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  Anthony Farpaya Arpaia (1897-1978) — also known as Anthony F. Arpaia — of Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., December 17, 1897. Son of Vincent Arpaia and Carolyn (de Rubbe) Arpaia. Democrat. Lawyer; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1952-60. Member, American Arbitration Association; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; American Legion; Phi Alpha Delta; Alpha Phi Delta. Died in June, 1978 (age 80 years, 0 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married, December 10, 1940, to Charlotte Bergen.
  William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) — also known as William O. Douglas — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima County, Wash. Born in Maine, Otter Tail County, Minn., October 16, 1898. Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; law professor; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; United World Federalists; American Bar Association; Beta Theta Pi; Phi Alpha Delta; Delta Sigma Rho; Phi Beta Kappa. Died in Washington, D.C., January 19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August 16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to Kathleen Heffernan.
  Cross-reference: Warren Christopher
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
  Books by William O. Douglas: Of Men and Mountains (1982) — My wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go East, Young Man (1974) — The Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas (1980)
  Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce Allen Murphy, Wild Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas — Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas
  Curtis Levine (b. 1947) — also known as Curt Levine — of Florida. Born in New Britain, Hartford County, Conn., November 21, 1947. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida state house of representatives 89th District, 1999-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 2000. Jewish. Member, Phi Alpha Delta; B'nai B'rith; Jewish War Veterans. Still living as of 2000.
  William Howard Taft (1857-1930) — also known as William H. Taft; "Big Bill" — of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Washington, D.C. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 15, 1857. Son of Alphonso Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907). Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor General, 1890-92; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1892-1900; law professor; Governor of the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S. Secretary of War, 1904-08; President of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30. Unitarian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Psi Upsilon; Skull and Bones; Phi Alpha Delta; American Bar Association. Died in Washington, D.C., March 8, 1930 (age 72 years, 174 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Grandson of Peter Rawson Taft; son of Alphonso Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907); half-brother of Charles Phelps Taft; married, June 19, 1886, to Helen 'Nellie' Herron (1861-1943; granddaughter of Ela Collins; niece of William Collins; daughter of John Williamson Herron); brother of Henry Waters Taft; uncle of Walbridge S. Taft; father of Robert Alphonso Taft and Charles Phelps Taft II; grandfather of William Howard Taft III, Robert Taft, Jr. and Seth Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert Alphonso Taft II. See Taft family of Ohio.
  Cross-reference: Walter P. Johnson — Fred Warner Carpenter — Charles D. Hilles
  Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and Prosperity."
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo Enrico Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William Howard Taft
  Critical books about William Howard Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, August 1901

 

 


 
   
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