) |
| | | Books about Gerald R. Ford: John Robert
Greene, The
Presidency of Gerald R. Ford — Edward L. Schapsmeier,
Gerald
R. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography —
James Cannon, Time
and Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History —
Douglas Brinkley, Gerald
R. Ford |
| | | Image source: Michigan Manual
1957-58 |
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Oliver White Hill (1907-2007) —
also known as Oliver W. Hill —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., May 1,
1907.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; in 1947, he was elected
as the first
Black member of Richmond's city council since Reconstruction;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999, and the Spingarn
Medal in 2005.
Died in Richmond,
Va., August
5, 2007 (age 100 years,
96 days).
Interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Elliot Lee Richardson (1920-1999) —
also known as Elliot L. Richardson —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1920.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1959-61; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1965-67; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1967-69; defeated in primary, 1962;
resigned 1969; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970-73; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1973; U.S.
Attorney General, 1973; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1975-76; , 1977-80; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1976-77; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1984.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1999 (age 79 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Wesley Kanne Clark (b. 1944) —
also known as Wesley K. Clark; Wesley
Kanne —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
23, 1944.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S.
Army General; Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 2004.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom, 2000.
Still living as of 2014.
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Mildred Jeffrey (1910-2004) —
also known as Millie Jeffrey; Mildred
McWilliams —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Alton, Sioux
County, Iowa, December
29, 1910.
Democrat. Organizer
for the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers in the 1930s; director,
Women's Bureau, and later the community relations and consumer
affairs departments, United Automobile
Workers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1968,
1976,
1980;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1964;
member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1957-61; member of Democratic
National Committee from Michigan, 1961-69; candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County
12th District, 1961; member of Wayne State
University board of governors; elected 1974.
Female.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.
Died, in a nursing
home at Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
24, 2004 (age 93 years, 86
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1936 to Homer
Newman Jeffrey. |
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Aretha Louise Franklin (1942-2018) —
also known as Aretha Franklin; "Queen of
Soul" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., March
25, 1942.
Democrat. Singer; performed, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;
inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, 1987; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
2005.
Female.
Died, from pancreatic
neuroendocrine tumor, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August
16, 2018 (age 76 years, 144
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Gillespie V. Montgomery (1920-2006) —
also known as G. V. 'Sonny' Montgomery —
of Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., August
5, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; insurance
business; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1956-66; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1967-97 (4th District 1967-73,
3rd District 1973-97); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Mississippi, 1996.
Episcopalian.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order.
Recipient, Medal of Freedom, 2005.
Died, in Jeff Anderson Regional Medical
Center, Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., May 12,
2006 (age 85 years, 280
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Meridian, Miss.
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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921-2016) —
also known as John Glenn —
of New Concord, Muskingum
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Cambridge, Guernsey
County, Ohio, July 18,
1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; Astronaut;
in February 1962, first
American to orbit the earth; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1964,
1996,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1975-99; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1984;
received the Medal of Freedom in 2012; also inducted to the
International Air & Space Hall of
Fame, the National Aviation Hall of
Fame, the International Space Hall of
Fame, and the U.S. Astronaut Hall of
Fame.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, December
8, 2016 (age 95 years, 143
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Married 1943 to Anna
Margaret Castor. |
| | | The John Glenn Columbus International
Airport (Port Columbus International Airport until 2016), in Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in New
Concord, Ohio, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Westland,
Michigan, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Bay City,
Michigan, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Walkerton,
Indiana, is named for
him. — John Glenn High
School, in Norwalk,
California, is named for
him. — John Glenn Middle
School, in San
Angelo, Texas, is named for
him. — Colonel Glenn Road,
in Little
Rock, Arkansas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by John Glenn: John
Glenn: A Memoir (1999) |
| | | Books about John Glenn: Robert Green,
John
Glenn : Astronaut and U.S. Senator (for young
readers) |
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Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (b. 1930) —
also known as Dolores C. Huerta —
of Delano, Kern
County, Calif.; Keene, Kern
County, Calif.; Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Dawson, Colfax
County, N.M., April
10, 1930.
Democrat. School
teacher; co-founded
the National Farm Workers Association, which became the United Farm
Workers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1968
(alternate), 1972,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; received the
Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Female.
Mexican
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez; married to Ralph Head
and Ventura Huerta. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Lee Herbert Hamilton (b. 1931) —
also known as Lee H. Hamilton —
of Columbus, Bartholomew
County, Ind.
Born in Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., April
20, 1931.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1965-99; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1968,
1996;
received the Medal of Freedom in 2015.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Trilateral
Commission; Rotary;
Jaycees;
Alpha
Tau Omega.
Inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2018.
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Cicely Tyson (b. 1924) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1924.
Democrat. Model;
actress;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Delta
Sigma Theta.
Recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 2010, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
2016.
Still living as of 2019.
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Orrin Grant Hatch (1934-2022) —
also known as Orrin G. Hatch —
of Midvale, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Homestead, Allegheny
County, Pa., March
22, 1934.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1977-2019; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 2000;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah, 2004,
2008;
received the Medal of Freedom in 2018.
Mormon.
Member, Federalist
Society.
Songwriter,
author of dozens of religious and patriotic songs.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, April
23, 2022 (age 88 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Daniel Jordan (b. 1964) —
also known as Jim Jordan —
of Urbana, Champaign
County, Ohio.
Born in Troy, Miami
County, Ohio, February
17, 1964.
Republican. Athletic
coach; member of Ohio
state house of representatives 85th District, 1995-2000; member
of Ohio
state senate 12th District, 2001-06; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 2007-; in 2018, he was accused
by former Ohio State University wrestlers of ignoring sexual
abuse by the team physician; he denied this, but refused to
cooperate with an investigation;
in a lawsuit, he was charged
with witness
tampering and intimidation;
received the Medal of Freedom on January 11, 2021; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.
Still living as of 2022.
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