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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: October 14, 1923</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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J. King</a></li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-10-14.html">Politicians who died on October 14</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/died.html">politicians who died in 1923</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 88: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appling-archambault.html#937.49.75">Richard H. Arbuckle</a></li> <li>Age 86: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#303.75.14">Darius H. Ingraham</a></li> <li>Age 81: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#605.08.56">Simeon Van Akin</a></li> <li>Age 77: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bartlett.html#620.23.42">Willard Bartlett</a></li> <li>Age 65: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#873.26.65">L. Burget Des Voignes</a></li> <li>Age 64: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#878.19.24">Vernon A. Bullard</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown4.html#517.10.67">George W. Brown</a></li> <li>Age 63: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tierney.html#603.97.35">John M. Tierney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith7.html#716.98.51">Robert L. Smith</a></li> <li>Age 61: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/churchill.html#625.95.22">J. A. Churchill</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#532.67.68">James M. Hazlett</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beetle-belch.html#845.31.67">Martin Behrman</a></li> <li>Age 57: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/donnelly.html#937.27.60">Frederick W. Donnelly</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/frask-frayn.html#824.09.92">James J. Frawley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ivey-izlar.html#481.31.89">William E. Ivory</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sproat-staebler.html#920.30.21">William H. Sproul</a></li> <li>Age 53: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/battles-baxmeyer.html#999.09.28">Bertha D. Baur</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kurvink-kyros.html#646.56.49">Charles W. Kutz</a></li> <li>Age 52: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thompson9.html#351.31.91">William H. Thompson</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#934.08.06">John Lord O'Brian</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/neal.html#143.60.76">Will E. Neal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#145.22.02">John Hammill</a></li> <li>Age 47: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#810.99.11">Ethel H. du Pont</a></li> <li>Age 46: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnold.html#789.90.77">William W. Arnold</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hollowell-holmer.html#290.80.50">Rufus C. Holman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan5.html#990.66.40">John L. Sullivan</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckley.html#800.60.47">Edward W. Buckley</a></li> <li>Age 44: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#218.48.07">Albert W. Brickwood, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitehurst-whiticar.html#709.68.67">James M. Whitesides</a></li> <li>Age 42: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fuller.html#958.80.40">Glenwood C. Fuller</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smalley-smit.html#616.27.76">John W. Smeed</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#823.90.73">Lucile B. Conger</a></li> <li>Age 40: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#636.87.51">Alvan Lafargue</a></li> <li>Age 39: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#158.54.26">John B. Stetson, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holt.html#236.42.01">Elmer Holt</a></li> <li>Age 38: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jolley-jondahl.html#882.50.82">Edgar A. Jonas</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#750.83.48">Patrick Henry Kennedy</a></li> <li>Age 37: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graham3.html#358.64.86">Frank P. Graham</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#459.58.45">Norman Armour</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#929.95.71">Frances Bickert</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcbride.html#292.42.29">Harry A. McBride</a></li> <li>Age 35: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herring-heslop.html#900.94.37">Walter L. Hert</a></li> <li>Age 33: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eichelroth-elcan.html#075.91.63">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></li> <li>Age 31: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#914.91.32">Sumner Welles</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appling-archambault.html#012.39.93">Adele Arbo</a></li> <li>Age 27: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bird.html#169.27.00">Frederick O. Bird</a></li> <li>Age 25: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowry.html#623.83.40">Frank Lowry</a></li> <li>Age 22: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#083.21.35">Edmund J. Dreiling</a></li> <li>Age 21: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor2.html#244.37.19">Clair L. Taylor</a></li> <li>Age 20: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/isaac-iverson.html#018.16.33">Arthur T. Iverson</a></li> <li>Age 18: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morton.html#884.77.43">Harry K. Morton</a></li> <li>Age 16: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jones1.html#390.77.87">Allan Jones</a></li> <li>Age 11: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#794.13.96">Robert Doscher</a></li> <li>Age 9: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carter6.html#489.44.89">Mary Carter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#375.26.14">Robert W. Lueck, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 8: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#949.81.02">Walter F. Kane</a></li> <li>Age 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#221.13.90">Hervey Machen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilas-dills.html#330.21.20">Ben Dillingham II</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leonardo-lessler.html#601.59.47">Edmond Lesinski</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/earman-eastland.html#990.25.08">Mack Easley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doyle.html#036.31.60">Ruth B. Doyle</a></li> <li>Age 4: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#210.71.77">H. Hugh Bosley</a></li> <li>Age 3: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#865.52.25">Randall N. Christmas</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/raynale-rea.html#016.02.58">Edward Domenic Re</a></li> <li>Age 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#039.73.90">Robert E. Baccus</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</td> <td><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/"> <img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/images/tpgsub.gif" width=450 height=71 align="right" border=0 alt="The Political Graveyard"></a></td></tr></table> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a> is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/10-14.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/10-14.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>