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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) —
also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs.
Tobin Armstrong —
of Armstrong, Kenedy
County, Tex.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
27, 1927.
Daughter of Armant Legendre and Olive (Martindale) Legendre.
Republican. Member of Texas
Republican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1976-77; Presidential Elector for Texas, 1992.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died, of cancer, in
a hospice
at Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 30,
2008 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. (1904-1987) —
also known as Henry R. Labouisse, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1904.
Son of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger)
Labouisse.
Lawyer;
U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1962-65.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1987
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger) Labouisse;
married, June 29,
1935, to Elizabeth Scriven Clark (died 1945); married, November
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Wilbert John LeMelle (b. 1931) —
also known as Wilbert J. LeMelle —
of New York.
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., November
11, 1931.
Son of Eloi Sabas LeMelle and Therese (Francis) LeMelle.
Democrat. University
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, 1977-80; Seychelles, 1977-80.
Catholic.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Council on Foreign
Relations.
Still living as of 1991.
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Relatives:
Married 1958
to Yvonne Tauriac. |
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Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (b. 1932) —
also known as Andy Young —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 12,
1932.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; one of the founders of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. until his assassination; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1973-77; defeated,
1970; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1977-79; mayor of
Atlanta, Ga., 1982-90; candidate in primary for Governor of
Georgia, 1990.
United
Church of Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Freemasons.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1978; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Still living as of 2009.
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