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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) —
also known as Anne Armstrong; Anne Legendre; Mrs.
Tobin Armstrong —
of Armstrong, Kenedy
County, Tex.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
27, 1927.
Daughter of Armant Legendre and Olive (Martindale) Legendre.
Republican. Member of Texas
Republican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964,
1968,
1972
(speaker);
vice-chair
of Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member of Republican
National Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1976-77; Presidential Elector for Texas, 1992.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Died, of cancer, in
a hospice
at Houston, Harris
County, Tex., July 30,
2008 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Richard Sheppard Arnold (1936-2004) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Texarkana, Bowie
County, Tex., March 26,
1936.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 4th District, 1966, 1972; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1968;
delegate
to Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1969-70; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, 1978-80; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 1978-80; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1980-2001; took senior
status 2001.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of lymphoma,
in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., September
23, 2004 (age 68 years, 181
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St.
Margaret's Episcopal Church Columbarium, Little Rock, Ark.
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Robert Lynn Batts (1864-1935) —
of Bastrop, Bastrop
County, Tex.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Bastrop, Bastrop
County, Tex., November
1, 1864.
Son of Andrew Jackson Batts and Julia (Rice) Batts.
Lawyer;
law
professor; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1917-19; resigned
1919; general counsel, Gulf Oil Corp.,
Gulf Refining Co.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died May 19,
1935 (age 70 years, 199
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Ramsey Beverley (1894-1967) —
also known as James R. Beverley —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Amarillo, Potter
County, Tex., June 15,
1894.
Son of William Beverley and Clara (Hendricks) Beverley.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1929, 1932-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons.
Died in June, 1967
(age about
73 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
19, 1870.
Daughter of Thomas Lindsay Blanton and Eugenia (Webb) Blanton.
Democrat. College
professor; Texas
superintendent of public instruction, 1919-23.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy; Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi; Pi
Lambda Theta; Pi Gamma
Mu; Delta
Kappa Gamma; Order of the
Eastern Star; Maccabees.
First
woman to be elected to statewide office in Texas.
Died October
2, 1945 (age 75 years, 44
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924) —
also known as George Bush; "Poppy";
"Sheepskin";
"Timberwolf" —
of Midland, Midland
County, Tex.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 12,
1924.
Son of Prescott
Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush (1901-1992).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Texas, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1964, 1970; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1967-71; U.S.
Representative to United Nations, 1971-73; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1973-74; U.S. Liaison to China, 1974-75; director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
1976-77; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1980;
Vice
President of the United States, 1981-89; President
of the United States, 1989-93; defeated, 1992.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Skull and
Bones; Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Relatives: First
cousin thrice removed of David
Davis; son of Prescott
Sheldon Bush and Dorothy (Walker) Bush (1901-1992); married, January
6, 1945, to Barbara Pierce; father of George
Walker Bush and John
Ellis Bush. See Bush
family of Massachusetts. |
| | | Cross-reference: Caspar
W. Weinberger — John
H. Sununu — Don
Evans — James
C. Oberwetter |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by George H. W. Bush: All
The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
(1999) — Looking
Forward (1987) — A
World Transformed (1998) |
| | | Books about George H. W. Bush: John
Robert Greene, The
Presidency of George Bush — Tim O'Shei & Joe Marren,
George
H. W. Bush (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about George H. W. Bush:
Kevin Phillips, American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the
House of Bush — Kitty Kelly, The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty |
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Robert Granville Caldwell (b. 1882) —
of Texas; Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, August
31, 1882.
Son of Milton Etsil Caldwell and Susanna (Adams) Caldwell.
Democrat. College
professor; historian;
U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1933-37; Bolivia, 1937-39.
Member, American
Historical Association; Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1915
to Edith Jones. |
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George Clifton Edwards, Jr. (1914-1995) —
also known as George Edwards —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., August 6,
1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1949; probate judge in Michigan, 1951-54; circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1954-56; appointed 1954; resigned
1956; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1956-62; appointed 1956; resigned
1962; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1963-.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa
Sigma; Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
American
Judicature Society.
Died in 1995
(age about
80 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Michael Ference, Jr. (1911-1996) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Whiting, Lake
County, Ind., November
6, 1911.
Democrat. University
professor; scientist;
vice-president for research, Ford Motor
Company; member of Wayne State
University board of governors, 1960-63; defeated, 1963.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 24,
1996 (age 84 years, 261
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hampson Gary (1873-1952) —
of Tyler, Smith
County, Tex.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Tyler, Smith
County, Tex., April 23,
1873.
Son of Franklin Newman Gary and Martha Isabella (Boren) Gary.
Democrat. Lawyer;
vice-president, Royall National Bank;
director, Guaranty State Bank;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1901-02; member of Texas
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1902-04; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1908;
U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1917; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1919-20; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1920-21.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha
Tau Omega; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died April 18,
1952 (age 78 years, 361
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. (1938-2003) —
also known as Maynard H. Jackson;
"Buzzy" —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., March 23,
1938.
Son of Maynard Jackson, Sr. and Irene Dobbs Jackson.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1968; mayor of
Atlanta, Ga., 1974-82, 1990-94; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1976,
1980,
1996,
2000;
Presidential Elector for Georgia, 1992;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1993.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi Beta Kappa.
Collapsed (heart
attack) after getting off a plane at Reagan National Airport,
and died soon after, at Virginia Medical
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., June 23,
2003 (age 65 years, 92
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Samuel Winfield Lewis (b. 1930) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., October
1, 1930.
Son of Samuel Winfield Lewis and Sue Roselle (Hurley) Lewis.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Florence, 1955-59; U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Crews McGhee (1912-2005) —
also known as George C. McGhee —
of Texas.
Born in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., March 10,
1912.
Rhodes
scholar; geologist;
oil
producer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Turkey, 1952-53; Germany, 1963-68; , 1968-69.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Loudoun Hospital
Center, Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., July 4,
2005 (age 93 years, 116
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Covey Thomas Oliver (1913-2007) —
Born in Laredo, Webb
County, Tex., 1913.
University
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1964-66.
Member, American
Society for International Law; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
Died, of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, near Easton, Talbot
County, Md., February
22, 2007 (age about 93
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Barbara Hauer. |
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Samuel Irving Rosenman (1896-1973) —
also known as Samuel I. Rosenman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., February
13, 1896.
Son of Solomon Rosenman and Ethel (Paler) Rosenman.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1922-26; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1934-43; resigned 1943;
special counsel to presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry
Truman, 1943-46.
Jewish.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in 1973
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Morris Sheppard (1875-1941) —
of Texarkana, Bowie
County, Tex.
Born in Wheatville, Morris
County, Tex., May 28,
1875.
Son of John
Levi Sheppard.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1902-13 (4th District 1902-03, 1st
District 1903-13); U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1913-41; died in office 1941.
Methodist.
Member, Woodmen;
Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died April 9,
1941 (age 65 years, 316
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
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Ashbel Smith (1805-1886) —
also known as "The Father of Texas
Medicine" —
of Salisbury, Rowan
County, N.C.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., August
13, 1805.
Democrat. Texas Republic Charge d'Affaires to England and France,
1842-44; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1845; served in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1855, 1866, 1879; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Texas, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Physician. Negotiated the Smith-Cuevas treaty in 1845, in which
Mexico recognized Texas independence.
Died in Harris
County, Tex., January
21, 1886 (age 80 years, 161
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Herbert John Spiro (b. 1924) —
also known as Herbert Spiro —
of Washington,
D.C.; Texas.
Born in Hamburg, Germany,
September
7, 1924.
Son of Albert John Spiro and Marianne (Stiefel) Spiro.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Army during
World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, 1975; Equatorial Guinea, 1975; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 1992; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1993.
Member, American
Association of University Professors; Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 1993.
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Relatives:
Married, June 7,
1958, to Elizabeth Anna Petersen. |
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Henry M. Wade (1914-2001) —
also known as "The Chief" —
of Texas.
Born in Rockwall
County, Tex., November
11, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Dallas
County District Attorney, 1951-86; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 5th District, 1956.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
As District Attorney, he prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 for the murder
of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John
F. Kennedy. Also in his role as District Attorney, he was the
named defendant in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion
decision, Roe v. Wade. The Henry Wade Juvenile Center in Dallas is
named
for him.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., March 1,
2001 (age 86 years, 110
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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