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William Anderson (b. 1888) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., October
25, 1888.
Son of Edward Anderson and Maren (Olausen) Anderson.
Political
scientist; university professor; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Member, American
Political Science Association; American
Association of University Professors; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Philemon Bliss (1813-1889) —
Born in Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., July 28,
1813.
Son of Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in Ohio, 1848-51; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1855-59; justice of
Dakota territorial supreme court, 1861-65; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1868-72; law professor.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
25, 1889 (age 76 years, 28
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Columbia, Mo.
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William A. Campbell (born c.1876) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Pocahontas
County, Iowa, about 1876.
Traveling
salesman; lecturer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1909-14; member of Minnesota
state senate 32nd District, 1915-18.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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Elmer Anderson Carter (1890-1973) —
also known as Elmer A. Carter —
of Prairie View, Waller
County, Tex.; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 19,
1890.
Son of George Cook Carter and Florence Lucretia (Young) Carter.
College teacher; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
executive secretary for the Urban League in various cities, 1920-28;
editor of Opportunity, a Journal of Negro Life, 1928-42;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1932;
Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1950; Republican
candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1953.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP; American
Legion; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died January
16, 1973 (age 82 years, 181
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Hartsdale, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George Cook Carter and Florence Lucretia (Young) Carter; married
1922 to Edna
Felicia Billups; married 1927 to Thelma
Charles Johnson (died 1972). |
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Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) —
of Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., June 25,
1944.
College instructor; in 1968, he was indicted
and tried for
his refusal to comply with the military
draft, but was acquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978; candidate for mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1979; president, Minneapolis city council.
Gay.
One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians.
Died, from AIDS-related
complications, August
23, 1991 (age 47 years, 59
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
law professor; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Edward Dana Durand (1871-1960) —
also known as E. Dana Durand —
of Minnesota; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Romeo, Macomb
County, Mich., October
18, 1871.
Son of Cyrus Y. Durand and Celia (Day) Durand.
Economist;
director, U.S. Census, 1909-13; university professor; member, U.S. Tariff
Commission, 1935-47.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
6, 1960 (age 88 years, 80
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Vernon James Ehlers (b. 1934) —
also known as Vernon J. Ehlers; Vern
Ehlers —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Pipestone, Pipestone
County, Minn., February
6, 1934.
Republican. College professor; member of Michigan
state house of representatives 93rd District, 1983-85; resigned
1985; member of Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1985-93; resigned 1993; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1993-.
Christian
Reformed.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charles Burke Elliott (b. 1861) —
also known as Charles B. Elliott —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Morgan
County, Ohio, January
6, 1861.
Son of Edward Elliott and Angeline Elliott.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; municipal judge in Minnesota, 1890-93; district
judge in Minnesota 4th District, 1893-1904; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1905-09; appointed 1905; resigned
1909; justice of
Phillipine Islands supreme court, 1909-10.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law.
Burial
location unknown.
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Herbert Funk Goodrich (1889-1962) —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., July 29,
1889.
Son of George Herbert Goodrich and Mary Ann (Funk) Goodrich.
Democrat. Law professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1940-62; died in
office 1962.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Philosophical Society; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Alpha Delta; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Freemasons.
Died June 25,
1962 (age 72 years, 331
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Herbert Goodrich and Mary Ann (Funk) Goodrich; married to
Edith Eastman and Natalie E. Murphy; married, September
23, 1940, to Mary Dern Baxter. |
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Henry Holmes (b. 1861) —
of Monticello, Wright
County, Minn.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., 1861.
Pastor;
writer;
lecturer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 55th District, 1915-18.
Congregationalist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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Ora Miner Leland (1876-1962) —
also known as Ora M. Leland —
of New York.
Born in Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich., June 28,
1876.
Progressive. Candidate for New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1912.
Dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture at the
University of Minnesota; developed the Aeronautical
Engineering Department in 1928-29.
Died March 30,
1962 (age 85 years, 275
days).
Interment at Fort
Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Frank Orren Lowden (1861-1943) —
also known as Frank O. Lowden —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Oregon, Ogle
County, Ill.
Born in Sunrise, Chisago
County, Minn., January
26, 1861.
Son of Lorenzo Orren Lowden and Nancy Elizabeth (Breg) Lowden.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
law professor; director, National Bank of the
Republic; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1900,
1904;
member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1904-12; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1906-11; Governor of
Illinois, 1917-21; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1920,
1928.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from rectal
cancer, in El Conquistador Hotel,
Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., March 20,
1943 (age 82 years, 53
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Eugene Joseph McCarthy (1916-2005) —
also known as Eugene J. McCarthy; "Clean
Gene" —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Watkins, Meeker
County, Minn., March 29,
1916.
Son of Michael J. McCarthy and Anna (Baden) McCarthy.
School
teacher; university professor; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1949-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1952
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1992;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1968, 1976 (Independent).
Catholic.
Irish
and German
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in the Georgetown Retirement
Residence, Washington,
D.C., December
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Woodville, Va.
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James Thompson McCleary (1853-1924) —
also known as James T. McCleary —
of Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.; Maiden Rock, Pierce
County, Wis.
Born in Ingersoll, Ontario,
February
5, 1853.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1893-1907; defeated,
1906.
Died in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., December
17, 1924 (age 71 years, 316
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Maiden Rock, Wis.
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College professor; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1884; district judge in Minnesota
11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his car
struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Arthur Naftalin (1917-2005) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., June 28,
1917.
Son of Sandel Naftalin and Tillie (Bresky) Naftalin.
University professor; newspaper
columnist;
secretary to Mayor Hubert
H. Humphrey, 1945-47; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Minnesota, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1961-69.
Jewish.
Injured in a fall, and
died a few hours later, in Abbott Northwestern Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., May 16,
2005 (age 87 years, 322
days). His body was
donated to the University of Minnesota medical school.
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Alfred John Pearson (1869-1939) —
also known as Alfred J. Pearson —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Landskrona, Sweden,
September
29, 1869.
Son of Hans Pearson and Johanna (Nilson) Pearson.
Republican. University professor; U.S. Minister to Poland, 1924-25; Finland, 1925-30.
Lutheran.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Modern
Language Association; American
Association of University Professors; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died August 9,
1939 (age 69 years, 314
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Relatives: Son
of Hans Pearson and Johanna (Nilson) Pearson; married 1901 to Thea
Pauline Swenson (daughter of Lars
Swenson). See Swenson
family of Minnesota. |
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Milton Rakove (1918-1983) —
also known as "Mayor Daley's
Intellectual" —
of Wilmette, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Buhl, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
30, 1918.
Democrat. University professor; political historian;
consultant and speechwriter to U.S. Sen. Charles
H. Percy and Gov. Otto
Kerner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1980.
Died, in Weiss Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
5, 1983 (age 65 years, 6
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Oscar T. Stenvick (born c.1877) —
Born in Fillmore
County, Minn., about 1877.
College professor; lawyer; Clearwater
County Attorney; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 65th District, 1915-18.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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Henry Oscar Talle (1892-1969) —
also known as Henry O. Talle —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born near Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn., January
12, 1892.
Son of John Talle and Anna (Ovri) Talle.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; college professor; U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1939-59 (4th District 1939-43, 2nd
District 1943-59); defeated, 1936 (4th District), 1958 (2nd District).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 14,
1969 (age 77 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) —
also known as Paul Wellstone; "Senator
Welfare" —
of Minnesota.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1944.
Son of Leon Wexelstein and Minnie (Danishevsky) Wexelstein.
College professor; arrested
during a Vietnam War
protest at the federal building in Minneapolis, 1970; arrested
again during a protest of
farm foreclosures at a bank in Paynesville, Minn., 1984;
candidate for Minnesota
state auditor, 1982; member of Democratic
National Committee from Minnesota, 1984-91; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1996,
2000.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed in a plane
crash, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
25, 2002 (age 58 years, 96
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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