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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: April 29, 1944</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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Trumbull</a> — Port Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/CA-died.html">Clallam County</a>, Wash.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-04-29.html">Politicians who died on April 29</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/died.html">politicians who died in 1944</a> (all dates).</li> </ul> Centenaries and half-centenaries of the births and deaths of dead politicians on this date: <ul> <li>100 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#130.66.34">Arthur Clarence Walworth</a>, born April 29, 1844</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 89: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/young7.html#739.32.68">Robert C. Young</a></li> <li>Age 84: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/estevan-evanoff.html#934.53.70">José Maria Esteva</a></li> <li>Age 81: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heaney-heartwell.html#779.18.19">William Randolph Hearst</a></li> <li>Age 80: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sauner-sawtelle.html#652.01.78">Alfred Savarian</a></li> <li>Age 79: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steele.html#328.56.37">Charles Steele</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#180.57.29">F. J. Mills</a></li> <li>Age 76: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#000.06.95">Edward L. Sturgess</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenip-greff.html#249.65.15">Clarence N. Greer</a></li> <li>Age 73: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#879.46.08">Robert W. Woolley</a></li> <li>Age 72: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whatley-wheelan.html#844.47.35">Earl Whedon</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#199.68.44">Eugene Duckworth</a></li> <li>Age 68: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis6.html#267.73.86">Leslie A. Davis</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayt-hayward.html#831.53.00">William Hayward</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burgess.html#269.71.73">Walter F. Burgess</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holliman-hollon.html#883.66.30">Arthur W. Hollis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/joyce.html#421.96.32">Matthew M. Joyce</a></li> <li>Age 66: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#023.02.30">Henry T. Hunt</a></li> <li>Age 64: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin5.html#782.96.76">John C. Martin</a></li> <li>Age 62: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#670.55.98">Francis Wayland Johnston</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore3.html#119.04.85">Everett F. Moore</a></li> <li>Age 58: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watts.html#075.48.42">Oscar Watts</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeogh-mckibbin.html#829.79.42">Raymond S. McKeough</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/unger-upfold.html#738.60.18">Louis H. Unzelman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclean.html#609.38.10">Minedee McLean</a></li> <li>Age 54: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaneaster-karns.html#012.89.38">Dan E. Karn</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halla-halsell.html#497.65.04">Walter S. Hallanan</a></li> <li>Age 52: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eberhart-eddleman.html#650.50.82">Herman P. Eberharter</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell2.html#090.51.09">Courtney W. Campbell</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#931.63.58">Jacob A. Correll</a></li> <li>Age 47: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shuldberg-shuttleworth.html#554.05.96">Searles G. Shultz</a></li> <li>Age 46: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckeogh-mckibbin.html#530.70.57">Francis M. McKeown</a></li> <li>Age 45: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fay.html#518.15.24">James H. Fay</a></li> <li>Age 39: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#682.64.62">Gene R. Mariano</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#121.33.23">James Kimo Kealoha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craig.html#112.43.94">Louis G. Craig</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/risden-ritchey.html#306.07.12">Leon RisCassi</a></li> <li>Age 34: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sproat-staebler.html#379.30.84">Edward J. Stack</a></li> <li>Age 33: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdonell-mcdougle.html#835.30.94">Patrick J. McDonough</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/collins5.html#851.79.92">James M. Collins</a></li> <li>Age 23: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seeligson-selby.html#878.54.18">L. William Seidman</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appling-archambault.html#309.68.87">Merrill F. Arbogast</a></li> <li>Age 22: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell7.html#346.58.56">Parren J. Mitchell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zebb-ziegenheim.html#948.97.33">George Zenovich</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#218.94.60">Richard M. Webster</a></li> <li>Age 21: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white7.html#382.55.33">Richard C. White</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#739.03.36">Hiram Hamilton Ward</a></li> <li>Age 18: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nichols.html#929.55.31">Dick Nichols</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#116.35.26">Carrie P. Meek</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#159.84.84">Gordon S. Summers</a></li> <li>Age 16: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatfield.html#409.96.70">Paul G. Hatfield</a></li> <li>Age 15: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pennington.html#259.49.06">Robert D. Pennington</a></li> <li>Age 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patteson-pattok.html#118.82.96">Edward W. Pattison</a></li> <li>Age 4: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cavarly-chaka.html#743.50.14">Dennis O. Cawthorne</a></li> <li>Age 3: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/amick-andersen.html#630.60.68">Toney Anaya</a></li> <li>Age 2: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/christinson-chumbler.html#618.77.93">Dick Chrysler</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/larkins-larrain.html#375.84.02">E. Pat Larkins</a></li> </ul> </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"> "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 320,919 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/1944/04-29.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/04-29.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 © 1996-2023 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/3.0/">Creative Commons License</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. 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