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Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor (1863-1950) —
also known as Mary H. Armor —
of Eastman, Dodge
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Penfield, Greene
County, Ga., March 9,
1863.
Daughter of William Lindsay Manning Harris and Sarah Fanny (Johnson)
Harris.
Democrat. Orator; evangelist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1924.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union; League of Women
Voters; United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Died November
6, 1950 (age 87 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Eastman, Ga.
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Michael Curb (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Curb —
of California; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
24, 1944.
Republican. Musician;
record company executive; race car
owner; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1977; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate in
primary for Governor of
California, 1982.
The Curb Event Center at Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn., is named for
him. In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2009.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Son of Edouard G. Hesselberg and Lena (Shackelford) Hesselberg.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer, director of many motion pictures;
worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 4,
1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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John Temple Graves (1856-1925) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Willington Church, Abbeville
County, S.C., November
9, 1856.
Son of Gen. James Porterfield Graves and Katherine Floride (Calhoun)
Graves.
Newspaper
editor; orator; Presidential Elector for Florida, 1884;
Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1888;
People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1908; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August 8,
1925 (age 68 years, 272
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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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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Ben L. Jones (b. 1941) —
also known as Ben Jones;
"Cooter" —
of Georgia.
Born in Tarboro, Edgecombe
County, N.C., August
30, 1941.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1989-93; defeated, 1986
(4th District), 1992 (10th District), 1994 (6th District); candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 2002.
Professional actor, best known for his role as "Cooter
Davenport" in the 1979-85 television series "Dukes of
Hazzard".
Still living as of 2009.
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Cicely Tyson (b. 1933) —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
29, 1933.
Daughter of William Tyson and Theodesia Tyson.
Democrat. Model; actress; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, Delta
Sigma Theta.
Still living as of 2008.
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