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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: February 16, 1952</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 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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Glasgow</a></li> <li><i>Age 84:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olson.html#649.29.10">Edwin A. Olson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/abbott.html#812.26.41">William T. Abbott</a></li> <li><i>Age 83:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/skinner.html#395.86.05">George J. Skinner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcphetres-mcrae.html#900.64.40">Duncan McRae</a></li> <li><i>Age 78:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#300.76.59">Philip A. Kiely</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrettson-gartin.html#984.49.37">Charles H. Garrison</a></li> <li><i>Age 75:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beetle-belch.html#799.18.17">James T. Begg</a></li> <li><i>Age 68:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leavy-ledyard.html#157.98.75">Charles H. Leavy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pelfrey-pendery.html#751.60.81">Herbert C. Pell, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 66:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html#296.13.87">Victor A. Agostini</a></li> <li><i>Age 65:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hutchison-hyche.html#048.69.20">Walter Huxman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howells-howey.html#213.78.22">W. W. Howes</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cox.html#254.93.28">Elijah Allen Cox</a></li> <li><i>Age 64:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#255.46.09">Harold R. Medina</a></li> <li><i>Age 62:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#170.86.81">L. J. Morris</a></li> <li><i>Age 57:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leakin-leaver.html#384.28.11">Robert E. Leary</a></li> <li><i>Age 55:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#820.82.66">Fred Bartlett Perkins</a></li> <li><i>Age 53:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#469.51.51">Frank D. Beadle</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker4.html#585.57.57">Harold G. Baker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#177.37.86">Almon F. Rockwell</a></li> <li><i>Age 52:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#516.50.95">Florence M. Pacelli</a></li> <li><i>Age 51:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gutierrez-gyger.html#953.63.11">Ralph B. Guy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morrison.html#040.76.74">John C. Morrison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#791.58.12">Oliver Edmund Clubb</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maack-macdevitt.html#262.35.15">Ray Mabee</a></li> <li><i>Age 50:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#378.31.01">Lee H. Hamlin</a></li> <li><i>Age 49:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wagoner-wainwright.html#303.45.08">Edward T. Wailes</a></li> <li><i>Age 48:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kendig-kennard.html#694.20.53">George F. Kennan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis9.html#169.19.91">Wilfred J. Lewis</a></li> <li><i>Age 47:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/feickert-fellman.html#268.15.72">Michael A. Feighan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/muller-mumper.html#634.54.61">John J. Mullennex</a></li> <li><i>Age 45:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/a-abbot.html#447.50.59">Morris Aarons</a></li> <li><i>Age 42:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ede-edlin.html#342.50.26">David N. Edelstein</a></li> <li><i>Age 41:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aikens-albree.html#227.84.92">Sterling V. Albertson</a></li> <li><i>Age 40:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hardy.html#180.06.01">Don Hardy</a></li> <li><i>Age 38:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#227.29.00">Eugene Kenneth Mangum</a></li> <li><i>Age 37:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html#840.80.99">Vern D. Griffith</a></li> <li><i>Age 36:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen2.html#318.51.51">Charles E. Allen</a></li> <li><i>Age 29:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blandford-blaz.html#794.75.11">John J. Blaska</a></li> <li><i>Age 27:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shantz-sharon.html#516.33.02">David C. Shapiro</a></li> <li><i>Age 24:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams7.html#699.74.73">Ralph D. Williams</a></li> <li><i>Age 22:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#882.98.91">Victor H. Palmieri</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcgowan-mcgown.html#375.87.54">Marjorie McGowan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morry-mortimore.html#870.99.06">Jack Morse</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/standiford-stanislaus.html#849.33.70">William Lloyd Standish</a></li> <li><i>Age 21:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanger-sargeant.html#987.99.57">George E. Sangmeister</a></li> <li><i>Age 19:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#982.94.25">Harold Baer, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 18:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#159.94.02">Cecil Franklin Weeding</a></li> <li><i>Age 17:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#358.33.53">Sonny Bono</a></li> <li><i>Age 16:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris5.html#863.05.65">Joe Frank Harris</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/millikin-milliorn.html#295.67.01">Guy W. Millner</a></li> <li><i>Age 12:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#846.51.04">Thaddeus C. Stopczynski</a></li> </ul><br> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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