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Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) —
also known as Leonard D. Abbott —
Born in Liverpool, England,
May
20, 1878.
Son of Lewis Lowe Abbott.
Social Democratic candidate for New York
state treasurer, 1900; writer; editor.
English
ancestry.
Died, in Montefiore Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., March 19,
1953 (age 74 years, 303
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison.
Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Norwood Francis Allman (1893-1987) —
also known as Norwood F. Allman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Port Charlotte, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va., July 24,
1893.
Son of John Isaac Allman and Nannie Kate (English) Allman.
Lawyer;
interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Antung, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Tientsin, 1918-19; Tsinanfu, 1919-21; Shanghai, 1921; Chungking, 1921; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1922-24.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., February
28, 1987 (age 93 years, 219
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1920
to Mary Louise Hamilton. |
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Adam Badeau (1831-1895) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
29, 1831.
Son of Nicholas Badeau.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General
in London, 1870-81; Havana, 1882-84; author; historian.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Ridgewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March 19,
1895 (age 63 years, 80
days).
Interment at Dutch
Reformed Churchyard, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ogunquit, Wells, York
County, Maine.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 27,
1862.
Son of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs.
Democrat. Magazine
editor; author; playwright; candidate for mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1894; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in City Hospital,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., January
21, 1922 (age 59 years, 239
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs; married, March 3,
1886, to Agnes Lawson Hyde; married, April 27,
1904, to Mary Blakeney Gray. |
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Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., October
14, 1846.
Son of William Osborne Bartlett (prominent lawyer) and Agnes E. H.
(Willard) Bartlett.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Elihu
Root, 1869-83 and 1917-24; drama critic; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1884-1906; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1896-1906; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1906-16; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1913-16.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
17, 1925 (age 78 years, 95
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Osborne Bartlett (prominent lawyer) and Agnes E. H.
(Willard) Bartlett; married, October
26, 1870, to Mary Fairbanks Buffum; brother of Franklin
Bartlett. |
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August 5,
1886.
Son of Rev. William E. Barton and Esther Treat (Bushnell) Barton.
Republican. Author; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) —
also known as S. G. W. Benjamin —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born, of American parents, at Argos, Greece,
February
13, 1837.
Son of Nathan B. Benjamin (missionary) and Mary Gladding (Wheeler)
Benjamin (poet).
Librarian;
author; artist; U.S.
Minister to Persia, 1883-85.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Forestry Association; Navy
League.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., July 19,
1914 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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David Paul Berenberg (1890-1974) —
also known as David P. Berenberg; David
Paul —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Bethlehem, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born March 17,
1890.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1918, 1923;
candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1922, 1924.
Columnist for "The Socialist Call" newspaper
in 1935, under the pseudonym "David Paul".
Died March 7,
1974 (age 83 years, 355
days).
Interment somewhere
in Easton, Pa.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose Zwickel. |
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Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) —
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1876.
Son of David Bernstein and Marie (Elsohn) Bernstein.
Author; translator; journalist;
founder and editor of The Day, Jewish daily newspaper;
published the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," secret telegrams between
the Kaiser and the Czar, 1918; sued Henry
Ford for libel over anti-Semitic statements published in the
Dearborn Independent newspaper, and won a retraction; author of book
The History of a Lie (1921) which exposed "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" as fraudulent; U.S. Minister to Albania, 1930-33.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Zionist
Organization of America.
Died in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
31, 1935 (age 58 years, 344
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Bigelow (1817-1911) —
of Highland Falls, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Malden, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
25, 1817.
Son of Asa Bigelow and Lucy (Isham) Bigelow.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; author; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1861-64; U.S. Minister to France, 1865-66; secretary of
state of New York, 1876-77; executor of the estate of Samuel
J. Tilden.
Swedenborgian.
English
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder
ailment, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1911 (age 94 years, 24
days).
Interment at Peacedale
Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Orlo Marion Brees (1896-1980) —
also known as Orlo M. Brees —
of Endicott, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, Fulton
County, Ill., April 13,
1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor; printing
business; author; lecturer;
poet; member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 2nd District, 1941-52; member
of New
York state senate 45th District, 1952.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in November, 1980
(age 84
years, 0 days).
Interment somewhere
in Peoria, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married 1933
to Frances W. Freeman. |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Son of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman.
Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1948, 1954; editor-in-chief
of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer under several
different pen names; Socialist Workers candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan, 1960,
1964.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 19,
1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) —
also known as Harry Browne —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nassau
County, N.Y., June 17,
1933.
Son of Edson Bradford Browne and Cecil Margaret (Davis) Browne.
Libertarian. Writer; investment
advisor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000; radio show
host, 2003.
Agnostic.
Died, of Lou
Gehrig's disease, in Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., March 1,
2006 (age 72 years, 257
days).
Interment at Mt.
Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C.
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William Frank Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Son of William Frank Buckley, Sr. (1881-1958) and Aloise (Steiner)
Buckley.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull and
Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. (1881-1958) and Aloise (Steiner)
Buckley; brother of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor (1926-2007). See Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel (1978) — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1981) —
Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1976) — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery
(1985) — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1991) — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1990) — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1994) —
High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1986) — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1980) — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy
(1999) |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the
Conservatives |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Vivian Burnett (1876-1937) —
of Denver,
Colo.; Plandome Manor, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Paris, France,
April
5, 1876.
Son of Swan Moses Burnett (1847-1906) and Frances Eliza (Hodgson)
Burnett (1854-1924).
Newspaper
reporter; author; editor; music
composer; Dry candidate for delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Christian
Scientist.
Model for the title character in his mother's book, Little Lord
Fauntleroy.
While sailing his
yawl, Delight III, he helped rescue people from an
overturned sailboat, and then collapsed and died, probably of a heart
attack, on Long Island
Sound, July 25,
1937 (age 61 years, 111
days).
Interment at Roslyn
Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y.
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Daniel Evan Button (1917-2009) —
of New York.
Born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., November
1, 1917.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1967-71.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March 7,
2009 (age 91 years, 126
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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John Curtis Chamberlain (1772-1834) —
also known as "The Hermit" —
of Alstead, Cheshire
County, N.H.; Charlestown, Sullivan
County, N.H.; Honeoye Falls, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 5,
1772.
Lawyer;
poet; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1802-04, 1818; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1809-11.
Died in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
8, 1834 (age 62 years, 186
days).
Interment at Mt.
Albion Cemetery, Albion, N.Y.
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William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) —
also known as William A. Chanler —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Paris, France.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 11,
1867.
Son of John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler (1838-1875).
Democrat. Explorer;
author; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a
lower leg.
Died in Mentone (Menton), France,
March
4, 1934 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Son of Albert King Chapin (1850-1908) and Emily A. (Schenck) Chapin.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ellen Chesler —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Writer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1984.
Female.
Still living as of 1984.
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Relatives:
Married to Matthew J. Mallow. |
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Son of William
Cooper.
Novelist; U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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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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George William Curtis (b. 1824) —
also known as George W. Curtis —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., February
24, 1824.
Republican. Author; orator;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1860,
1884;
principal editor, Harper's Weekly; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1867; Presidential
Elector for New York, 1868.
Burial
location unknown.
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Solon De Leon (1883-1975) —
also known as Braset Marteau; Bert Grant —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
2, 1883.
Son of Daniel
De Leon.
Writer; college
teacher; Socialist Labor candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911.
Died in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., December
3, 1975 (age 92 years, 92
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Forrest Dillon (1831-1914) —
also known as John F. Dillon —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born in Washington
County, Iowa, December
25, 1831.
Lawyer;
law
professor; author; district judge in Iowa 7th District,
1859-63; justice of
Iowa state supreme court, 1864-69; chief
justice of Iowa state supreme court, 1867-69; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1870-79.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1914 (age 82 years, 131
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Iowa.
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Relatives:
Married to Anna Price (died 1898; daughter of Hiram
Price). |
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried and
convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Son of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
Lawyer;
writer; poet; reformer and woman suffrage advocate;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service
Commission, 1901-03; newspaper
editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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Al Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Alan Stuart Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Son of Joseph P. Franken and Phoebe (Kunst) Franken.
Comedian;
author; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2009.
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Barbara Garson (b. 1941) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 7,
1941.
Socialist. Playwright; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1992.
Female.
Still living as of 1992.
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Henry George (1839-1897) —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
2, 1839.
Candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886.
Author of Progress and Poverty.
Died October
29, 1897 (age 58 years, 57
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Bernard Gotlieb (b. 1893) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born November
7, 1893.
Son of Maurice H. Gotlieb (born 1868) and Rebecca (Wolff) Gotlieb.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, 1915-17; Cairo, 1919-21; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1921-24; Halifax, 1924-26; Singapore, 1926-27; Wellington, 1929-32; Trieste, 1938; Santiago de Cuba, 1943; Windsor, 1947.
Jewish.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Ralph Waldo Gwinn (1884-1962) —
also known as Ralph W. Gwinn —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., March 29,
1884.
Son of John Harvey Gwinn and Edith (Harvey) Gwinn.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1945-59; defeated,
1940, 1942.
Methodist
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, in Delray Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
27, 1962 (age 77 years, 335
days).
Interment at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Son of Alpheus Hardy and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy.
Civil
engineer; college
professor; author; editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March 14,
1930 (age 82 years, 213
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) —
also known as Francis Brett Hart —
of London, England.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., August
25, 1836.
Son of Henry Hart and Elizabeth (Ostrander) Hart.
Writer; editor; U.S. Consul in Crefeld, 1878-80; Glasgow, 1880-85.
English
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Camberley, England,
May 2,
1902 (age 65 years, 250
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England.
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Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1882-1964) —
also known as Carlton J. H. Hayes —
of New York.
Born near Afton, Chenango
County, N.Y., May 16,
1882.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; historian; U.S.
Ambassador to Spain, 1942-45.
Catholic.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died, of a heart
ailment, at Sidney Hospital,
Afton, Chenango
County, N.Y., September
3, 1964 (age 82 years, 110
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Son of Rev. Daniel T. Hill and Lydia Ann (Thompson) Hill.
Historian; president,
Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
Son of William Cooper Howells and Mary (Dean) Howells.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author; editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1783.
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1842-46.
essayist; historian; author of The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and other stories; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
28, 1859 (age 76 years, 239
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Jay II (1817-1894) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 23,
1817.
Son of William
Jay.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Austria, 1869-75; historian.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1894 (age 76 years, 316
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
Son of James Johnson and Helen Louise (Dillet) Johnson.
School
principal; author; lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma Pi
Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) —
also known as Owen Johnson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1878.
Son of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson.
Democrat. Author; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1936, 1938.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., January
27, 1952 (age 73 years, 153
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson; married, May 23,
1901, to Mary Galt Stockly (died 1911); married, February
1, 1912, to Esther Ellen Cobb (singer, known as Mme. Cobina;
divorced 1917); married, July 2,
1917, to Cecile Denis de la Garde (died 1918); married, January
20, 1921, to Catherine Sayre Burton (died 1923); married, January
31, 1926, to Gertrude (Bovee) Le Boutillier. |
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Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 1853.
Son of Nimrod H. Johnson and Catherine C. (Underwood) Johnson.
Author; poet; Editor, Century Magazine,
1909-13; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1920-21.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
14, 1937 (age 84 years, 275
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Kent (1763-1847) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Doansburg, Putnam
County, N.Y., July 31,
1763.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1790-91, 1792-93, 1796-97 (Dutchess County
1790-91, 1792-93, New York County 1796-97); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1793; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1798.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Author of Commentaries on American Law, the first
comprehensive treatment of the subject. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1847 (age 84 years, 134
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fishkill, N.Y.
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August 7,
1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper
columnist; radio talk
show host.
Still living as of 2009.
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Edgar Kopp (b. 1885) —
of New York.
Born in Amoy (Xiamen), China,
February
28, 1885.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; interpreter; U.S. Vice & Deputy
Consul in Tsingtao, 1909-11.
Burial
location unknown.
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Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (1882-1947) —
also known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia; "The Little
Flower" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
11, 1882.
Son of Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and Irene Coen.
Republican. U.S. Consular Agent in Fiume, 1904-06; interpreter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1917-19, 1923-33 (14th District
1917-19, 20th District 1923-33); defeated, 1914; major in the U.S.
Army during World War I; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1920,
1928
(alternate), 1932
(alternate); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1934-45; defeated, 1921, 1929.
Episcopalian.
Italian
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y., is named for
him.
Died of pancreatic
cancer, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., September
20, 1947 (age 64 years, 283
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Harry Wellington Laidler (1884-1970) —
also known as Harry W. Laidler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
18, 1884.
Son of William Ebenezer Laidler and Julia (Heary) Laidler.
Socialist. Newspaper
reporter; author; economist;
one of the founders (along with Upton
Sinclair and others) of the League for Industrial Democracy
(originally Intercollegiate Socialist Society); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1920 (3rd District), 1932 (6th
District); candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1923; candidate
for New
York state senate 6th District, 1928; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1930; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1936; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1938.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Chi.
Died July 14,
1970 (age 86 years, 146
days).
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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William R. Lieberman (b. 1909) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 23,
1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer for the Wall Street Journal newspaper,
1926-29; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1934;
defeated, 1934.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Alice Lee
Roosevelt; "Princess Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940;
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884);
married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; first cousin of Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 10,
1903.
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.).
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.);
step-daughter of Albert
Elmer Austin; married, August
10, 1923, to George Tuttle Brokaw (1879-1935; divorced 1929);
married, November
23, 1935, to Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967; founder and
publisher of Time, Life, and other magazines); mother
of Ann Clare Brokaw (1924-1944; killed in an automobile accident in
Palo Alto, Calif.). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Clare Boothe Luce: Sylvia
Morris, Rage
for Fame : The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce — Stephen
C. Shadegg, Clare
Boothe Luce: a biography — Joseph Lyons, Clare
Boothe Luce: Author and Diplomat (for young
readers) |
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist, magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter, director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
in New York City, 1954-55; arrested
and jailed in
1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Donald Martin Mankiewicz (b. 1922) —
also known as Don M. Mankiewicz —
of East Norwich, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
January
30, 1922.
Son of Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897-1953).
Democrat. Screenwriter for dozens of television
shows; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1960
(alternate), 1972;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Still living as of 2010.
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Malachy Gerard McCourt (b. 1931) —
also known as Malachy McCourt —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
20, 1931.
Green. Actor;
writer; candidate for Governor of
New York, 2006.
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Joseph V. McKee (1889-1956) —
also known as "Holy Joe" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August 8,
1889.
School
teacher; lawyer;
author; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1918-23; municipal
judge in New York, 1924-26; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1932; defeated, 1932, 1933 (Recovery);
elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 23rd District, 1938.
Died January
28, 1956 (age 66 years, 173
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Carl D. Meinhardt —
of New York.
Born in New York.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1916-17; Canton, 1917-19; Changsha, 1921-24; U.S. Consul in Changsha, 1926; Shanghai, 1927-29; Tsinan, 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Parker Moffat (b. 1866) —
also known as Thomas P. Moffat —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., April 7,
1866.
Accountant;
poet; U.S. Consul in Turks Island, 1903-05; La Guaira, 1905-08; Trinidad, 1909; Bluefields, 1909-11; Managua, 1911; U.S. Vice Consul in Trinidad, 1908-09; U.S. Consul General in Singapore, 1911; New York leader of the Frank
O. Lowden for President campaign, 1928.
In 1908, when the Venezuelan government was denying an outbreak of
plague in La Guaira, and jailing doctors who diagnosed bubonic
plague, he alone among the foreign consuls refused to sign the
government's declaration that the city was plague-free. After a
quarantine was imposed, he rowed five miles out to sea to meet an
American gunboat.
Burial
location unknown.
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Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) —
also known as Dorothy Stecker —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1905.
Democrat. Writer; photographer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1948.
Female.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Urban
League.
Died in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 12,
1997 (age about 91
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Oneal (1875-1962) —
also known as Jim Oneal —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Indiana; Massachusetts; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 13,
1875.
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from New York, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1920 (10th District), 1922 (7th
District), 1926 (2nd District), 1928 (7th District), 1931 (9th
District), 1932 (2nd District); candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1922, 1923;
candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1924; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1925, 1933.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
12, 1962 (age 87 years, 274
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) —
also known as Robert D. Owen —
of New Harmony, Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
November
9, 1801.
Democrat. Farmer;
author; newspaper
editor; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-39, 1851-52; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Indiana, 1840;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1843-47; defeated,
1839, 1847; Presidential Elector for Indiana, 1848;
delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Two Sicilies, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Two Sicilies, 1854-58.
Scottish
and Welsh
ancestry.
Aided his father in the establishment of the New Harmony social
experiment.
Died in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., June 24,
1877 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Village
Cemetery, Lake George, N.Y.; reinterment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright; author of the lines which were later adapted as
the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922) —
of Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, April 23,
1855.
Son of Daniel Penfield and Sophia (Young) Penfield.
Author; U.S. Vice Consul in London, 1885; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1893-97; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1893-97; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1913-17.
Died June 19,
1922 (age 67 years, 57
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Penfield and Sophia (Young) Penfield; married 1892 to
Katharine Albert McMurdo Welles (died 1905); married 1908 to Anne
(Weightman) Walker. |
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Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901) —
also known as Gilbert A. Pierce —
of Porter
County, Ind.; Illinois; North Dakota; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
11, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
editor; author; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1869; Governor of
Dakota Territory, 1884-86; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1893.
Died at the Lexington Hotel,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
15, 1901 (age 62 years, 35
days).
Interment at Adams
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner;
lawyer;
went to
the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist;
writer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Denson Sayers (1888-1957) —
also known as James D. Sayers —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Summerfield, Claiborne
Parish, La., March 17,
1888.
Son of David Joel Sayers (1841-1888) and Emma Missouri (Sayers)
Sayers (1852-1906).
Socialist. Telegraph
operator; editor; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Texas, 1920; candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1932.
Died December
26, 1957 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Eda Eugenia Martin (born 1895). |
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Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (1877-1955) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
2, 1877.
Son of Katherine Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler (1842-1914) and
Montgomery Schuyler (1843-1914).
Author; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1904-06; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1913; Salvador, 1921-25; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
stockbroker;
banker.
Episcopalian.
Died November
1, 1955 (age 78 years, 60
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Irving Sirovich (1882-1939) —
also known as William I. Sirovich —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., March 18,
1882.
Son of Jacob Sirovich and Rose (Weinstock) Sirovich.
Physician;
playwright; Independence League candidate for New York
state treasurer, 1908, 1910; superintendent, Peoples Hospital,
1911-29; president, Industrial National Bank; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1927-39; defeated
(Democratic), 1924; died in office 1939.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of a heart
attack, while taking a bath at home, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1939 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939) —
of Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1875.
Republican. University
professor; poet; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1908; chairman,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
1913-39; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Jewish.
Member, NAACP.
Died July 26,
1939 (age 64 years, 70
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Morey Stuart (b. 1883) —
also known as William M. Stuart —
of Canisteo, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Cameron town, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 7,
1883.
Republican. School
teacher; postmaster;
author; member of New York
state assembly, 1937-52 (Steuben County 2nd District 1937-44,
Steuben County 1945-52).
Presbyterian.
Member, Grange; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Boyd Thacher (1847-1909) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Ballston, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
11, 1847.
Son of George
Hornell Thacher.
Owner of Thacher Carwheel Company, makers of wheels for railroad
cars; author; historian; member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1884-85; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1886-88, 1896-97.
Died February
25, 1909 (age 61 years, 167
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) —
also known as Albion W. Tourgee —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.; Denver,
Colo.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Mayville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, May 2,
1838.
Son of Louisa Emma (Winegar) Tourgee and Valentine Tourgee
(1814-1889).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868, 1875;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1878; author; U.S.
Consul in Bordeaux, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
French
Huguenot and Swiss
ancestry.
Died, of acute
uremia, due to an infected
wound, in Bordeaux, France,
May
21, 1905 (age 67 years, 19
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mayville
Cemetery, Mayville, N.Y.
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Edward Waterman Townsend (1855-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Townsend —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1855.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1911-15 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-15); defeated, 1926.
Author of a number of novels and books of short stories.
Died in 1942
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. (b. 1925) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Son of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina
Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1960; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
novelist, playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Still living as of 2009.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March 16,
1822.
Son of Israel
Washburn.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); Presidential Elector for California, 1860;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist; invented
an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Post Wheeler (1869-1956) —
also known as Post Wheeler —
Born in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., August 6,
1869.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1930-33; Albania, 1933-34; poet.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in 1956
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.
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