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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Received the Lenin or Stalin Peace Prize</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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V. Cunningham"</b>; <b>"Walter Ericson"</b> — of Teaneck, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J. Born in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-born.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/11-11.html">November 11, 1914</a>. Communist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a>; in 1950, suspected of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">sedition</a>, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/contempt.html">contempt of Congress</a> and sentenced to three months in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; awarded the <b>Stalin Peace Prize</b> in 1953; American Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 23rd District, 1952. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/03-12.html">March 12, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 121 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Barney Fast and Ida (Miller) Fast; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-06.html">June 6, 1937</a>, to Bette Cohen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/">1999</a> to Mercedes O'Connor.</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/Howard Fast">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/716/000115371">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7263911">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>William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)</b> — also known as <b>W. E. B. Du Bois</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Accra, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GH-lived.html">Ghana</a>. Born in Great Barrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE-born.html">Berkshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-23.html">February 23, 1868</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">College professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">sociologist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>; civil rights leader; Pan-Africanist; one of the founders of the NAACP; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/spingarn-medal.html">Spingarn Medal</a> in 1920; member of New York American Labor Party Executive Committee, 1949; American Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1950; in 1951, he and four other leaders of the Peace Information Center, which was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">alleged</a> to be acting on behalf of the Soviet Union, were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">indicted</a> for their failure to register as <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">foreign agents</a>; the case was dismissed in 1952, but his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">passport was withheld</a> until 1958; awarded the <b>Lenin Peace Prize</b> in 1959. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>. In 1895, he was the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Died in Accra, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GH-died.html">Ghana</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/08-27.html">August 27, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 185 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GH-buried.html# ">Du Bois Memorial Centre</a>, Accra, Ghana. <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 Alfred Du Bois and Mary Silvina (Burghardt) Du Bois; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-12.html">May 12, 1896</a>, to Nina Gomer; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/">1951</a> to Shirley Graham.</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/6876927">Find-A-Grave memorial</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 W. E. B. Du Bois:</i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1505223377/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1505223377&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Souls of Black Folk</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>Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)</b> — of Ausable Forks, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, N.Y. Born in Tarrytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/06-21.html">June 21, 1882</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/artist.html">Artist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a>; member of New York American Labor Party Executive Committee, 1945; American Labor candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 33rd District, 1948; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1949; chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1957-71; 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; received the <b>Lenin Peace Prize</b> in 1967. Died in Plattsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CL-died.html">Clinton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/03-13.html">March 13, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 265 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ES-buried.html#cms05401">a private or family graveyard</a>, Essex County, N.Y. <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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell Kent">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/575">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>Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)</b> — also known as <b>Linus Pauling</b> — of California. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-born.html">Multnomah County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-28.html">February 28, 1901</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/chemical.html">Chemist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1962; received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1954, the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/nobel-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1962, and the <b>Lenin Peace Prize</b> in 1968-69. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Atheist</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/prostate-cancer.html">prostate cancer</a>, in Big Sur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MY-died.html">Monterey County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/08-19.html">August 19, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 172 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CL-buried.html# ">Oswego Pioneer Cemetery</a>, Lake Oswego, Ore. <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 Herman Pauling and Lucy Isabelle (Darling) Pauling; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/06-17.html">June 17, 1923</a>, to Ava Helen Miller.</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/Linus Pauling">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/50887476843/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/271/71.53.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Angela Davis"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Angela Yvonne Davis (b. 1944)</b> — also known as <b>Angela Davis</b> — Born in Birmingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/01-26.html">January 26, 1944</a>. Communist. Following a violent <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">escape attempt</a> at the Marin County (California) Hall of Justice, August 7, 1970, in which several people were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">killed</a>, she was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">implicated</a> as an accomplice and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/flight-escape.html">fled</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, and acquitted in 1972; awarded the <b>Lenin Peace Prize</b> in 1979; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1980, 1984; during the Communist coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991, she supported Gorbachev, and subsequently left the Communist Party; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">university professor</a>. <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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Sallye E. Davis; brother of Ben Davis.</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/Angela Davis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/185/000024113">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0204171">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26763">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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>Image source:</i> Library of Congress</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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