Very incomplete list!  |  David Harold Blackwell (1919-2010) — also known asDavid Blackwell — ofWashington,D.C.; Berkeley,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Centralia,MarionCounty, Ill.,April24, 1919.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;universityprofessor; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromCalifornia,1972.Africanancestry. Member,American Statistical Association;AmericanPhilosophical Society.Died, in ahospitalat Berkeley,AlamedaCounty, Calif.,July 8,2010 (age91 years, 75days).Burial location unknown. | | Edward Dana Durand (1871-1960) — also known asE. Dana Durand — of Minnesota;Washington,D.C.Born in Romeo,MacombCounty, Mich.,October18, 1871.Economist;director, U.S. Census, 1909-13;universityprofessor; member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1935-47.Member,AmericanEconomic Association;American Statistical Association.Died inWashington,D.C.,January6, 1960 (age88 years, 80days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Cyrus Y. Durand and Celia (Day) Durand; married,July 15,1903, to Mary Elizabeth Bennett. |
| | Leon Henderson (1895-1986) — ofWashington,D.C.; Rocky Mount,EdgecombeCounty, N.C.Born in Millville,CumberlandCounty, N.J.,May 26,1895.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;economist;member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1939-41;administrator, Office of Price Administration, 1941-42.Member,American Statistical Association;AmericanEconomic Association;DeltaUpsilon;Freemasons.Died in October,1986(age91years, 0 days).Burial location unknown. | | Brazilla Carroll Reece (1889-1961) — also known asB. Carroll Reece — of Butler,JohnsonCounty, Tenn.; Johnson City,WashingtonCounty, Tenn.Born in alogcabin near Butler,JohnsonCounty, Tenn.,December22, 1889.Republican.Schoolteacher; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;banker;U.S.Representative from Tennessee 1st District, 1921-31, 1933-47,1951-61; died in office 1961; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Tennessee,1932,1936,1944,1948(speaker),1956,1960;member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Tennessee, 1939-40;Chairmanof Republican National Committee, 1946-48; candidate forU.S.Senator from Tennessee, 1948;TennesseeRepublican state chair, 1958.Baptist.Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanEconomic Association;American Statistical Association;AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science;DeltaSigma Pi;Freemasons;Shriners.Died, inBethesdaNaval Hospital, Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,March19, 1961 (age71 years, 87days).Interment atMonteVista Memorial Park, Johnson City, Tenn.  | Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) — also known asCarroll D. Wright — Born in Dunbarton,MerrimackCounty, N.H.,July 25,1840.Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate senate Sixth Middlesex District, 1872-73; PresidentialElector for Massachusetts,1876;chief, Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, 1873-88; in charge of thestate census in 1875 and 1885, and the federal census forMassachusetts in 1880; U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905;universityprofessor;president,Clark College, Worcester, Mass., 1902.Unitarian.EnglishandScottishancestry. Member,AmericanEconomic Association;American Statistical Association;AmericanAntiquarian Society.DiedFebruary20, 1909 (age68 years, 210days).Burial location unknown.
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