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The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Miscellaneous Halls of Fame
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Miscellaneous Halls of Fame</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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Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/AN-born.html">Anson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/04-24.html">April 24, 1837</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cmagr.html">North Carolina commissioner of agriculture</a>, 1877-80; national president of the Farmers' Alliance. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1957. Died from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/bladder.html">bladder hemorrhage</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/06-11.html">June 11, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 48 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Andrew Polk and Sereba Autry Polk; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Sarah Pamela Gaddy.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "Editor, orator, patriot, Christian. The friend of popular education and civil liberty."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas L. Polk">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/861/000180321">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9271702">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph Jacob Foss (1915-2003)</b> — also known as <b>Joe Foss</b>; <b>"The American Ace of Aces"</b> — of Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-lived.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak.; Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-lived.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz. Born in Sioux Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/MI-born.html">Minnehaha County</a>, S.Dak., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-17.html">April 17, 1915</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> for action over Guadalcanal in 1942-43; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Dakota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/SD.html">1948</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/SD.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/SD.html">1960</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/speakers.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/speakers.html">1956</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/sthse.html">South Dakota state house of representatives</a> 10th District, 1949-50, 1953-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Dakota</a>, 1955-59; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Dakota</a>, 1958; Commissioner, American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Football</a> League, 1960; elected to National Aviation <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1984; president, National Rifle Association, 1988-90. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died, from the effects of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/01-01.html">January 1, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/08-09.html">August 9, 1942</a>, to June Shakstad; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/">1967</a> to Donna Wild Hall.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joseph-jacob-foss/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe Foss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/194/000208567">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287589">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Aretha Louise Franklin (1942-2018)</b> — also known as <b>Aretha Franklin</b>; <b>"Queen of Soul"</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Memphis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/03-25.html">March 25, 1942</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Singer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968 /speakers.html">performed</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ; inducted to the Rock and Roll <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1987; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 2005. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pancreatic-cancer.html">pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor</a>, in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2018/08-16.html">August 16, 2018</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 144 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00618">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Rev. Clarence LeVaughn Franklin and Barbara Vernice (Siggers) Franklin; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/">1961</a> to Ted White; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/04-11.html">April 11, 1978</a>, to Glynn Turman.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha Franklin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192285104">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Donald L. Mason</b> — of Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-lived.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/zanesville.html">mayor of Zanesville, Ohio</a>, 1984-91; member, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, 1998-. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Elected to Muskingum College Athletic <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1992. Still living as of 2004. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://cba.unl.edu/people/awards/halloffame/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/890/69.12.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Duane Acklie"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Duane Acklie (b. 1931)</b> — of Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Neb. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/11-14.html">November 14, 1931</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1992/NE.html">1992</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2004/NE.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">trucking executive</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Selected to the Nebraska Business <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1994. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#029.34.46">Phyllis Acklie</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/263/000131867">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Nebraska Business Hall of Fame</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Betty Castor (b. 1941)</b> — of Tampa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/HI-lived.html">Hillsborough County</a>, Fla. Born in Glassboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/GL-born.html">Gloucester County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/05-11.html">May 11, 1941</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1977-78, 1983-86 (23rd District 1977-78, 21st District 1983-86); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Florida</a>, 1978; Florida Commissioner of Education, 1986; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">President</a> of of the University of South Florida, 1994; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/FL.html">2004</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Florida</a>, 2004. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sierra-club.html">Sierra Club</a>. Inducted into the Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1996. Still living as of 2004. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Joseph L. Bowe and Gladys Wright Bowe; married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#122.82.04">Samuel P. Bell III</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/50935657461/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/804/50.32.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Ernest R. Ackerman"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ernest Robinson Ackerman (1863-1931)</b> — also known as <b>Ernest R. Ackerman</b> — of Plainfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/06-17.html">June 17, 1863</a>. Republican. President, Lawrence <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">Portland Cement</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Union County, 1906-11; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NJ.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/NJ.html">1916</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/sbe.html">New Jersey state board of education</a>, 1918-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 5th District, 1919-31; died in office 1931. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. He was elected to the American Philatelic Society <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 2000. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Plainfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-died.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/10-18.html">October 18, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 123 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-buried.html#cms00354">Hillside Cemetery</a>, Scotch Plains, N.J. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Ellen Robinson (Morgan) Ackerman and James Hervey Ackerman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/">1892</a> to Mora L. Weber.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000021">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400683">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest R. Ackerman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4815">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Roy Claxton Acuff (1903-1992)</b> — also known as <b>Roy Acuff</b>; <b>"The King of Country Music"</b> — of Clarksville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Tenn. Born in Maynardville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/UN-born.html">Union County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/09-15.html">September 15, 1903</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Country musician</a>; co-founder of Acuff-Rose Publication Company, the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> country music <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">publishing</a> house; appeared in seven Hollywood <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movies</a> in the 1940s; owner and operator of Dunbar Cave <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel</a> near Nashville; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Tennessee</a>, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/TN.html">1960</a>. Elected to Country Music <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1962. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-died.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/11-23.html">November 23, 1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 69 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-buried.html#cms06073">Spring Hill Cemetery</a>, Nashville, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Simon E. Neill Acuff and Ida (Carr) Acuff; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#642.16.32">Coram Acuff</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#717.81.39">Juddson Thomas Acuff</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17390.html">Acuff family</a> of Maynardville, Tennessee.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy Acuff">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/229/000038115">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010334">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1435">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Roy Acuff:</i> Elizabeth Schlappi, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882899325/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0882899325&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Roy Acuff: The Smoky Mountain Boy</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95513130/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/964/93.83.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Carl Albert"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carl Bert Albert (1908-2000)</b> — also known as <b>Carl Albert</b>; <b>"The Little Giant from Little Dixie"</b> — of McAlester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-lived.html">Pittsburg County</a>, Okla. Born in McAlester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-born.html">Pittsburg County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/05-10.html">May 10, 1908</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oklahoma</a> 3rd District, 1947-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1971-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/OK.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/OK.html">1964</a> (chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/committees.html">Resolutions and Platform Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/OK.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/OK.html">1976</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1992/OK.html">1992</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/OK.html">1996</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/izaak-walton-league.html">Izaak Walton League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Elected to Oklahoma <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died, at McAlester Regional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Health Center</a>, McAlester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-died.html">Pittsburg County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/02-04.html">February 4, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PI-buried.html#cms05493">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, McAlester, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Ernest Homer Albert and Leona Ann (Scott) Albert; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/08-20.html">August 20, 1942</a>, to Mary Greene Harmon.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward2.html#279.70.77">Charles Ward</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000073">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400732">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl Albert">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/006/000117652">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3156750">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6457039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=18071">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/51006276576/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/458/21.14.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Henry J. Allen"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Henry Justin Allen (1868-1950)</b> — also known as <b>Henry J. Allen</b> — of Wichita, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-lived.html">Sedgwick County</a>, Kan. Born in Pittsfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/09-11.html">September 11, 1868</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/KS.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/KS.html">1936</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kansas</a>, 1919-23; defeated (Progressive), 1914; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kansas</a>, 1929-30; defeated, 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-tau-delta.html">Delta Tau Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Inducted to the Kansas Newspaper <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral thrombosis</a>, in Wichita, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-died.html">Sedgwick County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/01-17.html">January 17, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-buried.html#cms00386">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>, Wichita, Kan. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Allen and Rebecca (Goodin) Allen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/10-19.html">October 19, 1893</a>, to Elsie J. Nuzman.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed2.html#696.44.16">Clyde M. Reed</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000126">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400782">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-justin-allen/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Justin Allen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/099/000352040">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6635532">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles R. Anthony (1885-1976)</b> — also known as <b>C. R. Anthony</b> — of Edmond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-lived.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla. Born near Trenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/GI-born.html">Gibson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/08-10.html">August 10, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/OK.html">1956</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Named to Oklahoma <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in June, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/index.html">1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 0 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Zachary Cicero Anthony and Elvira Ann (Pennington) Anthony; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/07-10.html">July 10, 1910</a>, to Lutie L. Mauldin.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Hugh Arrington (1904-1979)</b> — also known as <b>James H. Arrington</b> — of Stillwater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PA-lived.html">Payne County</a>, Okla.; Oklahoma City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-lived.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla. Born in Jethro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/05-23.html">May 23, 1904</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">athletic coach</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil drilling business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/OK.html">Oklahoma Democratic state chair</a>, 1940-46; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/sthse.html">Oklahoma state house of representatives</a>, 1942-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/OK.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/OK.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/OK.html">1956</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/OK.html">Democratic National Committee from Oklahoma</a>, 1956. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/izaak-walton-league.html">Izaak Walton League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-nu.html">Sigma Nu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Named to Oklahoma State University Alumni <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/03-08.html">March 8, 1979</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/PA-buried.html#cms07849">Fairlawn Cemetery</a>, Stillwater, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William H. Arrington and Laura T. (Fulks) Arrington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/07-05.html">July 5, 1930</a>, to Veneta C. Berry.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10668986">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Margaret Culkin Banning (1891-1982)</b> — also known as <b>Margaret Frances Culkin</b> — of Duluth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-lived.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn.; Tryon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PO-lived.html">Polk County</a>, N.C. Born in Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WR-born.html">Wright County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/03-18.html">March 18, 1891</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/MN.html">1924</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/MN.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>. Elected to Duluth <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in Tryon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PO-died.html">Polk County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/01-04.html">January 4, 1982</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 292 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/PO-buried.html# ">Polk Memorial Gardens</a>, Columbus, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cubberley-culla.html#149.55.14">William Edgar Culkin</a> and Hannah Alice (Young) Culkin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/10-09.html">October 9, 1914</a>, to Archibald Tanner Banning, Jr.; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Leroy Salsich; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cubberley-culla.html#786.39.33">Francis Dugan Culkin</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13604.html">Culkin family</a> of Oswego, New York.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7217607">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Margaret Culkin Banning:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060102071/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060102071&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Splendid Torments : A Novel</a> (1976) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006010158X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=006010158X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Such Interesting People</a> (1979) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816162212/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0816162212&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Will of Magda Townsend</a> (1974) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0899680089/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0899680089&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Spellbinders</a> (1922) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0532121910/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0532121910&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Echo Answers</a> (1960) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0899680062/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0899680062&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Country Club People</a> (1923) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The First Woman</a> (1935) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Half Loaves</a> (1921) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Women for Defense</a> (1942) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Clever Sister</a> (1947) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Conduct Yourself Accordingly</a> (1944) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Convert</a> (1957) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Dowry</a> (1955) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Enough to Live On</a> (1940) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fallen Away</a> (1951) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Festival at the Lakehead</a> (1965) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Give us our years</a> (1950) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Handmaid of the Lord</a> (1924) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">I took my love to the country</a> (1966) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Iron Will</a> (1936) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mesabi</a> (1969) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mixed Marriage</a> (1930) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Money of Her Own</a> (1928) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Out In Society</a> (1940) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Quality of Mercy : A Novel</a> (1963) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product//ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">You haven't changed</a> (1937)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>N. Lorraine Beebe (1910-2005)</b> — also known as <b>Nellie Lorraine Boekeloo</b> — of Dearborn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Kalamazoo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-born.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-19.html">June 19, 1910</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 12th District, 1967-70; defeated, 1964, 1970; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Michigan</a>, 1974. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. Inducted to Michigan Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1983. Died, in Tendercare <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing home</a>, Portage, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-died.html">Kalamazoo County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/08-12.html">August 12, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 54 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KZ-buried.html# ">St. Barnabas Episcopal Church</a>, Portage, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Henry Lawrence Boekeloo and Genevieve (Richards) Boekeloo; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-20.html">August 20, 1938</a>, to Leo Clair Beebe.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N. Lorraine Beebe">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/100888616">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Page Henry Belcher (1899-1980)</b> — also known as <b>Page Belcher</b> — of Enid, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GA-lived.html">Garfield County</a>, Okla. Born in Jefferson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GN-born.html">Grant County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-21.html">April 21, 1899</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; secretary to U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rives-rizzo.html#203.69.99">Ross Rizley</a>, 1941; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oklahoma</a>, 1951-73 (8th District 1951-53, 1st District 1953-73). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Named to Oklahoma <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in Midwest City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-died.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/08-02.html">August 2, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 103 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GA-buried.html#cms02243">Memorial Park Cemetery</a>, Enid, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George Harvey Belcher and Jessie (Ray) Belcher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/06-16.html">June 16, 1922</a>, to Gladys Collins.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000323">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401315">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lucile Elizabeth Belen (1912-2010)</b> — also known as <b>Lucile E. Belen</b> — of Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Laingsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/SH-born.html">Shiawassee County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/12-28.html">December 28, 1912</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/florist.html">Florist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Ingham County 1st District, 1942; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/MI.html">1952</a>; member, Lansing City Council, 1955-92; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention</a> from Ingham County 1st District, 1961. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/zonta.html">Zonta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Inducted into Michigan Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 2001. Died in Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-died.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/06-02.html">June 2, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-buried.html#cms05326">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Lansing, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Christopher Belen and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#890.87.22">Elizabeth Lehman Belen</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beldam-belknap.html#838.46.48">Frederick Christopher Belen</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12324.html">Belen family</a> of Lansing, Michigan.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53165729">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Loren Murphy Berry (1888-1980)</b> — also known as <b>Loren M. Berry</b>; <b>"Mr. Yellow Pages"</b> — of Dayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio; Miami Beach, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Oakwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio. Born in Wabash, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WB-born.html">Wabash County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/07-24.html">July 24, 1888</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/advertising.html">advertising</a> salesman who popularized the Yellow Pages business section in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">telephone</a> directories nationwide; founded L. M. Berry Co.; director of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">telephone</a> companies; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/FL.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/FL.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Elected to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1982. Died in Oakwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/02-10.html">February 10, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 201 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-buried.html#cms00752">Woodland Cemetery</a>, Dayton, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Charles D. Berry and Elizabeth (Murphy) Berry; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/06-09.html">June 9, 1909</a>, to Lucile Kneipple; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-28.html">August 28, 1938</a>, to Helen Anderson Henry.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren M. Berry">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3721">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>David Bing (b. 1943)</b> — also known as <b>Dave Bing</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/11-24.html">November 24, 1943</a>. Played <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">professional basketball</a> for the Detroit Pistons and other teams, 1966-75; named to the Basketball <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1990; founder, president, and chairman of Bing <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel</a> (later, The Bing Group), supplier to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">automobile manufacturers</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 2009-13. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave Bing">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/850/000166352">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=198243">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Roxcy O'Neal Bolton (b. 1926)</b> — also known as <b>"Florida's Pioneer Feminist"</b> — Born in Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/index.html">1926</a>. . <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-org-women.html">National Organization for Women</a>. In 1974, founded the first Rape Treatment Center in the country at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami; inducted 1984 into the Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2001. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone (1895-1983)</b> — also known as <b>Reva Beck Bosone</b>; <b>Reva Zilpha Beck</b> — of Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born in American Fork, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-born.html">Utah County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/04-02.html">April 2, 1895</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/sthse.html">Utah state house of representatives</a>, 1933-35; municipal judge in Utah, 1936-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Utah</a> 2nd District, 1949-53; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/UT.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/UT.html">1956</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, Utah <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in Vienna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/07-21.html">July 21, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 110 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/UT-buried.html#cms07766">American Fork Cemetery</a>, American Fork, Utah. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Christian Matheus Beck and Zilpha Ann (Chipman) Beck; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/10-08.html">October 8, 1929</a>, to Joseph Peter Bosone.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000649">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401613">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Warren Bradley (b. 1943)</b> — also known as <b>Bill Bradley</b>; <b>"Dollar Bill"</b> — of Denville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-lived.html">Morris County</a>, N.J. Born in Crystal City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/07-28.html">July 28, 1943</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1979-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/NJ.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NJ.html">1996</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/index.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. At the 1964 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/olympic-medals.html">Olympic Games</a>, won a gold medal as part of the U.S. basketball team; professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">basketball</a> player for the New York Knicks, 1967-77; elected to the Basketball <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1983. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#664.73.81">Dan Maffei</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001225">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401709">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/492/000024420">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1345034">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Taylor Brown (1876-1951)</b> — also known as <b>John T. Brown</b> — of Mechanicsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-lived.html">Champaign County</a>, Ohio. Born in Plain City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MD-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-14.html">March 14, 1876</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1921-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Ohio</a>, 1929-31; defeated, 1930; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/OH.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>. Enshrined in Ohio Agricultural <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1968. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Mechanicsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-died.html">Champaign County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/01-18.html">January 18, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 310 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CH-buried.html#cms06512">Maple Grove Cemetery</a>, Mechanicsburg, Ohio. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Paul David Bunning (1931-2017)</b> — also known as <b>Jim Bunning</b> — of Fort Thomas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky.; Southgate, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-lived.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky. Born in Southgate, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-born.html">Campbell County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/10-23.html">October 23, 1931</a>. Republican. Professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">baseball</a> player, 1950-71; member of the Baseball <b>Hall of Fame</b> in Cooperstown, N.Y.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a> 11th District, 1980-83; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1983; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 4th District, 1987-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Kentucky</a>, 1999-; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2004/KY.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/KY.html">2008</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2012/KY.html">2012</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2017/05-26.html">May 26, 2017</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 215 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CA-buried.html#cms05662">St. Stephen's Cemetery</a>, Fort Thomas, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bunnel-burbridge.html#441.25.05">David L. Bunning</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001066">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300014">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Bunning">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/195/000032099">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1658250">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Michael Curb (b. 1944)</b> — also known as <b>Mike Curb</b> — of California; Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-24.html">December 24, 1944</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Musician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">record company</a> executive; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">race car</a> owner; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CA.html">Republican National Committee from California</a>, 1977; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of California</a>, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1982. In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Linda Dunphy.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The Curb Event Center <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-stadia.html">arena</a>, at Belmont <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-names.html">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike Curb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/962/000051809">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192608">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Houston Davis (1899-2000)</b> — also known as <b>Jimmie Davis</b>; <b>"The Singing Governor"</b> — of Shreveport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-lived.html">Caddo Parish</a>, La. Born in Quitman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/JA-born.html">Jackson Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/09-11.html">September 11, 1899</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Louisiana</a>, 1944-48, 1960-64; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/LA.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/LA.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Country musician</a> and author of hit song "You Are My Sunshine"; elected to the Country Music <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1972; star of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movie</a> <i>Louisiana</i>, as himself. Died in Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-died.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/11-05.html">November 5, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/101.html">101 years, 55 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/JA-buried.html#cms05912">Davis Cemetery</a>, Jackson Parish, La. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Anna Gordon.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-houston-davis/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/928/000094646">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204834">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Jimmie Davis:</i> Gus Weill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0876804970/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0876804970&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">You are my sunshine : the Jimmie Davis story : an affectionate biography</a> — Kenny Gill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893693074/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1893693074&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Jimmie Davis: More Than Sunshine</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>LaVern Ralph Dilweg (1903-1968)</b> — also known as <b>LaVern R. Dilweg</b> — of Green Bay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/BR-lived.html">Brown County</a>, Wis. Born in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-born.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-01.html">November 1, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; played on the Green Bay Packers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">football</a> team, 1927-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 8th District, 1943-45; defeated, 1944; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1950. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-theta-phi.html">Delta Theta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Member, Wisconsin Sports <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-died.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/01-02.html">January 2, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 62 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/BR-buried.html#cms00729">Fort Howard Memorial Park</a>, Green Bay, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Bernard Dilweg and Alida (Winkler) Dilweg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/06-14.html">June 14, 1927</a>, to Eleanor Coleman.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000349">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403467">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6822438">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walt_Disney_1946.JPG"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/071/09.65.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Walt Disney"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966)</b> — also known as <b>Walt Disney</b>; <b>"Uncle Walt"</b> — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/12-05.html">December 5, 1901</a>. Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Producer</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">director</a> of several hundred <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">films</a> from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse; founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the world's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> theme park; recipient of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> on September 14, 1964. In honor of his invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National Inventors <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/12-15.html">December 15, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 10 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms00954">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-buried.html#cms07910">Disneyland</a>, Anaheim, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Elias Disney and Flora (Call) Disney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/07-13.html">July 13, 1925</a>, to Lillian Marie Bounds.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell4.html#530.46.45">George J. Mitchell</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt Disney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/089/000027008">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000370">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/284">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Walt Disney:</i> Richard Schickel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566631580/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1566631580&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney</a> — Leonard Mosley, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812885147/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812885147&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Disney's World: A Biography</a> — Katherine Greene & Richard Greene, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670884766/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670884766&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney</a> — Bob Thomas, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786860278/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786860278&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Walt Disney: An American Original</a> — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786853549/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786853549&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Discovering Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Boy Scouts of America</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carl Djerassi (1923-2015)</b> — of Portola Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-lived.html">San Mateo County</a>, Calif.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Vienna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-born.html">Austria</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/10-29.html">October 29, 1923</a>. Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">chemist</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">pharmaceutical</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">researcher</a>; helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">playwright</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/CA.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/austro-hungarian.html">Austrian</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/balkan.html">Bulgarian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Inducted into National Inventors <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1978. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/01-30.html">January 30, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 93 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Diane W. Middlebrook.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl Djerassi">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/142076987">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921-2016)</b> — also known as <b>John Glenn</b> — of New Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-lived.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio; Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-lived.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio. Born in Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GU-born.html">Guernsey County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/07-18.html">July 18, 1921</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/space.html">Astronaut</a>; in February 1962, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> American to orbit the earth; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/OH.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/OH.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/OH.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/OH.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Ohio</a>, 1975-99; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/index.html">1984</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a> in 2012; also inducted to the International Air & Space <b>Hall of Fame</b>, the National Aviation <b>Hall of Fame</b>, the International Space <b>Hall of Fame</b>, and the U.S. Astronaut <b>Hall of Fame</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>. Died in Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-died.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/12-08.html">December 8, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 143 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/">1943</a> to Anna Margaret Castor.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The John Glenn Columbus <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-airports.html">International Airport</a> (Port Columbus International Airport until 2016), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-names.html">Columbus, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-names.html">New Concord, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-names.html">Westland, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BA-names.html">Bay City, Michigan</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/SJ-names.html">Walkerton, Indiana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Norwalk, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — John Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Middle School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TG-names.html">San Angelo, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Colonel Glenn <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Road</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-names.html">Little Rock, Arkansas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000236">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404598">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Glenn">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/872/000022806">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322625">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by John Glenn:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553110748/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0553110748&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Glenn: A Memoir</a> (1999)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about John Glenn:</i> Robert Green, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894343416/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0894343416&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Glenn : Astronaut and U.S. Senator</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Elaine Gordon (1931-2000)</b> — of Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/index.html">1931</a>. Democrat. Legislative assistant to State Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/finn-firth.html#724.10.44">George Firestone</a>, 1968; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1973-94. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Inducted into Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1982. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">non-Hodgkin's lymphoma</a>, in Miami Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/02-25.html">February 25, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">about 68 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (b. 1959)</b> — also known as <b>Jennifer M. Granholm</b>; <b>Jennifer Judith Alfreda Granholm</b> — of Northville Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Vancouver, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BC-born.html">British Columbia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/02-05.html">February 5, 1959</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MI.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MI.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MI.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MI.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/attygn.html">Michigan state attorney general</a>, 1999-2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 2003-10. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Inducted into the Michigan Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 2004. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Victor Ivar Granholm and Shirley Alfreda (Dowden) Granholm; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/05-23.html">May 23, 1986</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mozer-mullarky.html#999.94.61">Daniel Kevin Mulhern</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/jennifer-m-granholm/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer Granholm">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/377/000044245">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2422852">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=2056">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Jennifer Granholm:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586489976/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1586489976&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future</a>, with Dan Mulhern (2011)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Semple Green (1832-1905)</b> — also known as <b>Will S. Green</b> — of Colusa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CU-lived.html">Colusa County</a>, Calif. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/12-26.html">December 26, 1832</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">hotel-keeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">steamboat captain</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 25th District, 1867-69; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/trea.html">California state treasurer</a>, 1898-99; promoter of irrigation projects. Elected to the California Newspaper <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/07-02.html">July 2, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 188 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CU-buried.html#cms07366">somewhere</a> in Colusa, Calif.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/GL-buried.html#cms07367">Will S. Green Memorial</a>, Near Hamilton City, Glenn County, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/">1862</a> to Josephine Davis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/">1891</a> to Sally Morgan.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will S. Green">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carl Stuart Hamblen (1908-1989)</b> — also known as <b>Stuart Hamblen</b> — of California. Born in Kellyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MP-born.html">Marion County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/10-20.html">October 20, 1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Musician</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1952. Inducted into Country/Western Songwriters <b>Hall of Fame</b> and Texas Country Music <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain cancer</a>, in Santa Monica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/03-08.html">March 8, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 139 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms02924">Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills</a>, Los Angeles, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Henry Hamblen and Alma Ernestine (Williams) Hamblen; married to Veeva Ellen Daniels.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357388">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5832468">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lee Herbert Hamilton (b. 1931)</b> — also known as <b>Lee H. Hamilton</b> — of Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/BA-lived.html">Bartholomew County</a>, Ind. Born in Daytona Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/VO-born.html">Volusia County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/04-20.html">April 20, 1931</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Indiana</a> 9th District, 1965-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/IN.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/IN.html">1996</a>; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a> in 2015. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/trilateral-commission.html">Trilateral Commission</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>. Inducted into the Indiana Basketball <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2018. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Frank A. Hamilton and Myra (Jones) Hamilton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/08-21.html">August 21, 1954</a>, to Nancy Ann Nelson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The Lee H. Hamilton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Highway</a> (I-265 and Indiana 265), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/FL-names.html">Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CL-names.html">Clark</a> counties, Indiana, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies, at Indiana <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, is partly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000114">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404996">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/211/000043082">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Kim Crane Hammond (b. 1944)</b> — also known as <b>Kim Hammond</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/FL-lived.html">Flagler County</a>, Fla. Born in Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-born.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/10-12.html">October 12, 1944</a>. Professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">football</a> player, as a quarterback for Miami (1968) and Boston (1969) in the National Football League; circuit judge in Florida, 2000-07. Member, Florida State University <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2007. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim Hammond">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George P. Harlamon (b. 1919)</b> — of Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/02-07.html">February 7, 1919</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/waterbury.html">mayor of Waterbury, Conn.</a>, 1968-69; defeated, 1969. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eastern-orthodox.html">Eastern Orthodox</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/greek.html">Greek</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/exchange-club.html">Exchange Club</a>. Elected to Waterbury <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 2003. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Paula Hawkins (1927-2009)</b> — also known as <b>Paula Fickes</b>; <b>"The Battling Maitland Housewife"</b> — of Maitland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-lived.html">Orange County</a>, Fla. Born in Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/01-24.html">January 24, 1927</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Model</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/FL.html">Republican National Committee from Florida</a>, 1968-86; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/FL.html">1972</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Florida</a>, 1978; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Florida</a>, 1981-87; defeated, 1986. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mormon.html">Mormon</a>. Inducted into the Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 2000. Died in Winter Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2009/12-03.html">December 3, 2009</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-buried.html#cms08022">Palm Cemetery</a>, Winter Park, Fla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Paul Burt Fickes and Mary Leoan (Staley) Fickes; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/">1955</a> to Walter Eugene Hawkins.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Campaign slogan:</i> "Feminine, not feminist."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000374">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405242">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula Hawkins">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/708/000210078">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45126555">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=145029&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2034172"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/988/79.86.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Herbert Hoover"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964)</b> — also known as <b>Herbert Hoover</b>; <b>"The Great Engineer"</b>; <b>"The Grand Old Man"</b> — of Palo Alto, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-lived.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif.; Pasadena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in West Branch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CD-born.html">Cedar County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/08-10.html">August 10, 1874</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Mining</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/index.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Commerce</a>, 1921-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker, Republican National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/speakers.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/speakers.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/speakers.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Dutch</a> ancestry. Inducted into the National Mining <b>Hall of Fame</b>, Leadville, Colorado. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/colon-cancer.html">intestinal cancer</a>, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/10-20.html">October 20, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CD-buried.html#cms02218">Herbert Hoover National Historic Site</a>, West Branch, Iowa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/02-10.html">February 10, 1899</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#870.54.76">Lou Hoover</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#936.13.49">Herbert Clark Hoover Jr.</a>; distant cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoopes-hopkin.html#138.95.04">Charles Lewis Hoover</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/16135.html">Hoover family</a> of Palo Alto, California.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mann.html#711.44.30">Horace A. Mann</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/newton.html#858.58.66">Walter H. Newton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#391.20.50">Christian A. Herter</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/straub-streeb.html#549.55.77">Lewis L. Strauss</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#439.04.43">Clarence C. Stetson</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Dam</a> (built 1931-36 as Boulder Dam; renamed 1947), on the Colorado River between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/CL-names.html">Clark County, Nevada</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MO-names.html">Mohave County, Arizona</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Glendale, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-names.html">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SD-names.html">San Diego, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-names.html">Fresno, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — Herbert Hoover <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-names.html">Elkview, West Virginia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>. — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-misc.html">minor planets</a> (asteroids) <b>932 Hooveria</b> (discovered 1920), and <b>1363 Herberta</b> (discovered 1935), are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Campaign slogan (1928):</i> "A chicken in every pot."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert Hoover">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/429/000026351">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393885">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/498">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4054">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Herbert Hoover:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943875412/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0943875412&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Herbert Hoover:</i> Martin L. Fausold, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700603581/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700603581&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover</a> — Joan Hoff Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881337056/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0881337056&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover : Forgotten Progressive</a> — George H. Nash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393025500/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393025500&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Life of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917</a> — George H. Nash, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393038416/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393038416&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies, 1917-1918</a> — William E. Leuchtenburg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069585/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805069585&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933</a> — Glen Jeansonne, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/023010309X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=023010309X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933</a> — Kendrick A. Clements, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230103081/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0230103081&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928</a> — David Holford, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076602279X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076602279X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Herbert Hoover</a> (for young readers)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> U.S. postage stamp (1965)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Walter Perry Johnson (1887-1946)</b> — also known as <b>Walter P. Johnson</b> — of Germantown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born near Humboldt, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/AL-born.html">Allen County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-06.html">November 6, 1887</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 6th District, 1940. Professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">baseball</a> pitcher with Washington Senators, 1907-27; won 417 games, second only to Cy Young; held major league record in career strikeouts (3508) from 1921 until 1983; holds record for career shutouts (110) and other records; was pitcher at the 1910 baseball game at which <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#155.21.12">William H. Taft</a> became the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> President to attend Opening Day; also was manager of the Washington Senators and the Cleveland Indians; elected to the <b>Baseball Hall of Fame</b> in 1936. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain tumor</a> in Georgetown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/12-10.html">December 10, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-buried.html#cms04084">Union Cemetery</a>, Rockville, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roberts3.html#823.29.51">Edwin Ewing Roberts</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/087/000085829">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)</b> — also known as <b>Gary Edward Keillor</b> — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born in Anoka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/AK-born.html">Anoka County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/08-07.html">August 7, 1942</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Writer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">radio show host</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">comedian</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; inducted into the Radio <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1994. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2022. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John Philip Keillor and Grace Ruth (Denham) Keillor; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/">1965</a> to Mary Guntzel; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/12-28.html">December 28, 1985</a>, to Ulla Skaerved; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/">1995</a> to Jenny Lind Nilsson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison Keillor">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/409/000024337">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445087">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Odessa J. Komer (1925-2004)</b> — also known as <b>Odessa Komer</b> — of East Detroit (now Eastpointe), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-lived.html">Macomb County</a>, Mich.; Sterling Heights, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-lived.html">Macomb County</a>, Mich. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/07-29.html">July 29, 1925</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Auto worker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">vice-president</a>, United Auto Workers, 1974-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/MI.html">1976</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/MI.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/MI.html">1984</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MI.html">1988</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">United Auto Workers</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-org-women.html">National Organization for Women</a>. Inducted into the Michigan Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1995. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2004/07-15.html">July 15, 2004</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 352 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866-1944)</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Millville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BU-born.html">Butler County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/11-20.html">November 20, 1866</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois</a>, 1905-22; resigned 1922; Commissioner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Baseball</a>, 1920-44. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Elected to National Baseball <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1944. Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/11-25.html">November 25, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 5 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00626">Oak Woods Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Abraham Hoch Landis and Mary (Kumler) Landis; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#830.60.04">Walter Kumler Landis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#779.76.84">Charles Beary Landis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#260.59.59">Frederick Daniel Landis</a>; married to Winifred Reed; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#490.27.32">Frederick Daniel Landis Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lance-landoe.html#814.52.25">Cary Dayton Landis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10786.html">Landis family</a> of Logansport, Indiana.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1337&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw Mountain Landis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/600">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/landis-kenesaw-mountain">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Stephen Michael Largent (b. 1954)</b> — also known as <b>Steve Largent</b> — of Oklahoma. Born in Tulsa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/TU-born.html">Tulsa County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/09-28.html">September 28, 1954</a>. Republican. Played professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">football</a> for the Seattle Seahawks, as a wide receiver, 1976-89; elected to the Pro Football <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1995; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Oklahoma</a> 1st District, 1994-2002; appointed 1994; resigned 2002; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Oklahoma</a>, 2002. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000096">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400593">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve Largent">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/060/000028973">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/123/76.63.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Herbert H. Lehman"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963)</b> — also known as <b>Herbert H. Lehman</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-28.html">March 28, 1878</a>. Democrat. Director, Consolidated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton Duck</a> Co., Imperial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> Co., U.S. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton Duck</a> Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/NY.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/NY.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/NY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NY.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NY.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1933-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1949-57; defeated, 1946. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jewish-comm.html">American Jewish Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-gamma-delta.html">Phi Gamma Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Awarded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> posthumously in 1963; inducted into the Jewish-American <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1974. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/12-05.html">December 5, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 252 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms00164">Kensico Cemetery</a>, Valhalla, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Mayer Lehman and Babette (Newgass) Lehman; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#487.76.81">Irving Lehman</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/04-28.html">April 28, 1910</a>, to Edith Louise Altschul; father of Peter Lehman; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#964.99.60">Elinor Fatman Morgenthau</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#617.00.23">Robert Morris Morgenthau</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehman.html#374.78.48">Orin Lehman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#421.66.48">John Langeloth Loeb Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0291.html">Morgenthau-Lehman family</a> of New York City, New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/soapy-solwin.html#978.93.09">Nathan R. Sobel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/corcoran.html#413.16.83">Thomas L. J. Corcoran</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Lehman <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">College</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-names.html">Bronx, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000224">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406728">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/herbert-henry-lehman/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert H. Lehman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/860/000161377">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1936</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Bruce Mathias (1930-2006)</b> — also known as <b>Bob Mathias</b> — of Tulare, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-lived.html">Tulare County</a>, Calif.; Fresno, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-lived.html">Fresno County</a>, Calif. Born in Tulare, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-born.html">Tulare County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/11-17.html">November 17, 1930</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 18th District, 1967-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Won <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/olympic-medals.html">Olympic gold medals</a> in decathalon in 1948 and 1952; starred as himself in a 1954 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movie</a>, "The Bob Mathias Story"; inducted into the U.S. Olympic <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1983. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Fresno, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/FR-died.html">Fresno County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/09-02.html">September 2, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/TU-buried.html#cms04221">Tulare Cemetery</a>, Tulare, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Charles Milfred Mathias and Lillian (Harris) Mathias; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/06-17.html">June 17, 1953</a>, to Melba Wiser; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/">1977</a> to Gwendolyn (Haven) Alexander (ex-wife of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexander.html#331.61.28">William Vollie Alexander Jr.</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000242">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407260">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob Mathias">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/440/000032344">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558751">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lucille Maurer (1922-1996)</b> — also known as <b>Lucy Maurer</b>; <b>Lucille Shirley Darvin</b> — of Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born, in Bushwick <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-born.html">Rockland County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/11-21.html">November 21, 1922</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/economist.html">Economist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention</a>, 1967-68; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1969-87; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a>, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/trea.html">Maryland state treasurer</a>, 1987-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MD.html">1988</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-trust-hist-pres.html">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-org-women.html">National Organization for Women</a>. Elected to Maryland Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1990. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain tumor</a>, in Silver Spring, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/06-17.html">June 17, 1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RO-buried.html#cms06833">Jewish Community Cemetery</a>, New Hempstead, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille Maurer">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert Ligon McWhorter (1891-1960)</b> — also known as <b>Bob McWhorter</b> — of Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-lived.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga. Born in Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/OG-born.html">Oglethorpe County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-04.html">June 4, 1891</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Law professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/athens.html">mayor of Athens, Ga.</a>, 1940-47; named to the College Football <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1954. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-phi.html">Chi Phi</a>. Died in Athens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-died.html">Clarke County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/06-29.html">June 29, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 25 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Hamilton McWhorter and Sallie (Pharr) McWhorter; brother of Camilla Oliver McWhorter (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#338.39.52">Andrew Cobb Erwin</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-12.html">October 12, 1921</a>, to Louise Walker.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">McWhorter Hall (dormitory, built 1966, rebuilt in new location 2004), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-names.html">Athens, Georgia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob McWhorter">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/83679963">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Carrie P. Meek (b. 1926)</b> — of Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla. Born in Tallahassee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-born.html">Leon County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/04-29.html">April 29, 1926</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/sthse.html">Florida state house of representatives</a>, 1979-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/stsen.html">Florida state senate</a>, 1983-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a> 17th District, 1993-2003; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/FL.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/FL.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/FL.html">2004</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> Black women elected to Congress from Florida; inducted 1992 into the Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#018.92.10">Kendrick B. Meek</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000628">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400511">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/822/000094540">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Robert H. Bob Menke, Sr. (1919-2008)</b> — also known as <b>Bob Menke</b> — Born in Huntingburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DU-born.html">Dubois County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/10-15.html">October 15, 1919</a>. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/furniture.html">furniture business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sthse.html">Indiana state house of representatives</a>, 1953-54. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nature-conservancy.html">Nature Conservancy</a>. A standout basketball player in high school and at Indiana University; inducted into the Indiana Basketball <b>Hall of Fame</b> in 1982. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">Lewy body dementia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/03-30.html">March 30, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 167 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/DU-buried.html#cms00632">Fairmount Cemetery</a>, Huntingburg, Ind. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Menke and Clara (Moenkhaus) Menke; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/08-12.html">August 12, 1944</a>, to Phyllis McMurtrie.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George Lawrence Mikan Jr. (1924-2005)</b> — also known as <b>George Mikan</b>; <b>"Mr. Basketball"</b> — of Minnesota. Born in Joliet, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WI-born.html">Will County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-18.html">June 18, 1924</a>. Republican. Professional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">basketball</a> player and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">coach</a> for the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1940s and 1950s; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Minnesota</a> 3rd District, 1956; member, Basketball <b>Hall of Fame</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/balkan.html">Croatian</a> ancestry. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a>, in Scottsdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AZ/MA-died.html">Maricopa County</a>, Ariz., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/06-01.html">June 1, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-buried.html#cms00172">Lakewood Cemetery</a>, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-buried.html# ">Target Center</a>, Minneapolis, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Patricia Lu Daveny.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Mikan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/370/000113031">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11081094">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jacqueline Cochran Odlum (1906-1980)</b> — also known as <b>Jacqueline C. Odlum</b>; <b>Jackie Odlum</b>; <b>Bessie Lee Pittman</b>; <b>Jacqueline Cochran</b> — Born in Muscogee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ES-born.html">Escambia County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/05-11.html">May 11, 1906</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/barber.html">Beautician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/aviation.html">airplane pilot</a>; during World War II, she trained many women pilots for duty ferrying supplies; she was the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> woman ever to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> woman pilot ever to break the sound barrier, and to exceed Mach 2; in 1952, she was one of the leaders of the "Draft Ike" movement to nominate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#075.91.63">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> for president; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 29th District, 1956; elected to Aviation <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1971. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Indio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-died.html">Riverside County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/08-07.html">August 7, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-buried.html#cms07690">Coachella Valley Public Cemetery</a>, Coachella, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Ira Pittman and Mary (Grant) Pittman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/">1936</a> to Floyd Odlum.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Jacqueline Cochran Regional <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-airports.html">Airport</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/RI-names.html">Thermal, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline Cochran">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7691192">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas William Osborne (b. 1937)</b> — also known as <b>Tom Osborne</b> — of LeMoyne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/KE-lived.html">Keith County</a>, Neb. Born in Hastings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/AD-born.html">Adams County</a>, Neb., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/02-23.html">February 23, 1937</a>. Republican. Played pro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">football</a> as a receiver with the NFL Washington Redskins, 1960-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">football coach</a> with the University of Nebraska, 1973-97, where he won 13 conference titles and three national championships, and was inducted into the College Football <b>Hall of Fame</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Nebraska</a> 3rd District, 2001-; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Nebraska</a>, 2006. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000165">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400303">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom Osborne %28Nebraska%29">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/086/000039966">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954)</b> — also known as <b>Ruth Bryan</b>; <b>Ruth Bryan Rohde</b>; <b>Mrs. Borge Rohde</b> — of Miami, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Ossining, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Jacksonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MG-born.html">Morgan County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/10-02.html">October 2, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Lecturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Florida</a> 4th District, 1929-33; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-diplomats.html ">Denmark</a>, 1933-36. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-gamma.html">Delta Gamma</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> woman to be elected to Congress from the South; inducted 1992 into the Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in Copenhagen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-died.html">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/07-26.html">July 26, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 297 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-buried.html#cms02763">Ordrup Cemetery</a>, Copenhagen, Denmark. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#717.72.21">William Jennings Bryan</a> and Mary Elizabeth (Baird) Bryan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/05-03.html">May 3, 1910</a>, to Reginald Owen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/07-11.html">July 11, 1936</a>, to Borge Rohde; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#000.71.81">Helen Rudd Brown</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#992.04.00">Charles Wayland Bryan</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#765.40.27">Silas Lillard Bryan</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10183.html">Bryan-Jennings family</a> of Illinois.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000154">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408405">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/owen-ruth-bryan ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/098/000052939">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in San Juan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PR/SJ-born.html">San Juan Municipio</a>, Puerto Rico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/09-13.html">September 13, 1922</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">welder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/socialwork.html">social worker</a>; founder, in 1961, of ASPIRA, a non-profit organization which promotes education and community for Puerto Rican and other Latino youth; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn9.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> at-large, 1967; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Medal of Freedom</a>, 1996; inducted into the Hunter College <b>Hall of Fame</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Puerto Rican</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Lesbian</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/05-24.html">May 24, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 253 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia Pantoja">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Redbook-1951-1952_%2854GA%29.pdf"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/521/85.61.jpg" width=70 height=96 border=0 alt="Jessie M. Parker"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jessie M. Parker (1879-1959)</b> — of Lake Mills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WN-lived.html">Winnebago County</a>, Iowa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/BH-born.html">Black Hawk County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/02-25.html">February 25, 1879</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WN-officials.html">Winnebago County Superintendent of Schools</a>, 1915-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/sppi.html">Iowa superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1939-54. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-gamma.html">Delta Kappa Gamma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-theta-kappa.html">Phi Theta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>. Inducted into the Iowa Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1986. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/05-01.html">May 1, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 65 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Frederick H. Parker and Martha J. (Knapp) Parker.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The Jessie Parker State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Office Building</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/PO-names.html">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Iowa Official Register 1951-52</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Howard Payne (1791-1852)</b> — also known as <b>John H. Payne</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/06-09.html">June 9, 1791</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">playwright</a>; author of the lines which were later adapted as the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TS-consuls.html ">Tunis</a>, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852. Inducted into the Songwriters <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1970. Died in Tunis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TS-died.html">Tunisia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/04-10.html">April 10, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 306 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TS-buried.html#cms07633">St. George's Protestant Cemetery</a>, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms07634">Prospect Park</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS John Howard Payne</i> (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1963) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Howard Payne">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6258401">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Richard Lee Petty (b. 1937)</b> — also known as <b>Richard Petty</b>; <b>"The King"</b> — of North Carolina. Born in Level Cross, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RA-born.html">Randolph County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-02.html">July 2, 1937</a>. Republican. NASCAR <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">race car driver</a>, 1958-92; winner of the Grand Nationals in 1964 and 1967, and the Winston Cup in 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979; winner of the Daytona 500 seven times; winner of 200 NASCAR races -- a record, and 95 more than any other driver; inducted into the Motorsports <b>Hall of Fame</b> of America in 1989.; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of North Carolina</a>, 1996. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/986/000023917">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678809">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Janet Reno (1938-2016)</b> — of Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla. Born in Miami, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-born.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-21.html">July 21, 1938</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Dade County State's Attorney, 1978-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1993-2001; the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> female U.S. attorney general; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Florida</a>, 2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Danish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>. Inducted, Florida Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1993; inducted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/natl-womens-hof.html">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, 2000. Died in Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/11-07.html">November 7, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 109 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Henry Reno and Jane (Wood) Reno.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet Reno">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/042/000023970">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719732">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/janet-reno/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Janet Reno:</i> Paul Anderson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471018589/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471018589&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Janet Reno : Doing the Right Thing</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Wilhelmina Jackson Rolark (1916-2006)</b> — also known as <b>Wilhelmina J. Rolark</b>; <b>M. Wilhelmina Jackson</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/pm-born.html">Portsmouth</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/09-12.html">September 12, 1916</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; co-founder of Washington Informer <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>; member, Washington, D.C. city council, 1977-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/DC.html">1980</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Inducted in 2001 to the Washington, D.C. <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/colon-cancer.html">colon cancer</a>, in Greater Southeast Community <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/02-14.html">February 14, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 155 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Calvin Rolark.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Ronald Ryun (b. 1947)</b> — also known as <b>Jim Ryun</b> — of Topeka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SH-lived.html">Shawnee County</a>, Kan. Born in Wichita, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-born.html">Sedgwick County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/04-29.html">April 29, 1947</a>. Republican. Silver medallist, 1968 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/olympic-medals.html">Olympic games</a>; inducted into National Distance Running <b>Hall of Fame</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kansas</a> 2nd District, 1996-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000566">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400353">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Ryun">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/300/000040180">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Audrey E. Scott</b> — of Bowie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-lived.html">Prince George's County</a>, Md.; Queenstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/QA-lived.html">Queen Anne's County</a>, Md. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/bowie.html">Mayor of Bowie, Md.</a>, 1976-82; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2012/MD.html">2012</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Named to Maryland Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Still living as of 2012. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Lynn Curtis Swann (b. 1952)</b> — also known as <b>Lynn Swann</b> — of Sewickley Heights, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa. Born in Alcoa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/BL-born.html">Blount County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/03-07.html">March 7, 1952</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">Pro football player</a> for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1974-82; member of the College Football <b>Hall of Fame</b> and the Pro Football <b>Hall of Fame</b>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 2006. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn Swann">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/215/000025140">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841712">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=57135">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Janet Voinovich</b> — of Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2004/OH.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/OH.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Inducted into Ohio Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1999. Still living as of 2008. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/voelker-voorehees.html#359.45.06">George Victor Voinovich</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jackie Washington</b> — of Michigan. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/socialwork.html">Social worker</a>; president and CEO, Pontiac Urban League, 1985-92; president and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Southeast Michigan, 1992-; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/wsu.html">Wayne State University board of governors</a>, 2001; inductee, Michigan Women's <b>Hall of Fame</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-org-women.html">National Organization for Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Still living as of 2002. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Herman John Wedemeyer (1924-1999)</b> — also known as <b>Herman Wedemeyer</b>; <b>"Squirmin' Herman"</b>; <b>"Hula Hips"</b>; <b>"The Hula-Hipped Hawaiian"</b>; <b>"The Hawaiian Hurricane"</b>; <b>"The Hawaiian Centipede"</b> — of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-lived.html">Honolulu County</a>, Hawaii. Born near Hilo, Island of Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HI-born.html">Hawaii County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-20.html">May 20, 1924</a>. College football star; elected to the National Football Foundation College <b>Hall of Fame</b> and the Hawaii Sports <b>Hall of Fame</b>; played pro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">football</a> for the Los Angeles Dons and the Baltimore Colts in 1948-49; played pro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">baseball</a> for the Salt Lake City Bees (farm team for the San Francisco Seals) in 1950; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/ofc/sthse.html">Hawaii state house of representatives</a>, 1971-74; as an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a>, he was a regular on the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">television series</a> "Hawaii Five-O," playing the role of Duke Lakela, 1971-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Hawaiian</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Chinese</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/asian-pacific.html">Tahitan</a> ancestry. Died, of complications from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, at Queens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/HI/HO-died.html">Honolulu County</a>, Hawaii, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/01-25.html">January 25, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 250 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917175">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Irving Whalley (1902-1980)</b> — also known as <b>J. Irving Whalley</b> — of Windber, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, Pa. Born in Barnesboro (now part of Northern Cambria), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-born.html">Cambria County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/09-14.html">September 14, 1902</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autodealer.html">Automobile dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/sthse.html">Pennsylvania state house of representatives</a>, 1951-55; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/stsen.html">Pennsylvania state senate</a> 36th District, 1955-60; resigned 1960; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1960-73 (18th District 1960-63, 12th District 1963-73). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Inducted, Automotive <b>Hall of Fame</b>, 1982. Died in Pompano Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BR-died.html">Broward County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/03-08.html">March 8, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 176 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/CA-buried.html#cms00132">Grandview Cemetery</a>, Southmont, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Ruth Anderson.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000320">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411482">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7249473">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ralph H. Young (1889-1962)</b> — of East Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-lived.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich. Born in Crown Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/LA-born.html">Lake County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/12-17.html">December 17, 1889</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coach.html">athletic coach</a>; Michigan State College athletic director; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Ingham County 2nd District, 1957-62; died in office 1962. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-gamma-delta.html">Phi Gamma Delta</a>. Elected to Michigan Sports <b>Hall of Fame</b>. Died in East Lansing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IN-died.html">Ingham County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/01-23.html">January 23, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 37 days</a>). 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