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The Political Graveyard: October 21, 1971
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: October 21, 1971</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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Teachout</a> — Seattle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-born.html">King County</a>, Wash.</li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-10-21.html">Politicians who were born on October 21</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/born.html">politicians who were born in 1971</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who were married on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>None currently in database.</i></li> <li><i>See:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/married-10-21.html">Politicians who were married on October 21</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/married.html">politicians who were married in 1971</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Politicians who died on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#697.57.87">Lucile C. Tally</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LA-died.html">Lake County</a>, Fla.</li> <li><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-10-21.html">Politicians who died on October 21</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/died.html">politicians who died in 1971</a> (all dates).</li> </ul><br> <p><b>Office Transitions on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#359.67.86">Clay V. Spear</a>, <i>resigned</i> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/spju.html">justice of Idaho state supreme court</a>)</li> </ul> <p><b>Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date:</b></p> <ul> <li><i>Age 97:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#361.32.39">W. K. Allen</a></li> <li><i>Age 96:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#806.16.69">Von Mayes</a></li> <li><i>Age 90:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parks.html#407.91.75">James K. Parks</a></li> <li><i>Age 89:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#294.50.25">Albert H. Ladner</a></li> <li><i>Age 87:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward9.html#665.40.38">William E. D. Ward</a></li> <li><i>Age 84:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#739.96.69">Adele Scott Saul</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leader-leak.html#608.85.71">Guy A. Leader</a></li> <li><i>Age 81:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilberta-gilgun.html#818.20.00">James H. Gildea</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bright-britten.html#068.46.98">August M. Brinkman</a></li> <li><i>Age 79:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#568.81.03">Rodney B. Janes</a></li> <li><i>Age 78:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson9.html#023.07.12">W. Newton Jackson</a></li> <li><i>Age 77:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#535.59.23">W. Henry Duckworth</a></li> <li><i>Age 76:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/driver-dryzga.html#580.95.17">James W. Driver</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mclaughlin-mclay.html#954.74.24">Claude E. McLaughlin</a></li> <li><i>Age 73:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#293.75.92">Joseph Flintlock Perry</a></li> <li><i>Age 72:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor3.html#315.40.52">Everett B. Taylor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/healy.html#307.45.28">Francis P. Healy</a></li> <li><i>Age 70:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark5.html#725.70.83">Joseph S. Clark, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 66:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fornance-forsythe.html#799.31.37">Franklin S. Forsberg</a></li> <li><i>Age 65:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcduffee-mcfarlan.html#198.85.21">Edward Matthew McEntee</a></li> <li><i>Age 64:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#288.31.17">Hugh G. Cheek</a></li> <li><i>Age 63:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hains-haldor.html#516.14.26">Abner Haldeman</a></li> <li><i>Age 62:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#550.47.14">William J. Bolognesi</a></li> <li><i>Age 61:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/armstrong.html#495.79.65">R. Rolland Armstrong</a></li> <li><i>Age 56:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#082.99.55">Alva B. Adams, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 55:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white3.html#033.64.69">Edward T. White</a></li> <li><i>Age 54:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanger-sargeant.html#452.43.80">Claud N. Sapp, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 53:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#062.08.32">Hulett C. Smith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleage-clemente.html#310.45.96">Harold W. Clemens</a></li> <li><i>Age 46:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boghos-boker.html#834.48.61">Barbara Boiarsky</a></li> <li><i>Age 45:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallach-walser.html#701.48.87">William L. Waller</a></li> <li><i>Age 40:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/valerius-vancamp.html#711.73.79">G. Thomas VanBebber</a></li> <li><i>Age 39:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bowen.html#989.83.80">David R. Bowen</a></li> <li><i>Age 37:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis2.html#384.61.31">Jerry Lewis</a></li> <li><i>Age 36:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berl-berrien.html#487.60.15">Leo Berman</a></li> <li><i>Age 31:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/riter-rivero.html#527.59.10">Don Ritter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/catron-cavanagh.html#560.93.48">Michael F. Cavanagh</a></li> <li><i>Age 29:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#670.04.89">Les AuCoin</a></li> <li><i>Age 28:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#477.92.43">Lloyd Vance Stone, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 24:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tooley-tossy.html#296.67.55">John C. Torgerson</a></li> <li><i>Age 16:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/devison-dewesse.html#944.49.56">Dick DeVos</a></li> <li><i>Age 9:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thye-tiernan.html#013.83.12">Patrick J. Tiberi</a></li> </ul><br> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <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. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872</span></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> <br clear="all"> <table width=100% cellpadding=2> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html">The Political Graveyard</a></b> 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.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3><span style="font-size:8pt;"> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <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.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are <b>incomplete</b>; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <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 <b>not</b> guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/10-21.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/10-21.html</a>.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <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.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <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>.</span></td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>Copyright notices:</b> (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 <b>fair use</b> 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>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>What is a "political graveyard"?</b> 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>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <b>Site information:</b> The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by <b>Lawrence Kestenbaum</b>, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is <b>The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106.</b> — This site is hosted by <b><a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a></b>. — The Political Graveyard opened on <b>July 1, 1996</b>; the last full revision was done on <b>February 17, 2025</b>. </span></td></tr> </table> </body> </html>