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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: October 9, 1961</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Sadowski</a> — Utica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-died.html">Macomb County</a>, Mich.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-10-09.html">Politicians who died on October 9</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/died.html">politicians who died in 1961</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: <ul> <li>150 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphrey.html#955.16.65">James Humphrey</a>, born October 9, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aikens-albree.html#375.24.80">Warren Akin</a>, born October 9, 1811; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#351.54.25">William Markham</a>, born October 9, 1811</li> <li>50 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#876.29.14">Cornelius N. Bliss</a>, died October 9, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams4.html#417.22.34">George Bethune Adams</a>, died October 9, 1911; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith3.html#455.70.63">Freeborn G. Smith</a>, died October 9, 1911</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 96: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garrett.html#733.15.00">James Taliaferro Garrett</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith9.html#409.35.10">William W. Smith</a></li> <li>Age 92: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walton.html#831.59.87">Robert S. Walton</a></li> <li>Age 87: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowman.html#847.93.38">George L. Bowman</a></li> <li>Age 86: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyne-vanmeter.html#468.95.53">Thomas B. Van Horne</a></li> <li>Age 84: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/driver-dryzga.html#213.75.22">Hugh Drummond</a></li> <li>Age 83: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#381.22.55">Aubrey Boyles</a></li> <li>Age 81: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#745.71.97">Marlin T. Phelps</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#086.68.10">Leslie L. Biffle</a></li> <li>Age 79: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williamson.html#142.15.24">Harold L. Williamson</a></li> <li>Age 76: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#043.73.57">Frances B. Weedon</a></li> <li>Age 75: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell9.html#453.93.75">Walter W. Russell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branchfield-brandofino.html#327.09.32">James T. Brand</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#493.70.99">Worth Allen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#843.30.55">Harold G. Sturgis</a></li> <li>Age 70: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freye-frimodig.html#204.03.92">Lyman L. Frimodig</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller9.html#119.59.94">Wilbur K. Miller</a></li> <li>Age 68: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grainger-gransback.html#031.83.41">Joe Grandhomme</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcfarland.html#053.86.34">Ernest W. McFarland</a></li> <li>Age 65: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#401.18.55">Raymond Blake</a></li> <li>Age 64: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclaughlin-mclay.html#384.33.21">Frank P. McLaughlin</a></li> <li>Age 61: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellis.html#247.46.88">Overton G. Ellis, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hannaford-hanscom.html#985.55.72">John A. Hannah</a></li> <li>Age 57: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#425.13.24">George N. Beamer</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aikens-albree.html#263.28.05">A. M. Aikin, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 55: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams9.html#206.00.26">W. Bruce Williams</a></li> <li>Age 53: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/folsom.html#931.67.86">James E. Folsom</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tooley-tossy.html#835.01.99">Walter L. Tooze</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chambers.html#150.42.06">Roy A. Chambers</a></li> <li>Age 47: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#888.29.70">William St. Onge</a></li> <li>Age 46: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hardin.html#642.52.72">Clifford M. Hardin</a></li> <li>Age 43: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barc-barhite.html#220.27.67">George E. Barger</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battle.html#369.91.61">William Cullen Battle</a></li> <li>Age 40: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fogleson-folse.html#182.12.88">Daniel F. Foley</a></li> <li>Age 38: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howell.html#990.14.70">Harry U. Howell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnette-burnley.html#390.09.84">George G. Burnette, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 37: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christenson-christianson.html#220.21.18">Lee D. Christiansen</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dixson-doctrine.html#633.14.03">Robert B. Docking</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/finch.html#833.73.18">Robert H. Finch</a></li> <li>Age 35: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyd-boylan.html#082.12.01">Seymour Boyers</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/murphy7.html#160.95.63">Robert C. Murphy</a></li> <li>Age 34: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/naar-nary.html#046.69.23">Frank B. Nair, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 33: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#012.05.54">James H. Davis III</a></li> <li>Age 32: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan-mork.html#557.40.03">Ernest N. Morial</a></li> <li>Age 27: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelly5.html#310.35.84">John David Kelly</a></li> <li>Age 26: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#619.47.47">Robert R. Nelson</a></li> <li>Age 21: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphrey.html#224.45.85">Gordon J. Humphrey</a></li> <li>Age 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#993.72.68">Trent Lott</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#899.64.45">John J. Fitzgerald</a></li> <li>Age 17: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zebb-ziegenheim.html#108.99.63">Fred Zharoff</a></li> <li>Age 13: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonardo-lessler.html#777.94.69">Paul LePage</a></li> <li>Age 10: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#845.30.98">David C. Jacobson</a></li> <li>Age 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#236.89.00">Jaynee LaVecchia</a></li> <li>Age 5: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown6.html#902.05.89">Lisa Brown</a></li> <li>Age 4: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/batcheller-bateman.html#483.68.25">Christopher Bateman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/redd-redwood.html#684.65.85">William B. Redpath</a></li> <li>Age 2: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee9.html#015.75.74">Bill Lee</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/10-09.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/10-09.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>