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Moss Alexander (1906-1985) —
Born in 1906.
Author, historian, newspaper
columnist; member of Maryland
state house of delegates.
Died in 1985
(age about
79 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Leo Brent Bozell (c.1926-1997) —
also known as L. Brent Bozell —
of Maryland.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., about 1926.
Republican. Co-founded the Young Americans for Freedom;
speechwriter for Joseph
R. McCarthy and Barry
M. Goldwater; candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1958; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1964.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom.
Died, of pneumonia,
at a nursing
home in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 15,
1997 (age about 71
years).
Interment at St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Smith Hempstone, Jr. (1929-2006) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1929.
Newspaper
editor and columnist; U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, 1989-93.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., November
19, 2006 (age 77 years, 291
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August 7,
1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper
columnist; radio talk
show host.
Still living as of 2009.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) —
of Alabama.
Born in 1851.
Son of Richard Nixon Taylor and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor.
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1893-97.
Author of a biography of Cicero and numerous other books.
Died in 1922
(age about
71 years).
Originally entombed at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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William A. Toole —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Maryland, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1920, 1926, 1928, 1932; candidate for Maryland
state attorney general, 1930.
Burial
location unknown.
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