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George Edward Allen (1896-1973) —
also known as George E. Allen —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Booneville, Prentiss
County, Miss., February
29, 1896.
Son of Sam P. Allen and Mollie (Plaxico) Allen.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; hotel
business; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1933-38, 1939-40;
resigned 1938, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
District of Columbia, 1936;
Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1943; speechwriter for
Pres. Harry
Truman; director, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1946.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma.
Close friend of presidents Roosevelt,
Truman,
and Eisenhower.
Died, following a heart
attack, in the Eisenhower Medical
Center, Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., April 23,
1973 (age 77 years, 0
days).
Interment somewhere
in Booneville, Miss.
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Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) —
also known as Gertrude Franklin Horn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1857.
Daughter of Thomas L. Horn and Gertrude (Franklin) Horn.
Democrat. Author; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1928.
Female.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 14,
1948 (age 90 years, 228
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Terry Baum (b. 1946) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born November
27, 1946.
Green. Playwright; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 8th District, 2004.
Female.
Lesbian.
Still living as of 2004.
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Paul Bowerman (b. 1898) —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
16, 1898.
Son of Charles Beagle Bowerman and Margaret (Fisher) Bowerman.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; writer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Berlin, 1923-27; Ottawa, 1927; U.S. Consul in Ottawa, 1928-29; Zagreb, 1929-32; Salonika, 1932-33.
Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, May 8,
1923, to Helen Grace Robson. |
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John Ross Browne (1817-1875) —
also known as J. Ross Browne —
of California.
Born in Dublin, Ireland,
February
11, 1817.
Son of Thomas Browne and Edna (Buck) Browne.
Author; U.S. Minister to China, 1868-69.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., December
9, 1875 (age 58 years, 301
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1844
to Lucy Mitchell. |
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Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr. (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard G. Capen, Jr. —
of La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif.; Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in 1934.
Republican. Author; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93.
Still living as of 2002.
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Son of Albert King Chapin (1850-1908) and Emily A. (Schenck) Chapin.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Sherman Day (1806-1884) —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., 1806.
Son of Jeremiah Day (1773-1867; president of Yale College) and Martha
(Sherman) Day.
Engineer;
historian; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1855-56; U.S. Surveyor General of California,
1868-71.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., 1884
(age about
78 years).
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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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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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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Jay C. Huston —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Indiana.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1917-18, 1920-21; Nanking, 1919; U.S. Consul in Tientsin, 1924; Hankow, 1926; Canton, 1927; Shanghai, 1929-32.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Lapin —
of Mercer Island, King
County, Wash.
Republican. Rabbi;
author; radio show
host; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1996.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2009.
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David Laurell —
of Burbank, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Writer, producer, and director for television,
radio,
and film;
mayor
of Burbank, Calif., 2002-.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives:
Married to Maxine 'Max' Andrews. |
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John Steven McGroarty (1862-1944) —
of California.
Born in Foster Township, Luzerne
County, Pa., August
20, 1862.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1935-39; candidate
in primary for secretary of
state of California, 1938.
Catholic.
Elected poet laureate of California by the state legislature
in 1933.
Died, at St. Vincent's Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August 7,
1944 (age 81 years, 353
days).
Interment at New
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, Calif.
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Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) —
also known as Thomas N. Page —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., April 23,
1853.
Son of Maj. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page.
Lawyer;
author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-19.
Died in Oakland Plantation, Hanover
County, Va., November
1, 1922 (age 69 years, 192
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Maj. John Page and Elizabeth Burwell (Nelson) Page; married 1886 to Anne
Seddon Bruce (died 1888); married 1893 to
Florence (Lathrop) Field. |
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Carroll Wilmot Parcher (1903-1992) —
also known as Carroll W. Parcher; "Mr.
Glendale" —
of Tujunga, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
13, 1903.
Son of Wilmot
Parcher and Nannie (McBryde) Parcher.
Republican. Newspaper
editor-publisher, columnist; candidate in primary for California
state assembly, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1952,
1956
(alternate); mayor
of Glendale, Calif., 1977-78, 1979-81, 1984-85.
Member, Native
Sons of the Golden West; Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis.
Parcher Plaza, in the Glendale Civic Center, is named for
him.
Died, of cancer, in
Glendale Adventist Medical
Center, Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 31,
1992 (age 88 years, 200
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Stephen Peace (b. 1953) —
also known as J. Stephen Peace; Steve
Peace —
of California.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 30,
1953.
Member of California
state assembly, 1982-93; member of California
state senate, 1993-2002.
Screenwriter, producer,
and actor
for the film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which received
backhanded acclaim as one of the worst movies ever made.
Still living as of 2002.
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Bill Prady (b. 1960) —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 7,
1960.
Democrat. Writer and producer for television
sitcoms,
including Dharma & Gregg and Good Morning Miami; 1990
Emmy Award nominee; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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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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Dore Schary (1905-1980) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
31, 1905.
Son of Herman Hugo Schary and Belle (Drachler) Schary.
Democrat. Actor,
playwright, screenwriter, movie
producer; replaced Louis
B. Mayer as head of M-G-M Studios in 1951; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died July 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin McLaine Spock (1903-1998) —
also known as Benjamin Spock —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., May 2,
1903.
Son of Benjamin Ives Spock and Mildred Louise (Stoughton) Spock.
Won an Olympic
gold medal in rowing at the 1924 Paris games; physician;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author of
influential book, Baby and Child Care; People's candidate for
President
of the United States, 1972; People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., March 15,
1998 (age 94 years, 317
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., September
24, 1838.
Lawyer;
poet; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1907-10.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 5,
1923 (age 84 years, 284
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. (b. 1925) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Son of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina
Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1960; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
novelist, playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Still living as of 2009.
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James Eugene Walker (1908-1972) —
also known as James E. Walker —
of Orange, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in Miles City, Custer
County, Mont., July 19,
1908.
Son of Sharpless Walker and Gladys (James) Walker.
Democrat. Lawyer;
writer; candidate for California
state assembly, 1940; member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1940-54; chair of
Orange County Democratic Party, 1942-44; candidate in primary for
U.S.
Representative from California, 1944; served in the U.S. Army Air
Force in World War II; member of California
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1946-52; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Society for International Law; American
Political Science Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in May, 1972
(age 63
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March 16,
1822.
Son of Israel
Washburn.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); Presidential Elector for California, 1860;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist; invented
an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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John Richard Williams (1909-1998) —
also known as John R. Williams; Jack
Williams —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1909.
Son of James Maurice Williams and Laura (LaCossitt) Williams.
Republican. Program director, KOY radio
station; director, KTUC radio
station; newspaper
columnist; mayor of
Phoenix, Ariz., 1956-60; Governor of
Arizona, 1967-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Arizona, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Member, Jaycees.
Died August
24, 1998 (age 88 years, 299
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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