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Philip Adams (b. 1881) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, June 26,
1881.
Son of Edward Payson Adams and Ellen Germaine (Fisher) Adams.
Republican. College teacher; portrait and
landscape
painter; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1922-24; Malta, 1924-26; Campbellton, 1928-29; Sarnia, 1929-32; SAINT John, 1932; London, 1938.
Unitarian.
Burial
location unknown.
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George F. Aherne (1905-2001) —
of Abington, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
18, 1905.
Son of John Aherne and Mary Jane (RusH) Aherne.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928;
college professor.
Member, Kiwanis.
Died July 1,
2001 (age 95 years, 286
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick Christopher Arterton (b. 1942) —
also known as F. Christopher Arterton —
of Newton Highlands, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
22, 1942.
Son of Frederick Harry Arterton and Eleanor (Bell) Arterton.
Democrat. College instructor; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Member, Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Kappa Phi; Alpha
Chi Rho; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Married 1966
to Janet MacArthur Bond. |
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Robert William Baker (b. 1924) —
also known as Robert W. Baker —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 30,
1924.
Son of Chauncey William Baker and Marion (Power) Baker.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; psychologist;
university professor; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1968,
1972.
Member, American
Psychological Association; American
Association of University Professors; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1973.
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Thomas M. Balliet (1852-1942) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Pennsylvania, March 1,
1852.
Son of Nathan Balliet and Sarah Balliet.
Republican. Superintendent
of schools; university professor; dean, School of
Education, New York University, 1904-19; Law Preservation candidate
for New
York state senate 19th District, 1932; Dry candidate for delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1942 (age 89 years, 354
days).
Cremated.
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James Timothy Barrett (b. 1870) —
also known as James T. Barrett —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Pluckanes, County Cork, Ireland,
February
10, 1870.
Son of Timothy Barrett and Julia (Sheehan) Barrett.
Democrat. Contractor;
lecturer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1905-06; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Henry Beale (b. 1861) —
also known as Joseph H. Beale —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Dorchester (now part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass., October
12, 1861.
Son of Joseph H. Beale and Frances E. (Messinger) Beale.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edmund Hatch Bennett (1824-1898) —
also known as Edmund H. Bennett —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., April 6,
1824.
Son of Milo Lyman Bennett and Abigail (Hatch) Bennett.
Lawyer;
probate judge in Massachusetts, 1858; mayor of
Taunton, Mass., 1865-67; resigned 1867; law professor.
Episcopalian.
Died January
2, 1898 (age 73 years, 271
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (1895-1971) —
also known as Adolf A. Berle; A. A. Berle —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
29, 1895.
Son of Adolf Augustus Berle (born 1866; clergyman) and Augusta
(Wright) Berle.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; economist;
law professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised
President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.
Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-46.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a stroke, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 19
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Sherman Boutell (1856-1926) —
also known as Henry S. Boutell —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 14,
1856.
Son of Lewis Henry Boutell and Anna (Greene) Boutell.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1884; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1897-1911 (6th District 1897-1903,
9th District 1903-11); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1908;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1911-13; law professor.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Loyal
Legion.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Sanremo, Italy,
March
11, 1926 (age 69 years, 362
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Mass.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-1988) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Oxford, England.
Born in Longmeadow, Hampden
County, Mass., June 17,
1919.
Son of Kingman Brewster and Florence Foster (Besse) Brewster.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; President
of Yale University, 1963-77; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1977-81.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died, from a brain
hemorrhage, in John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, England,
November
8, 1988 (age 69 years, 144
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (b. 1938) —
also known as Stephen G. Breyer —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
15, 1938.
Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg, 1964-65; lawyer;
law professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1980-94; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1994-.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2009.
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Philip Marshall Brown (1875-1966) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Washington,
D.C.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 31,
1875.
Son of David Wilbur Brown and Clara Herrick (Hill) Brown.
U.S. Minister to Honduras, 1908-10; university professor.
Episcopalian.
Member, Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died, in a nursing
home at Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 10,
1966 (age 90 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Mary Ingraham Bunting (1910-1998) —
also known as Mary I. Bunting; Polly Bunting; Mary
Ingraham; Mary Bunting-Smith —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 10,
1910.
Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham.
Democrat. Microbiologist;
college professor; president,
Radcliffe College, 1960-72; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Female.
Died, in Kendal at Hanover continuing
care community, Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., January
21, 1998 (age 87 years, 195
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham; married
1937 to
Henry Bunting (died 1954); married 1975 to Clement
A. Smith (died 1988). |
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article |
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James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) —
also known as James M. Burns —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August 3,
1918.
Son of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; author;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Received Pulitzer
Prize in history, 1971.
Still living as of 1972.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married 1942 to Janet
Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan
Simpson Meyers. |
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Andrew Augustine Caffrey (1920-1993) —
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., October
2, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1960-86; took senior status
1986; senior judge,
1986-93.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., October
6, 1993 (age 73 years, 4
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Granville Caldwell (b. 1882) —
of Texas; Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, August
31, 1882.
Son of Milton Etsil Caldwell and Susanna (Adams) Caldwell.
Democrat. College professor; historian;
U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1933-37; Bolivia, 1937-39.
Member, American
Historical Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1915
to Edith Jones. |
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Eric Thomas Chester (b. 1943) —
also known as Eric Chester —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Montague, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August 6,
1943.
Son of Harry Chester and Alice (Fried) Chester.
New Politics candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1968; New Politics candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1968;
university professor; Socialist candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1996; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 2006.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Still living as of 2010.
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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) —
also known as James B. Conant —
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 26,
1893.
Son of James Scott Conant and Jennett Orr (Bryant) Conant.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chemist;
university professor; President
of Harvard University, 1933-53; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1955-57.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Philosophical Society; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., February
11, 1978 (age 84 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Scott Conant and Jennett Orr (Bryant) Conant; married to
Patty Thayer Reynolds and Grace Richards. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph Dane (1768-1849) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., 1768.
Lawyer;
university professor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives; Athens
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1817-20; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1828-32.
Died November
18, 1849 (age about 81
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick Morgan Davenport (1866-1956) —
also known as Frederick M. Davenport —
of Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., August
27, 1866.
Son of David Davenport and Annie L. (Green) Davenport.
College professor; member of New York
state senate 36th District, 1909-10, 1919-24; Progressive
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; Progressive candidate for Governor of
New York, 1914; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1924,
1928;
U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1925-33; defeated
(Republican), 1932, 1934.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
26, 1956 (age 90 years, 121
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Gordon Evans Dean (1905-1958) —
also known as Gordon E. Dean —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
28, 1905.
Son of Rev. John Marvin Dean.
Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; law professor; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1949-53; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1950-53.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy
fog, crashed
and burned,
about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age 52 years, 230
days).
Interment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Henry Bernhard Dirks (1884-1955) —
also known as Henry B. Dirks —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 21,
1884.
Son of Hermann Johannes Dirks (1850-1896) and Anna Elizabeth (Meyer)
Dirks (1852-1932).
College professor; mayor
of East Lansing, Mich., 1928-29.
German
ancestry.
Died September
18, 1955 (age 71 years, 89
days).
Interment at Pine
Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass.
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Paul Howard Douglas (1892-1976) —
also known as Paul H. Douglas —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., March 26,
1892.
Son of James Howard Douglas and Annie (Smith) Douglas.
Democrat. University professor; economist;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1949-67; defeated, 1966.
Unitarian
or Quaker.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
24, 1976 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Robert Frederick Drinan (1920-2007) —
also known as Robert F. Drinan; "Our Father Who Art In
Congress" —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
15, 1920.
Son of James J. Drinan and Ann (Flanigan) Drinan.
Democrat. Catholic
priest; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1971-81 (3rd District 1971-73,
4th District 1973-81); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1972;
law professor.
Catholic.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from pneumonia
and congestive
heart failure, in Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 2007 (age 86 years, 74
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Garrett Droppers (1860-1927) —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., April 12,
1860.
Son of John D. Droppers and Gertrude (Boyink) Droppers.
Democrat. University professor; president,
University of South Dakota, 1898-1906; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee); U.S. Minister to Greece, 1914-20; Montenegro, 1914-20.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., July 7,
1927 (age 67 years, 86
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John D. Droppers and Gertrude (Boyink) Droppers; married to Cora
A. Rand (died 1896); married 1897 to Jean
Tewkesbury Rand. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Congress |
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John Thomas Dunlop (1914-2003) —
also known as John T. Dunlop —
Born in Placerville, El Dorado
County, Calif., July 5,
1914.
University professor; economist;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1975-76.
Died, in Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 2003 (age 89 years, 89
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Everett (1794-1865) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Charlestown (now part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Dorchester (now part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass., April 11,
1794.
Son of Rev. Oliver Everett and Lucy (Hill) Everett.
Unitarian
minister; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1825-35; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1836-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1841-45; president,
Harvard College, 1846-49; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1852-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1853-54; Constitutional Union
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1860; Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts, 1864.
Unitarian.
Delivered a lengthy speech immediately preceding Abraham
Lincoln's brief Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. His
portrait appeared on the U.S. $50
silver certificate in the 1880s.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1865 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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William Everett (1839-1910) —
also known as "Piggy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
10, 1839.
Son of Edward
Everett.
College professor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1893-95; defeated
(Democratic), 1890 (6th District), 1892 (7th District); National
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
16, 1910 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. (1924-1983) —
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., November
4, 1924.
Son of Clarence Clyde Ferguson and Georgena (Owens) Ferguson.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, 1970-72.
Unitarian.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
21, 1983 (age 59 years, 47
days).
Interment at Baltimore
National Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
November
15, 1882.
Son of Leopold Frankfurter and Emma (Winter) Frankfurter.
Law professor; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Cecil E. Fraser (b. 1895) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill., October
7, 1895.
Son of Wilbur J. Fraser (professor) and Alice (Eaton) Fraser.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; business
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936.
Protestant.
Member, Exchange
Club.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Fried (b. 1935) —
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech
Republic), 1935.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
Solicitor General, 1985-89; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1995-99.
Still living as of 2008.
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James Kenneth Galbraith (born c.1952) —
also known as James K. Galbraith —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born about 1952.
Son of John
Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine (Atwater) Galbraith.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972;
economist;
university professor.
Member, American
Economic Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Son of William Archibald 'Archie' Galbraith and Catherine (Kendall)
Galbraith.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 29,
2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederic Webster Goding (b. 1858) —
also known as Frederic W. Goding —
of Rutland, La Salle
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Hyde Park, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 9,
1858.
Son of Alphonso Landon Goding and Lydia Mehitable (Chandler) Goding.
School
teacher; college professor; physician;
U.S. Consul in Newcastle, 1898-1908; Montevideo, 1908-12; U.S. Consul General in Guayaquil, 1914-24.
Interment at Goding
Cemetery, Livermore, Maine.
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Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (1904-1994) —
also known as Erwin N. Griswold —
Born in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, July 14,
1904.
Son of James Harlen Griswold and Hope (Erwin) Griswold.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; dean, Harvard Law School, 1946-67; U.S. Solicitor General,
1967-73.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1994 (age 90 years, 128
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Son of Alpheus Hardy and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy.
Civil
engineer; college professor; author;
editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March 14,
1930 (age 82 years, 213
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Ralph Harlow (1885-1972) —
also known as S. Ralph Harlow —
of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey;
Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1885.
Son of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow.
Socialist. Congregationalist
minister; college professor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1932, 1934, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, League
for Industrial Democracy; NAACP; American
Association of University Professors; American
Federation of Teachers; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Died in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
21, 1972 (age 87 years, 32
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow; married,
February
1, 1912, to Marion Stafford (died 1961); married to Elizabeth
(Kaufmann) Grigorakis (died 1974). |
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Robert James Harris (1930-2005) —
also known as Robert J. Harris; Bob Harris —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
5, 1930.
Son of Louis Harris and Bertha (Herman) Harris.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
law professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1969-73.
Jewish.
Lithuanian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died, of brain
lymphoma, in Scio Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., July 10,
2005 (age 74 years, 278
days).
Interment at Arborcrest
Memorial Park, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) —
also known as Robert Herrick —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 21,
1868.
Son of William Augustus Herrick.
Novelist;
university professor; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, December
23, 1938 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Christian Archibald Herter, Jr. (1919-2007) —
also known as Christian A. Herter, Jr. —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
29, 1919.
Son of Mary Caroline (Pratt) Herter and Christian
Archibald Herter.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, 1953-54; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1958; vice-president, Socony Mobil Oil Company,
1961-67; director, Berkshire Life
Insurance Company; law professor.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, in Washington,
D.C., September
16, 2007 (age 88 years, 230
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clifford Chesley Hubbard (b. 1884) —
also known as Clifford C. Hubbard —
of Norton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., April 30,
1884.
Son of Elmer Elston Hubbard and Lucy Amelia (Read) Hubbard.
Democrat. School
teacher; college professor; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Historical Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Legion; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., April 11,
1862.
Son of Rev. David Charles Hughes and Mary Catherine (Connelly)
Hughes.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; Governor of
New York, 1907-10; resigned 1910; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1908;
Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-16; resigned 1916; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-41; candidate for President
of the United States, 1916; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1921-25.
Baptist.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Union
League.
Died in Osterville, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
27, 1948 (age 86 years, 138
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Henry Stuart Hughes (c.1916-1999) —
also known as H. Stuart Hughes —
of Massachusetts.
Born about 1916.
Son of Charles
Evans Hughes, Jr. and Marjorie Bruce (Stuart) Hughes.
University professor; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962.
Died October
21, 1999 (age about 83
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thorsten Valentine Kalijarvi (1897-1980) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Gardner, Worcester
County, Mass., December
22, 1897.
Son of Gustaf Kalijarvi and Ida Christina (Kuniholm) Kalijarvi.
University professor; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1957-61.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; American
Arbitration Association; Pi Gamma
Mu; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in June, 1980
(age 82
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia (Cutter) Knight.
Republican. Lecturer; writer; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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George Cabot Lodge (b. 1927) —
also known as George C. Lodge —
of Massachusetts.
Born in 1927.
Son of Emily (Sears) Lodge and Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr..
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1964;
university professor.
Still living as of 2009.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Son of Augustus Sidney Lovett and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett.
University professor; novelist;
playwright;
secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Stewart Miller (b. 1884) —
also known as George S. Miller —
of Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., May 12,
1884.
Son of James H. Miller and Katherine (Stewart) Miller.
Republican. School
teacher; college professor; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932;
acting
president, Tufts College, 1937-38; director, Medford Hillside
Cooperative Bank.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Charles Monaghan (1857-1917) —
also known as James C. Monaghan —
of Rhode Island; New Jersey.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
11, 1857.
Son of James Monaghan and Mary Ann Brown (O'Neill) Monaghan.
Newspaper
editor; university professor; U.S. Consul in Mannheim, 1885-90; Chemnitz, 1893-1900; Kingston, 1914-17.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
12, 1917 (age 60 years, 32
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Cumberland, R.I.
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Relatives: Son
of James Monaghan and Mary Ann Brown (O'Neill) Monaghan; nephew by
marriage of John
Ryan; married, June 12,
1892, to Dorothy T. Ryan. |
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Charles Pinckney Holbrook Nason (1842-1937) —
also known as Charles P. H. Nason —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., September
7, 1842.
Son of Rev. Elias Nason (1811-1887) and Myra Ann (Bigelow) Nason
(born 1814).
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; clergyman;
writer;
lecturer; U.S. Consul in Grenoble, 1901-11.
Presbyterian
or Congregationalist.
Died in 1937
(age about
94 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) —
also known as Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wright City, Warren
County, Mo., June 21,
1892.
Son of Gustave Niebuhr and Lydia (Hosto) Niebuhr.
Pastor;
professor, Union Theological Seminary, 1928-60; Socialist
candidate for New York
state senate 19th District, 1930; Socialist candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; vice-chair of New York Liberal
Party, 1958.
Protestant.
German
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Theologian; Socialist and pacifist until World War II; received the
Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Died in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., June 1,
1971 (age 78 years, 345
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Peter Oppewall (b. 1922) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Northbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
college professor; candidate in primary for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Kent County 1st
District, 1961; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1965-70.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Urban
League; Modern
Language Association.
Still living as of 1970.
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John Robert Silber (b. 1926) —
also known as John R. Silber —
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., August
15, 1926.
Democrat. University professor; president
of Boston University, 1971-96; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1990.
Still living as of 2009.
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Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) —
also known as Frank W. Taussig; "The American
Marshall" —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
28, 1859.
Son of William Taussig and Adele (Wurpel) Taussig.
University professor; economist;
chair, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1917-19.
Member, American
Economic Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
11, 1940 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Nicola S. Tsongas (b. 1946) —
also known as Niki Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chico, Butte
County, Calif., April 26,
1946.
Democrat. Social
worker; lawyer;
dean of external affairs, Middlesex Community College,
1997-2007; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 2007-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 2008.
Female.
Still living as of 2009.
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Albert Henry Washburn (1866-1930) —
of Middleboro, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Middleboro, Plymouth
County, Mass., 1866.
Son of Edward Washburn and Ann Elizabeth (White) Washburn.
Republican. Private secretary to Andrew
Dickson White; lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Magdeburg, 1890-93; private secretary to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, 1893-96; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1896;
delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19;
college professor; Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1920;
U.S. Minister to Austria, 1922-30, died in office 1930.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Vienna, Austria,
April
29, 1930 (age about 63
years).
Interment somewhere
in Middleboro, Mass.
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Philip Young (1910-1987) —
of New York; Great Falls (unknown
county), Va.
Born in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 9,
1910.
Son of Josephine Sheldon (Edmonds) Young (1870-1935) and Owen
D. Young.
Republican. Economist;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; business
executive; dean of the Columbia University business
school, 1948-53; chair, U.S.
Civil Service Commission, 1953-57; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1957-60.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Arlington Hospital,
Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., January
15, 1987 (age 76 years, 251
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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