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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: February 8, 1959</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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Donovan</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C.</li> <li>See also: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-02-08.html">Politicians who died on February 8</a> (all years), or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/died.html">politicians who died in 1959</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/serr-sevigny.html#468.41.87">Clarence W. Sessions</a>, born February 8, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#716.70.27">Luere B. Deasy</a>, born February 8, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/obrien-oconner.html#248.31.60">David F. O'Connell</a>, born February 8, 1859; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#250.35.10">James Clark Work</a>, born February 8, 1859</li> </ul> Birthdays of presumed living (at the time) politicians on this date: <ul> <li>Age 98: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller1.html#217.74.83">Arthur Miller</a></li> <li>Age 95: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#791.55.16">Clyde C. Dawson</a></li> <li>Age 94: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdonald.html#584.57.40">John S. McDonald</a></li> <li>Age 90: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#009.79.14">O. S. Harrison</a></li> <li>Age 86: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirke-kirkman.html#233.39.26">Leigh G. Kirkland</a></li> <li>Age 80: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#498.80.59">Robert H. Lane</a></li> <li>Age 78: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/voorheis-vyzral.html#895.05.14">Charles W. Vursell</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hathcock-havenner.html#110.20.18">Joseph J. Hauser</a></li> <li>Age 75: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#182.18.53">O. P. Jacobson</a></li> <li>Age 74: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood5.html#285.23.71">John S. Wood</a></li> <li>Age 72: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heebner-hefron.html#555.00.95">Joseph L. Heffernan</a></li> <li>Age 71: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/elmquist-elwyn.html#734.17.16">Albert W. Elsasser</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/quackenbush-quigg.html#335.94.92">Harold B. Quarton</a></li> <li>Age 70: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcredmond-meachem.html#351.22.74">Matt L. McWhorter</a></li> <li>Age 69: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufmann-keast.html#985.52.30">John F. Kavanagh</a></li> <li>Age 67: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/capozzi-carew.html#076.87.82">Carl G. Card</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcphetres-mcrae.html#640.07.95">Harland A. McPhetres</a></li> <li>Age 64: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burts-busey.html#301.67.19">Fred E. Busbey</a></li> <li>Age 62: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/erwin.html#728.75.31">Clyde A. Erwin</a></li> <li>Age 59: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miller5.html#402.26.36">Joe H. Miller</a></li> <li>Age 58: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochran.html#071.43.82">James B. Cochran</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown3.html#030.33.51">Frank D. Brown</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hickey.html#355.10.55">Harry B. Hickey, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 53: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cole.html#869.56.32">Charles W. Cole</a></li> <li>Age 52: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/zimmermann-zywicki.html#322.97.21">John M. Zwach</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnoldus-arzeno.html#415.53.38">Louis H. Artuso</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#873.38.26">Ray Middleton</a></li> <li>Age 51: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#159.50.15">John Matthew Cannella</a></li> <li>Age 49: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rainie-ralph.html#951.45.80">Nick J. Rajkovich</a></li> <li>Age 46: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohen.html#162.45.95">Fred B. Cohen</a></li> <li>Age 45: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#630.17.32">Ben Hill Brown, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 42: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crowninshield-crystal.html#640.15.91">John E. Crynock</a></li> <li>Age 40: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thomson.html#547.22.22">E. Keith Thomson</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/obrien2.html#685.61.99">Dorothy G. O'Brien</a></li> <li>Age 39: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wheelock-whipp.html#473.83.16">Vince Whibbs</a></li> <li>Age 38: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kovach-krapohl.html#640.52.09">William V. Kozerski</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen6.html#388.13.21">L. Calhoun Allen, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hobbs.html#450.03.59">Truman McGill Hobbs</a></li> <li>Age 36: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bismarck-bjorseth.html#483.24.46">Edward Bivens, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 32: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ericson-erling.html#384.05.41">John N. Erlenborn</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#063.75.50">John T. Myers</a></li> <li>Age 31: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html#751.93.60">Howard E. Futch</a></li> <li>Age 29: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/standiford-stanislaus.html#554.90.50">Arlan Stangeland</a></li> <li>Age 28: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curtis.html#282.52.85">Kenneth M. Curtis</a></li> <li>Age 25: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/emest-engle.html#119.63.52">Joanne G. Emmons</a></li> <li>Age 24: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conrad.html#880.43.15">Larry Conrad</a></li> <li>Age 23: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#002.86.25">William J. Oates, Jr.</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sena-serphin.html#913.27.42">Coleen Seng</a></li> <li>Age 19: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stewart2.html#229.19.80">Donald Stewart</a></li> <li>Age 17: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#749.57.25">James T. Smith, Jr.</a></li> <li>Age 16: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/levin.html#182.78.95">Murray Levin</a></li> <li>Age 15: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/arnoldus-arzeno.html#389.03.06">Janet Bond Arterton</a></li> <li>Age 12: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rogerson-roll.html#111.63.02">John McCarthy Roll</a></li> <li>Age 9: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen4.html#176.51.34">Gerald Allen</a></li> <li>Age 8: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis7.html#308.32.86">Rick Davis</a></li> <li>Age 7: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lord.html#572.52.77">Nancy Lord</a></li> <li>Age 5: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/anderson4.html#775.93.15">Glenn S. Anderson</a></li> </ul> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <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 338,260 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/1959/02-08.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/02-08.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 © 1996-2025 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>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? 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>.</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. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>