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George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997) —
also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., August
10, 1909.
Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984,
1988;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy
in Washington, 1984.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; National
Lawyers Guild.
Served four months in federal prison
for contempt
of court in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader on
trial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Among the founders of the nation's first
interracial law firm.
Ill with bone
cancer in 1997, he suffered a stroke
and died five days later, in Washington Home and Hospice,
Washington,
D.C., September
7, 1997 (age 88 years, 28
days).
Cremated.
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Charles Fitch Hemans (1896-1971) —
also known as Charles F. Hemans; "Baron of the
Bathroom"; "Knight of the
Doublecross" —
of Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich.; Howell, Livingston
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., April
12, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1924;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1926, 1928; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1934-41; defeated, 1931, 1941;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 15th District, 1934; candidate for
circuit
judge in Michigan 30th Circuit, 1935; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1936.
Implicated
in the Michigan legislative bribery
scandal
in 1944; granted immunity
from prosecution and testified that he had bribed
many legislators in his hotel bathroom; later, another bribery case
against legislators fell apart when he refused to testify and fled to
Washington; arrested
by FBI agents and arraigned
on a federal fugitive
witness charge; tried
and convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison;
pleaded
guilty to bribery
in 1950 and sentenced
to five years probation
and a $1,000 fine.
Died January
29, 1971 (age 74 years, 292
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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William W. Voisine (1897-1959) —
also known as Wilfred William Voisine —
of Ecorse, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, November
20, 1897.
Steel
executive; village
president of Ecorse, Michigan, 1936-37; members of a steelworker
terrorist group, the Black Legion, repeatedly attempted
to kill him in 1936; Jesse Pettijohn and Lawrence Madden were
later convicted of conspiracy to commit murder; mayor of
Ecorse, Mich., 1948-49, 1954-57.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Convicted
in April, 1950, of falsely
testifying to a Congressional committee in 1948 that he had
received only the regular price for steel; sentenced
to two years in federal prison.
In October, 1956, a warrant
was issued for his arrest,
along with several members of the city council, for knowingly permitting
illegal gambling in Ecorse, in return for bribes and
gratuities; Gov. G.
Mennen Williams initiated removal
proceedings against the officials.
Died in 1959
(age about
61 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Abel Voisine and Eugenia Jennie (Blais) Voisine; married, August
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John Stewart Service (1909-1999) —
also known as John S. Service —
Born in Chengdu, China,
August
3, 1909.
U.S. Consul in Wellington, as of 1947.
One of several U.S. diplomats whose wartime reports from China
detailed the weakness and corruption of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist
government, and and accurately predicted the triumph of the Chinese
Communists in the ensuing civil war. These reports were held against
him as evidence of disloyalty,
notably by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy, who in 1950 called him "a known associate and
collaborator with Communists." Under pressure from McCarthy, the
State Department dismissed
him in 1951; he was reinstated by a unanimous ruling of the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1956.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
3, 1999 (age 89 years, 184
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) —
also known as Howard Fast; "E. V.
Cunningham"; "Walter Ericson" —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
11, 1914.
Communist. Novelist;
in 1950, suspected of sedition,
he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; convicted
of contempt
of Congress and sentenced to three months in prison;
awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.
Jewish.
Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
12, 2003 (age 88 years, 121
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Parnell Thomas (1895-1970) —
also known as J. Parnell Thomas —
of Allendale, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., January
16, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor of
Allendale, N.J., 1926-30; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1935-36; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1937-50; defeated,
1954.
Pleaded
no contest to payroll
padding; resigned
from Congress and sentenced
to prison,
1950.
Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., November
19, 1970 (age 75 years, 307
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Mystic, Stonington, Conn.
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Walter Ellsworth Brehm (1892-1971) —
also known as Walter E. Brehm —
of Logan, Hocking
County, Ohio; Millersport, Fairfield
County, Ohio.
Born in Somerset, Perry
County, Ohio, May 25,
1892.
Republican. Dentist;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1938-42; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1943-53.
Member, Grange;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Eagles;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Psi
Omega.
Convicted
in 1951 of illegally accepting campaign
contributions from a clerk in his office, and fined
$5,000.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, August
24, 1971 (age 79 years, 91
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker;
union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Theophilus Eugene Connor (1897-1973) —
also known as Bull Connor —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., July 11,
1897.
Democrat. Sports
reporter on Birmingham radio;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1935-37; Birmingham Commissioner
of Public
Safety, 1936-52, 1956-63; candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1940, 1954; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1948,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
arrested
on December 26, 1951, on being found having a tryst
in a hotel room with his secretary, Christina Brown; convicted
of adultery,
fined
and sentenced
to jail,
but the conviction was overturned in 1952; member of Democratic
National Committee from Alabama, 1960-63; an ardent white
supremacist; his use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil
rights demonstrators in 1962-63 provoked national outrage;
candidate for mayor
of Birmingham, Ala., 1963.
Died in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., March
10, 1973 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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William T. Michaelson —
of Cliffside Park, Bergen
County, N.J.
Mayor
of Cliffside Park, N.J., 1950-51; indicted
in 1951, and again in 1953, on charges
of failure
to enforce gambling laws; the charges were dropped in 1955.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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Joseph P. Luna —
of Lodi, Bergen
County, N.J.
Democrat. Mayor of
Lodi, N.J., 1944-51; defeated, 1951; indicted
in 1951 on charges
of failure
to enforce gambling laws; the charges were dropped in 1955; recalled
from office as borough councilman in 1960.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles A. Heft —
of Fort Lee, Bergen
County, N.J.
Republican. Mayor
of Fort Lee, N.J., 1940-51; defeated, 1951; indicted
in 1951, along with three other city officials, on charges
of failing
to enforce gambling laws; the charges were dropped in 1955.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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William Albertson (1910-1972) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine),
May
7, 1910.
Communist. Candidate for New York
state senate 16th District, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1934; secretary-treasurer,
Local 16, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union.
Indicted,
along with other Communist leaders, by a federal grand jury in
August, 1951; tried,
in Pittsburgh, starting in November 1952, and convicted
in August, 1953, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to advocate the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; sentenced
to five years in prison;
the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the convictions in 1956. Expelled
from the Communist Party in 1964 over claims that he served as an
undercover police agent; in 1976, it was revealed that the charge was
founded on a phony letter planted by the F.B.I.
Died, in an automobile
accident, February
19, 1972 (age 61 years, 288
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Marshall Boyle Jr. (1903-1961) —
also known as William M. Boyle, Jr.; Bill
Boyle —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., February
2, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Director, Kansas City Police,
1939; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1949-51; investigated
in 1951 by the Senate Investigating Committee over his acceptance of
fees from the American Lithifold Corporation of St. Louis, in return
for using his influence
as Democratic national chair to obtain loans for the company from the
U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation; claimed to have been
vindicated, but ultimately resigned
under fire.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
30, 1961 (age 58 years, 209
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Clara Boyle; married to Genevieve Hayde. |
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Joseph Edward Casey (1898-1980) —
also known as Joseph E. Casey —
of Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass., December
27, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924
(alternate), 1932,
1940,
1944,
1948;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1935-43;
defeated, 1926, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1942.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Eagles;
American
Legion.
In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee investigated
transactions in which a group he led made enormous profits from the
purchase and re-sale of surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War
II; since federal law required that sales be made only to U.S.
citizens, his group allegedly set up several dummy
corporations purportedly under American ccontrol, and faked
financial statements for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of
shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. A federal indictment
against him, over these actions, was unsealed in February 1954, but
the charges were dismissed in September. Onassis, also indicted,
pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Died September
1, 1980 (age 81 years, 249
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Herman Methfessel (1900-1963) —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1900.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County 2nd District, 1935-38; Richmond
County District Attorney, 1948-51.
In September 1951, the New York State Crime Commission, investigating
rackets on the Staten Island waterfront, heard testimony from Mrs.
Anna Wentworth that she had seen District Attorney Methfessel in a gambling
house, which implied that he was protecting
vice; in response, he ordered her arrest and charged her with
perjury. At the request of the Crime Commission, citing abuse
of power, Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey superseded him from all cases related to the
investigation; in the meantime, he was defeated for re-election. In
1952, he and a subordinate were charged
with official
misconduct, but found not guilty.
Injured in a one-car
accident, and died the next day, in North Shore Hospital,
Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., July 7,
1963 (age 62 years, 226
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph E. Venuti (born c.1915) —
of Tuckahoe, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1915.
Democrat. Plumber;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1944.
Italian
ancestry.
He and two others were indicted
in July 1951, and charged with conspiring to violate gambling
laws; the trial was delayed while he was hospitalized with a stomach
ailment; arrested
in his hospital bed and transferred to jail;
the other two co-defendants were tried separately and convicted;
later, the convictions were reversed, and the indictment of Mr.
Venuti was dismissed.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Venuti and Pauline Venuti. |
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Irving Charles Velson (1913-1976) —
also known as Irving C. Velson; Irving Charles
Shavelson; Charles Wilson; "Nick";
"Shavey" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 3,
1913.
Machinist;
boilermaker;
shipfitter;
president,
Local 13, Shipbuilders
Union; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; in 1951 and 1953, he was brought to testify before
Congressional committees about his Communist and Soviet activities,
including efforts to infiltrate
the U.S. military with Soviet spies; he repeatedly refused to answer
questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination;
as a result, he was "barred for
life" by the Shipbuilders' union; later, served as international
representative for the (West Coast) International Longshoreman's
and Warehousemen's Union.
Venona Project documents (decrypted Soviet messages from the World
War II era), released in 1995, show that he was an agent
for Soviet military intelligence under the code name "Nick".
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
18, 1976 (age 62 years, 260
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.
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Julius Cecil Holmes (1899-1968) —
also known as Julius C. Holmes —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Pleasanton, Linn
County, Kan., April
24, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Marseille, as of 1926; Smyrna, as of 1927-29; Tirana, 1930; general in the U.S. Army during World War II;
executive officer, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942; assistant U.S.
Secretary of State, 1944-45; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1959-61; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65.
In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee investigated
how a group, including Holmes as well as former U.S. Rep. Joseph
E. Casey and former Secretary of State Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr., made large profits from the purchase and
re-sale of surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War II. Under
federal law, ships could be sold only to U.S citizens, so the group
allegedly set up several dummy
corporations purportedly under American control, and faked
financial statements for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of
Greek-Argentine shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. A federal indictment
against Holmes was ultimately dropped. Onassis, also indicted,
pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Died July 16,
1968 (age 69 years, 83
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (1900-1949) —
also known as Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
22, 1900.
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1944-45; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1945-46.
In 1951-52, a U.S. Senate committee investigated
transactions in which a group, including Stettinus as well as former
U.S. Rep. Joseph
E. Casey and diplomat Julius
C. Holmes, made large profits from the purchase and re-sale of
surplus U.S. tanker ships following World War II. Since federal law
required that sales be made only to U.S. citizens, the group
allegedly set up dummy
corporations purportedly under American control, and faked
financial statements for them, to buy the tankers on behalf of
Greek-Argentine shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Criminal
indictments against Casey and Holmes were ultimately dismissed;
Onassis pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
Died in Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
31, 1949 (age 49 years, 9
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y.
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Milton A. Gibbons (born c.1900) —
of Tuckahoe, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1900.
Democrat. Police
officer; mayor
of Tuckahoe, N.Y., 1949-65; defeated (Republican), 1965; he and
two others, including Joseph
Venuti, were indicted
in July 1951, and charged with conspiring to violate gambling
laws; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to three months in jail,
but released on bail a week later, pending appeal; in January 1953,
the appellate court unanimously reversed his conviction and dismissed
the indictment.; in 1962, he started a petition drive for a
Constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public schools.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Elisa Cuyar. |
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William Howard Melish (1910-1986) —
also known as W. Howard Melish —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 11,
1910.
Episcopal
priest; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;
chairman, National Council of Soviet-American Friendship, 1947-51 and
1971-78; this organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; ousted
in 1957 as rector of Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, over his
allegedly pro-Communist
activities.
Episcopalian.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 15,
1986 (age 76 years, 35
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Israel Amter (1881-1954) —
of Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Denver,
Colo., March
26, 1881.
Communist. Musician;
Workers Communist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (23rd District), 1938
(at-large); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1932, 1934, 1942; candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1933.
Indicted
in 1951 for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent
overthrow of the government, but due to poor health, was never
tried.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Columbus Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1954 (age 73 years, 243
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1903 to Sadie
Van Veen. |
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Archive |
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) —
also known as W. E. B. Du Bois —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Accra, Ghana.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
23, 1868.
College
professor; sociologist;
historian;
civil rights leader; Pan-Africanist; one of the founders of the
NAACP; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1920; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1949; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1950; in 1951, he and four other leaders
of the Peace Information Center, which was alleged
to be acting on behalf of the Soviet Union, were indicted
for their failure to register as foreign
agents; the case was dismissed in 1952, but his passport was
withheld until 1958; awarded the Lenin
Peace Prize in 1959.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
In 1895, he was the first
African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Died in Accra, Ghana,
August
27, 1963 (age 95 years, 185
days).
Entombed at Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) —
also known as George F. Kennan —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
16, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared
him persona
non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War;
received the 1968 Pulitzer
Prize in Biography for his Memoirs; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
17, 2005 (age 101 years,
29 days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Daniel W. West (b. 1909) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Algood, Putnam
County, Tenn., September
5, 1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,
1960,
1964
(alternate); member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1963-65 (Wayne County 6th
District 1963-64, 24th District 1965); defeated in primary, 1954
(Wayne County 6th District), 1956 (Wayne County 6th District), 1958
(Wayne County 6th District), 1960 (Wayne County 6th District), 1965
(24th District).
Convicted
of various crimes, including burglary,
larceny,
and forgery,
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., and was sentenced to prison
in those places; came to Michigan and assumed the identity of a
deceased New York attorney of the same name; indicted
in late 1964 on state charges
of voter
registration fraud and federal charges
of income
tax fraud and forgery;
in January 1965, his seat in the Michigan House was declared
vacant.
Burial location unknown.
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Vincent Hallinan (1896-1992) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., December
16, 1896.
Progressive. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
innovator in courtroom tactics; defense attorney for longshoreman
union leader Harry Bridges, who had been accused of being a
Communist; jailed
six months for contempt
of court in 1952; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952; indicted
in 1953 on income
tax evasion charges;
convicted
and sentenced
to 18 months in prison.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., October
2, 1992 (age 95 years, 291
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1932 to Vivian
Moore. |
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article |
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1958 |
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Clark E. Tucker (1897-1971) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born December
1, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1947-55; indicted
in 1952, along with two city commissioners, on charges
related to city procurement of asphalt.
Died December
18, 1971 (age 74 years, 17
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Albert Jason Lima (1907-1989) —
also known as Albert J. Lima —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Mendocino
County, Calif., August
31, 1907.
Communist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1940, 1942;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Convicted
in 1952 of conspiracy to overthrow
the United States government; the verdict was overturned on appeal.
Died, of cancer,
in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 3,
1989 (age 81 years, 276
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lawrence J. Murray Jr. (1910-2000) —
of Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y.; Pearl River, Rockland
County, N.Y.; Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, June 20,
1910.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1938-40; removed 1940; charged,
in January 1940, with embezzling
$49,102 from Miss May Dunnigan, his mentally incompetent law client
(also sister-in-law to U.S. Postmaster General James
A. Farley); the money was lost in gambling
on horse races; tried,
convicted
on all counts, and hence automatically disbarred
and removed from
office; sentenced
to five to ten years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1942; arrested
in 1952, along with other bookmakers, for illegally taking
bets.
Irish
ancestry.
Died March
15, 2000 (age 89 years, 269
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lawrence J. Murray and Emma (Brennan) Murray. |
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Arthur H. Wicks (1887-1985) —
also known as A. H. Wicks —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; Lake Katrine, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
24, 1887.
Republican. Worked in piano
manufacturing business; employed in the engineering department of
the New York City Board of Water
Supply, and then in construction of subways;
owner and operator of steam
laundry in Kingston; director, Governor Clinton Hotel;
member of New York
state senate, 1927-56 (29th District 1927-44, 34th District
1945-56); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1940
(alternate), 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1956;
resigned
in November 1953 as Senate Majority Leader and acting Lieutenant
Governor, while under threat
of ouster over his Sing Sing prison visits to convicted extortionist
and labor leader Joseph S. Fay.
Member, Freemasons;
Junior
Order; Rotary.
Died in Lake Katrine, Ulster
County, N.Y., February
18, 1985 (age 97 years, 56
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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Ernest King Bramblett (1901-1966) —
also known as Ernest K. Bramblett —
of Pacific Grove, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., April
25, 1901.
Republican. Insurance
business; mayor
of Pacific Grove, Calif., 1938-46; U.S.
Representative from California, 1947-55 (11th District 1947-53,
13th District 1953-55).
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Elks; Moose; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Investigated
by a federal grand jury in Washington over payroll padding in his
office; he had hired his
wife, received kickbacks
from employees who did no work, and made false
statements to the House disbursing officer; indicted
on 18 counts in June 1953; pleaded not guilty; tried in
February 1954; convicted
on seven counts; his conviction was stayed pending appeal, but
ultimately upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court; fined
$5,000, placed on one-year probation,
and separately required to pay restitution.
Died December
27, 1966 (age 65 years, 246
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Wheeler Thayer (1910-1969) —
also known as Charles W. Thayer —
of Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa., February
9, 1910.
U.S. Vice Consul in Moscow, 1937, 1940; Berlin, 1937-38; Hamburg, 1939-40; Kabul, as of 1943; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
II; head of the State Department's international broadcasting
division, including the "Voice of America", 1947-49; U.S. Consul
General in Munich, 1952-53; in March 1953, when attacks on his loyalty
by U.S. Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy inspired a State Department investigation
into his diplomatic
career, he resigned
from the Foreign Service; writer.
Died, during heart
surgery, in Salzburg, Austria,
August
27, 1969 (age 59 years, 199
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Edward C. Peirce (c.1895-1955) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born about 1895.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1944,
1952;
mayor
of New Bedford, Mass., 1952-53; convicted
in 1953 on charges of conspiracy to
protect gambling, and sentenced
to four years in prison;
served twenty months.
Died, of cancer,
in a nursing
home at New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
31, 1955 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Anthony Dreier —
of Nanticoke, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Mayor
of Nanticoke, Pa., 1953; convicted
in 1953 on charges of soliciting
and accepting a bribe for a police appointment.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) —
also known as Joseph R. McCarthy; Joe McCarthy;
"Tail-Gunner Joe" —
of Appleton, Outagamie
County, Wis.
Born in Grand Chute, Outagamie
County, Wis., November
14, 1908.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Wisconsin 10th Circuit, 1940-46; served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57; died in office 1957; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1948;
speaker, 1952.
Catholic.
Claimed in a 1950 speech that he had a list of 205 Communists
employed in the U.S. State Department; went on to conduct hearings
and investigations into alleged subersive activities and Communist
influence on society; with his sensationalist tactics and disregard
for fairness and due process, he dominated the American political
scene for a period of time, now called the McCarthy Era; public
opinion turned against him when he tried to investigate the Army; in
December 1953, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure
him for "contemptuous
conduct" and abuse
of select committee privilege.
Died of a liver
ailment at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
1957 (age 48 years, 169
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Appleton, Wis.
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John Frederick Hartsfield (1884-1953) —
also known as John F. Hartsfield —
of Illiopolis, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Monticello, Piatt
County, Ill.; Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., January
3, 1884.
Democrat. Jeweler;
postmaster at Monticello,
Ill., 1934-46 (acting, 1934-35).
According to published
reports, he had an argument with his daughter-in-law over
disciplining two small children; he then shot
her in the chest (she survived), and then shot and
killed
himself, in Homewood, Jefferson
County, Ala., May 9,
1953 (age 69 years, 126
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) —
also known as "Rebel Girl" —
of New York.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
7, 1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer
for the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") in 1906-16; one
of the founders
of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which later expelled
her for being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (Communist, at-large), 1954
(Peoples' Rights, 24th District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961.
Female.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Russia,
September
5, 1964 (age 74 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) —
also known as Harold G. Hoffman —
of South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
7, 1896.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
business; banker; newspaper
columnist and radio
commentator; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1923-24; mayor
of South Amboy, N.J., 1925-27; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1927-31; New Jersey
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, 1930-35; Governor of
New Jersey, 1935-38; defeated in primary, 1940, 1946; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1936
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles;
Royal
Arcanum.
Suspended
in 1954 as head of the New Jersey unemployment compensation system
for an investigation
of financial irregularities. Subsequently, when he died, his written
confession
of embezzlement
schemes was disclosed.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his room at the Blake Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 4,
1954 (age 58 years, 117
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, South Amboy, N.J.
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Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) —
also known as Anne Braden; Anne McCarty —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., July 28,
1924.
Newspaper
reporter; labor
organizer; civil rights activist starting in the 1940s; in May
1954, to fight
segregation, she and her husband bought a house in a white
neighborhood on behalf of a Black family; this sparked furious and
violent opposition and the bombing of the house; she and others were
charged
with sedition;
her husband was the first to be convicted, but then, in 1956, all
state sedition laws were struck down; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Kentucky.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., March 6,
2006 (age 81 years, 221
days).
Interment at Eminence
Cemetery, Eminence, Ky.
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Thomas W. Flatley (born c.1888) —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.
Born about 1888.
Democrat. Mayor of
Erie, Pa., 1952-54; resigned 1954; arrested
in October 1954 and charged
with taking part in a gambling
racket; admitted
to receiving
payments and pleaded
guilty; sentenced
to one to two years in jail,
and fined
$1,000.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright;
author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";
received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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Roger Alfred Davis (1889-1967) —
also known as Roger A. Davis —
of Hartly, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, March 2,
1889.
Grocer;
member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Kent County 4th District,
1931-32, 1953-54; arrested,
in April 1954, by Maryland State Police, on U.S. Route 50, and charged
with drunk
and reckless driving,
as well as disorderly
conduct; jailed
overnight, pleaded
guilty, and fined.
Died in Hartly, Kent
County, Del., December
6, 1967 (age 78 years, 279
days).
Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden, Del.
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Hugh Ware Cross (1896-1972) —
also known as Hugh W. Cross —
of Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill.
Born in Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill., August
24, 1896.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 38th District, 1933-40; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1939-40; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1941-49; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1944,
1948;
member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1949-55; resigned
under fire from the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1955,
following a unanimous vote of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations to open an
inquiry into the propriety
of his actions influencing the award of a Chicago transportation
contract; the committee later reported that he had "made
a mistake and acted
indiscreetly".
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill., October
15, 1972 (age 76 years, 52
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville, Ill.
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John T. McManus (1904-1961) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Montrose, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1904.
Reporter
and movie critic for the New York Times; movie and radio
critic for Time magazine;
entertainment editor for PM (newspaper);
general manager, Weekly Guardian newspaper;
president,
Newspaper Guild of New York, 1943-47; international
vice president of the American Newspaper Guild; member, New
York CIO Council; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1945; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (American Labor), 1954 (American Labor), 1958
(Independent Socialist); in 1956, called before a U.S. Senate
subcommittee, he took the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
in refusing to answer questions about the Communist
Party.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montrose, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
22, 1961 (age 56 years, 362
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward J. McManus; married to Jane Bedell. |
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24, 1958 |
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Charles G. Johnson (1880-1957) —
also known as Gus Johnson —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born October
12, 1880.
Republican. California
state treasurer, 1923-56; resigned 1956; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1932.
Resigned
under fire in 1956, while subject of an inquiry
into over $100,000 in unpaid personal loans from banks with
state-deposited funds; no charges were ever filed.
Died, four days after suffering a stroke,
at Sutter Hospital,
Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., October
14, 1957 (age 77 years, 2
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Orville E. Hodge —
of Illinois.
Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1953-56.
Convicted
of embezzling
state funds; sentenced
to prison.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John August Britting (1898-1968) —
also known as John A. Britting —
of East Farmingdale, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New Jersey, April 3,
1898.
Republican. Deputy treasurer of Suffolk County, 1942-54; member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County 3rd District, 1955-56; called
to testify in 1956 during an investigation
of his handling of tax-foreclosed properties as deputy county
treasurer (known as the "land grab" scandal),
he took the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
to refuse to answer questions; indicted
on bribery
and conspiracy charges
for channeling properties to favored speculators and receiving part
of the profits; tried in
1958 and convicted;
sentenced
to five to ten years in prison
and fined
$27,000; released pending appeal; also convicted
in a related case in 1959; in 1960, his prison sentence was reduced
to one to two years.
German
ancestry.
Died in October, 1968
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at Sacred
Heart Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Cadman H. Frederick (b. 1880) —
of Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born, in the British West Indies, May 22,
1880.
Republican. Real estate
developer; one of the founders of the Suffolk Title
and Guarantee Company, 1925; banker; mayor
of Babylon, N.Y., 1937-38.
Resigned
in 1956 as president and director of the Suffolk County Federal
Savings and Loan Association, in the midst of an investigation
of the sale of tax-foreclosed properties by Suffolk County. He and
others shared
profits on the sale of these properties with Deputy County
Treasurer John
A. Britting.
Burial location unknown.
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Terry Doyle Schrunk (b. 1913) —
also known as Terry D. Schrunk —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Stayton, Marion
County, Ore., March
10, 1913.
Democrat. Fire
fighter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Multnomah
County Sheriff, 1949-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Oregon, 1952;
mayor
of Portland, Ore., 1957-72; indicted
in March, 1957 on bribery
and perjury
charges;
tried
and found not guilty; another indictment,
for conspiracy
to obtain wiretaps and other related charges, was dismissed in
September, 1957.
Presbyterian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Purple
Heart; Elks; Eagles;
Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Schrunk and Pearl Margaret (Doyle) Schrunk; married, May 17,
1936, to Virginia Dorothy Price. |
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Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006) —
also known as Tony Franciosa; Anthony George
Papaleo —
of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1928.
Democrat. Actor;
hit and
kicked a press photographer at the Los Angeles Civic Center on
April 19, 1957; arrested
for assault,
pleaded
guilty, served to ten days in jail,
and fined
$250; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Italian
ancestry.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a few days later, in UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
19, 2006 (age 77 years, 86
days).
Cremated.
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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) —
of Ausable Forks, Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 21,
1882.
Artist;
writer;
member of New York American Labor Party Executive Committee, 1945;
American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1948; vice-chair of
New York American Labor Party, 1949; chairman of the National Council
of American-Soviet Friendship, 1957-71; this organization and its
leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; received the
Lenin
Peace Prize in 1967.
Died in Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., March
13, 1971 (age 88 years, 265
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Essex County, N.Y.
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Llewelyn Sherman Adams (1899-1986) —
also known as Sherman Adams; "The Abominable No
Man"; "The Great Stone Face" —
of Lincoln, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in East Dover, Dover, Windham
County, Vt., January
8, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lumberman;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1941-44; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1943-44;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1944,
1952
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1945-47; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Lincoln,
1948; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1949-53; defeated, 1946; assistant to President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1953-58; forced to
resign in 1958 following disclosure that he had accepted
gifts, including a vicuna
coat, from a Boston businessman seeking preferred treatment from
federal agencies.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Grange;
Elks; Society
of Colonial Wars; Foresters.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., October
27, 1986 (age 87 years, 292
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Lincoln, N.H.
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Clennon Washington King Jr. (c.1921-2000) —
also known as Clennon King; "The Black Don
Quixote" —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born about 1921.
Minister;
Independent Afro-American candidate for President
of the United States, 1960; candidate for mayor of
Miami, Fla., 1996.
African
ancestry.
Attempted
to enroll in the then-all-white University of Mississippi in
1958, and was sent to the state's insane
asylum; attempted to join and integrate Jimmy
Carter's all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on the eve of
the 1976 presidential election. Jailed
on numerous occasions for his flamboyant tactics.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., February
12, 2000 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Albany, Ga.
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Bobby Seale (b. 1936) —
also known as Robert George Seale —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., October
22, 1936.
Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955; charged
with insubordination
and being AWOL,
and dishonorably
discharged; sheet metal
worker; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party,
1966; one of eight defendants charged
in 1969 with crossing state lines to incite a
riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; the
judge ordered him bound and
gagged during the trial, and sentenced
him to four years in prison
for contempt
of court; Peace and Freedom candidate for California
state assembly 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he was charged
in New Haven, Conn., with ordering
the murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed to
being a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and
the charges were eventually dropped; candidate for mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1973.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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