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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: December 2, 1948</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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Smithwick</a></li> <li><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodroads-gorbey.html#509.85.01">Roy Goodwin</a></li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-12-02.html">Politicians who died on December 2</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/died.html">politicians who died in 1948</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/buchanan.html#518.40.91">Andrew Buchanan</a>, died December 2, 1848</li> <li>50 Years: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/compton.html#915.69.31">Barnes Compton</a>, died December 2, 1898</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 95: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#927.74.55">Jean L. La Forêt</a></li> <li>Age 85: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cherry.html#461.66.66">U. S. G. Cherry</a></li> <li>Age 84: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wallace.html#225.94.99">Charles S. Wallace</a></li> <li>Age 83: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graebner-gragg.html#686.86.91">Henry J. P. Graebner</a></li> <li>Age 81: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/early.html#563.08.19">William W. Early</a></li> <li>Age 77: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#401.17.32">Tom C. Seager</a></li> <li>Age 75: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#661.07.18">William P. Scullen</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html#566.15.09">George B. Grigsby</a></li> <li>Age 73: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crampton-crandall.html#094.92.02">Louis C. Cramton</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccorquodale-mccuiston.html#744.22.85">Thomas F. McCran</a></li> <li>Age 72: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#977.82.90">Pearl P. Oldfield</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pike.html#256.93.73">Elisha W. Pike</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#302.99.58">Charles Gardner Miles</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams4.html#268.73.30">Harry H. Williams</a></li> <li>Age 66: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#069.18.39">J. H. Clayborn</a></li> <li>Age 63: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gjesdal-glaspie.html#147.78.62">Earl J. Glade</a></li> <li>Age 62: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#900.65.55">Michael J. Kirwan</a></li> <li>Age 61: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thurmond-thwing.html#787.36.17">Paul C. Thurston</a></li> <li>Age 60: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/west-westbrook.html#746.76.82">B. W. West</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellison-ellsberry.html#778.21.71">Henry S. Ellison, Sr.</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herbert.html#414.98.06">Paul M. Herbert</a></li> <li>Age 58: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherr-sherwin.html#326.52.79">H. Floyd Sherrod</a></li> <li>Age 56: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#517.98.86">E. Coke Bridges</a></li> <li>Age 52: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#616.86.50">Charles S. Desmond</a></li> <li>Age 50: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#747.79.83">Prescott Childs</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#660.34.37">Dean Alfange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#709.11.40">Vernon W. Blodgett</a></li> <li>Age 48: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white2.html#549.50.28">Cecil F. White</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferris.html#471.62.29">Walton C. Ferris</a></li> <li>Age 47: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/higginson-hilger.html#519.66.68">Horace A. Hildreth</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wright6.html#336.97.60">Marvin M. Wright</a></li> <li>Age 44: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washmon-waterlander.html#276.61.91">Thaddeus F. B. Wasielewski</a></li> <li>Age 43: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#140.06.74">George A. Morgan</a></li> <li>Age 41: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#616.19.05">Harold T. Johnson</a></li> <li>Age 38: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bennett2.html#424.85.35">Charles E. Bennett</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mitchell3.html#150.87.89">E. A. Mitchell</a></li> <li>Age 33: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ramacitti-rampton.html#405.05.54">Jose Ramos=Lopes</a></li> <li>Age 30: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everett.html#477.83.61">Stanley Everett</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#599.94.51">George L. Saal</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#683.69.25">David Edward Satterfield III</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bates.html#865.59.35">Clarence H. Bates</a></li> <li>Age 26: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dickman-diket.html#510.94.02">Charles C. Diggs, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 24: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haibach-haiko.html#419.41.77">Alexander M. Haig, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 21: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lovejoy-lowdermilk.html#163.94.62">Stephen Low</a></li> <li>Age 17: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#976.75.33">Harry Johnston</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meekins-mellen.html#032.27.55">Edwin Meese III</a></li> <li>Age 15: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nelson.html#715.90.05">David Sutherland Nelson</a></li> <li>Age 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simms-simonetti.html#887.26.38">Leonard M. Simon</a></li> <li>Age 9: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reid.html#231.07.03">Harry Reid</a></li> <li>Age 6: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#295.28.92">Charles G. Douglas III</a></li> <li>Age 4: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#301.47.80">Steven P. Bloom</a></li> <li>Age 1: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/catron-cavanagh.html#593.57.15">Barbara A. Caulfield</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. 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