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  Spruille Braden (1894-1978) — of Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Elkhorn, Jefferson County, Mont., March 13, 1894. Son of William Braden and Mary (Kimball) Braden. Mining engineer; financier; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1939-42; Cuba, 1942-45; Argentina, 1945. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Arbitration Association; Navy League; John Birch Society. Died, from a heart ailment, in Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., January 10, 1978 (age 83 years, 303 days). Interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of William Braden and Mary (Kimball) Braden; married, September 5, 1915, to Maria Humeres del Solar (died 1962); married 1964 to Verbena Williams Hebbard (died 1977).
  See also Wikipedia article
  Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) — also known as Mike Mansfield — of Missoula, Missoula County, Mont. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., March 16, 1903. Son of Patrick Mansfield and Josephine (O'Brien) Mansfield. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining engineer; university professor; U.S. Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1996, 2000; U.S. Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88. Irish ancestry. Member, Alpha Tau Omega. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Died, of congestive heart failure, at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C., October 5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Married, September 13, 1932, to Maureen Hayes.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Mike Mansfield: Don Oberdorfer, Senator Mansfield : The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat
  Robert Hector O'Brien (1904-1997) — also known as Robert H. O'Brien — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Seattle, King County, Wash. Born in Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Mont., September 15, 1904. Son of Joseph Grant O'Brien and Margaret (Flanagan) O'Brien. Mining engineer; lawyer; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1942-44; special assistant to Barney Balaban, president of Paramount Pictures, and director, Paramount International Films; when the companies split in 1949, he became secretary-treasurer of the movie theater chain, United Paramount Theaters; following a merger with American Broadcasting Company, he became financial vice-president of the ABC television network; in 1957, he joined the Loew's movie theater chain as vice-president and treasurer; president of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio, 1963-69. Catholic. Member, American Bar Association; Sigma Chi; Phi Delta Phi; Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Died, of a stroke, in Seattle, King County, Wash., October 6, 1997 (age 93 years, 21 days). Interment somewhere in Butte, Mont.
  Relatives: Married, August 27, 1927, to Ellen Ford (died 1969).

 

 


 
   
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