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William David Askren —
also known as William D. Askren —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Son of William Wirt Askren and Nettie Eleanor (Lawhead) Askren.
Republican. Lawyer;
superior court judge in Washington, 1921-24; justice of
Washington state supreme court, 1925-28; resigned 1928.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, June 5,
1907, to Bessie Frances Caldwell. |
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Doris Marian Barnes (1891-1977) —
also known as Doris M. Barnes; Doris Marian Plummer;
Mrs. Frank Scott Barnes —
of Wrangell,
Alaska; Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., August
27, 1891.
Daughter of Oakes M. Plummer and Jessie B. (Kribs) Plummer.
Republican. Insurance
agent; mayor of Wrangell, Alaska, 1946-48, 1960-62; member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 1st District, 1949-52;
member of Alaska
territorial senate 1st District, 1953-56; member of Republican
National Committee from Alaska Territory, 1955-57; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Alaska, 1960;
vice-chair
of Alaska Republican Party, 1960-62; Presidential Elector for
Alaska, 1968.
Female.
Presbyterian. Member, Beta
Sigma Phi.
Died in April, 1977
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, March 20,
1912, to Frank Scott Barnes (died 1940). |
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George Hugo Boldt (1903-1984) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
28, 1903.
Son of George F. Boldt and Christine (Carstensen) Boldt.
Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, 1953-71;
took senior status 1971.
Presbyterian. Member, Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died March 18,
1984 (age 80 years, 81
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Buster Brouillet (1928-2001) —
also known as Frank Brouillet;
"Buster" —
of Puyallup, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Puyallup, Pierce
County, Wash., May 18,
1928.
Son of Vern Brouillet and Doris (Darr) Brouillet.
Democrat. School
teacher; athletic
coach; member of Washington
state house of representatives 25th District, 1957-73; Washington
superintendent of public instruction, 1973-89.
Presbyterian. Member, Sigma
Chi; Grange; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of complications from leukemia,
in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., January
20, 2001 (age 72 years, 247
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1956
to Marge E. Sarsten. |
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Johnston B. Campbell (b. 1868) —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; Moorhead, Clay
County, Minn.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Stillwater, Washington
County, Minn., August 5,
1868.
Son of Hugh Campbell and Lucinda (Fee) Campbell.
Republican. Lawyer; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1921-30.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial
location unknown.
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Clarence Cash Cole (1891-1959) —
also known as Cash Cole —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in Washington, 1891.
Republican. Member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 1st District, 1923-24; Speaker
of Alaska Territory House of Representatives, 1923-24; candidate
for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Died in 1959
(age about
68 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Franklin Devin (1898-1982) —
also known as William F. Devin —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, March 28,
1898.
Son of Oliver Peyton Devin and Mina Marie (Kern) Devin.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
municipal judge in Washington, 1939-42; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1942-52; defeated, 1941, 1952.
Presbyterian. Member, American
Legion; Phi
Delta Phi; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
2, 1982 (age 83 years, 311
days).
Cremated.
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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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Michael B. Enzi (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Enzi —
of Gillette, Campbell
County, Wyo.
Born in Bremerton, Kitsap
County, Wash., February
1, 1944.
Republican. Shoe store
owner; mayor
of Gillette, Wyo., 1975-82; member of Wyoming
state house of representatives, 1987-91; member of Wyoming
state senate, 1991-96; U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1997-.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Alfred Theodore Goodwin (b. 1923) —
also known as Alfred T. Goodwin —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Wash., June 29,
1923.
Son of Alonzo Theodore Goodwin and Miriam Hazel (Williams) Goodwin.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
circuit judge in Oregon, 1955-60; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1960-69; U.S.
District Judge for Oregon, 1969.
Presbyterian. Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Alpha
Tau Omega.
Still living as of 1970.
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Relatives: Son
of Alonzo Theodore Goodwin and Miriam Hazel (Williams) Goodwin;
married, December
23, 1943, to Marjorie Elizabeth Major (divorced 1948); married,
December
23, 1949, to Mary Ellin Handelin. |
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Marion E. Hay (1865-1933) —
of Wilbur, Lincoln
County, Wash.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Adams
County, Wis., December
9, 1865.
Son of Edward Murry Hay and Mary L. (Coming) Hay.
Republican. Merchant;
chair
of Lincoln County Republican Party, 1898-1902; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Washington, 1900;
Lieutenant
Governor of Washington, 1909; Governor of
Washington, 1909-13; defeated, 1912.
Presbyterian.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., November
21, 1933 (age 67 years, 347
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Riverside
Memorial Park, Spokane, Wash.
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Samuel Billingsley Hill (1875-1958) —
also known as Samuel B. Hill; Sam B. Hill —
of Waterville, Douglas
County, Wash.
Born in Franklin, Izard
County, Ark., April 2,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer; Douglas
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1907-11; superior court judge in
Washington, 1917-23; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1923-36; defeated,
1922; judge, U.S. Board of Tax Appeals (Tax Court), 1936-53.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March 16,
1958 (age 82 years, 348
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Martin Jackson (1912-1983) —
also known as Henry M. Jackson;
"Scoop" —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., May 31,
1912.
Son of Peter Jackson and Marie (Anderson) Jackson.
Democrat. Lawyer; Snohomish
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1938-40; U.S.
Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1941-53; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1953-83; died in office 1983; Chairman of
Democratic National Committee, 1960-61; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1972,
1976.
Presbyterian. Member, Elks; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Chi.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
Died in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., September
1, 1983 (age 71 years, 93
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Everett, Wash.
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Clyde G. Jeffers (b. 1881) —
Born in Hampton, Franklin
County, Iowa, July 2,
1881.
Son of Byron Jeffers and Edith (Day) Jeffers.
Lawyer;
Grant
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1913-17; superior court judge in
Washington, 1923-39; justice of
Washington state supreme court, 1939-48.
Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Rumer Jeffrey (b. 1889) —
also known as Frank R. Jeffrey —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, W.Va., October
22, 1889.
Son of Thomas P. Jeffrey and Sarah (Crossfield) Jeffrey.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; private secretary to U.S. Sen. Wesley
L. Jones; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, 1921-25.
Presbyterian. Member, American
Legion; Delta
Sigma Rho; Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Elks.
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur Bernard Langlie (1900-1966) —
also known as Arthur B. Langlie —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Lanesboro, Fillmore
County, Minn., July 25,
1900.
Republican. Mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1938-41; defeated, 1936; resigned 1941; Governor of
Washington, 1941-45, 1949-57; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Washington, 1944,
1948,
1952;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Presbyterian. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Rotary; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., July 24,
1966 (age 65 years, 364
days).
Interment at Acacia
Memorial Park, Lake Forest Park, Wash.
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Charles Jeremy Lewis (b. 1934) —
also known as Jerry Lewis —
of Highland, San
Bernardino County, Calif.; Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., October
21, 1934.
Republican. Insurance
business; member of California
state assembly, 1969-78; candidate for California
state senate, 1973; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2008 (37th District 1979-83,
35th District 1983-93, 40th District 1993-2003, 41st District
2003-08).
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Donald Hammer Magnuson (1911-1979) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born near Freeman, Spokane
County, Wash., March 7,
1911.
Son of Ellis William Magnuson and Ida (Hammer) Magnuson.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1953-63 (at-large 1953-59, 7th
District 1959-63).
Presbyterian. Member, Theta Xi.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
5, 1979 (age 68 years, 212
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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William Jennings Sheffield (b. 1928) —
also known as Bill Sheffield —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., June 26,
1928.
Democrat. Governor of
Alaska, 1982-86; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Alaska, 1984,
1996.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Lynn C. Woolsey (b. 1937) —
of Petaluma, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., November
3, 1937.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1988,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from California 6th District, 1993-.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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