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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907).
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor General,
1890-92; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1892-1900; law
professor; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull and
Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907); half-brother of
Charles
Phelps Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen 'Nellie' Herron (1861-1943; granddaughter of Ela
Collins; niece of William
Collins; daughter of John
Williamson Herron); brother of Henry
Waters Taft; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft, Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft II. See Taft
family of Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) —
also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K.";
"Lancer" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1917.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
received a 1957 Pulitzer
Prize for his book Profiles in Courage; President
of the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; American
Legion; Elks.
Shot
by a sniper,
Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding in a
motorcade, and died in Parkland Hospital,
Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
22, 1963 (age 46 years, 177
days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
Kennedy was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963. His portrait appears on the U.S. half
dollar (50
cent coin).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995);
brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy (who married Virginia
Joan Bennett); married, September
12, 1953, to Jacqueline Lee 'Jackie' Bouvier (step-daughter of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; step-sister of Eugene
Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. and Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III); step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore
Auchincloss (who married Newton
Ivan Steers, Jr.); uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who married Arnold
Alois Schwarzenegger), Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-); father of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.. See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: John
B. Connally — Henry
B. Gonzalez — Henry M.
Wade — Walter
Rogers — Gerry
E. Studds — James
B. McCahey, Jr. — Mark
Dalton — Waggoner
Carr — Theodore
C. Sorensen — Pierre
Salinger — John
Bartlow Martin |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books by John F. Kennedy: Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Books about John F. Kennedy:
Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, JFK
: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek, An
Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — Michael
O'Brien, John
F. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage, JFK,
LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke, Ask
Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed
America — Thomas Reeves, A
Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —
Shelley Sommer, John
F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:
Seymour Hersh, The
Dark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow, The
Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:
Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky, JFK:
the Man and the Myth |
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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) —
also known as William J. Bryan; "The Great
Commoner"; "The Peerless Leader";
"The Silver-Tongued Orator"; "The Boy Orator
of the Platte"; "The Niagaric
Nebraskan" —
of Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill.; Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Salem, Marion
County, Ill., March 19,
1860.
Son of Silas
Lillard Bryan and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan (1834-1896).
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 1st District, 1891-95; candidate for
President
of the United States, 1896, 1900, 1908; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Nebraska, 1904,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1920;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1913-15; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1924.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Pi; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Dayton, Rhea
County, Tenn., July 26,
1925 (age 65 years, 129
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Silas
Lillard Bryan and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan (1834-1896);
married, October
1, 1884, to Mary Elizabeth Baird (1860-1930); cousin of William
Sherman Jennings; brother of Charles
Wayland Bryan and Mary Elizabeth Bryan (1873-1962; who married Thomas
Stinson Allen); father of Ruth
Bryan Owen; grandfather of Helen
Rudd Brown. See Bryan-Jennings
family of Illinois. |
| | | Cross-reference: Clarence
S. Darrow — Willis
J. Abbot |
| | | Bryan County,
Okla. is named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
J. Bryan Jarvis
— W.
J. Bryan Dorn
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| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "Sixteen to
one." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about William Jennings Bryan:
Robert W. Cherny, A
Righteous Cause : The Life of William Jennings Bryan —
Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 1: Political Evangelist,
1860-1908 — Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 2: Progressive Politician and Moral Statesman,
1909-1915 — Paolo E. Coletta, William
Jennings Bryan, Vol. 3: Political Puritan, 1915-1925 —
Michael Kazin, A
Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan |
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Walter Quintin Gresham (1832-1895) —
also known as Walter Q. Gresham —
of Indiana.
Born near Lanesville, Harrison
County, Ind., March 17,
1832.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1866, 1868; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1868;
U.S.
District Judge for Indiana, 1869-83; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1883-84; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1884; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1884-93; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1895 (age 63 years, 72
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Brinton McClellan (1865-1940) —
also known as George B. McClellan —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dresden, Saxony (now Germany)
of American parents, November
23, 1865.
Son of George
Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) and Ellen (Marcy) McClellan.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1895-1903; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1904-09; university
professor; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Loyal
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died November
30, 1940 (age 75 years, 7
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William O'Dwyer (1890-1964) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland,
July
11, 1890.
Democrat. Lawyer; Kings
County District Attorney; county judge in New York, 1937-40;
general in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1946-50; defeated, 1941; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1948;
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1950-52.
Died in a hospital
at New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1964 (age 74 years, 136
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Hubbs Rehnquist (1924-2005) —
also known as William H. Rehnquist; William Donald
Rehnquist —
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
1, 1924.
Son of William Benjamin Rehnquist and Margery (Peck) Rehnquist.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1972-86; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1986-2005; died in office 2005.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Died September
3, 2005 (age 80 years, 337
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Worth Belknap (1829-1890) —
also known as William W. Belknap —
of Iowa.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., September
22, 1829.
Son of William Goldsmith Belknap (Mexican War general) and Ann
(Clark) Belknap.
Lawyer;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1857-58; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869-76.
Impeached
in 1876 by the House of Representatives for taking
bribes; resigned
on March 2, 1876. Despite arguments that the Senate lacked
jurisdiction after his resignation, an impeachment trial was
held; on August 1, the Senate voted 35 to 25 for his conviction,
short of the necessary two-thirds.
Died, of an apparent heart
attack, in Washington,
D.C., October
13, 1890 (age 61 years, 21
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 19,
1891.
Son of Methias H. Warren and Chrystal (Hernlund) Warren.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1944;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Warren Earl Burger (1907-1995) —
also known as Warren E. Burger —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., September
17, 1907.
Son of Charles Joseph Burger and Katharine (Schnittger) Burger.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1944,
1948
(alternate), 1952;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1956-69; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-86; took senior status 1986.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Federal
Bar Association.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1988.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Alexandria,
Va., June 25,
1995 (age 87 years, 281
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869) —
Born in Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., February
13, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869; died in office 1869.
Died, of consumption (tuberculosis),
in Washington,
D.C., September
6, 1869 (age 38 years, 205
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Arlington National
Cemetery; statue erected 1874 at Rawlins
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., August 1,
1843.
Son of Abraham
Lincoln and Mary (Todd) Lincoln.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman
(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad
cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric
utility.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., July 25,
1926 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) —
also known as William P. Rogers —
Born in Norfolk, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., June 23,
1913.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1957-61; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1969-73.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1973.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
2, 2001 (age 87 years, 193
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926) —
also known as John W. Weeks —
of West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born near Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., April 11,
1860.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;
mayor
of Newton, Mass., 1902-03; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1905-13;
resigned 1913; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1913-19; defeated, 1918; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1916;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1916;
member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1920; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1921-25.
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., July 12,
1926 (age 66 years, 92
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) —
also known as William G. McAdoo —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., October
31, 1863.
Son of William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1849) and Mary Faith (Floyd) McAdoo
(1832-1913).
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner with William
McAdoo (no relation); attorney for railroads;
president, Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1912; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920,
1924;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1932,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1933-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1941 (age 77 years, 93
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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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.
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Dwight Filley Davis (1879-1945) —
also known as Dwight F. Davis —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., July 5,
1879.
Son of John Tilden Davis and Maria (Filley) Davis.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1925-29; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1929-32.
Baptist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Founder of the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
28, 1945 (age 66 years, 146
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) —
also known as George C. Marshall —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., December
31, 1880.
Son of George Catlett Marshall and Laura (Bradford) Marshall.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1947-49; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1950-51.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Kappa
Alpha Order; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1953.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., October
16, 1959 (age 78 years, 289
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) —
also known as Robert F. Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy;
"R.F.K." —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.; Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1925.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1961-64; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1965-68; died in office 1968; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1968.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion.
On June 5, 1968, while running
for president, having just won the California presidential primary,
was shot and
mortally
wounded by Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador Hotel, and
died the next day in in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 6,
1968 (age 42 years, 199
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, June 17,
1950, to Ethel Skakel; father of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Kerry Kennedy (who married Andrew
M. Cuomo); uncle of Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Benjamin
Altman — John
Bartlow Martin |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Robert F. Kennedy: Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert
Kennedy and His Times — Evan Thomas, Robert
Kennedy : His Life — Joseph A. Palermo, In
His Own Right |
| | | Critical books about Robert F. Kennedy:
Allen Roberts, Robert
Francis Kennedy: Biography of a Compulsive
Politician — Victor Lasky, RFK:
Myth and Man |
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Robert Porter Patterson (1891-1952) —
of Cold Spring, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
12, 1891.
Son of Charles R. Patterson and Lodice E. (Porter) Patterson.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1930-39; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1939-40; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1945-47.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; American
Legion.
Died in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., January
22, 1952 (age 60 years, 344
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Newton Mitchell (1913-1988) —
also known as John N. Mitchell —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
15, 1913.
Son of Joseph Charles Mitchell and Margaret Agnes (McMahon) Mitchell.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Attorney General, 1969-72.
Member, American Bar
Association.
A central figure in the Watergate scandal.
Indicted
in 1973, along with Maurice
Stans, for perjury
and obstruction
over a contribution
from fugitive
financier Robert Vesco to President Richard
M. Nixon's re-election campaign; tried and
acquitted. Convicted
in February 1975 of conspiracy, obstruction
of justice and perjury,
over his role in the Watergate
break-in, and sentenced
to two and a half to eight years in prison;
served 19 months.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died later the same day, at George Washington
University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
9, 1988 (age 75 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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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.
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Donald Thomas Regan (1918-2003) —
also known as Donald T. Regan; Don Regan —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
21, 1918.
Son of William F. Regan and Kathleen (Ahern) Regan.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85; White House Chief of Staff
for President Ronald
Reagan, 1985-87.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, of cancer and
heart
failure, in a hospital
at Williamsburg,
Va., June 10,
2003 (age 84 years, 171
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) —
also known as John M. Schofield —
Born in Gerry, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1868-69.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at Wilsons Creek, Mo., August 10,
1861.
Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns
County, Fla., March 4,
1906 (age 74 years, 156
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Elliot Lee Richardson (1920-1999) —
also known as Elliot L. Richardson —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1920.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1959-61; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1965-67; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1967-69; defeated in primary, 1962;
resigned 1969; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970-73; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1973; U.S.
Attorney General, 1973; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1975-76; , 1977-80; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1976-77; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1984.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1999.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1999 (age 79 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Patrick McGranery (1895-1962) —
also known as James P. McGranery —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 8,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1937-43; defeated,
1934; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1946-52;
U.S.
Attorney General, 1952-53.
Died in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., December
23, 1962 (age 67 years, 168
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996) —
also known as Edmund S. Muskie; "Mr.
Clean" —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Rumford, Oxford
County, Maine, March 28,
1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1947-51; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1952-54; Governor of
Maine, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1956,
1964;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1959-80; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1980-81.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Lions; Elks; Amvets; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died of a heart
attack, in Georgetown University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March 26,
1996 (age 81 years, 364
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (1924-2010) —
also known as Alexander M. Haig, Jr. —
Born in Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
2, 1924.
Son of Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr. and Regina Anne (Murphy) Haig.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; target of an assassination
attempt in Belgium, June 25, 1979; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1981-82; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 1988;
host, World Business Review television
news show.
Catholic.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from an infection,
at John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., February
20, 2010 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August 7,
1833.
Son of John Clayton and Ann (Clark) Clayton.
Republican. Engineer;
surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Franklin Knox (1874-1944) —
also known as Frank Knox —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1920;
candidate for nomination for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1924; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1940;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44; died in office 1944.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Washington,
D.C., April 28,
1944 (age 70 years, 118
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892-1950) —
also known as Laurence A. Steinhardt —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
6, 1892.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Minister to Sweden, 1933-37; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1937-39; Soviet Union, 1939-41; Turkey, 1942-45; Czechoslovakia, 1945-48; Canada, 1948-50, died in office 1950.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in a plane
crash near Ramsayville, Ontario,
March
28, 1950 (age 57 years, 173
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) —
also known as James V. Forrestal —
of Beacon, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Matteawan (now part of Beacon), Dutchess
County, N.Y., February
15, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1944-47; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1947-49.
Catholic.
Jumped
from a window on the 16th floor, and fell to his
death, while a patient at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 22,
1949 (age 57 years, 96
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hubert Work (1860-1942) —
of Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo.
Born in Marion Center, Indiana
County, Pa., July 3,
1860.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado,
1908,
1924,
1928;
Colorado
Republican state chair, 1912; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1914; served in the U.S. Army during World
War I; member of Republican
National Committee from Colorado, 1920; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1928-29; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1922-23; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1923-28.
Presbyterian.
Died in Denver,
Colo., December
14, 1942 (age 82 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Walter John Stoessel, Jr. (1920-1986) —
also known as Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. —
of California.
Born in Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan., January
24, 1920.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1968-72; Soviet Union, 1973-76; Germany, 1976-81.
Died in 1986
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Prather Fletcher (1873-1959) —
also known as Henry P. Fletcher —
of Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa.; Greencastle, Franklin
County, Pa.; Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Greencastle, Franklin
County, Pa., April 10,
1873.
Son of Lewis Henry Clay Fletcher and Martha Ellen (Rowe) Fletcher.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Minister to Chile, 1909-14; Luxembourg, 1923-24; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1914-16; Mexico, 1916-19; Belgium, 1922-24; Italy, 1924-29; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1934-36; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 10,
1959 (age 86 years, 91
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Son of Herman Weinberger.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1969-70; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade Commission; director, U.S.
Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia,
in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 28,
2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (1891-1960) —
also known as Richard B. Wigglesworth —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 25,
1891.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1928-58 (14th District
1928-33, 13th District 1933-58); alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948;
U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 1958-60, died in office 1960.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
22, 1960 (age 69 years, 180
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908-1990) —
also known as Arthur J. Goldberg —
of Illinois; New York; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August 8,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; general
counsel, Congress of Industrial Organizations; helped merge that
group with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO,
1955; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1960;
U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1961-62; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-65; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1965-68; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to , 1977-78.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1978.
Died of coronary artery
disease, in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1990 (age 81 years, 164
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) —
also known as Mike Mansfield —
of Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 16,
1903.
Son of Patrick Mansfield and Josephine (O'Brien) Mansfield.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining engineer;
university
professor; U.S.
Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1996,
2000;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1977-88.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2001 (age 98 years, 203
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Vernon Anthony Walters (1917-2002) —
also known as Vernon A. Walters —
of Florida.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
3, 1917.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; deputy chief of the
Central Intelligence Agency, 1972-76; U.S. Ambassador to , 1981-85; Germany, 1989-91; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1985-89.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Died, at Good Samaritan Medical
Center, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
10, 2002 (age 85 years, 38
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) —
also known as Pat Moynihan —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Pindars Corners, Delaware
County, N.Y.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., March 16,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; political
scientist; university
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1960
(alternate), 1984,
1988,
1996,
2000;
U.S. Ambassador to India, 1973-75; U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1975-76; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1977-.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of infection
from a ruptured appendix,
in Washington,
D.C., March 26,
2003 (age 76 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Alfred Eliab Buck (1832-1902) —
also known as Alfred E. Buck; A. E. Buck —
of Alabama; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Foxcroft (now part of Dover-Foxcroft), Piscataquis
County, Maine, February
7, 1832.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1868;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1869-71; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Georgia, 1888,
1896;
Georgia
Republican state chair, 1896; U.S. Minister to Japan, 1897.
Died suddenly, from paralysis of
the heart, while on an imperial duck
shoot, near Tokyo, Japan,
December
4, 1902 (age 70 years, 300
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Kenneth Barnard Keating (1900-1975) —
also known as Kenneth B. Keating —
of Brighton, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Lima, Livingston
County, N.Y., May 18,
1900.
Son of Thomas Mosgrove Keating and Louise (Barnard) Keating.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1940
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate), 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1947-59 (40th District 1947-53,
38th District 1953-59); U.S.
Senator from New York, 1959-65; defeated, 1964; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1966-68; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966; U.S.
Ambassador to India, 1969-72; Israel, 1973-75, died in office 1975.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Elks; Eagles; Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1975 (age 74 years, 352
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ronald Harmon Brown (1941-1996) —
also known as Ronald H. Brown —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born August 1,
1941.
Democrat. Chairman of
Democratic National Committee, 1989-93; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1993-96; died in office 1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League.
Killed in a plane
crash, during a storm, in
Croatia,
April
3, 1996 (age 54 years, 246
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1897-1961) —
also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
17, 1897.
Son of Cordelia Rundell (Bradley) Biddle (1873-1947) and Anthony
Joseph Drexel Biddle (1874-1948).
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; shipping
business; U.S. Minister to Norway, 1935-37, 1941-42; Netherlands, 1941-42; Yugoslavia, 1941; Czechoslovakia, 1941-43; Greece, 1941-42; U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1937-43; Belgium, 1941-43; Netherlands, 1942-43; Norway, 1942-43; Yugoslavia, 1942; Greece, 1942-43; Czechoslovakia, 1943; Spain, 1961.
Died, from lung
cancer and a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., November
13, 1961 (age 63 years, 331
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery; cenotaph at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Julius Albert Krug (1907-1970) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., November
23, 1907.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1946-49.
Died March 26,
1970 (age 62 years, 123
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Marion Bayard Folsom (1893-1976) —
also known as Marion B. Folsom —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in McRae, Telfair
County, Ga., November
23, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member, Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1955-58.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Economic Association.
Treasurer of Eastman Kodak Company, 1935-53.
Died September
27, 1976 (age 82 years, 309
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Oscar Littleton Chapman (1896-1978) —
also known as Oscar L. Chapman —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Omega, Halifax
County, Va., October
22, 1896.
Son of James Jackson Chapman and Rosa Archer (Blount) Chapman.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died February
8, 1978 (age 81 years, 109
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Sherman Cooper (1901-1991) —
of Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky.
Born in Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky., August
23, 1901.
Son of John
Cooper.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1928-30; county judge in
Kentucky, 1930-38; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1939; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1946-49, 1952-55, 1956-73; defeated, 1948,
1954; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1948,
1956,
1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1972
(delegation chair); U.S. Ambassador to India, 1955-56; Nepal, 1955-56; East Germany, 1974-76; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Baptist
or Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Rotary; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi.
The John Sherman Cooper Power Plant in Somerset, Ky., is named for
him.
Died of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
21, 1991 (age 89 years, 182
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery; statue at Fountain
Square, Somerset, Ky.
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William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898) —
also known as William S. Rosecrans —
of Homer, Licking
County, Ohio; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Kingston, Ross
County, Ohio, September
6, 1819.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1868-69; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1881-85.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 11,
1898 (age 78 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.; reinterment in 1902 at Arlington
National Cemetery.
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William Daniel Leahy (1875-1959) —
also known as William D. Leahy; "Almirante
Lija"; "Admiral Sandpaper" —
Born in Hampton, Franklin
County, Iowa, May 6,
1875.
Son of Michael Leahy.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War I; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1939-40; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1940-42; Fleet Admiral of the U.S. Navy, 1944.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., July 20,
1959 (age 84 years, 75
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961) —
also known as "Beetle" —
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., October
5, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1946-48; Director of Central Intelligence,
1950-53.
Died after a heart
attack, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., August 9,
1961 (age 65 years, 308
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Earle Chamberlain (1854-1928) —
also known as George E. Chamberlain —
of Albany, Linn
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., January
1, 1854.
Son of Charles Thomson Chamberlain and Pamela A. (Archer)
Chamberlain.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1880-84; Oregon
state attorney general, 1891-95; appointed 1891; Governor of
Oregon, 1903-09; resigned 1909; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1909-21; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1912.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1928 (age 74 years, 190
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Pitt Kellogg (1830-1918) —
also known as William P. Kellogg —
of Canton, Fulton
County, Ill.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Orwell, Addison
County, Vt., December
8, 1830.
Son of Rev. Sherman K. Kellogg.
Republican. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1860;
justice
of Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1861-65; chief
justice of Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1861-65; colonel
in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1865-68; delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana,
1868,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1868-72, 1877-83; Governor of
Louisiana, 1873-77; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1883-85.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
10, 1918 (age 87 years, 245
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Edward Miller (1914-1983) —
also known as William E. Miller —
of Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y., March 22,
1914.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1951-65 (42nd District 1951-53,
40th District 1953-65); Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1961-64; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1964.
Catholic.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks.
Died in 1983
(age about
69 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009) —
also known as Edward M. Kennedy; Ted Kennedy;
"Lion of the Senate" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born, in St. Margaret's Hospital,
Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
22, 1932.
Son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995).
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009; died in office 2009;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1980;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Pleaded
guilty to leaving the
scene of an accident after his car plunged off the Dike Bridge,
on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing
passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, on July 18, 1969.
Died, from brain
cancer, in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
25, 2009 (age 77 years, 184
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald; son of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1890-1995);
brother of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921-2009; who married
Robert
Sargent Shriver, Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy and Jean
Kennedy Smith; married, November
29, 1958, to Virginia
Joan Bennett (1936-); married, November
30, 1958, to Virginia Joan Bennett (divorced 1982); married, July 3,
1992, to Victoria Anne Reggie (daughter of Edmund
M. Reggie); uncle of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II and Mark
Kennedy Shriver; father of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1967-). See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Murray
M. Chotiner |
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page — votes
in Congress from the Washington Post — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
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memorial — OurCampaigns
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| | | Books about Edward M. Kennedy: Adam
Clymer, Edward
M. Kennedy: A Biography — Richard E. Burke, The
Senator : My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy |
| | | Critical books about Edward M. Kennedy:
Bernard Goldberg, 100
People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is
#37) |
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Theodore Fulton Stevens (1923-2010) —
also known as Ted Stevens —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska; Girdwood, Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., November
18, 1923.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the 4th District of Alaska Territory, 1954-56;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Alaska, 1964,
1972
(delegation chair); member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1965-68; U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1968-2009; defeated, 1962; appointed 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Indicted
in July 2008 on federal charges
of failing
to report gifts
from VECO Corporation and its CEO; tried and
convicted
in October 2008; his conviction was later vacated due to
prosecutorial misconduct. The Anchorage airport is named for
him.
Killed in a plane
crash, in Bristol Bay
Borough, Alaska, August 9,
2010 (age 86 years, 264
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Alfred Scali (1918-1995) —
also known as John A. Scali —
Born in 1918.
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1973-75.
Died in 1995
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Green Clay Smith (1826-1895) —
also known as Green C. Smith —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born in Richmond, Madison
County, Ky., July 4,
1826.
Son of John
Speed Smith.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1861; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1863-66; Governor of
Montana Territory, 1866-68; Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Baptist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 29,
1895 (age 68 years, 360
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Clarence Dworshak (1894-1962) —
also known as Henry C. Dworshak —
of Burley, Cassia
County, Idaho.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
29, 1894.
Son of Henry Dworshak and Julia (Ohotto) Dworshak.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Representative from Idaho 2nd District, 1939-46; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1946-49, 1949-62; defeated, 1948; died in
office 1962; delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho,
1948,
1960.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 23,
1962 (age 67 years, 328
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Alfred Byroade (1913-1993) —
also known as Henry A. Byroade —
of Woodburn, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Maumee Township, Allen
County, Ind., July 24,
1913.
General in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service
officer; U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, 1955-56; South Africa, 1956-59; Afghanistan, 1959-62; Burma, 1963-68; Philippines, 1969-73; Pakistan, 1973-77.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, several months after cancer
surgery, of cardiopulmonary
arrest, at Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., December
31, 1993 (age 80 years, 160
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Alexander Sandor Asboth (1811-1868) —
also known as Alexander Asboth —
of Missouri.
Born in Keszthely, Hungary,
December
18, 1811.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S. Minister to Argentina, 1866-68, died in office 1868; Uruguay, 1867-68, died in office 1868.
Hungarian
ancestry.
Died in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
January
21, 1868 (age 56 years, 34
days).
Original interment at Charita
District Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina; reinterment at
Arlington National Cemetery.
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David Aiken Reed (1880-1953) —
also known as David A. Reed —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., December
21, 1880.
Son of James
Hay Reed and Kate J. (Aiken) Reed.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Pennsylvania Industrial Accidents Commission, 1912-15;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-35; defeated, 1934; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1924,
1932,
1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., February
10, 1953 (age 72 years, 51
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joel Bennett Clark (1890-1954) —
also known as Bennett Clark; Champ Clark —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Bowling Green, Caroline
County, Va., January
8, 1890.
Son of James
Beauchamp Clark and Genevieve (Bennett) Clark.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1931-45; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1945.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 13,
1954 (age 64 years, 186
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Harley Martin Kilgore (1893-1956) —
also known as Harley M. Kilgore —
of Beckley, Raleigh
County, W.Va.
Born in Brown, Harrison
County, W.Va., January
11, 1893.
Son of Quimby Kilgore and Laura Jo (Martin) Kilgore.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; criminal court judge in
West Virginia, 1933-40; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1941-56; died in office 1956;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1944,
1948
(speaker).
Christian.
Member, American
Political Science Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Delta
Tau Delta; Freemasons;
Elks; Moose.
Died February
28, 1956 (age 63 years, 48
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Selden Chapin (1899-1963) —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., September
19, 1899.
Son of Frederic L. Chapin and Grace (Selden) Chapin.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1925-26; U.S. Consul in Montevideo, 1940; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1947-49; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1949-53; Panama, 1953-55; Iran, 1955-58; Peru, 1960.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died March 26,
1963 (age 63 years, 188
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Davis Lodge (1903-1985) —
of Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
20, 1903.
Son of George Cabot 'Bay' Lodge (1873-1909) and Mathilda Elizabeth
Frelinghuysen (Davis) Lodge.
Republican. Lawyer;
professional actor
in 1933-40, appearing in movies
such as Little Women, The Scarlet Empress, The
Little Colonel, and In Like Flint; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1947-51; Governor of
Connecticut, 1951-55; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1952,
1960;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1955-61; Argentina, 1969-73; Switzerland, 1983-85; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1964; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention 4th District, 1965.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Collapsed while finishing a speech
to the Women's National Republican Club, and died less than an hour
later at St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1985 (age 82 years, 9
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Cyrus Rowlett Smith (1899-1990) —
Born in Minerva, Milam
County, Tex., September
9, 1899.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1968-69.
Baptist.
Died April 4,
1990 (age 90 years, 207
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Clark McAdams Clifford (1906-1998) —
also known as Clark M. Clifford —
Born in Fort Scott, Bourbon
County, Kan., December
25, 1906.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1968-69.
Member, American Bar
Association; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on January 20, 1969.
Died October
10, 1998 (age 91 years, 289
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Monnett Bain Davis (1893-1953) —
also known as Monnett B. Davis —
of Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.
Born in Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind., August
13, 1893.
Son of Henry Thomas Davis and Minerva Rockwell (Bain) Davis.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Consul in Port Elizabeth, 1921-23; Saltillo, 1924; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, 1933-34; Shanghai, 1935-36, 1946; Singapore, 1936-37; Buenos Aires, 1938-41; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1945-46; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 1948-51; Israel, 1951-53, died in office 1953.
Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Freemasons.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Ramat Gan, Israel,
December
26, 1953 (age 60 years, 135
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Salem, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, November
19, 1875.
Son of Rev. Hiram Bingham and Minerva Clarissa (Brewster) Bingham.
Republican. Explorer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916
(alternate), 1920
(alternate), 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936;
Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1916;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1923-25; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1924-33; defeated, 1932; Governor of
Connecticut, 1925; censured
by the U.S. Senate on November 4, 1929, for employing a paid
lobbyist as his chief clerk.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 6,
1956 (age 80 years, 200
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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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.
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Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. (1900-1994) —
also known as Hugh Scott —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., November
11, 1900.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1941-45, 1947-59 (7th District
1941-45, 6th District 1947-59); defeated, 1944; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1948-49; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1959-77; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960,
1964,
1972
(delegation chair).
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets; Sons of
the American Revolution; Lions; Society
of the Cincinnati; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Alpha
Chi Rho; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died July 21,
1994 (age 93 years, 252
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Howard Walter Cannon (1912-2002) —
also known as Howard W. Cannon —
of Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in St. George, Washington
County, Utah, January
26, 1912.
Son of Walter Cannon and Leah (Sullivan) Cannon.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1959-83; defeated, 1982.
Mormon.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Reserve
Officers Association; Lions; Elks.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, at the Odyssey House Hospice,
Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., March 6,
2002 (age 90 years, 39
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frederick Steiwer (1883-1939) —
of Pendleton, Umatilla
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born near Jefferson, Marion
County, Ore., October
13, 1883.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
District Attorney, 1913-16; member of Oregon
state senate, 1917; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1927-38.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Woodmen;
Elks.
Died February
3, 1939 (age 55 years, 113
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Robert Rivkin (1919-1967) —
also known as William R. Rivkin —
of Illinois.
Born in Muscatine, Muscatine
County, Iowa, 1919.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1962-65; Senegal, 1966-67, died in office 1967; Gambia, 1966-67, died in office 1967.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Dakar, Senegal,
March
19, 1967 (age about 47
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Otto Kerner, Jr. (1908-1976) —
of Glenview, Cook
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
15, 1908.
Son of Rose Barbara (Chmelik) Kerner and Otto
Kerner.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1947-54; county
judge in Illinois, 1954-60; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1960,
1964;
Governor
of Illinois, 1961-68; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1968-74; resigned 1974.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum; Military
Order of the World Wars; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi.
While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of
over $300,000 in a stock deal which prosecutors later characterized
as bribery.
Convicted
in 1973 on 17 counts of bribery,
conspiracy, perjury,
and related charges; sentenced
to three years in federal prison
and fined
$50,000.
Died of cancer, May 9,
1976 (age 67 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Fahy (1892-1979) —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., August
27, 1892.
Son of Thomas Fahy and Sarah (Jonas) Fahy.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; general counsel, National
Labor Relations Board, 1935; U.S. Solicitor General,
1941-45; legal advisor to the military government of Germany,
1945-46; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1949-67.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., September
17, 1979 (age 87 years, 21
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Rupert Vance Hartke (1919-2003) —
also known as Vance Hartke —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Stendal, Pike
County, Ind., May 31,
1919.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1956-58; resigned 1958; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1959-77; defeated, 1976; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1964,
1972;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972.
Lutheran.
Early opponent of the Vietnam War.
Died, of heart
failure, July 27,
2003 (age 84 years, 57
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Waldo A. Evans (1869-1936) —
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., November
26, 1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Governor of
American Samoa; commander of Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
1922-25; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands; appointed 1927.
Died, following a stroke, in
Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, April 15,
1936 (age 66 years, 141
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Emil Peurifoy (1907-1955) —
also known as John E. Peurifoy —
of South Carolina.
Born in Walterboro, Colleton
County, S.C., August 9,
1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1950-53; Guatamala, 1953-54; Thailand, 1954-55, died in office 1955.
Died in an automobile
accident, near Hua Hin, Thailand,
August
12, 1955 (age 48 years, 3
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Flack (1894-1955) —
of Grenoble, Bucks
County, Pa.; Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born in Grenoble, Bucks
County, Pa., December
5, 1894.
U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1946-49; Costa Rica, 1949-50; Poland, 1950-55; shot
at, and nearly hit, at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia,
during the 1946 revolution.
Died, from a coronary
thrombosis, aboard the
ocean liner United States, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, May 8,
1955 (age 60 years, 154
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr. (1903-1960) —
also known as Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Missouri, 1903.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Missouri 11th District, 1935-41; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1951-60; died in office 1960; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1952,
1956
(delegation chair).
Died in 1960
(age about
57 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richard Cunningham Patterson, Jr. (1886-1966) —
also known as Richard C. Patterson, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., January
31, 1886.
Son of Richard Cunningham Patterson and Martha Belle (Neiswanger)
Patterson.
Democrat. Gold miner;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; engineer;
New York City Commissioner of Correction, 1927-32; executive
vice-president and director, National Broadcasting
Co., 1932-36; chairman, Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) Corp., 1939-43;
chairman, Ogden Corp. (Utilities Power &
Light Co.); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1928
(alternate), 1932
(alternate), 1936,
1944,
1948;
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1944-47; Guatamala, 1948-50; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1951-53.
Methodist.
Member, Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; Beta
Theta Pi; Freemasons.
Died September
30, 1966 (age 80 years, 242
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) —
also known as Hugo L. Black —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Harlan, Clay
County, Ala., February
27, 1886.
Son of William La Fayette Black and Martha Ardella (Toland) Black.
Democrat. Lawyer;
police court judge in Alabama, 1910-11; Jefferson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1927-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1936;
Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1937-71; took senior status 1971.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., September
25, 1971 (age 85 years, 210
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William La Fayette Black and Martha Ardella (Toland) Black;
married, February
23, 1921, to Josephine Patterson Foster (died 1951); married, September
11, 1957, to Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte. |
| | | Epitaph: "Here lies a good
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Hugo L. Black: Roger K.
Newman, Hugo
Black : A Biography — Howard Ball, Hugo
L. Black : Cold Steel Warrior — James F Simon, The
antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in
modern America — Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution |
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George Armistead Smathers (1913-2007) —
also known as George A. Smathers; "Georgeous
George" —
of Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., November
14, 1913.
Son of Franklin Smathers and Lura (Jones) Smathers.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1947-51; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1951-69; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1952,
1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960,
1968;
lobbyist.
Methodist;
later United
Church of Christ. Member, Jaycees;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Suffered a stroke,
and subsequently died, in Indian Creek, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., January
20, 2007 (age 93 years, 67
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Franklin Miller (1831-1886) —
also known as John F. Miller —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., November
21, 1831.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1860; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; Presidential Elector for California, 1872,
1876;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1881-86; died in office 1886.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1886 (age 54 years, 107
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1913 at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Eliphaz Spencer (1836-1893) —
also known as George E. Spencer —
of Decatur, Morgan
County, Ala.
Born in Champion, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
1, 1836.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1868-79; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Alabama, 1872;
member of Republican
National Committee from Alabama, 1872-.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
19, 1893 (age 56 years, 110
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Ogden Osborn (1832-1904) —
also known as Thomas O. Osborn —
of Illinois.
Born in Ohio, 1832.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Argentina, 1874-85; U.S. Consul General in Buenos Aires, 1874-85.
Died in 1904
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Guy Despard Goff (1866-1933) —
also known as Guy D. Goff —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., September
13, 1866.
Son of Laura E. (Despard) Goff and Nathan
Goff, Jr..
Republican. U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1911-15; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1925-31.
Episcopalian.
Died in Thomasville, Thomas
County, Ga., January
7, 1933 (age 66 years, 116
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) —
also known as "The Great Dissenter" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 8,
1841.
Son of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) and Amelia Lee (Jackson)
Holmes.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-1902; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1899-1902; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32; retired 1932.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1965.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., March 6,
1935 (age 93 years, 363
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married, June 17,
1872, to Fanny Bowditch Dixwell (1840-1929). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
Biddle — Laurence
Curtis — Lewis
Einstein — Erland
F. Fish |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — Judgepedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The
Common Law |
| | | Books about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
Gary J. Aichele, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. : Soldier, Scholar, Judge (out of
print) — G. Edward White, Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self —
Sheldon M. Novick, Honorable
Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Liva
Baker, The
Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell
Holmes — James Bishop Peabody, The
Holmes-Einstein Letters : Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and
Lewis Einstein 1903-1935 |
| | | Critical books about Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.: Albert W. Alschuler, Law
Without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice
Holmes |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, September 1902 |
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George Wilson Malone (1890-1961) —
also known as George W. Malone —
of Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Fredonia, Wilson
County, Kan., August 7,
1890.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1947-59; defeated, 1934, 1944.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Eagles; Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 19,
1961 (age 70 years, 285
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Graham Anderson Martin (1912-1990) —
of Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C.
Born in Mars Hill, Madison
County, N.C., September
22, 1912.
Son of Gustav Alexander Martin and H. Hildreth (Marshbanks) Martin.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Foreign Service
officer; U.S. Consul General in Geneva, 1960-61; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1963-67; Italy, 1969-73; Vietnam, 1973-75.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Forsythe Hospital,
Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., March 13,
1990 (age 77 years, 172
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Rodman West (1822-1898) —
of Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
19, 1822.
Son of Ann E. (Smith) West (1795-1824) and Charles Shute West
(1796-1857).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1871-77; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1882-85; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1882-83.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
31, 1898 (age 76 years, 42
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) —
also known as Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil
Dan" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1892.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Shot and killed
Philip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder,
but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first
successful plea of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a
leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army
Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it in later years.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914 (age 94 years, 195
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ovington Eugene Weller (1862-1947) —
also known as Ovington E. Weller —
of Arlington, Baltimore,
Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Reisterstown, Baltimore
County, Md., January
23, 1862.
Republican. Candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1915; campaign manager for John W.
Weeks, Republican for president, 1916; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maryland, 1916,
1924,
1936,
1940;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1921-27; defeated, 1926; member of Republican
National Committee from Maryland, 1932-40.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., January
5, 1947 (age 84 years, 347
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Luther Wallace Youngdahl (1896-1978) —
also known as Luther W. Youngdahl —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., May 29,
1896.
Republican. District judge in Minnesota, 1936-42; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1942-47; Governor of
Minnesota, 1947-51; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1948;
Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1951-66.
Died of cancer, June 21,
1978 (age 82 years, 23
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Edward Potter (1916-1979) —
also known as Charles E. Potter —
of Cheboygan, Cheboygan
County, Mich.
Born in Lapeer, Lapeer
County, Mich., October
30, 1916.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1947-52; resigned
1952; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1952-59; defeated, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Eagles; Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets.
Wounded in World War II, and lost his
legs.
Died in Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1979 (age 63 years, 24
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jack Richard Miller (1916-1994) —
also known as Jack Miller —
of Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa; Temple Terrace, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 6,
1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1955-56; member of Iowa state
senate, 1957-60; U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1961-73; defeated, 1972; Judge of
U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1973-82.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Reserve
Officers Association; Izaak
Walton League; Rotary; Moose; Eagles; Elks; Knights
of Columbus; United
Commercial Travelers.
Died in Temple Terrace, Hillsborough
County, Fla., August
29, 1994 (age 78 years, 84
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916-1999) —
also known as Robert G. Neumann —
of California.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
January
2, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1966-73; Morocco, 1973-76; Saudi Arabia, 1981.
Died of cancer, in
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 18,
1999 (age 83 years, 167
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John George Schmitz (1930-2001) —
also known as John G. Schmitz —
of California.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
12, 1930.
Member of California
state senate, 1965-70, 1979; U.S.
Representative from California 35th District, 1970-73; defeated
in Republican primary, 1972, 1976, 1984; American Independent
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972; reprimanded
by the California Senate in 1982 over a press release issued by his
office, which characterized a critic and her supporters with crude
slurs; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom; John
Birch Society; American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; National Rifle
Association; Military
Order of the World Wars; Toastmasters.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
10, 2001 (age 70 years, 151
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Father of Mary Kay LeTourneau (Seattle teacher; convicted of child
rape over her affair with a 13-year-old student). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "When you're out of
Schmitz, you're out of gear." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
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Eli Huston Murray (1843-1896) —
also known as Eli H. Murray —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Cloverport, Breckinridge
County, Ky., February
10, 1843.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1872;
Governor
of Utah Territory, 1880-86.
Died of diabetes,
in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., November
18, 1896 (age 53 years, 282
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Herman Welker (1906-1957) —
of Payette, Payette
County, Idaho.
Born in Cambridge, Washington
County, Idaho, December
11, 1906.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member of Idaho
state senate, 1948-50; U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1951-57.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., October
30, 1957 (age 50 years, 323
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edward Burnett Lawson (1895-1962) —
Born in Newport, Cocke
County, Tenn., September
26, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Minister to Iceland, 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 1954-59.
Died November
19, 1962 (age 67 years, 54
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Jacob Foss (1915-2003) —
also known as Joe Foss; "The American Ace of
Aces" —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.; Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak., April 17,
1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
received the Medal
of Honor for action over Guadalcanal in 1942-43; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1948
(alternate), 1956;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 10th District, 1949-50,
1953-54; Governor of
South Dakota, 1955-59; candidate for U.S.
Representative from South Dakota, 1958; Commissioner, American Football
League, 1960; elected to National Aviation Hall of
Fame, 1984; president, National Rifle Association, 1988-90.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, from the effects of a stroke, in
Scottsdale, Maricopa
County, Ariz., January
1, 2003 (age 87 years, 259
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Byington Mitchell (1823-1882) —
of Mt. Gilead, Morrow
County, Ohio.
Born in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, April 4,
1823.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1857-58; treasurer
of Kansas Territory, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; Governor of
New Mexico Territory, 1866-69.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
26, 1882 (age 58 years, 297
days).
Original interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1895 at Arlington
National Cemetery.
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John Acoming Halderman, Jr. (1838-1908) —
also known as John A. Halderman, Jr. —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Kentucky, April 15,
1838.
Son of Dr. John A. Halderman and Susan Henderson (Rogers) Halderman.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Kansas
state house of representatives; member of Kansas
state senate; U.S. Consul in Bangkok, 1880; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1882-85; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1882-85.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
21, 1908 (age 70 years, 159
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Martin Edward Trench (1869-1927) —
also known as Martin E. Trench —
Born in Dennison, Goodhue
County, Minn., November
30, 1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War I; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands; died in office 1927.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., January
6, 1927 (age 57 years, 37
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Paul Vories McNutt (1891-1955) —
also known as Paul V. McNutt —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Franklin, Johnson
County, Ind., July 19,
1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; law
professor; national commander, American Legion, 1928-29; Governor of
Indiana, 1933-37; High Commissioner to the Philippines, 1937-39,
1945-46; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1940;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1940;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1944;
U.S. Ambassador to Philippines, 1946-47; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Delta Chi; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary; Kiwanis.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 24,
1955 (age 63 years, 248
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Porter East (1931-1986) —
also known as John P. East —
of North Carolina.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 5,
1931.
Republican. Candidate for secretary of
state of North Carolina, 1968; Presidential Elector for North
Carolina, 1972;
U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1981-86; died in office 1986.
Presbyterian.
His legs were
paralyzed due to polio.
Committed suicide,
in Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., June 29,
1986 (age 55 years, 55
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) —
also known as Thoroughgood Marshall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., July 2,
1908.
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-65; U.S. Solicitor General,
1965-67; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1967-91.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
National
Bar Association; Alpha
Phi Alpha; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received Spingarn
Medal in 1946 First
African-American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Died, from a heart
attack, in the National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
24, 1993 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery; memorial monument at Lawyers'
Mall, Annapolis, Md.
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Relatives:
Married, September
4, 1929, to Vivien Burey (died 1955); married, December
17, 1955, to Cecilia
Suyat; father of Thurgood
Marshall, Jr.. See Marshall
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
Curtis Bryson |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Thurgood Marshall: Juan
Williams, Thurgood
Marshall : American Revolutionary — Randall W. Bland,
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial
Biography — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1961-1991 — Mark V. Tushnet, Making
Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court,
1936-1961 |
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Alexander Oswald Brodie (1849-1918) —
also known as Alexander O. Brodie —
of Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz.; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.; Haddonfield, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Edwards, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., November
13, 1849.
Son of Joseph Brodie and Margaret (Brown) Brodie.
Republican. Civil and mining engineer;
Yavapai
County Recorder, 1893-94; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1898; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1902-05; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arizona Territory, 1904.
Died in Haddonfield, Camden
County, N.J., May 10,
1918 (age 68 years, 178
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Warren Jay Terhune (1869-1920) —
also known as Warren J. Terhune —
of Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Midland Park, Bergen
County, N.J., May 3,
1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Navy
commander; Governor of
American Samoa; died in office 1920.
Three days before he was to face an inquiry
into charges
against his
administration, he shot himself
in the heart, in a bathroom of the Executive
Mansion, Utulei, American
Samoa, November
3, 1920 (age 51 years, 184
days); later, the Navy exonerated him; his accuser, Lieutenant
Commander Creed H. Boucher, was courtmartialed and found guilty of
fomenting unrest among the Samoans.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Peterson Bryant Jarman, Jr. (1892-1955) —
also known as Pete B. Jarman —
of Livingston, Sumter
County, Ala.
Born in Greensboro, Hale
County, Ala., October
31, 1892.
Son of Peter Bryant Jarman and Hunter Elizabeth (Gordon) Jarman.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; secretary of
state of Alabama, 1931-35; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1937-49; U.S.
Ambassador to Australia, 1949-53.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Forty and
Eight; Disabled
American Veterans; Military
Order of the World Wars; Woodmen;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died February
17, 1955 (age 62 years, 109
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Wilber Marion Brucker (1894-1968) —
also known as Wilber M. Brucker —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., June 23,
1894.
Son of Ferdinand
Brucker and Robertha H. Brucker.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; Saginaw
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1923-26; Michigan
state attorney general, 1928-30; appointed 1928; Governor of
Michigan, 1931-32; defeated, 1932; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1932,
1936,
1948,
1964
(alternate); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1936; U.S. Secretary of the Army.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Delta
Sigma Rho; Sigma
Delta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Delta; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Moose; Odd
Fellows.
Suffered an apparent heart
attack after attending an Economic Club luncheon, and died soon
after, in the emergency room at Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., October
28, 1968 (age 74 years, 127
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Daniel Theberge (1930-1988) —
also known as James D. Theberge —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Oceanside, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., December
28, 1930.
U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1975-77; Chile, 1982-85.
Died after a heart
attack, at Montego Bay, Jamaica,
January
20, 1988 (age 57 years, 23
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999) —
also known as Harry A. Blackmun; "Hip Pocket
Harry"; "Minnesota Twin" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.
Born in Nashville, Washington
County, Ill., November
12, 1908.
Son of Corwin Manning Blackmun and Theo H. (Reuter) Blackmun.
Lawyer;
law clerk for U.S. Appeals Court Judge John
B. Sanborn, 1932-33; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1959-70; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1970-94; took senior status 1994; actor
in the 1997 movie
Amistad, as Justice Joseph
Story.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., March 4,
1999 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Edward Wiggins (1927-2000) —
also known as Charles E. Wiggins —
of El Monte, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; West Covina, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in El Monte, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
3, 1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in
the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; mayor of
El Monte, Calif., 1964-66; U.S.
Representative from California, 1967-79 (25th District 1967-75,
39th District 1975-79); Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1984-96.
Member, Lions; American Bar
Association.
Died, of complications from diabetes
and heart
disease, at Sunrise Hospital
and Medical Center, Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., March 2,
2000 (age 72 years, 90
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arthur H. Davis, Jr. (1917-2000) —
of Golden, Jefferson
County, Colo.
Born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., 1917.
Real
estate developer; U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1982-85; Panama, 1986-90.
Died, following a stroke, November
24, 2000 (age about 83
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Wickham Hoffman (1821-1900) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1821.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, 1883-85.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., May 21,
1900 (age 79 years, 49
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Enoch Herbert Crowder (1859-1932) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Missouri, April 11,
1859.
Son of John Herbert Crowder and Mary C. (Weller) Crowder.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; general in
the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1923-27.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Died May 7,
1932 (age 73 years, 26
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Harry Burgess (1872-1933) —
Born in Starkville, Oktibbeha
County, Miss., February
22, 1872.
Engineer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Brigadier General, U.S.
Army; engineer in charge of maintenance, Panama Canal, 1924-28; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1928-32.
Died, in Army and Navy General Hospital,
Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., March 18,
1933 (age 61 years, 24
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frank Charles White (1856-1940) —
also known as Frank White —
of North Dakota.
Born in Stillman Valley, Ogle
County, Ill., December
12, 1856.
Son of Joshua White and Lucy Ann (Brown) White.
Republican. Member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1891-92; member of North
Dakota state senate, 1893-98; major in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
North Dakota, 1901-05; Treasurer of the United States, 1921-28.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 23,
1940 (age 83 years, 102
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Clark (1891-1957) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
1, 1891.
Son of J. William Clark and Margaretta (Cameron) Clark.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Judge, New Jersey Court of
Errors and Appeals, 1923-25; U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1925-38; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1938-43; colonel in
the U.S. Army during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Society for International Law.
Died October
10, 1957 (age 66 years, 251
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Emory Scott Land (1879-1971) —
also known as Emory S. Land —
Born in Canon City, Fremont
County, Colo., January
8, 1879.
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; chair, U.S. Maritime
Commission, 1938-46.
Died November
27, 1971 (age 92 years, 323
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Jackson Bartlett (1834-1893) —
also known as Joseph J. Bartlett —
of New York.
Born November
21, 1834.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1867-69.
Died January
14, 1893 (age 58 years, 54
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Guy Vernor Henry (1839-1899) —
also known as Guy V. Henry —
Born in Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark., March 9,
1839.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action at the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1,
1864; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1898-99.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
27, 1899 (age 60 years, 232
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Frances Wharton. |
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Martin Thomas McMahon (1838-1906) —
also known as Martin T. McMahon —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Laprairie, Quebec,
March
21, 1838.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1868-69; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 7th District, 1891; member of
New
York state senate, 1892-95 (8th District 1892-93, 7th District
1894-95).
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1891 for action at White Oak Swamp, Virginia, June
30, 1862.
Died in New York, 1906
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870-1943) —
also known as E. T. Pollock —
Born in Mt. Gilead, Morrow
County, Ohio, October
25, 1870.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;
Governor
of American Samoa.
Died, from cardiac
arrythmia and auricular
fibrillation, in Washington,
D.C., June 6,
1943 (age 72 years, 224
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Batterson Stetson, Jr. (1884-1952) —
also known as John B. Stetson, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born October
14, 1884.
Son of John Batterson Stetson (1830-1906; hat manufacturer, namesake
of Stetson hat).
U.S. Minister to Poland, 1925-29.
Died in 1952
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Woodrow Bonner (1902-1970) —
also known as John W. Bonner —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont., July 16,
1902.
Son of Patrick J. Bonner and Kathleen (Kelly) Bonner.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; Montana
state attorney general, 1941-42; Governor of
Montana, 1949-53; defeated, 1952; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Montana, 1952,
1956.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Elks; Eagles.
Died March 28,
1970 (age 67 years, 255
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) —
also known as William O. Douglas —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Goose Prairie, Yakima
County, Wash.
Born in Maine, Otter Tail
County, Minn., October
16, 1898.
Son of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; law
professor; member, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission, 1936-39; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1937-39; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
United
World Federalists; American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1980 (age 81 years, 95
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Douglas and Julia Bickford (Fiske) Douglas; married, August
16, 1923, to Mildred M. Riddle; married 1966 to
Kathleen Heffernan. |
| | | Cross-reference: Warren
Christopher |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by William O. Douglas: Of
Men and Mountains (1982) — My
wilderness: east to Katahdin (1961) — Go
East, Young Man (1974) — The
Court Years, 1939 to 1975: The Autobiography of William O.
Douglas (1980) |
| | | Books about William O. Douglas: Bruce
Allen Murphy, Wild
Bill : The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas —
Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution — James F. Simon, Independent
Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas |
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Olin Earl Teague (1910-1981) —
also known as Olin E. Teague; "Tiger
Teague" —
of Bryan, Brazos
County, Tex.; College Station, Brazos
County, Tex.
Born in Woodward, Woodward
County, Okla., April 6,
1910.
Son of James Martin Teague and Ida (Sturgeon) Teague.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Texas 6th District, 1946-78; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1956,
1964.
Baptist.
Member, Lions.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
23, 1981 (age 70 years, 292
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Potter Stewart (1915-1985) —
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., January
23, 1915.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1954-58; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1958-81.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Skull
and Bones.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., December
7, 1985 (age 70 years, 318
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Limprecht (1946-2002) —
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., 1946.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Albania, 1999-2002, died in office 2002.
Died in Albania,
May
19, 2002 (age about 55
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Edward Bennett (1910-2003) —
also known as Charles E. Bennett —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Canton, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., December
2, 1910.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1941-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1949-93 (2nd District 1949-67, 3rd
District 1967-93).
Christian.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Lions;
Jaycees.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., September
6, 2003 (age 92 years, 278
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Augustus Peabody Gardner (1865-1918) —
also known as Augustus P. Gardner; Gussie
Gardner —
of Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
5, 1865.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1900-01; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1902-17; resigned
1917; major in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Died, of pneumonia,
while in the
military service at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
14, 1918 (age 52 years, 70
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Joseph Donovan (1883-1959) —
also known as William J. Donovan; "Wild
Bill" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
1, 1883.
Son of Timothy P. Donovan and Anna (Lennon) Donovan.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1922; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of New York, 1922-24; candidate
for Governor of
New York, 1932; general in the U.S. Army during World War II;
U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1953-54.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Received the Medal
of Honor for action during World War I. During World War II, he
founded and led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, which later
became the Central Intelligence Agency.
Died at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1959 (age 76 years, 38
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Francis Eugene Walter (1894-1963) —
also known as Francis E. Walter —
of Easton, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., May 26,
1894.
Son of Robley D. Walter and Susie E. Walter.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
trustee, Easton Hospital;
bank
director; Northampton
County Solicitor, 1928-33; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1928,
1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956,
1960;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1933-63 (21st District 1933-45,
20th District 1945-53, 15th District 1953-63); died in office 1963.
Lutheran.
Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows; Eagles; Junior
Order; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died, of leukemia,
in Washington,
D.C., May 31,
1963 (age 69 years, 5
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Lindsley Tappin (1906-1964) —
also known as John L. Tappin —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
22, 1906.
Son of Lindsley Tappin and Elise Irving (Huntington) Tappin.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Libya, 1954-58.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Aspen, Pitkin
County, Colo., December
24, 1964 (age 58 years, 337
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Holcomb, Jr. (1879-1965) —
of St. Mary's City, St. Mary's
County, Md.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., August 5,
1879.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; Commandant of the
U.S. Marine Corps, 1936-43; U.S. Minister to South Africa, 1944-48.
Died in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., May 24,
1965 (age 85 years, 292
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Paul Joseph Kilday (1900-1968) —
also known as Paul J. Kilday —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Sabinal, Uvalde
County, Tex., March 29,
1900.
Son of Patrick Kilday and Mary (Tallent) Kilday.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas 20th District, 1939-61; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1956;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Military Appeals, 1961-67.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Died October
12, 1968 (age 68 years, 197
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jesse Paine Wolcott (1893-1969) —
also known as Jesse P. Wolcott —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Gardner, Worcester
County, Mass., March 3,
1893.
Son of William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; St.
Clair County Prosecuting Attorney, 1927-30; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 7th District, 1931-57.
Universalist
or Congregationalist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; American
Legion; Moose.
Died January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 331
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arthur Ainslie Ageton (1900-1971) —
also known as Arthur A. Ageton —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Fromberg, Carbon
County, Mont., October
25, 1900.
Son of Peter Benjamin Ageton and Minnie Anna (Drummond) Ageton.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; rear
admiral; U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1954-57; university
professor.
Episcopalian.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 23,
1971 (age 70 years, 180
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Cleo Allen Noel, Jr. (1918-1973) —
also known as Cleo A. Noel, Jr. —
of Missouri.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., August 6,
1918.
U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, 1972-73, died in office 1973.
Assassinated
in Sudan,
March
2, 1973 (age 54 years, 208
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887-1976) —
Born in Parkerville, Morris
County, Kan., April 17,
1887.
Son of John Edgar Edgerton and Alice (Green) Edgerton.
Engineer;
Major General, U.S. Army; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1940-44.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1976
(age about
89 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Melvin Lawrence Manfull (1919-2000) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Farmington, Davis
County, Utah, February
24, 1919.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Central African Republic, 1971-72; Liberia, 1972.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died soon after, at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington,
D.C., September
11, 2000 (age 81 years, 200
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Francis James (1873-1945) —
also known as W. Frank James —
of Hancock, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., May 23,
1873.
Son of William F. James and Elizabeth A. (Williams) James.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
real
estate and insurance
business; Houghton
County Treasurer, 1901-04; mayor of
Hancock, Mich., 1908-10; member of Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1911-14; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1915-35; defeated,
1934, 1936.
Methodist.
Cornish
ancestry. Member, United
Spanish War Veterans; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Maccabees;
Foresters;
Eagles.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., November
17, 1945 (age 72 years, 178
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870-1948) —
Born in 1870.
Son of Edward N. Kellogg and Janie H. Kellogg.
U.S. Navy officer; Governor of
American Samoa.
Died, in the Naval
Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
8, 1948 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Married to Emily Taylor. |
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Philip Bracken Fleming (1887-1955) —
also known as Philip B. Fleming —
of Washington,
D.C.; New Hampshire.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, October
15, 1887.
Son of John Joseph Fleming and Mary (Bracken) Fleming.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; general in the
U.S. Army during World War II; head of Federal Works Agency and of
Federal Maritime Commission; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1951-53.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Delta
Upsilon.
Died, of cancer, in
Washington,
D.C., October
6, 1955 (age 67 years, 356
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Leon Harry Gavin (1893-1963) —
also known as Leon H. Gavin —
of Oil City, Venango
County, Pa.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., February
25, 1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1943-63 (20th District 1943-45,
19th District 1945-53, 23rd District 1953-63); died in office 1963.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
15, 1963 (age 70 years, 202
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Adolph Dubs (1920-1979) —
of Maryland.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August 4,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79, died in office 1979.
Assassinated
in Afghanistan,
February
14, 1979 (age 58 years, 194
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Samuel David Berger (1911-1980) —
also known as Samuel D. Berger —
of Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y.
Born in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., December
6, 1911.
Son of Harry I. Berger and Bess (Cohen) Berger.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1961-64.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer, Washington,
D.C., February
12, 1980 (age 68 years, 68
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Phelps Phelps (1897-1981) —
also known as Phelps von Rottenburg —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.; Wildwood, Cape May
County, N.J.
Born in Bonn, Germany,
May 4,
1897.
Son of Franz von Rottenburg (1845-1907) and Marian (Phelps) von
Rottenburg (1868-1922).
Member of New York
state assembly, 1924-28, 1937-38 (New York County 10th District
1924-28, New York County 3rd District 1937-38); delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936,
1948
(alternate); member of New York
state senate 13th District, 1939-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; Governor of
American Samoa, 1951-52; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1952-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Jersey, 1956,
1960,
1964
(alternate); delegate to
New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1966.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Psi
Upsilon; Urban
League; Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union
League; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in Wildwood, Cape May
County, N.J., June 10,
1981 (age 84 years, 37
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Arnold Lewis Raphel (1943-1988) —
also known as Arnold L. Raphel —
of New Jersey.
Born in 1943.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1987-88, died in office 1988.
Killed when a plane in
which he was a passenger was blown up in
midair by terrorists,
near Bahawalpur, Pakistan,
August
17, 1988 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Gerard Coad Smith (1914-1994) —
also known as Gerard C. Smith —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born May 4,
1914.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1977-80.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died July 4,
1994 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William David Ford (1927-2004) —
also known as William D. Ford —
of Taylor, Wayne
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., August 6,
1927.
Son of Robert Ford and Jean (McGhee) Ford.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County
19th District, 1961-62; member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1963-64; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1965-95 (15th District 1965-93,
13th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1980,
1984.
United
Church of Christ. Scottish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary;
Phi
Delta Phi; Jaycees;
Moose;
Eagles.
Died in Ypsilanti Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., August
14, 2004 (age 77 years, 8
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Anthony Jerome Griffin (1866-1935) —
also known as Anthony J. Griffin;
"Altair" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1866.
Son of James A. Griffin and Ann (Zeluiff) Griffin.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1911-14; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1915;
U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1917-35; died in
office 1935.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of heart
disease, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
13, 1935 (age 68 years, 287
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Low Bacon (1884-1938) —
also known as Robert L. Bacon; "Prince
Charming" —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 23,
1884.
Son of Martha Waldron (Cowdin) Bacon and Robert
Bacon.
Republican. Banker;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1923-38; died in
office 1938.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Moose.
Died, of a heart
attack, at the state police barracks, Lake Success, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
12, 1938 (age 54 years, 51
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Augustine Bernard Kelley (1883-1957) —
also known as Augustine B. Kelley —
of Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa.
Born in New Baltimore, Somerset
County, Pa., July 9,
1883.
Son of Abraham Francis Kelley and Mary Elizabeth (Kegg) Kelley.
Democrat. Owner and operator of coal mines;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1941-57 (28th District 1941-45,
27th District 1945-53, 21st District 1953-57); died in office 1957.
Member, Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., November
20, 1957 (age 74 years, 134
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Oscar Talle (1892-1969) —
also known as Henry O. Talle —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born near Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn., January
12, 1892.
Son of John Talle and Anna (Ovri) Talle.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1939-59 (4th District 1939-43, 2nd
District 1943-59); defeated, 1936 (4th District), 1958 (2nd District).
Lutheran.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 14,
1969 (age 77 years, 61
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Harold Royce Gross (1899-1987) —
also known as H. R. Gross —
of Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa.
Born in Arispe, Union
County, Iowa, June 30,
1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 3rd District, 1949-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
22, 1987 (age 88 years, 84
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ray John Madden (1892-1987) —
also known as Ray J. Madden —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Gary, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Waseca, Waseca
County, Minn., February
25, 1892.
Son of John Madden and Mary Elizabeth (Burns) Madden.
Democrat. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Nebraska, 1916; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War I; Lake
County Treasurer, 1938-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1943-77 (1st District 1943-63, 8th
District 1963-65, 1st District 1965-77); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
28, 1987 (age 95 years, 215
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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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.
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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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Loren E. Lawrence (1926-1993) —
Born in Hamilton, Greenwood
County, Kan., January
26, 1926.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, 1979-82.
Died in 1993
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Dwight Dickinson III (1916-1997) —
of Jamestown, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., December
13, 1916.
Son of Spencer Dickinson (1883-1952).
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Togo, 1970-74.
Died in Jamestown, Newport
County, R.I., 1997
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Herbert Butler Powell (1903-1998) —
also known as Herbert B. Powell —
of Oregon.
Born in Monmouth, Polk
County, Ore., 1903.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean conflict; U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 1963-67.
Died at a nursing
home in Williamsburg,
Va., April 4,
1998 (age about 94
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Stuart Estes (1913-2001) —
also known as Thomas S. Estes —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Rumford, Oxford
County, Maine, January
23, 1913.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1961-66.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in the Freedom Village Nursing
Center, Bradenton, Manatee
County, Fla., December
29, 2001 (age 88 years, 340
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richard McGarrah Helms (1913-2002) —
also known as Richard Helms —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in St. Davids, Delaware
County, Pa., March 30,
1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Director, U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, 1966-73; U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1973-77; pleaded
guilty in 1977 to perjury
charges,
over his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Member, Chi Psi;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of multiple
myeloma, in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 2002 (age 89 years, 206
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Pigott Cronan (1879-1929) —
also known as William P. Cronan —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March 6,
1879.
Son of Patrick J. Cronan.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Guam, 1916.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March 18,
1929 (age 50 years, 12
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Royal Cleaves Johnson (1882-1939) —
also known as Royal C. Johnson —
of Highmore, Hyde
County, S.Dak.; Aberdeen, Brown
County, S.Dak.
Born in Cherokee, Cherokee
County, Iowa, October
3, 1882.
Son of Eli Johnson and Philena (Everett) Johnson.
Republican. Lawyer; Hyde
County State's Attorney, 1909-10; South
Dakota state attorney general, 1911-15; U.S.
Representative from South Dakota 2nd District, 1915-33; delegate
to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, 1932.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died August 2,
1939 (age 56 years, 303
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Paul Humiston Alling (1896-1949) —
also known as Paul H. Alling —
of Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn., July 15,
1896.
Son of Edson Lyman Alling and Lulu Augusta (Harrison) Alling.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Beirut, 1924-26, 1927-28; Aleppo, 1926; Damascus, 1926-27; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Morocco, 1945-47; U.S. Consul General in Tangier, 1947; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1947-48.
Member, Delta
Phi.
Died, in the Naval
Medical Center, in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
18, 1949 (age 52 years, 187
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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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.
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William Purrington Cole, Jr. (1889-1957) —
also known as William P. Cole, Jr. —
of Towson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Towson, Baltimore
County, Md., May 11,
1889.
Son of William Purrington Cole and Ida Estelle (Stocksdale) Cole.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1927-29, 1931-43; Judge of
U.S. Customs Court, 1942-52; Judge of
U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1952-57.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order; Phi
Kappa Sigma.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., September
22, 1957 (age 68 years, 134
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edwin Keith Thomson (1919-1960) —
also known as E. Keith Thomson —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Born in Newcastle, Weston
County, Wyo., February
8, 1919.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wyoming, 1952;
member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1952-54; U.S.
Representative from Wyoming at-large, 1955-60; died in office
1960; elected U.S.
Senator from Wyoming 1960, but died before taking office.
Died in Cody, Park
County, Wyo., December
9, 1960 (age 41 years, 305
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Edward Van Zandt (1898-1986) —
also known as James E. Van Zandt —
of Altoona, Blair
County, Pa.
Born in Altoona, Blair
County, Pa., December
18, 1898.
Son of James T. Van Zandt and Kathryn Van Zandt.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; worked in
Altoona shops of Pennsylvania Railroad;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1939-43, 1947-63 (23rd District
1939-43, 22nd District 1947-53, 20th District 1953-63); served in the
U.S. Navy during World War II; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1962.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Knights
of Pythias; Grange; Eagles; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., January
6, 1986 (age 87 years, 19
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Grant O'Hara (1925-1989) —
also known as James G. O'Hara —
of Utica, Macomb
County, Mich.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
8, 1925.
Son of Raphael McNulty O'Hara and Neta Lloyd (Hemphill) O'Hara.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan, 1959-77 (7th District 1959-65, 12th
District 1965-77); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1960;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1976.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from lung
cancer, in the George Washington University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., March 13,
1989 (age 63 years, 125
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Nesbitt Wilson (1933-2010) —
also known as Charles Wilson; Charlie Wilson;
"Good Time Charlie" —
of Lufkin, Angelina
County, Tex.
Born in Trinity, Trinity
County, Tex., June 1,
1933.
Democrat. Lumber
business; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1961-66; member of Texas
state senate, 1966-72; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1973-96; resigned 1996;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1996.
Methodist.
Died, from cardio-pulmonary
arrest, in Lufkin Memorial Hospital,
Lufkin, Angelina
County, Tex., February
10, 2010 (age 76 years, 254
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Archibald Frear (1861-1939) —
also known as James A. Frear —
of Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis.
Born in Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis., October
24, 1861.
Son of Aaron H. Frear and Margaret Jane (Rickard) Frear.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly from St. Croix County, 1903-04; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1905-06; secretary of
state of Wisconsin, 1907-13; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1913-35 (10th District 1913-33,
9th District 1933-35).
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 28,
1939 (age 77 years, 216
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) —
also known as John J. Pershing; "Black
Jack" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laclede, Linn
County, Mo., September
13, 1860.
Son of John F. Pershing and Anne E. (Thompson) Pershing.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920;
his autobiography won the Pulitzer
Prize for history in 1932.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 15,
1948 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Nelson Burr Gaskill (1875-1964) —
also known as Nelson B. Gaskill —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Mt. Holly, Burlington
County, N.J., September
12, 1875.
Son of Ellie (Logan) Gaskill (1848-1915) and Joseph
H. Gaskill.
Republican. Lawyer; member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1920-25; chair, Federal Trade
Commission, 1921-22.
Died October
6, 1964 (age 89 years, 24
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George McInvale Grant (1897-1982) —
also known as George M. Grant —
of Troy, Pike
County, Ala.
Born in Louisville, Barbour
County, Ala., July 11,
1897.
Son of Benjamin Giles Grant and Lannie Gholson (Stephens) Grant.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; chair of
Pike County Democratic Party, 1927-37; member of Alabama
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1935-38; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1938-65 (2nd District 1938-63,
at-large 1963-65).
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Woodmen;
American
Legion; Pi Kappa
Phi; Kiwanis.
Died, from a heart
attack, on a cruise aboard
the Queen Elizabeth II, en route to New York, probably in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, November
4, 1982 (age 85 years, 116
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Samuel Studdiford Stratton (1916-1990) —
also known as Samuel S. Stratton —
of Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y.; Amsterdam, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
27, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the
U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; candidate for New York
state assembly from Schenectady County, 1950; mayor
of Schenectady, N.Y., 1956-58; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-89 (32nd District 1959-63,
35th District 1963-71, 29th District 1971-73, 28th District 1973-83,
23rd District 1983-89); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1964,
1980,
1984,
1988.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets; Freemasons;
Eagles.
Died, in a nursing
home, 1990
(age about
73 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert C. Frasure (1942-1995) —
of Falls
Church, Va.
Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va., April 20,
1942.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Estonia, 1992-94.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Killed when the vehicle he was riding in plunged
down a ravine and exploded, on
Mount Igman, near Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, August
19, 1995 (age 53 years, 121
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Michael James McDermott (1894-1955) —
Born in Peabody, Essex
County, Mass., July 2,
1894.
U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1953-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August 5,
1955 (age 61 years, 34
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885-1959) —
also known as M. Robert Guggenheim —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1885.
Son of Daniel Guggenheim and Florence (Schloss) Guggenheim.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; executive, American Smelting and
Refining Corporation; U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1953-54.
Died in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., November
16, 1959 (age 74 years, 183
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edouard Victor Michel Izac (1891-1990) —
also known as Edouard V. M. Izac —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Cresco, Howard
County, Iowa, December
18, 1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Representative from California, 1937-47 (20th District 1937-43,
23rd District 1943-47); defeated, 1934, 1946; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1940,
1944.
Received the Medal
of Honor for actions as a German prisoner of war in 1918.
Died in Fairfax,
Va., January
18, 1990 (age 98 years, 31
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richard Crawford White (1923-1998) —
also known as Richard C. White —
of El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex.
Born in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., April 29,
1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; member
of Texas
state house of representatives, 1955-58; U.S.
Representative from Texas 16th District, 1965-83.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American Bar
Association.
Died February
18, 1998 (age 74 years, 295
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Lawrence Coughlin, Jr. (1929-2001) —
also known as R. Lawrence Coughlin —
of Villanova, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa., April 11,
1929.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean
conflict; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Montgomery County 1st
District, 1965-67; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1969-93.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Jaycees;
Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died in Mathews, Mathews
County, Va., November
30, 2001 (age 72 years, 233
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870-1937) —
also known as Richmond P. Hobson —
of Greensboro, Hale
County, Ala.
Born in Greensboro, Hale
County, Ala., August
17, 1870.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;
Presidential Elector for Alabama, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1907-15.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1933 for action at Santiago de Cuba in February, 1898.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 16,
1937 (age 66 years, 211
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill (1879-1941) —
also known as John Philip Hill —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., May 2,
1879.
Son of Charles E. Hill and Kate Watts (Clayton) Hill.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Maryland, 1910-15; candidate for mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1915; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maryland, 1916;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1921-27; defeated,
1908, 1928, 1930, 1936; delegate to
Maryland convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Moose; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 23,
1941 (age 62 years, 21
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Melvin Joseph Maas (1898-1964) —
also known as Melvin J. Maas —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., May 14,
1898.
Son of Frank Newton Maas and Rose (Brady) Maas.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1927-33, 1935-45;
defeated, 1932 (Independent, at-large), 1944 (Republican, 4th
District); served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.
Catholic.
Member, Military
Order of the World Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Knights
of Columbus; Woodmen;
Moose;
Eagles.
Stricken with total blindness
in August 1951.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 13,
1964 (age 65 years, 335
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Elmer Joseph Holland (1894-1968) —
also known as Elmer J. Holland —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., January
8, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1934-42; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1942-43, 1956-68 (33rd District
1942-43, 30th District 1956-63, 20th District 1963-68); died in
office 1968; major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 38th District, 1943-56.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; United
Steelworkers of America.
Died in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., August 9,
1968 (age 74 years, 214
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Charles Hart (1877-1971) —
also known as Thomas C. Hart —
of Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Davison, Genesee
County, Mich., June 12,
1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War,
World War I, and World War II; became an admiral in 1939; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War I; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1945-46.
Died in Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn., July 4,
1971 (age 94 years, 22
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Bernard William Kearney (1889-1976) —
also known as Bernard W. Kearney; Pat
Kearney —
of Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y.; Lake Pleasant, Hamilton
County, N.Y.
Born in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., May 23,
1889.
Son of Patrick B. Kearney and Josephine (Oster) Kearney.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Fulton
County District Attorney, 1931-42; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1943-59 (30th District 1943-45,
31st District 1945-53, 32nd District 1953-59).
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Eagles; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus; Grange; Delta
Chi.
Died June 3,
1976 (age 87 years, 11
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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J. Herbert Burke (1913-1993) —
of Hollywood, Broward
County, Fla.; Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
14, 1913.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1967-79 (10th District 1967-73, 12th
District 1973-79); defeated, 1955 (6th District), 1978 (12th
District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida,
1972.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Eagles; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Moose; Kiwanis.
Arrested
in 1978 for being drunk
and disruptive in the parking lot of a strip
club; pleaded
guilty to public
drunkenness, disorderly conduct and witness
tampering.
Died in Fern Park, Seminole
County, Fla., June 16,
1993 (age 80 years, 153
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frank Jefferson Horton (1919-2004) —
also known as Frank Horton —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Bentonville, Warren
County, Va.
Born in Cuero, DeWitt
County, Tex., December
12, 1919.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1963-93 (36th District 1963-73,
34th District 1973-83, 29th District 1983-93).
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, following a stroke, in
a hospital
at Winchester,
Va., August
30, 2004 (age 84 years, 262
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Blackburn Barrett Dovener (1842-1914) —
also known as Blackburn B. Dovener —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Tays Valley, Cabell
County, Va. (now W.Va.), April 20,
1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1883-84; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia, 1895-1907 (1st District
1895-97, at-large 1897-99, 1st District 1899-1907); defeated, 1890.
Died May 9,
1914 (age 72 years, 19
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Robert Thomas (1846-1914) —
also known as John R. Thomas —
of Metropolis, Massac
County, Ill.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Jefferson
County, Ill., October
11, 1846.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1879-89 (18th District 1879-83,
20th District 1883-89); federal
judge, 1897.
Died in McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla., January
19, 1914 (age 67 years, 100
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Nelson Appleton Miles (1839-1925) —
also known as Nelson A. Miles —
Born in Westminster, Worcester
County, Mass., August 8,
1839.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor in 1892 for action at the battle of Chancellorsville,
1863; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1904.
Suffered a heart
attack and died, while attending a circus,
in Washington,
D.C., May 15,
1925 (age 85 years, 280
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Leonard Wood (1860-1927) —
Born in Winchester, Cheshire
County, N.H., October
9, 1860.
Son of Charles Jewett Wood and Caroline E. (Hagar) Wood.
Republican. Physician;
received the Medal
of Honor in 1898 for his actions during an Indian war in 1886;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; commander of
the "Rough Riders"; Military Governor of Cuba, 1899-1902; major
general in the Philippine-American War, 1902-06; first Army Chief of
Staff; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
Governor-General of the Philippines, 1921-27.
English
ancestry.
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is named for
him.
Died, following surgery for a brain
tumor, in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August 6,
1927 (age 66 years, 301
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Donald Lester Jackson (1910-1981) —
also known as Donald L. Jackson —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ipswich, Edmunds
County, S.Dak., January
23, 1910.
Son of Cyrus Lester Jackson and Betina Phoebe (Ames) Jackson.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1947-61; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1969-72.
Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Eagles; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets; Reserve
Officers Association; Marine
Corps League.
Died at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 27,
1981 (age 71 years, 124
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Maxwell Davenport Taylor (1901-1987) —
also known as Maxwell Taylor —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Keytesville, Chariton
County, Mo., August
26, 1901.
Son of John Earle Maxwell Taylor and Pearle (Davenport) Taylor.
Superintendent of West Point Military Academy, 1945-49; U.S.
Commander in Berlin, 1949-51; U.S. Army Chief of Staff, 1955-59;
chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-64; U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, 1964-65.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 19,
1987 (age 85 years, 236
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ralph Elihu Becker (1907-1994) —
also known as Ralph E. Becker —
of Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
29, 1907.
Son of Max Joseph Becker and Rose (Becker) Becker.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Presidential Elector for District of Columbia, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, 1976-77.
Jewish;
later Episcopalian.
Lithuanian
and Belarusian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Federal
Bar Association; National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Jewish
War Veterans; American
Legion; B'nai
B'rith; American
Jewish Committee.
Donor of the Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana to the
Smithsonian Institution; a sponsor of the Antarctic-South Pole
Operation Deep Freeze expedition, 1963; a mountain in Antarctica is
named
for him.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., August
24, 1994 (age 87 years, 207
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (1906-1997) —
also known as William J. Brennan, Jr. —
of New Jersey.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April 25,
1906.
Son of William J. Brennan and Agnes (McDermott) Brennan.
Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior court judge in
New Jersey, 1949-52; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1952-56; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1956-90; took senior status 1990.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
Died in a nursing
home in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., July 24,
1997 (age 91 years, 90
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married, May 5,
1928, to Marjorie Leonard. |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — Judgepedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William J. Brennan: Kim
Isaac Eisler, A
Justice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That
Transformed America — David E. Marion, The
Jurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. —
Hunter R. Clark, Justice
Brennan: The Great Conciliator — Charles M. Haar &
Jerold S. Kayden, Landmark
Justice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America's
Communities — Frank I. Michelman, Brennan
and Democracy |
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Pierre Emil George Salinger (1925-2004) —
also known as Pierre Salinger —
of California.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., June 14,
1925.
Son of Herbert Salinger and Jehanne (Bietry) Salinger.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; newspaper
reporter; press secretary to U.S. Sen. and Pres. John
F. Kennedy; U.S.
Senator from California, 1964; defeated, 1964; Paris bureau
chief for ABC News.
Died, from heart
failure, in a hospital
at Le Thor, Provence, France,
October
16, 2004 (age 79 years, 124
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James H. Harris (d. 1898) —
of North Carolina.
Born in St. Mary's
County, Md.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor in 1874 for action at New Market Heights, Virginia,
September 29, 1864; delegate to Republican National Convention from
North Carolina, 1868,
1880,
1884,
1888.
African
ancestry.
Died January
28, 1898.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Wheeler (1836-1906) —
also known as "Fighting Joe" —
of Wheeler, Lawrence
County, Ala.
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., September
10, 1836.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 8th District, 1881-82, 1885-1900.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
25, 1906 (age 69 years, 137
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Edward Casey (1898-1980) —
also known as Joseph E. Casey —
of Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Clinton, Worcester
County, Mass., December
27, 1898.
Son of John Edward Casey and Winifred M. (Carey) Casey.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924
(alternate), 1932,
1940,
1944,
1948;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1935-43;
defeated, 1926, 1928; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1942.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Eagles; American
Legion.
Died September
1, 1980 (age 81 years, 249
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Chester Craig Hosmer (1915-1982) —
also known as Craig Hosmer —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Brea, Orange
County, Calif., May 6,
1915.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1953-74 (18th District 1953-63,
32nd District 1963-74); defeated, 1950; resigned 1974; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1956.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died of a heart
attack, aboard the cruise
ship Azure Seas, in the North
Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, en route to Mexico, October
11, 1982 (age 67 years, 158
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Lamar Jeffers (1888-1983) —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala., April 16,
1888.
Son of William Henry Jeffers and Anna Frances (Jenkins) Jeffers.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1921-35.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., June 1,
1983 (age 95 years, 46
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Peter Francis Mack, Jr. (1916-1986) —
also known as Peter F. Mack, Jr. —
of Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.
Born in Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill., November
1, 1916.
Son of Peter Mack and Catherine Kelly Mack.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; airplane
pilot; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 21st District, 1949-63; defeated,
1962, 1974, 1976.
Died in Rockville, Montgomery
County, Md., July 4,
1986 (age 69 years, 245
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frank Neville Ikard (1913-1991) —
also known as Frank N. Ikard —
of Wichita Falls, Wichita
County, Tex.
Born in Henrietta, Clay
County, Tex., January
30, 1913.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; district judge
in Texas 30th District, 1948-51; U.S.
Representative from Texas 13th District, 1951-61; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1956,
1960,
1968.
Died in 1991
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an
actor
in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of
Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Levi Maish (1837-1899) —
of York, York
County, Pa.
Born in Conewago Township, York
County, Pa., November
22, 1837.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from York County, 1867-68; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 19th District, 1875-79, 1887-91.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1899 (age 61 years, 96
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Albert Tiffin Hull (1841-1928) —
also known as John A. T. Hull —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Ohio, 1841.
Republican. Secretary of
state of Iowa, 1879-85; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1886-90; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 7th District, 1891-1911.
Died in 1928
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) —
also known as John R. Lynch —
of Natchez, Adams
County, Miss.
Born in slavery
in Concordia
Parish, La., September
10, 1847.
Son of Patrick Lynch and Catharine Lynch.
Republican. Member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1869-73; Speaker of
the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1871-73; Mississippi
Republican state chair, 1871-89; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Mississippi, 1872,
1884
(Temporary
Chair), 1888,
1892;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 6th District, 1873-77, 1882-83;
major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1939
(age about
91 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Kenneth Allison Roberts (1912-1989) —
also known as Kenneth A. Roberts —
of Anniston, Calhoun
County, Ala.
Born in Piedmont, Calhoun
County, Ala., November
1, 1912.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate; elected 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1951-65 (4th District 1951-63,
at-large 1963-65); defeated, 1964; shot and
wounded in an attack on the U.S. House by Puerto Rican
nationalists, 1954.
Baptist.
Member, Lions; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Potomac, Montgomery
County, Md., May 9,
1989 (age 76 years, 189
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Francis Xavier McCloskey (1939-2003) —
also known as Frank McCloskey —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 12,
1939.
Democrat. Mayor
of Bloomington, Ind., 1972-82; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1972;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1983-85, 1985-95;
defeated, 1970, 1994.
Catholic.
Died, of bladder
cancer, November
2, 2003 (age 64 years, 143
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Henry Enochs (1842-1893) —
also known as William H. Enochs —
of Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio.
Born near Middleburg, Noble
County, Ohio, March 29,
1842.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Ohio
state house of representatives, 1870-71; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1891-93 (12th District 1891-93, 10th
District 1893); died in office 1893.
Died in Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio, July 13,
1893 (age 51 years, 106
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Job Barnard (1844-1923) —
of Crown Point, Lake
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Porter
County, Ind., June 8,
1844.
Son of William Barnard and Sally (Williams) Barnard.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
District of Columbia supreme court, 1899-1914.
Died February
28, 1923 (age 78 years, 265
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Hopkins Beck (1892-1957) —
also known as William H. Beck —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., September
8, 1892.
Son of James Beck and Elizabeth Lawton (Morgan) Beck.
U.S. Consul General in Ottawa, 1932; Oslo, 1938; Hamilton, 1939-45; Southampton, 1945.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 31,
1957 (age 64 years, 204
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1923
to Mae Edwards Norwood. |
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Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz (1890-1963) —
also known as Rudolph G. Tenerowicz —
of Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
of Polish parents, June 14,
1890.
Son of John Tenerowicz and Antoinette (Gall) Tenerowicz.
Physician;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor
of Hamtramck, Mich., 1928-32, 1936-39; resigned 1932; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1939-43; defeated,
1942 (Democratic primary), 1946 (Republican primary), 1948
(Republican), 1950 (Republican), 1952 (Republican), 1954 (Republican).
Polish
ancestry.
Tried
and convicted
on vice
conspiracy charges
in 1932; freed from prison when pardoned
by Gov. William
A. Comstock.
Died in Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich., August
31, 1963 (age 73 years, 78
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Evan Howell (1905-1980) —
also known as Evan Howell —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Illinois, 1905.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 21st District, 1941-49; defeated in
primary, 1938.
Died in 1980
(age about
75 years).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Moore McCulloch (1901-1980) —
also known as William M. McCulloch —
of Piqua, Miami
County, Ohio.
Born near Holmesville, Holmes
County, Ohio, November
24, 1901.
Republican. Member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1933-44; served in the U.S. Army during
World War II; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1947-73; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1964.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1980 (age 78 years, 90
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Walter Flowers (1933-1984) —
of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
County, Ala.
Born in Greenville, Butler
County, Ala., April 12,
1933.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1969-79 (5th District 1969-73, 7th
District 1973-79); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1978.
Died in McLean, Fairfax
County, Va., April 12,
1984 (age 51 years, 0
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Luzerne Hart, Jr. (1905-1984) —
also known as George L. Hart, Jr. —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., July 14,
1905.
Son of George Luzerne Hart and Lavela (Slicer) Hart.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Republican
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1952,
1956;
District of
Columbia Republican Party chair, 1958; U.S.
District Judge for the District of Columbia, 1958-79; took senior
status 1979.
Died, in Washington University Medical
Center, Washington,
D.C., May 21,
1984 (age 78 years, 312
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Bruce Brownson (1914-1988) —
also known as Charles B. Brownson —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., February
5, 1914.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1951-59; defeated,
1958.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., August 4,
1988 (age 74 years, 181
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Richard Lowell Roudebush (1918-1995) —
also known as Richard L. Roudebush —
of Indiana.
Born near Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., January
18, 1918.
Son of Roy Lehr Roudebush (1890-1974) and Melissa Mae (McMahan)
Roudebush.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1961-71 (6th District 1961-67, 10th
District 1967-69, 5th District 1969-71); candidate for U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1970.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
The Richard L. Roudebush V.A. Medical Center, Indianapolis, Ind., is
named
for him.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., January
28, 1995 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (1839-1900) —
also known as Edwin S. Osborne —
of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born in Bethany, Wayne
County, Pa., August 7,
1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1885-91 (at-large 1885-89, 12th
District 1889-91); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1888.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died January
1, 1900 (age 60 years, 147
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Marshall Francis McComb (1894-1981) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Denver,
Colo., May 6,
1894.
Son of Harry McComb and Estelle (Tredenick) McComb.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1927; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1937-55; justice of
California state supreme court, 1956-77; director, Good Samaritan
Hospital.
Member, Delta
Chi; Sigma
Delta Kappa; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died September
5, 1981 (age 87 years, 122
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Patrick Sinnott Devereux (1903-1988) —
also known as James P. Devereux —
of Stevenson, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Cuba, February
20, 1903.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1951-59; candidate for
Governor
of Maryland, 1958; Presidential Elector for Maryland, 1972.
Catholic.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Farm
Bureau.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., August 5,
1988 (age 85 years, 167
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Patrick Jerome Hillings (1923-1994) —
also known as Patrick J. Hillings; Pat
Hillings —
of Arcadia, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Hobart Mills, Nevada
County, Calif., February
19, 1923.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1951-59 (12th District 1951-53,
25th District 1953-59); delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for California
state attorney general, 1958; chair of
Los Angeles County Republican Party, 1960-61.
Died in Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., July 20,
1994 (age 71 years, 151
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frank Bradford Morse (1921-1994) —
also known as F. Bradford Morse —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August 7,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1961-72; resigned
1972; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks.
Died, of heart
failure, in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., December
18, 1994 (age 73 years, 133
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Laurie Calvin Battle (1912-2000) —
also known as Laurie C. Battle —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.
Born in Wilsonville, Shelby
County, Ala., May 10,
1912.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 9th District, 1947-55; candidate in
primary for U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1954; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1956;
candidate in primary for Governor of
Alabama, 1958.
Methodist.
Member, Jaycees;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kappa
Phi Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Gamma Mu; Elks; Eagles; Lions.
Sponsored Battle Act, which banned U.S. assistance to countries doing
business with the Soviet Union.
Died, at the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
2000 (age 87 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Phillip Vigorito (1918-2003) —
also known as Joseph P. Vigorito —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, November
10, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 24th District, 1965-77;
defeated, 1976, 1978.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, of lymphoma,
in Walter
Reed Army Hospital Center, Washington,
D.C., February
5, 2003 (age 84 years, 87
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Edwards (1805-1894) —
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., October
24, 1805.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845-46; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Indiana
state senate, 1853; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1856-61; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1859-61; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention 9th District, 1857;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1871-73.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1894 (age 88 years, 166
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jacob Hale Sypher (1837-1905) —
also known as J. Hale Sypher —
of Louisiana.
Born near Millerstown, Perry
County, Pa., June 22,
1837.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1868;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1868-69, 1870-75.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 9,
1905 (age 67 years, 321
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Clinton Dugald MacDougall (1839-1914) —
also known as Clinton D. MacDougall —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born near Glasgow, Scotland,
June
14, 1839.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1873-77 (25th District 1873-75,
26th District 1875-77).
Died in Paris, France,
May
24, 1914 (age 74 years, 344
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Avery McIlhenny (1867-1942) —
also known as John A. McIlhenny —
of Iberia
Parish, La.
Born in Avery Island, Iberia
Parish, La., October
29, 1867.
Son of Edmund McIlhenny (1815-1890; inventor of Tabasco sauce).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1900-04; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1904-06; member, U.S. Civil Service
Commission, 1906-19.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
8, 1942 (age 75 years, 10
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Martin Fernard Smith (1891-1954) —
also known as Martin F. Smith —
of Hoquiam, Grays
Harbor County, Wash.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 28,
1891.
Democrat. State court judge in Washington, 1914; mayor of
Hoquiam, Wash., 1928; U.S.
Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1933-43.
Died October
25, 1954 (age 63 years, 150
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Martin Barnes (1899-1958) —
also known as James M. Barnes —
of Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., January
9, 1899.
Son of Charles A. Barnes and Madge (Martin) Barnes.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lawyer;
county judge in Illinois, 1926-34; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 20th District, 1939-43; defeated,
1942; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Died, of a liver
ailment, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 8,
1958 (age 59 years, 150
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Franklin Frederick Korell (1889-1965) —
also known as Franklin F. Korell —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 23,
1889.
Son of Charles H. Korell and Frances M. Korell.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1921; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1927-31; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1928.
Died June 7,
1965 (age 75 years, 319
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Halstead Sutphin (1887-1972) —
also known as William H. Sutphin —
of Matawan, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Browntown, Middlesex
County, N.J., August
30, 1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1931-43; defeated,
1942; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1948.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Elks; Junior
Order.
Died in Salisbury, Wicomico
County, Md., October
14, 1972 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Edwin Minshall, Jr. (1911-1990) —
also known as William E. Minshall, Jr. —
of Rocky River, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Lakewood, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Delray Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, October
24, 1911.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1939-40; served in the U.S. Army during
World War II; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 23rd District, 1955-74; resigned 1974;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1960,
1964,
1972.
Died October
15, 1990 (age 78 years, 356
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Hanes Ayres (1916-2000) —
also known as William H. Ayres —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Eagle Rock, Botetourt
County, Va., February
5, 1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1951-71.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Amvets; Eagles; Moose.
Died, of heart and
kidney
ailments, at Vantage House retirement
home, Columbia, Howard
County, Md., December
27, 2000 (age 84 years, 326
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Charles Corman (1920-2000) —
also known as James C. Corman; Jim Corman —
of Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Reseda, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Galena, Cherokee
County, Kan., October
20, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; served
in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1961-81 (22nd District 1961-75,
21st District 1975-81).
Methodist.
Member, Lions; American
Legion; Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American Bar
Association.
Floor manager in U.S. House for Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights
Act in 1960s; member of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders.
The federal building in Van Nuys, Calif., was named for
him in 2001.
Died, following a cerebral
hemorrhage, in a hospital
at Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., December
30, 2000 (age 80 years, 71
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Daniel McCauley (1839-1894) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in New York, September
8, 1839.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1867-73.
Died in Nicaragua,
1894
(age about
54 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Halbert Eleazer Paine (1826-1905) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Chardon, Geauga
County, Ohio, February
4, 1826.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1865-71.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 14,
1905 (age 79 years, 69
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Charles Schuveldt Dewey (1882-1980) —
also known as Charles S. Dewey —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, November
10, 1882.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1941-45; defeated,
1938, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Psi.
As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s, he was
responsible for the redesign and downsizing of U.S. paper currency.
Died December
27, 1980 (age 98 years, 47
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Clyde Taylor Ellis (1908-1980) —
also known as Clyde T. Ellis —
of Bentonville, Benton
County, Ark.
Born near Garfield, Benton
County, Ark., December
21, 1908.
Son of Cecil Oscar Ellis and Minerva Jane (Taylor) Ellis.
Democrat. Superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1933-35; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1935-39; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1939-43; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1940;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II.
Christian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Blue
Key; Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1980 (age 71 years, 50
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Edward Sheridan (1902-1987) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., September
15, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 4th District, 1939-47; defeated,
1946; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania,
1940,
1944
(alternate), 1948.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1987 (age 85 years, 58
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) —
of Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Jacksonville, Onslow
County, N.C., August
18, 1945.
Son of Lewis Burwell Puller (1898-1971) and Virginia Montague (Evans)
Puller (1908-2006).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lost both
legs in the explosion of an improvised land mine in South
Vietnam, 1968; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1978; received a Pulitzer
Prize in 1992 for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The
Healing of a Vietnam Vet.
Killed by a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., May 11,
1994 (age 48 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joel Thomas Broyhill (1919-2006) —
also known as Joel T. Broyhill —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Hopewell,
Va., November
4, 1919.
Son of Marvin Talmadge Broyhill and Nellie Magdalene (Brewer)
Broyhill.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; taken
prisoner by the German forces in the Battle of the Bulge; escaped
after six months; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1953-75; defeated,
1974; delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1960,
1964.
Lutheran.
Member, Optimist
Club; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Amvets; Reserve
Officers Association; Freemasons;
Moose;
Elks; Eagles; Izaak
Walton League; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, of congestive
heart failure and pneumonia,
in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
24, 2006 (age 86 years, 324
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Parren James Mitchell (1922-2007) —
also known as Parren J. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April 29,
1922.
Son of Clarence M. Mitchell, Sr. and Elsie (Davis) Mitchell.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1971-87.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Greater Baltimore Medical
Center, Baltimore,
Md., May 28,
2007 (age 85 years, 29
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Shadrack Shallenberger (1839-1914) —
also known as William S. Shallenberger —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Pennsylvania, November
24, 1839.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 24th District, 1877-83.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died April 15,
1914 (age 74 years, 142
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Floyd King (1842-1915) —
also known as J. Floyd King —
of Vidalia, Concordia
Parish, La.
Born in St. Simons Island, Glynn
County, Ga., April 20,
1842.
Son of Anna Matilda (Page) King (1800-1859) and Thomas
Butler King.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 5th District, 1879-87.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 8,
1915 (age 73 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Lewis Coffey, Jr. (1918-1949) —
also known as Robert L. Coffey, Jr. —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn., October
21, 1918.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 26th District, 1949; died in
office 1949.
Died in an airplane
accident in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., April 20,
1949 (age 30 years, 181
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ralph Eugene Updike (1894-1953) —
also known as Ralph E. Updike —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indiana, 1894.
Republican. Member of Indiana state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1925-29; defeated, 1928.
Died in 1953
(age about
59 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Alfred John Westland (1904-1982) —
also known as Jack Westland —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., December
14, 1904.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1953-65; defeated,
1964.
Died in Pebble Beach, Monterey
County, Calif., November
3, 1982 (age 77 years, 324
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Patton Sutton (1915-2005) —
also known as Pat Sutton —
of Lawrenceburg, Lawrence
County, Tenn.
Born near Wartrace, Bedford
County, Tenn., October
31, 1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1949-55 (7th District 1949-53, 6th
District 1953-55); candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1954; Lawrence
County Sheriff; pleaded no
contest in 1964 to charges
related to his involvement in a counterfeiting
ring; imprisoned
for 10 months for violating a federal probation
order.
Died, in the Lakeland Specialty Hospital,
Berrien Center, Berrien
County, Mich., February
3, 2005 (age 89 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Wilson Ragsdale (b. 1848) —
also known as James W. Ragsdale —
of Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Monroe
County, Ind., February
12, 1848.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of California
state assembly; member of California
state senate; U.S. Consul in Tientsin, 1897-1903; U.S. Consul General in Tientsin, 1903-08; SAINT Petersburg, 1908-09; Halifax, 1909-11.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hugh Reid Belknap (1860-1901) —
also known as Hugh R. Belknap —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa, September
1, 1860.
Son of William
Worth Belknap.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 3rd District, 1895-99; defeated,
1898.
Died, from intestinal
trouble, in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines,
November
12, 1901 (age 41 years, 72
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Americus Vespucius Rice (1835-1904) —
also known as Americus V. Rice —
of Ohio.
Born in Ohio, 1835.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1875-79; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1884;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1888.
Died in 1904
(age about
69 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Thomas Clark (1831-1905) —
of Texas.
Born in Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn., June 29,
1831.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Texas 3rd District, 1869-72.
Died in a hospital,
at New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
12, 1905 (age 74 years, 105
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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John Thomas Deweese (1835-1906) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Ark., June 4,
1835.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1867-71.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 4,
1906 (age 71 years, 30
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Henry Parker (1847-1908) —
also known as William H. Parker —
of Deadwood, Lawrence
County, S.Dak.
Born in Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 5,
1847.
Republican. Member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 49th District, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from South Dakota at-large, 1907-08; died in
office 1908.
Died in Deadwood, Lawrence
County, S.Dak., June 26,
1908 (age 61 years, 52
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frank Kowalski (1907-1974) —
of New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., October
18, 1907.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1959-63; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1960;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1962.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
11, 1974 (age 66 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Francis Lind (1900-1975) —
also known as James F. Lind —
of York, York
County, Pa.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., October
17, 1900.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 21st District, 1949-53;
defeated, 1952.
Died April 11,
1975 (age 74 years, 176
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Gladys Noon Spellman (1918-1988) —
also known as Gladys Blossom Noon —
of Maryland.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1918.
Democrat. School
teacher; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1975-81.
Female.
Jewish.
Removed from Congress in February 1981 by House resolution, due to
incapacitating illness.
Died in Rockville, Montgomery
County, Md., June 19,
1988 (age 70 years, 110
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Robert Anderson (1921-2007) —
also known as William R. Anderson —
of Waverly, Humphreys
County, Tenn.; Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in Bakerville, Humphreys
County, Tenn., June 17,
1921.
Son of David Hensley Anderson and Mary (McKelvey) Anderson.
Independent candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1962; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1965-73.
Protestant.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets.
Commanded the U.S.S. Nautilus on the first
under-ice crossing of the North Pole, 1958.
Died in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., February
25, 2007 (age 85 years, 253
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Lovell Harrison Rousseau (1818-1869) —
also known as Lovell H. Rousseau —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Kentucky, 1818.
Republican. Member of Kentucky state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1865-67.
Died in 1869
(age about
51 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1824-1896) —
of California.
Born in Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., May 14,
1824.
Son of Chambers
McKibbin.
Democrat. Member of California
state senate, 1852-53; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1857-59; defeated, 1858;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Marshall Hall, Charles
County, Md., July 1,
1896 (age 72 years, 48
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Samuel Swinfin Burdett (1836-1914) —
also known as Samuel S. Burdett —
of Missouri; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Leicestershire, England,
February
21, 1836.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Missouri, 1868;
U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1869-73.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in England,
September
24, 1914 (age 78 years, 215
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Samuel S. Yoder (1841-1921) —
of Bluffton, Allen
County, Ohio; Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Berlin, Holmes
County, Ohio, August
16, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
lawyer;
probate judge in Ohio, 1882-86; member of Ohio
Democratic State Executive Committee, 1883-85; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1887-91; Sergeant-at-Arms
of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1891-93.
Died May 11,
1921 (age 79 years, 268
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Dickinson Green (1857-1929) —
also known as Henry D. Green —
of Reading, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., May 3,
1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1883-86; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 11th District, 1889-96; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1899-1903;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1900.
Editor of the Reading Telegram, 1903-12; editor of the
Reading Times, 1911-13.
Died in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., December
29, 1929 (age 72 years, 240
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Strother Madison Stockslager (1842-1930) —
of Indiana.
Born in Mauckport, Harrison
County, Ind., May 7,
1842.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1874; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1881-85.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1930 (age 88 years, 25
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Vernor Smith (1890-1964) —
also known as Thomas V. Smith —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Blanket, Brown
County, Tex., April 26,
1890.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Illinois
state senate 5th District, 1935-38; U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1939-41; defeated, 1940;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Died in Hyattsville, Prince
George's County, Md., May 24,
1964 (age 74 years, 28
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Lloyd Meeds (1927-2005) —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Dillon, Beaverhead
County, Mont., December
11, 1927.
Democrat. Gasoline
station business; lawyer; Snohomish
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1962-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1965-79.
Member, Kiwanis;
Eagles.
Died, of cancer, in
Church Creek, Dorchester
County, Md., August
17, 2005 (age 77 years, 249
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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George Augustus Sheridan (1840-1896) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Massachusetts, 1840.
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1873-75.
Died in 1896
(age about
56 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) —
also known as Robert G. Ingersoll; "The Great
Agnostic"; "American Infidel";
"Impious Pope Bob" —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in Dresden, Yates
County, N.Y., August
11, 1833.
Son of Rev. John Ingersoll (1792-1759) and Mary (Livingston)
Ingersoll (died 1835).
Lawyer;
Democratic candidate for Illinois
state house of representatives 5th District, 1860; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; charged
about 1864 with assault and
battery against the Peoria County Sheriff; tried;
the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case was
dismissed before a new trial could be held; Illinois
state attorney general, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1876;
made the nominating speech which dubbed James
G. Blaine as "The Plumed Knight".
Agnostic.
Died in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 21,
1899 (age 65 years, 344
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington National Cemetery; statue at Glen
Oak Park, Peoria, Ill.
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Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862-1918) —
also known as Bertram T. Clayton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manila, Philippines.
Born near Clayton, Barbour
County, Ala., October
19, 1862.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1899-1901; defeated,
1900; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Killed
in action in France,
May
30, 1918 (age 55 years, 223
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Oliver Lyman Spaulding (1833-1922) —
of Michigan.
Born in Jaffrey, Cheshire
County, N.H., August 2,
1833.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary of
state of Michigan, 1867-70; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1881-83.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 30,
1922 (age 88 years, 362
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Raymond Thomas Nagle (1897-1950) —
also known as Raymond T. Nagle; Ray Nagle —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., June 2,
1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Montana
state house of representatives; Montana
state attorney general, 1933-36.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; American Bar
Association.
Died, from periarteritis
nodosa, in Brookmont, Montgomery
County, Md., March 6,
1950 (age 52 years, 277
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Hervé Joseph L'Heureux (1899-1957) —
also known as Hervé J. L'Heureux —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., March 6,
1899.
Son of Rodolphe L'Heureux and Desneiges (Pichette) L'Heureux.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Vice Consul in Windsor, 1927-35; U.S. Consul in Windsor, 1935; Stuttgart, 1936-39; Antwerp, 1939-41; Lisbon, 1941-42; Algiers, 1943-44; U.S. Consul General in Marseille, 1944-48.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Delta
Theta Phi.
Died in 1957
(age about
58 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Michael Angelo Musmanno (d. 1968) —
also known as Michael A. Musmanno —
of Pennsylvania.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1951; candidate in primary for
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1964.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in 1968.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (1887-1980) —
also known as Frederick A. Muhlenberg —
of Wernersville, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., September
25, 1887.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; colonel in
the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1947-49;
defeated, 1948.
Died in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., January
19, 1980 (age 92 years, 116
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Green Berry Raum (1829-1909) —
also known as Green B. Raum —
of Golconda, Pope
County, Ill.
Born in Illinois, 1829.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1867-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1880.
Died in 1909
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Edward John Bonin (1904-1990) —
also known as Edward J. Bonin —
of Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born in Hazleton, Luzerne
County, Pa., December
23, 1904.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; mayor
of Hazleton, Pa., 1951; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1953-55;
defeated, 1954.
Died December
20, 1990 (age 85 years, 362
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph Lyman Fisher (1914-1992) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Pawtucket, Providence
County, R.I., January
11, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1975-81.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Forestry Association.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
19, 1992 (age 78 years, 39
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jerome Anthony Ambro, Jr. (1928-1993) —
also known as Jerome A. Ambro, Jr. —
of Huntington Station, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 27,
1928.
Son of Jerome
G. Ambro.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
Huntington town supervisor; member, Suffolk County Board of
Supervisors; candidate in primary for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1970; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1975-81; defeated,
1980.
Died, from diabetes,
in a hospital
at Falls
Church, Va., March 4,
1993 (age 64 years, 250
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Stanley Lloyd Greigg (1931-2002) —
also known as Stanley L. Greigg —
of Sioux City, Woodbury
County, Iowa.
Born in Ireton, Sioux
County, Iowa, May 7,
1931.
Democrat. Mayor
of Sioux City, Iowa, 1964; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 6th District, 1965-67; defeated, 1966.
Lutheran.
Died in Salem,
Va., June 13,
2002 (age 71 years, 37
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Sidney Miller Ballou (1870-1929) —
also known as Sidney Ballou —
of Hawaii.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., October
24, 1870.
Son of Oren Aldrich Ballou and Charlotte (Miller) Ballou.
Lawyer;
justice
of Hawaii territorial supreme court, 1907-09.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Navy
League.
Died October
29, 1929 (age 59 years, 5
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Oren Aldrich Ballou and Charlotte (Miller) Ballou; married, December
21, 1895, to Thomie Duke (died 1905); married, July 27,
1907, to Lucia Burnett. |
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Henry Dickinson Lindsley (1872-1938) —
also known as Henry D. Lindsley —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February
29, 1872.
Mayor
of Dallas, Tex., 1915-17.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., November
18, 1938 (age 66 years, 0
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Thomas Henry Burke (1904-1959) —
also known as Thomas H. Burke —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, May 6,
1904.
Democrat. Official,
United Auto Workers union, 1938-48; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1949-51; defeated, 1950.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
12, 1959 (age 55 years, 129
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Stewart Hoffman Appleby (1890-1964) —
also known as Stewart Appleby —
of New Jersey.
Born in Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J., May 17,
1890.
Son of Theodore
Frank Appleby.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1925-27.
Died in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., January
12, 1964 (age 73 years, 240
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (1929-1980) —
also known as Allard Lowenstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
16, 1929.
Son of Gabriel Abraham Lowenstein and Augusta (Goldberg) Lowenstein.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1968,
1972;
U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1969-71; defeated in
primary, 1972, 1978.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Dennis Sweeney, in his law
office in Rockefeller Center, and died about seven hours later,
in St. Clare's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 14,
1980 (age 51 years, 58
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Patrick Minor Martin (1924-1968) —
also known as Pat Martin —
of California.
Born in Norfolk, Madison
County, Neb., November
25, 1924.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 38th District, 1963-65.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 18,
1968 (age 43 years, 236
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Vonno Lamar Gudger, Jr. (1919-2004) —
also known as V. Lamar Gudger —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in North Carolina, April 30,
1919.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 11th District, 1977-81.
Died August 2,
2004 (age 85 years, 94
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Vincent John Dellay (1907-1999) —
also known as Vincent J. Dellay —
of West New York, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Union City, Hudson
County, N.J., June 23,
1907.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 14th District, 1957-59; defeated,
1954.
Died in Hasbrouck Heights, Bergen
County, N.J., April 16,
1999 (age 91 years, 297
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Douglas McKevitt (1928-2000) —
also known as James D. McKevitt; Mike
McKevitt —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., 1928.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1971-73; defeated,
1972; delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1972.
Episcopalian.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died at Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., September
28, 2000 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry T. Hunt (c.1879-1956) —
also known as "Boy Mayor" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, about 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1907; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1912-13.
Died in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., February
29, 1956 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Harvey McLeary —
Texas
state attorney general, 1880-82.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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David John Markey (b. 1882) —
also known as D. John Markey —
of Walkersville, Frederick
County, Md.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., October
7, 1882.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1946.
Christian
Reformed. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Harrison Allen (1835-1904) —
of Warren
County, Pa.
Born December
4, 1835.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1868;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1870-72 (28th District 1870-71, 30th District
1872); Pennsylvania
state auditor general, 1872-75; U.S. Marshal for Dakota
Territory, 1882-86.
Died September
23, 1904 (age 68 years, 294
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Emil Hurja (1892-1953) —
of Breckenridge, Stephens
County, Tex.; Crystal Falls, Iron
County, Mich.
Born in Crystal Falls, Iron
County, Mich., January
22, 1892.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1936;
candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1946, 1948.
Finnish
ancestry. Member, American
Political Science Association; American
Economic Association; Sigma
Delta Chi.
Suffered a heart
attack, collapsed and died at the National Press Club, Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1953 (age 61 years, 128
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Herbert Ball Crosby (1871-1936) —
also known as Herbert B. Crosby —
of Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Fairmont, Riley
County, Kan., December
24, 1871.
Son of George Heman Crosby (born 1849) and Jane 'Jennie' (Ball)
Crosby.
Major General, U.S. Army; Chief of Calvalry; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1930-33.
Died, in Walter
Reed Hospital, Washington,
D.C., January
11, 1936 (age 64 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) —
also known as James G. Harbord —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 21,
1866.
Son of George W. Harbord and Effie Critton (Gault) Harbord
(c.1840-1923).
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and
chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad;
director, Bankers Trust Co.;
director, National Broadcasting
Co.; director, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York
Life Insurance
Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924,
1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union
League.
Died in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Vincent B. Murphy (b. 1888) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., January
4, 1888.
Son of Daniel B. Murphy.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 3rd District, 1922-24; New York
state comptroller, 1925-26; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Katharine Cooke Blow (1897-1965) —
also known as Katharine C. Blow; Katharine Rowland
Cooke; Mrs. George W. Blow —
of Yorktown, York
County, Va.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 21,
1897.
Daughter of George Joseph Cooke and Mary Elizabeth (Kerwin) Cooke.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1948,
1956;
candidate for Virginia
state house of delegates, 1949; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1950.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation.
Staff writer for
The New Yorker magazine,
1936-42.
Died in Yorktown, York
County, Va., March 25,
1965 (age 67 years, 338
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Chester D. Silvers (1902-1968) —
of Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in 1902.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives 76th District, 1936-37; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1938.
Died in 1968
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Gilbert C. Greenwalt —
of Iowa.
Secretary
of state of Iowa, 1931-33.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ross T. McIntire —
of Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Democrat. Physician;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 30th District, 1954; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1956.
He was President Franklin
D. Roosevelt's personal physician.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William P. Atwell (1845-1911) —
Born in 1845.
U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Roubaix, 1890-93, 1897-99; U.S. Consul in Roubaix, 1905.
Died in Ghent (Gent), Belgium,
July
28, 1911 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh (1890-1971) —
also known as Lynn U. Stambaugh —
of North Dakota.
Born in Abilene, Dickinson
County, Kan., July 4,
1890.
Son of Winfield Scott Stambaugh.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1944.
Member, Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 27,
1971 (age 80 years, 327
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1915
to Enid Ericson. |
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Allan Dawson (1903-1949) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
16, 1903.
Son of Thomas
Cleland Dawson and Luisa Guerra (Duval) Dawson.
Newspaper
reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1925-26; Bahia, 1926-27; U.S. Consul in Hamburg, 1937-39.
Died October
15, 1949 (age 46 years, 241
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Walter John Giller (1938-2003) —
also known as John Giller —
of El Dorado, Union
County, Ark.
Born in El Dorado, Union
County, Ark., December
28, 1938.
Republican. Orthopedic
surgeon; delegate to
Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1979; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1980.
Episcopalian.
Died, of cancer, in
Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., March 13,
2003 (age 64 years, 75
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jerry Curtis South (1867-1930) —
also known as Jerry C. South —
of Mountain Home, Baxter
County, Ark.
Born in Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky., March 24,
1867.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas state legislature, 1891-1901; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1892,
1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1916
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
24, 1930 (age 63 years, 184
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Sabin J. Dalferes —
U.S. Vice Consul in Warsaw, 1926-27; Hamburg, 1929-32; U.S. Consul in Strasbourg, 1949.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Robert W. Imbrie (d. 1924) —
Born in Baltimore,
Md.
U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, 1918; Viborg, 1920; Constantinople, 1921; Teheran, 1924, died in office 1924.
Beaten to
death by a mob in Teheran, Persia (now Tehran, Iran),
July
18, 1924.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1922
to Katherine Gillespie. |
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Clarence R. Edwards (d. 1931) —
of Westwood, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Died in 1931.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Luther Sibert (1860-1935) —
also known as William L. Sibert —
of Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky.
Born in Gadsden, Etowah
County, Ala., October
12, 1860.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; member, Panama Canal Commission,
1907-14; general in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Kentucky convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died in Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., October
16, 1935 (age 75 years, 4
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1887
to Mary Margaret Cummings (died 1915); married 1917 to
Juliette Roberts (died 1918); married 1922 to Evelyn
Clyne Bairnsfather. |
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William Herbert Murphy (1889-1942) —
Born in Berlin, Germany,
April
11, 1889.
Son of George
Herbert Murphy and Margarethe Schmidt Murphy.
Electrical
engineer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Coburg, 1914; served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Member, Freemasons.
While flying a reconnaissance mission, his plane
was shot
down over Surabaya, Indonesia,
February
3, 1942 (age 52 years, 298
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Catharine Probey. |
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Joseph Medill Patterson (1879-1946) —
also known as Joseph M. Patterson —
of Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
6, 1879.
Son of Joseph Wilson Patterson, Jr. and Elinor (Medill) Patterson.
Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1903; editor of
the Chicago Tribune, 1910-25; served in the U.S. Army during
World War I; founder (1919) and publisher
of the New York Daily News, the first successful American
tabloid newspaper.
Died, from a liver
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1946 (age 67 years, 140
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Norman B. Landreau (d. 1950) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia,
1932.
Died September
25, 1950.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Clarence Roland Hotchkiss (1880-1952) —
also known as Clarence R. Hotchkiss —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in West Warren, Bradford
County, Pa., June 5,
1880.
Son of Charles Frederick Hotchkiss (1854-1914) and Melissa Ann
(Taylor) Hotchkiss (1857-1886).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
real
estate broker; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1916;
secretary
of Oregon Republican Party, 1920; Presidential Elector for
Oregon, 1920.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; United
Spanish War Veterans; Military
Order of the World Wars; Reserve
Officers Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Delta
Theta Phi; Phi
Gamma Mu; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., September
17, 1952 (age 72 years, 104
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Henry Page (1870-1954) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Panama City, Bay
County, Fla.
Born in Princess Anne, Somerset
County, Md., September
1, 1870.
Son of Henry
Page (1841-1913) and Virginia Upshur (Dennis) Page.
Physician;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; built and commanded
Corregidor Hospital in Philippines, 1898-99; organized U.S. Ambulance
Corps, 1917; dean, college of Medicine, University of Cincinnati,
1921-25; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Florida, 1936.
Member, American Medical
Association.
Died May 25,
1954 (age 83 years, 266
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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C. Kyle Osborne (d. 1956) —
of Independence, Grayson
County, Va.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1948.
Died November
21, 1956.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Watson B. Miller (c.1885-1961) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born about 1885.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of
Columbia, 1924
(alternate), 1928,
1932
(alternate), 1936.
Died in 1961
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Inez Hale. |
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Dan Able Kimball (1896-1970) —
also known as Dan A. Kimball —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March 1,
1896.
Son of John H. Kimball and Mary (Able) Kimball.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; vice-president,
General Tire & Rubber Co.; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1951-53;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956,
1960,
1964;
president and chairman, Aerojet
General Corporation; director, Continental Airlines.
Congregationalist.
Died July 30,
1970 (age 74 years, 151
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Margaret Bowlby Leffingwell (1885-1980) —
also known as Margaret B. Leffingwell; Margaret Elizabeth
Bowlby —
of Watkins Glen, Schuyler
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, November
15, 1885.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1932,
1936.
Female.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 19,
1980 (age 94 years, 247
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Murray Leffingwell (1896-1983) —
also known as William M. Leffingwell —
of Watkins Glen, Schuyler
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 6,
1896.
Son of William
Elderkin Leffingwell and Mary (Walsh) Leffingwell.
Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1920;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Schuyler County, 1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Rotary.
Died May 21,
1983 (age 86 years, 349
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Reginald Carl Harmon (1900-1992) —
also known as Reginald C. Harmon —
of Urbana, Champaign
County, Ill.; Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Illinois, February
5, 1900.
Son of Frank Harmon (1867-1936) and Mary (Persoon) Harmon
(1868-1945).
Lawyer;
mayor
of Urbana, Ill., 1929-33; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in
World War II; Major General and chief legal officer, U.S. Air Force.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, as the result of an automobile
accident, October
19, 1992 (age 92 years, 257
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. (1911-1992) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
3, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1948,
1952,
1960,
1964,
1980
(alternate); Presidential Elector for District of Columbia, 1972.
Jewish.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died September
3, 1992 (age 81 years, 244
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Virginia Murray Bacon —
also known as Virginia M. Bacon; Virginia
Murray —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Republican. Presidential Elector for New York, 1920;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936,
1940
(alternate).
Female.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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A. B. Nettleton —
of Ohio.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1868.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Leon D. Sachter —
also known as Buck Sachter —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Candidate for New York
state senate 4th District, 1932, 1938.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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William Irving Shuman —
also known as Irving Shuman —
of Sullivan, Moultrie
County, Ill.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1912.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Carl M. J. von Zielinski —
U.S. Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, 1917.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Sosthenes Behn —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Republican. Member of Republican National Committee from Puerto Rico,
1912; delegate to Republican National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1912.
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Irvine H. Sprague (1921-2004) —
of College Park, Prince
George's County, Md.; Great Falls (unknown
county), Va.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 4,
1921.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; staff member
for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur in Japan; newspaper
reporter; congressional aide to Rep. John
J. McFall, 1957; director of the House Whip Office; lobbyist
for the State of California in Congress, 1963; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1964;
special assistant to Pres. Lyndon
Johnson, 1967-68; board member, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 1969-72, 1979-85; chairman, 1979-81.
Died, of cancer, in
the Arlington Hospice
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
17, 2004 (age 82 years, 228
days).
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Margery Craw. |
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Cushman Kellogg Davis (1838-1900) —
also known as Cushman K. Davis —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Henderson, Jefferson
County, N.Y., June 16,
1838.
Son of Horatio
N. Davis.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 1st District, 1867; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1868-73; Governor of
Minnesota, 1874-76; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1887-1900; died in office 1900; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1900.
Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American
War, and gave Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., November
27, 1900 (age 62 years, 164
days).
Originally entombed at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.; later interred in 1901 at Arlington
National Cemetery.
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Maurice Larry Lawrence (1926-1996) —
also known as M. Larry Lawrence —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.; Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
16, 1926.
Son of Sidney A. Lawrence and Tillie P. Astor Lawrence.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1964,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1994-96, died in office 1996.
Jewish.
Member, Zeta
Beta Tau.
Falsely
claimed to have served and been injured in the Merchant
Marine during World War
II; this was discovered
a year after his death.
Died, of leukemia
and blood
dyscrasia, in Berne, Switzerland,
January
9, 1996 (age 69 years, 146
days).
Original interment at Arlington National Cemetery; reinterment in
1997 at El
Camino Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Manuel Luis Quezon (1878-1944) —
also known as Manuel L. Quezon —
of Lucena, Philippines;
Tayabas, Philippines.
Born in Baler, Tayabas Province, Philippines,
August
19, 1878.
Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from the Phillipine Islands,
1909-16; resigned 1916; president, Philippine Islands, 1935-44.
Catholic.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Saranac Lake, Franklin
County, N.Y., August 1,
1944 (age 65 years, 348
days).
Originally entombed at Arlington National Cemetery; reinterment at Cementerio
del Norte, Manila, Philippines.
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