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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians in Trouble or Disgrace: Protests</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 Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/12-16.html">December 16, 1801</a>. Republican. He belonged to a secret society which advocated a constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, the conspiracy was uncovered; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to fifteen years in in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 1829, and left Germany for the United States; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html ">Amsterdam</a>, 1849-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/aud.html">Indiana state auditor</a>, 1861-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/terrehaute.html">mayor of Terre Haute, Ind.</a>, 1863-67. Died in Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-died.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/07-25.html">July 25, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-buried.html#cms02318">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Terre Haute, 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">Lange <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (now closed), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-names.html">Terre Haute, Indiana</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15566013">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nJVdCsi0HsEC&pg=PA295"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/554/09.01.jpg" width=70 height=97 border=0 alt="Eugene V. Debs"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) — also known as Eugene V. Debs — of Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-lived.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind. Born in Terre Haute, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-born.html">Vigo County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/11-05.html">November 5, 1855</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Locomotive fireman</a> on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">secretary-treasurer</a> of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sthse.html">Indiana state house of representatives</a>, 1885; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">founder</a> in 1893 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">president</a> (1893-97) of the American Railway Union; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during a strike in 1894 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">conspiracy to commit murder</a>; the charges were dropped, but he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> for six months for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a>; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist), 1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">founder</a> of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to organize all workers in "One Big Union"; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> under the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Sedition and Espionage Act</a> for an anti-war speech he made in 1918, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to ten years in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; released in 1921. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. Died in Lindlahr <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Sanitarium</a>, Elmhurst, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/DP-died.html">DuPage County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/10-20.html">October 20, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-buried.html#cms00649">Highland Lawn Cemetery</a>, Terre Haute, 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">Relatives: Son of Daniel Debs and Marguerite (Betterich) Debs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/06-09.html">June 9, 1885</a>, to Katherine 'Kate' Metzel (step-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battles-baxmeyer.html#999.09.28">Bertha D. Baur</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html#303.64.59">Victor L. Berger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cummins-cunneen.html#834.63.32">William A. Cunnea</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/156/000057982">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Eugene V. Debs: James Chace, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743203941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743203941&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the Country</a> — Charles W. Carey, Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0766019799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0766019799&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Eugene V. Debs : Outspoken Labor Leader and Socialist</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1908</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> Hyman Costrell (b. 1890) — also known as Jack Robbins — of New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn.; New York. Born in Kurenitz, Russia (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BS-born.html">Belarus</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/10-19.html">October 19, 1890</a>. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> in 1905 in Russia and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> three months for demonstrating and distributing circulars against the Czarist government; naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">plumber</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 8th District, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</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> Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) — also known as Upton Sinclair — of California. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/09-20.html">September 20, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a> and social crusader; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a> of The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1914 for picketing in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> 10th District, 1920; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for fiction in 1943 for the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">novel</a> Dragon's Teeth. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-world-federalists.html">United World Federalists</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/league-industrial-democracy.html">League for Industrial Democracy</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. Died in Bound Brook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-died.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/11-25.html">November 25, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#441.32.02">Harry W. Laidler</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan (1934): "End Poverty in California."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/657/000024585">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801737">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Upton Sinclair: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520081986/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520081986&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked</a> (1934)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction by Upton Sinclair: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1884365302/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1884365302&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Jungle</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0837604443/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0837604443&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Oil! A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573929018/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1573929018&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Moneychangers</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931313032/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1931313032&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Dragons Teeth</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9997531620/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9997531620&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Wide is the Gate</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Upton Sinclair: Lauren Coodley, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1890771953/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1890771953&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California</a> — Greg Mitchell, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871134675/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0871134675&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics</a> — Kevin Mattson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471725110/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471725110&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century</a> — Anthony Arthur, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400061512/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400061512&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair</a></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> Arthur Elmer Reimer (1882-1969) — also known as Arthur E. Reimer — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/01-15.html">January 15, 1882</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1912, 1916; Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1913, 1914; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in Butte, Montana, 1916, for making a radical speech. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/index.html">1969</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur E. Reimer">Wikipedia article</a></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> Caleb Harrison — of Illinois. Socialist. Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1916 for making a radical speech. 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> Earl Russel Browder (1891-1973) — also known as Earl Browder — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Wichita, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SE-born.html">Sedgwick County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/05-20.html">May 20, 1891</a>. Communist. As a result of his opposition to U.S. participation in World War I, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1917 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">conspiracy</a> against the draft laws and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to sixteen months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> again in 1919; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 1933; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1930 (6th District), 1932 (20th District), 1940 (14th District); General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S., 1934-44; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1936, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1939 for a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/smuggling.html">passport violation</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to four years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> (sentence commuted after fourteen months); expelled from the Communist Party, 1946. Died in Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-died.html">Mercer County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/06-27.html">June 27, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 38 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">Relatives: Son of William Browder and Martha (Hankins) Browder; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/">1926</a> to Raissa Berkman.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/powers.html#627.13.98">George E. Powers</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl Russell Browder">Wikipedia article</a></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> J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-born.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/11-11.html">November 11, 1884</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Writer</a> and editor for Socialist and Communist <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspapers</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html#303.64.59">Victor L. Berger</a>, and three others, for making speeches that encouraged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">disloyalty</a> and obstructed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military recruitment</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to twenty years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 7th District, 1918; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist); Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1930; Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 7th District, 1931. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Swedish</a> ancestry. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Moscow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-died.html">Russia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/11-21.html">November 21, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 10 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Louis Engdahl">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/album/index.htm"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/303/64.59.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Victor L. Berger"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) — also known as Victor L. Berger — of Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born in Nieder-Rehbach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-born.html">Austria</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/02-28.html">February 28, 1860</a>. Socialist. Emigrated to the United States in 1878; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">school teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Wisconsin</a> 5th District, 1911-13, 1919, 1923-29; defeated, 1904, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Wisconsin</a>, 1918; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Wisconsin, 1920; Chairman of Socialist Party, 1927-29. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">International Typographical Union</a>. He and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/debolt-deckard.html#554.09.01">Eugene V. Debs</a> founded the Socialist Party. He opposed U.S. entry into World War I; in Chicago in 1918, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> under the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Espionage Act</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to twenty years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; elected to Congress anyway, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">denied a seat</a> in 1919-21 to to alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">disloyalty</a>. In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed his conviction; the cases against him were withdrawn; he resumed his seat in Congress in 1923. Injured in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/railroad.html">streetcar accident</a>, and subsequently died, in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-died.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/08-07.html">August 7, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 160 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-buried.html#cms00501">Forest Home Cemetery</a>, Milwaukee, 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">Relatives: Son of Ignatz Berger and Julia Berger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-04.html">December 4, 1897</a>, to Meta Schlicting.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kribbs-krzycki.html#088.20.46">William F. Kruse</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerard-gerrity.html#712.70.44">Adolph Germer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#229.18.55">J. Louis Engdahl</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#474.61.81">Irwin St. John Tucker</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000407">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401395">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor L. Berger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/380/000167876">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/87">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Marxists Internet Archive</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> William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) — also known as William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire Socialist" — of Winnetka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/02-27.html">February 27, 1875</a>. Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1918; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red flag from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">sedition</a>, 1920; represented at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/darnell-daughenbaugh.html#597.66.26">Clarence Darrow</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 1-5 years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; his sentence was commuted in 1922. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in the Ritz-Carlton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/06-30.html">June 30, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 123 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean. <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">Relatives: Son of Henry Demarest Lloyd and Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola Maverick and Madge Bird; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#804.68.42">William Bross</a>.</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> William F. Kruse (1894-1952) — also known as Bill Kruse — of Illinois. Born in Hoboken, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-born.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/index.html">1894</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">Bookkeeper</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html#303.64.59">Victor L. Berger</a>, and three others, for making speeches that encouraged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">disloyalty</a> and obstructed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military recruitment</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to twenty years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 6th District, 1918, 1920; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Illinois</a>, 1921; Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Illinois</a>, 1928. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Danish</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/index.html">1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Kruse (American)">Wikipedia article</a></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> Irwin St. John Tucker — of Illinois. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">Lecturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html#303.64.59">Victor L. Berger</a>, and three others, for making speeches that encouraged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">disloyalty</a> and obstructed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military recruitment</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to twenty years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; the conviction was later overturned; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 10th District, 1918; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920. 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> Adolph Germer (1881-1966) — of Belleville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SC-lived.html">St. Clair County</a>, Ill.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Wehlau, East Prussia (now Znamensk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KL-born.html">Kaliningrad Oblast</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/01-15.html">January 15, 1881</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/mining.html">Miner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">union official</a> in various capacities for the United Mine Workers of America, 1906-16; member of Socialist National Committee from Illinois, 1911; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1912; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Illinois</a>, 1914; National Executive Secretary, Socialist Party of America, 1916-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html#303.64.59">Victor L. Berger</a>, and three others, for making speeches that encouraged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">disloyalty</a> and obstructed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">military recruitment</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to twenty years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; the conviction was later overturned; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 16th District, 1921. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">United Mine Workers</a>. Died in Rockford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WN-died.html">Winnebago County</a>, Ill., May, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/index.html">1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph Germer">Wikipedia article</a></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> Maurice Sugar (1891-1974) — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Brimley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CP-born.html">Chippewa County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/08-08.html">August 8, 1891</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cirjd.html">circuit judge in Michigan</a> 3rd Circuit, 1917, 1919; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spju.html">justice of Michigan state supreme court</a>, 1917; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 13th District, 1918 (Socialist), 1936 (Farmer-Labor); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1918 for resisting the draft, sentenced to a year in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">disbarred</a>; readmitted to the Bar in 1923; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> in 1933; general counsel to the United Automobile Workers, 1937-46; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baltic.html">Lithuanian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-lawyers-guild.html">National Lawyers Guild</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CB-died.html">Cheboygan County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/02-15.html">February 15, 1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 191 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">Relatives: Son of Kalman Sugar and Mary Sugar; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/">1914</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/suarez-sullinger.html#017.63.23">Jane Mayer Sugar</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice Sugar">Wikipedia article</a></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> James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) — of Rahway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J.; Linden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in Allegan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AL-born.html">Allegan County</a>, Mich., about 1868. Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate developer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/rahway.html">mayor of Rahway, N.J.</a>, 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assault</a> in connection with his participation in a Socialist rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 5th District, 1920; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/linden.html">mayor of Linden, N.J.</a> 1930, but died before taking office. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">paralytic stroke</a>, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">addressing a meeting</a> of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in St. Elizabeth <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-died.html">Union County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/11-12.html">November 12, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</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">Relatives: Father of Helen Josephine Furber (niece by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcgeehan-mcgoodwin.html#104.60.59">George McGillivray</a>).</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> Frederick J. Harwood — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J.; New York. Socialist. State Secretary, New Jersey Socialist Party, 1919; when attempting to speak to a Socialist rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, he was sprayed with a fire hose by Mayor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#770.69.29">David H. Trembley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/obstruction.html">opposing and obstructing</a> a police officer, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $50; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 24th District, 1938. 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> David H. Trembley (b. 1858) — of Rahway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/UN-lived.html">Union County</a>, N.J. Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/index.html">1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Carriage painter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/rahway.html">mayor of Rahway, N.J.</a>, 1918-22; on May 31, 1919, he prevented a Socialist orator, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#558.78.01">Frederick Harwood</a>, from speaking, by spraying him and his audience with a fire hose; subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">assault</a> and inciting to riot; retaliated by arresting Justice of the Peace Gustav Theimer, who had indicted him, and arraigned him on a charge of improper procedure. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. 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> Charlotte Anita Whitney (c.1868-1955) — also known as Anita Whitney — of California. Born about 1868. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/socialwork.html">Social worker</a>; in 1919, she gave a radical speech in Oakland, California; as a result, she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">found guilty</a> of violating the state's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">syndicalism</a> law; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pardon.html">pardoned</a> by Governor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young2.html#955.14.97">C. C. Young</a>.; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1928, 1940 (Communist). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/02-04.html">February 4, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</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">Relatives: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitney.html#336.87.80">George E. Whitney</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/field-fielding.html#156.84.02">Stephen Johnson Field</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12261.html">Whitney-Field-Brewer-Wells family</a> of California.</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> G. August Gerber — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> for making <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">seditious utterances</a> on March 26, 1920, in Philadelphia, when police broke up a protest meeting, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">inciting to riot</a>; released when the charges were dropped the next day; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 18th District, 1921, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1930 (19th District), 1932 (at-large). 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> Mary Winsor (b. 1873) — of Lower Merion Township, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/03-28.html">March 28, 1873</a>. Socialist. Woman suffrage activist; participant in the first U.S. birth control conference, New York City, November 1921; on November 13, police arrived to forcibly shut down the event, and she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, along with Margaret Sanger, for attempting to speak; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with disorderly conduct, but released soon after; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/soi.html">Pennsylvania secretary of internal affairs</a>, 1922; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania</a>, 1930; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 17th District, 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/wilpf.html">Women's International League for Peace and Freedom</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</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">Relatives: Daughter of James Davis Winsor and Rebecca (Chapman) Winsor; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#417.79.91">Simeon Baldwin</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#477.85.86">Charles Grenfill Washburn</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=165420">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/548/95.41.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="John C. Butterworth"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John C. Butterworth (1870-1952) — of Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-lived.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J. Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/index.html">1870</a>. Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">silk weaver</a>; Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Jersey</a>, 1913, 1916, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1949; on October 6, 1924, during a strike at the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., while the city was under martial law, he and other strikers and supporters were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of unlawful assembly; the convictions were later overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court; Socialist Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1924, 1932, 1934, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1946; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">Industrial Workers of the World</a>. Died in Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-died.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/10-17.html">October 17, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</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">Image source: Paterson (N.J.) News, October 18, 1952</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> Max Schachtman (1904-1972) — of Floral Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Warsaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-born.html">Poland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/09-10.html">September 10, 1904</a>. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during a demonstration on Wall Street in New York City, July 3, 1928, but charges against him were dismissed; became an open supporter of Leon Trotsky's opposition to Stalin about 1928, and was expelled from the Communist Party; became a major Trotskyist leader and theoretician, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers Party; editor of The Militant <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>; Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1940 (23rd District), 1946 (15th District); Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1941; broke with Trotskyism in 1948, and became more conservative in later life. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/league-industrial-democracy.html">League for Industrial Democracy</a>. Died, in Long Island Jewish <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, New Hyde Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/11-04.html">November 4, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 55 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">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Schachtman and Sarah Schachtman; married to Billie Ramloff, Edith Harvey and Yetta Barsh.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max Schachtman">Wikipedia article</a></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> Philip Aaron Raymond (1899-1983) — also known as Philip Raymond — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. 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/1899/02-04.html">February 4, 1899</a>. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">Labor organizer</a>; in January, 1930, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in Pontiac, Mich., and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with leading a demonstration; again <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in April, 1934, in Dearborn, Mich., when he was seen talking with strikers picketing an auto plant; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1930; Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 6th District, 1930; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Michigan</a>, 1934; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Michigan</a>, 1936, 1940; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/attygn.html">Michigan state attorney general</a>, 1946. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/03-21.html">March 21, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 45 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">Relatives: Married to Vera Katz.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=55210">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> William Zebulon Foster (1881-1961) — also known as William Z. Foster; William Edward Foster — of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-lived.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y. Born in Taunton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/02-25.html">February 25, 1881</a>. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">Labor organizer</a>; helped lead steelworkers strike in 1919; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1924, 1928, 1932; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1930; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> after a demonstration in 1930, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> for six months; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> on July 20, 1948 under the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Smith Act</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with conspiring to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">advocate the overthrow</a> of the government; never tried due to illness. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">sanatorium</a> at Moscow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-died.html">Russia</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/09-01.html">September 1, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 188 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-buried.html# ">Kremlin Wall Necropolis</a>, Moscow, Russia; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms01868">Forest Home Cemetery</a>, Forest Park, 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">Relatives: Son of James Foster; married to Ester Abramovitch.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Working Class Leader. Tireless Fighter for Socialism."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Z. Foster">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15712660">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Sammie A. Abbott (1908-1990) — of New York; Takoma Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/04-25.html">April 25, 1908</a>. Communist. Activist and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">labor organizer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> about 50 times in connection with demonstrations and strikes; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 37th District, 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/takomapark.html">mayor of Takoma Park, Md.</a>, 1980-85; defeated, 1985. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/12-15.html">December 15, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 234 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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/">1938</a> to Ruth Gracie Yalsic.</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> George Edward Powers (b. 1892) — also known as George E. Powers — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass.; Astoria, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-15.html">February 15, 1892</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Sheet metal worker</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/queens.html">borough president of Queens, New York</a>, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist); Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Michigan</a>, 1930; in April 1932, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> at City Hall Park, during a demonstration which was characaterized as "riot"; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932, he was publicly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of taking part in an alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Communist conspiracy</a> to cause bank failures in Chicago by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/libel-slander.html">spreading rumors</a> (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); he denied this; Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coacj.html">chief judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1932; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">vice-president</a>, International Workers Order; Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 10th District, 1936; following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from the Communist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brouillard-browman.html#919.82.22">Earl Browder</a>'s trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for the prosecution; Liberal candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 7th District, 1948, 1950. 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">Relatives: Son of George E. Powers and Sarah Powers.</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> Ernest A. Moross (c.1874-1949) — of Mosherville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HI-lived.html">Hillsdale County</a>, Mich. Born about 1874. Manager for Indianapolis Speedway, and for many early 20th century <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">race car drivers</a>; retired from automobile racing in 1916; candidate in Republican primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Hillsdale County, 1930; Communist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 10th District, 1932; in 1933, he refused to renew his car's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">license plates</a> as a protest against the cost; when his car was seized, he and his wife locked the doors and remained inside it for a month; finally police broke into the car and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> them; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of resisting arrest, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>. Died in Long Beach, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/04-04.html">April 4, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</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">Relatives: Brother-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#748.78.72">Robert Oakman</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Burroughs-Williana-1933.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/827/00.36.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Williana J. Burroughs"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Williana Jones Burroughs (1882-1945) — also known as Williana J. Burroughs; Williana Jones; Mary Adams — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Moscow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-lived.html">Russia</a>. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/pb-born.html">Petersburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/12-26.html">December 26, 1882</a>. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; joined the Communist party in 1926; used the pseudonym "Mary Adams"; in 1933, she led a demonstration to the New York City Board of Education, and as a result, she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fired</a> from her teaching job; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1934; announcer and editor for the English-language broadcasts of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Radio</a> Moscow, 1937-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in the Staten Island Area <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/12-24.html">December 24, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 363 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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/">1909</a> to Charles Burroughs.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williana Burroughs">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Daily Worker, October 1933</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/239/26.74.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Corliss Lamont"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Englewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-born.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/03-28.html">March 28, 1902</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">lecturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> on June 27, 1934, while picketing in support of a labor union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this organization and its leaders were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigated</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">subversion</a> by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1946 with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of Congress</a> for his refusal to provide records demanded by the committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">denied a passport</a> to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Communist-front organizations</a>"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">cited</a> him with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of Congress</a> for refusing to testify before Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccarthy.html#956.57.47">Joseph R. McCarthy</a>'s subcommittee; subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a>; pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent Socialist). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Ossining, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1995/04-26.html">April 26, 1995</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 29 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-buried.html#cms01842">Brookside Cemetery</a>, Englewood, 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">Relatives: Son of Thomas William Lamont and Florence Haskell (Corliss) Lamont; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/06-08.html">June 8, 1928</a>, to Margaret Hayes Irish; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to Helen Lamb; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/">1986</a> to Beth Keehner; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lambdin-lamy.html#448.22.88">Ned Lamont</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss Lamont">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/035/000170522">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/183472062">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The Militant, November 3, 1958</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/755/98.23.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Abdul Hamid"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) — also known as Abdul Hamid; Eugene Brown; "The Black Hitler"; "The Harlem Hitler"; "Bishop Amiru-Al-Mu-Minim Sufi Abdul Hamid" — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Lowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/01-06.html">January 6, 1903</a>. Self-styled <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">cleric</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">labor leader</a>; claimed to be from Egypt or Sudan; wore a turban and a green velvet cloak with gold braid; led picketing of stores in Harlem whose proprietors refused to hire African-American employees; conducted street rallies in Harlem where he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">denounced Jews</a>; said he was "the only one fit to carry on the war against the Jews"; Americo-Spanish candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 17th District, 1933; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in October 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried and found guilty</a> on misdemeanor charges of making a public speech without a permit, and selling books without a license, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to ten days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jail</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspected</a> of inciting the 1935 riot in Harlem, which led to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">injunctions</a> against his activities; in January 1938, his estranged wife, Stephanie St. Clair, ambushed him outside his house, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot</a> at him five times, but he was not seriously hurt; founded the Buddhist Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/buddhist.html">Buddhist</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/muslim.html">Muslim</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Killed, along with his pilot, when his Cessna J-5 airplane ran out of fuel and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">crashed</a> near Wantagh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-died.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/07-30.html">July 30, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 205 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufi Abdul Hamid">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=202761">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Times, August 1, 1938</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> George Breitman (1916-1986) — also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G. Sloane — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.J.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/02-28.html">February 28, 1916</a>. Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> about 1936 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with inciting riots; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937; member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New Jersey</a>, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954; editor-in-chief of the weekly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a>, The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a> under several different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">International Typographical Union</a>. Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984. Died, following a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Beekman Downtown <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/04-19.html">April 19, 1986</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 50 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">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/">1940</a> to Dorothea Katz.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Breitman">Wikipedia article</a></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> George Thomas Bardwell (1901-1947) — also known as George Bardwell; Thomas George Bardwell — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-lived.html">Denver</a>, Colo. Born in Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/HI-born.html">Hinsdale County</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-18.html">October 18, 1901</a>. Communist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Colorado</a> 1st District, 1934; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prosecuted</a> in the 1930s in connection with a strike; acquitted. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-died.html">Denver</a>, Colo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/01-19.html">January 19, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 93 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/JF-buried.html#cms05327">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Wheat Ridge, Colo. <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">Relatives: Son of George D. Bardwell and Hannah J. (Cunningham) Bardwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/04-04.html">April 4, 1923</a>, to Avelina Rella.</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> Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) — also known as "Commodore" — of New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-lived.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La. Born in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-born.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-13.html">October 13, 1877</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; president, Jahncke <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Dry Docks</a>, New Orleans; U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy, 1929-33; named a Commodore in 1931, and a Rear Admiral in the naval reserve in 1955; delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/LA.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/LA.html">1936</a> (alternate). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Expelled</a> from the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking a strong stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games. Died in Pass Christian, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/HA-died.html">Harrison County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-16.html">November 16, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 34 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms00564">Metairie Cemetery</a>, New Orleans, 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">Relatives: Son of Frederick 'Fritz' Jahncke and Margaret (Lee) Jahncke; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#124.20.68">Walter Frederick Jahncke</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/06-01.html">June 1, 1907</a>, to Cora Van Voorhis 'Mimi' Stanton (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#033.11.86">Edwin McMasters Stanton</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12620.html">Jahncke-Stanton family</a> of New Orleans, Louisiana.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/79210484">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams (1904-1996) — also known as Joe McWilliams — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Hitchcock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/BL-born.html">Blaine County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/index.html">1904</a>. Gave street-corner speeches in New York City, in which he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">denounced Jews</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">praised Adolf Hitler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in 1940 when one of his speeches caused a riot; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">sedition</a> in 1944, as part of an alleged <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Nazi</a> conspiracy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was declared; candidate in Republican primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 18th District, 1940. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/index.html">1996</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">about 92 years</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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe McWilliams">Wikipedia article</a></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> Nathan Pressman (1912-1993) — of Ellenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/06-24.html">June 24, 1912</a>. Socialist. Longtime Socialist Labor Party activist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> briefly during World War II for draft resistance, but subsequently accepted induction into the U.S. Army; several time candidate for mayor of Ellenville, N.Y.; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; expelled from Socialist Labor Party, 1984. Died, in Ellenville Community <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Ellenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-died.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/09-25.html">September 25, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 93 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-buried.html#cms06974">Workmen's Circle Cemetery</a>, Wawarsing town, Ulster County, N.Y. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; Lake Zurich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LA-lived.html">Lake County</a>, Ill. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-25.html">December 25, 1870</a>. Progressive. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">novelist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">playwright</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, 1939-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, 1940-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">removed from office</a> as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">barred</a> from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over his ties to left-wing and purportedly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">Communist</a> individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he received about $2,000 in salary owed to him. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Atheist</a>. Died, in St. Joseph's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/02-08.html">February 8, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 45 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00128">Graceland 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">Relatives: Son of Augustus Sidney Lovett and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/06-04.html">June 4, 1895</a>, to Ida Mott-Smith; father of Robert Morss Lovett, Jr.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Morss Lovett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/152877210">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Glen Hearst Taylor (1904-1984) — also known as Glen H. Taylor — of Pocatello, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BA-lived.html">Bannock County</a>, Idaho. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-born.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/04-12.html">April 12, 1904</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Country-western singer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Idaho</a>, 1938; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Idaho</a>, 1945-51; defeated, 1940 (Democratic), 1942 (Democratic), 1956 (Independent); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> on May 1, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama, for attempting to use a door reserved for Negroes, rather than the whites-only door; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> in 1949 of disorderly conduct; Progressive candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1948. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-world-federalists.html">United World Federalists</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/04-28.html">April 28, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms02372">Skylawn Memorial Park</a>, San Mateo, 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">Relatives: Son of Pleasant John Taylor and Olive Oatman (Higgins) Taylor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/03-31.html">March 31, 1931</a>, to Dora Marie Pike.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000079">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410663">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen H. Taylor">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://kcaah.org/press/anne-braden-documentary-premieres-louisville"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/274/12.65.jpg" width=70 height=95 border=0 alt="Anne Braden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) — also known as Anne Braden; Anne McCarty — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky. Born in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/07-28.html">July 28, 1924</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">labor organizer</a>; civil rights activist starting in the 1940s; in May 1954, to fight segregation, she and her husband bought a house in a white neighborhood on behalf of a Black family; this sparked furious and violent opposition and the bombing of the house; she and others were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">sedition</a>; her husband was the first to be convicted, but then, in 1956, all state sedition laws were struck down; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kentucky. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/03-06.html">March 6, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HN-buried.html#cms06091">Eminence Cemetery</a>, Eminence, 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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Carl Braden.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne Braden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/917/000177386">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73476234">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage</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> Clennon Washington King Jr. (c.1921-2000) — also known as Clennon King; "The Black Don Quixote" — of Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla. Born about 1921. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; Independent Afro-American candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1960; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/miami.html">mayor of Miami, Fla.</a>, 1996. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Attempted to enroll in the then-all-white University of Mississippi in 1958, and was sent to the state's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">insane asylum</a>; attempted to join and integrate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carter5.html#903.47.33">Jimmy Carter</a>'s all-white Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., on the eve of the 1976 presidential election. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Jailed</a> on numerous occasions for his flamboyant tactics. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/prostate-cancer.html">prostate cancer</a>, in Miami, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-died.html">Miami-Dade County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/02-12.html">February 12, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DO-buried.html#cms01116">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Albany, Ga. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Byron Mark Baer (1929-2007) — also known as Byron M. Baer — of Englewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/10-08.html">October 8, 1929</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/asmbly.html">New Jersey state house of assembly</a>, 1972-93 (District 13-B 1972-73, 37th District 1974-93); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> 37th District, 1994-2005; resigned 2005; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/NJ.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/NJ.html">2000</a>. While working as a Freedom Rider, registering voters in Mississippi in 1961, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> for 45 days. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">assisted living facility</a>, Englewood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-died.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/06-24.html">June 24, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 259 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <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">Relatives: Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#710.35.95">Linda Pollitt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/monroney-montfort.html#472.54.66">June B. Montag</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron Baer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20083831">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6676">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) — of Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-lived.html">Arlington County</a>, Va. Born in Bloomington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ML-born.html">McLean County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/03-09.html">March 9, 1918</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National Committee to Free America from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Jewish Domination</a> (later known as the American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/hatred.html">Nazi</a> Party); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> at various demonstrations during the 1960s; American Nazi candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Virginia</a>, 1965. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">driving his car</a> in the parking lot of Dominion Hills <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/shops.html">Shopping Center</a>, Arlington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-died.html">Arlington County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/08-25.html">August 25, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 169 days</a>); Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his supporters. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <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">Relatives: Son of George Lovejoy 'Doc' Rockwell and Claire (Schade) Rockwell; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#283.53.66">Oliver Morgan Hungerford</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Lincoln Rockwell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/043/000113701">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6842153">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/50888183741/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/933/55.86.jpg" width=70 height=92 border=0 alt="Fannie Lou Hamer"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) — also known as Fannie Lou Townsend — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MN-born.html">Montgomery County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-06.html">October 6, 1917</a>. Civil rights and voting rights activist; founder of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; in September 1962, in retaliation for her attempt to vote, she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot at</a> in a drive-by shooting; in 1963, along with other civil rights activists en route to a conference, she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, and suffered an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">almost fatal beating</a> by police; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Mississippi</a>, 1964; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/stsen.html">Mississippi state senate</a>, 1971. <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. Inducted, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/natl-womens-hof.html">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, 1995. Died in Mound Bayou, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/BO-died.html">Bolivar County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/03-14.html">March 14, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 159 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/SU-buried.html# ">Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden</a>, Ruleville, Miss. <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">Relatives: Daughter of James Lee Townsend and Ella Townsend; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/">1945</a> to Perry Hamer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie Lou Hamer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19859">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</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> Hosea Lorenzo Williams (1926-2000) — also known as Hosea Williams — of Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-lived.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga.; Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga.; Decatur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DK-lived.html">DeKalb County</a>, Ga. Born in Attapulgus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DC-born.html">Decatur County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/01-05.html">January 5, 1926</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">walked with a cane</a> due to wartime injury; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">ordained minister</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1972; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a> 54th District, 1975-85; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/atlanta.html">mayor of Atlanta, Ga.</a>, 1989. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-sigma.html">Phi Beta Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Civil rights leader; active in sit-ins and protest marches in Savannah and elsewhere; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> at least 135 times. As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "field general" in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march which helped galvanize support for Black voting rights. In 1968, he was present at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., when King was assassinated. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> in 1981 of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">leaving the scene of an accident</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> for six months. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, at Piedmont <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/11-16.html">November 16, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 316 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html#cms07719">Lincoln Cemetery</a>, Atlanta, 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">Relatives: Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams5.html#829.10.30">Juanita Elizabeth Terry Williams</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Personal motto: "Unbought and unbossed."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosea Williams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19412">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) — also known as Norman Mailer — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Long Branch, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-born.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/01-31.html">January 31, 1923</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">novelist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">essayist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">magazine editor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Hollywood</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">screenwriter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">director</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a>; among the founders of the Village Voice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> in New York City; in November, 1960, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk</a> at a party, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">stabbed and wounded</a> his wife, Adele; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/assault.html">third-degree assault</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in 1967 in connection with an antiwar protest; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html">mayor of New York City, N.Y.</a>, 1969. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. Won the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">acute renal failure</a>, in Mount Sinai <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/11-10.html">November 10, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 283 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-buried.html# ">Provincetown Cemetery</a>, Provincetown, Mass. <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">Relatives: Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/">1944</a> to Beatrice 'Bea' Silverman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/">1954</a> to Adele Morales; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to Jeanne Campbell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/">1963</a> to Beverly Bentley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/">1980</a> to Carol Stevens; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/">1981</a> to Norris Church; father of Michael Mailer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/936/000022870">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537551">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22800811">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=42102">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Norman Mailer: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700811/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700811&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Executioner's Song</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700382&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Fight</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction by Norman Mailer: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700404/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700404&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Deer Park</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805060189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805060189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Naked and the Dead</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375700706/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375700706&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An American Dream</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345421329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345421329&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Gospel According to the Son</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Norman Mailer: Mary V. Dearborn, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395736552/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395736552&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mailer : A Biography</a> — Barry H. Leeds, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1929355114/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1929355114&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer</a> — Carl Rollyson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583489967/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1583489967&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Lives of Norman Mailer : A Biography</a> — Jennifer Bailey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064902846/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0064902846&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Norman Mailer: Quick Change Artist</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Norman Mailer: Bernard Goldberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060761288/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060761288&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)</a></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> Mortimer Thomas Furay (1910-1972) — also known as Mort Furay — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/07-23.html">July 23, 1910</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">President</a>, Local 705, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">vice-president</a>, AFL-CIO Union Label Trade Department; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1944; candidate in primary for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1949; in 1967, at an intersection in Highland Park, Mich., he witnessed a woman being beaten by her husband, and summoned police; when the police officers decided not to arrest the man, he protested, and was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">interfering with police</a>; he pleaded not guilty, and a trial date was set, but apparently the case was dropped. Died, probably from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/03-12.html">March 12, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 233 days</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/donated.html">body was donated</a> to Wayne State University Medical School. <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">Relatives: Son of Mortimer John Furay and Florence Bell (Kratz) Furay; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/">1932</a> to Corinne Kelly.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/222938944">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Brian J. Coyle (1944-1991) — of Moorhead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Minn.; Minneapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-lived.html">Hennepin County</a>, Minn. Born in Great Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/CA-born.html">Cascade County</a>, Mont., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/06-25.html">June 25, 1944</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College instructor</a>; in 1968, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> for his refusal to comply with the military draft, but was acquitted as a conscientious objector; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Minnesota</a>, 1978; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/minneapolis.html">mayor of Minneapolis, Minn.</a>, 1979; president, Minneapolis city council. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. One of Minnesota's first openly-gay politicians. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aids.html">AIDS-related complications</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1991/08-23.html">August 23, 1991</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 59 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> Joseph Echols Lowery (b. 1921) — also known as Joseph E. Lowery — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/10-06.html">October 6, 1921</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>; leader in the civil rights movement; co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; escaped death in 1963 when his hotel room in Birmingham, Ala., was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">bombed</a>, and in 1979 when Klansmen in Decatur, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">opened fire</a> on Lowery and other protesters; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> while demonstrating in support of a garbage workers' strike in Atlanta, 1968; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during protests in Cullman, Ala., 1978; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> while protesting apartheid at the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, D.C., 1984; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; delivered eulogies at the funerals of Rosa Parks and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king2.html#390.18.09">Coretta Scott King</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/GA.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. <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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/">1950</a> to Evelyn Gibson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Joseph E. Lowery <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Boulevard</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-names.html">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Lowery">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/783/000107462">NNDB dossier</a></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> Bobby Seale (b. 1936) — also known as Robert George Seale — of Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-born.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/10-22.html">October 22, 1936</a>. Joined U.S. Air Force in 1955; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">insubordination</a> and being <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">AWOL</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">dishonorably discharged</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">sheet metal worker</a>; co-founder, with Huey Newton, of the Black Panther Party, 1966; one of eight defendants <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in 1969 with crossing state lines to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; the judge ordered him <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">bound and gagged</a> during the trial, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> him to four years in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a>; Peace and Freedom candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a> 17th District, 1968; in 1970, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> in New Haven, Conn., with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">ordering the murder</a> of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther who had confessed to being a police informant; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and the charges were eventually dropped; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 1973. <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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby Seale">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/958/000023889">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780523">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=45396">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> Paul David Wellstone (1944-2002) — also known as Paul Wellstone; "Senator Welfare" — of Minnesota. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/07-21.html">July 21, 1944</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during a Vietnam War protest at the federal building in Minneapolis, 1970; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> again during a protest of farm foreclosures at a bank in Paynesville, Minn., 1984; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/aud.html">Minnesota state auditor</a>, 1982; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MN.html">Democratic National Committee from Minnesota</a>, 1984-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Minnesota</a>, 1991-2002; died in office 2002; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MN.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MN.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Killed in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">plane crash</a>, along with his wife and daughter, near Eveleth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SL-died.html">St. Louis County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/10-25.html">October 25, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 96 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-buried.html#cms00172">Lakewood Cemetery</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">Relatives: Son of Leon Wexelstein and Minnie (Danishevsky) Wexelstein; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/">1963</a> to Sheila Ison.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000288">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400566">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul Wellstone">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/197/000026119">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6876973">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Paul Wellstone: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679462945/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679462945&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda</a> (2001) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870232495/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0870232495&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grass-Roots Organizer</a> (1978) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816643849/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0816643849&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War</a>, with Barry M. Casper (1981)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Paul Wellstone: Terry Gydesen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816644284/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0816644284&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Twelve Years and Thirteen Days: Remembering Paul and Sheila Wellstone</a> — Dennis J. McGrath & Dane Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816626626/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0816626626&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington: The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign</a> — Don Jacobs & James Fetzer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975276301/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0975276301&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Assassination: The Strange Death Of Senator Paul Wellstone</a></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> John James Conyers Jr. (1929-2019) — also known as John Conyers, Jr. — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Highland Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/05-16.html">May 16, 1929</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a>, 1965-2017 (1st District 1965-93, 14th District 1993-2013, 13th District 2013-17); resigned 2017; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/MI.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/MI.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/MI.html">1976</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/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/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African Embassy in Washington, 1984; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html">mayor of Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1989; in 2017, it was reported that a former member of Conyers' staff had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">alleged</a> that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexually harassed</a> her, and had been paid a settlement of $27,000; subsequently, the House Ethics Committee started an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> into multiple such allegations; he subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> from Congress. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. Recipient of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/spingarn-medal.html">Spingarn Medal</a>, 2007. Died in Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2019/10-27.html">October 27, 2019</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 164 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/MA-buried.html#cms05206">Detroit Memorial Park East</a>, Warren, 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">Relatives: Son of John James Conyers and Lucille Jane (Simpson) Conyers; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrey-coogan.html#779.08.11">Nathan G. Conyers</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/">1990</a> to Monica Esters.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000714">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400080">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Conyers">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/236/000036128">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/204206974">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Ronald Vernie Dellums (1935-2018) — also known as Ronald V. Dellums — of Berkeley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif.; Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. Born in Oakland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-born.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/11-24.html">November 24, 1935</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/socialwork.html">Social worker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a>, 1971-98 (7th District 1971-75, 8th District 1975-93, 9th District 1993-98); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/CA.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/CA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/CA.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/oakland.html">mayor of Oakland, Calif.</a>, 2007-11. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/protestant.html">Protestant</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-alpha.html">Alpha Phi Alpha</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2018/07-30.html">July 30, 2018</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 248 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">Relatives: Married to Leola Roscoe Higgs.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000222">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403364">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/534/000023465">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/191804851">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> William Donlon Edwards (1915-2015) — also known as Don Edwards — of San Jose, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-lived.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif. Born in San Jose, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-born.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/01-06.html">January 6, 1915</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a>, 1963-95 (9th District 1963-75, 10th District 1975-93, 16th District 1993-95); delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/CA.html">1964</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/CA.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/CA.html">1988</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Died in San Jose, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SC-died.html">Santa Clara County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/10-01.html">October 1, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/100.html">100 years, 268 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000064">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403776">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don Edwards">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/126/000054961">NNDB dossier</a></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> Charles Arthur Hayes (1918-1997) — also known as Charles A. Hayes — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Cairo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/AL-born.html">Alexander County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/02-17.html">February 17, 1918</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 1st District, 1983-93; defeated in primary, 1992; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">United Food and Commercial Workers</a>. Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, at South Suburban <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Hazel Crest, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/04-08.html">April 8, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 50 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000388">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405256">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/160/000129770">NNDB dossier</a></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> Walter Edward Fauntroy (b. 1933) — also known as Walter E. Fauntroy — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/02-06.html">February 6, 1933</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Baptist minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia</a>, 1971-91; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/index.html">1972</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/DC.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/DC.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/DC.html">1988</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid sit-in at the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/washington.html">mayor of Washington, D.C.</a>, 1990. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Charged</a> in federal court on March 22, 1995 with making false statements on <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">financial disclosure forms</a>, including a claimed donation of almost $24,000 to the New Bethel Baptist Church where he served as pastor, to make it appear that he had complied with House rules limiting outside income, and that he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/disclosure.html">failed to disclose</a> a June 1988 loan of $24,200. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> to one felony count, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000046">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404006">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/947/000129560">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2277416">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19186">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997) — also known as George W. Crockett, Jr. — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Jacksonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-born.html">Duval County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/08-10.html">August 10, 1909</a>. Democrat. Recorder's court judge in Michigan, 1966-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Michigan</a> 13th District, 1980-91; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <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/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-psi.html">Kappa Alpha Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nat-lawyers-guild.html">National Lawyers Guild</a>. Served four months in federal <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of court</a> in 1950, following his defense of a Communist leader on trial in New York for advocating the overthrow of the government. Among the founders of the nation's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> interracial law firm. Ill with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">bone cancer</a> in 1997, he suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a> and died five days later, in Washington Home and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hospice.html">Hospice</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/09-07.html">September 7, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 28 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>. <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">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crockett.html#739.15.85">George W. Crockett III</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000919">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403031">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George W. Crockett">Wikipedia article</a></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> William H. Simons — also known as Bill Simons — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">school teacher</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/DC.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/DC.html">1980</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/DC.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/DC.html">2000</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">president</a>, Washington Teachers Union; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/labor.html">vice-president</a>, American Federation of Teachers; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid protest outside the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984; candidate for Presidential Elector for District of Columbia. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2000. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938) — Born in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/02-17.html">February 17, 1938</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1978-2004; chair, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1993-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> during an anti-apartheid sit-in at the South African <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">Embassy</a> in Washington, 1984. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary Frances Berry">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/385/000122019">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1888349">Internet Movie Database profile</a></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> Ezola Broussard Foster (b. 1938) — also known as Ezola B. Foster; Ezola Broussard — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Maurice, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/VR-born.html">Vermilion Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-09.html">August 9, 1938</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1984; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> with others while protesting recognition of the gay Log Cabin Republican organization, at the California Republican state convention, 1987; Reform candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 2000. <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/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/john-birch-soc.html">John Birch Society</a>. 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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/">1977</a> to Chuck Foster.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezola Foster">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2203342">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/08/679-ezola-foster.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></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> John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) — also known as J. Quinn Brisben — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Enid, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GA-born.html">Garfield County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/09-06.html">September 6, 1934</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">poet</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1976; briefly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> in Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rights demonstration in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1992. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">American Federation of Teachers</a>. Died in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/04-17.html">April 17, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 224 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Quinn Brisben">Wikipedia article</a></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> David Nelson (b. 1962) — of Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-lived.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah. Born, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">hospital</a> at Salt Lake City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/UT/SL-born.html">Salt Lake County</a>, Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/04-07.html">April 7, 1962</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/UT.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/UT.html">2000</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Gay</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/nra.html">National Rifle Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Convicted</a> on a misdemeanor act of civil disobedience, 1995 Recipient of Democratic National Committee's Lawrence O'Brien Achievement Award, 1998. 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">Relatives: Third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cannon.html#267.67.42">George Quayle Cannon</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cannon.html#465.37.37">Frank Jenne Cannon</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10235.html">Cannon family</a> of Salt Lake City, Utah.</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> Michael Badnarik (b. 1954) — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Hammond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/LA-born.html">Lake County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/08-01.html">August 1, 1954</a>. Libertarian. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/infotech.html">Software</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">engineer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 2000 (47th District), 2002 (48th District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 2004; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a> 10th District, 2006. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/czech-slovak.html">Slovak</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a>, in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Green Party presidential nominee <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#597.99.99">David Cobb</a>, while protesting their exclusion from presidential debates. 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael Badnarik">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1756621">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=5732">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></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> David Keith Cobb (b. 1962) — also known as David Cobb — Born in San Leon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-born.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/12-24.html">December 24, 1962</a>. Green. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 2002; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 2004. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a>, in St. Louis, Mo., on October 8, 2004, along with Libertarian Party presidential nominee <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#793.83.42">Michael Bednarik</a>, while protesting their exclusion from presidential debates. 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Cobb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1753030">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=3462">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/November-2006/2006-Top-Singles-Sole-Patrol/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/833/74.59.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Leslie L. Farr II"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Leslie L. Farr II (born c.1978) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born about 1978. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Train conductor</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2004/MO.html">2004</a>; Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 1st District, 2004, 2006 (primary); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">suspended without pay</a> in October 2004, for making a political statement (critical of Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#928.28.53">John Kerry</a>) over the public address system of an Amtrak train; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lobbyist.html">political consultant</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2011. <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">See also <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=41502">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: St. Louis Magazine, November 2006</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> Joshua Selassie Wolf (b. 1982) — also known as Josh Wolf — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/06-08.html">June 8, 1982</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Video journalist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> 226 days by a federal court for his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">refusal</a> to turn over to prosecutors his tapes of anarchist protesters clashing with police during a 2005 demonstration; released in April 2007; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 2007. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a> ancestry. 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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh Wolf">Wikipedia article</a></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> Thomas Peter Lantos (1928-2008) — also known as Tom Lantos; Tamas Peter Lantos — of Millbrae, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-lived.html">San Mateo County</a>, Calif.; Hillsborough, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-lived.html">San Mateo County</a>, Calif.; San Mateo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-lived.html">San Mateo County</a>, Calif. Born in Budapest, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HU-born.html">Hungary</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/02-01.html">February 1, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">television</a> news commentator; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/CA.html">1976</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/CA.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/CA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/CA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/CA.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a>, 1981-2008 (11th District 1981-93, 12th District 1993-2008); died in office 2008. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-mu.html">Sigma Alpha Mu</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> for disorderly conduct in April 2006, while taking part civil disobedience action to protest genocide in Darfur, in front of the Sudanese <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/diplomatic-offenses.html">embassy</a> in Washington, D.C. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stomach-cancer.html">cancer of the esophagus</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Bethesda Naval Medical Center</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/02-11.html">February 11, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.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">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/">1950</a> to Annette Tillemann; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sweetland-swinburne.html#844.04.84">Katrina Lantos</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sweetland-swinburne.html#136.73.12">Richard Nelson Swett</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000090">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400231">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom Lantos">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/324/000024252">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487192">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/24552755">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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> Gordon James Klingenschmitt (b. 1968) — also known as Gordon Klingenschmitt — Born in Buffalo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/06-05.html">June 5, 1968</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Chaplain</a>; wore his Navy uniform at a 2006 political protest, with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore7.html#981.88.17">Roy Moore</a>, in front of the White House; subsequently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">court-martialed</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/military.html">disobeying a lawful order</a>; he had been prohibited from appearing at political events in uniform; ultimately <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">discharged</a> from the Navy; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/sthse.html">Colorado state house of representatives</a>, 2015-16; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/ofc/stsen.html">Colorado state senate</a>, 2016. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian.html">Evangelical Christian</a>. Still living as of 2016. <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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon Klingenschmitt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/05/215-gordon-klingenschmitt.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></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> Addison Graves Wilson (b. 1947) — also known as Joe Wilson — of West Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LX-lived.html">Lexington County</a>, S.C.; Springdale, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LX-lived.html">Lexington County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/07-31.html">July 31, 1947</a>. Republican. Staff for U.S. Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thurmond-thwing.html#176.16.91">Strom Thurmond</a>, and for U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spence.html#059.62.23">Floyd Spence</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/SC.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/2008/SC.html">2008</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1984-2001; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 2001-; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">rebuked</a> by the House of Representatives in September, 2009, for a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">breach of decorum</a>; he had shouted "You Lie!" during an address by President <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#539.70.25">Barack Obama</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000795">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400433">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe Wilson (American politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/900/000040780">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.pslweb.org/votepsl/2012/candidates/lindsay.html"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/920/43.74.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Yari Osorio"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Yari Osorio — of New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-lived.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y. Born in Cali, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-born.html">Colombia</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/other-health.html">Emergency medical technician</a>; anti-war and social justice activist; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in October, 2011, along with hundreds of others, during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City; Socialism and Liberation candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 2012. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/hispanic.html">Colombian</a> ancestry. 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