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William Thompson Bagley (b. 1928) —
also known as William T. Bagley; William Thompson
Baglietto —
of San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif.; San Anselmo, Marin
County, Calif.
Born in Woodacre, Marin
County, Calif., June 29,
1928.
Son of Nino J. Baglietto and Rita V. (Thompson) Baglietto.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1960; member of California
state assembly, 1960-73; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1972.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Elks; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives: Son
of Nino J. Baglietto and Rita V. (Thompson) Baglietto; married, April 23,
1949, to Doris Lorene Law; married, June 20,
1965, to Diane L. Oldham. |
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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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Wilton Wendell Blancké (1908-1971) —
also known as W. Wendell Blancké —
of California; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 29,
1908.
Son of Wilton Wallace Blancké and Cecil Whittier (Trout)
Blancké.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Hanoi, 1950; U.S. Consul General in Frankfort, 1957-60; U.S. Ambassador to Congo (Brazzaville), 1960-63; Central African Republic, 1960; Chad, 1960-61; Gabon, 1960-61.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in 1971
(age about
63 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin Franklin Bledsoe (1874-1938) —
also known as Benjamin F. Bledsoe —
of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif., February
8, 1874.
Son of Robert Emmett Bledsoe and Althea (Bottoms) Bledsoe.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1900-14; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1914-25;
resigned 1925; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1925.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias; American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Sons of
the Revolution; Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died in Crestline, San
Bernardino County, Calif., October
30, 1938 (age 64 years, 264
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Paul Harold Boeker (1938-2003) —
also known as Paul H. Boeker —
of Ohio; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 2,
1938.
Son of Victor W. Boeker and Marie Dorothy (Bernthal) Boeker.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1977-80; Jordan, 1984-87.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, of a brain
tumor, in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 29,
2003 (age 64 years, 331
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Charles Ernest Bunnell (1878-1956) —
also known as Charles E. Bunnell —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Dimock, Susquehanna
County, Pa., January
12, 1878.
Son of Lyman Walton Bunnell and Ruth (Tingley) Bunnell.
Democrat. Candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1914; U.S.
District Judge for Alaska, 1914-21; first president
of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (later
University of Alaska), 1921-45.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, following a heart
attack, at a nursing
home in Burlingame, San Mateo
County, Calif., November
1, 1956 (age 78 years, 294
days).
Interment at Birch
Hill Cemetery, Fairbanks, Alaska; statue at University
of Alaska Campus, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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John Hessin Clarke (1857-1945) —
also known as John H. Clarke —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Lisbon, Columbiana
County, Ohio, September
18, 1857.
Son of John Clarke and Melissa (Hessin) Clarke.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1904,
1912;
U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 1914-16; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-22.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 22,
1945 (age 87 years, 185
days).
Interment at Lisbon
Cemetery, Lisbon, Ohio.
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Jesse William Curtis (b. 1865) —
also known as Jesse W. Curtis —
of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif., July 18,
1865.
Son of William
Jesse Curtis and Frances Sophia (Cowles) Curtis.
Democrat. Lawyer; San
Bernardino County District Attorney, 1899-1903; superior court
judge in California, 1914-23; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1923-26; justice of
California state supreme court, 1926-31.
Baptist.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, June 23,
1892, to Ida Lucinda Seymour. |
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Bar of Southern California, 1909 |
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Raymond Joseph Daba (b. 1916) —
also known as Raymond J. Daba —
of Atherton, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif., December
17, 1916.
Son of Marco Daba and Josephine (Paillex) Daba.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; municipal judge in
California, 1943; Presidential Elector for California, 1956;
member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1958-60.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 1963.
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Emerson Hugh De Lacy (1910-1986) —
also known as Hugh De Lacy —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 9,
1910.
Son of John Byron De Lacy and Abbie Anna (Green) De Lacy.
Democrat. Machinist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 1940;
U.S.
Representative from Washington 1st District, 1945-47; defeated,
1946.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif., August
19, 1986 (age 76 years, 102
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Friar Dexter (1886-1945) —
also known as Walter F. Dexter —
of Whittier, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
21, 1886.
Son of Harry Dexter and Margaret (Bell) Dexter.
Republican. President,
Whittier College, 1923-34; secretary to Gov. Frank
F. Merriam; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1932;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1937-45; appointed 1937;
died in office 1945.
Quaker.
Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Phi Beta Kappa; Lions.
Died October
21, 1945 (age 58 years, 334
days).
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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Anne H. Evans —
of Des Plaines, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in California.
Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 4th District, 1969-70.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; League of Women
Voters; American
Association of University Women.
Still living as of 1970.
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Isaac Blair Evans (b. 1885) —
also known as Isaac B. Evans —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Ogden, Weber
County, Utah, May 22,
1885.
Son of Thomas Benjamin Evans and Ruth (Blair) Evans.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Utah, 1919-21.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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McIntyre Faries (1896-1994) —
of South Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; San Marino, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Wei Hsien, Shantung, China,
of American parents, April 17,
1896.
Son of William R. Faries and Priscilla Ellen (Chittick) Faries.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1936,
1940
(alternate), 1944,
1948,
1952;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1947-52; superior court judge
in California, 1953.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association; Phi
Gamma Delta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died September
29, 1994 (age 98 years, 165
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Margaret Lois Shorten. |
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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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Maxwell McGaughey Hamilton (1896-1957) —
also known as Maxwell M. Hamilton —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Tahlequah, Cherokee
County, Okla., December
20, 1896.
Son of Wallace Maxwell Hamilton and May Calvin (Dobson) Hamilton.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1924; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1926; U.S. Minister to Finland, 1945-47.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died November
12, 1957 (age 60 years, 327
days).
Interment at Golden
Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, Calif.
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George Juan Hatfield (b. 1887) —
also known as George J. Hatfield —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born, of American parents, in Waterloo, Ontario,
October
29, 1887.
Son of William Melancthon Hatfield and Harriet Juanita (Bingham)
Hatfield.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1922-36; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1925-33; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1935-39.
Episcopalian.
Member, Order of the
Coif; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Reserve
Officers Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Eagles; Moose.
Burial
location unknown.
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Elinor Raas Heller (1904-1987) —
also known as Elinor R. Heller; Elinor Raas; Mrs.
Edward H. Heller —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Menlo Park, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Atherton, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
3, 1904.
Daughter of Alfred E. Raas and Ida B. (Fisher) Raas.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1944
(alternate), 1948,
1956;
member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1944-52; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California, 1952;
Regent, University of California, 1961-76.
Female.
Member, League
of Women Voters; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died August
15, 1987 (age 82 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Stephen Horn (b. 1931) —
also known as Stephen Horn; Steve Horn —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in San Juan Bautista, San Benito
County, Calif., May 31,
1931.
Son of John Stephen Horn and Isabelle (McCaffrey) Horn.
Republican. Administrative assistant to Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell, 1959-60; legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Thomas
H. Kuchel, 1960-66; president,
California State University Long Beach, 1970-88; U.S.
Representative from California 38th District, 1993-2003; defeated
in primary, 1988.
Protestant.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Gardiner Johnson (b. 1905) —
of Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., August
10, 1905.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1934-; member of California
state assembly, 1935-47; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1964-68.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Presumed
deceased.
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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David F. Levi (b. 1951) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
29, 1951.
Son of Edward
Hirsch Levi and Kate (Sulzberger) Levi (1918-2003).
Republican. Lawyer;
clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin
C. Duniway, 1980-81, and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis
Powell, 1981-82; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1987-90; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 1990-2007.
Jewish.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Still living as of 2007.
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William Micajah Martin (1917-1992) —
also known as William M. Martin —
of Hanford, Kings
County, Calif.; West Covina, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 30,
1917.
Son of William Alfred Martin and Caroline (Mandel) Martin.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1950-53; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1952;
member of California
Republican State Executive Committee, 1952-53; municipal judge in
California, 1957-62.
Presbyterian.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; Order of the
Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Chi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Moose; Kiwanis;
Exchange
Club.
Died May 8,
1992 (age 74 years, 344
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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David Packard (1912-1996) —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo., September
7, 1912.
Son of Sperry Sidney Packard and Ella Lorna (Graber) Packard.
Republican. Co-founder and chief executive, Hewlett-Packard
electronics and computer
company; U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1969-71; director, Pacific
Gas &
Electric Co., Crocker-Citizens National Bank,
General Dynamics Corp., U.S. Steel Corp.,
Trans World Airways,
Standard Oil of
California, Caterpillar Tractor
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
Presidential Elector for California, 1972;
philanthropist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Alpha
Delta Phi; Tau Beta
Pi; Sigma
Xi; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, in Stanford University Hospital,
Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., March 26,
1996 (age 83 years, 201
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Mahlon Fay Perkins (b. 1882) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., November
23, 1882.
Son of Lewis Perkins and Belle Louise (Benton) Perkins.
Advertising
business; school
teacher; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Chefoo, 1911-12; U.S. Vice Consul in Shanghai, 1915-17; U.S. Consul in Changsha, 1917-20; Tientsin, 1926-27.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1916
to Fanny Earp Gooden. |
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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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Claude George Anthony Ross (1917-2006) —
also known as Claude G. Ross —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1917.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Mexico City, 1940-41; Quito, 1941-45; U.S. Consul in Athens, 1945-49; Beirut, 1954-56; U.S. Ambassador to Central African Republic, 1963-67; Haiti, 1967-69; Tanzania, 1969-72.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
18, 2006 (age about 88
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Mathew Oscar Tobriner (1904-1982) —
also known as Mathew O. Tobriner —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April 2,
1904.
Son of Oscar Tobriner and Maude (Lezinsky) Tobriner.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956;
Judge,
California Court of Appeal 1st District, 1959-62; justice of
California state supreme court, 1962-82.
Jewish.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Order of the
Coif.
Died, from heart
trouble, at Mt. Zion Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., April 7,
1982 (age 78 years, 5
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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George Thomas Washington (1908-1971) —
of Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit
County, Ohio, June 24,
1908.
Son of William Morrow Washington and Janet Margaret (Thomas)
Washington.
Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1949-65.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died August
21, 1971 (age 63 years, 58
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Son of Herman Weinberger.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1969-70; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade Commission; director, U.S.
Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia,
in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 28,
2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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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