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Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000) —
also known as Morris Abram —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill
County, Ga., June 19,
1918.
Son of Sam Abram and Irene (Cohen) Abram.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; served on
prosecution staff at Nuremburg war crimes trials; U.S. Representative
to United Nations European office; worked on Marshall Plan for
postwar reconstruction of Europe; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1952; candidate for
nomination for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968; president
of Brandeis University, 1968-70; member, U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, 1984-86.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Jewish Committee; Urban
League; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from a viral
infection, in a hospital
at Geneva, Switzerland,
March
16, 2000 (age 81 years, 271
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) —
also known as Theodore C. Achilles —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
29, 1905.
Son of Henry Laurence Achilles and Gertrude (Strong) Achilles.
Newspaper
work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1932; Rome, 1933; while serving as director of the State Department's
Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one of the main
architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding
document of NATO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1986 (age 80 years, 100
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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Anthony Boyce Akers (1914-1976) —
also known as Anthony B. Akers —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born near Charlotte, Atascosa
County, Tex., October
19, 1914.
Son of Ambrose B. Akers and Margaret (Long) Akers.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1954, 1956, 1958;
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1961-63.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, in Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover
County, N.C., April 1,
1976 (age 61 years, 165
days).
Interment at Berkeley
Chapel Churchyard, Middletown, R.I.
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Winthrop Williams Aldrich (1885-1974) —
also known as Winthrop W. Aldrich —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., November
2, 1885.
Son of Nelson
Wilmarth Aldrich and Abby Pierce Chapman (Greene) Aldrich.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president, Equitable Trust
Company, 1929; president, Chase National Bank,
1930-34; chairman, 1934-53; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1953-57.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Bankers Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
25, 1974 (age 88 years, 115
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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George Whelan Anderson, Jr. (1906-1992) —
also known as George W. Anderson, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
15, 1906.
Son of George W. Anderson and Clara (Green) Anderson.
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, 1961-63; U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1963-66.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in the Arleigh Burke Pavilion nursing
home, McLean, Fairfax
County, Va., March 20,
1992 (age 85 years, 96
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George W. Anderson and Clara (Green) Anderson; married, October
3, 1933, to Muriel Buttling (died 1947); married, May 15,
1948, to Mary Lee Lamar Sample. |
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Norman Armour (1887-1982) —
of Gladstone, Somerset
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Brighton, England
of American parents, October
14, 1887.
Son of George Allison Armour and Harriette (Foote) Armour.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Haiti, 1932-33, 1933-35; Canada, 1935-38; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1938-39; Argentina, 1939-44; Spain, 1945; Venezuela, 1950-51; Guatamala, 1954-55.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter
protesting U.S. Sen. Joe
McCarthy's attacks on the Foreign Service.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
27, 1982 (age 94 years, 348
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Henry de Forest Baldwin (1862-1947) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa, November
7, 1862.
Son of Simeon Baldwin and Mary Sarah (Marvin) Baldwin.
Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Skull and
Bones.
Died, following a stroke, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 18,
1947 (age 84 years, 192
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Burnett Benton (1900-1973) —
also known as William Benton —
of Southport, Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., April 1,
1900.
Son of Charles William Benton and Elma (Hixson) Benton.
Democrat. Advertising
business; introduced sound effects into television commercials;
popularized the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio show; vice-president,
University of Chicago, 1937-45; publisher of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs,
1945-47; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1949-53; defeated, 1952; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Council on Foreign Relations; Zeta Psi.
The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut is
named
for him.
Died, in the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 18,
1973 (age 72 years, 351
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (1895-1971) —
also known as Adolf A. Berle; A. A. Berle —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
29, 1895.
Son of Adolf Augustus Berle (born 1866; clergyman) and Augusta
(Wright) Berle.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; economist;
law
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.
Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-46.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on Foreign
Relations; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a stroke, in
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 19
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1914-1986) —
also known as Jonathan B. Bingham; Jack
Bingham —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., April 24,
1914.
Son of Hiram
Bingham and Alfreda (Mitchell) Bingham.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; secretary to New York
Governor W.
Averell Harriman, 1955-59; candidate for New York
state senate 29th District, 1958; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1965-83 (23rd District 1965-73,
22nd District 1973-83).
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 3,
1986 (age 72 years, 70
days).
Interment at Bingham
Family Cemetery, Salem, Conn.
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Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., August 5,
1875.
Son of William
Henry Bliss and Annie Louise (Woods) Bliss.
U.S. Consul in Venice, 1903; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1923-27; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1927-33.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
One of five retired diplomats who co-signed a famous 1954 letter
protesting U.S. Sen. Joe
McCarthy's attacks on the Foreign Service. Donated his Georgetown
estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to Harvard University in 1940; after the war,
it was the scene of the conference that led to the creation of the
United Nations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 19,
1962 (age 86 years, 257
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Dumbarton
Oaks Rose Garden, Washington, D.C.
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Elaine Bloom (b. 1937) —
of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1937.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives 106th District, 1974-78,
1986-2000; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,
1976
(alternate), 1992,
1996;
candidate in primary for Florida
state senate 36th District, 1978; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Florida 22nd District, 2000.
Female.
Jewish.
Member, League
of Women Voters; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2000.
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Dudley Baldwin Bonsal (1906-1995) —
also known as Dudley B. Bonsal —
of New York.
Born in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
6, 1906.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1961-76;
took senior status 1976.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 22,
1995 (age 88 years, 289
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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.
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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 |
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Nicholas Frederick Brady (b. 1930) —
also known as Nicholas F. Brady —
of Bedminster Township, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., April 11,
1930.
Son of James C. Brady.
Republican. Banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1972;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1982; appointed 1982; resigned 1982; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1988-93; chairman, Darby Overseas
Investments.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Chi Psi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Harold Brown (b. 1927) —
Born September
19, 1927.
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1977-81.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Still living as of 2009.
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Son of George R. Bunker and Jean Polhemus (Cobb) Bunker.
Director and officer, National Sugar
Refining Company; director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential
Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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William Armistead Moale Burden (1906-1984) —
also known as William A. M. Burden —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 8,
1906.
Son of Florence Vanderbilt (Twombly) Burden.
Analyst of aviation
industry; founder of Wall Street investment firm; chairman of Union
Texas Natural Gas Corporation; director, Allied Chemical
Co., Columbia Broadcasting
System, and Lockheed Aircraft;
president, Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1953-59, 1962-65; U.S.
Ambassador to Belgium, 1959-61.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of heart
disease, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1984 (age 78 years, 185
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877; railroad
baron); son of Florence Vanderbilt (Twombly) Burden; married 1931 to
Margaret Livingston Partridge. |
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William Jefferson Clinton (b. 1946) —
also known as Bill Clinton; William Jefferson Blythe
IV; "Slick Willie"; "Bubba";
"Elvis"; "Eagle"; "The Big
Dog" —
of Arkansas; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Hope, Hempstead
County, Ark., August
19, 1946.
Son of William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton
(1923-1994).
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1974; Arkansas
state attorney general, 1977-79; Governor of
Arkansas, 1979-81, 1983-92; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Arkansas, 1996,
2000;
speaker, 1984,
1988;
President
of the United States, 1993-2001; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 2004,
2008.
Baptist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
On October 29, 1994, Francisco Duran fired 27 shots from the sidewalk
at the White House in an apparent assassination
attempt against President Clinton. Impeached
by the House of Representatives in December 1998 over allegations of
perjury
and obstruction
of justice in connection with his sexual
contact with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, but acquitted
by the Senate.
Still living as of 2011.
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Relatives: Third
cousin twice removed of James
Alexander Lockhart; son of William Jefferson Blythe II and
Virginia (Cassidy) Clinton (1923-1994); step-son of Roger Clinton;
married, October
11, 1975, to Hillary
Diane Rodham (sister of Hugh
Edwin Rodham); father of Chelsea Clinton (daughter-in-law of Edward
Maurice Mezvinsky and Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky). See Polk-Ashe
family of North Carolina. |
| | | Cross-reference: Abraham
J. Hirschfeld — Kenneth
W. Starr — Rahm
Emanuel — Henry
G. Cisneros — Maria
Echaveste — Thurgood
Marshall, Jr. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Bill Clinton: Between
Hope and History : Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st
Century (1996) — My
Life (2004) |
| | | Books about Bill Clinton: David
Maraniss, First
in His Class : The Biography of Bill Clinton — Joe
Conason, The
Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and
Hillary Clinton — Gene Lyons, Fools
for Scandal : How the Media Invented Whitewater —
Sidney Blumenthal, The
Clinton Wars — Dewayne Wickham, Bill
Clinton and Black America — Joe Klein, The
Natural : The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill
Clinton — Nigel Hamilton, Bill
Clinton: An American Journey — Bob Woodward, The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House — George
Stephanopolous, All
Too Human — John F. Harris, The
Survivor : Bill Clinton in the White House — Mark
Katz, Clinton
& Me: A Real Life Political Comedy — Tim O'Shei, Bill
Clinton (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Bill Clinton:
Barbara Olson, The
Final Days : The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White
House — Meredith L. Oakley, On
the Make : The Rise of Bill Clinton — Robert
Patterson, Dereliction
of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered
America's Long-Term National Security — Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, The
Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories —
Ann Coulter, High
Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
Clinton — Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Because
He Could — Jack Cashill, Ron
Brown's Body : How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and
Hillary's Future — Christopher Hitchens, No
One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family —
Rich Lowry, Legacy:
Paying the Price for the Clinton Years — Richard
Miniter, Losing
Bin Laden : How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global
Terror |
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Charles Woolsey Cole (1906-1978) —
also known as Charles W. Cole —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.; New York.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., February
8, 1906.
U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1961-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Association of University Professors; Council on Foreign
Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Historical Association; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1978
(age about
72 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Thomas Connor (1914-2000) —
also known as John T. Connor; Jack Connor —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., November
3, 1914.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1965-67.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Kappa Psi.
President and CEO of the Merck pharmaceutical
company from 1955; chairman and CEO of Allied Chemical,
1967-79.
Died, of cancer, at
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
6, 2000 (age 85 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mosswood
Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
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Philip Kingsland Crowe (1908-1976) —
also known as Philip K. Crowe —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
7, 1908.
Son of Earl R. Crowe and Kathleen McClellan (Higgins) Crowe.
Newspaper
reporter; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Ceylon, 1953-56; South Africa, 1959-61; Norway, 1969-73; Denmark, 1973-75.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in 1976
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Alfonse Martello D'Amato (b. 1937) —
also known as Alfonse M. D'Amato; "Senator
Pothole" —
of Island Park, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August 1,
1937.
Republican. U.S.
Senator from New York, 1981-99; defeated, 1998; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 2008.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charles Francis Darlington, Jr. (1904-1986) —
also known as Charles F. Darlington —
of Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
13, 1904.
Son of Charles Francis Darlington and Letitia Craig (O'Neill)
Darlington.
Democrat. Economist;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; oil
executive; U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, 1961-64.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 11,
1986 (age 81 years, 210
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John William Davis (1873-1955) —
also known as John W. Davis —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., April 13,
1873.
Son of John
James Davis and Anna (Kennedy) Davis.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1899;
candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, 1900;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1911-13; resigned
1913; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1913-18; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1918-21; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1920;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1924; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1928,
1932.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 24,
1955 (age 81 years, 345
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y.
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Norman Hezekiah Davis (1878-1944) —
also known as Norman Davis —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tullahoma, Coffee
County, Tenn.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Bedford
County, Tenn., August 9,
1878.
Son of Machin Hezekiah Davis and Christina Lee (Shofner) Davis.
Democrat. Banker;
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1919-20; Undersecretary of
State, 1920-21; U.S. delegate to international conferences; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928;
U.S. Ambassador to , 1933-38; chairman, American Red Cross, 1938-44, and also of
International Red Cross, 1939-44.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., July 2,
1944 (age 65 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tullahoma, Tenn.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) —
also known as Thomas E. Dewey —
of Pawling, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., March 24,
1902.
Son of George
Martin Dewey and Annie (Thomas) Dewey.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1933; New
York County District Attorney, 1937-41; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1940;
Governor
of New York, 1943-55; defeated, 1938; candidate for President
of the United States, 1944, 1948; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1952,
1956.
Episcopalian.
English
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Farm
Bureau; Grange; Phi Mu
Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Seaview Hotel, Bal
Harbor, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., March 16,
1971 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Nephew of Edmond
O. Dewey; son of George
Martin Dewey and Annie (Thomas) Dewey; married, June 16,
1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt (c.1903-1970; grandniece of Jefferson
Finis Davis). See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Herbert
Brownell, Jr. — Charles
C. Wing — Martin
T. Manton — Herman
Methfessel |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about Thomas E. Dewey: Mary M.
Stolberg, Fighting
Organized Crime : Politics, Justice, and the Legacy of Thomas E.
Dewey — Barry K. Beyer, Thomas
E. Dewey, 1937-1947 : A Study in Political Leadership (out of
print) — Richard Norton Smith, Thomas
E. Dewey and His Times (out of print) |
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Son of Anne McEldin (Douglass) Dillon (1881-1961) and Clarence Dillon
(1882-1979; financier).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish,
French,
Swedish,
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Angier Biddle Duke (1915-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1915.
Son of Angier B. Duke (1884-1923) and Cordelia Drexel (Biddle) Duke.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1952-53; Spain, 1965-68; Denmark, 1968-69; Morocco, 1979-81.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Chancellor
of Southampton College.
Hit by a car
while rollerblading,
and died as a result, in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 29,
1995 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) —
also known as Allen W. Dulles;
"Spymaster" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April 7,
1893.
Son of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith (Foster) Dulles.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1953-61; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from influenza
and pneumonia,
in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 296
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer and
pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Lewis David Einstein (1877-1967) —
also known as Lewis Einstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 15,
1877.
Son of David Lewis Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline (Fatman)
Einstein (1852-1910).
U.S. Minister to Costa Rica, 1911; Czechoslovakia, 1921-30.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Sons of
the Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Corresponded for 32 years with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
Died in Paris, France,
December
4, 1967 (age 90 years, 264
days).
Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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Dante Bruno Fascell (1917-1998) —
also known as Dante B. Fascell —
of Coral Gables, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Bridgehampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March 9,
1917.
Son of Charles A. Fascell and Mary (Gullotti) Fascell.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1951-54; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1955-93 (4th District 1955-67, 12th
District 1967-73, 15th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-93);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1956
(delegation vice-chair).
Italian
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Lions; American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Military
Order of the World Wars; Jaycees;
Kappa
Sigma.
Received Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1998.
Died, of colon
cancer, in Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla., November
28, 1998 (age 81 years, 264
days).
Interment at Sylvan
Abbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Fla.
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Edward Francis Feely (1880-1964) —
also known as Edward F. Feely —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 6,
1880.
Son of Dennis C. Feely and Katherine (Fleming) Feely.
Republican. Exporter;
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1930-33.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon.
Died of a stroke, at
St. Mary's Hospital,
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., August
30, 1964 (age 84 years, 177
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1935-2011) —
also known as Geraldine Ferraro —
of Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., August
26, 1935.
Daughter of Dominick Ferraro and Antonetta (Corrieri) Ferraro.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1979-85; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1980,
1984
(chair, Platform
Committee), 1996;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1984; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1992, 1998.
Female.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of
Fame.
Died, from multiple
myeloma, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 26,
2011 (age 75 years, 212
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Knight Finletter (1893-1980) —
also known as Thomas K. Finletter —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
11, 1893.
Son of Thomas
Dickson Finletter and Helen (Grill) Finletter.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, 1941-44; Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, 1950-53; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1961-65.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Delta
Phi; Americans
for Democratic Action; United
World Federalists.
Died in 1980
(age about
86 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. (b.
1916) —
also known as Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1953-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1964,
1972.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Evan Griffith Galbraith (1928-2008) —
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, July 2,
1928.
Republican. U.S. Ambassador to France, 1981-85.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Skull and
Bones.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
21, 2008 (age 79 years, 203
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John William Gardner (1912-2002) —
also known as John W. Gardner —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
8, 1912.
Son of William Gardner and Marie Flora Gardner.
Republican. University
professor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Sigma
Xi; Kappa
Delta Pi; American
Psychological Association; Common
Cause.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder of Common Cause in 1970.
Died, from complications of prostate
cancer, in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
16, 2002 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bruce S. Gelb (b. 1927) —
of New York.
Born in 1927.
Director, U.S. Information Agency, 1989; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1991-93.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 1993.
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Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr. (1910-2011) —
also known as S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr. —
of New York.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., July 12,
1910.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1959-61.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Council on Foreign Relations; Skull and
Bones.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., March 7,
2011 (age 100 years,
238 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Harrison J. Goldin (b. 1936) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., February
23, 1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate, 1966-73 (31st District 1966, 30th District
1967-73); New York City Comptroller, 1974-89; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1984;
candidate in primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1989.
Jewish.
Member, Order of the
Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Jewish Congress; NAACP; B'nai
B'rith; American
Jewish Committee; American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2001.
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Son of Emil Gruening and Phebe (Fridenberg) Gruening.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; writer; Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska, 1972.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Jane Frank Harman (b. 1945) —
also known as Jane F. Harman; Jane Lakes; Jane
Frank —
of Venice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1945.
Daughter of Adolf Lakes and Lucille (Geier) Lakes.
Democrat. Lawyer;
legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. John
V. Tunney, 1972; counsel for congressional subcommittees; deputy
secretary to the Cabinet in the Jimmy
Carter White House, 1977-78; U.S.
Representative from California 36th District, 1993-99, 2001-;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1996,
2004,
2008;
candidate in primary for Governor of
California, 1998.
Female.
Jewish.
Polish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) —
also known as W. Averell Harriman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1891.
Son of Edward
Henry Harriman.
Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1943-46; Great Britain, 1946; , 1961, 1965-69; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1946-48; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Governor
of New York, 1955-59; defeated, 1958.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Skull and
Bones.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died in Yorktown Heights, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 26,
1986 (age 94 years, 253
days).
Interment at Arden
Farm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Henry Harriman; married, September
21, 1915, to Kitty Lawrence (divorced 1929); married, February
21, 1930, to Marie (Norton) Whitney (died 1970; ex-wife of Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney); married, September
27, 1971, to Pamela
Hayward. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
B. Bingham |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Averell Harriman: Walter
Isaacson, The
Wise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made |
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Christian Archibald Herter, Jr. (1919-2007) —
also known as Christian A. Herter, Jr. —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
29, 1919.
Son of Mary Caroline (Pratt) Herter and Christian
Archibald Herter.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, 1953-54; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1958; vice-president, Socony Mobil Oil Company,
1961-67; director, Berkshire Life
Insurance Company; law
professor.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, in Washington,
D.C., September
16, 2007 (age 88 years, 230
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (b. 1941) —
also known as Richard C. Holbrooke —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., April 24,
1941.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1993-94; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1998-2001.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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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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Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr. (b. 1906) —
also known as Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., December
12, 1906.
Son of Arthur
Amory Houghton and Mabel (Hollister) Houghton.
Republican. Vice-president, Corning Glass Works,
1935-40; director, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Council on Foreign
Relations; Modern
Language Association.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Elizabeth Douglas McCall. |
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Philip Mayer Kaiser (1913-2007) —
also known as Philip M. Kaiser —
of New York; Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 12,
1913.
Son of Morris Kazas and Temma (Sloven) Kazas.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; economist;
U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1961-64; Mauritania, 1961-64; Hungary, 1977-80; Austria, 1980-81.
Ukrainian
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., May 24,
2007 (age 93 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Meyer Kestnbaum (1896-1960) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1896.
Son of Benjamin Kestnbaum (1872-1965) and Julia (Weintraub) Kestnbaum
(1876-1943).
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; president, Hart,
Schaffner and Marx, clothing
manufacturers, from 1941; director, Chicago and North Western Railway;
chair, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1954-55; special assistant to Pres.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1955-60.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
14, 1960 (age 64 years, 44
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Kestnbaum (1872-1965) and Julia (Weintraub) Kestnbaum
(1876-1943); married, June 2,
1925, to Gertrude Dana (1895-1982); granduncle of Lawrence
Kestenbaum. |
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Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. (1904-1987) —
also known as Henry R. Labouisse, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1904.
Son of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger)
Labouisse.
Lawyer;
U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1962-65.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1987
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Richardson Labouisse and Frances Devereux (Huger) Labouisse;
married, June 29,
1935, to Elizabeth Scriven Clark (died 1945); married, November
19, 1954, to Eve Curie. |
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Philip J. Lader (b. 1946) —
of Hilton Head Island, Beaufort
County, S.C.
Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March 17,
1946.
Lawyer;
candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1986; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1997-2001.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2001.
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George Walter Landau (b. 1920) —
also known as George W. Landau —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born March 4,
1920.
Son of J. A. Landau and Jeannette (Klausner) Landau.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1972-77; Chile, 1977-82; Venezuela, 1982-85.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) —
also known as Herbert H. Lehman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 28,
1878.
Son of Mayer Lehman (1830-1897) and Babette (Newgass) Lehman.
Democrat. Director, Consolidated Cotton Duck
Co., Imperial Cotton Co.,
U.S. Cotton
Duck Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World
War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1929-32; Governor of
New York, 1933-42; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Gamma Delta; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1963; inducted into the
Jewish-American Hall of
Fame in 1974.
Died December
5, 1963 (age 85 years, 252
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Orin Lehman (1920-2008) —
also known as "Father Nature" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
14, 1920.
Son of Allan Sigmund Lehman (1885-1952) and Evelyn 'Eve' (Schiffer)
Lehman (c.1892-1970).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; injured during
the Battle of the Bulge and lost a
leg; newspaper
publisher; chairman, Colgreen Broadcasting
Group, owner of radio
stations; founder, Just One Break, Inc., not-for-profit
employment service for people with disabilities; campaign manager, John
J. Burns for Lieutenant Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1966; producer
of several popular off-Broadway plays; New York State Commissioner of
Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, 1975-93.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on Foreign Relations; Urban
League; NAACP.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 2008 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Wilbert John LeMelle (b. 1931) —
also known as Wilbert J. LeMelle —
of New York.
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., November
11, 1931.
Son of Eloi Sabas LeMelle and Therese (Francis) LeMelle.
Democrat. University
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, 1977-80; Seychelles, 1977-80.
Catholic.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Council on Foreign
Relations.
Still living as of 1991.
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Relatives:
Married 1958
to Yvonne Tauriac. |
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Harold Francis Linder (1900-1981) —
of New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
13, 1900.
Son of William Linder and Florence (Strauss) Linder.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1968-69.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1981
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Vliet Lindsay (1921-2000) —
also known as John V. Lindsay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1921.
Son of George Nelson Lindsay and Eleanor (Vliet) Lindsay.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1959-65; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1960,
1964;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1966-73; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972;
candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1980.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease and pneumonia,
in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort
County, S.C., December
19, 2000 (age 79 years, 25
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Winston Lord (b. 1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August
14, 1937.
Son of Oswald Bates Lord and Mary (Pillsbury) Lord.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to China, 1985-89.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2002.
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H. Carl McCall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Member of New York
state senate 28th District, 1975-79; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
New York
state comptroller, 1993-; Presidential Elector for New York, 1996,
2000;
candidate in primary for Governor of
New York, 2002.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Still living as of 2008.
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Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903-1976) —
also known as Livingston T. Merchant —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
23, 1903.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1956-58, 1961-62.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1976
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George John Mitchell (b. 1933) —
also known as George J. Mitchell —
of South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
20, 1933.
Son of George John Mitchell and Mary (Saad) Mitchell.
Democrat. Lawyer; aide
to U.S. Sen. Edmund
Muskie, 1962-65; also deputy director of Muskie's
vice-presidential campaign in 1968, and presidential campaign in
1972; Maine
Democratic state chair, 1966-68; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1969-77; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1974; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1977-79; U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1979-80; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1980-95; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1996,
2000,
2004;
chairman, Walt
Disney Company (major movie
studio, operator of theme parks, and owner of the ABC television
network), 2004-07; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 2008.
Catholic.
Lebanese
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Jonathan Moore (b. 1932) —
of Weston, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
10, 1932.
Legislative assistant to U.S. Sen Leverett
Saltonstall; U.S. Ambassador to , 1986-89.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2000.
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Lithgow Osborne (1892-1980) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April 2,
1892.
Son of Thomas
Mott Osborne and Agnes (Devens) Osborne.
Democrat. Private secretary to U.S. Ambassador James
W. Gerard, 1915; newspaper
editor; candidate for New York
state assembly from Cayuga County, 1923; candidate for New York
state senate 42nd District, 1924; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1928;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 36th District, 1932; New York State
Conservation Commissioner, 1933; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938; U.S.
Ambassador to Norway, 1944-46.
Member, Audubon
Society; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1980
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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Claiborne de Borda Pell (1918-2009) —
also known as Claiborne Pell; "Senator
Oddball" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
22, 1918.
Son of Herbert
Claiborne Pell, Jr. and Matilda (Bigelow) Pell.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1964,
1996.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., January
1, 2009 (age 90 years, 40
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Maxwell M. Rabb (b. 1910) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
28, 1910.
Son of Solomon Rabb and Rose (Kostick) Rabb.
Republican. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1937-43, and U.S. Sen. Sinclair
Weeks, 1944; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1976,
1980;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89.
Jewish.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Laurence Ingram Radway (1919-2003) —
also known as Laurence Radway —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; West Lebanon, Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., February
2, 1919.
Son of Frederick Radway and Dorothy Radway.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; chair of
Grafton County Democratic Party, 1958-62; member of New Hampshire
Democratic State Committee, 1958-62; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1964,
1972
(alternate); candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1972.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Political Science Association; Council on Foreign
Relations.
Died, from complications
of abdominal
surgery, in Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H., May 7,
2003 (age 84 years, 94
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Verner Reed, Jr. (b. 1937) —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1937.
U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, 1981-85.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Ogden Rogers Reid (b. 1925) —
of New York.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 24,
1925.
Son of Ogden Mills Reid (1882-1947; newspaper publisher) and Helen
(Rogers) Reid.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Israel, 1959-61; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1963-75 (26th District 1963-73,
24th District 1973-75).
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) —
also known as Nelson A. Rockefeller;
"Rocky" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bar Harbor, Hancock
County, Maine, July 8,
1908.
Son of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960) and Abby (Aldrich)
Rockefeller (1874-1948).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); Governor of
New York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964,
1968;
Vice
President of the United States, 1974-77.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias.
Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Died, of a massive heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1979 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Pocantico
Hills Estate, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Nicholas Roosevelt (1893-1982) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 12,
1893.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1930-33.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1982
(age about
89 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Stuart Nash Scott (1906-1991) —
of New York.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., December
6, 1906.
U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1973-75.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1991
(age about
84 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Pratt Shultz (b. 1920) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Son of Birl E. Shultz and Margaret Lennox (Pratt) Shultz.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Survived an assassination
attempt in South America, August 1988; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Still living as of 2009.
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Elliott Percival Skinner (1924-2007) —
also known as Elliott P. Skinner —
Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
April
1, 1924.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
2007 (age 83 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966) —
also known as H. Alexander Smith —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
30, 1880.
Son of Dr. Abram Alexander Smith and Sue Lehn (Bender) Smith.
Republican. Lawyer; treasurer of
New Jersey Republican Party, 1934-41; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1940
(alternate), 1948,
1956;
New Jersey
Republican state chair, 1941-43; member of Republican
National Committee from New Jersey, 1942-44; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1944-59.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., October
27, 1966 (age 86 years, 270
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Gillian Martin Sorensen (b. 1941) —
also known as Gillian M. Sorensen; Gillian
Martin —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, March 4,
1941.
Daughter of John Butlin Martin and Helen (Hickam) Martin.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1976,
1984,
1988
(alternate); New York City Commissioner for the United Nations and
Consular Corps, 1978-80; President, National Conference of Christians
and Jews, 1990-93; Special Advisor for Public Policy to the Secretary
General of the United Nations, 1993-96; U.N. Assistant Secretary
General for External Relations, 1997-.
Female.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2002.
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Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (1928-2010) —
also known as Theodore C. Sorensen; Ted
Sorensen —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., May 8,
1928.
Son of Christian Abraham Sorensen and Annis (Chaikin) Sorensen.
Democrat. Lawyer;
special counsel to President John
F. Kennedy, 1961-63; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1970; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1984.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died in 2010
(age about
82 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Forward Stanton (1901-1968) —
also known as Edwin F. Stanton —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Milford, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Bouckville, Madison
County, N.Y., February
22, 1901.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Kalgan, 1924-26; U.S. Consul in Tsinan, 1927-29; Shanghai, 1938; Vancouver, 1945; U.S. Consul General in Vancouver, 1945; U.S. Minister to Thailand, 1946-47; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1947-53.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1968
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Milford
Cemetery, Milford, Conn.
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Phillips Talbot (b. 1915) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 7,
1915.
Son of Kenneth Hammet Talbot and Gertrude (Phillips) Talbot.
Newspaper
reporter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 1991.
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Cyrus Roberts Vance (1917-2002) —
also known as Cyrus R. Vance —
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., March 27,
1917.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1977-80.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1969.
Died, of Alzheimer's
disease, at Mt. Sinai Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 2002 (age 84 years, 291
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Jermiah Wadsworth (1905-1984) —
also known as James J. Wadsworth —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., June 12,
1905.
Son of James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. and Alice (Hay) Wadsworth.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1932-41; resigned 1941;
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1960-61; member, Federal Communications
Commission, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; United
World Federalists.
Died in 1984
(age about
79 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Benjamin Sumner Welles (1892-1961) —
also known as Sumner Welles —
of Oxon Hill, Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
14, 1892.
Son of Benjamin J. Welles (1857-1935) and Frances Wyeth (Swan) Welles
(1863-1911).
Democrat. U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1933; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maryland, 1936,
1940;
U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1937-43.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died September
24, 1961 (age 68 years, 345
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Woodruff Yost (1907-1981) —
also known as Charles W. Yost —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
6, 1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Alexandria, 1932; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Thailand, 1946; U.S. Minister to Laos, 1954-55; U.S. Ambassador to Laos, 1955-56; Syria, 1957-58; Morocco, 1958-61; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1969-71.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in 1981
(age about
73 years).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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