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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: June 27, 1942</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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Fredericks</a> — Holland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OT-born.html">Ottawa County</a>, Mich.</li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-06-27.html">Politicians who were born on June 27</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/born.html">politicians who were born in 1942</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who were married on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foster.html#483.18.64">Samuel D. Foster</a> and Mercedes A. Cohill</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#929.23.11">Harry F. Stimpson, Jr.</a> and Margaret Lewis Byrd</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#905.39.81">William Howard Taft III</a> and Barbara Hoult Bradfield</li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcnamee-mcpheeters.html#185.65.57">Stephen L. R. McNichols</a> and Marjory Roberta Hart</li> <li>Lawrence J. Adams and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams3.html#433.89.11">Frances Smith</a></li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/married-06-27.html">Politicians who were married on June 27</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/married.html">politicians who were married in 1942</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who died on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evans5.html#533.38.80">John Gary Evans</a></li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-06-27.html">Politicians who died on June 27</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/died.html">politicians who died in 1942</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>Age 89:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vanche-vandewater.html#986.01.05">Frank M. Vandercook</a></li> <li><i>Age 85:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#073.13.26">Henry F. Sarman</a></li> <li><i>Age 79:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curran.html#811.61.40">William F. Curran</a></li> <li><i>Age 77:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carpenter-carper.html#261.70.02">Edmund N. Carpenter</a></li> <li><i>Age 73:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzpatrick.html#896.01.94">James M. Fitzpatrick</a></li> <li><i>Age 70:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#812.63.06">George H. Pierce</a></li> <li><i>Age 69:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#570.54.60">William Calvin Chesnut</a></li> <li><i>Age 67:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cheney.html#583.76.64">Nelson W. Cheney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barney.html#733.20.04">Charles N. Barney</a></li> <li><i>Age 65:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harding.html#251.32.64">J. Eugene Harding</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#066.08.02">William R. Bush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fouch-fowle.html#901.11.98">Gordon P. Fought</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/larson.html#775.68.96">Henry A. Larson</a></li> <li><i>Age 64:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beals-bearce.html#854.41.17">Theodore Lane Bean</a></li> <li><i>Age 62:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faye-fehr.html#041.42.85">Edward W. Fehling</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freemont-fremming.html#753.45.14">Jules A. Fremon</a></li> <li><i>Age 61:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#874.24.65">W. W. Grant, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 59:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html#139.42.75">Irving L. Colborn</a></li> <li><i>Age 58:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cronen-crosbie.html#324.54.64">Timothy T. Cronin</a></li> <li><i>Age 57:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robinson5.html#689.65.16">James R. Robinson</a></li> <li><i>Age 55:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allensworth-allis.html#391.17.38">Ward Tiffany Alling</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferguson.html#223.12.63">Charles L. Ferguson</a></li> <li><i>Age 54:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelly7.html#034.86.10">Peter J. Kelly</a></li> <li><i>Age 52:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/magician-magruder.html#621.93.34">James M. Magness</a></li> <li><i>Age 50:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#523.85.06">Lee A. Pickard</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/putney-pyscher.html#617.56.91">Peter Pyszczynski</a></li> <li><i>Age 48:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nemanich-neveu.html#445.91.86">Harry Nettle</a></li> <li><i>Age 46:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html#013.97.07">Hobart M. Ahbe</a></li> <li><i>Age 45:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meredith.html#337.52.05">Russell D. Meredith</a></li> <li><i>Age 42:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/partington-pastuszka.html#730.19.94">Otto E. Passman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#889.51.67">S. Martin Tweedie</a></li> <li><i>Age 38:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schauber-schemanske.html#907.56.86">Maurice Schechter</a></li> <li><i>Age 36:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schultze-schuveldt.html#197.15.11">Herbert Schupbach</a></li> <li><i>Age 35:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellet-ellington.html#433.45.40">Buford Ellington</a></li> <li><i>Age 31:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thornton.html#816.93.48">T. Eugene Thornton</a></li> <li><i>Age 25:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rigin-riles.html#043.48.56">Wilson Riles</a></li> <li><i>Age 16:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/iacino-ingerman.html#467.48.55">Richard H. Ichord</a></li> <li><i>Age 15:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dunn.html#087.58.37">James B. Dunn</a></li> <li><i>Age 14:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alt-amersoon.html#822.63.95">Jerome A. Ambro, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perky-perrizzo.html#217.98.06">Rudy Perpich</a></li> <li><i>Age 12:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perky-perrizzo.html#063.51.83">H. Ross Perot</a></li> <li><i>Age 9:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vandyne-vanmeter.html#542.55.34">John C. Van Hollen</a></li> <li><i>Age 5:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#538.09.54">Margita E. White</a></li> <li><i>Age 4:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/b-babbush.html#549.30.97">Bruce Babbitt</a></li> <li><i>Age 3:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones1.html#054.87.40">Brereton C. Jones</a></li> <li><i>Age 1:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battles-baxmeyer.html#857.76.10">William J. Baxley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holten-hook.html#686.80.01">Mike Honda</a></li> </ul><br> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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