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Bella Savitzky Abzug (1920-1998) —
also known as Bella S. Abzug; Bella Savitzky;
"Battlin' Bella"; "Mother Courage";
"Bellicose Bella" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., July 24,
1920.
Daughter of Emanuel Savitzky (1882-1933) and Esther Savitzky.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1971-77 (19th District 1971-73,
20th District 1973-77); defeated, 1978, 1986; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1972,
1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1996;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1976; candidate in primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1977; member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1993.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Urban
League; National
Organization for Women; American Civil Liberties Union; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Jewish Congress.
Died, of complications from heart
surgery, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 31,
1998 (age 77 years, 250
days).
Interment at Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Sam Ackerman (b. 1934) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
23, 1934.
Son of Joseph Ackerman and Regina (Marmorstein) Ackerman.
Democrat. Personnel director, Continental Coffee;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1972.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Married 1970
to Martha Sue Gordon. |
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Albert Howard Blumenthal (b. 1928) —
also known as Albert H. Blumenthal —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
13, 1928.
Son of Bennet M. Blumenthal and Matilda Blumenthal.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1963-76 (New York County 5th District 1963-65,
73rd District 1966, 67th District 1967-72, 69th District 1973-76).
Jewish.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; American
Jewish Congress; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Still living as of 1976.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Son of Heywood Cox Broun and Henriette (Brose) Broun.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union.
Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;
founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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John M. Burns —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member
of New
York state assembly, 1964-68 (New York County 8th District
1964-65, 71st District 1966, 64th District 1967-68).
Christian
Scientist. Member, NAACP;
American Civil Liberties Union; Psi
Upsilon.
Still living as of 1968.
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Renee Vera Cafiero (b. 1943) —
also known as Renee Vera Pachter —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
3, 1943.
Daughter of Henry M. Pachter and Hedwig (Rösler) Pachter.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1972.
Female.
Deist.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Common
Cause; Lesbian.
Still living as of 1993.
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Relatives:
Married 1961
to Arthur D. Cafiero (divorced). |
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George Sylvester Counts (1889-1974) —
also known as George S. Counts —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born near Baldwin City, Douglas
County, Kan., December
9, 1889.
Son of James Wilson Counts and Mertie Florella (Gamble) Counts.
University
professor; author; president,
American Federation of Teachers, 1939-42; New York American Labor
Party state chair, 1942-44; Liberal candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952; New York Liberal Party state chair,
1955-59.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died November
10, 1974 (age 84 years, 336
days); body donated
to Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Son of Edouard G. Hesselberg and Lena (Shackelford) Hesselberg.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 4,
1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) —
also known as "Rebel Girl" —
of New York.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., August 7,
1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer for
the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") in 1906-16; one of
the founders
of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which later expelled
her for being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (at-large), 1954 (24th
District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961.
Female.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Russia,
September
5, 1964 (age 74 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 15,
1933.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1980-93; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1993-.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Civil Liberties
Union; American
Jewish Congress; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2009.
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Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) —
also known as Moses Hillkowitz —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Riga, Latvia,
1869.
Son of Benjamin Hillquit and Rebecca (Levene) Hillquit.
Socialist. Immigrated to the United States in 1885; lawyer;
leader of "Kangaroo" faction which left the Socialist Labor Party and
marged with the Social Democratic Party to form the Socialist Party
of America in 1901; served as the Socialist Party's first national
secretary; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1906, 1908, 1920; candidate for judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1910; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1917; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from New York, 1920; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1931.
Jewish.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in 1933
(age about
64 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Leroy L. Hodge (c.1948-2004) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1948.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate in primary for Allegheny County Commissioner, 1999;
candidate in primary for mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 2001; candidate for Pittsburgh city council,
2002.
African
ancestry. Member, American Civil Liberties Union.
Died, of complications from an organ transplant, January
22, 2004 (age about 56
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton (b. 1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 13,
1937.
Democrat. Lawyer; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1972;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia, 1991-; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1996
(delegation chair), 2000,
2004,
2008.
Female.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil Liberties Union.
Still living as of 2009.
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Gloria G. Karp (b. 1925) —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 21,
1925.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; American
Jewish Congress.
Still living as of 1973.
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Arthur J. Katzman (b. 1903) —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972,
1988.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil Liberties Union.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March 28,
1902.
Son of Thomas William Lamont (1870-1948) and Florence Haskell
(Corliss) Lamont (died 1952).
Author;
lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; president,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; this organization and
its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited him
with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April 26,
1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas William Lamont (1870-1948) and Florence Haskell (Corliss)
Lamont (died 1952); married, June 8,
1928, to Margaret Hayes Irish (c.1905-1977); married 1962 to Helen
Lamb (died 1975); married 1986 to Beth
Keehner; uncle of Ned
Lamont. |
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dossier |
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Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1936.
Female.
Member, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Matthew M. Levy (1899-1971) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (now Brest, Belarus),
March
1, 1899.
Son of Aaron Levy and Rachel Levy.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
American Labor candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1941; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1951-71; defeated, 1932
(Socialist), 1943 (American Labor); died in office 1971.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American Civil Liberties Union; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Upsilon.
Died, in Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Center, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., September
4, 1971 (age 72 years, 187
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1922
to Pearl G. Spivak. |
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Vito Anthony Marcantonio (1902-1954) —
also known as Vito Marcantonio —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
10, 1902.
Son of Samuel Marcantonio and Angelina (De Dobitis) Marcantonio.
Lawyer;
campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, 1924-32; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1935-37, 1939-51 (20th District
1935-37, 1939-45, 18th District 1945-51); defeated, 1936, 1950;
American Labor candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949; New York American Labor Party state
chair, 1949.
Catholic.
Member, United
World Federalists; American Civil Liberties Union.
Fell dead, after coming up the subway stairs, on Broadway by City
Hall Park, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August 9,
1954 (age 51 years, 242
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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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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Olga A. Mendez —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mayagüez, Mayagüez
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1972,
1980,
1984,
1988
(speaker);
member of New York
state senate, 1993; defeated (Republican), 2004.
Female.
Puerto
Rican ancestry. Member, American Civil Liberties Union.
Still living as of 2004.
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Jerrold Lewis Nadler (b. 1947) —
also known as Jerrold Nadler —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 13,
1947.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1977-92 (69th District 1977-82, 67th District
1983-92); U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1992-; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Congress; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil Liberties Union; National
Organization for Women.
Still living as of 2009.
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Manfred Ohrenstein (b. 1925) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mannheim, Germany,
1925.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1961-93 (25th District 1961-65, 29th District 1966,
27th District 1967-93); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1980,
1984.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; American
Jewish Congress; Americans
for Democratic Action; B'nai
B'rith; American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP.
Still living as of 1993.
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Richard Lawrence Ottinger (b. 1929) —
also known as Richard Ottinger —
of Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Mamaroneck, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, January
27, 1929.
Son of Albert
Ottinger.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1965-71, 1975-85 (25th District
1965-71, 24th District 1975-83, 20th District 1983-85); candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1970; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1980.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American Civil Liberties Union; American
Legion.
Still living as of 2001.
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Frances Perkins (1882-1965) —
also known as Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wilson —
of Newcastle, Lincoln
County, Maine.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 10,
1882.
Daughter of Frederick W. Perkins and Susan Perkins.
Democrat. Sociologist;
New York State Industrial Commissioner, 1929-33; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1933-45; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1948.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union.
First
woman to serve in the Cabinet.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 14,
1965 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Interment at Cemetery
on River Road, Newcastle, Maine.
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Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) —
also known as A. Philip Randolph —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Crescent City, Putnam
County, Fla., April 15,
1889.
Son of James William Randolph and Elizabeth (Robinson) Randolph.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 19th District, 1919;
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1924; organizer,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; vice-president,
AFL-CIO, 1957; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks;
American Civil Liberties Union; United
World Federalists.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964.
Died May 16,
1979 (age 90 years, 31
days).
Cremated.
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Alice Sachs (1905-1997) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
18, 1905.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1956, 1958,
1960; candidate for New York
state senate 20th District, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964,
1980,
1984;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1976.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; League of Women
Voters; B'nai
B'rith; Urban
League; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Civil Liberties Union; NAACP.
Died at the Hallmark Nursing
Centre in North Granville, Washington
County, N.Y., March 29,
1997 (age 91 years, 101
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968) —
also known as Norman Thomas —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, November
20, 1884.
Socialist. Ordained
minister; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1924, 1938; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1925 (Socialist), 1929; candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; candidate for President
of the United States, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1930; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1934; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Civil Liberties Union; League
for Industrial Democracy.
Died December
19, 1968 (age 84 years, 29
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1910
to Frances Violet Stewart. |
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