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Aris Tee Allen (1910-1991) —
also known as Aris T. Allen —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., December
27, 1910.
Son of James Allen and Maryetta (Whitby) Allen.
Republican. Physician;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1969-73; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1972
(delegation chair).
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Medical
Association; American
Legion; NAACP.
Died February
8, 1991 (age 80 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry A. Cole (1921-1999) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 4th District, 1955-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1956;
Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1977-90.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., February
14, 1999 (age 78 years, 44
days).
Interment at Baltimore
National Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Conyers, Jr. (b. 1929) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 16,
1929.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-2003 (1st District 1965-93,
14th District 1993-2003); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1972,
1984,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
arrested
during an anti-apartheid
protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984;
candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1989.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; American Civil
Liberties Union; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Still living as of 2009.
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Douglas F. Gansler (b. 1962) —
also known as Doug Gansler —
of Montgomery
County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in 1962.
Son of Jacques Gansler and Alison Gansler.
Democrat. Lawyer; Montgomery
County State's Attorney, 1999-2007; Maryland
state attorney general, 2007-; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 2008.
Jewish.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 2008.
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Darlington Hoopes (1896-1989) —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Vale, Harford
County, Md., September
11, 1896.
Son of Price Hoopes (1860-1938) and Elizabeth Leora (Tucker) Hoopes
(1866-1939).
Socialist. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1930-36; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1944; candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1952, 1958.
Quaker.
Member, American Bar
Association; Eagles;
NAACP.
Died September
25, 1989 (age 93 years, 14
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Price Hoopes (1860-1938) and Elizabeth Leora (Tucker) Hoopes
(1866-1939); married, October
22, 1921, to Hannah Lippincott Fouke (1898-1923); married, October
16, 1925, to Hazelette Miller (1898-1996). |
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Robert H. Kittleman (d. 2004) —
also known as Bob Kittleman —
of West Friendship, Howard
County, Md.
Republican. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1981-2000; member of Maryland
state senate 9th District, 2001-04; died in office 2004.
Member, NAACP.
Died September
11, 2004.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) —
also known as Thoroughgood Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., July 2,
1908.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-65; U.S. Solicitor General,
1965-67; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-91.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP; National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1946 First
African-American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
24, 1993 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at Lawyers'
Mall, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives:
Married, September
4, 1929, to Vivien Burey (died 1955); married, December
17, 1955, to Cecilia
Suyat; father of Thurgood
Marshall, Jr.. See Marshall
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
Curtis Bryson |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Thurgood Marshall: Juan
Williams, Thurgood
Marshall : American Revolutionary — Randall W. Bland,
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial
Biography — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1961-1991 — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1936-1961 |
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Kweisi Mfume (b. 1948) —
also known as Frizzell Gerard Tate; Frizzell Gerard
Gray —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., October
24, 1948.
Democrat. University
professor; program director for a radio
station; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1987-96; resigned
1996; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1988;
chief executive officer of the NAACP.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Freemasons.
Still living as of 2009.
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Clarence M. Mitchell III (b. 1939) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
14, 1939.
Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (1911-1984) and Juanita Elizabeth
(Jackson) Mitchell (1913-1992).
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1963-66; member of Maryland
state senate, 1967-86; Indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of obstructing
an investigation of Baltimore drug
dealer Melvin D. 'Little Melvin' Williams, and sentenced
to two years in prison;
charged
in 1988 with failure to file income
tax returns; tried and
acquitted.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League; Kappa
Alpha Psi; Freemasons;
Jaycees.
Still living as of 1988.
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Michael Bowen Mitchell (b. 1945) —
also known as Michael B. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
7, 1945.
Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (1911-1984) and Juanita Elizabeth
(Jackson) Mitchell (1913-1992).
Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate 39th District, 1987; indicted
in 1987, along with his brother, by a federal grand jury in
connection with the a bribery
investigation of Wedtech Corporation; convicted
of accepting
$50,000 to stop
the Congressional investigation of Wedtech; sentenced
to two and a half years in prison;
convicted
in 1988 of forging
documents to obtain
$77,000 in life insurance proceeds intended for the child of a murder
victim, and sentenced
to six years in prison.
Methodist.
Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 1988.
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Henry G. Parks, Jr. (born c.1917) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., about 1917.
Democrat. Founder and chairman, H. G. Parks Inc. (meat
products); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1964.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Still living as of 1977.
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Relatives:
Married to Virginia Byrd. |
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Katharine Kaufman Smith (1892-1996) —
also known as Katharine K. Smith; Katharine Gladys
Kaufman —
of Massapequa, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Milbank, Grant
County, S.Dak., April 3,
1892.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state senate 1st District, 1930; candidate for New York
state assembly from Nassau County 2nd District, 1931, 1932, 1933;
social
worker; peace and civil rights activist; philanthropist.
Female.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP.
Died in Riverdale, Prince
George's County, Md., May 4,
1996 (age 104 years, 31
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1917
to Warren Smith (died 1965). |
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Michael S. Steele (b. 1958) —
of Largo, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., October
19, 1958.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Prince George's County Republican Party, 1994-2000; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1996
(alternate), 2000,
2004;
candidate for Maryland
state comptroller, 1998; Maryland
Republican state chair, 2000-02; Lieutenant
Governor of Maryland, 2003-.
Catholic.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Knights
of Columbus; Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Cynthia DeLores Tucker (1927-2005) —
also known as C. DeLores Tucker; Cynthia DeLores
Nottage —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
4, 1927.
Daughter of Rev. Whitfield Nottage and Captilda (Gardiner) Nottage.
Democrat. Secretary of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1971-77; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1972,
1996,
2000,
2004;
speaker, 1984;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1978; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1980; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 2004.
Female.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha
Kappa Alpha.
Died, in Suburban Woods Health
Center, Norristown, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
12, 2005 (age 78 years, 8
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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William A. Wallace (b. 1867) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Maryland, June 6,
1867.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state senate 3rd District; elected 1938; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1940.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP; Foresters.
Burial
location unknown.
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