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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1882.
Son of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope
(1872-1957; president of General Electric, 1922-39); married 1912 to
Margaret Honeyman Powell (1890-1967).
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for a
series of articles titled "Inside the German Empire"; executive
editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his leadership, the
newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service
in 1922, for reporting on the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
English,
German,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
following surgery for an intestinal
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1958 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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William Cabell Bruce (1860-1946) —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Charlotte
County, Va., March 12,
1860.
Son of Charles Bruce and Sarah (Seddon) Bruce; married, October
15, 1887, to Louise E. Fisher; father of James
Bruce and David
Kirkpatrick Este Bruce.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1894-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1916
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1924;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1923-29; defeated, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Recieved a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for his book Benjamin
Franklin, Self-Revealed.
Died in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., May 9,
1946 (age 86 years, 58
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas' Episcopal Church Cemetery, Garrison, Md.
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) —
also known as Booth Tarkington —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 29,
1869.
Grandnephew of William
Clayborne Tarkington; nephew of Newton
Booth; son of John
Stevenson Tarkington and Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington;
brother-in-law of Ovid
Butler Jameson; married, June 18,
1902, to Laura Louisa Fletcher (divorced 1911); married 1912 to
Susannah Kiefer Robinson; first cousin of Fenton
Whitlock Booth; uncle of John
Tarkington Jameson and Donald
Ovid Butler Jameson.
Republican. Novelist;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1903-04.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Won Pulitzer Prize in fiction, 1919, for The Magnificent
Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. Tarkington Hall at
Purdue University is named for
him.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 19,
1946 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Highland
County, Ohio, October
6, 1862.
Son of Thomas Henry Beveridge (1818-1895) and Frances Eleanor
(Parkinson) Beveridge (1824-1918); married, November
24, 1887, to Katherine Maude Langsdale (1864-1900); married, August 7,
1907, to Catherine Spencer Eddy (1881-1970); father of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge, Jr..
Lawyer;
historian;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1899-1911; defeated, 1914 (Progressive),
1922 (Republican); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1900,
1904
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1908,
1924;
Progressive candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1912; received the Pulitzer Prize in Biography,
1920.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April 27,
1927 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Allen White (1868-1944) —
also known as "The Sage of Emporia" —
of Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan.
Born in Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan., February
10, 1868.
Son of Dr. Allen White and Mary (Hatton) White; married, April 27,
1893, to Sallie Lindsay.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas,
1920,
1936;
candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1924.
Received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for his editorial, "To An
Anxious Friend".
Died in Emporia, Lyon
County, Kan., January
29, 1944 (age 75 years, 353
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Emporia, Kan.
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Jay Norwood Darling (1876-1962) —
also known as Jay N. Darling;
"Ding" —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Norwood, Charlevoix
County, Mich., October
21, 1876.
Son of Rev. Marcellus Warner Darling (1844-1913) and Clara (Woolson)
Darling (1848-1916); married, September
19, 1911, to Genevieve Pendleton (1877-1968).
Republican. Cartoonist;
received the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in 1924
and 1943; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1932;
founder and first president, National Wildlife Federation; head of
the U.S. Biological Survey (which later became the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service), 1934-35; obtained millions of acres for wildlife
refuges.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
The J. N. 'Ding' Darling National Wildlife Refuge, in Florida, is named for
him.
Died January
12, 1962 (age 85 years, 83
days).
Interment at Logan
Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Iowa.
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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; married, June 26,
1905, to Helen Frances Warren (daughter of Francis
Emroy Warren).
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, Arlington, Va.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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.
Married, February
28, 1942, to Norma Jean Humphries (divorced 1946); married, June 27,
1947, to Natalie Sarah Evans.
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, Arlington, Va.
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George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) —
also known as George F. Kennan —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
16, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared
him persona
non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War;
received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his
Memoirs; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March 17,
2005 (age 101 years, 29
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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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.
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..
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, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at John
F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.
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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 |
| | | See also Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York |
| | | 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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John Netherland Heiskell (1872-1972) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Rogersville, Hawkins
County, Tenn., November
2, 1872.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1913.
Editor of the Arkansas Gazette newspaper,
which won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in
1958.
Died in Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark., December
28, 1972 (age 100 years, 56
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer;
married 1944
to Beatrice 'Bea' Silverman (divorced 1952); married 1954 to Adele
Morales (divorced 1962); married 1962 to Jeanne
Campbell (divorced 1963); married 1963 to Beverly
Bentley (divorced 1980); married 1980 to Carol
Stevens (divorced 1980); married 1981 to Norris
Church; father of Michael Mailer (film producer).
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
in New York City, 1954-55; arrested
and jailed in
1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction
in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 11,
1893.
Son of Edward Campion Acheson (1858-1934; Episcopal bishop of
Connecticut) and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson (1870-1958);
married, May 5,
1917, to Alice Caroline Stanley (1895-1996; artist); father of David
Campion Acheson.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer Prize in
History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation: My Years In
The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) —
also known as James M. Burns —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August 3,
1918.
Son of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married
1942 to
Janet Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan
Simpson Meyers.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; author;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Received Pulitzer Prize in history, 1971.
Still living as of 1972.
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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); married to Linda
Todd Puller.
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, Arlington, Va.
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William Osborne Dapping (1880-1969) —
also known as William O. Dapping —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 12,
1880.
Son of William Dapping and Mathilda (Lauterbach) Dapping; married, June 3,
1911, to Ina Mae Fairchild (1886-1965).
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor and publisher; received a Pulitzer Prize Special
Citation in 1930, for the Auburn Citizen's coverage of an
inmate uprising at the Auburn prison; Presidential Elector for New
York, 1932;
defeated, 1956;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936.
Universalist.
Member, Elks.
Died August 1,
1969 (age 89 years, 50
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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