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Brian Norton Baird (b. 1956) —
also known as Brian Baird —
of Vancouver, Clark
County, Wash.
Born in Chama, Rio Arriba
County, N.M., March 7,
1956.
Son of William N. 'Bill' Baird and Edith S. Baird.
Democrat. Psychologist;
university professor; U.S.
Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1999-; defeated,
1996; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 2000,
2004,
2008.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2009.
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Hubert Vinton Carpenter (1875-1941) —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Born January
29, 1875.
Engineer;
college professor; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1908-09; Dean, College of Mechanic Arts and
Engineeering, State College of Washington (now Washington State
University), 1917-41.
Died November
15, 1941 (age 66 years, 290
days).
Interment at Associated
Order of United Workers Cemetery, Pullman, Wash.
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Gordon Evans Dean (1905-1958) —
also known as Gordon E. Dean —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
28, 1905.
Son of Rev. John Marvin Dean.
Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; law professor; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1949-53; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1950-53.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy
fog, crashed
and burned,
about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age 52 years, 230
days).
Interment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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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, Arlington, Va.
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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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Percy Warren Green (b. 1889) —
also known as P. Warren Green —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.; Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Booth's Corner, Delaware
County, Pa., August
18, 1889.
Son of Charles Green and Elizabeth Ellen (Talley) Green.
Republican. College professor; lawyer; Delaware
state attorney general, 1933-39; appointed 1933.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred R. Halvorson —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Crop and
soil scientist; university professor; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1991-95.
Still living as of 1995.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia (Cutter) Knight.
Republican. Lecturer; writer; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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John Fleming Main (b. 1864) —
also known as John F. Main —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Mercer
County, Ill., September
10, 1864.
Son of William R. Main and Sarah M. (Fleming) Main.
Republican. Lawyer;
law professor; superior court judge in Washington, 1910-12; justice of
Washington state supreme court, 1912-31; chief
justice of Washington state supreme court, 1923-26.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Connie Marshall —
of Bellevue, King
County, Wash.
Dental
hygenist; university professor; medical
software business; mayor
of Bellevue, Wash., 2002-05.
Female.
Still living as of 2006.
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Eri Bates Parker (1890-1976) —
also known as Eri B. Parker —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Born in Colorado, August
31, 1890.
Engineer;
college professor; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1939-43.
Died in 1976
(age about
85 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) —
also known as Marguerite Ray —
of Washington.
Born in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., September
3, 1914.
Democrat. University professor; marine
biologist; host of weekly television
show "Animals of the Sea," on KCTS-TV in Seattle; member, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1972-75; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1973-75; Governor of
Washington, 1977-81; defeated in primary, 1980.
Female.
Died, from a bronchial infection,
in Fox Island, Pierce
County, Wash., January
2, 1994 (age 79 years, 121
days).
Interment at Fox
Island Cemetery, Fox Island, Wash.
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Al Runte (born c.1947) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born about 1947.
University professor; historian;
candidate for mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 2005.
Still living as of 2005.
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Walter Clifford Sadler (1891-1959) —
also known as Walter C. Sadler —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., February
15, 1891.
Son of Walter Lincoln Sadler and Eleanore Elizabeth (Walter) Sadler.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; worked on railroad
and hydroelectric
projects; lawyer;
university professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1937-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Sigma
Pi; Tau Beta
Pi.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
14, 1959 (age 68 years, 241
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Morris K. Snyder (1874-1961) —
also known as Mike Snyder —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Born December
29, 1874.
Engineer;
college professor; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1923-26.
Died November
28, 1961 (age 86 years, 334
days).
Interment at Associated
Order of United Workers Cemetery, Pullman, Wash.
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Earl Edward Wegner —
of Pullman, Whitman
County, Wash.
Veterinarian;
college professor; dean, College of Veterinary Science, State
College of Washington (now Washington State University), 1921-47; mayor of
Pullman, Wash., 1927-30.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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