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Carol Mueller Alexander (1925-1998) —
also known as Carol M. Alexander; Carol
Mueller —
of Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 18,
1925.
Daughter of Hans F. Mueller and Laura (Portmann) Mueller.
Democrat. College instructor; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1972.
Female.
Protestant.
Member, League
of Women Voters; National
Organization for Women.
Died April 2,
1998 (age 72 years, 288
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1947
to Thomas R. Alexander. |
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Constance Dean Armitage (b. 1920) —
also known as Constance D. Armitage; Constance Dean;
Mrs. Norman C. Armitage —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 13,
1920.
Daughter of Robert Armstrong Dean and Constance (Lawrence) Dean.
Republican. College professor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from South Carolina, 1960
(alternate), 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of South Carolina Republican Party, 1960-62.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 1973.
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Thomas Swain Barclay (1892-1993) —
also known as Thomas S. Barclay; Tom
Barclay —
of California; Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
26, 1892.
Son of George Reppert Barclay and Lillie (Swain) Barclay.
Democrat. Professor of political science at Stanford
University, 1927-57; Presidential Elector for California, 1944;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1948;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1952.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., December
21, 1993 (age 101 years,
329 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Guy Vernon Bennett (b. 1880) —
also known as G. Vernon Bennett —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Waverly, Bremer
County, Iowa, February
17, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; superintendent
of schools; university professor; member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1938-40, 1948; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Phi
Delta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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David Harold Blackwell (b. 1919) —
also known as David Blackwell —
of Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Centralia, Marion
County, Ill., April 24,
1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1972.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 1972.
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Marie Caroline Brehm (1859-1926) —
also known as Marie C. Brehm —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio, June 30,
1859.
Daughter of William Henry Brehm and Elizabeth (Rhode) Brehm.
Lecturer; Prohibition candidate for University
of Illinois trustee, 1902, 1904, 1908; Prohibition candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1924.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Died January
26, 1926 (age 66 years, 210
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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George Augustus Bucklin, Jr. (b. 1875) —
also known as George A. Bucklin, Jr. —
of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Norman, Cleveland
County, Okla.
Born in West Hartford, Ralls
County, Mo., October
5, 1875.
Son of George Augustus Bucklin and Mary Ann (Williamson) Bucklin.
University professor; U.S. Consul in San Luis Potosi, 1908-10; Bordeaux, 1914-19; Acapulco, 1922-24; Victoria, 1924-32; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1910-14.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1904
to Emeline Wood Porter. |
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Thomas J. Campbell (b. 1952) —
also known as Tom Campbell —
of Campbell, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
14, 1952.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Representative from California, 1989-93, 1995-2001 (12th District
1989-93, 15th District 1995-2001); Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1992 (primary), 2000; member of California
state senate, 1993-95.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2009.
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Walter Holden Capps (1934-1997) —
also known as Walter H. Capps —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 5,
1934.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1996;
U.S.
Representative from California 22nd District, 1997; defeated,
1994; died in office 1997.
Suffered a heart
attack while on a
flight from California to Washington, D.C., and died shortly
afterward in a hospital
at Reston, Fairfax
County, Va., October
28, 1997 (age 63 years, 176
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Arthur Bledsoe Cooke (b. 1869) —
also known as Arthur B. Cooke —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Melton's, Louisa
County, Va., June 15,
1869.
Son of George Washington Cooke and Sallie Farrar (Anderson) Cooke.
Democrat. College professor; U.S. Consul in Patras, 1910-19; Swansea, 1919-26; Plymouth, 1926-34.
Methodist.
Burial
location unknown.
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Carl Djerassi (b. 1923) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical
researcher;
helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of
Fame, 1978.
Still living as of 2006.
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John Thomas Dunlop (1914-2003) —
also known as John T. Dunlop —
Born in Placerville, El Dorado
County, Calif., July 5,
1914.
University professor; economist;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1975-76.
Died, in Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 2003 (age 89 years, 89
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Christopher Edley, Jr. (b. 1951) —
also known as Chris Edley —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in 1951.
Democrat. Law professor; dean of the School of Law (Boalt
Hall), University of California Berkeley; member, U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, 1999-2005; member, Credentials Committee, Democratic National
Convention, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Robert Filner (b. 1942) —
also known as Bob Filner —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
4, 1942.
Son of Joseph H. Filner and Sarah F. Filner.
Democrat. University professor; U.S.
Representative from California, 1993-2008 (50th District
1993-2003, 51st District 2003-08); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Member, Urban
League; Navy
League; Sierra
Club.
Still living as of 2009.
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B. Joseph Fuhrig (b. 1947) —
of Newark, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
9, 1947.
Son of George Hobson Fuhrig and Anne Loretta (Smith) Fuhrig.
Libertarian. Economist;
university professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for Governor of
California, 1986.
Still living as of 1990.
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Son of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; college professor; president,
Talladega College, 1933-43; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 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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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield
(1801-1888).
Republican. Lawyer;
college professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio state
senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
His portrait appeared on the U.S. $20
gold certificate in about 1898-1905.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Third
cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Lathrop; son of Abram Garfield (1799-1833) and Elizabeth (Ballou)
Garfield (1801-1888); fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph (1832-1918);
third cousin once removed of Abial
Lathrop; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer; father of James
Rudolph Garfield. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Charles B. Garrigus (1914-2000) —
also known as Gus Garrigus —
of Reedley, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born June 13,
1914.
Democrat. College professor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California, 1956,
1960;
member of California
state assembly, 1958-66; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1960.
California poet
laureate, 1996-2000.
Died, of colon
cancer, at Hinds Hospice,
Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., 2000
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Reedley
Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
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Harry Girvetz (1910-1974) —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in 1910.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in 1974
(age about
64 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Claude Burton Hutchison (1885-1980) —
also known as Claude B. Hutchison —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo., April 9,
1885.
Son of William Moses Hutchison and Ada (Smith) Hutchison.
Botanist;
agricultural
economist; university professor; mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1955-63.
Member, Alpha
Phi Omega.
Hutchison Hall, at the University of California at Davis, is named for
him.
Died August
25, 1980 (age 95 years, 138
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Elias Finley Johnson (1860-1933) —
also known as E. Finley Johnson —
of Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manila, Philippines.
Born in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, June 24,
1860.
Son of Abel J. Johnson.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1885-87; law professor; member
of Michigan
state board of education, 1898-1901; appointed 1898; resigned
1901; justice of
Phillipine Islands supreme court, 1901-.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., July 31,
1933 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Olivet Columbarium, Colma, Calif.
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George Ross Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) —
also known as George R. Kirkpatrick; Kirk
Kirkpatrick —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; California.
Born in West Lafayette, Coshocton
County, Ohio, February
24, 1867.
Socialist. Lecturer; candidate for New York
state senate 17th District, 1912; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1932, 1934 (Socialist).
Died in 1937
(age about
70 years).
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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Taft Alfred Larson (1910-2001) —
also known as T. A. 'Al' Larson —
of Wyoming.
Born near Wakefield, Dixon
County, Neb., January
18, 1910.
University professor; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1976-84.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Santa Ana, Orange
County, Calif., January
26, 2001 (age 91 years, 8
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Laramie, Wyo.
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Lena Morrow Lewis —
of California.
Socialist. Lecturer; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from California, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1928.
Female.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Julian William Mack (1866-1943) —
also known as Julian W. Mack —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 19,
1866.
Son of William Jacob Mack and Rebecca (Tandler) Mack.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; circuit judge in Illinois, 1903-11; Judge,
Illinois Appellate Court, 1908-10; Judge of
U.S. Commerce Court, 1911-13; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1929-40.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Zionist
Organization of America; American
Jewish Congress; American
Jewish Committee.
Died in 1943
(age about
76 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Meese III (b. 1931) —
also known as Ed Meese; "Reagan's
Geographer" —
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
2, 1931.
Son of Edwin Meese, Jr. and Leona Meese.
Lawyer;
legal affairs secretary to Gov. Ronald
Reagan, 1967-68; executive assistant and chief of staff, 1969-74;
law professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1985-88.
Lutheran.
Member, Federalist
Society.
The independent counsel who investigated
the Wedtech scandal
reported that Meese, who had worked as a lobbyist
for Wedtech, was complicit
in the company's bribery
and fraud;
following this disclosure, he resigned
from the Cabinet.
Still living as of 2010.
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Julian Nava (b. 1927) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 19,
1927.
University professor; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1980-81.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 1991.
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Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916-1999) —
also known as Robert G. Neumann —
of California.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
January
2, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1966-73; Morocco, 1973-76; Saudi Arabia, 1981.
Died of cancer, in
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 18,
1999 (age 83 years, 167
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Cecil Newman (1917-1996) —
also known as Frank C. Newman —
of California.
Born in Eureka, Humboldt
County, Calif., July 17,
1917.
Son of Frank Johnston Newman and Anna (Dunn) Newman.
Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
California state supreme court, 1977-82.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of heart
failure, in a hospital
at Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., February
18, 1996 (age 78 years, 216
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Warren Olney, Jr. (b. 1870) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
15, 1870.
Son of Warren
Olney and Mary Jane (Craven) Olney.
Lawyer;
law professor; general counsel and receiver, Western Pacific
Railway;
justice
of California state supreme court, 1919-21.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Max Radin (1880-1950) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Kempen, Poland,
March
29, 1880.
Son of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin (1848-1909) and Johanna (Theodor)
Radin.
Democrat. Lawyer;
law professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1940.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; American
Association of University Professors.
Died, from an intestinal
obstruction, in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 22,
1950 (age 70 years, 85
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin (1848-1909) and Johanna (Theodor) Radin;
married, July 2,
1909, to Rose Jaffe (1889-1918); married, June 30,
1922, to Dorothea Prall (1889-1948; sister-in-law of Sherwood
Anderson (1876-1941; novelist)). |
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Walter Clifford Sadler (1891-1959) —
also known as Walter C. Sadler —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., February
15, 1891.
Son of Walter Lincoln Sadler and Eleanore Elizabeth (Walter) Sadler.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; worked on railroad
and hydroelectric
projects; lawyer;
university professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1937-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Sigma
Pi; Tau Beta
Pi.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
14, 1959 (age 68 years, 241
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) —
also known as Glenn Teodor Sjöberg —
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., April 19,
1912.
Son of Herman Theodore 'Ted' Seaborg and Selma Olivia (Erickson)
Seaborg.
Democrat. Physical
chemist; university professor; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1951; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1961-71.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Chemical Society.
Died in Lafayette, Contra Costa
County, Calif., February
25, 1999 (age 86 years, 312
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joe Serna, Jr. (c.1939-1999) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif., about 1939.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; college professor; mayor
of Sacramento, Calif., 1993-99; died in office 1999; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1996.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died of kidney
cancer and complications of diabetes,
in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
7, 1999 (age about 60
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Roscoe B. Turner Steffen (1893-1976) —
also known as Roscoe Steffen —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., April 9,
1893.
Son of John Bonard Steffen and Grace May (Brazelton) Turner.
Democrat. Law professor; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hamden, 1932, 1934.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., June 8,
1976 (age 83 years, 60
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bonard Steffen and Grace May (Brazelton) Turner; step-son of
William L. Turner; married 1919 to Ona
Belle Raymond. |
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William Marshall Thomas (b. 1941) —
also known as William M. Thomas; Bill
Thomas —
of Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Wallace, Shoshone
County, Idaho, December
6, 1941.
Republican. College professor; member of California
state assembly, 1975-78; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2007 (18th District 1979-83,
20th District 1983-93, 21st District 1993-2003, 22nd District
2003-07).
Baptist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Fernando M. Torres-Gil —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Salinas, Monterey
County, Calif.
Democrat. University professor; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2005.
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Roger John Traynor (b. 1900) —
also known as Roger J. Traynor —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Park City, Summit
County, Utah, February
12, 1900.
Son of Felix Traynor and Elizabeth Josephine (O'Hagan) Traynor.
Lawyer;
law professor; justice of
California state supreme court, 1940-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1964-70.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; Order of the
Coif.
Burial
location unknown.
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Nicola S. Tsongas (b. 1946) —
also known as Niki Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chico, Butte
County, Calif., April 26,
1946.
Democrat. Social
worker; lawyer;
dean of external affairs, Middlesex Community College,
1997-2007; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 2007-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2008.
Female.
Still living as of 2009.
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Rexford Guy Tugwell (1891-1979) —
also known as Rexford G. Tugwell; "Rex the
Red" —
Born in Sinclairville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 10,
1891.
Son of Charles Henry Tugwell and Dessie (Rexford) Tugwell.
Economist;
university professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which
advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1941-46.
Member, American
Political Science Association.
Died, in Cottage Hospital,
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., July 21,
1979 (age 88 years, 11
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Henry Tugwell and Dessie (Rexford) Tugwell; married, June 7,
1914, to Florence E. Arnold (divorced 1938); married 1938 to Grace
Foulke. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Martin Joseph Wade (1861-1931) —
also known as Martin J. Wade —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., October
20, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
district judge in Iowa 8th District, 1893-1903; law professor;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1903-05; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1904;
speaker, 1912;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1912;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Iowa, 1912; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, 1915-31; died
in office 1931.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 16,
1931 (age 69 years, 178
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 12,
1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college professor; author.
Welch Hall, at Eastern Michigan University, is named for him.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 14,
1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949) —
also known as Ray L. Wilbur —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Boonesboro, Boone
County, Iowa, April 13,
1875.
Son of Dwight Locke Wilbur and Edna Maria (Lyman) Wilbur.
Republican. Physician;
dean of Stanford University Medical School, 1911-16; president
of Stanford University, 1916-43; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1929-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Newcomen
Society.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 26,
1949 (age 74 years, 74
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Frances Elizabeth Willis (1899-1983) —
also known as Frances E. Willis —
of Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Metropolis, Massac
County, Ill., May 20,
1899.
Daughter of John Gilbert Willis and Belle Whitfield (James) Willis.
College professor; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul
in Valparaiso, 1928-31; Santiago, 1931; U.S. Consul in Madrid, 1940-43; London, 1947-50; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1953-57; Norway, 1957-61; Ceylon, 1961-64.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1983
(age about
84 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gary Wolfram (b. 1950) —
of Hillsdale, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Redding, Shasta
County, Calif., November
1, 1950.
Republican. College professor; economist;
candidate for Michigan
state board of education, 1998.
Still living as of 1998.
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