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Maryon Pittman Allen (b. 1925) —
also known as Maryon Pittman; Maryon Pittman Mullins;
Mrs. Jim Allen —
of Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala.; Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Meridian, Lauderdale
County, Miss., November
30, 1925.
Daughter of John D. Pittman and Tellie (Chism) Pittman.
Democrat. Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1968;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1978; appointed 1978; defeated, 1978;
columnist for the Washington Post newspaper,
1978-81.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Zonta.
Still living as of 2000.
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John Cooper Godbold (b. 1920) —
also known as John C. Godbold —
Born in Alabama, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; law
professor; author; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1966-81; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-86; took senior
status 1986.
Still living as of 2006.
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Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) —
also known as Milford W. Howard —
of Fort Payne, DeKalb
County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born near Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., February
18, 1862.
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99;
novelist; appeared as an actor
in a silent
movie based on one of his novels; one of the editors of the
conservative magazine
The Awakener in the 1930s.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sallie
Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
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John B. Nicholson —
of Texas.
Born in Alabama.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Changsha, 1917-18.
Burial
location unknown.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of California.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Son of Maxwell L. Rafferty and DeEtta (Cox) Rafferty.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist; California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned
when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) —
of Alabama.
Born in 1851.
Son of Richard Nixon Taylor and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor.
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97.
Author of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books.
Died in 1922
(age about
71 years).
Originally entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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