Very incomplete list! | |  John Raymond Bathe (b. 1945) — also known asJohn R. Bathe — of Fullerton,OrangeCounty, Calif.; La Habra,OrangeCounty, Calif.Born in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,January8, 1945.Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention fromCalifornia,1972.Agnostic. Still living as of 1973.| |  Relatives: Sonof Ernest Otto Bathe and Lora Gertrude Bathe. |
| | Jello Biafra (b. 1958) — also known asEric Reed Boucher;"Occupant";"Count Ringworm" —ofSanFrancisco, Calif.Born in Boulder,BoulderCounty, Colo.,June 17,1958.Co-founder,lead singer,andsongwriterfor thepunkrock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the AlternativeTentaclesrecordlabel; candidate formayorof San Francisco, Calif., 1979;charged,in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributingobscene"harmful matter" in the form of asexuallyexplicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;following atrial,the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges weredismissed; Biafra went on to become aspokenword performer; on May 7, 1994, he wasassaultedand injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or sixattackers who called him a "sellout".Atheist. Still living as of 2014. | | Frederick Elliott Biermann (1884-1968) — also known asFred Biermann — of Decorah,WinneshiekCounty, Iowa.Born in Rochester,OlmstedCounty, Minn.,March20, 1884.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;newspapereditor and publisher;postmaster;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa,1928,1940;U.S.Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1933-39; defeated, 1938.Agnostic. Member,Freemasons;Elks;AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars.Died in La Crosse,La CrosseCounty, Wis.,July 1,1968 (age84 years, 103days). Hisbody wasdonated to the Iowa Medical School.Interment atPhelpsCemetery, Decorah, Iowa. | | Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) — also known asHarry Browne — of Franklin,WilliamsonCounty, Tenn.Born inNassauCounty, N.Y.,June 17,1933.Libertarian.Writer;investmentadvisor; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1996, 2000;radio showhost, 2003.Agnostic. Died, ofLouGehrig's disease, in Franklin,WilliamsonCounty, Tenn.,March 1,2006 (age72 years, 257days).Interment atMt.Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C. | | Brian Arthur Christeson (b. 1946) — also known asBrian Christeson — of Alexandria,GraftonCounty, N.H.Born in ahospitalat Corvallis,BentonCounty, Ore.,February10, 1946.Libertarian. Candidate forNewHampshire state house of representatives, 1994, 1996; candidateforU.S.Senator from New Hampshire, 1998; candidate forU.S.Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 2000.Agnostic. Still living as of 2006. | | Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) — also known asLeroy Cleaver — Born in Wabbaseka,JeffersonCounty, Ark.,August31, 1935.Peace and Freedom candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1968.Atheist; laterMormon.Africanancestry.Died in Pomona,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,May 1,1998 (age62 years, 243days).Interment atMountainView Cemetery, Altadena, Calif. | | Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900) — Born in Cazenovia,MadisonCounty, N.Y.,August17, 1818.Republican.U.S.Representative from Ohio 18th District, 1859-63;justice ofIdaho territorial supreme court, 1863;Governorof Montana Territory, 1864-65.Agnostic. Died in Akron,SummitCounty, Ohio,July 19,1900 (age81 years, 336days).Interment atTallmadgeCemetery, Tallmadge, Ohio. | | Larry Claxton Flynt (1942-2021) — also known asLarry Flynt;"The King ofSmut" —of Ohio; California. Born in Lakeville,MagoffinCounty, Ky.,November1, 1942.Democrat. Owner ofnightclubs; publisher ofHustler, apornographicmagazine;convictedin Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977 onobscenityandorganizedcrimecharges,andsentencedto 25 years inprison,but the verdict was overturned on appeal;shot by asniper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, 1978, andparalyzedfrom the waist down; candidate forGovernor ofCalifornia, 2003.Atheist. Died in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,February10, 2021 (age78 years, 101days).Intermenta private or family graveyard, Magoffin County, Ky. | | Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) — also known asE. Haldeman-Julius;EmanuelJulius —of Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,July 30,1889.Socialist.Author;editor of the SocialistnewspaperAppeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications,publisherof many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; therewere more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widelyaccessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500million copies were printed and sold; candidate forU.S.Senator from Kansas, 1932;indictedby a federal grand jury in March, 1950 forincometax evasion;triedandconvictedin April, 1951;sentencedto six months inprison,andfined$12,500; released pending appeal.Jewish;laterAgnostic.Drownedin hisswimmingpool, in Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.,July 31,1951 (age62 years, 1days). Possiblysuicide,but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.Interment atCedarvilleCemetery, Cedarville, Ill. | | Job Harriman (1861-1925) — of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born inClintonCounty, Ind.,January15, 1861.Socialist.Minister;lawyer;Socialist Labor candidate forGovernor ofCalifornia, 1898; candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1900; candidate formayorof Los Angeles, Calif., 1911, 1913; member of Socialist NationalCommittee from California, 1911; delegate to Socialist NationalConvention from California, 1912.Christian;laterAgnostic.Founder, in 1914, of the Llano de Rio utopian community in AntelopeValley, Calif. (relocated to Louisiana in 1918).Died, fromtuberculosis,in Sierra Madre,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,October26, 1925 (age64 years, 284days).Burial location unknown.  | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) — also known asRobert G. Ingersoll;"The GreatAgnostic";"American Infidel";"Impious Pope Bob" —of Peoria,PeoriaCounty, Ill.;Washington,D.C.Born in Dresden,YatesCounty, N.Y.,August11, 1833.Lawyer;Democratic candidate forIllinoisstate house of representatives 5th District, 1860; colonel in theUnion Army during the Civil War;chargedabout 1864 withassaultand battery against the Peoria County Sheriff;tried;the jury was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict; the case wasdismissed before a new trial could be held;Illinoisstate attorney general, 1867-69; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Illinois,1876;made the nominating speech which dubbedJamesG. Blaine as "The Plumed Knight".Agnostic. Died in Dobbs Ferry,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,July 21,1899 (age65 years, 344days).Cremated;ashes interred atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue erected 1911 atGlenOak Park, Peoria, Ill.| | Relatives: Sonof Rev. John Ingersoll and Mary (Livingston) Ingersoll; brother ofEbonClarke Ingersoll; married,February13, 1862, to Eve Amelia Parker; uncle ofJohnCarter Ingersoll; second cousin thrice removed ofJonathanIngersoll andJaredIngersoll; third cousin twice removed ofCharlesJared Ingersoll,JosephReed Ingersoll,RalphIsaacs Ingersoll andCharlesAnthony Ingersoll; fourth cousin once removed ofLamanIngersoll,ColinMacrae Ingersoll andCharlesRoberts Ingersoll. | | | | Political families:Ingersollfamily of New Haven, Connecticut;Ingersollfamily of New Haven, Connecticut (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoNNDBdossier | | | | Books about Robert G. Ingersoll: OrvinLarson,AmericanInfidel: Robert G. Ingersoll | | | | Image source: William C. Roberts,Leading Orators (1884) |
| | Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) — also known as"Dr. Death" — Born in Pontiac,OaklandCounty, Mich.,May 26,1928.Physician;euthanasia advocate whose campaign ofassistedsuicides of terminally ill patients in 1989-99 brought himnational publicity; his medical license wasrevokedin 1990; he faced numerousmurderchargesstarting in 1993; acquitted by juries several times;convictedin 1999 andsentencedto 10 to 25 years inprison;released in 2007; Independent candidate forU.S.Representative from Michigan 9th District, 2008.Atheist.Armenianancestry.Died, fromkidneyandheartproblems, in BeaumontHospital,Royal Oak,OaklandCounty, Mich.,June 3,2011 (age83 years, 8days).Interment atWhiteChapel Memorial Park Cemetery, Troy, Mich. | | Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Lake Zurich,LakeCounty, Ill.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,December25, 1870.Progressive.Universityprofessor;novelist;playwright;Progressive candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois,1924;secretaryof the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43;Governor ofU.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41;removed fromoffice as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, andbarredfrom federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, overhis ties toleft-wingand purportedlyCommunistindividuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and hereceived about $2,000 in salary owed to him.Atheist. Died, in St. Joseph'sHospital,Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,February8, 1956 (age85 years, 45days).Interment atGracelandCemetery, Chicago, Ill. | | Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) — also known asArthur Miller — of Roxbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October17, 1915.Democrat.Playwright;author of such plays as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible";received thePulitzerPrize for Drama in 1949; because he wassuspectedof ties toCommunistorganizations, hispassport wasdenied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-AmericanActivities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his politicalcolleagues, and wasfoundguilty ofcontemptof Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut,1968.Agnostic.Jewishancestry.Died in Roxbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.,February10, 2005 (age89 years, 116days).Interment atGreat Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn. | | Monica Moorehead (b. 1952) — of Jersey City,HudsonCounty, N.J.Born in Tuscaloosa,TuscaloosaCounty, Ala.,1952.Socialist.Schoolteacher; Workers World candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1996, 2000, 2016.Female.Atheist.Africanancestry.Still living as of 2016. | | Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994) — also known asLinus Pauling — of California. Born in Portland,MultnomahCounty, Ore.,February28, 1901.Chemist;universityprofessor; candidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1962; received theNobelPrize in Chemistry in 1954, theNobelPeace Prize in 1962, and theLeninPeace Prize in 1968-69.Unitarian;laterAtheist.Died, fromprostatecancer, in Big Sur,MontereyCounty, Calif.,August19, 1994 (age93 years, 172days).Cremated;ashes interred atOswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, Ore. | | Clarence Horatio Pitkin (b. 1849) — also known asClarence H. Pitkin — of Berlin,WashingtonCounty, Vt.Born in East Montpelier,WashingtonCounty, Vt.,August26, 1849.Democrat.Lawyer;WashingtonCounty State's Attorney, 1880-82;U.S.Attorney for Vermont, 1887-89.Rationalist. Burial location unknown. | | Verne LaRue Reynolds (1884-1959) — also known asVerne L. Reynolds — of Corcoran,KingsCounty, Calif.;Baltimore,Md.; El Monte,LosAngeles County, Calif.; Woodstock,UlsterCounty, N.Y.;LakeCounty, Fla.Born in Parsons,LabetteCounty, Kan.,March 7,1884.Steamfitter;Labor candidate forU.S.Representative from Maryland 3rd District, 1922; Labor candidateforGovernor ofMaryland, 1923; Socialist Labor candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1924; Socialist Labor candidateforPresidentof the United States, 1928, 1932.Atheist. Died, fromlungcancer, in St. Joseph'sHospital,Phoenix,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.,September16, 1959 (age75 years, 193days).Cremated. | | Irvin Hamilton Sutley Jr. (b. 1944) — also known asIrv Sutley — of Mill Valley,MarinCounty, Calif.; St. Paul,RamseyCounty, Minn.; Glen Ellen,SonomaCounty, Calif.; Santa Rosa,SonomaCounty, Calif.Born inMarinCounty, Calif.,June 9,1944.California Peace and Freedom Party state chair, 1970-72; Peace andFreedom candidate for Presidential Elector for California,1972;Peace and Freedom candidate forU.S.Representative from California 2nd District, 1978; Peace andFreedom candidate forCaliforniastate senate 4th District, 1990, 1993; Peace and Freedomcandidate forCaliforniastate assembly 7th District, 1992, 1994, 1998.Atheist. Still living as of 2009. | | Jesse Ventura (b. 1951) — also known asJames George Janos;James G. Janos;"The Body";"GovernorBody" —of Brooklyn Park,HennepinCounty, Minn.Born in Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.,July 15,1951.Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War;mayorof Brooklyn Park, Minn., 1991-94;Governor ofMinnesota, 1999-2003; Green candidate forPresidentof the United States, 2020.Atheist. Professionalwrestler;actor,notably in filmPredator.Still living as of 2020. | | Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) — also known asGore Vidal;Edgar Box;CameronKay;Katherine Everard —of Barrytown,DutchessCounty, N.Y.; Ravello,Italy;Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born, in the CadetHospital,U.S. Military Academy, West Point,OrangeCounty, N.Y.,October3, 1925.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternatedelegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1960;candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate forU.S.Senator from California, 1982.Atheist.Bisexual.Novelist,playwright,essayist,screenwriter,appeared as anactorin several films. Not actually related toAlGore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".Died, from complications ofpneumonia,in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,July 31,2012 (age86 years, 302days).Interment atRockCreek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.  | John Ziegler (b. 1967) — of Burbank,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Heidelberg,Germany,March28, 1967.Republican.Author;radiocommentator;filmmaker;alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,2008.Agnostic. Still living as of 2014. |
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