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William James Behan (1840-1928) —
also known as William J. Behan —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; White Castle, Iberville
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1840.
Son of John Holland Behan and Katherine (Walker) Behan.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; sugar
planter; merchant;
manufacturer;
grocery
business; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1882-84; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1896,
1900,
1908;
Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1900-12; Republican candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1904.
Irish ancestry. Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, from a heart
attack, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 4,
1928 (age 87 years, 222
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Andrew Currie (1843-1918) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Ibricken, County Clare, Ireland,
1843.
Democrat. Mayor
of Shreveport, La., 1878-90; resigned 1890; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1892-96.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., 1918
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 19,
1879.
Son of James Mitchel and Mary (Purroy) Mitchel.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of George
V. Mullan, 1902-13; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1913; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1914-17; defeated in primary, 1917; on
April 17, 1914, at Park Row, New York, he was shot
at by an M. P. Mahoney, an unemployed carpenter; the bullet
missed the mayor, but struck and wounded Frank L. Polk, the city's
Corporation Counsel.
Catholic.
Irish ancestry.
Killed in a plane
crash during World War
I military training, at Gerstner Field, near Holmwood, Calcasieu
Parish, La., July 6,
1918 (age 38 years, 352
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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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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