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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: October 21, 1935</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Keller</a> — St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-died.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-10-21.html">Politicians who died on October 21</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/died.html">politicians who died in 1935</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: <ul> <li>150 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herrick.html#889.98.35">Ebenezer Herrick</a>, born October 21, 1785</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 100: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#898.93.09">George D. Cowdin</a></li> <li>Age 87: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/milliken.html#146.06.11">Melville P. Milliken</a></li> <li>Age 85: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sproat-staebler.html#725.68.76">Andrew Squire</a></li> <li>Age 82: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muncell-murdoch.html#675.85.54">Henry Mundt</a></li> <li>Age 80: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell4.html#011.98.62">Howard Hyde Russell</a></li> <li>Age 77: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#474.70.22">Victor Ek</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#477.71.62">Charles Ernest Webster</a></li> <li>Age 73: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conner.html#457.26.29">Jacob E. Conner</a></li> <li>Age 72: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#863.06.03">Ralph H. Cameron</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#298.45.63">William H. Bright</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merriwether-mesta.html#216.76.59">Robert L. Merwin</a></li> <li>Age 70: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gritzmacher-grosfeld.html#825.43.28">Paul Groeschel</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#752.20.59">E. Mont Reily</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dowling.html#118.64.51">Robert E. Dowling</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conlan-connellan.html#504.80.64">John W. Connellan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell2.html#630.66.80">Charles E. Russell</a></li> <li>Age 62: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#720.31.12">Charles L. V. Acheson</a></li> <li>Age 61: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#361.32.39">W. K. Allen</a></li> <li>Age 60: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#806.16.69">Von Mayes</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/darling.html#960.78.99">Jay N. Darling</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castle.html#668.26.41">Burr L. Castle</a></li> <li>Age 58: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gregor-grennell.html#255.84.53">W. Voris Gregory</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams4.html#555.87.62">George S. Williams</a></li> <li>Age 57: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#185.92.93">William Bewley</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#373.93.67">Edmund K. Jarecki</a></li> <li>Age 55: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#346.89.59">Axtell J. Byles</a></li> <li>Age 54: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parks.html#407.91.75">James K. Parks</a></li> <li>Age 53: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#294.50.25">Albert H. Ladner</a></li> <li>Age 51: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward9.html#665.40.38">William E. D. Ward</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdaniels-mcdill.html#369.15.58">George Thomas McDermott</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcclurg-mcconkey.html#165.90.08">James L. McConaughy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#739.96.69">Adele Scott Saul</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leader-leak.html#608.85.71">Guy A. Leader</a></li> <li>Age 45: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilberta-gilgun.html#818.20.00">James H. Gildea</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#413.81.08">Walter M. Campbell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#068.46.98">August M. Brinkman</a></li> <li>Age 43: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#568.81.03">Rodney B. Janes</a></li> <li>Age 42: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson9.html#023.07.12">W. Newton Jackson</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nuckles-nyquist.html#995.70.41">Albert F. Nufer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#535.59.23">W. Henry Duckworth</a></li> <li>Age 40: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/driver-dryzga.html#580.95.17">James W. Driver</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclaughlin-mclay.html#954.74.24">Claude E. McLaughlin</a></li> <li>Age 37: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#293.75.92">Joseph Flintlock Perry</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#315.40.52">Everett B. Taylor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/healy.html#307.45.28">Francis P. Healy</a></li> <li>Age 35: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/flanagin-fleishman.html#367.02.20">Anthony A. Fleger</a></li> <li>Age 34: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark5.html#725.70.83">Joseph S. Clark, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 30: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fornance-forsythe.html#799.31.37">Franklin S. Forsberg</a></li> <li>Age 29: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcduffee-mcfarlan.html#198.85.21">Edward Matthew McEntee</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#288.31.17">Hugh G. Cheek</a></li> <li>Age 27: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hains-haldor.html#516.14.26">Abner Haldeman</a></li> <li>Age 26: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#550.47.14">William J. Bolognesi</a></li> <li>Age 25: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#495.79.65">R. Rolland Armstrong</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheehe-shelden.html#523.02.78">Joseph Warren Sheehy</a></li> <li>Age 24: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#832.02.43">G. Frederick Reinhardt</a></li> <li>Age 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#082.99.55">Alva B. Adams, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 19: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#033.64.69">Edward T. White</a></li> <li>Age 18: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanger-sargeant.html#452.43.80">Claud N. Sapp, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 17: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffee-coffield.html#478.29.97">Robert L. Coffey, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#062.08.32">Hulett C. Smith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleage-clemente.html#310.45.96">Harold W. Clemens</a></li> <li>Age 10: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boghos-boker.html#834.48.61">Barbara Boiarsky</a></li> <li>Age 9: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallach-walser.html#701.48.87">William L. Waller</a></li> <li>Age 4: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#711.73.79">G. Thomas VanBebber</a></li> <li>Age 3: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#989.83.80">David R. Bowen</a></li> <li>Age 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis2.html#384.61.31">Jerry Lewis</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/10-21.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/10-21.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>