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Thomas Harry Barton (1881-1960) —
also known as Thomas H. Barton; T. H.
Barton —
of El Dorado, Union
County, Ark.
Born in Marlin, Falls
County, Tex., September
20, 1881.
Son of Thomas Killebrew Barton and Mary Estelle (Johnson) Barton.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; one of the
founders of the Natural Gas and
Fuel Corporation; president and director of Lion Oil Company;
owner of radio and television stations; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arkansas, 1940;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Arkansas, 1940; candidate in primary for
U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1944.
Member, Newcomen
Society; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died December
24, 1960 (age 79 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington
Memorial Park, El Dorado, Ark.
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Henry Bonilla (b. 1954) —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
2, 1954.
Son of Enrique Bonilla and Anita Bonilla.
Republican. Journalist;
television reporter; U.S.
Representative from Texas 23rd District, 1993-.
Baptist.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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John Burroughs (1907-1978) —
of Portales, Roosevelt
County, N.M.
Born in Robert Lee, Coke
County, Tex., April 7,
1907.
Son of James Burroughs and Amertius (Ashley) Burroughs.
Democrat. School
teacher; petroleum
salesman; proprietor, cotton oil mill and peanut mill; president,
Portales Valley Mills (peanuts);
president, Cisco Peanut Co.;
president, Plains Broadcasting Co.; member of New Mexico
state house of representatives, 1957; Governor of
New Mexico, 1959-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Mexico, 1960.
Died May 21,
1978 (age 71 years, 44
days).
Interment at Portales
Cemetery, Portales, N.M.
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Emanuel Cleaver II (b. 1944) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Waxahachie, Ellis
County, Tex., October
26, 1944.
Democrat. Pastor;
radio show host; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1991-99; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1996
(speaker),
2004,
2008;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Missouri, 2004; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 2005-.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Oveta Culp Hobby (1905-1995) —
also known as Oveta Culp —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Killeen, Bell
County, Tex., January
19, 1905.
Daughter of I. W. Culp and Emma (Hoover) Culp.
Democrat. Served in Women's Army Corps in World War II; president,
editor and publisher of Houston Post newspaper;
director, radio station KPRC; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1953-55; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Junior
League.
Died, from a stroke, in
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
16, 1995 (age 90 years, 209
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison (b. 1943) —
also known as Kay Bailey Hutchison; Kathryn Ann Bailey;
Kay Parks —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., July 22,
1943.
Republican. Banker;
television journalist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988
(alternate), 2008;
Texas
state treasurer, 1991; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1993-.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Vann M. Kennedy (born c.1905) —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.; Corpus Christi, Nueces
County, Tex.
Born about 1905.
Democrat. Secretary of
Texas Democratic Party, 1937; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1940,
1948,
1952,
1956.
Owner and operator of television and radio stations.
Still living as of 2002.
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Harry Mayhew McAdams (1916-2008) —
also known as Harry M. McAdams —
of Hobbs, Lea
County, N.M.
Born in Lorena, McLennan
County, Tex., August
12, 1916.
Son of William Rufus McAdams and Violet (Hutchinson) McAdams.
Democrat. School
teacher; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
president and general manager, radio station KWEW, Hobbs,
N.M.; president, Triple M Mining
Company; member of New Mexico
state senate, 1971-82 (19th District 1971-72, 41st District
1973-82).
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died January
5, 2008 (age 91 years, 146
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk show in
1995-2003, and is a television commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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James Jarrell Pickle (1913-2005) —
also known as J. J. 'Jake' Pickle —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Roscoe, Nolan
County, Tex., October
11, 1913.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; one of the
founders of radio station KVET, in Austin, Texas; U.S.
Representative from Texas 10th District, 1963-95.
Methodist.
Died June 18,
2005 (age 91 years, 250
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990) —
of Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex.; Buford, Rio Blanco
County, Colo.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
23, 1910.
Son of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; investigated
and called to testify by a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1947 over lavish
entertainment in Hollywood and Manhattan, many paid
escorts, and paid hotel
bills provided to Roosevelt and others, in a successful effort to
persuade them to recommend Hughes reconnaissance aircraft for
purchase by the U.S. military;
owned a radio station in Texas; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Colorado, 1960;
mayor
of Miami Beach, Fla., 1965-69.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
27, 1990 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Second cousin five times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; second great-grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; great-grandnephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandnephew of Theodore
Roosevelt; son of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt; first cousin once removed of Alice
Lee Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; brother of James
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.; married, January
16, 1932, to Elizabeth Browning Donner (divorced 1933); married,
July
22, 1933, to Ruth Josephine Googins (divorced 1944); married, December
3, 1944, to Faye Margaret Emerson (divorced 1950); married, March 15,
1951, to Minnewa (Bell) Gray Burnside Ross (divorced 1960);
married, November
3, 1960, to Patricia (Peabody) Whithead. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
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article |
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Della Tovrea Stuart (1888-1969) —
also known as Della Gillespie; Della Tovrea; Mrs. E.
A. Tovrea; Mrs. William P. Stuart —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz.
Born in Blanco, Blanco
County, Tex., October
8, 1888.
Daughter of James Steele Gillespie and Irene (Anderson) Gillespie.
Democrat. Auditor;
director and vice-president, Tovrea Packing Co.,
1919-46; president, Central Arizona Broadcasting Co., 1937-44;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arizona, 1936;
member of Arizona
Democratic State Central Committee, 1940; member of Democratic
National Committee from Arizona, 1940-56.
Female.
Quaker.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Died January
17, 1969 (age 80 years, 101
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of James Steele Gillespie and Irene (Anderson) Gillespie;
married, December
18, 1906, to Edward A. Tovrea (died 1932); married, November
16, 1936, to William P. Stuart. |
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