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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Catholic Politicians in Georgia</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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Benson</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-born.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/09-25.html">September 25, 1855</a>. Rear admiral and chief of naval operations, U.S. Navy; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1920-; chair, U.S. Shipping Board, 1920-21. <b>Catholic</b>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Richard Aaron Benson and Catherine Elizabeth (Brewer) Benson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/08-06.html">August 6, 1879</a>, to Mary Augusta Wyse.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Laurent de Give (1828-1910)</b> — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-born.html">Belgium</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/01-31.html">January 31, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html">Consul for Belgium</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-consuls.html">Atlanta, Ga.</a>, 1860-1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">opera house proprietor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/movie-theaters.html">movie theater owner</a>. <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/low-countries.html">Belgian</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Rockledge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BE-died.html">Brevard County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/03-17.html">March 17, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 45 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-buried.html#cms01061">Westview 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Marie Pauline Bemelmans; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#863.90.56">Henry Leon de Give</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#127.06.51">Henry Leon de Give Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/37237.html">DeGive family</a> of Atlanta, Georgia.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/197241576">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles Fahy (1892-1979)</b> — of Santa Fe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/SF-lived.html">Santa Fe County</a>, N.M.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Rome, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FL-born.html">Floyd County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/08-27.html">August 27, 1892</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; general counsel, National Labor Relations Board, 1935; U.S. Solicitor General, 1941-45; legal advisor to the military government of Germany, 1945-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit</a>, 1949-67. <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died, in Georgetown University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/09-17.html">September 17, 1979</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 21 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Thomas Fahy and Sarah (Jonas) Fahy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/06-26.html">June 26, 1929</a>, to Mary Agnes Lane.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles H. Fahy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/836/000209209">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Phillip Gingrey (b. 1942)</b> — also known as <b>Phil Gingrey</b> — of Marietta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CB-lived.html">Cobb County</a>, Ga. Born in Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/RI-born.html">Richmond County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/07-10.html">July 10, 1942</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1999-2002; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 11th District, 2003-. <b>Catholic</b>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ama.html">American Medical Association</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Billie Ayers.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000550">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400151">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil Gingrey">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/706/000038592">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)</b> — also known as <b>Newton Leroy McPherson</b>; <b>"Nuclear Newt"</b> — of Carrollton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CR-lived.html">Carroll County</a>, Ga. Born in Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-born.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/06-17.html">June 17, 1943</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 6th District, 1979-99; defeated, 1974, 1976; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1995-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>; later <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Reprimanded</a> in 1997 by the House of Representatives, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a> $300,000, over <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">false statements</a> he had made during an investigation of his use of tax-exempt organizations for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">partisan advocacy</a>. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Newton Searles McPherson and Kathleen (Daugherty) McPherson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/06-19.html">June 19, 1962</a>, to Jackie Battley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/08-08.html">August 8, 1981</a>, to Marianne Ginther; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/08-18.html">August 18, 2000</a>, to Callista Louise Bisek; step-father of Robert Gingrich.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000225">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404587">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt Gingrich">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/487/000024415">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1096881">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=11816">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/09/705-newt-gingrich.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Newt Gingrich:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260425/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895260425&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America</a> (2005) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970548540/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0970548540&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Saving Lives & Saving Money : Transforming Health and Healthcare</a>, with Dana Pavey & Anne Woodbury — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006017336X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=006017336X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">To Renew America</a> (1995) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060191066/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060191066&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report</a> (1998) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450746721/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1450746721&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny</a>, with Callista Gingrich & David N. Bossie (2011) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596982713/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1596982713&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters</a> (2011)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Fiction by Newt Gingrich:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031230935X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=031230935X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War</a>, with William R. Forstchen — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312309376/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312309376&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Grant Comes East</a>, with William R. Forstchen — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312342985/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312342985&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Never Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory</a>, with William R. Forstchen — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671876767/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671876767&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1945</a>, with William R. Forstchen</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Newt Gingrich:</i> Mel Steely, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865546711/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0865546711&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Gentleman from Georgia : The Biography of Newt Gingrich</a> — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684823403/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684823403&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Critical books about Newt Gingrich:</i> David Maraniss & Michael Weisskopf, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684832933/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684832933&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Tell Newt to Shut Up : Prize-Winning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution</a> — John K. Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1567510973/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1567510973&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Newt Gingrich: Capitol Crimes and Misdemeanors</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Richard Howly (1740-1784)</b> — also known as <b>Richard Howley</b> — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/LI-born.html">Liberty County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/index.html">1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1779-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Georgia</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia</a>, 1780-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/spju.html">justice of Georgia state supreme court</a>, 1782-83. <b>Catholic</b>. Died in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., December, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/index.html">1784</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms03453">Colonial Park Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/">1775</a> to Sarah Fuller.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000872">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405719">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/richard-howley/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Howly">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/172423515">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Patrick J. Kerrigan (c.1864-1895)</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., about 1864. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 19th District, 1894. <b>Catholic</b>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tammany-hall.html">Tammany Hall</a>. Died, from "dropsy" (probably <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>), in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-died.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/12-23.html">December 23, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/31.html">about 31 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-buried.html#cms01209">Calvary Cemetery</a>, Woodside, Queens, N.Y. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Creel Marshall (b. 1948)</b> — also known as <b>Jim Marshall</b> — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-born.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/03-31.html">March 31, 1948</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/macon.html">mayor of Macon, Ga.</a>, 1996-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/GA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/GA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/GA.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 2003-11 (3rd District 2003-07, 8th District 2007-11); defeated, 2000, 2010. <b>Catholic</b>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Camille Hope; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#813.80.71">Hezekiah Bradley Smith</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001146">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400254">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim Marshall (Georgia politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/039/000039919">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=929">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Cynthia Ann McKinney (b. 1955)</b> — also known as <b>Cynthia A. McKinney</b> — of Decatur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DK-lived.html">DeKalb County</a>, Ga.; Stone Mountain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/DK-lived.html">DeKalb County</a>, Ga. Born in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/03-17.html">March 17, 1955</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1989-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a>, 1993-2003, 2005-07 (11th District 1993-97, 4th District 1997-2003, 2005-07); defeated, 1986 (Democratic primary), 2002 (Democratic primary), 2006 (Democratic primary), 2012; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/GA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/GA.html">2000</a>; Green candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 2008; Green candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 2020. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2020. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Leola McKinney and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinney.html#796.23.77">Billy McKinney</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000523">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400513">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia McKinney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/204/000069994">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2124937">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=920">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a> — <a href="https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/11/266-cynthia-mckinney.html">Encyclopedia of American Loons</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ralph Harold Metcalfe (1910-1978)</b> — also known as <b>Ralph H. Metcalfe</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/05-29.html">May 29, 1910</a>. Democrat. Won <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/olympic-medals.html">gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals</a> in 1932 and 1936; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/IL.html">1952</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/IL.html">1956</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/IL.html">1964</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/IL.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 1st District, 1971-78; died in office 1978. <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amvets.html">Amvets</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/urban-league.html">Urban League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-phi-alpha.html">Alpha Phi Alpha</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-died.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/10-10.html">October 10, 1978</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms01262">Holy Sepulchre Cemetery</a>, Alsip, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000675">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407660">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582474">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6412431">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Clarence Thomas (b. 1948)</b> — of District of Columbia. Born in Pin Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/06-23.html">June 23, 1948</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit</a>, 1990-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1991-. <b>Catholic</b>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/">1971</a> to Kate Ambush; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/05-30.html">May 30, 1987</a>, to Virginia Lamp.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#185.23.79">Allison H. Eid</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berg.html#052.03.42">Philip J. Berg</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence Thomas">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Clarence Thomas (Supreme Court)">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/906/000024834">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1236813">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books by Clarence Thomas:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060565551/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060565551&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">My grandfather's son : a memoir</a> (2007)</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Clarence Thomas:</i> Scott Douglas Gerber, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081473099X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=081473099X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">First Principles : The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas</a> — Andrew Peyton Thomas, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893554368/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1893554368&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Clarence Thomas : A Biography</a> — Ken Foskett, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060527218/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060527218&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Judging Thomas : The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Critical books about Clarence Thomas:</i> Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395633184/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0395633184&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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