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in alphabetical order
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Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (1903-1998) —
also known as Thomas G. Abernethy; Tom
Abernethy —
of Eupora, Webster
County, Miss.; Okolona, Chickasaw
County, Miss.
Born in Eupora, Webster
County, Miss., May 16,
1903.
Democrat. Mayor of Eupora, Miss., 1927-29; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1943-73 (4th District 1943-53,
1st District 1953-73); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Mississippi, 1948,
1956
(alternate), 1960.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Lambda
Chi Alpha; Exchange
Club.
Died in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., June 11,
1998 (age 95 years, 26
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Memorial Park, Jackson, Miss.
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John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902) —
also known as John P. Altgeld —
of Andrew
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Hesse, Germany,
December
30, 1847.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Andrew
County State's Attorney, 1875; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1884; superior court judge in
Illinois, 1886-91; Governor of
Illinois, 1893-97; Independent candidate for mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1899.
German
ancestry.
Pardoned the surviving protesters of the Haymarket incident in
Chicago, and refused to send troops against the Pullman railway
strikers. These actions were not popular at the time, and he never
won another election.
As he finished a speech
at the Joliet Opera
House, he suffered a stroke,
was carried across the street to the Hotel
Monroe, and died the next morning, in Joliet, Will
County, Ill., March
12, 1902 (age 54 years, 72
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; statue at Lincoln
Park, Chicago, Ill.
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George Ross Anderson Jr. (1929-2020) —
also known as G. Ross Anderson, Jr. —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C., January
29, 1929.
Served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1955-56; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1980-2009; took senior status
2009.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in South Carolina, December
1, 2020 (age 91 years, 307
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Anderson, S.C.
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George William Andrews (1906-1971) —
also known as George W. Andrews —
of Union Springs, Bullock
County, Ala.
Born in Clayton, Barbour
County, Ala., December
12, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1944-71 (3rd District 1944-63,
at-large 1963-65, 3rd District 1965-71); died in office 1971.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Nu; Phi
Delta Phi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., December
25, 1971 (age 65 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Union Springs, Ala.
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Winston Eugene Arnow (1911-1994) —
also known as Winston E. Arnow —
of Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Micanopy, Alachua
County, Fla., March
13, 1911.
Lawyer;
municipal judge in Florida, 1940-42, 1946-49; major in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida, 1967-81;
took senior status 1981.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Blue
Key; Elks; Rotary.
Died in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., November
28, 1994 (age 83 years, 260
days).
Interment at Roberts
Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.
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Carl Clyde Atkins (1914-1999) —
also known as C. Clyde Atkins —
of Stuart, Martin
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1914.
Lawyer;
founder-trustee, Lawyers Title
Guaranty Fund, 1948-66; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1966-99;
died in office 1999.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Kappa Tau; Phi
Alpha Delta; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Kiwanis.
Died in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., March
11, 1999 (age 84 years, 108
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Bascom (1827-1911) —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Genoa, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
30, 1827.
College
professor; president,
University of Wisconsin, 1874-87; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1890 (12th District), 1896
(1st District), 1902 (1st District); Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
2, 1911 (age 84 years, 155
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Bascom and Laura (Woodbridge) Bascom; married 1853 to Abbie
Burt; married, January
8, 1856, to Emma Curtiss. |
| | | Bascom Hall, on the campus of the University
of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Bascom (built 1942-43 at Panama
City, Florida; bombed and sank in the harbor at Bari,
Italy, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) —
also known as Kemp P. Battle —
of Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Louisburg, Franklin
County, N.C., December
19, 1831.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; president, Chatham
Railroad
during the Civil War; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1866-68; president,
University of North Carolina, 1876-91; historian.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
4, 1919 (age 87 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Charles Edward Bennett (1910-2003) —
also known as Charles E. Bennett —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., December
2, 1910.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1941-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1949-93 (2nd District 1949-67, 3rd
District 1967-93).
Christian.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Lions;
Jaycees.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., September
6, 2003 (age 92 years, 278
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Howard Berkey (1874-1952) —
also known as William H. Berkey —
of Cassopolis, Cass
County, Mich.
Born in Cambria
County, Pa., February
24, 1874.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920
(alternate), 1940;
member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1930-47; Dry candidate for delegate
to Michigan convention to ratify 21st amendment from Cass County,
1933.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
22, 1952 (age 78 years, 27
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Cassopolis, Mich.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (b. 1942) —
also known as Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Joe Biden;
"Sleepy Joe" —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa., November
20, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1973-2009; resigned 2009; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1988,
2008;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
Vice
President of the United States, 2009-17; President
of the United States, 2021-.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) —
also known as Hugo L. Black —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Harlan, Clay
County, Ala., February
27, 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer;
police court judge in Alabama, 1910-11; Jefferson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1927-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1936;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1937-71; took senior status 1971.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., September
25, 1971 (age 85 years, 210
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William La Fayette Black and Martha Ardella (Toland) Black;
married, February
23, 1921, to Josephine Patterson Foster; married, September
11, 1957, to Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte. |
| | | The Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse, in
Birmingham,
Alabama, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Here lies a good
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about Hugo L. Black: Roger K.
Newman, Hugo
Black : A Biography — Howard Ball, Hugo
L. Black : Cold Steel Warrior — James F Simon, The
antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in
modern America — Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Luke Pryor Blackburn (1816-1887) —
also known as Luke P. Blackburn —
of Kentucky.
Born in Woodford
County, Ky., June 16,
1816.
Physician;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1843; Governor of
Kentucky, 1879-83.
Baptist.
In 1865, he was tried
and acquitted in a Toronto court for violating Canadian neutrality,
in connection with a Confederate
scheme to spread yellow fever in Northern cities.
Died in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., September
14, 1887 (age 71 years, 90
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Mitchell Blackburn and Lavinia St. Clair (Bell) Blackburn;
brother of Joseph
Clay Stiles Blackburn; married, November
24, 1835, to Ella Boswell; married, November
17, 1857, to Julia Churchill; uncle of Corinne Blackburn (who
married William
Holt Gale); granduncle of Smith
Alford Blackburn; great-granduncle of Charles
Milton Blackburn; first cousin twice removed of Gabriel
Slaughter; third cousin of Charles
Rice Slaughter; third cousin once removed of Robert
Pryor Henry, John
Flournoy Henry and Gustavus
Adolphus Henry. |
| | | Political families: Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Blackburn Correctional Complex
(opened 1972), in Lexington,
Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Luke Pryor Blackburn: Nancy
Disher Baird, Luke
Pryor Blackburn : Physician, Governor, Reformer |
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Neal Shaw Blaisdell (1902-1975) —
also known as Neal S. Blaisdell —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, November
6, 1902.
Republican. School
teacher; member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1944-46; member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1946-50; mayor
of Honolulu, Hawaii, 1955-69.
Died, from a probable brain
hemorrhage, in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, November
5, 1975 (age 72 years, 364
days).
Interment at Oahu
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Henry Goode Blasdel (1825-1900) —
also known as Henry G. Blasdel —
of Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
29, 1825.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
riverboat
captain; miller; mining
business; Governor of
Nevada, 1864-71.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., July 22,
1900 (age 75 years, 174
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William Augustus Bootle (1902-2005) —
also known as William A. Bootle —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Walterboro, Colleton
County, S.C., August
19, 1902.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, 1929-33; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, 1954-72; took
senior status 1972.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Civitan.
Died January
25, 2005 (age 102 years,
159 days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
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James Williamson Bosler (1833-1883) —
also known as James W. Bosler —
of Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland
County, Pa., April 4,
1833.
Lawyer;
merchant;
real
estate agent; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1860;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1860; Republican candidate for Pennsylvania
state senate 32nd District, 1882.
German
ancestry.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., December
17, 1883 (age 50 years, 257
days).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Earl Murphy Bourdon (1917-1993) —
also known as Earl M. Bourdon —
of Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H., December
16, 1917.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Hampshire, 1980.
Died June 19,
1993 (age 75 years, 185
days).
Interment at River Cemetery, Plainfield, N.H.
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Lewis Rice Bradley (1805-1879) —
also known as Lewis R. Bradley;
"Broadhorns" —
of Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.; Nevada.
Born in Orange
County, Va., February
18, 1805.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1860;
member of California
state assembly 8th District, 1861-62; Governor of
Nevada, 1871-79; defeated, 1878.
Died in Elko, Elko
County, Nev., March
21, 1879 (age 74 years, 31
days).
Interment at Elko
Cemetery, Elko, Nev.
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George Nathaniel Briggs (1874-1952) —
also known as George N. Briggs —
of Lamoni, Decatur
County, Iowa.
Born in Tabor, Fremont
County, Iowa, May 10,
1874.
School
teacher; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1893-94; superintendent
of schools; president,
Philippine Normal School, 1909-10; president,
Graceland College (now Graceland University), 1915-44; Dry candidate
for delegate
to Iowa convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Member, American
Political Science Association.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, December
26, 1952 (age 78 years, 230
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa.
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Andrew Broaddus (1900-1972) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 15,
1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; laundry
business; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1953-57.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
7, 1972 (age 72 years, 115
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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James Thomas Broyhill (b. 1927) —
also known as James T. Broyhill; Jim
Broyhill —
of Lenoir, Caldwell
County, N.C.
Born in Lenoir, Caldwell
County, N.C., August
19, 1927.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1963-86 (9th District
1963-69, 10th District 1969-86); U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1986; defeated, 1986.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Still living as of 2014.
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George Washington Buckner (1855-1943) —
also known as George W. Buckner —
Born in slavery
near Greensburg, Green
County, Ky., December
1, 1855.
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1913-15; U.S. Consul General in Monrovia, as of 1914.
African
ancestry.
Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., February
17, 1943 (age 87 years, 78
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Edward Norman Cahn (b. 1933) —
also known as Edward N. Cahn —
Born in Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa., 1933.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974-98;
retired 1998.
Still living as of 2010.
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Millard Fillmore Caldwell Jr. (1897-1984) —
also known as Millard F. Caldwell, Jr. —
of Milton, Santa Rosa
County, Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., February
6, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1929-32; U.S.
Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1933-41; Governor of
Florida, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1948,
1956;
justice
of Florida state supreme court, 1962-69.
Protestant.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Newcomen
Society; American
Legion; American
Judicature Society; Alpha
Kappa Psi; Blue
Key.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., October
23, 1984 (age 87 years, 260
days).
Interment at Harwood
Plantation Cemetery, Leon County, Fla.
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John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) —
also known as John C. Calhoun —
of Pickens District (now Pickens
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville District (part now in McCormick
County), S.C., March
18, 1782.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1808; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1811-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1817-25; Vice
President of the United States, 1825-32; resigned 1832; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office
1850; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1844-45.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1850 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Marion
Park, Charleston, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, December
27, 1809, to Floride Bonneau and Floride
Calhoun (daughter of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who
married Thomas
Green Clemson); uncle of John
Alfred Calhoun and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married Armistead
Burt); great-granduncle of John
Temple Graves; first cousin of John
Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802) and Joseph
Calhoun; first cousin once removed of Andrew
Pickens; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann
Calhoun (who married Alexander
Henry Brown); second cousin twice removed of William
Francis Calhoun. |
| | | Political family: Calhoun-Pickens
family of South Carolina (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Calhoun counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Iowa, Mich., Miss., S.C., Tex. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | The John C. Calhoun State Office
Building (opened 1926), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Lake
Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, was named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; destroyed in cargo explosion at Finchhafen,
Papua New Guinea, 1944) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: John
C. Johnson
— John
Calhoun Nicholls
— John
Calhoun Cook
— John
C. Sheppard
— John C.
Bell
— John
C. C. Mayo
— John
C. Phillips
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes
(1862). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than
union." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret
L. Coit, John
C. Calhoun : American Portrait — Clyde N. Wilson, John
C. Calhoun — Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — Warren
Brown, John
C. Calhoun (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: James Smith Noel
Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport |
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John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) —
also known as John A. Campbell —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington, Wilkes
County, Ga., June 24,
1811.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1837; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1853-61; Confederate States
Assistant Secretary of War, 1861-65; at the end of the Civil War, he
was suspected
of involvement in the assassination
of President Abraham
Lincoln; arrested
in May 1865; held in detention for five months, but never charged;
released in October 1865.
Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., March
12, 1889 (age 77 years, 261
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926) —
also known as Joseph G. Cannon; "Uncle
Joe" —
of Danville, Vermilion
County, Ill.
Born in Guilford, Guilford
County, N.C., May 7,
1836.
Republican. Lawyer; Vermilion
County State's Attorney, 1861-68; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1873-91, 1893-1913, 1915-23 (14th
District 1873-83, 15th District 1883-91, 1893-95, 12th District
1895-1903, 18th District 1903-13, 1915-23); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1903-11; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1892,
1904
(Permanent
Chair); candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908.
Died in Danville, Vermilion
County, Ill., November
12, 1926 (age 90 years, 189
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Danville, Ill.
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Doyle Elam Carlton (1885-1972) —
also known as Doyle E. Carlton —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Wauchula, Hardee
County, Fla., July 6,
1885.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state senate, 1917-19; Governor of
Florida, 1929-33; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in a nursing
home at Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., October
25, 1972 (age 87 years, 111
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.
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Lewis Cass (1782-1866) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., October
9, 1782.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1806; general in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1813-31; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1831-36; U.S. Minister to France, 1836-42; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1843-44; appointed 1843; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1844,
1852;
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57; resigned 1848; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1848; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1857-60.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 17,
1866 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Cass and Mary 'Molly' (Gilman) Cass; married to Elizabeth
Selden Spencer; father of Matilda Frances Cass (who married Henry
Brockholst Ledyard); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Cass Ballenger. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cass counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Neb. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The town
and village
of Cassville,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The village
of Cass
City, Michigan, is named for
him. — The village
of Cassopolis,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The city
of Cassville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Cass Lake,
and the adjoining city
of Cass
Lake, Minnesota, are named for
him. — Cass Lake, in Oakland
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Cass River,
in Tuscola
and Saginaw
counties, Michigan, is named for
him. — The Lewis Cass Building (opened 1921 as
the State Office Building; damaged in a fire in 1951; rebuilt and
named for Lewis Cass; changed to Elliott-Larsen Building in 2020), in
Lansing,
Michigan, was named for
him. — Cass Avenue,
Cass Park,
and Cass Technical High
School, in Detroit,
Michigan, are named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Lewis
Cass Wilmarth
— Lewis
C. Carpenter
— Lewis
C. Vandergrift
— Lewis
C. Tidball
— Lewis
Cass Wick
— Lewis
Cass Tidball II
— Lewis
C. Gabbert
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Lewis Cass: Willard Carl
Klunder, Lewis
Cass and the Politics of Moderation — Frank Bury
Woodford, Lewis
Cass, the Last Jeffersonian |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Charles Ernest Chamberlain (1917-2002) —
also known as Charles E. Chamberlain; "The Automobile
Horn of Congress" —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Locke Township, Ingham
County, Mich., July 22,
1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1957-75.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Kiwanis;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died, of renal
failure and congestive
heart failure, in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., November
25, 2002 (age 85 years, 126
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Frances Cleveland (1864-1947) —
also known as Frances Clara Folsom —
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., July 21,
1864.
First
Lady of the United States, 1886-89, 1893-97.
Female.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
29, 1947 (age 83 years, 100
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Oscar Folsom and Emma (Harmon) Folsom; married, June 2,
1886, to Grover
Cleveland; married, February
10, 1913, to Thomas Jecks Preston; mother of Richard
Folsom Cleveland. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cleveland Hall of Languages (built
1911), at Wells College,
Aurora,
New York, is named for
her. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination
attempt against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual
contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted
by the Senate.
Still living as of 2020.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Roger Clinton; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton; married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary
Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky); third cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart. |
| | | Political families: Clinton
family of Wadesboro, North Carolina; Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. — Walter
S. Orlinsky — Charles
F. C. Ruff — Sean
Patrick Maloney — Lanny
J. Davis |
| | | The William Jefferson Clinton Federal
Building (built 1934; renamed 2012) in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Michael Takiff,
A
Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know
Him — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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William Thad Cochran (1937-2019) —
also known as Thad Cochran —
of Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc
County, Miss., December
7, 1937.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1973-79; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1979-2018; resigned 2018; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 2004,
2008,
2012.
Baptist.
Member, Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, from renal
failure, in Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss., May 30,
2019 (age 81 years, 174
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Holmes Cochran and Emma Grace (Berry) Cochran; married 1964 to Rose
Clayton; married, May 23,
2015, to Kay Webber. |
| | | The Thad Cochran U.S. Courthouse, in Jackson,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — The Thad Cochran Center building, at
the University
of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
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Lila Cockrell (1922-2019) —
also known as Lila May Banks —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., January
19, 1922.
Mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1975-81, 1989-91.
Female.
Member, Delta
Delta Delta; League of Women
Voters.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., August
29, 2019 (age 97 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas LeRoy Collins (1909-1991) —
also known as LeRoy Collins —
of Florida.
Born in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March
10, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1934-40; member of Florida
state senate 8th District, 1940-54; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; Governor of
Florida, 1955-61; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died of cancer,
in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March
12, 1991 (age 82 years, 2
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Leon County, Fla.
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William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980) —
also known as William M. Colmer —
of Pascagoula, Jackson
County, Miss.
Born in Moss Point, Jackson
County, Miss., February
11, 1890.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Jackson
County Attorney, 1921-27; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1933-73 (6th District 1933-63,
5th District 1963-73); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Mississippi, 1936,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1947.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Woodmen;
Rotary;
Pi
Kappa Alpha; Elks.
Died in Pascagoula, Jackson
County, Miss., September
9, 1980 (age 90 years, 211
days).
Interment at Machpelah
Cemetery, Pascagoula, Miss.
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Jesse Sherwood Cooper Jr. (1899-1971) —
also known as Jesse S. Cooper, Jr. —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Dover, Kent
County, Del., March
13, 1899.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Delaware, 1928;
Delaware
state treasurer, 1945-46; defeated, 1946.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Sons of
the American Revolution.
In 1950, he quietly helped Sen. John
J. Williams to expose corruption in the U.S. Internal Revenue
Service, but his role was not disclosed until after his death.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., 1971
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John Sherman Cooper (1901-1991) —
of Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky.
Born in Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky., August
23, 1901.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1928-30; county judge in
Kentucky, 1930-38; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1939; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1946-49, 1952-55, 1956-73; defeated, 1948,
1954; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1948,
1956
(speaker),
1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1972
(delegation chair); U.S. Ambassador to India, 1955-56; Nepal, 1955-56; East Germany, 1974-76; member, President's Commission on the
Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Baptist
or Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Rotary;
American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi.
Died of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
21, 1991 (age 89 years, 182
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue at Fountain
Square, Somerset, Ky.
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James Charles Corman (1920-2000) —
also known as James C. Corman; Jim Corman —
of Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Reseda, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Galena, Cherokee
County, Kan., October
20, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; served
in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1961-81 (22nd District 1961-75,
21st District 1975-81).
Methodist.
Member, Lions; American
Legion; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association.
Floor manager in U.S. House for Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights
Act in 1960s; member of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders.
Died, following a cerebral
hemorrhage, in a hospital
at Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
30, 2000 (age 80 years, 71
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Richard Joseph Daronco (1931-1988) —
also known as Richard J. Daronco —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
1, 1931.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1979-87; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1987-88;
died in office 1988.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Shot
and killed,
by Charles L. Koster, in Pelham Heights, Pelham, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 21,
1988 (age 56 years, 294
days). Koster, a retired police officer, was angry over ruling
the judge had issued two days earlier; he killed himself at the scene.
Burial location unknown.
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John Bratton Davis (1917-2004) —
also known as J. Bratton Davis —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Hartsville, Darlington
County, S.C., October
27, 1917.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; campaign manager for Donald
S. Russell for Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from South Carolina, 1964;
U.S. bankruptcy judge, 1978-2000.
Died October
29, 2004 (age 87 years, 2
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bratton Davis (1885-1925) and Sarah Eleanor (Causey) Davis;
married to Margaret Smyth McKissick. |
| | | The J. Bratton Davis U.S. Bankruptcy
Courthouse (built 1936; given current name about 2005), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. Bankruptcy Court for
South Carolina |
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Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896-1969) —
also known as Everett M. Dirksen; "The Wizard of
Ooze" —
of Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill.
Born in Pekin, Tazewell
County, Ill., January
4, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1933-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1940
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(speaker),
1956
(speaker),
1960
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1964
(delegation chair), 1968
(delegation chair); U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1951-69; died in office 1969.
Christian
Reformed. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Eagles;
Elks; Moose; American Bar
Association; Odd
Fellows; Izaak
Walton League.
Died, of lung
cancer, at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1969 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Glendale
Memorial Gardens, Pekin, Ill.
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Richard Joseph Donovan (1926-1971) —
also known as Richard Donovan; Dick
Donovan —
of Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in New Rochelle Hospital,
New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
24, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; police
officer; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1965-69; municipal judge in California, 1969-71;
died in office 1971.
Catholic;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis;
Sons
of the American Revolution.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, and died soon after, in a hospital
at Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif., November
21, 1971 (age 45 years, 270
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita, Calif.
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John Goodchild Dow (1905-2003) —
also known as John G. Dow —
of Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 6,
1905.
Democratic candidate for New York
state senate 33rd District, 1954; Democratic candidate for New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1956; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1965-69, 1971-73;
defeated, 1968 (Democratic), 1972 (Democratic), 1974 (Democratic),
1982 (Democratic primary), 1982 (Liberal), 1990 (Democratic);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1968.
Died in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., March
11, 2003 (age 97 years, 309
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Durant (1802-1875) —
of Byfield, Newbury, Essex
County, Mass.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Acton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 18,
1802.
Pastor;
founder,
College of California; first president,
University of California, 1870-72; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1875 (age 72 years, 218
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Perry B. Duryea Jr. (1921-2004) —
of Montauk, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Montauk, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
18, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of New York
state assembly, 1961-77 (Suffolk County 1st District 1961-65, 1st
District 1966-77); Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1969-73; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 1st District, 1967;
member of New York
Republican State Central Committee, 1968; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1972;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1978.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; Freemasons.
Died, from injuries suffered in a car
accident, January
11, 2004 (age 82 years, 85
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Montauk, Long Island, N.Y.
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David William Dyer (1910-1998) —
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, June 28,
1910.
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1961-66; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1966-76; took
senior status 1976; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-98; died in
office 1998.
Died in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., June 7,
1998 (age 87 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Abel Elsworth Eaton (1834-1917) —
also known as A. E. Eaton —
of Union, Union
County, Ore.
Born in Conway, Carroll
County, N.H., May 20,
1834.
Woollen
manufacturer; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Oregon, 1910.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., January
15, 1917 (age 82 years, 240
days).
Interment at Union
Victorian Cemetery, Union, Ore.
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Daisy L. Elliott (1917-2015) —
also known as Daisy Elizabeth Lenoir —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Filbert, McDowell
County, W.Va., November
26, 1917.
Democrat. Realtor;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961-62; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-78, 1981-82 (Wayne County
4th District 1963-64, 22nd District 1965-72, 8th District 1973-78,
1981-82); defeated in primary, 1950 (Wayne County 1st District), 1954
(Wayne County 11th District), 1956 (Wayne County 4th District), 1958
(Wayne County 4th District), 1960 (Wayne County 4th District), 1982
(8th District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1968
(alternate), 1976;
co-author of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act; candidate for Michigan
state senate 5th District, 1978; arrested
in April 1982 for driving a stolen
1977 Cadillac deVille automobile;
arraigned
on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen
property; she claimed she had bought the car from a dealer, but
the firm had no record of this, and the document she presented had
been faked; lost
renomination as State Representatve in August 1982, while under
indictment; convicted
in November 1982 and sentenced
to 60 days in jail.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; League of Women
Voters; Junior
League.
Died, in DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
22, 2015 (age 98 years, 26
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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John Morton Eshleman (1876-1916) —
also known as John M. Eshleman; Jack
Eshleman —
of California.
Born in Villa Ridge, Pulaski
County, Ill., June 14,
1876.
Republican. Member of California
state assembly 52nd District; elected 1906; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1915-16; died in office 1916.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in a train
station at at Indio, Riverside
County, Calif., February
28, 1916 (age 39 years, 259
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Sunset
View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Calif.
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March Fong Eu (1922-2017) —
also known as March Kong; March K. Fong —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Oakdale, Stanislaus
County, Calif., March
29, 1922.
Democrat. Dental
hygenist; supervisor of dental health education, Alameda County;
member of California
state assembly 15th District, 1967-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1968,
1988;
secretary
of state of California, 1975-94; resigned 1994; defeated, 2002;
U.S. Ambassador to Micronesia, 1994-96.
Female.
Chinese
ancestry. Member, Delta
Kappa Gamma.
Died, following a fall, in
Irvine, Orange
County, Calif., December
21, 2017 (age 95 years, 267
days). The California Secretary of State building in Sacramento
is named for
her.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Jacob Sloat Fassett (1853-1924) —
also known as J. Sloat Fassett —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Chemung
County District Attorney, 1879-80; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1880,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1884-91; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1888-92; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1891; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1891; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; banker; lumber
business.
Died in Vancouver, British
Columbia, April
21, 1924 (age 70 years, 160
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Pomeroy Fassett and Martha Ellen (Sloat) Fassett; married,
February
13, 1879, to Jennie L. Crocker (daughter of Edwin
Bryant Crocker; niece of Charles
Crocker); fourth cousin once removed of Zenas
Ferry Moody and Alfred
Clark Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Crocker-Whitehouse
family of Sacramento, California (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Fassett,
Quebec, Canada, is named for
him. — Fassett Elementary
School, in Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — Fassett Commons, a building at Elmira
College,
Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jacob Sloat Fassett (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. (1938-2003) —
Born in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., May 11,
1938.
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1993-2003;
died in office 2003.
African
ancestry.
Died in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., June 9,
2003 (age 65 years, 29
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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Ettie Garner (1869-1948) —
also known as Mariette Elizabeth Rheiner —
Born in Sabinal, Uvalde
County, Tex., July 17,
1869.
Democrat. Second Lady
of the United States, 1933-41.
Female.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Uvalde, Uvalde
County, Tex., September
17, 1948 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Uvalde
Cemetery, Uvalde, Tex.
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Edwin Peabody Gerry (1846-1911) —
also known as E. Peabody Gerry —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
2, 1846.
Republican. Physician;
candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1903.
Died in Phillipston, Worcester
County, Mass., June 22,
1911 (age 64 years, 232
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Sam Melville Gibbons (1920-2012) —
also known as Sam M. Gibbons —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., January
20, 1920.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1953-58; member of Florida
state senate, 1959-62; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1963-97 (10th District 1963-67, 6th
District 1967-73, 7th District 1973-93, 11th District 1993-97);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1964,
1968,
1984,
1996.
Presbyterian.
Died in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., October
9, 2012 (age 92 years, 263
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Fla.
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John Cooper Godbold (1920-2009) —
also known as John C. Godbold —
Born in Coy, Wilcox
County, Ala., March
24, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; law
professor; author; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1966-81; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-87; took
senior status 1987.
Died in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., December
22, 2009 (age 89 years, 273
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frances Goldin (1924-2020) —
also known as Frances Axler —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., June 22,
1924.
Housing rights and neighborhood activist; American Labor candidate
for New York
state senate 18th District, 1950; literary
agent.
Female.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 16,
2020 (age 95 years, 329
days).
Cremated.
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John Gorrie (1803-1855) —
of Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla.
Born in Nevis,
October
3, 1803.
Physician;
postmaster at Apalachicola,
Fla., 1834-38; mayor
of Apalachicola, Fla., 1837-38; banker; inventor
of the first ice-making machine, patented in 1851.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla., June 29,
1855 (age 51 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Apalachicola, Fla.; reinterment at Gorrie Square, Apalachicola, Fla.
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Relatives:
Married 1838 to
Caroline Frances Myrick. |
| | | The John Gorrie Memorial Bridge
(built 1935; rebuilt 1988), which carries U.S. highways 98 and 319
across Apalachicola Bay, from Apalachicola to Eastpoint, in Franklin
County, Florida, is named for
him. — John Gorrie Junior
High School (built 1923; closed 1997; now an apartment
building called The John Gorrie), in Jacksonville,
Florida, was named for
him. — Gorrie Elementary
School (built 1889 as Hyde Park School; renamed 1915), in Tampa,
Florida, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Gorrie (built 1942-43 at Jacksonville,
Florida; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Palm Beach (Fla.) Post,
October 17, 1993 |
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Edward F. Gorton (1854-1929) —
of Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Ashtabula, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, May 6,
1854.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Lake Forest, Ill., 1895-1902.
Died in Italy,
March
10, 1929 (age 74 years, 308
days).
Interment at Lake
Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Ill.
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Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) —
also known as Frank P. Graham —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., October
14, 1886.
Democrat. School
teacher; college
instructor; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; president
of the University of North Carolina, 1931-49; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1949-50; appointed 1949; defeated,
1950.
Presbyterian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., February
16, 1972 (age 85 years, 125
days).
Interment at Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, N.C.
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William Walton Griest (1858-1929) —
also known as William W. Griest —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Christiana, Lancaster
County, Pa., September
22, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; president of electric
railways and lighting
companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1928
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1899-1903; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1909-29 (9th District 1909-23,
10th District 1923-29); died in office 1929.
Died in Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich., December
5, 1929 (age 71 years, 74
days).
Interment at Woodward
Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
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Kenneth Frederick Hahn (1920-1997) —
also known as Kenneth Hahn; Kenny Hahn —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
19, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member, Los
Angeles City Council, 1947-52; Los
Angeles County Supervisor, 1952-92; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1952;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1970.
Church
of Christ.
Died, from heart
failure, in a hospital
at Inglewood, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
12, 1997 (age 77 years, 54
days).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) —
of Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine; Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, August
27, 1809.
Farmer;
surveyor;
compositor;
lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-41, 1847; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1837, 1839-40; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1840;
U.S.
Representative from Maine 6th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1848-57, 1857-61, 1869-81; Governor of
Maine, 1857; Vice
President of the United States, 1861-65; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864,
1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1881-82.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 4,
1891 (age 81 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine; statue at Kenduskeag Parkway, Bangor, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Hamlin and Anna (Livermore) Hamlin; brother of Elijah
Livermore Hamlin; married, December
10, 1833, to Sarah Jane Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); married, September
25, 1856, to Ellen
Vesta Emery (daughter of Stephen
Emery (1790-1863)); father of Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; granduncle of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; great-granduncle of Clarence
Cutting Stetson; first cousin once removed of John
Appleton; first cousin twice removed of Charles
Sumner Hamlin; third cousin once removed of David
Sears; fourth cousin of George
Pickering Bemis; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Fisk Janes, John
Mason Jr., William
Henry Harrison Stowell, Walter
S. Bemis and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Hamlin-Bemis
family of Bangor, Maine; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hamlin County,
S.Dak. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hamlin,
Maine, is named for
him. — The town
of Hamlin,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Hamlin,
Kansas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Hannibal Hamlin (built 1942-43 at South
Portland, Maine; scrapped 1971) was named for
him. — Hannibal Hamlin Hall, at the University
of Maine, Orono,
Maine, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Hannibal Hamlin: Charles
Eugene Hamlin, The
Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin — Mark Scroggins, Hannibal |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) —
also known as "Savior of South
Carolina" —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
28, 1818.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1858; general in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Governor of
South Carolina, 1876-79; defeated, 1865; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1879-91; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1880;
U.S. Railroad Commissioner, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor by the Sons of Confederate
Veterans. Lost a
leg in an accident in 1878.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April
11, 1902 (age 84 years, 14
days).
Interment at Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade
Hampton (1791-1858) and Ann (FitzSimons) Hampton; married, October
10, 1838, to Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston (daughter of Francis
Smith Preston; sister of William
Campbell Preston); married 1858 to Mary
Singleton McDuffie (daughter of George
McDuffie); nephew of Caroline Martha Hampton (who married John
Smith Preston) and Susan Frances Hampton (who married John
Laurence Manning); grandson of Wade
Hampton (1752-1835). |
| | | Political families: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Hampton County,
S.C. is named for him. |
| | | The town
of Hampton,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Wade Hampton High
School (built 1960, rebuilt 2006), in Greenville,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — The Wade Hampton State Office Building
(opened 1940), in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Wade Hampton: Walter Brian
Cisco, Wade
Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative
Statesman |
| | | Image source: William C. Roberts,
Leading Orators (1884) |
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Freeman P. Hankins (1917-1988) —
also known as Freeman Hankins —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., September
30, 1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; funeral
director; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1961-67; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 7th District, 1967-88; died in office 1988.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Amvets;
NAACP;
Freemasons;
American
Woodmen; Elks.
Died, from heart
disease, in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
31, 1988 (age 71 years, 92
days).
Interment at Fernwood Cemetery, Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pa.
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Philip Aloysius Hart (1912-1976) —
also known as Philip A. Hart —
of Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich.; Mackinac Island, Mackinac
County, Mich.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
10, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for secretary
of state of Michigan, 1950; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1952-53; Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1955-58; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968
(speaker),
1976;
U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1959-76; died in office 1976.
Member, Urban
League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1976 (age 64 years, 16
days).
Interment at St.
Anne's Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Mich.
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Mark Odom Hatfield (1922-2011) —
also known as Mark O. Hatfield —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Dallas, Polk
County, Ore., July 12,
1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1951-54; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Oregon, 1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956,
1960
(delegation chair); member of Oregon
state senate, 1955-56; secretary
of state of Oregon, 1957-59; Governor of
Oregon, 1959-67; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1967-97.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., August
7, 2011 (age 89 years, 26
days).
Interment at Willamette
National Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) —
also known as Rutherford B. Hayes; "Rutherfraud B.
Hayes"; "His Fraudulency" —
of Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, October
4, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1865-67; Governor of
Ohio, 1868-72, 1876-77; President
of the United States, 1877-81.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Stricken by a heart
attack at the railroad
station in Cleveland, Ohio, and died that night in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, January
17, 1893 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio; reinterment in 1915 at Rutherford
B. Hayes State Memorial Grounds, Fremont, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Rutherford Hayes, Jr. and Sophia (Birchard) Hayes; married, December
30, 1852, to Lucy
Webb Hayes; father of James
Webb Cook Hayes. |
| | | Political family: Hayes
family of Fremont, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Leopold
Markbreit — James
M. Comly — Joseph
P. Bradley |
| | | Hayes County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | | Rutherford B. Hayes High
School, in Delaware,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The Presidente Hayes Department (province),
and its capital
city, Villa Hayes, in Paraguay,
are named for
him. — Hayes Hall (built 1893), at Ohio State
University,
Columbus,
Ohio, is named for
him. |
| | | Personal motto: "He serves his party
best who serves his country best." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Rutherford B. Hayes: Ari
Hoogenboom, Rutherford
B. Hayes: Warrior and President — Hans Trefousse, Rutherford
B. Hayes: 1877 - 1881 — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial
Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876 |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Clement Furman Haynsworth Jr. (1912-1989) —
also known as Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. —
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., October
30, 1912.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1957-81; took
senior status 1981.
Died in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., November
22, 1989 (age 77 years, 23
days).
Interment at Springwood
Cemetery, Greenville, S.C.
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John Williamson Herron (1827-1912) —
also known as John W. Herron —
of Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Shippensburg, Cumberland
County, Pa., May 10,
1827.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1873; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1889-94.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
5, 1912 (age 85 years, 87
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Clarence Ross Hilliard (1894-1976) —
also known as C. Ross Hilliard —
of Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Delhi Township, Ingham
County, Mich., August
8, 1894.
Republican. Ingham
County Clerk, 1925-72; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1957-59.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., March
14, 1976 (age 81 years, 219
days).
Interment at North
Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Spessard Lindsey Holland (1892-1971) —
also known as Spessard L. Holland —
of Bartow, Polk
County, Fla.
Born in Bartow, Polk
County, Fla., July 10,
1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; county judge in Florida,
1921-29; member of Florida
state senate, 1932-40; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Florida, 1940
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1956
(alternate), 1968;
Governor
of Florida, 1941-45; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1946-71.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association.
Sponsor of 24th Amendment outlawing the poll tax.
Died in Bartow, Polk
County, Fla., November
6, 1971 (age 79 years, 119
days).
Interment at Wildwood
Cemetery, Bartow, Fla.
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Ernest Frederick Hollings (1922-2019) —
also known as Ernest F. Hollings; Fritz Hollings;
"Foghorn Leghorn" —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., January
1, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1949-55; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1956,
1996,
2000,
2004;
Governor
of South Carolina, 1959-63; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1966-2005; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1984.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Sertoma.
Died in Isle of Palms, Charleston
County, S.C., April 6,
2019 (age 97 years, 95
days).
Interment at Bethany Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Richard Joseph Hughes (1909-1992) —
also known as Richard J. Hughes —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Florence, Burlington
County, N.J., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1938; chair of
Mercer County Democratic Party, 1944-45; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1948
(alternate), 1964,
1968
(chair, Credentials
Committee; speaker),
1972;
county judge in New Jersey, 1948-52; superior court judge in New
Jersey, 1952-61; Governor of
New Jersey, 1962-70; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Jersey, 1970-73; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1973-79.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Phi
Kappa Theta.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., December
7, 1992 (age 83 years, 119
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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Cordell Hull (1871-1955) —
also known as "Father of the United
Nations" —
of Carthage, Smith
County, Tenn.
Born in a log
cabin at Olympus, Overton County (now Pickett
County), Tenn., October
2, 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1893-97; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; circuit judge in Tennessee, 1903-07;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 4th District, 1907-21, 1923-31;
defeated, 1920; member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1914-24; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1921-24; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1928,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1931-33; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1933-44; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1936.
Baptist;
later Episcopalian.
Received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1945.
Died, of heart
disease and sarcoidosis,
at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., July 23,
1955 (age 83 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hull and Elizabeth (Riley) Hull. |
| | | Cross-reference: Thomas
K. Finletter |
| | | Cordell Hull Dam
on the Cumberland River, and its impoundment, Cordell Hull Lake,
in Smith
and Jackson
counties, Tennessee, are named for
him. — The Cordell Hull State Office Building
(built 1952-54), in Nashville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Cordell Hull Highway,
in Barren
and Monroe
counties, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Cordell Hull: The
Memoirs of Cordell Hull |
| | | Books about Cordell Hull: Julius
William Pratt, Cordell
Hull, 1933-44 |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1963) |
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Adolphus Humbles (1840-1926) —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Campbell
County, Va., October
17, 1840.
Republican. Merchant;
operated a toll road between Lynchburg and Rustberg; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1896,
1904.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Died, from endocarditis,
in Lynchburg,
Va., October
4, 1926 (age 85 years, 352
days).
Interment at Humbles Family Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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George Magoffin Humphrey (1890-1970) —
also known as George M. Humphrey —
of Mentor, Lake
County, Ohio.
Born in Cheboygan, Cheboygan
County, Mich., March 8,
1890.
Lawyer;
president, M.A. Hanna Company (mining and
processing iron and
nickel ores), 1929-52; chairman of Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal
Company; chairman, Executive Committee, National Steel
Corporation; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57.
Episcopalian.
Died, from heart
disease, in University Hospital,
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
20, 1970 (age 79 years, 318
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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James Baxter Hunt Jr. (b. 1937) —
also known as James B. Hunt, Jr.; Jim Hunt —
of North Carolina.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., May 16,
1937.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1973-77; Governor of
North Carolina, 1977-85, 1993-2001; candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1984; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2014.
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The James B. Hunt, Jr.
Library,
at the North Carolina State University
Centennial Campus, Raleigh,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — Hunt Hall, a dormitory at the University
of North Carolina Charlotte, in Charlotte,
North Carolina, is named for
him. — The James B. Hunt Jr. Residence Hall,
at the North Carolina School
of Science and Mathematics, in Durham,
North Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about James B. Hunt: Wayne
Grimsley, James
B. Hunt: A North Carolina Progressive — Gary Pearce,
Jim
Hunt: A Biography |
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Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) —
also known as Henry E. Huntington —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y., February
27, 1850.
Republican. Owned and expanded the streetcar
and trolley system in Southern California; real estate
developer; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from kidney
disease and pneumonia,
in Lankenau Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 23,
1927 (age 77 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married 1873 to Mary
Alice Prentice; married 1913 to
Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington. |
| | | The city
of Huntington
Beach, California, is named for
him. — The city
of Huntington
Park, California, is named for
him. — Huntington Lake,
in Fresno
County, California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Hotel (built 1907 as
Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the Huntington Hotel;
demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington hotel) in Pasadena,
California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Library,
Art
Museum, and Botanical
Gardens, on his former estate, in San
Marino, California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry E. Huntington (built 1943-44 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Lewis Ingalls (1914-2001) —
also known as George L. Ingalls —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Danielson, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., June 7,
1914.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1953-66 (Broome County 2nd District 1953-65,
125th District 1966).
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Rotary;
Jaycees;
American Bar
Association.
Trustee of the New York Power
Authority in 1967-90.
Died in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., April
10, 2001 (age 86 years, 307
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City, N.Y.
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William Smith James (1914-1993) —
also known as William S. James —
of Havre de Grace, Harford
County, Md.
Born in Aberdeen, Harford
County, Md., February
14, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1946-54; defeated, 1942; member of Maryland
state senate, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1964;
Maryland
Democratic state chair, 1971-75; Maryland
state treasurer, 1975-87.
Died in Aberdeen, Harford
County, Md., April
17, 1993 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Grove Cemetery, Aberdeen, Md.
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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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Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) —
also known as Estes Kefauver —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.
Born near Madisonville, Monroe
County, Tenn., July 26,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 3rd District, 1939-49; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1944
(alternate; speaker),
1952;
U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1949-63; died in office 1963; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1952,
1956;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1956.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Lions;
American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Political Science Association; Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a ruptured
abdominal aortic aneurysm, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., August
10, 1963 (age 60 years, 15
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Monroe County, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Cooke Kefauver and Phredonia Bradford (Estes) Kefauver;
married, August
8, 1935, to Nancy Patterson Pigott; first cousin once removed of
Joseph
Wingate Folk; second cousin thrice removed of Montgomery
Blair and Francis
Preston Blair Jr.; third cousin twice removed of James
Lawrence Blair, Francis
Preston Blair Lee and Gist
Blair; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
Brooke Lee. |
| | | Political family: Lee-Randolph
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Estes Kefauver Federal Building, in
Nashville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Estes Kefauver: Hugh
Brogan, All
Honorable Men : Huey Long, Robert Moses, Estes Kefauver, Richard J.
Daley — Joseph Bruce Gorman, Kefauver:
A Political Biography |
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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) —
also known as Robert F. Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy;
"R.F.K." —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.; Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1961-64; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1965-68; died in office 1968; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1968.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
On June 5, 1968, while running
for president, having just won the California presidential primary,
was shot and
mortally
wounded by Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador Hotel,
and died the next day in in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 6,
1968 (age 42 years, 199
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, June 17,
1950, to Ethel Skakel; father of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Kerry Kennedy (who married Andrew
Mark Cuomo); uncle of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., 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: Benjamin
Altman — John
Bartlow Martin — Frank
Mankiewicz — Paul
Schrade |
| | | The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice
Building (opened 1935, renamed 2001), in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert F. Kennedy: Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert
Kennedy and His Times — Evan Thomas, Robert
Kennedy : His Life — Joseph A. Palermo, In
His Own Right — Thurston Clarke, The
Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired
America — Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Some
of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ — Bill
Eppridge, A
Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties |
| | | Critical books about Robert F. Kennedy:
Allen Roberts, Robert
Francis Kennedy: Biography of a Compulsive
Politician — Victor Lasky, RFK:
Myth and Man — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, The
Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print |
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John Henry Kinkead (1826-1904) —
also known as John H. Kinkead —
of Carson
City, Nev.; Sitka,
Alaska; Unionville, Pershing
County, Nev.
Born in Smithfield, Somerset
County, Pa., December
10, 1826.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; treasurer
of Nevada Territory, 1862-64; delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; postmaster at Sitka,
Alaska, 1867-69; Governor of
Nevada, 1879-83; Governor
of Alaska District, 1884-85.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., August
15, 1904 (age 77 years, 249
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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Robert Carter Kirkwood (1909-1964) —
also known as Robert C. Kirkwood —
of Saratoga, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Mountain View, Santa Clara
County, Calif., August
30, 1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1947-53; resigned 1953; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1952;
California
state auditor, 1953-58; appointed 1953; defeated, 1958; General
Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, 1959-64.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., May 5,
1964 (age 54 years, 249
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Ernest Lackey —
also known as Dutch Lackey —
of Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky.
Democrat. Mayor
of Hopkinsville, Ky., 1958-65.
Burial location unknown.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; president,
University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)
Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom
Harris Chappell); uncle of William
Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William
McKendree Robbins and Joseph
Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston
Ahi Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Lamar
family of Georgia. |
| | | Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are
named for him. |
| | | Lamar Hall, at the University
of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar River,
in Yellowstone National Park, Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Lamar Boulevard,
in Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar Avenue,
in Memphis,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lamar School
(founded 1964), in Meridian,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Fritz Garland Lanham (1880-1965) —
also known as Fritz G. Lanham —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.
Born in Weatherford, Parker
County, Tex., January
3, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas 12th District, 1919-47.
Methodist.
Died July 31,
1965 (age 85 years, 209
days).
Interment at East
Greenwood Cemetery, Weatherford, Tex.
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Melvin L. Larsen (b. 1936) —
of Oxford, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa, October
19, 1936.
Republican. School
principal; athletic
coach; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 61st District, 1973-78; candidate
for secretary
of state of Michigan, 1978; Michigan
Republican state chair, 1979-81.
Catholic.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Theodore Levin (1897-1970) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
18, 1897.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1946-70;
died in office 1970.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died December
31, 1970 (age 73 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence Everett Lightner (1921-2002) —
also known as Clarence E. Lightner —
of Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., August
15, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; funeral
director; mayor
of Raleigh, N.C., 1973-75; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1977-78; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1996,
2000.
Presbyterian.
African
ancestry. Member, Omega
Psi Phi.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., July 8,
2002 (age 80 years, 327
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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James Helme Lincoln (1916-2011) —
also known as James H. Lincoln —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich.
Born in Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich., August
26, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1953; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1957, 1959; Wayne
County Probate Judge, 1960-77; candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1980.
Died in Harbor Beach, Huron
County, Mich., July 23,
2011 (age 94 years, 331
days).
Interment at Rock
Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, Mich.
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Jack Griffith London (1876-1916) —
also known as Jack London; John Griffith
Chaney —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
12, 1876.
Socialist. Novelist;
candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1901 (Social Democratic), 1905 (Socialist).
Died in Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, Calif., November
22, 1916 (age 40 years, 315
days).
Interment at Jack London State Historic Park Cemetery, Glen Ellen, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Chaney and Flora (Wellman) London; married 1900 to
Elizabeth May Maddern; married 1905 to
Charmian 'Clara' Kittredge. |
| | | Mount
London, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Haines
Borough, Alaska, is named for
him. — Jack London Square (entertainment and business
development), and the surrounding Jack London District neighborhood,
in Oakland,
California, are named for
him. — Jack London Lake
(Ozero Dzheja Londona), and the surrounding Jack London Nature
Park, in Magadan
Oblast, Russia, are named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jack London (built 1943 at Sausalito,
California; scrapped 1968) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Seybourn Harris Lynne (1907-2000) —
also known as Seybourn H. Lynne —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala., July 25,
1907.
Democrat. Lawyer;
county judge in Alabama, 1934-40; circuit judge in Alabama, 1940-42;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, 1946-73;
took senior status 1973.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Blue
Key; Pi
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Kiwanis.
In 1963, he prohibited Gov. George
C. Wallace from barring two Black students from attending the
University of Alabama. In 1969, he ordered that Elmwood Cemetery in
Birmingham, Ala., be desegregated.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., September
10, 2000 (age 93 years, 47
days).
Interment at Decatur
Cemetery, Decatur, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of Seybourn Arthur Lynne and Annie Leigh (Harris) Lynne; married, June 16,
1937, to Katherine Donaldson Brandau. |
| | | The Seybourn H. Lynne U.S. Courthouse
and Post Office, in Decatur,
Alabama, is named for
him. |
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John Wellborn Martin (1884-1958) —
also known as John W. Martin —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Plainfield, Marion
County, Fla., June 21,
1884.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1917-23; Governor of
Florida, 1925-29; defeated in primary, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Moose.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
22, 1958 (age 73 years, 246
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Robert Martinez (b. 1934) —
also known as Bob Martinez —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla., December
25, 1934.
Republican. School
teacher; mayor of
Tampa, Fla., 1979-86; defeated, 1974; resigned 1986; Governor of
Florida, 1987-91; defeated, 1990.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Romano Louis Mazzoli (b. 1932) —
also known as Romano L. Mazzoli —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
2, 1932.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1968-70; candidate for mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1969; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 3rd District, 1971-95.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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Stewart Brett McKinney (1931-1987) —
also known as Stewart B. McKinney —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., January
30, 1931.
Republican. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1971-87; died in
office 1987; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1972.
Bisexual.
Member, Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died, from acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, Washington,
D.C., May 7,
1987 (age 56 years, 97
days).
Interment at Oak
Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of James Polk McKinney and Clare Louise (Brett) McKinney; married, October
2, 1954, to Lucy Cunningham; father of John
P. McKinney. |
| | | The Stewart B. McKinney Transportation
Center (built 1987), in Stamford,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The Stewart B. McKinney National
Wildlife Refuge (etablished 1972 as the Salt Meadow Wildlife
Refuge; renamed 1987), in Fairfield,
New
Haven, and Middlesex
counties, Connecticut, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Lanneau McMillan (1898-1979) —
also known as John L. McMillan —
of Florence, Florence
County, S.C.
Born near Mullins, Marion
County, S.C., April
12, 1898.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1939-73.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Forty and
Eight; American
Legion.
Died in Florence, Florence
County, S.C., September
3, 1979 (age 81 years, 144
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Florence, S.C.
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Patrick Vincent McNamara (1894-1966) —
also known as Patrick V. McNamara —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in North Weymouth, Weymouth, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
4, 1894.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1955-66; died in office 1966; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1956,
1960,
1964.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April
30, 1966 (age 71 years, 208
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Thomas Elliott Millsop (1898-1967) —
also known as Thomas E. Millsop —
of Weirton, Hancock
County, W.Va.
Born in Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa., December
4, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; steel
executive; mayor
of Weirton, W.Va., 1947-55; candidate for Presidential Elector
for West Virginia; delegate to Republican National Convention from
West Virginia, 1952.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Jesters;
Lions;
Moose;
Eagles;
Rotary;
Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Weirton, Hancock
County, W.Va., September
12, 1967 (age 68 years, 282
days).
Interment at Chestnut Ridge Cemetery, Florence, Pa.
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Sam Winn Mitchell (1872-1955) —
also known as Sam W. Mitchell —
of Montana.
Born in Yorkshire, England,
February
9, 1872.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Montana, 1933-55; died in office 1955.
Died in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., June 25,
1955 (age 83 years, 136
days).
Interment at Forestvale
Cemetery, Helena, Mont.
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Lewis Render Morgan (1913-2001) —
also known as Lewis R. Morgan —
of Troup
County, Ga.
Born in LaGrange, Troup
County, Ga., July 14,
1913.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Troup County, 1937-40; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, 1961-68; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1968-78; took
senior status 1978; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-2001; died in
office 2001.
Died in LaGrange, Troup
County, Ga., November
15, 2001 (age 88 years, 124
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Wayne Lyman Morse (1900-1974) —
also known as Wayne L. Morse —
of Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.
Born in Verona, Dane
County, Wis., October
20, 1900.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1945-69; defeated (Democratic), 1968, 1972;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1952;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1955; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1960;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1964.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Americans
for Democratic Action.
Was actively engaged in campaigning
for U.S. Senate when he died, in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 22,
1974 (age 73 years, 275
days).
Interment at Rest
Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, Ore.
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George Richard Moscone (1929-1978) —
also known as George Moscone —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., November
24, 1929.
Democrat. Candidate for California
state assembly, 1960; member of California
state senate, 1966-75; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1968,
1972;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1976-78; died in office 1978.
Shot
and killed,
along with Supervisor Harvey Milk, by Supervisor Dan White, in his office
in San Francisco City
Hall, San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1978 (age 49 years, 3
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Frank Edward Moss (1911-2003) —
also known as Frank E. Moss; Ted Moss; "The
Conscience of the Senate" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Holladay, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
23, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952
(alternate), 1972;
candidate for Governor of
Utah, 1956; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1959-77; defeated, 1976.
Mormon.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
29, 2003 (age 91 years, 128
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Alfred Paul Murrah (1904-1975) —
also known as Alfred P. Murrah —
of Oklahoma.
Born in Tishomingo, Johnston
County, Okla., October
27, 1904.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1937-40; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 1937-40; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, 1937-40; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 1940-70.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons.
Died, in University Hospital,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., October
30, 1975 (age 71 years, 3
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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William Huston Natcher (1909-1994) —
also known as William H. Natcher —
of Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky.
Born in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., September
11, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer; Warren
County Attorney, 1938-50; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1940;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; commonwealth attorney,
8th District, 1951-53; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 2nd District, 1953-94; died in
office 1994.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Kiwanis;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March
29, 1994 (age 84 years, 199
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Bowling Green, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of J. M. Natcher and Blanche (Hays) Natcher; married, June 17,
1937, to Virginia Reardon. |
| | | The William H. Natcher Federal Building
and U.S. Courthouse, in Bowling
Green, Kentucky, is named for
him. — The William H. Natcher Parkway
(opened 1972 as the Green River Parkway; renamed 1994; redesignated
2018 as Interstate 165, without the Natcher name), which ran through
Warren,
Butler,
Ohio,
and Daviess
counties, Kentucky, was named for
him. — The William H. Natcher Bridge
(opened 2002), which takes U.S. Highway 231 over the Ohio River,
between Daviess
County, Kentucky and Spencer
County, Indiana, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
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Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. (b. 1938) —
also known as Sam Nunn —
of Perry, Houston
County, Ga.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., September
8, 1938.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1969-72; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1972-97; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1996.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Theta.
Still living as of 2014.
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Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950) —
also known as Ransom E. Olds —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Geneva, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, June 3,
1864.
Republican. Founder in 1897 of Olds Motor
Vehicle Company, maker of the first
commercially successful American-made automobile;
founder in 1905 of the REO Motor Car
Company (later, the Olds company became the Oldsmobile division of General
Motors, and Reo became part of truck
manufacturer Diamond Reo); owner of several hotels;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., August
26, 1950 (age 86 years, 84
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah (Whipple) Olds; married, June 5,
1889, to Metta Ursula Woodward; second cousin thrice removed of
Martin
Olds. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Olds Hall (built 1917 for the College
of Engineering, now used as offices), Michigan State University,
East
Lansing, Michigan, is named for
him. — The city
of Oldsmar,
Florida, is named for
him. — R. E. Olds Park,
on the waterfront in Oldsmar,
FLorida, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) —
also known as Jackie Onassis; Jaqueline Lee Bouvier;
Jacqueline Kennedy —
Born in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 28,
1929.
First
Lady of the United States, 1961-63.
Female.
Catholic.
Died, from non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 19,
1994 (age 64 years, 295
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet
Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III; married, September
12, 1953, to John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; brother of Jean
Kennedy Smith; grandson of John
Francis Fitzgerald); married 1968 to
Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High
School for International Careers, in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Hall, at George Washington University,
Washington,
D.C., is named for
her. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir,
in Central Park,
Manhattan,
New York, is named for
her. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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John Rockey Park (1833-1900) —
also known as John R. Park —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Tiffin, Seneca
County, Ohio, May 7,
1833.
Republican. School
teacher; president,
University of Deseret (now University of Utah), 1869-92; Utah
superintendent of public instruction, 1895-1900; died in office
1900.
Mormon.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
29, 1900 (age 67 years, 145
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Relatives: Son
of John Park and Anna Elizabeth (Waggoner) Park. |
| | | The Park Building at the University
of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah, is named for
him. — Draper Park School
(built 1912; converted to city hall 1972; sold 2017), in Draper,
Utah, was named for
him. — Draper Park Middle
School (built 2013), in Draper,
Utah, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John R. Park (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the English
Channel, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Salt Lake Herald,
September 30, 1900 |
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Jessie M. Parker (1879-1959) —
of Lake Mills, Winnebago
County, Iowa.
Born in Black Hawk
County, Iowa, February
25, 1879.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; Winnebago
County Superintendent of Schools, 1915-27; Iowa
superintendent of public instruction, 1939-54.
Female.
Member, Delta
Kappa Gamma; Phi
Theta Kappa; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of
Fame, 1986.
Died May 1,
1959 (age 80 years, 65
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Frederick H. Parker and Martha J. (Knapp)
Parker. |
| | | The Jessie Parker State Office
Building, in Des
Moines, Iowa, is named for
her. |
| | | Image source: Iowa Official Register
1951-52 |
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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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Carl Dewey Perkins (1912-1984) —
also known as Carl D. Perkins —
of Hindman, Knott
County, Ky.
Born in Hindman, Knott
County, Ky., October
15, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1940; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1949-84; died in
office 1984.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., August
3, 1984 (age 71 years, 293
days).
Interment at Perkins
Cemetery, Leburn, Ky.
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Matthew James Perry Jr. (1921-2011) —
also known as Matthew J. Perry, Jr. —
Born in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., August
3, 1921.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1979-95; took senior status
1995.
African
ancestry.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., July 29,
2011 (age 89 years, 360
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) —
also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Tyrrell
County, N.C., July 4,
1828.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Mortally wounded at the Battle of
Gettysburg, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, Berkeley
County, W.Va., July 17,
1863 (age 35 years, 13
days).
Original interment somewhere in Raleigh, N.C.; reinterment in 1865 at Pettigrew Family Cemetery, Tyrrell County, N.C.
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Owen Bradford Pickett (1930-2010) —
also known as Owen B. Pickett —
of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., August
31, 1930.
Democrat. Lawyer; accountant;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1972-86; Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1980-82; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1987-2001; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1996,
2000.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Rotary;
Lions;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Virginia
Beach, Va., October
27, 2010 (age 80 years, 57
days).
Interment at Taylorsville Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Va.
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Charles Poletti (1903-2002) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Barre, Washington
County, Vt., July 2,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936
(alternate), 1940;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1937-38; appointed 1937;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1939-42; defeated, 1942; Governor of
New York, 1942-43; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Baptist.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; American Bar
Association; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Phi
Beta Kappa.
First
American of Italian ancestry to serve as a Governor. During World
War II, he was a senior officer in the Allied Military Government of
occupied Italy.
Died in Marco Island, Collier
County, Fla., August
7, 2002 (age 99 years, 36
days).
Interment at Calkins Cemetery, Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
29, 1908.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1945-71 (22nd District 1945-53,
16th District 1953-63, 18th District 1963-71); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1952,
1960,
1964;
cited
for contempt
of court in 1966 for refusing to pay damages in a lawsuit against
him; on February 28, 1967, he was expelled
from the House of Representatives on charges
of unbecoming
conduct and misusing
public funds; the Supreme Court overturned the expulsion in 1969.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; Elks.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., April 4,
1972 (age 63 years, 127
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Bahamas.
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Relatives: Son
of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Mattie (Fletcher) Powell; married, March 8,
1933, to Isabel Washington; married, August
1, 1945, to Hazel Scott; married, December
15, 1960, to Yvette Marjorie Diago (Flores) Powell; father of Adam
Clayton Powell IV. |
| | | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
(formerly part of Seventh Avenue), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. — The Adam Clayton Powell State Office
Building (opened 1974 as the Harlem State Office Building;
renamed 1983), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.: Adam
by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Books about Powell,Adam Clayton,Jr.:
Tisha Hamilton, Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American
Dilemma — Wil Haygood, King
of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (1908-1961) —
also known as Prince H. Preston, Jr. —
of Statesboro, Bulloch
County, Ga.
Born in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., July 5,
1908.
Democrat. Member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Bulloch County, 1935-38;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 1st District, 1947-61; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Eagles;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in 1961
(age about
52 years).
Interment at Eastside
Cemetery, Statesboro, Ga.
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Lunsford Richardson Preyer (1919-2001) —
also known as L. Richardson Preyer —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., January
11, 1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1956; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina,
1961-63; candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from North Carolina, 1964;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1969-81.
Presbyterian.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died, of cancer,
in Moses Cone Memorial Hospital,
Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., April 3,
2001 (age 82 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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Nick James Rajkovich (1910-1969) —
also known as Nick J. Rajkovich —
of Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.; Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich.
Born in Krispolje, Austria (now Krizpolje, Croatia),
February
8, 1910.
Republican. School
teacher; college
professor; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Grand Traverse
District, 1961-62; mayor
of Traverse City, Mich., 1969; died in office 1969.
Catholic.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Munson Hospital,
in Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich., November
11, 1969 (age 59 years, 276
days).
Interment at Oakwood Catholic Cemetery, Traverse City, Mich.
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Calvin Lewellyn Rampton (1913-2007) —
also known as Calvin L. Rampton; Cal
Rampton —
of Davis
County, Utah; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Bountiful, Davis
County, Utah, November
6, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. J.
W. Robinson, 1936-38; Davis
County Attorney, 1939-41; major in the U.S. Army during World War
II; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952,
1972;
Governor
of Utah, 1965-77.
Mormon.
Died, of cancer,
in CareSource Hospice,
Holladay, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
16, 2007 (age 93 years, 314
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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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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John E. Reardon (1943-1988) —
also known as Jack Reardon —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., August
23, 1943.
School
teacher; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1975-87; defeated, 1987.
Died, of heart
failure, November
25, 1988 (age 45 years, 94
days).
Interment at Mt.
Calvary Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (1912-2002) —
also known as Henry S. Reuss —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
22, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1948, 1960; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1952;
U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1955-83.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in a hospital
at San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif., January
12, 2002 (age 89 years, 324
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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James Allen Rhodes (1909-2001) —
also known as James A. Rhodes; Jim Rhodes —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Bexley, Franklin
County, Ohio; Upper Arlington, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Coalton, Jackson
County, Ohio, September
13, 1909.
Republican. Mayor
of Columbus, Ohio, 1944-52; Ohio
auditor of state, 1953-63; Governor of
Ohio, 1963-71, 1975-83; defeated, 1950, 1954, 1986; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1964,
1968;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1964,
1972;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1970.
Presbyterian.
His decision, in 1970, to send the National Guard to the Kent State
University campus to quell a disturbance was blamed for the deaths of
four students there. Along with Alabama Gov. George
C. Wallace, he was the longest-serving state governor in U.S.
history.
Died, from infection
complications and heart
failure, in Ohio State University Medical
Center, Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, March 4,
2001 (age 91 years, 172
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio; statue at Broad
Street, Columbus, Ohio.
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Paul Grant Rogers (1921-2008) —
also known as Paul G. Rogers —
of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Ocilla, Irwin
County, Ga., June 4,
1921.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1955-79 (6th District 1955-67, 9th
District 1967-73, 11th District 1973-79); alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1968.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died October
13, 2008 (age 87 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edwynne Cutler Rosenbaum (1899-2003) —
also known as E. C. 'Polly' Rosenbaum —
of Hayden, Gila
County, Ariz.; Globe, Gila
County, Ariz.
Born in Ollie, Keokuk
County, Iowa, September
4, 1899.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1949-94; defeated, 1994;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Arizona.
Female.
Member, Zonta; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
28, 2003 (age 104 years,
115 days).
Interment at Greenwood
Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Ariz.
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James Roy Rowland Jr. (b. 1926) —
also known as J. Roy Rowland —
of Dublin, Laurens
County, Ga.
Born in Wrightsville, Johnson
County, Ga., February
3, 1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; physician;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1977-82; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 8th District, 1983-95.
Methodist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Edward Ross Roybal (1916-2005) —
also known as Edward R. Roybal —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., February
10, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1954; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1988
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-93 (30th District 1963-75,
25th District 1975-93).
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; Optimist
Club.
Died, from respiratory
failure and pneumonia,
in Huntington Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
24, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Dan Monroe Russell Jr. (1913-2011) —
also known as Dan M. Russell, Jr. —
of Bay St. Louis, Hancock
County, Miss.
Born in Magee, Simpson
County, Miss., March
15, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, 1965-83;
took senior status 1983.
Died in Gulfport, Harrison
County, Miss., April
16, 2011 (age 98 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Donald Stuart Russell (1906-1998) —
also known as Donald S. Russell —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Lafayette Springs, Lafayette
County, Miss., February
22, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; president,
University of South Carolina, 1952-57; Governor of
South Carolina, 1963-65; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1965-66; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1966-71; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1971-98; died in
office 1998.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., February
22, 1998 (age 92 years, 0
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Gardens, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (1897-1971) —
also known as Richard B. Russell, Jr. —
of Winder, Barrow
County, Ga.
Born in Winder, Barrow
County, Ga., November
2, 1897.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Barrow County, 1921-31; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1927-31; Governor of
Georgia, 1931-33; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1933-71; died in office 1971; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1952;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952;
member, President's Commission on the Assassination of President
KNDY, 1963-64.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Kiwanis;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
21, 1971 (age 73 years, 80
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard
Brevard Russell and Ina (Dillard) Russell; brother of Robert
Lee Russell; uncle of Robert
Lee Russell Jr.. |
| | | Political family: Russell
family of Winder, Georgia. |
| | | The Russell Senate Office Building
(built 1903-08; named 1972), in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. — The Richard B. Russell Federal Building
and Courthouse (built 1978-79), in Atlanta,
Georgia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Richard B. Russell, Jr.:
Gilbert C. Fite, Richard
B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia — Sally Russell,
Richard
Brevard Russell, Jr.: A Life of Consequence |
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Frank Grant Sawyer (1918-1996) —
also known as F. Grant Sawyer —
of Elko, Elko
County, Nev.
Born in Twin Falls, Twin Falls
County, Idaho, December
14, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; Elko
County District Attorney, 1950-58; Nevada
Democratic state chair, 1955; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nevada, 1956;
Governor
of Nevada, 1959-67; defeated, 1966.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
American
Legion; Lions; Eagles.
Died, of complications from a stroke,
in Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., February
19, 1996 (age 77 years, 67
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Palm
Memorial Park - Green Valley, Las Vegas, Nev.
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Francis Muir Scarlett (1891-1971) —
also known as Frank M. Scarlett —
of Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Brunswick, Glynn
County, Ga., June 9,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1924,
1928
(alternate), 1936;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, 1946-68;
took senior status 1968; senior judge, 1968-71.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died November
18, 1971 (age 80 years, 162
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Joseph Schwartz (1912-2000) —
of California.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., March
26, 1912.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; municipal judge in
California, 1959-63; superior court judge in California, 1964-68; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1968-82;
took senior status 1982.
Died, at Scripps Mercy Hospital,
San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
22, 2000 (age 87 years, 362
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Thompson Secrest (1904-1994) —
also known as Robert T. Secrest —
of Caldwell, Noble
County, Ohio; Senecaville, Guernsey
County, Ohio.
Born in Senecaville, Guernsey
County, Ohio, January
22, 1904.
Democrat. School
principal; superintendent
of schools; member of Ohio state legislature, 1931-32; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 15th District, 1933-42, 1949-54,
1963-67; defeated, 1946; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
member, Federal Trade Commission, 1954-61.
Member, American
Legion; Amvets;
Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died May 15,
1994 (age 90 years, 113
days).
Interment at Senecaville
Cemetery, Senacaville, Ohio.
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Charles Earl Simons Jr. (1916-1999) —
also known as Charles E. Simons, Jr. —
of South Carolina.
Born in Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C., August
17, 1916.
Lawyer;
law partner of Strom
Thurmond; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1942, 1947-48, 1960-64;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of South Carolina,
1964-65; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1965-86; took senior status
1986.
Baptist.
Died, from the effects of head injuries sustained in a fall, at
Aiken Regional Medical
Center, Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C., October
26, 1999 (age 83 years, 70
days).
Interment at Aiken
Memorial Gardens, Aiken, S.C.
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Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873-1944) —
also known as Alfred E. Smith; Al Smith; "The
Happy Warrior"; "The Brown Derby";
"The King of Oliver Street"; "The First
Citizen" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
30, 1873.
Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 2nd District, 1904-15; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1913; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920,
1932,
1936;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 11th District, 1915;
Governor
of New York, 1919-21, 1923-29; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1920,
1932;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1928; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 12th District, 1938.
Catholic.
Irish,
German,
and Italian
ancestry.
Died October
4, 1944 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.; statue at Alfred
E. Smith Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Dallas Burton Smith (1883-1936) —
also known as Dallas B. Smith —
of Opelika, Lee
County, Ala.
Born in Opelika, Lee
County, Ala., March 9,
1883.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1918; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Alabama, 1920;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Alabama 3rd District, 1920.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons.
Died, in the Veterans Hospital,
Gulfport, Harrison
County, Miss., August
1, 1936 (age 53 years, 145
days).
Interment at Rosemere
Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.
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Marion Eugene Snyder (1928-2007) —
also known as Gene Snyder —
of Brownsboro Farms, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
26, 1928.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1963-65, 1967-87 (3rd District
1963-65, 4th District 1967-87); defeated, 1964.
Lutheran.
Member, Optimist
Club.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., February
16, 2007 (age 79 years, 21
days).
Interment at Duncan
Memorial, Oldham County, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Marion Hustavus Snyder and Lois E. Snyder; married 1961 to Mary
Louise Hodges. |
| | | The Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and
Custom House (opened 1932, renamed 1986), in Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. — The Gene Snyder Freeway
(I-265 and Ky-841), in Louisville,
Kentucky, is named for
him. — The Gene Snyder Airport
(general aviation), in Pendleton
County, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
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Gus Jerome Solomon (1906-1987) —
also known as Gus J. Solomon —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., August
29, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1940,
1944;
U.S.
District Judge for Oregon, 1949-71; took senior status 1971.
Jewish.
Died February
15, 1987 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Vaios Spanos (1926-1995) —
also known as Harry V. Spanos —
of Newport, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in Newport, Sullivan
County, N.H., May 8,
1926.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1970; defeated, 1956; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1960
(alternate), 1964,
1972;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1960; candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1976; probate judge in New Hampshire, 1980-95.
Eastern
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry. Member, Moose; Lions.
Died in Newport, Sullivan
County, N.H., March
18, 1995 (age 68 years, 314
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Newport, N.H.
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Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (1913-2003) —
also known as Robert G. Stephens, Jr. —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., August
14, 1913.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1951-53; member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Clarke County, 1953-59; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 10th District, 1961-77.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Kiwanis;
Woodmen.
Died, in a hospital
at Athens, Clarke
County, Ga., February
20, 2003 (age 89 years, 190
days).
Interment at Oconee
Hill Cemetery, Athens, Ga.
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Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) —
also known as Isaac I. Stevens —
of Washington.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., March
25, 1818.
Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1853-57; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1857-61; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed at the Civil
War battle of Chantilly, Fairfax
County, Va., September
1, 1862 (age 44 years, 160
days).
Interment at Island
Cemetery, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at Ox Hill Battlefield Park, Fairfax County, Va.
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Relatives:
Cousin *** of Charles
Abbot Stevens and Moses
Tyler Stevens. |
| | | Political family: Stevens-Woodhull
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Stevens counties in Minn. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Fort
Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a state
park) in Warrenton,
Oregon, was named for
him. — Fort
Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a park)
in Washington,
D.C., was named for
him. — The city
(and lake)
of Lake
Stevens, Washington, is named for
him. — The town
of Stevensville,
Montana, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(6,838 feet), in Shoshone
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Stevens Peak
(5,372 feet), in Bingham
County, Idaho, is named for
him. — Upper Stevens Lake,
and Lower Stevens Lake,
in Shoshone
County, Idaho, are named for
him. — The Stevens Hall dormitory, at
Washington State University,
Pullman,
Washington, is named for
him. — Isaac I. Stevens Elementary
School (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001),
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Middle
School, in Port
Angeles, Washington, is named for
him. — Stevens Junior
High School (now Middle School), in Pasco,
Washington, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of
his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous
heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his
command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the
battle of Chantilly, Va." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens:
Joseph Taylor Hazard, Companion
of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of
Washington |
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Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) —
of Gettysburg, Adams
County, Pa.; Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Danville, Caledonia
County, Vt., April 4,
1792.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1833-35, 1837, 1841; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1838; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1849-53, 1859-68 (8th District
1849-53, 9th District 1859-68); died in office 1868; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1856
(speaker),
1860.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
11, 1868 (age 76 years, 129
days).
Interment at Shreiner-Concord
Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Alexis Stone (1846-1920) —
also known as William A. Stone —
of Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Delmar Township, Tioga
County, Pa., April
18, 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Tioga
County District Attorney, 1875-77; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1880-86; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1891-98; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1896;
Governor
of Pennsylvania, 1899-1903.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 1,
1920 (age 73 years, 318
days).
Interment at Wellsboro
Cemetery, Wellsboro, Pa.
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Thaddeus Campbell Sweet (1872-1928) —
also known as Thaddeus C. Sweet —
of Phoenix, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in Phoenix, Oswego
County, N.Y., November
16, 1872.
Republican. Paper
manufacturer; member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County, 1910-20; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1914-20; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1916,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from New York 32nd District, 1923-28; died in
office 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died as result of an airplane
accident in Whitney Point, Broome
County, N.Y., May 1,
1928 (age 55 years, 167
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Phoenix, N.Y.
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Arie Parks Taylor (1927-2003) —
also known as Arie P. Taylor; "Denver's Bella
Abzug" —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Bedford, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1927.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado,
1968,
1972
(alternate); member of Colorado
state house of representatives 7th District, 1973-84; Denver
clerk and recorder, 1991-95.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Colorado's first
African-American woman legislator.
Died, in Presbyterian/St. Luke's Hospital,
Denver,
Colo., September
27, 2003 (age about 76
years).
Interment at Fort
Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Fred Dalton Thompson (b. 1942) —
also known as Fred Thompson —
of Tennessee.
Born in Sheffield, Colbert
County, Ala., August
19, 1942.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1994-; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 2008.
Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Became an actor
when he played himself in the 1985 film
Marie, and went on to appear in other films in 1985-94,
including No Way Out, The Hunt for Red October, Cape
Fear, and In the Line of Fire, as well as the television
series Law and Order.
Still living as of 2014.
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James Strom Thurmond (1902-2003) —
also known as Strom Thurmond —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.; Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C.; Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., December
5, 1902.
School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Edgefield County, 1933-38; resigned
1938; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina,
1936,
1948,
1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956;
circuit judge in South Carolina, 1938-46; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; Governor of
South Carolina, 1947-51; States Rights candidate for President
of the United States, 1948; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1954-56, 1956-2003; received 14
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1960;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972,
1988.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died in Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., June 26,
2003 (age 100 years,
203 days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; statue erected 1999 at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John William Thurmond and Eleanor Gertrude Thurmond; married 1968 to Nancy
Janice Moore; married 1947 to Jean
Crouch. |
| | | Cross-reference: Charles
E. Simons, Jr. — Joe
Wilson — John
Light Napier — Robert
Adams |
| | | Strom Thurmond Federal Building and
U.S. Courthouse, in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Strom Thurmond High
School, in Johnston,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Strom Thurmond: Essie May
Washington-Williams, Dear
Senator : A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond —
Jack Bass & Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom:
The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom
Thurmond — R. J. Duke, The
Centennial Senator: True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People
Who Knew Him Best — Joseph Crespino, Strom
Thurmond's America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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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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Robert Smith Vance (1931-1989) —
also known as Bob Vance —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Mountain Brook, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala., May 10,
1931.
Democrat. Lawyer; Alabama
Democratic state chair, 1966-77; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1968,
1972
(alternate); Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1977-81; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-89; died in
office 1989.
Assassinated
by way of a mail bomb,
in Mountain Brook, Jefferson
County, Ala., December
16, 1989 (age 58 years, 220
days). Walter Leroy Moody, Jr., who sent the bomb, was convicted
of murder, sentenced to death, and executed in 2018.
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Lukes Episcopal Columbarium, Mountain Brook, Ala.
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Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) —
also known as Zebulon B. Vance —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., May 13,
1830.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1854; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1858-61; colonel
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Governor of
North Carolina, 1862-65, 1877-79; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1879-94; died in office 1894.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1894 (age 63 years, 336
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Asheville, N.C.; statue at Union
Square, Raleigh, N.C.
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James Madison Waddell Jr. (1922-2003) —
also known as James M. Waddell, Jr. —
of Beaufort, Beaufort
County, S.C.
Born in Boydell, Ashley
County, Ark., November
1, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; insurance
business; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Beaufort County,
1954-58; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1956
(alternate), 1964;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1960-92 (Beaufort County 1960-66, 16th
District 1966-68, 13th District 1968-72, 15th District 1972-84, 46th
District 1984-92); resigned 1992.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Navy
League; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sertoma;
Farm
Bureau; Nature
Conservancy.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., January
15, 2003 (age 80 years, 75
days).
Interment at Beaufort
National Cemetery, Beaufort, S.C.
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Henry Menasco Wade (1914-2001) —
also known as Henry M. Wade; "The
Chief" —
of Texas.
Born in Rockwall
County, Tex., November
11, 1914.
Democrat. FBI
special agent; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Dallas
County District Attorney, 1951-86; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 5th District, 1956.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
As District Attorney, he prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 for the murder
of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John
F. Kennedy. Also in his role as District Attorney, he was the
named defendant in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion
decision, Roe v. Wade.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., March 1,
2001 (age 86 years, 110
days).
Interment at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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William A. Walsh —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1926-27.
Burial location unknown.
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Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968) —
also known as Julius W. Waring —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 27,
1880.
U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of South Carolina,
1942-52; took senior status 1952.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
11, 1968 (age 87 years, 168
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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John Clarence Watts (1902-1971) —
also known as John C. Watts —
of Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky.
Born in Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., July 9,
1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; farmer; chair of
Jessamine County Democratic Party, 1928-53; Jessamine
County Attorney, 1933-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1940;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1947-48; Kentucky motor
transportation commissioner, 1948-51; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1951-71; died in
office 1971.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Knights
of Pythias; Lions.
Died in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., September
24, 1971 (age 69 years, 77
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Nicholasville, Ky.
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Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) —
also known as Robert C. Weaver —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1907.
Democrat. Economist;
received the Spingarn
Medal in 1962; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-68; first
African-American cabinet member; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;
president,
Baruch College, 1969; trustee, Mount Sinai Medical
Center.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1997 (age 89 years, 200
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Bryan Whitfield (1860-1948) —
also known as James B. Whitfield —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Wayne
County, N.C., November
8, 1860.
Leon
County Judge, 1889; Florida
state treasurer, 1897-1900; Florida
state attorney general, 1903-04; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1904-43; appointed 1904; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1905, 1909.
Died in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., August
20, 1948 (age 87 years, 286
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Joseph R. Williams (c.1904-1993) —
also known as Joe R. Williams —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Samaria, Oneida
County, Idaho, about 1904.
Democrat. Acting postmaster at Boise,
Idaho, 1950-52; Idaho state
auditor, 1959-89; resigned 1989.
Died, from heart
failure, May 10,
1993 (age about 89
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Wolf (1777-1840) —
of Easton, Northampton
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Allen Township, Northampton
County, Pa., August
12, 1777.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Easton,
Pa., 1802-03; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1824-29; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1829-35; defeated, 1835; comptroller of the U.S.
Treasury, 1836-38; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1838-40; died in office 1840.
German
ancestry.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
11, 1840 (age 62 years, 212
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Maria Margaretta Wolf and George Wolf (1737-1808). |
| | | Wolf Township,
in Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — Wolf Hall, at Penn State University,
State
College, Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — Governor Wolf Elementary
School (built 1956), in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — George Wolf Elementary
School, in Bath,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — The Governor Wolf Building (built 1893,
a former school converted to apartments), in Easton,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Howland Wood Jr. (1916-1979) —
also known as John H. Wood, Jr.; "Maximum
John" —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Rockport, Aransas
County, Tex., March
31, 1916.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Texas, 1960;
U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Texas, 1970-79; died
in office 1979.
Shot
and killed in
San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., May 29,
1979 (age 63 years, 59
days). The killer was Charles Harrelson, a contract killer who
was also the father of actor Woody Harrelson.
Burial location unknown.
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George Cressler Young (1916-2015) —
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
4, 1916.
U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Florida, 1961-66; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1961-66; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, 1962-81; took
senior status 1981.
Died in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla., April
24, 2015 (age 98 years, 263
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Anton Young III (1923-2007) —
also known as Robert A. Young III —
of St. Ann, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., November
27, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; pipefitter;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis County 1st
District, 1957-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1960,
1964;
member of Missouri
state senate, 1963-77; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District, 1977-87; defeated,
1986.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Lions; Knights
of Columbus; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets.
Died, of liver
failure, in St. Ann, St. Louis
County, Mo., October
17, 2007 (age 83 years, 324
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery, Jennings, Mo.
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