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Bruce Edward Babbitt (b. 1938) —
also known as Bruce Babbitt —
of Arizona.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 27,
1938.
Son of Paul J. Babbitt (1898-1988).
Democrat. Lawyer; Arizona
state attorney general, 1975-78; Governor of
Arizona, 1978-87; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1988;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1993-2001.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Still living as of 2011.
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Shirley Jane Temple Black (b. 1928) —
also known as Shirley Temple Black; Shirley
Temple —
of Woodside, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 23,
1928.
Daughter of George Francis Temple (1888-1980) and Gertrude Amelia
(Krieger) Temple (1893-1977).
Professional actress
in 1932-49; appeared in about 25 movies; most famous child star in
history; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1967; U.S.
Ambassador to Ghana, 1974; Czechoslovakia, 1989-.
Female.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Spruille Braden (1894-1978) —
of Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elkhorn, Jefferson
County, Mont., March 13,
1894.
Son of William Braden and Mary (Kimball) Braden.
Mining engineer;
financier;
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1939-42; Cuba, 1942-45; Argentina, 1945.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Arbitration Association; Navy
League; John
Birch Society.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
10, 1978 (age 83 years, 303
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Braden and Mary (Kimball) Braden; married, September
5, 1915, to Maria Humeres del Solar (died 1962); married 1964 to Verbena
Williams Hebbard (died 1977). |
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (b. 1938) —
also known as Stephen G. Breyer —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
15, 1938.
Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg, 1964-65; lawyer; law
professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1980-94; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1994-.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2009.
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Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) —
also known as Warren Christopher; "The
Cardinal" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Scranton, Bowman
County, N.Dak., October
27, 1925.
Son of Ernest William Christopher and Catharine (Lemen) Christopher.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; law
clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov. Edmund
G. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputy
U.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1964;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1993-97.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Council on Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 16, 1981.
Died, from kidney
and bladder cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 18,
2011 (age 85 years, 142
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jeffery Cohelan (1914-1999) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 24,
1914.
Democrat. Secretary-treasurer,
Local 302, Milk Drivers and Dairy Employees union, 1942-58; U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1959-71; defeated in
primary, 1970; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1960,
1964.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Moose; Eagles; Teamsters
Union; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of Parkinson's
disease and cancer, in
Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1999 (age 84 years, 236
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John William Gardner (1912-2002) —
also known as John W. Gardner —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
8, 1912.
Son of William Gardner and Marie Flora Gardner.
Republican. University
professor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Sigma
Xi; Kappa
Delta Pi; American
Psychological Association; Common
Cause.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder of Common Cause in 1970.
Died, from complications of prostate
cancer, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
16, 2002 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jane Frank Harman (b. 1945) —
also known as Jane F. Harman; Jane Lakes; Jane
Frank —
of Venice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1945.
Daughter of Adolf Lakes and Lucille (Geier) Lakes.
Democrat. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. John
V. Tunney, 1972; counsel for congressional subcommittees; deputy
secretary to the Cabinet in the Jimmy
Carter White House, 1977-78; U.S.
Representative from California 36th District, 1993-99, 2001-;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1996,
2004,
2008;
candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 1998.
Female.
Jewish.
Polish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Robert Takeo Matsui (1941-2005) —
also known as Robert T. Matsui —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., September
17, 1941.
Son of Yasuji Matsui and Alice (Nagata) Matsui.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2005 (3rd District 1979-93,
5th District 1993-2005); died in office 2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of pneumonia
and myelodysplastic
syndrome, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
1, 2005 (age 63 years, 106
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Calif.
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Robert Strange McNamara (b. 1916) —
also known as Robert S. McNamara —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 9,
1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; president, Ford Motor
Company, 1960-61; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1961-68; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1968; president, World Bank,
1968-81; on September 29, 1972, an attacker tried to throw him
overboard from a ferry to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Stephen Leo Poizner (b. 1957) —
also known as Steve Poizner —
of Los Gatos, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Corpus Christi, Nueces
County, Tex., January
4, 1957.
Republican. Technology
entrepreneur; candidate for California
state assembly 21st District, 2004; California
insurance commissioner, 2007-11; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 2008;
candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 2010.
Member, Alpha
Phi Omega; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2011.
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William Thornton Pryce (1932-2006) —
also known as William T. Pryce —
of Pennsylvania; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., July 19,
1932.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, 1993-96.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in Alexandria,
Va., July 11,
2006 (age 73 years, 357
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1910-1990) —
Born in Tokyo, Japan,
October
15, 1910.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Historical Association.
With George McCune, developed a phonetic method for transliterating
Korean into the Roman alphabet.
Died, from complications of hepatitis,
in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., September
1, 1990 (age 79 years, 321
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James William Spain (b. 1926) —
also known as James W. Spain —
of Florida; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 22,
1926.
Son of Patrick Joseph Spain and Mary Ellen (Forristal) Spain.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Karachi, 1951; U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, 1975-79; Turkey, 1980-81; Sri Lanka, 1985-89; Maldive Islands, 1985-89.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 1991.
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Edwin Forward Stanton (1901-1968) —
also known as Edwin F. Stanton —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Milford, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Bouckville, Madison
County, N.Y., February
22, 1901.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Kalgan, 1924-26; U.S. Consul in Tsinan, 1927-29; Shanghai, 1938; Vancouver, 1945; U.S. Consul General in Vancouver, 1945; U.S. Minister to Thailand, 1946-47; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1947-53.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1968
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Milford
Cemetery, Milford, Conn.
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965) —
also known as Adlai E. Stevenson —
of Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
5, 1900.
Son of Lewis
Green Stevenson and Helen Louise (Davi) Stevenson (1869-1935).
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1948
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1952,
1956,
1960;
Governor
of Illinois, 1949-53; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1960;
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1961-65, died in office 1965.
Unitarian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Stricken with a heart
attack, and died soon after, in St. George's Hospital,
London, England,
July
14, 1965 (age 65 years, 159
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
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James David Zellerbach (1892-1963) —
also known as J. D. Zellerbach —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
17, 1892.
Son of Isadore Zellerbach and Jennie (Baruh) Zellerbach.
Executive vice president and director of Crown Zellerbach
Corporation, manufacturers of paper
products; director Wells Fargo Bank and
Union Trust
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1956-60.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1963
(age about
71 years).
Interment somewhere
in San Francisco, Calif.
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Married 1916
to Hannah Fuld. |
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