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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Gamma Phi Beta Politicians</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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Born in Lafayette, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/YA-born.html">Yamhill County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/02-25.html">February 25, 1895</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/ofc/stsen.html">Idaho state senate</a>, 1946; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Idaho, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/ID.html">1948</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <b>Gamma Phi Beta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion-aux.html">American Legion Auxiliary</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Orien Allen and Emma (Wright) Allen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-28.html">December 28, 1918</a>, to Rollie L. Campbell.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Grace Harriet Geib (1913-2003)</b> — also known as <b>Harriet Geib</b>; <b>Grace Harriet Hagen</b>; <b>Mrs. Marvin Geib</b> — of Moorhead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CL-lived.html">Clay County</a>, Minn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/08-03.html">August 3, 1913</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/MN.html">1964</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1968/MN.html">1968</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>; <b>Gamma Phi Beta</b>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2003/02-09.html">February 9, 2003</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/CL-buried.html#cms02658">Prairie Home Cemetery</a>, Moorhead, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of O. J. Hagen; married to Marvin J. Geib; granddaughter of Frank Weld.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/32632535">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Janet Hill Gordon (1915-1990)</b> — also known as <b>Janet Hill</b> — of Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-lived.html">Chenango County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/01-11.html">January 11, 1915</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican State Committee</a>, 1942-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-officials.html">Chenango County Attorney</a>, 1944-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> woman county attorney in New York State; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Chenango County, 1947-58; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/NY.html">1948</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 46th District, 1959-62; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 35th District, 1962. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <b>Gamma Phi Beta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-gamma.html">Delta Kappa Gamma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion-aux.html">American Legion Auxiliary</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/09-17.html">September 17, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CN-buried.html#cms02016">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Norwich, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hill5.html#632.09.20">James Perminter Hill</a> and Florine (Hall) Hill; married to William J. Gordon.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27016588">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Helen Day Stevenson Meyner (1928-1997)</b> — also known as <b>Helen S. Meyner</b>; <b>Helen Day Stevenson</b> — of Phillipsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/WA-lived.html">Warren County</a>, N.J. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/03-05.html">March 5, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 13th District, 1975-79; defeated, 1972, 1978; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NJ.html">1980</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <b>Gamma Phi Beta</b>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/index.html">1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevenson-steward.html#142.85.97">William Edwards Stevenson</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-19.html">January 19, 1957</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meyering-michalski.html#765.82.04">Robert Baumle Meyner</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12465.html">Meyner-Stevenson family</a> of Phillipsburg, New Jersey.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000685">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407670">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Byrd Fanita Sawyer (b. 1895)</b> — also known as <b>Byrd Fanita Wall</b>; <b>Mrs. Harry W. Sawyer</b> — of Fallon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/CH-lived.html">Churchill County</a>, Nev.; Sparks, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NV/WA-lived.html">Washoe County</a>, Nev. Born in Warrensburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JO-born.html">Johnson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/05-05.html">May 5, 1895</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/librarian.html">librarian</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Nevada; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nevada, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NV.html">1948</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/NV.html">1952</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aauw.html">American Association of University Women</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">National Education Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <b>Gamma Phi Beta</b>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/beta-sigma-phi.html">Beta Sigma Phi</a>. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Daughter of Henry J. Wall and Burd (McIlvaine) Wall; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/09-11.html">September 11, 1923</a>, to Harry W. 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