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The Political Graveyard: December 14, 1942
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: December 14, 1942</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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Aikens</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crane.html#368.39.88">Frank Crane</a></li> <li><i>Age 84:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clark6.html#942.31.49">Louis Monroe Clark</a></li> <li><i>Age 82:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrington-harrion.html#415.59.81">Walter H. Harrington</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sawyers-sayward.html#007.33.93">Alcott D. Sayles</a></li> <li><i>Age 80:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aikens-albree.html#772.20.29">Charles T. Aikens</a></li> <li><i>Age 79:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/busha-butkowski.html#828.01.86">Ambrose G. Bushnell</a></li> <li><i>Age 78:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/frost.html#217.34.56">Orlando E. Frost</a></li> <li><i>Age 77:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#354.19.74">Frank Nelson</a></li> <li><i>Age 73:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmour-givhan.html#068.42.65">Robert H. Gittins</a></li> <li><i>Age 71:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ely.html#486.93.68">A. Lee Ely</a></li> <li><i>Age 68:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker1.html#861.39.59">Albert J. Baker</a></li> <li><i>Age 67:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andridge-anstine.html#249.10.85">George H. Ansley</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyle.html#949.18.87">Walter F. Boyle</a></li> <li><i>Age 65:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evans9.html#205.96.37">William E. Evans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barry.html#724.94.04">John R. Barry</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/atlee-atwell.html#876.99.91">Harry H. Atwell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#736.19.52">Walter Louis Faber</a></li> <li><i>Age 62:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#946.94.16">L. W. Deeds</a></li> <li><i>Age 60:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hoggard-holbrock.html#033.38.51">William P. Holaday</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alt-amersoon.html#560.21.28">C. J. Altmaier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wise.html#724.07.92">Russell S. Wise</a></li> <li><i>Age 58:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#657.38.76">James F. Allee, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 57:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/starret-stearnes.html#634.48.86">Henry P. Starrett</a></li> <li><i>Age 56:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burton.html#580.19.33">Clarence G. Burton</a></li> <li><i>Age 52:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#910.88.26">Ben F. Cameron</a></li> <li><i>Age 51:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duane-dudkin.html#629.53.59">F. Harold Dubord</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/higgins.html#394.88.20">Thomas P. Higgins</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdonell-mcdougle.html#725.81.69">Dayle C. McDonough</a></li> <li><i>Age 48:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cushingberry-cuthbertson.html#452.03.27">Harry V. Custer</a></li> <li><i>Age 46:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#658.46.18">Hiram A. Boucher</a></li> <li><i>Age 45:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#620.71.36">Margaret Chase Smith</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#253.11.12">Theodore Mehlhaf</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#741.26.74">James E. Manahan</a></li> <li><i>Age 44:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cash-casperson.html#080.76.98">Edythe Cashmore</a></li> <li><i>Age 43:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall2.html#170.76.61">Claude H. Hall, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/naar-nary.html#192.21.65">Mathias Naphtali</a></li> <li><i>Age 40:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#623.50.18">Harry O. Janicke</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heisel-hellyer.html#086.85.89">Arthur R. Heisser</a></li> <li><i>Age 39:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kovach-krapohl.html#491.75.26">C. William Kraft, Jr.</a></li> <li><i>Age 38:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/westcott-westmoreland.html#142.07.34">Jack Westland</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walsworth-walther.html#037.11.79">Paul M. Walter</a></li> <li><i>Age 35:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/acampora-adamowski.html#846.87.29">E. Ross Adair</a></li> <li><i>Age 32:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#928.50.03">B. F. Sisk</a></li> <li><i>Age 31:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/waterman.html#792.54.34">A. Porter Waterman</a></li> <li><i>Age 30:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zaagman-zazachilds.html#682.20.82">Frank J. Zagaiski</a></li> <li><i>Age 29:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schlacter-schmies.html#290.76.13">Leslie R. Schmier</a></li> <li><i>Age 25:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spencer.html#429.45.89">John McCulloch Spencer</a></li> <li><i>Age 24:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sawyer.html#290.51.28">F. Grant Sawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heathman-hedlund.html#731.71.83">L. Douglas Heck</a></li> <li><i>Age 23:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webe-webney.html#438.33.44">Robert H. Weber</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell3.html#002.95.54">Frank L. Campbell</a></li> <li><i>Age 21:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccooey-mccormack.html#496.60.99">Mike McCormack</a></li> <li><i>Age 20:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#363.50.00">William L. Hungate</a></li> <li><i>Age 19:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmurchie-mcnally.html#878.25.29">Robert E. McNair</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grove.html#962.46.03">Daniel Grove</a></li> <li><i>Age 18:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#425.35.25">D. Bennett Mazur</a></li> <li><i>Age 16:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#919.28.04">Richard Cameron Freeman</a></li> <li><i>Age 15:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beaty-bechtold.html#060.64.25">Louis C. Bechtle</a></li> <li><i>Age 14:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#633.44.37">Robert G. Allbee</a></li> <li><i>Age 10:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudson.html#329.66.91">Bill Hudson</a></li> <li><i>Age 3:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickey-dickie.html#197.53.06">Jay W. Dickey</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell2.html#540.03.16">Clarence M. Mitchell III</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purchio-puthuff.html#604.11.31">Melvin Purvis</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/1942/12-14.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/12-14.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>