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John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) —
also known as John L. O'Sullivan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born, of American parents, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar, November
15, 1813.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1841-42; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1844;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Cofounder and editor of The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, a journal that published the works of
Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays on
Jacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolition
of the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explain
and justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part in
the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish
rule; as a result, was charged
in federal court in New York with violation of the Neutrality
Act; tried
and acquitted in March 1852.
Died, of influenza
and the effects of an earlier stroke,
in a residential hotel in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
24, 1895 (age 81 years, 129
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Albert Hiram Lennox (1842-1907) —
also known as Albert H. Lennox; Albert Hiram
Lenox —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., December
22, 1842.
Shipbroker;
commission
merchant; Vice-Consul
for Haiti in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1877-83; Consul
for Greece in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1881-91; Consul
for Haiti in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1883-91; in 1891, he and other officers of some mutual
benefit associations were charged
in Philadelphia with obtaining money under false
pretenses; in 1894, he resisted eviction
for non-payment
of rent; he was no longer consul, but falsely
claimd diplomatic immunity; the government of Haiti
contradicted his claim, and a scandal
resulted.
Died in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., July 4,
1907 (age 64 years, 194
days).
Interment at Colestown
Cemetery, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Elizabeth Jane Lenox and Hiram Lenox; married to Emma
Stoy. |
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John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) —
also known as John L. Waller —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in slavery
in New
Madrid County, Mo., January
12, 1850.
Republican. Barber; lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kansas; U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1891-93; in March 1895, during France's military
takeover of Madagascar from the Hova monarchy, he was arrested
by French forces and tried in
a French military court, purportedly for the offense of
corresponding with (or spying
for) the Hovas, but more likely because the Queen of the Hovas had
granted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubber and mahogany trees; sentenced
to twenty years in a French prison; his case became an international
cause celebre, and the U.S. government protested his imprisonment;
ultimately pardoned
in February 1896 by French president Félix Faure, and freed
after ten months in prison, in exchange for U.S. acquiesance to
French rule over Madagascar; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
13, 1907 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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John J. Girimondi —
of Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa.; Shakopee, Scott
County, Minn.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Catholic
priest; naturalized U.S. citizen; concealed his clerical
background from Congressmen who recommended him for a consular
appointment; U.S. Consul in Santos, 1900-01; removed
as consul for neglect
of duty and possible embezzlement;
went to Italy and misrepresented himself as U.S. Consul to
Persia; arrested
by Italian authorities on charges
of betraying
a young woman, and imprisoned
there.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Miot —
U.S. Consular Agent in St. Marc, 1897-1908; Dismissed
from his consular position in 1908 by the U.S. State Department for
allegedly aiding Haitian rebels.
Burial location unknown.
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Washington G. Lithgow (1840-1925) —
also known as Washington Lithgow —
of Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.; Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.; Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic.
Born, of American parents, in Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo (now Dominican
Republic), July 4,
1840.
Republican. U.S. Vice Consul in Puerto Plata, 1875-99; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1880;
Consul-General
for Dominican Republic in San
Juan, P.R., 1899; in 1912, due to his alleged support for
rebels, he was ordered expelled
from the Dominican Republic; the U.S. State Department interceded in
his behalf, and the order was revoked.
Died in Puerto Plata, Dominican
Republic, December
8, 1925 (age 85 years, 157
days).
Interment somewhere in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
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Relatives:
Married, July 17,
1863, to Ellen Prentiss Peirce; grandfather of Arthur Washington
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James Mark Sullivan (1873-1933) —
also known as James M. Sullivan —
of New York.
Born in Ireland,
1873.
U.S. Minister to Dominican Republic, 1913-15.
Participated
in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland; arrested
by the British authorities, but not executed due to his American
diplomatic passport.
Died in 1933
(age about
60 years).
Interment at Glasnevin
Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
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Olney Arnold (1861-1916) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Cumberland, Providence
County, R.I., September
8, 1861.
Democrat. Treasurer and manager Rogers Screw Company; president,
Angell Land
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode
Island, 1888;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Rhode Island, 1908, 1909; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1913-16, died in office 1916; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1914-16, died in office 1916; under
investigation in 1916 on charges
of making unneutral utterances.
Unitarian.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
March
5, 1916 (age 54 years, 179
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Victor Hugo Duras —
also known as Victor H. Duras —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Nebraska.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1908 (12th District), 1910 (14th
District); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1912;
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Liège, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1914-15; arrested
in August, 1916, in Russia, on suspicion
of being a German spy; freed in 1917.
Burial location unknown.
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Roger Culver Tredwell (1885-1961) —
also known as Roger C. Tredwell —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
12, 1885.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1910-11; U.S. Deputy Consul General in London, 1911; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Burslem, 1911-12; Dresden, 1912; U.S. Consul in Bristol, 1913-14; Amsterdam, 1914; Naples, 1914; Leghorn, 1914-15; Turin, 1915-16; Rome, 1916-17; while working as American consul, he was
arrested
and imprisoned
by the Russian Bolshevik authorities in Tashkent, 1918-19; U.S.
Consul General in Hong Kong, 1925-29; Stockholm, as of 1932.
Died in Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn., July 12,
1961 (age 76 years, 181
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Alanson Tredwell and Frances Vail (Culver) Tredwell; married to
Winifred van Shaick Reed. |
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Luke Lea (1879-1945) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., April
12, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; founder of the Nashville Tennesseean; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1911-17; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1912
(speaker);
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; in January 1919, after
the war was over, he led a group of U.S. Army officers in an unauthorized
attempt to seize former German leader Kaiser Wilhelm; they illegally
entered the Netherlands (which was neutral territory)
using forged
passports; he and the others were reprimanded
by the Army; following the collapse of the Asheville Central Bank and
Trust, he and others were indicted
in 1931 for bank
fraud; convicted
on three counts; sentenced to prison,
served two years before being paroled; ultimately pardoned
in 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, in Vanderbilt University Hospital,
Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
18, 1945 (age 66 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
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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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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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Anthony Dryden Marshall (1924-2014) —
also known as Anthony D. Marshall; Tony Marshall;
Anthony Dryden Kuser —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 30,
1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Consul in Istanbul, as of 1958-59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic, 1969-71; Trinidad and Tobago, 1972-73; Kenya, 1973-77; Seychelles, 1976-77; in 1971, he was accused
in press reports of involvement in a supposed plot to overthrow
the President, Philibert Tsiranana; the Malagasy government declared
him persona non grata, and expelled
him fron the country; theatrical
producer; guardian of his ailing mother, Brooke Astor; alleged to
have diverted
millions of dollars to his own theatrical productions, and removed
works of art from her apartment; his son Philip sued,
alleging abuse
and demanding his removal
as guardian; an independent investigation found no evidence for
abuse, but revealed financial misconduct; indicted
in 2007, and tried on
16 charges
in 2009; the trial lasted six months; ultimately convicted
and sentenced
to one to three years in prison;
served eight weeks and was released on medical parole.
Member, Rotary.
Died, at New York Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 2014 (age 90 years, 184
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Deane Roesch Hinton (1923-2017) —
also known as Deane R. Hinton —
of Illinois.
Born in Fort Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont., March
12, 1923.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Zaire, 1974-75; El Salvador, 1981-83; Pakistan, 1983-86; Costa Rica, 1987-90; Panama, 1990-94; declared
persona non grata by the government of Zaire, June 18, 1975.
Died in San Jose, Costa
Rica, March
28, 2017 (age 94 years, 16
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) —
also known as Charles A. Hayes —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill., February
17, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in
primary, 1992; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington,
1984.
African
ancestry. Member, United
Food and Commercial Workers.
Died, from complications of lung
cancer, at South Suburban Hospital,
Hazel Crest, Cook
County, Ill., April 8,
1997 (age 79 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) —
also known as Don Edwards —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., January
6, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75,
10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1964,
1968,
1988;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington,
1984.
Unitarian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., October
1, 2015 (age 100 years,
268 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ronald Vernie Dellums (1935-2018) —
also known as Ronald V. Dellums —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., November
24, 1935.
Democrat. Social
worker; U.S.
Representative from California, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75,
8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98); arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington,
1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988,
1996,
2008;
mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 2007-11.
Protestant.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 30,
2018 (age 82 years, 248
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) —
also known as Walter E. Fauntroy —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
6, 1933.
Democrat. Baptist
minister; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1971-91;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1972,
1980,
1988
(speaker);
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor
of Washington, D.C., 1990.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi.
Charged
in federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements on financial
disclosure forms, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000
to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to make
it appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outside
income, and that he had failed
to disclose a June 1988 loan of $24,200. Pleaded
guilty to one felony count, and sentenced
to probation.
Still living as of 2014.
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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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Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowery —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., October
6, 1921.
Democrat. Pastor;
leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel
room in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed,
and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., opened
fire on Lowery and other protesters; arrested
while demonstrating
in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; arrested
during protests
in Cullman, Ala., 1978; arrested
while protesting
apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington,
D.C., 1984; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and Coretta
Scott King; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 2008.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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William H. Simons —
also known as Bill Simons —
of Washington,
D.C.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; school
teacher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District
of Columbia, 1968,
1980,
1996,
2000;
president,
Washington Teachers Union; vice-president,
American Federation of Teachers; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington,
1984; candidate for Presidential Elector for District of Columbia.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) —
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
17, 1938.
Lawyer;
writer;
university
professor; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004;
chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99; arrested
during an anti-apartheid
sit-in at the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the
then-unrecognized Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a
civil war against the "Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk
show in 1995-2003, and is a television
commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2014.
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William A. Wilson (b. 1914) —
of California.
Born in 1914.
U.S. Ambassador to Vatican, 1984-86; reprimanded
by the State Department for his unauthorized diplomatic
mission to Libya.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University
professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy in
Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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