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George Felix Allen, Jr. (b. 1952) —
also known as George F. Allen, Jr. —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Whittier, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
1952.
Son of George Allen (Washington Redskins football coach) and
Henriette (Lumbroso) Allen.
Republican. Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1991-93; Governor of
Virginia, 1994-98; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 2001-07; defeated, 2006; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 2008.
Episcopalian
or Presbyterian.
Jewish ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Israel Brown (1873-1928) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C., July 28,
1873.
Democrat. Physician;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1922-24.
Jewish. Member, American Medical
Association; American
Legion.
Died February
11, 1928 (age 54 years, 198
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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Eric I. Cantor (b. 1963) —
also known as Eric Cantor —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Henrico
County, Va., June 6,
1963.
Republican. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1992-2000; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 2001-.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2009.
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Joe S. Frank (b. 1942) —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in Newport
News, Va., November
14, 1942.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Newport News, Va., 1996-.
Jewish. Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America.
Still living as of 2002.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) —
also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter
Lantos —
of Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Budapest, Hungary,
February
1, 1928.
Democrat. University
professor; television
news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
California, 1976,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93,
12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008.
Jewish. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Arrested
for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil
disobedience action to protest
genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Died, of cancer
of the esophagus, in Bethesda
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., February
11, 2008 (age 80 years, 10
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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, Arlington, Va.; reinterment in 1997 at El
Camino Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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William Mallory Levy (1827-1882) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Isle of
Wight County, Va., October
31, 1827.
Democrat. Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1859; major in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1875-77; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1879; justice of
Louisiana state supreme court, 1879.
Jewish.
Died in Saratoga, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
14, 1882 (age 54 years, 287
days).
Interment at American
Cemetery, Natchitoches, La.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Howard Phillips (b. 1941) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Vienna, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born February
6, 1941.
Candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1978; U.S. Taxpayers candidate for President
of the United States, 1992, 1996, 2000.
Jewish; later Evangelical
Christian.
Still living as of 2010.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Norman Sisisky (1927-2001) —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 9,
1927.
Democrat. Business
executive; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1974-82; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1983-2001; died in
office 2001; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1996,
2000.
Jewish.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Richmond,
Va., March 29,
2001 (age 73 years, 293
days).
Interment at Beth-El
Cemetery, Henrico County, Va.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (1896-1974) —
also known as Lewis L. Strauss —
of Virginia.
Born in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., January
31, 1896.
Republican. Personal secretary to Herbert
Hoover, then director-general of the Allied Supreme Economic
Council; member of Republican
National Committee from Virginia, 1928; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; member,
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-50; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1953-58; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1958-59.
Jewish. Member, American
Jewish Committee.
Died in Brandy Station, Culpeper
County, Va., January
21, 1974 (age 77 years, 355
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., March 2,
1858.
Son of Isadore Untermyer and Therese Untermyer.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1932,
1936;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938.
Jewish. German
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law.
Died in Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., March 16,
1940 (age 82 years, 14
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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