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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Forty and Eight, politicians, Maryland</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 near Baton Rouge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/EB-born.html">East Baton Rouge Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-21.html">December 21, 1897</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 4th District, 1937-61; died in office 1961. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/09-16.html">September 16, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/CA-buried.html#cms00694">Forest Park East Cemetery</a>, Shreveport, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Claude M. Brooks and Penelope (Overton) Brooks; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/06-01.html">June 1, 1932</a>, to Mollie Meriwether; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#960.66.83">John Holmes Overton</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/10169.html">Overton-Early-Brown-Brooks family</a> of Virginia.</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=B000884">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401841">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton Brooks">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6369910">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>Russell Watson Keeney (1897-1958)</b> — also known as <b>Russell W. Keeney</b> — of Wheaton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/DP-lived.html">DuPage County</a>, Ill. Born in Pittsfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/PI-born.html">Pike County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-29.html">December 29, 1897</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; law associate of U.S. Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed2.html#095.30.98">Chauncey W. Reed</a>; county judge in Illinois, 1940-50; circuit judge in Illinois, 1953-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 14th District, 1957-58; died in office 1958. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/01-11.html">January 11, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/DP-buried.html#cms01467">Naperville Protestant Cemetery</a>, Naperville, 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=K000042">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406212">Govtrack.us page</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>Loren H. Laughlin (1896-1966)</b> — of Beatrice, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/GA-lived.html">Gage County</a>, Neb.; Lincoln, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/LA-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, Neb. Born in Mt. Ayr, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/RI-born.html">Ringgold County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/08-13.html">August 13, 1896</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/stsen.html">Nebraska state senate</a> 16th District, 1925-29; delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/NE.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/NE.html">1936</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Nebraska</a> 1st District, 1940; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; senior claims commissioner, Manila, Philippines, 1947-48; hearing examiner, Federal Trade Commission, 1953-66. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Modern Woodmen of America</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. Died in Chevy Chase, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/06-21.html">June 21, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 312 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>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/49244858">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 Huston Natcher (1909-1994)</b> — also known as <b>William H. Natcher</b> — of Bowling Green, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, Ky. Born in Bowling Green, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-born.html">Warren County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/09-11.html">September 11, 1909</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-officials.html">Warren County Attorney</a>, 1938-50; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/KY.html">1940</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; commonwealth attorney, 8th District, 1951-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 2nd District, 1953-94; died in office 1994. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Bethesda Naval Hospital</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/03-29.html">March 29, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-buried.html#cms01268">Fairview Cemetery</a>, Bowling Green, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of J. M. Natcher and Blanche (Hays) Natcher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/06-17.html">June 17, 1937</a>, to Virginia Reardon.</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;">The William H. Natcher <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Federal Building</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">U.S. Courthouse</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-names.html">Bowling Green, Kentucky</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The William H. Natcher <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Parkway</a> (opened 1972 as the Green River Parkway; renamed 1994; redesignated 2018 as Interstate 165, without the Natcher name), which ran through <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-names.html">Warren</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BU-names.html">Butler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/OH-names.html">Ohio</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/DA-names.html">Daviess</a> counties, Kentucky, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The William H. Natcher <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (opened 2002), which takes U.S. Highway 231 over the Ohio River, between <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/DA-names.html">Daviess County, Kentucky</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/SP-names.html">Spencer County, Indiana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </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=N000009">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408103">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Huston Natcher">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/856/000115511">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>Kenneth Allison Roberts (1912-1989)</b> — also known as <b>Kenneth A. Roberts</b> — of Anniston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CA-lived.html">Calhoun County</a>, Ala. Born in Piedmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CA-born.html">Calhoun County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/11-01.html">November 1, 1912</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/stsen.html">Alabama state senate</a>; elected 1942; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a>, 1951-65 (4th District 1951-63, at-large 1963-65); defeated, 1964; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">shot and wounded</a> in an attack on the U.S. House by Puerto Rican nationalists, 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-tau-omega.html">Alpha Tau Omega</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Died in Potomac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/05-09.html">May 9, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 189 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> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-22.html">September 22, 1953</a>, to Margaret Hamilton McMillan.</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=R000314">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409285">Govtrack.us page</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>Willis Smith (1887-1953)</b> — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/no-born.html">Norfolk</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/12-19.html">December 19, 1887</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1927-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the North Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1931-32; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NC.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NC.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1950-53; died in office 1953. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <b>Forty and Eight</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-phi-epsilon.html">Sigma Phi Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>. Died in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/walter-reed.html">Bethesda Naval Hospital</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/06-26.html">June 26, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 189 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms00463">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Willis Smith and Mary Shaw (Creecy) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/04-30.html">April 30, 1919</a>, to Anna Lee.</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=S000639">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410113">Govtrack.us page</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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