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Donald Cogley Bruce (1921-1969) —
also known as Donald C. Bruce —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Troutville, Clearfield
County, Pa., April 27,
1921.
Son of Rev. W. H. Bruce and May Belle (Stewart) Bruce.
Republican. News commentator, program director, business manager at
radio station WIRE, Indianapolis; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1961-65; candidate in
primary for U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1964.
Lutheran.
Among the founders of the American Conservative Union in 1964.
Died, apparently from a heart
attack, in Round Hill, Loudoun
County, Va., August
31, 1969 (age 48 years, 126
days).
Interment at Ebenezer
Cemetery, Near Round Hill, Loudoun County, Va.
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Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) —
also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones;
Mary Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Moscow, Russia.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., 1882.
Communist. School
teacher; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym
"Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration
to the New York City Board of Education, and as a result, she was fired
from her teaching job; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1934; announcer and editor for the
English-language broadcasts of Radio Moscow, 1937-45.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1945
(age about
63 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven (b. 1893) —
also known as T. A. M. Craven —
of Washington,
D.C.; Virginia.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1893.
Son of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; radio engineer;
member, Federal
Communications Commission, 1937-44, 1956-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven; married, September
25, 1915, to Josephine La Tourette; married 1931 to Emma
Stoner. |
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Jerry Lamon Falwell (1933-2007) —
also known as Jerry Falwell —
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., August
11, 1933.
Son of Carey Hezekiah Falwell and Helen V. (Beasley) Falwell.
Republican. Pastor;
television evangelist; founder
(1971) of Liberty Baptist College, now Liberty University; also
served as its chancellor;
founder of the Moral Majority, political group advocating
conservative Christian views; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1996.
Baptist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Suffered cardiac
arrythmia, collapsed in his office at
Liberty University, and died soon after at Lynchburg General Hospital,
Lynchburg,
Va., May 15,
2007 (age 73 years, 277
days).
Interment at Montview
Grounds, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Va.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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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, 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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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk show in
1995-2003, and is a television commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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Marion Gordon Robertson (b. 1930) —
also known as Pat Robertson —
Born in Lexington,
Va., March 22,
1930.
Son of Absalom
Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill (Willis) Robertson.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean
conflict; minister;
host of the "700 Club" television show; founder and chairman,
Christian Broadcasting Network; founder, Christian Coalition;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1988.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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