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Jacob Leisler (c.1640-1691) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bockenheim, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Frankfurt am Main,
Germany),
about 1640.
Fur trader;
tobacco
business; following the English Revolution of 1688, which brought
Protestant rulers William and Mary to power, he led "Leisler's
Rebellion" and seized control of the colony; Colonial
Governor of New York, 1689-91; provided land for a settlement of
French Huguenot refugees (now the city of New Rochelle); following
the arrival of a new royal governor, he was ousted.
Arrested,
charged with treason, tried,
convicted,
and sentenced to
death; executed
by hanging
and decapitation,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May
16, 1691 (age
about 51
years). Four years later, he was posthumously exonerated by an
act of Parliament.
Original interment at a private or family graveyard, New York County, N.Y.;
subsequent interment at Dutch
Church Burial Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment to unknown
location; statue at Broadview Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y.
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James Alexander (1691-1756) —
Born in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland,
May
27, 1691.
In Scotland, he joined the Jacobite Rising of 1715, a revolt
that attempted to install James Francis Edward Stuart (the "Old
Pretender") as king; to avoid prosecution
for treason, he fled
to New York; surveyor;
lawyer;
member New York governor's council, 1721-32, 1737; Colonial
Attorney-General of New York, 1721-23.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in New York, April 2,
1756 (age 64 years, 311
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Robert Alexander (c.1740-1805) —
of Maryland.
Born in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., about 1740.
Planter;
lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76.
Episcopalian.
When the Declaration of Independence was promulgated, fled
from Maryland to the British Fleet; in 1780, he was adjudged
guilty of high treason, and his property was confiscated.
Died in London, England,
November
20, 1805 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Andrew Allen (1740-1825) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1740.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775-76.
Disapproved of the Declaration of Independence, and withdrew from the
Continental Congress in June 1776; when the British Army entered New
York, he took the oath of allegiance to the King, and went to
England; he was attainted
of treason, and his estates in Pennsylvania were confiscated.
Died in London, England,
March
7, 1825 (age about 84
years).
Burial location unknown.
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David Mathews (d. 1800) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Nova
Scotia.
Lawyer;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1776-83.
In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress ordered his arrest
over his involvement in a plot to poison
Gen. George
Washington; continued serving as mayor during British occupation
of the city; in 1783, he fled to
Nova Scotia with other Loyalists.
Died near Sydney, Nova
Scotia, 1800.
Burial location unknown.
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John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in St. Gall, Switzerland,
August
27, 1724.
Ordained
minister; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775-76; accused
of treason against the Continental Congress and banished
in 1777; half of his estate was confiscated;
returned to Savannah in 1779.
Presbyterian.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., July 23,
1781 (age 56 years, 330
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Joseph Galloway (1731-1803) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in West River, Anne
Arundel County, Md., 1731.
Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1757-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1774-75.
Opposed independence for the Colonies and remained loyal to King
George; joined the British Army; moved to England; in 1778, the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania convicted
him of high treason and confiscated
his estates.
Died in Watford, Hertfordshire, England,
August
29, 1803 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Abraham Jones —
of Richmond
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1777-78; removed 1778.
Expelled
from the New York Assembly (his seat was declared vacant) on June 8,
1778, for "being with the enemy.".
Died on shipboard in the North
Atlantic Ocean, en route back from Canada.
Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Isaac Low (1735-1791) —
of New York.
Born in Raritan Landing (now part of Piscataway), Middlesex
County, N.J., April
13, 1735.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774.
Was opposed to armed conflict with Great Britain; accused
of treason and imprisoned;
his property was confiscated
through a bill of
attainder in 1779; moved to England in 1783.
Died in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England,
July
25, 1791 (age 56 years, 103
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Matthew Lyon (1749-1822) —
of Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in County Wicklow, Ireland,
July
14, 1749.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1779-83; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 1st District, 1797-1801; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1803-11; defeated,
1810.
Convicted
and jailed in 1789 under the Sedition Act.
Slaveowner.
Died in Spadra Bluff, Johnson
County, Ark., August
1, 1822 (age 73 years, 18
days).
Original interment at Spadra
Bluff Cemetery, Spadra Bluff, Ark.; reinterment in 1833 at River
View Cemetery, Eddyville, Ky.
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Joseph Roffignac (1766-1846) —
also known as Louis Philippe Joseph de Rouffignac —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Angoulême, France,
1766.
Fled
France in 1789 to escape the
guillotine, presumably over disloyalty to the
revolutionary regime; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1820-28.
French
ancestry.
Suffered a stroke,
and dropped the gun he was holding, which accidentally
discharged, shooting
him in the head and killing him, in Périgueux, France,
1846
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Blount (1749-1800) —
Born in Windsor, Bertie
County, N.C., April 6,
1749.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1781, 1783; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-83, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1788; Governor
of Southwest Territory, 1790-96; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1796-97; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1798-1800; died in office 1800; Speaker
of the Tennessee State Senate, 1798-99.
Presbyterian.
Became involved in a conspiracy to turn Florida over to
British control; when this plot was uncovered in 1797, was expelled
from the U.S. Senate; afterwards, on July 7, 1797, he was impeached,
but the Senate dropped the matter for lack of jurisdiction.
Slaveowner.
Died in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., March
21, 1800 (age 50 years, 349
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Benjamin Sebastian —
of Kentucky.
Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1792-1806.
Accused of being a paid agent of Spain; the charge was investigated
by the Kentucky legislature, and he resigned in
disgrace.
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Swartwout (1783-1856) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., November
17, 1783.
He was participant in Aaron
Burr's "Western Conspiracy"; delivered a message from Burr to
Gen. James Wilkinson in New Orleans; subsequently arrested
in November 1806 for misprision of treason, but released a few
months later; early promoter of railroads;
openly supported the Texas Republic in its war for independence from
Mexico; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1829-38; in 1838, it was alleged that he had embezzled
more than $1.2 million from the New York customs house, and fled
to England; later investigation implicated a subordinate of his as
having obtained most of that money; forfeited
his property and returned to the U.S. in 1841.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
21, 1856 (age 73 years, 4
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
16, 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1786-87, 1790,
1814-15; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1791-99; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1795-99; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1799-1805.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Arrested
in 1807 on charges
of conspiring with Aaron
Burr in treasonable projects; gave bail and was released,
but never brought to trial.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., October
9, 1824 (age 63 years, 359
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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John Smith (c.1735-1824) —
of Columbia (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born about 1735.
Democrat. Member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1803; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Hamilton County,
1802; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1803-08; resigned 1808.
Indicted
in Richmond, Virginia, 1807 on charges
of participating in treasonous schemes with Aaron
Burr; the charges were dropped after Burr was acquitted. Later
that year, a Senate committee chaired by John
Quincy Adams recommended that Smith be expelled
from the Senate for his association with Burr. A trial
was held in April 1808; Smith was represented by Francis
Scott Key and Robert
Goodloe Harper. The expulsion
resolution failed on a vote of 19 to 10, one vote short of the
two-thirds required.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Francisville, West
Feliciana Parish, La., July 30,
1824 (age about 89
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Aaron Burr (1756-1836) —
also known as Aaron Edwards —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
6, 1756.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County
1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); New York
state attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1791-97; Vice
President of the United States, 1801-05; Killed Alexander
Hamilton in a duel,
July 11, 1804; tried
for treason in 1807; found not guilty.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died, after several strokes,
at the Winants or Port Richmond Hotel,
Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
14, 1836 (age 80 years, 221
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah
Burr (who married Tapping
Reeve); married, July 2,
1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed
of Francis
Stebbins Bartow); married 1833 to Eliza
(Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married Joseph
Alston); nephew of Pierpont
Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas
Willett; ancestor of Karla
Ballard; first cousin of Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed of Anson
Foster Keeler; second cousin of John
Davenport and James
Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore
Davenport; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman and Evert
Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard, Stillman
Stephen Light and Blanche
M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Alfred
Walstein Bangs, John
Clarence Keeler, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard, John
Cecil Purcell and Arthur
Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed of Eli
Thacher Hoyt, George
Smith Catlin, John
Appleton, Howkin
Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph
Pomeroy Root and Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Greene
Carrier Bronson, Abijah
Catlin, David
Munson Osborne, George
Landon Ingraham, Dwight
Arthur Silliman and Charles
Dunsmore Millard; fourth cousin of Noah
Phelps and Hezekiah
Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, Elisha
Phelps, Ambrose
Tuttle, Jesse
Hoyt, Abiel
Case, Henry
Fisk Janes, Jairus
Case, John
Leslie Russell, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg and Almon
Case. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Dayton — Nathaniel
Pendleton — John
Smith — John
Tayler — Walter
D. Corrigan, Sr. — Cowles
Mead — Luther
Martin — William
P. Van Ness — Samuel
Swartwout — William
Wirt — Theophilus
W. Smith |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask,
Aaron
Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President,
1756-1805 — Milton Lomask, Aaron
Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 —
Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr., Aaron
Burr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
H. W. Brands, The
Heartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart, American
Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's
America — Donald Barr Chidsey, The
great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the
West |
| | | Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal,
Burr |
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Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) —
also known as Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y
Sáenz —
of Mérida, Yucatan;
La Porte, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tecoh, Yucatan,
October
3, 1788.
Active in politics in Mexico, 1812-34; imprisoned
in 1814-17 by Mexican authorities over his advocacy of democratic
reforms; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Harrisburg, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836.
Died, of pneumonia,
November
15, 1836 (age 48 years, 43
days).
Interment at de
Zavala Family Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Anastasio de Zavala=y=Velázquez and Maria Bárbara
Sáenz=y=Castro; married 1807 to Teresa
Correa=y=Correa; married, November
12, 1831, to Emily West. |
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Albert Lange (1801-1869) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, Germany),
December
16, 1801.
Republican. He belonged to a secret society which advocated
a constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, the
conspiracy was uncovered; he was convicted
of treason and sentenced
to fifteen years in in prison;
pardoned
in 1829, and left Germany for the United States; U.S. Consul in Amsterdam, 1849-50; Indiana
state auditor, 1861-63; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., July 25,
1869 (age 67 years, 221
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia,
in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin. |
| | | Austin County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Austin,
Texas, is named for
him. — Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, is named for
him. — Austin College,
Sherman,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Handbook
of Texas Online |
| | | Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg
Cantrell, Stephen
F. Austin : Empresario of Texas |
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Henry P. Scholte (1805-1868) —
of Pella, Marion
County, Iowa.
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands,
September
25, 1805.
Republican. Preacher;
joined the dissenters from the national church of the Netherlands; tried in
1834 for teaching heresy, expelled
from the church, fined,
and imprisoned;
helped organize a group which emigrated to Iowa in 1847; lawyer; postmaster;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1860.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died August
25, 1868 (age 62 years, 335
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Pella, Iowa.
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Lorenzo Brentano (1813-1891) —
also known as Lorenz Peter Carl Brentano —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mannheim, Germany,
November
4, 1813.
Republican. In Germany, he participated in the 1849
revolution; arrested and sentenced
to life imprisonment;
escaped
to the United States; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 61st District, 1863-65; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1864;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1872-76; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 3rd District, 1877-79.
German
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
18, 1891 (age 77 years, 318
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Joseph Barker (c.1806-1862) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1806.
Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850-51; defeated, 1851, 1852.
In 1849, after an anti-Catholic
speech, he was arrested,
charged
with using obscene
language, obstructing
the streets, and causing a riot, convicted,
and sentenced
to a year in prison;
elected mayor in 1850 while still incarcerated. While mayor, he was
twice arrested
on charges
of assault
and battery. In 1851, he was convicted
of riot.
Struck and killed by a railroad
train, in Ross Township, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
2, 1862 (age about 56
years).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Patrick F. Egan (1841-1919) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in County Longford, Ireland,
August
13, 1841.
Republican. Irish home rule advocate; prosecuted
in Dublin, 1880, for sedition; grain elevator
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Nebraska, 1888;
U.S. Minister to Chile, 1889-93.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1919 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at St.
Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Robert William Wilcox (1855-1903) —
also known as Robert W. Wilcox —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Kahalu, Honuaula, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, February
15, 1855.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1900-03.
Leader of the Hawaiian revolution of 1889; tried
for treason, but acquitted by a jury. Was involved in the
rebellion of 1895 and subsequently court-martialed,
found
guilty, and sentenced to
death; the sentence was later commuted to 35 years; pardoned
by the Hawaiian president in 1898.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
23, 1903 (age 48 years, 250
days).
Interment at Catholic
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining engineer;
worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;
in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt to
overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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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Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) —
also known as Earl Browder —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 20,
1891.
Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in
World War I, he was convicted
in 1917 of conspiracy against
the draft laws and sentenced
to sixteen months in prison;
imprisoned
again in 1919; pardoned
in 1933; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th
District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for President
of the United States, 1936, 1940; arrested
in 1939 for a passport
violation, convicted,
and sentenced
to four years in prison
(sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the
Communist Party, 1946.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 27,
1973 (age 82 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) —
also known as Victor L. Berger —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Nieder-Rehbach, Austria,
February
28, 1860.
Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878; school
teacher; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 5th District, 1911-13, 1919,
1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, International
Typographical Union.
He and Eugene
V. Debs founded the Socialist Party. He opposed
U.S. entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he was tried
and convicted
under the Espionage Act, and sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
elected to Congress anyway, he was denied a
seat in 1919-21 to to alleged disloyalty. In 1921, the
U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the cases against him
were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923.
Injured in a streetcar
accident, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
7, 1929 (age 69 years, 160
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Socialist. Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder
of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Rose Pastor Stokes —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Communist. Indicted
in 1918 for sedition over a speech she made in Kansas City,
and released on bail; arrested
in Stamford, Conn., in September, 1921, to prevent her from giving a
speech there; candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1921.
Female.
Burial location unknown.
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William F. Kruse (1894-1952) —
also known as Bill Kruse —
of Illinois.
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., 1894.
Bookkeeper;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate
to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialist
candidate for secretary
of state of Illinois, 1921; Workers candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1928.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Died in 1952
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Irwin St. John Tucker —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Lecturer;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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Adolph Germer (1881-1966) —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, Kaliningrad
Oblast), January
15, 1881.
Socialist. Miner; union
official in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of
America, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee from
Illinois, 1911; candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; National Executive Secretary,
Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1921.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
Died in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., May, 1966
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Emil M. Herman (1879-1928) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Kamnitz, Bohemia (now Kamienice, Czechia),
August
22, 1879.
Socialist. Socialist candidate for Seattle city council, 1904;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1906 (at-large), 1908 (2nd
District), 1909 (2nd District); State Secretary, Socialist Party of
Washington, 1916-18; arrested
in 1918, and convicted
under the Espionage Act; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
served three years and four months; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1924.
German
ancestry. Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died October
10, 1928 (age 49 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Communist. Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal syndicalism law; Workers
candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) —
also known as Anita Whitney —
of California.
Born about 1868.
Communist. Social
worker; in 1919, she gave a radical
speech in Oakland, California; as a result, she was arrested,
tried,
and found
guilty of violating the state's syndicalism law; pardoned
by Governor C. C.
Young.; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928, 1940 (Communist).
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
4, 1955 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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G. August Gerber —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Socialist. Arrested
for making seditious utterances on March 26, 1920, in
Philadelphia, when police broke up a protest
meeting, and charged
with inciting to riot; released when the charges were dropped
the next day; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 18th District, 1921, 1922;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (19th District), 1932
(at-large).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Solomon (1889-1963) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born October
29, 1889.
Socialist. Newspaperman;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 23rd District, 1919-20, 1921;
expelled 1920, 1920; defeated, 1927; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1924; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1928, 1938; candidate for New York
state senate 8th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1932; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1933; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1934; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Jewish.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Died December
8, 1963 (age 74 years, 40
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Samuel Orr (1890-1981) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born July 11,
1890.
Socialist. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 4th District, 1918, 1920, 1921;
defeated, 1918; expelled 1920; resigned 1920; delegate to Socialist
National Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate, 1922 (22nd District), 1928 (22nd District), 1933
(21st District); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1926, 1930, 1932,
1934; New York City Magistrate, 1941-51.
Jewish.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, but resigned in
protest when three other Socialist members were expelled again.
Died, in Montefiore Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., August
29, 1981 (age 91 years, 49
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Louis Waldman (1892-1982) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Yancherudnia, Russia (now Ukraine),
January
5, 1892.
Socialist. Civil
engineer; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 8th District, 1918, 1920;
expelled 1920, 1920; defeated, 1920; candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1922; candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1924; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1927 (Socialist), 1937
(American Labor); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1928, 1930, 1932; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Jewish
and Ukrainian
ancestry.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Suffered a severe stroke,
and died four years later, in the Jewish Home
and Hospital for the Aged, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1982 (age 90 years, 250
days).
Burial location unknown.
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August Claessens (1885-1954) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Switzerland,
1885.
School
teacher; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1914 (Socialist, 15th District),
1924 (Socialist, 23rd District), 1928 (Socialist, 14th District),
1930 (Socialist, 18th District), 1932 (Socialist, 14th District),
1934 (Socialist, at-large), 1946 (Liberal, 10th District), 1948
(Liberal, 8th District), 1950 (Liberal, 8th District); member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1918-20, 1922;
defeated, 1915 (Socialist, New York County 26th District); expelled
1920, 1920; defeated, 1920 (Socialist, New York County 17th
District), 1922 (Socialist, New York County 17th District), 1923
(Socialist, New York County 17th District), 1925 (Socialist, Bronx
County 4th District), 1937 (American Labor, Kings County 4th
District), 1938 (American Labor, Kings County 14th District), 1954
(Liberal, Kings County 14th District); delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; Socialist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1926; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1940.
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, and expelled
again on September 21.
Died, following a heart
attack, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
9, 1954 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Benjamin Gitlow (c.1891-1965) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1891.
Communist. Member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1918; defeated
(Socialist), 1918; convicted
on criminal anarchy charges,
1920; sentenced
to five to ten years in prison;
lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1921 (Communist), 1925 (Workers);
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1924, 1928; Workers candidate for
Governor
of New York, 1926.
Died in 1965
(age about
74 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Aaron De Witt (1891-1963) —
also known as Samuel A. De Witt; Sam De
Witt —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in 1891.
Socialist. Machinery
dealer; poet; playwright;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1920; expelled
1920; resigned 1920; defeated, 1920 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1924
(Bronx County 7th District), 1926 (Bronx County 7th District), 1927
(Bronx County 3rd District), 1929 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1932
(Queens County 4th District), 1933 (Queens County 4th District);
candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1925; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1928 (22nd District), 1934 (2nd
District), 1935 (2nd District), 1936 (2nd District).
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, but resigned in
protest when three other Socialist members were expelled again.
Died in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
22, 1963 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) —
also known as William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire
Socialist" —
of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
27, 1875.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1918; arrested
in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red
flag from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; indicted
for sedition, 1920; represented at trial by
Clarence
Darrow; convicted,
sentenced
to 1-5 years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1922.
Died, of cancer,
in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1946 (age 71 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola
Maverick and Madge Bird; grandson of William
Bross. |
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George Edward Powers (b. 1892) —
also known as George E. Powers —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1892.
Sheet metal
worker; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist);
Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1930; in April 1932, he was arrested
at City Hall Park, during a demonstration
which was characaterized as "riot"; convicted
of unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932,
he was publicly accused
of taking part in an alleged Communist conspiracy to cause
bank failures in Chicago by spreading
rumors (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); he
denied this; Communist candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932; vice-president,
International Workers Order; Communist candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidate
for New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1936;
following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from the
Communist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; at Earl
Browder's trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for the
prosecution; Liberal candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1948, 1950.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Powers and Sarah Powers. |
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; New York.
Born in Queen City, Schuyler
County, Mo., July 25,
1907.
Socialist. Truck
driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in
Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a
general strike; joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted
in 1941 of treason under the anti-Communist Smith Act,
and served one year in prison;
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary
of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian.
Member, Teamsters
Union.
Died in Pinole, Contra
Costa County, Calif., October
31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
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article |
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1956 |
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James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) —
also known as James P. Cannon —
of New York.
Born in Rosedale (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan., 1890.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1922 (Workers, 10th District), 1928
(20th District); Workers candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924; Trotskyist Anti-War candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1941.
Irish
ancestry.
Became an open supporter of Leon Trotsky's opposition to Stalin about
1928, and was expelled from the Communist Party; became a major
Trotskyist leader and theoretician, and one of the founders of the
Socialist Workers Party. Arrested
in 1941 and charged
under the Smith Act; convicted
in 1943, and served sixteen months in federal prison.
Died in 1974
(age about
84 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Elwell Spafford (1878-1941) —
also known as Edward E. Spafford —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., March
12, 1878.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
National Commander, American Legion, 1927-28; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1930.
Member, American
Legion.
In 1941, during divorce proceedings, he was accused
of conspiring with German agents in America; in an interview
published in 1943 by journalist John Roy Carlson, he espoused
strongly antisemitic
and pro-Hitler
views.
Died, in the Naval Academy Hospital,
Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
13, 1941 (age 63 years, 246
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hiram Duncan Spafford and Georgia F. Spafford; married, May 22,
1912, to Lucille M. Stevens; married 1922 to
Lillian Mercer Pierce. |
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March
12, 1890.
Hollywood screenwriter
in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the anti-Semitic
Silver Legion of America organization (the "Silver Shirts",
explicitly modeled after Adolf
Hitler's Brownshirts); Christian candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Gerald Burton Winrod (1900-1957) —
also known as Gerald B. Winrod —
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., March 7,
1900.
Republican. One of the founders, in 1925, of the group Defenders of
the Christian Faith; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1938; sympathized with the Adolf Hitler and
the Nazis, and and blamed
the Depression and World War II on Jews, Catholics, and Communists;
indicted
in July 1942, with others, for sedition over an alleged
conspiracy to cause insubordination in the Armed Forces in wartime; a
mistrial was declared and charges were dropped.
Died in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., November
11, 1957 (age 57 years, 249
days).
Interment at White
Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Kan.
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C. Leon de Aryan —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Candidate for mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 1932.
Charged
with sedition during World War II; the charges were eventually
dropped.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Progressive. University
professor; novelist;
playwright;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist individuals and groups; the action
was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as an
unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he received about $2,000 in
salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Lorence Elmer Asman (b. 1924) —
also known as Lorence E. Asman; Larry
Asman —
of Kent
County, Mich.
Born in St. Louis, Gratiot
County, Mich., January
29, 1924.
Republican. In 1941, he became a follower and associate of anti-Semitic
leader Gerald
L. K. Smith; arrested
by the Secret Service in 1943 for writing a "scurrilous" (presumably
threatening) letter to President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; author
of a inflammatory leaflet in 1946 titled 20,000 Little Brown
Bastards which was widely distributed to stir up racial
hatred against African-Americans; candidate for Michigan
state senate 16th District, 1960.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Pastor;
orator;
political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white
supremacist, he joined and organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
15, 1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) —
also known as Joe McWilliams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hitchcock, Blaine
County, Okla., 1904.
Gave street-corner
speeches in New York City, in which he denounced
Jews and praised
Adolf Hitler; arrested
in 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot; charged
with sedition in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1940.
Died in 1996
(age about
92 years).
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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Richard Morford (c.1903-1986) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Onaway, Presque
Isle County, Mich., about 1903.
Presbyterian
minister; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;
director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1946-80;
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; tried in
federal court in Washington; convicted
in March 1948; his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court; convicted
again on re-trial; sentenced
to three months in prison and fined
$250.
Presbyterian.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., September
7, 1986 (age about 83
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Aileen Hutson. |
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Karen Morley (1909-2003) —
also known as Mildred Linton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, December
12, 1909.
Actress;
her career ended in 1947, when she was blacklisted
as a suspected Communist; American Labor candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1954.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
2003 (age 93 years, 86
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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James Lustig (b. 1902) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
1902.
Communist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; agent,
United Electrical Workers; candidate for New York
state senate 22nd District, 1932; member, Joint Anti-Fascist
Refugee Committee; the group was investigated for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; indicted
in 1947, along with other members, for contempt
of Congress over their refusal to provide records demanded by the
House committee; convicted
in 1947; sentenced
to three months in jail, and fined
$500.
Hungarian
ancestry.
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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William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) —
also known as William Z. Foster; William Edward
Foster —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., February
25, 1881.
Communist. Labor
organizer; helped lead steelworkers strike in 1919; candidate for
President
of the United States, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1930; arrested
after a demonstration
in 1930, and jailed
for six months; indicted
on July 20, 1948 under the Smith Act, and charged
with conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government;
never tried due to illness.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in a sanatorium
at Moscow, Russia,
September
1, 1961 (age 80 years, 188
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Eugene Dennis (1905-1961) —
also known as Francis Xavier Waldron; Tim
Ryan —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August
10, 1905.
Communist. Union
organizer; fled
to the Soviet Union in 1929 to avoid prosecution;
returned to the U.S. in 1935; General Secretary, Communist Party,
1946-59, and Chairman, 1959-61; arrested
in 1948, along with other party leaders, and charged
with advocating the violent overthrow of the United States; convicted
in 1949, and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Died, from cancer,
in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1961 (age 55 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr. (1903-1964) —
also known as Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.; Ben
Davis —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., September
8, 1903.
Communist. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state senate 18th District, 1936; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York at-large, 1942; candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1946; arrested
in 1948, along with other party leaders, and charged
with advocating the violent overthrow of the United States; convicted
in 1949, and expelled
from his New York city council seat; served more than three years in
prison.
African
ancestry.
Died, from lung
cancer, in Beth Israel Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
22, 1964 (age 60 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Winter (1906-1991) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Michigan.
Born in 1906.
Communist. Candidate for New York
state senate 13th District, 1932; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1940; convicted
in 1949 under the Smith Act, for conspiring to advocate the
overthrow of the government; served five years in prison.
Died in 1991
(age about
85 years).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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John Adams Kingsbury (1876-1956) —
also known as John A. Kingsbury —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Horton, Brown
County, Kan., August
30, 1876.
Progressive. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
Commissioner of Public Charities, New York City, 1914-18; chairman of
the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1949-56; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American
Activities.
Member, American
Public Health Association.
Died August
3, 1956 (age 79 years, 339
days).
Interment at Pioneer Cemetery, Union Gap, Wash.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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