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William Philip Boland (1863-1931) —
also known as William P. Boland —
of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in County Sligo, Ireland,
January
6, 1863.
Progressive. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1924.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died, of a heart
condition, at Clara Barton Hospital,
Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
27, 1931 (age 68 years, 52
days).
Interment at St.
Catherine's Cemetery, Moscow, Pa.
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William Sebastian Boyle (1888-1949) —
also known as William S. Boyle —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
22, 1888.
Democrat. Brickmason;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Nevada
Democratic state chair, 1931; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nevada, 1936
(secretary, Platform
Committee; speaker);
U.S.
Attorney for Nevada, 1939.
Irish ancestry.
Died in 1949
(age about
61 years).
Interment somewhere
in Reno, Nev.
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Relatives:
Married to Myrtle Jane McGrath. |
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Son of Thomas Broderick and Honora (Colbert) Broderick.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish ancestry.
Mortally wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Angela Marie Buchanan (b. 1948) —
also known as Bay Buchanan —
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1948.
Daughter of William Baldwin Buchanan (1905-1988) and Catherine
Elizabeth (Crum) Buchanan (1911-1995).
Republican. Treasurer for Ronald
Reagan's presidential campaigns, 1976-84; treasurer of the United
States, 1981-83; television
commentator; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1988;
candidate in primary for California
state treasurer, 1990.
Female.
Catholic;
later Mormon.
Irish, English,
and German
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) —
also known as Walt Disney; "Uncle
Walt" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901.
Son of Elias Disney (1859-1941) and Flora (Call) Disney (1868-1938).
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1944.
Irish ancestry.
Producer
or director
of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first
theme park; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. In honor of his
invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National
Inventors Hall of
Fame.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966 (age 65 years, 10
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds (1899-1997). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
J. Mitchell |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Walt Disney: Richard
Schickel, The
Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt
Disney — Leonard Mosley, Disney's
World: A Biography — Katherine Greene & Richard
Greene, The
Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — Bob
Thomas, Walt
Disney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Discovering
Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for young
readers) |
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) —
also known as Helen Gahagan; "The Pink
Lady" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boonton, Morris
County, N.J., November
25, 1900.
Daughter of Walter Hamer Gahagan and Lillian Rose (Mussen) Gahagan.
Actress
and opera
singer, 1922-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1940-44; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1944,
1948;
vice-chair
of California Democratic Party, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1945-51; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950 (Democratic), 1952 (Independent).
Female.
Scottish
and Irish ancestry. Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of cancer, in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1980 (age 79 years, 216
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (b. 1930) —
also known as Clint Eastwood —
of Pebble Beach, Monterey
County, Calif.; Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in St. Mary's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., May 31,
1930.
Son of Clinton Eastwood, Sr. and Margaret Ruth (Runner) Eastwood.
Republican. Movie
actor, producer,
director;
restaurant
and hotel
owner; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1986-88.
Scottish,
Irish, Dutch,
and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Garamendi, Jr. (b. 1945) —
of Walnut Grove, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras
County, Calif., January
24, 1945.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; member of California
state assembly 7th District, 1974-76; member of California
state senate, 1976-90 (13th District 1976-84, 5th District
1984-90); candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 1982, 1994; candidate in primary for California
state controller, 1986; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 2000,
2004,
2008;
member, Platform Committee, 1988;
California
insurance commissioner, 1991-95, 2003-07; Presidential Elector
for California, 1992;
U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior, 1995-98; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 2007-09; U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 2009-.
Basque, Italian,
and Irish ancestry. Member, Sigma
Chi.
Still living as of 2011.
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Harold Joseph Patrick Gibbons (1910-1982) —
also known as Harold J. Gibbons —
of Kirkwood, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in Archibald Patch, Lackawanna
County, Pa., April 10,
1910.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri,
1952,
1956.
Irish ancestry. Member, Teamsters
Union; NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union.
The site of the original Sportsman's Park baseball stadium in St.
Louis, now a neighborhood playground, was named "Harold J.
Gibbons Field" for him.
Died, from complications of a ruptured aortic
aneurysm, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November, 1982
(age 72
years, 0 days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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James Hubert Gilmartin (1933-2003) —
also known as James H. Gilmartin; Gil
Gilmartin —
of California.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 2,
1933.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 25th District, 1992, 1994.
Irish ancestry.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Valencia (now part of Santa Clarita), Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 26,
2003 (age 70 years, 24
days).
Interment at Eternal
Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, Calif.
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Vincent Hallinan (1896-1992) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., December
16, 1896.
Progressive. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
innovator in courtroom tactics; defense attorney for longshoreman
union leader Harry Bridges, who had been accused of being a
Communist; jailed
six months for contempt
of court in 1952; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952; indicted
in 1953 on income
tax evasion charges;
convicted
and sentenced
to 18 months in prison.
Irish ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., October
2, 1992 (age 95 years, 291
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Hayden (b. 1939) —
also known as Tom Hayden —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
11, 1939.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1988
(member, Platform
Committee), 1996,
2000.
Irish ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924-2006) —
also known as Pat Lawford; Patricia
Kennedy —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 6,
1924.
Daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1960;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1960.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in a hospital
at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 2006 (age 82 years, 134
days).
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Granddaughter of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy; sister of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, April 24,
1954, to Peter Lawford (1923-1984; actor);
mother of Christopher Lawford (actor);
aunt of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Daniel Edward Lungren (b. 1946) —
also known as Daniel E. Lungren; Dan
Lungren —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Gold River, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
22, 1946.
Son of John Charles Lungren and Lorain Kathleen (Youngberg) Lungren.
Republican. Lawyer;
staff for U.S. Sens. George
Murphy and Bill
Brock; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-89, 2005- (34th District
1979-83, 42nd District 1983-89, 3rd District 2005-10); California
state attorney general, 1991-99; candidate for Governor of
California, 1998; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 2008.
Irish and Swedish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Richard Edmund Lyng (1918-2003) —
also known as Richard E. Lyng —
of Modesto, Stanislaus
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 29,
1918.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; president of Ed. J. Lyng
Co., a seed and bean processing company; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1986-89.
Irish ancestry.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Modesto, Stanislaus
County, Calif., February
1, 2003 (age 84 years, 217
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) —
also known as Shirley MacLean Beaty —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April 24,
1934.
Daughter of Owens Beaty and Kathryn Beaty.
Democrat. Actress;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Female.
English,
Irish, and Scottish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Patrick Henry McCarthy (1863-1933) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in County Limerick, Ireland,
March
17, 1863.
Republican. Mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1910-12; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1920.
Irish ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 1,
1933 (age 70 years, 106
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Patrick Henry McGarry (1860-1935) —
also known as Patrick H. McGarry —
of Walker, Cass
County, Minn.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., June, 1860.
Son of James Alfred McGarry (1822-1904) and Catherine (McGlynn)
McGarry (1828-1906).
Hotel-keeper;
first village president, Walker, Minn.; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 52nd District, 1909-10, 1913-14;
member of Minnesota
state senate 52nd District, 1915-22; resort
owner.
Irish ancestry.
Died in California, 1935
(age about
75 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Patrick
Henry |
| | | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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Dick Murphy (b. 1942) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Oak Park, Cook
County, Ill., December
16, 1942.
Lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1989; mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 2001-05; resigned 2005.
Irish ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Lloyd Murphy (1902-1992) —
also known as George L. Murphy —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 4,
1902.
Republican. Professional actor
and dancer
in 1934-52; appeared in films
such as For Me And My Gal, Battleground; president,
Screen Actors Guild, 1944-46; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Senator from California, 1965-71; defeated, 1970.
Irish ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, of leukemia,
in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 3,
1992 (age 89 years, 304
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Philip Murray (1886-1952) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Blantyre, Scotland,
May
25, 1886.
Son of William Murray and Rose (Layden) Murray.
Democrat. Miner; president,
local union of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 1905; district
president in 1912; vice-president
in 1917; chairman,
Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC); (SWOC), 1935-42, and president of
the successor United Steelworkers of America, 1942-52 president,
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1940; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1940,
1944,
1952.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., November
9, 1952 (age 66 years, 168
days).
Interment at St.
Ann's Cemetery, Castle Shannon, Pa.
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (b. 1967) —
also known as Gavin Newsom —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born October
10, 1967.
Son of William Newsom and Tessa (Menzies) Newsom.
Democrat. Mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2004-11; resigned 2011; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 2004,
2008;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 2011-.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry.
Still living as of 2011.
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John Francis Neylan (1885-1960) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
6, 1885.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; newspaper
publisher; counsel to, and close associate of, William
Randolph Hearst; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1920;
member, University of California Board of Regents, 1928-55; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California, 1940.
Irish ancestry.
Died, from a pulmonary
condition, in University Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., August
19, 1960 (age 74 years, 287
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Pat Nixon (1912-1993) —
also known as Thelma Catherine Ryan;
"Starlight" —
Born in Ely, White Pine
County, Nev., March 16,
1912.
Daughter of William M. Ryan, Sr. and Katherine (Halberstadt) Ryan.
Republican. School
teacher; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Female.
Protestant.
Irish and German
ancestry.
The Pat Nixon Elementary School in Cerritos, California, is named for
her.
Died, from lung
cancer, in Park Ridge, Bergen
County, N.J., June 22,
1993 (age 81 years, 98
days).
Interment at Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, Calif.
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Genevieve Nutto (1902-1993) —
also known as Genevieve Heffernan —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Laguna Hills, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., October
23, 1902.
Daughter of James Heffernan and Anna M. Heffernan.
Republican. Stenographer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1950.
Female.
Irish and German
ancestry.
Died in Laguna Hills, Orange
County, Calif., May 2,
1993 (age 90 years, 191
days).
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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Richard J. Riordan (b. 1930) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 1,
1930.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1993-2001; candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 2002.
Irish ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Mary Pickford Rogers (1892-1979) —
also known as Gladys Louise Smith; Mary Pickford;
"America's Sweetheart"; "Little
Mary"; "Blondilocks" —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Toronto, Ontario,
April
8, 1892.
Daughter of John Charles Smith and Charlotte (Hennessy) Smith.
Republican. Professional actress
in 1908-33; appeared in more than 250 films;
co-founder (with Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, and Charlie
Chaplin), United Artists motion
picture company; also co-founder of Motion
Picture Academy; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1944.
Female.
English
and Irish ancestry.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Santa Monica Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 29,
1979 (age 87 years, 51
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John Charles Smith and Charlotte (Hennessy) Smith;
married, January
7, 1911, to Owen Moore (director;
divorced 1920); married, March 28,
1920, to Douglas Fairbanks (actor;
divorced 1936); married, June 26,
1937, to Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (actor). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Mary Pickford: Kevin
Brownlow, Mary
Pickford Rediscovered — Eileen Whitfield, Pickford:
The Woman Who Made Hollywood |
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Joseph Scott (1867-1958) —
also known as "Mr. Los Angeles" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in 1867.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, Los Angeles School Board, 1904-15; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1920,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1948;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1940.
Catholic.
Irish and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in 1958
(age about
91 years).
Interment at New
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, Calif.; statue at Los
Angeles County Courthouse Grounds, Los Angeles, Calif.
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