in chronological order | |  Homer Morrison Byington Jr. (1908-1987) — also known asHomer M. Byington, Jr. — of Norwalk,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Naples,Italyof American parents,May 31,1908.Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul inNaples, 1938-39; U.S. Ambassador toMalaya, 1957-61; U.S. Consul General inNaples, 1963-73.Protestant.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1946. Died, of aheartattack,aboardtheVista Fjord, a Norwegian cruise ship, in theNorthAtlantic Ocean,November2, 1987 (age79 years, 155days).Interment atSt.Georges Cemetery, St. Georges, Del. | | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Iona Station,Ontario,October15, 1908.Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen;economist;universityprofessor; U.S. Ambassador toIndia, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromMassachusetts,1972.Scottishancestry. Member,Americansfor Democratic Action;AmericanEconomic Association;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanPhilosophical Society.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000. Died, ofpneumonia,in Mt. AuburnHospital,Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,April29, 2006 (age97 years, 196days).Interment atIndianHill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. | | Joseph Warren Madden (1890-1972) — also known asJ. Warren Madden — ofFallsChurch, Va.Born in Damascus,StephensonCounty, Ill.,January17, 1890.Democrat.Lawprofessor; member, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-40;chair, National Labor Relations Board, 1935-40;Judgeof U.S. Court of Claims, 1941-61; took senior status 1961.Presbyterian.Member,DeltaUpsilon;PhiAlpha Delta;Order ofthe Coif.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1947. Died inSanFrancisco, Calif.,February17, 1972 (age82 years, 31days).Intermentsomewherein Falls Church, Va. | | Robert Bernerd Anderson (1910-1989) — also known asRobert B. Anderson — of Texas. Born in Burleson,JohnsonCounty, Tex.,June 4,1910.Schoolteacher;lawyer;member ofTexasstate house of representatives, 1932; Received theMedal ofFreedom in 1955;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61.Methodist.Member,American BarAssociation;Freemasons;Shriners;PhiDelta Phi;Order ofthe Coif.Pleadedguilty in 1987 tochargesofevadingtaxes by illegally operating anoffshorebank;sentencedtojail,housearrest, andprobation;disbarredin 1988.Died, of complications from surgery oncancerof the esophagus, inNew YorkHospital, Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,August14, 1989 (age79 years, 71days).Interment atRosehill Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.  | Neil Hosler McElroy (1904-1972) — also known asNeil H. McElroy — of Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio.Born in Berea,CuyahogaCounty, Ohio,October30, 1904.President, Proctor & Gamble, 1948-57;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1957-59.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1959. Died, ofcancer,in Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio,November30, 1972 (age68 years, 31days).Interment atSpringGrove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. |  | John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born inWashington,D.C.,February25, 1888.Republican.Lawyer;major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from New York,1944;U.S.Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949;U.S.Secretary of State, 1953-59.Presbyterian.Member,PhiBeta Kappa;PhiDelta Phi;Council onForeign Relations.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1959. Died ofcancerandpneumonia,inWashington,D.C.,May 24,1959 (age71 years, 88days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| |  Relatives: Sonof Allen Macy Dulles and Edith F. (Foster) Dulles; brother ofAllenWelsh Dulles; married,June 26,1912, to Janet Pomeroy Avery; grandson ofJohnWatson Foster; great-grandnephew ofJohnWelsh; third great-grandnephew ofJoshuaCoit; first cousin twice removed ofLangdonCheves Jr.; first cousin six times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; second cousin once removed ofSamuelWelsh; second cousin thrice removed ofRobertCoit Jr.; second cousin four times removed ofJabezHuntington,JohnDavenport,JamesDavenport,HenryHuntington,GurdonHuntington andAbelHuntington; second cousin five times removed ofSamuelHuntington; third cousin ofLewisWardlaw Haskell; third cousin twice removed ofAlonzoMark Leffingwell andWilliamBrainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed ofJedediahHuntington,EbenezerHuntington,WilliamWoodbridge,ZinaHyde Jr.,IsaacBackus,TheodoreDavenport,HenryTitus Backus andBenjaminNicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnLeffingwell Randolph. | | | | Political family:Wolcottfamily of Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:EdwardF. Corsi | | | | Washington DullesInternationalAirport (opened 1962), inLoudounandFairfaxcounties, Virginia, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —ArlingtonNational Cemetery unofficial website | | | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 13,1951 |
| | Christian Archibald Herter (1895-1966) — also known asChristian A. Herter — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Millis,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Paris,Franceof American parents,March28, 1895.Republican. Personal assistant to U.S. Secretary of CommerceHerbertHoover, 1921-24; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1931-43;Speaker ofthe Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1939-43;delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1932,1940,1948,1952(member,ResolutionsCommittee;speaker),1956(delegation chair);U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1943-53;Governor ofMassachusetts, 1953-57; candidate for Republican nomination forVice President,1956;U.S.Secretary of State, 1959-61.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1961. DiedDecember30, 1966 (age71 years, 277days).Interment atProspectHill Cemetery, Millis, Mass. | | Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) — also known as"The Refrigerator";"The SlyFox" —of New York; Dummerston,WindhamCounty, Vt.Born in Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,May 11,1894.Director and officer, NationalSugarRefining Company; director, American-HawaiianSteamshipCompany; U.S. Ambassador toArgentina, 1951-52;Italy, 1952-53;India, 1956-61;Nepal, 1956-59;, 1966-67, 1973-78;Vietnam, 1967-73.Member,Council onForeign Relations;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.Recipient of twoPresidential Medals of Freedom, in 1963 andin 1967.Died, in Brattleboro MemorialHospital,Brattleboro,WindhamCounty, Vt.,September27, 1984 (age90 years, 139days).Intermentsomewherein Dummerston, Vt.  | Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) — of Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Vienna,Austria,November15, 1882.Lawprofessor;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.Jewish. Member,Council onForeign Relations;American CivilLiberties Union.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Suffered aheartattack, and died the next day, in George Washington UniversityHospital,Washington,D.C.,February22, 1965 (age82 years, 99days).Cremated;ashes interred atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.  | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) — also known asJohn F. Kennedy;"J.F.K.";"Lancer" —of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,May 29,1917.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1947-53;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1953-60; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from Massachusetts,1956;candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President,1956;received a 1957PulitzerPrize for his bookProfiles in Courage;Presidentof the United States, 1961-63; died in office 1963.Catholic.Irishancestry. Member,Knightsof Columbus;AmericanLegion;Elks.Kennedy was posthumously awarded thePresidential Medal ofFreedom in 1963.Shotby asniper,Lee Harvey Oswald, whileriding in amotorcade, and died in ParklandHospital,Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.,November22, 1963 (age46 years, 177days). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument atJohnF. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, Dallas, Tex.| | Relatives: SonofJosephPatrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy;step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who marriedNewtonIvan Steers Jr.); brother ofJosephPatrick Kennedy Jr., Eunice Mary Kennedy (who marriedRobertSargent Shriver Jr.),PatriciaKennedy Lawford (who marriedPeterLawford),RobertFrancis Kennedy,JeanKennedy Smith andEdwardMoore Kennedy (who marriedVirginiaJoan Bennett); married,September12, 1953, toJaquelineLee Bouvier (step-daughter ofHughDudley Auchincloss; step-sister ofEugeneLuther Gore Vidal Jr. andHughDudley Auchincloss III); father ofJohnFitzgerald Kennedy Jr.; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (whomarriedArnoldAlois Schwarzenegger),KathleenKennedy Townsend,JosephPatrick Kennedy II,RobertFrancis Kennedy Jr.,MarkKennedy Shriver andPatrickJoseph Kennedy (born 1967); grandson ofPatrickJoseph Kennedy (1858-1929) andJohnFrancis Fitzgerald. | | | | Political family:Kennedyfamily of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:JohnB. Connally —HenryB. Gonzalez —HenryM. Wade —WalterRogers —GerryE. Studds —JamesB. McCahey, Jr. —MarkDalton —WaggonerCarr —TheodoreC. Sorensen —PierreSalinger —JohnBartlow Martin —AbrahamDavenport —NellieConnally | | | | The John F. Kennedy MemorialBridge(opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River fromJeffersonville,Indiana, toLouisville,Kentucky, isnamed forhim. | | | | Coins and currency: Hisportraitappears on the U.S. half dollar coin. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by John F. Kennedy:Profilesin Courage (1956) | | | | Books about John F. Kennedy:Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze,JFK: Remembering Jack — Robert Dallek,AnUnfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 — MichaelO'Brien,JohnF. Kennedy : A Biography — Sean J. Savage,JFK,LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Thurston Clarke,AskNot : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That ChangedAmerica — Thomas Reeves,AQuestion of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy —Chris Matthews,JackKennedy: Elusive Hero — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] — Shelley Sommer,JohnF. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy (for youngreaders) | | | | Critical books about John F. Kennedy:Seymour Hersh,TheDark Side of Camelot — Lance Morrow,TheBest Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:Learning the Secrets of Power — Victor Lasky,JFK:the Man and the Myth | | | | Image source: Warren Commission report(via Wikipedia) |
 | Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) — also known asHerbert H. Lehman — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,March28, 1878.Democrat. Director, ConsolidatedCotton DuckCo., ImperialCotton Co.,U.S.CottonDuck Co., Washington Mills; colonel in the U.S. Army during WorldWar I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1928,1932,1936,1940,1948,1952,1956,1960;LieutenantGovernor of New York, 1929-32;Governor ofNew York, 1933-42;U.S.Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.Jewish. Member,AmericanJewish Committee;Council onForeign Relations;PhiGamma Delta;Americansfor Democratic Action.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1963; inducted into the Jewish-AmericanHall ofFame in 1974.Died in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,December5, 1963 (age85 years, 252days).Interment atKensicoCemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. | | | Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) — also known asRobert A. Lovett — of Locust Valley,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.Born in Huntsville,WalkerCounty, Tex.,September14, 1895.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; partner, Brown BrothersHarriman; director of severalrailroadcompanies; director, PresbyterianHospitalof New York;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1951-53.Member,Skulland Bones.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Died in Locust Valley,NassauCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,May 7,1986 (age90 years, 235days).Interment atLocustValley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y. | | Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1917-2015) — also known asTheodore Hesburgh;"FatherTed" —of South Bend,St. JosephCounty, Ind.Born in Syracuse,OnondagaCounty, N.Y.,May 25,1917.Catholicpriest;president,Notre Dame University, 1952-87; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission,1957-72.Catholic.Recipient,Medal of Freedom, 1964. Died in South Bend,St. JosephCounty, Ind.,February26, 2015 (age97 years, 277days).Interment atHoly Cross Cemetery, Notre Dame, Ind. | | Carl Vinson (1883-1981) — also known as"Father of the Two-OceanNavy" —of Milledgeville,BaldwinCounty, Ga.Born inBaldwinCounty, Ga.,November18, 1883.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives, 1909-12; county judge in Georgia,1912-14;U.S.Representative from Georgia, 1914-65 (10th District 1914-33, 6thDistrict 1933-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention fromGeorgia,1952.Methodist.Member,KappaAlpha Order.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. Died in Milledgeville,BaldwinCounty, Ga.,June 1,1981 (age97 years, 195days).Interment atMemoryHill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga. | | Thomas John Watson Jr. (1914-1993) — also known asThomas J. Watson, Jr. — of Connecticut. BornJanuary14, 1914.President,IBM,1952-71; U.S. Ambassador toSoviet Union, 1979-81.Recipient,Medal of Freedom, 1964. Died, from complications of astroke,in Greenwich,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,December31, 1993 (age79 years, 351days).Burial location unknown.  | Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) — also known asDean Acheson — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Middletown,MiddlesexCounty, Conn.,April11, 1893.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;lawyer;private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court JusticeLouisD. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933;U.S.Secretary of State, 1949-53.Episcopalian.Englishancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences;DeltaKappa Epsilon;Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; received aPulitzerPrize in History, 1970, for his bookPresent At The Creation:My Years In The State Department.Died, probably from aheartattack, over his desk in hisstudy,Sandy Spring,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,October12, 1971 (age78 years, 184days).Interment atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |  | Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) — also known asWalt Disney;"UncleWalt" —of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,December5, 1901.Republican. Republican candidate for Presidential Elector forCalifornia,1944.Irishancestry.Producerordirectorof several hundredfilmsfrom 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, theworld'sfirsttheme park; recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom onSeptember 14, 1964. In honor of his invention of the multiplanecamera, he is an inductee to the National InventorsHall ofFame.Died, oflungcancer, in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,December15, 1966 (age65 years, 10days).Cremated;ashes interred atForestLawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 atDisneyland,Anaheim, Calif.| | Relatives: Sonof Elias Disney and Flora (Call) Disney; married,July 13,1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds. | | | | Cross-reference:GeorgeJ. Mitchell | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Walt Disney: RichardSchickel,TheDisney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of WaltDisney — Leonard Mosley,Disney'sWorld: A Biography — Katherine Greene & RichardGreene,TheMan Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — BobThomas,WaltDisney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts,DiscoveringWalt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for youngreaders) | | | | Image source: Boy Scouts ofAmerica |
| | | John William Gardner (1912-2002) — also known asJohn W. Gardner — of Scarsdale,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,October8, 1912.Republican.Universityprofessor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965-68.Member,Council onForeign Relations;SigmaXi;KappaDelta Pi;AmericanPsychological Association;CommonCause.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1964; founder ofCommon Cause in 1970.Died, from complications ofprostatecancer, in Palo Alto,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,February16, 2002 (age89 years, 131days).Burial location unknown.  | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) — also known asKarl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Wright City,WarrenCounty, Mo.,June 21,1892.Pastor;professor,Union Theological Seminary, 1928-60; Socialist candidate forNew Yorkstate senate 19th District, 1930; Socialist candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 19th District, 1932; Socialistcandidate fordelegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;vice-chair of New York Liberal Party, 1958.Protestant.Germanancestry. Member,Americansfor Democratic Action.Theologian; Socialist and pacifist until World War II; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.Died in Stockbridge,BerkshireCounty, Mass.,June 1,1971 (age78 years, 345days).Interment atStockbridgeCemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.  | Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) — also known asA. Philip Randolph — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Crescent City,PutnamCounty, Fla.,April15, 1889.Socialist. Candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly from New York County 19th District, 1919;candidate forNew Yorkstate comptroller, 1920; candidate forU.S.Representative from New York 21st District, 1924;organizer,Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters;vice-president,AFL-CIO, 1957; candidate fordelegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.Methodist.Africanancestry. Member,Freemasons;Elks;American CivilLiberties Union;UnitedWorld Federalists.Recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom on September14, 1964.DiedMay 16,1979 (age90 years, 31days).Cremated. | | Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) — also known as"The Refrigerator";"The SlyFox" —of New York; Dummerston,WindhamCounty, Vt.Born in Yonkers,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,May 11,1894.Director and officer, NationalSugarRefining Company; director, American-HawaiianSteamshipCompany; U.S. Ambassador toArgentina, 1951-52;Italy, 1952-53;India, 1956-61;Nepal, 1956-59;, 1966-67, 1973-78;Vietnam, 1967-73.Member,Council onForeign Relations;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.Recipient of twoPresidential Medals of Freedom, in 1963 andin 1967.Died, in Brattleboro MemorialHospital,Brattleboro,WindhamCounty, Vt.,September27, 1984 (age90 years, 139days).Intermentsomewherein Dummerston, Vt. | | Robert William Komer (1922-2000) — also known asRobert Komer;"BlowtorchBob" —of Virginia. Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,February23, 1922.U.S. Ambassador toTurkey, 1968-69.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1967. Died in Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.,April 9,2000 (age78 years, 46days).Burial location unknown. | | Eugene Murphy Locke (1918-1972) — also known asEugene M. Locke — of Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.Born in Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.,January6, 1918.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1960(alternate),1964;U.S. Ambassador toPakistan, 1966-67; candidate forGovernor ofTexas, 1968.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1967. DiedApril28, 1972 (age54 years, 113days).Interment atOaklandCemetery, Dallas, Tex. | | Robert Strange McNamara (1916-2009) — also known asRobert S. McNamara — of Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.Born in Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.,June 9,1916.Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; president,Ford MotorCompany, 1960-61;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1961-68; received thePresidential Medalof Freedom, 1968; president, WorldBank,1968-81; on September 29, 1972, an attacker tried tothrow himoverboard from a ferry to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.Member,PhiBeta Kappa;Council onForeign Relations.DiedJuly 6,2009 (age93 years, 27days).Burial location unknown. | | David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) — also known asDean Rusk — Born inCherokeeCounty, Ga.,February9, 1909.Rhodesscholar; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II;U.S.Secretary of State, 1961-69.Presbyterian.Member,Council onForeign Relations;KappaAlpha Order.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Died ofcongestiveheart failure, in Athens,ClarkeCounty, Ga.,December20, 1994 (age85 years, 314days).Interment atOconeeHill Cemetery, Athens, Ga. | | Clark McAdams Clifford (1906-1998) — also known asClark M. Clifford — Born in Fort Scott,BourbonCounty, Kan.,December25, 1906.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1968-69.Member,American BarAssociation;KappaAlpha Order.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom on January 20,1969.DiedOctober10, 1998 (age91 years, 289days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | David Dubinsky (1892-1982) — also known asDavid Dobnievski — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Brest,Belarus),February22, 1892.Presidentof International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, from 1932; one of thefoundersof the American Labor Party in New York, 1936; DemocraticPresidential Elector for New York,1936;vice-chair of New York Liberal Party, 1944, 1958;delegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.Jewish. Member,Americansfor Democratic Action.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom on January 20,1969.Died, in St. Vincent'sHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,September17, 1982 (age90 years, 207days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Zallel Dubinsky and Shaine (Wishingrad) Dubinsky; married1915 to EmmaGoldberg. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle | | | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 29,1949 |
| | William Averell Harriman (1891-1986) — also known asW. Averell Harriman — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November15, 1891.Democrat. U.S. Ambassador toSoviet Union, 1943-46;Great Britain, 1946;, 1961, 1965-69;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1946-48; candidate for Democraticnomination for President,1952,1956;delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1952,1956,1960,1964;Governorof New York, 1955-59; defeated, 1958; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.Member,Council onForeign Relations;Knightsof Pythias;Skulland Bones.Died in Yorktown Heights,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.,July 26,1986 (age94 years, 253days).Interment atArdenFarm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.| | Relatives: SonofEdwardHenry Harriman; married,September21, 1915, to Kitty Lawrence; married,February21, 1930, to Marie (Norton) Whitney (ex-wife ofCorneliusVanderbilt Whitney); married,September27, 1971, toPamelaHayward. | | | | Cross-reference:JonathanB. Bingham | | | | See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Averell Harriman: WalterIsaacson,TheWise Men : Six Friends and the World They Made |
| | Cyrus Roberts Vance (1917-2002) — also known asCyrus R. Vance — Born in Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, W.Va.,March27, 1917.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;U.S.Secretary of State, 1977-80.Member,American BarAssociation;Council onForeign Relations;TrilateralCommission.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Died, ofAlzheimer'sdisease, at Mt. SinaiMedicalCenter, Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,January12, 2002 (age84 years, 291days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) — also known asC. Douglas Dillon;Clarence DouglassDillon —of Far Hills,SomersetCounty, N.J.Born in Geneva,Switzerland,of American parents,August21, 1909.Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;financier;delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,1952(alternate),1968;U.S. Ambassador toFrance, 1953-57;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.Scottish,French,Swedish,andJewishancestry. Member,Council onForeign Relations;Societyof Colonial Wars.Recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom on July 6,1989.Died in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,January10, 2003 (age93 years, 142days).Burial location unknown. | | Raymond Charles Moley (1886-1975) — also known asRaymond Moley;Ray Moley — Born in Berea,CuyahogaCounty, Ohio,September27, 1886.Mayor of Olmsted Falls, Ohio;universityprofessor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised PresidentFranklinD. Roosevelt; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1933; broke withRoosevelt in 1936, and later became senior advisor to RepublicansWendellWillkie,BarryGoldwater, andRichardNixon;columnistforNewsweekmagazine;received theMedal of Freedom in 1970.IrishandFrenchancestry.DiedFebruary18, 1975 (age88 years, 144days).Intermentsomewherein Phoenix, Ariz.| | Relatives: Sonof Felix James Moley and Agnes (Fairchild) Moley; married1916 to EvaDall; married1949 toFrances Hebard. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | Frederick Andrew Seaton (1909-1974) — also known asFred A. Seaton — of Manhattan,RileyCounty, Kan.; Hastings,AdamsCounty, Neb.Born inWashington,D.C.,December11, 1909.Republican.Radioannouncer;sportsreporter; editor, manager, and publisher ofnewspapers;vice-chairof Kansas Republican Party, 1934-37; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Kansas,1936;campaign secretary for Gov.AlfredM. Landon, 1936; member ofNebraskaunicameral legislature, 1945-49;U.S.Senator from Nebraska, 1951-52;U.S.Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61;speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956 ; candidate forGovernor ofNebraska, 1962.MethodistorEpiscopalian.Member,Freemasons;Shriners;Elks;Rotary;NavyLeague;AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science;BetaTheta Pi;PiKappa Delta.Recipient,Medal of Freedom. Died in St. Mary'sHospital,Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.,January16, 1974 (age64 years, 36days).Interment atParkviewCemetery, Hastings, Neb. | | John Leonard Swigert Jr. (1931-1982) — also known asJack Swigert — of Colorado. Born inDenver,Colo.,August30, 1931.Republican. Candidate forU.S.Senator from Colorado, 1978; electedU.S.Representative from Colorado 1982, but died before taking office.Astronauton Apollo 13 moon mission in April 1970, which was aborted when anoxygen tank ruptured, but returned safely to earth. Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.Died, ofbone marrowcancer, in Georgetown UniversityHospital,Washington,D.C.,December27, 1982 (age51 years, 119days).Interment atMt.Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo. | | William Pierce Rogers (1913-2001) — also known asWilliam P. Rogers — Born in Norfolk,St.Lawrence County, N.Y.,June 23,1913.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;U.S.Attorney General, 1957-61;U.S.Secretary of State, 1969-73.Presbyterian.Member,American BarAssociation;Order ofthe Coif.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1973. Died, ofcongestiveheart failure, in SuburbanHospital,Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,January2, 2001 (age87 years, 193days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (1922-2016) — also known asMelvin R. Laird — of Marshfield,WoodCounty, Wis.Born in Omaha,DouglasCounty, Neb.,September1, 1922.Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member ofWisconsinstate senate 24th District, 1947-52; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Wisconsin,1948(alternate),1952(member,ResolutionsCommittee),1956(member,ResolutionsCommittee;speaker),1960,1964;U.S.Representative from Wisconsin 7th District, 1953-69;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1969-73.Presbyterian.Member,AmericanLegion;Forty andEight;Veterans ofForeign Wars;DisabledAmerican Veterans;Freemasons;Elks;UnitedCommercial Travelers;PurpleHeart.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1974. Died in Fort Myers,LeeCounty, Fla.,November16, 2016 (age94 years, 76days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) — also known asDavid K. E. Bruce — ofBaltimore,Md.; Charlotte Court House,CharlotteCounty, Va.; Elkridge,HowardCounty, Md.Born inBaltimore,Md.,February12, 1898.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;farmer;member ofMarylandstate house of delegates, 1924-26; U.S. Vice Consul inRome, as of 1926; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1940-43; delegate to DemocraticNational Convention from Virginia,1940;served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Ambassador toFrance, 1949-52;Germany, 1957-59;Great Britain, 1961-69; U.S. Liaison toChina, 1973-74.Episcopalian.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1976. Died, as a result of aheartattack, in Georgetown UniversityMedicalCenter,Washington,D.C.,December5, 1977 (age79 years, 296days).Interment atOakHill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-2023) — also known asHenry A. Kissinger;Heinz AlfredKissinger —Born in Fürth,Germany,May27, 1923.Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;universityprofessor;U.S.Secretary of State, 1973-77.Jewish. Member,Council onForeign Relations;TrilateralCommission.Received theNobelPeace Prize in 1973; received thePresidential Medal ofFreedom in 1977.Died in Connecticut,November29, 2023 (age100 years,186 days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married,February6, 1949, to Anne Fleischer; married,March30, 1974, to Nancy Maginnes. | | | | Cross-reference:JohnH. Holdridge | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —NobelLaureates | | | | Books by Henry Kissinger:Yearsof Renewal (1999) —Yearsof Upheaval (1982) —AmericanForeign Policy (1974) —Diplomacy(1994) —NuclearWeapons and Foreign Policy (1957) —TheWhite House Years (1979) —AWorld Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace,1812-22 (1957) | | | | Books about Henry Kissinger: WalterIsaacson,Kissinger:A Biography — Phyllis Schlafly,Kissingeron the Couch — Robert D. Sulzinger,HenryKissinger : Doctor of Diplomacy — Alistair Horne,Kissinger:1973, the Crucial Year | | | | Critical books about Henry Kissinger:Christopher Hitchens,TheTrial of Henry Kissinger |
| | James Albert Michener (1907-1997) — also known asJames A. Michener — Born in Doylestown,BucksCounty, Pa.,February3, 1907.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;author;received thePulitzerPrize in Literature, 1948; candidate forU.S.Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1962; received theMedal of Freedom, 1977.Died in Austin,TravisCounty, Tex.,October16, 1997 (age90 years, 255days).Interment atAustinMemorial Park, Austin, Tex.; cenotaph atTexasState Cemetery, Austin, Tex. | | Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979) — also known asNelson A. Rockefeller;"Rocky" —of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Tarrytown,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Born in Bar Harbor,HancockCounty, Maine,July 8,1908.Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,1956(alternate),1960,1964(delegation chair);Governor ofNew York, 1959-73; candidate for Republican nomination forPresident,1960,1964,1968;VicePresident of the United States, 1974-77.Baptist.Member,PhiBeta Kappa;Council onForeign Relations;Knightsof Pythias.Participated in the founding of the United Nations; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.Died, from a massiveheartattack, in hisoffice,New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,January26, 1979 (age70 years, 202days).Cremated;ashes interred atRockefellerFamily Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.| | Relatives: Sonof John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby (Aldrich) Rockefeller;brother ofWinthropRockefeller; married,June 23,1930, toMaryTodhunter Clark; married,May 4,1963, toHappyMurphy (great-granddaughter ofEdwinHenry Fitler; third great-granddaughter ofJohnSergeant; first cousin once removed ofGeorgeBrooke Roberts Jr.); nephew ofRichardSteere Aldrich andWinthropWilliams Aldrich; uncle ofJohnDavison Rockefeller IV andWinthropPaul Rockefeller; grandson of John Davison Rockefeller andNelsonWilmarth Aldrich; first cousin four times removed ofSimonS. Rockefeller; first cousin five times removed ofHenryRockefeller; second cousin of David Hunter McAlpin (who marriedNinaUnderwood); second cousin thrice removed ofJohnPhillips Rockefeller; fourth cousin once removed ofLewisKirby Rockefeller. | | | | Political families:Rockefellerfamily of New York City, New York;Rockefellerfamily of New York City, New York (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:StewartG. Anderson —JohnH. Terry | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about Nelson A. Rockefeller: CaryReich,TheLife of Nelson A. Rockefeller : Worlds to Conquer,1908-1958 — Joseph H. Boyd,Oreosand Dubonnet: Remembering Governor Nelson A.Rockefeller |
| | Henry Jacob Friendly (1903-1986) — Born in Elmira,ChemungCounty, N.Y.,July 3,1903.Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1959-74.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Died in1986(ageabout82 years).Burial location unknown. | | Donald Henry Rumsfeld (b. 1932) — also known asDonald Rumsfeld;"Rummy" —of Illinois. Born in Evanston,CookCounty, Ill.,July 9,1932.Republican.U.S.Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1963-69;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1975-77, 2001-.Presbyterian.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Still living as of 2019.| | Cross-reference:JimLeach | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile | | | | Books by Donald Rumsfeld:Knownand Unknown: A Memoir (2011) | | | | Books about Donald Rumsfeld: MidgeDecter,Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait — Rowan Scarborough,Rumsfeld'sWar: The Untold Story of America's Anti-TerroristCommander — Jeffrey A. Krames,TheRumsfeld Way: The Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-HardenedMaverick | | | | Critical books about Donald Rumsfeld:Clint Willis,TheI Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . .Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America — DanPiraro,TheThree Little Pigs Buy the White House — AndrewCockburn,Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy |
| | Arthur Joseph Goldberg (1908-1990) — also known asArthur J. Goldberg — of Illinois; New York;Washington,D.C.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,August8, 1908.Democrat.Lawyer;major in the U.S. Army during World War II;generalcounsel, Congress of Industrial Organizations; helped merge thatgroup with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO,1955; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention fromIllinois,1960;U.S.Secretary of Labor, 1961-62;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-65; U.S. Representative toUnited Nations, 1965-68; candidate for Democratic nominationfor President,1968;candidate forGovernor ofNew York, 1970; U.S. Ambassador to, 1977-78.Jewish. Member,AmericanJewish Committee;Americansfor Democratic Action.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1978. Died ofcoronaryartery disease, inWashington,D.C.,January19, 1990 (age81 years, 164days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978) — also known asHubert H. Humphrey;"H.H.H.";"The Happy Warrior";"TheHump" —of Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.Born in Wallace,CodingtonCounty, S.Dak.,May 27,1911.Democrat.Pharmacist;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota,1944(member,Platformand Resolutions Committee),1948,1952,1960,1964;mayorof Minneapolis, Minn., 1945-48;U.S.Senator from Minnesota, 1949-64, 1971-78; died in office 1978;member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; candidatefor Democratic nomination for Vice President,1956;candidate for Democratic nomination for President,1960,1972;VicePresident of the United States, 1965-69; candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1968.Congregationalist.EnglishandNorwegianancestry. Member,Freemasons;KnightsTemplar;Council onForeign Relations;Knightsof Pythias;Americansfor Democratic Action;AmericanFederation of Teachers.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1980.Died, ofcancer,at Waverly,WrightCounty, Minn.,January13, 1978 (age66 years, 231days).Interment atLakewoodCemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue atMinneapolis City Hall Grounds, Minneapolis, Minn.  | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) — also known asLyndon B. Johnson;"L.B.J.";"Landslide Lyndon";"PreacherLyndon";"The Accidental President";"Volunteer";"Light BulbJohnson" —of Johnson City,BlancoCounty, Tex.Born near Stonewall,GillespieCounty, Tex.,August27, 1908.Democrat.U.S.Representative from Texas 10th District, 1937-49; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Texas,1940,1956,1960;U.S.Senator from Texas, 1949-61; candidate for Democratic nominationfor President,1956,1960,1968;VicePresident of the United States, 1961-63;Presidentof the United States, 1963-69.Disciplesof Christ. Member,AmericanLegion;Council onForeign Relations.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1980.Died from aheartattack, inGillespieCounty, Tex.,January22, 1973 (age64 years, 148days).Interment atLBJRanch, Stonewall, Tex.| | Relatives: Sonof Sam Ealy Johnson and Rebekah (Baines) Johnson; married,November17, 1934, to Claudia Alta 'Lady Bird' Taylor andClaudiaAlta Taylor; father of Lynda Bird Johnson (who marriedCharlesSpittal Robb). | | | | Political family:Johnsonfamily of Stonewall, Texas. | | | | Cross-reference:RogerKent —IrvineH. Sprague —A.W. Moursund —EliotJaneway —BarefootSanders | | | | LakeLBJ (created as Lake Granite Shoals; renamed in 1965), inBurnetandLlanocounties, Texas, isnamed forhim. — Thevillageof Kampung LB Johnson,Malaysia,isnamed forhim. | | | | Campaign slogan (1964): "All The WayWith L.B.J." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books about Lyndon B. Johnson: DorisKearns Goodwin,LyndonJohnson and the American Dream — Robert Dallek,FlawedGiant : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 — SeanJ. Savage,JFK,LBJ, and the Democratic Party — Robert A. Caro,ThePassage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson — MarkUpdegrove,IndomitableWill: LBJ in the Presidency — Nicholas deB.Katzenbach,Someof It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ — Robert A.Caro,ThePassage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol.IV — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] — Michael A. Schuman,LyndonB. Johnson (for young readers) | | | | Critical books about Lyndon B. Johnson:Robert A. Caro,Yearsof Lyndon Johnson : The Path to Power — Robert A.Caro,Yearsof Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent — Robert A. Caro,Yearsof Lyndon Johnson : Master of the Senate — LanceMorrow,TheBest Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948:Learning the Secrets of Power | | | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp(1973) |
| | Harold Brown (b. 1927) — Born in New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.,September19, 1927.Physicist;president,California Institute of Technology, 1969-77;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1977-81.Jewish. Member,Council onForeign Relations;TrilateralCommission.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Still living as of 2018.  | Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (b. 1932) — also known asAndy Young — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in New Orleans,OrleansParish, La.,March12, 1932.Democrat.Ordainedminister; one of the founders of the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference, 1957; close advisor of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. until his assassination;U.S.Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1973-77; defeated,1970; U.S. Representative toUnited Nations, 1977-79;mayorof Atlanta, Ga., 1982-90;speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;candidate forGovernor ofGeorgia, 1990.UnitedChurch of Christ.Africanancestry. Member,Council onForeign Relations;PrinceHall Masons.Received theSpingarnMedal in 1978; received thePresidential Medal of Freedomin 1981.Still living as of 2021. | | | Warren Minor Christopher (1925-2011) — also known asWarren Christopher;"TheCardinal" —of Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Scranton,BowmanCounty, N.Dak.,October27, 1925.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer; lawclerk to U.S. Supreme Court JusticeWilliamO. Douglas, 1949-50; special counsel to Gov.EdmundG. Brown, 1959; deputy U.S. Attorney General, 1967-69; deputyU.S. Secretary of State, 1977-81; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from California,1964;U.S.Secretary of State, 1993-97.Methodist.Member,American BarAssociation;Order ofthe Coif;Council onForeign Relations;AmericanPhilosophical Society.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom on January 16,1981.Died, fromkidneyand bladder cancer, in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,March18, 2011 (age85 years, 142days).Burial location unknown. | | Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996) — also known asEdmund S. Muskie;"Mr.Clean" —of Waterville,KennebecCounty, Maine.Born in Rumford,OxfordCounty, Maine,March28, 1914.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member ofMainestate house of representatives, 1947-51; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from Maine, 1952-54;Governor ofMaine, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromMaine,1956,1964;speaker,1988;U.S.Senator from Maine, 1959-80; candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1968; candidate for Democraticnomination for President,1972;U.S.Secretary of State, 1980-81.Catholic.Polishancestry. Member,Lions;Elks;Amvets;PhiBeta Kappa.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Died of aheartattack, in Georgetown UniversityMedicalCenter,Washington,D.C.,March26, 1996 (age81 years, 364days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Gerard Coad Smith (1914-1994) — also known asGerard C. Smith — ofWashington,D.C.BornMay 4,1914.U.S. Ambassador to, 1977-80.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. DiedJuly 4,1994 (age80 years, 61days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Robert Schwarz Strauss (1918-2014) — also known asRobert S. Strauss;BobStrauss —of Dallas,DallasCounty, Tex.;Washington,D.C.Born in Lockhart,CaldwellCounty, Tex.,October19, 1918.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas,1964(alternate),1996,2000,2004,2008;Chairmanof Democratic National Committee, 1972-77; U.S. Ambassador toSoviet Union, 1991;Russia, 1992.Recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom on January 16,1981.Died inWashington,D.C.,March19, 2014 (age95 years, 151days).Burial location unknown. | | Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) — also known asElbert P. Tuttle — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in Pasadena,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,July 17,1897.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Georgia,1948,1952(member,CredentialsCommittee);Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1954-68; tooksenior status 1968.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Died in Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.,June 23,1996 (age98 years, 342days).Interment atAllSaints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga.  | Earl Warren (1891-1974) — also known as"Superchief" — of Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.Born in Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,March19, 1891.Republican.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War I;AlamedaCounty District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from California,1928(alternate),1932;Temporary Chair,1944;CaliforniaRepublican state chair, 1934-36; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from California, 1936-38;Californiastate attorney general, 1939-43;Governor ofCalifornia, 1943-53; Republican candidate for PresidentialElector for California,1944;candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1948; candidate for Republicannomination for President,1952;ChiefJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President'sCommission on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.Norwegianancestry. Member,American BarAssociation;Freemasons;Shriners;Elks;AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences;AmericanPhilosophical Society;PhiDelta Phi;SigmaPhi;ExchangeClub.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1981.Died inWashington,D.C.,July 9,1974 (age83 years, 112days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives: Sonof Methias H. Warren and Chrystal (Hernlund) Warren; married,October14, 1925, to Nina Palmquist Meyers. | | | | Cross-reference:WilliamS. Mailliard | | | | See alsoNational GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —ArlingtonNational Cemetery unofficial website | | | | Books about Earl Warren: Ed Cray,ChiefJustice: A Biography of Earl Warren — G. Edward White,EarlWarren : A Public Life — Bernard Schwartz,SuperChief, Earl Warren and His Supreme Court — Jim Newton,Justicefor All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made — MikeResnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Eminent Americans(1954) |
| | | Ella Tambussi Grasso (1919-1981) — also known asElla T. Grasso;Ella RoseTambussi —of Windsor Locks,HartfordCounty, Conn.Born in Windsor Locks,HartfordCounty, Conn.,May 10,1919.Democrat. Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1953-57; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from Connecticut, 1956-58; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Connecticut,1956(alternate),1960,1968;co-chair, Resolutions and Platform Committee, co-chair,1964,co-chair,1968;secretaryof state of Connecticut, 1959-71;delegateto Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District,1965;U.S.Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1971-75;Governor ofConnecticut, 1975-80; resigned 1980.Female.Catholic.Italianancestry. Member,UrbanLeague;AmericanAssociation of University Women;League of WomenVoters;PhiBeta Kappa.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1981; inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 1993.Died in Hartford,HartfordCounty, Conn.,February5, 1981 (age61 years, 271days).Interment atSt.Mary's Cemetery, Windsor Locks, Conn. | | Walter Henry Judd (1898-1994) — also known asWalter H. Judd — of Minneapolis,HennepinCounty, Minn.Born in Rising City,ButlerCounty, Neb.,September25, 1898.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;physician;U.S.Representative from Minnesota 5th District, 1943-63; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Minnesota,1948(alternate),1952(alternate;speaker),1956(HonoraryVice-President;speaker),1960,1964.Congregationalist.Member,Freemasons;Shriners;PhiBeta Kappa;AmericanLegion.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Died in Mitchellville,PrinceGeorge's County, Md.,February13, 1994 (age95 years, 141days).Interment atBlueValley Cemetery, Surprise, Neb. | | Philip Charles Habib (1920-1992) — also known asPhilip C. Habib — of California. Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,February25, 1920.Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;U.S. Ambassador toSouth Korea, 1971-74; helped negotiate the 1978 Camp Davidaccords between Egypt and Israel.Lebaneseancestry.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. Died, of aheartattack, in Puligny-Montrachet,France,May25, 1992 (age72 years, 90days).Interment atVeteransCemetery, San Bruno, Calif. | | Jacob Koppel Javits (1904-1986) — also known asJacob K. Javits — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 18,1904.Republican.Lawyer;colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II;U.S.Representative from New York 21st District, 1947-54;New Yorkstate attorney general, 1955-57;U.S.Senator from New York, 1957-81; defeated, 1980 (primary), 1980(Liberal); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,1956,1960,1964,1968;candidate fordelegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.Jewish. Member,AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;JewishWar Veterans;UnitedWorld Federalists;Amvets.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. Died, ofALS (Lou Gehrig'sdisease), in West Palm Beach,Palm BeachCounty, Fla.,March 7,1986 (age81 years, 293days).Interment atLindenHill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y. | | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) — also known asAnn Clare Boothe;Clare BootheBrokaw —of Greenwich,FairfieldCounty, Conn.; Ridgefield,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April10, 1903.Republican.Writer;journalist;playwright;U.S.Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegateto Republican National Convention from Connecticut,1944,1948(speaker),1952;U.S. Ambassador toItaly, 1953-56.Female.Catholic.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1983. Died, from abraintumor, inWashington,D.C.,October9, 1987 (age84 years, 182days).Interment atMepkinAbbey, Moncks Corner, S.C. | | Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1925-2014) — also known asHoward H. Baker — of Huntsville,ScottCounty, Tenn.Born in Huntsville,ScottCounty, Tenn.,November15, 1925.Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;U.S.Senator from Tennessee, 1967-85; defeated, 1964; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Tennessee,1972;candidate for Republican nomination for President,1980;White House Chief of Staff, 1987-88; Republican Presidential Electorfor Tennessee,2000(voted forGeorgeW. Bush andRichardB. Cheney); U.S. Ambassador toJapan, 2001-05.Presbyterian.Member,American BarAssociation;PhiDelta Phi;PiKappa Phi.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1984. Died in Huntsville,ScottCounty, Tenn.,June 26,2014 (age88 years, 223days).Interment atMossop Cemetery, Huntsville, Tenn. | | Henry Martin Jackson (1912-1983) — also known asHenry M. Jackson;"Scoop" —of Everett,SnohomishCounty, Wash.Born in Everett,SnohomishCounty, Wash.,May 31,1912.Democrat.Lawyer;SnohomishCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1938-40;U.S.Representative from Washington 2nd District, 1941-53;U.S.Senator from Washington, 1953-83; died in office 1983;Chairmanof Democratic National Committee, 1960-61; candidate forDemocratic nomination for President,1972,1976.Presbyterian.Member,Elks;PhiDelta Phi;DeltaChi.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1984.Died in Everett,SnohomishCounty, Wash.,September1, 1983 (age71 years, 93days).Interment atEvergreenCemetery, Everett, Wash. | | James Maitland Stewart (1908-1997) — also known asJimmy Stewart — Born in Indiana,IndianaCounty, Pa.,May 20,1908.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; one ofAmerica's most famousfilmactors;speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.Scottishancestry. Member,Moose.Recipient,Medal of Freedom, 1985. Died, frompulmonaryembolism andcardiacarrest, in Beverly Hills,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,July 2,1997 (age89 years, 43days).Interment atForestLawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. | | Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (1926-2006) — also known asJeane J. Kirkpatrick;Jeane DuaneJordan —Born in Duncan,StephensCounty, Okla.,November19, 1926.U.S. Representative toUnited Nations, 1981-85.Female.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1985. Died in Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,December7, 2006 (age80 years, 18days).Burial location unknown. | | Paul Henry Nitze (1907-2004) — also known asPaul H. Nitze — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Amherst,HampshireCounty, Mass.,January16, 1907.U.S. Ambassador to, 1986-89.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1985. Died, ofpneumonia,inWashington,D.C.,October19, 2004 (age97 years, 277days).Intermentaprivate or family graveyard, Charles County, Md. | | Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002) — also known asWalter H. Annenberg — of Wynnewood,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.Born in Milwaukee,MilwaukeeCounty, Wis.,March13, 1908.Vice-president of his father's company, which published theRacingForm and othernewspapers;he and his father wereindictedfortaxevasion in 1939, but the charges against him were dismissed aspart of a plea bargain; inherited the company when his father died;founder ofSeventeen andTV Guide; owner ofradio andtelevision stations; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador toGreat Britain, 1969-74.Jewishancestry. Member,NewcomenSociety;PhiSigma Delta;SigmaDelta Chi;ZetaBeta Tau.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1986. Died, ofpneumonia,in Wynnewood,MontgomeryCounty, Pa.,October1, 2002 (age94 years, 202days).Interment atSunnylandEstate, Rancho Mirage, Calif. | | Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) — also known asBarry M. Goldwater;"Mr.Conservative" —of Phoenix,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.; Scottsdale,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.Born in Phoenix,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.,January1, 1909.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;U.S.Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87; received one electoralvote for Vice-President,1960;candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1964.Episcopalian.Jewishancestry. Member,Freemasons;KnightsTemplar;AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;SigmaChi.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1986. Died in Paradise Valley,MaricopaCounty, Ariz.,May 29,1998 (age89 years, 148days).Cremated;ashes interred atChristChurch of the Ascension Memorial Garden, Paradise Valley, Ariz.;statue atGoldwaterMemorial Park, Paradise Valley, Ariz.| | Relatives:Married,September22, 1934, to Margaret Johnson; married,February9, 1992, to Susan Shaffer Wechsler; father ofBarryMorris Goldwater Jr.; grandson ofMichaelGoldwater. | | | | Political family:Goldwaterfamily of Prescott, Arizona. | | | | Cross-reference:L.Brent Bozell —RaymondMoley | | | | Campaign slogan: "In your heart, youknow he's right." | | | | Opposition slogan: "In your guts, youknow he's nuts." | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by Barry M. Goldwater:Goldwater(1988) —Withno apologies: The personal and political memoirs of United StatesSenator Barry Goldwater (1979) | | | | Books about Barry M. Goldwater: RickPerlstein,Beforethe Storm : Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the AmericanConsensus — Robert Alan Goldberg,BarryGoldwater — Lee Edwards,Goldwater:The Man Who Made a Revolution — Scott Farris,AlmostPresident: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed theNation — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] |
| | Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927-2008) — also known asAnne Armstrong;Anne Legendre;Mrs.Tobin Armstrong —of Armstrong,KenedyCounty, Tex.Born in New Orleans,OrleansParish, La.,December27, 1927.Republican. Member ofTexasRepublican State Central Committee, 1961-66; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Texas,1964,1968,1972(speaker);vice-chairof Texas Republican Party, 1966-; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Texas, 1968-73; U.S. Ambassador toGreat Britain, 1976-77; Republican Presidential Elector forTexas,1992.Female.Episcopalian.Member,Council onForeign Relations;PhiBeta Kappa.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1987. Died, ofcancer,in ahospiceat Houston,HarrisCounty, Tex.,July 30,2008 (age80 years, 216days).Interment atOakwoodCemetery, Austin, Tex. | | Irving Robert Kaufman (1910-1992) — also known asIrving R. Kaufman — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.,June 24,1910.Lawyer;U.S.District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1949-61;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1961-87.Member,American BarAssociation;FederalBar Association;AmericanJudicature Society;TauEpsilon Phi.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1987. DiedFebruary1, 1992 (age81 years, 222days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives: Sonof Herman Kaufman and Rose (Spielberg) Kaufman; married,June 23,1936, to Helen Ruth Rosenberg. | | | | Cross-reference:LeonardB. Sand |
| | Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) — also known asCaspar W. Weinberger;Cap Weinberger;"Cap the Knife" —ofSanFrancisco, Calif.; Hillsborough,San MateoCounty, Calif.Born inSanFrancisco, Calif.,August18, 1917.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member ofCaliforniastate assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from California,1956(alternate),1960(member,Committeeon Rules and Order of Business);CaliforniaRepublican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade Commission,1969-70; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1970; chair, Federal TradeCommission; director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.Episcopalian.Jewishancestry. Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1987. Toforestall anyprosecutionfor alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, hewaspardonedby PresidentGeorgeBush in 1992.Died, ofkidneyailments andpneumonia,in Eastern MaineMedicalCenter, Bangor,PenobscotCounty, Maine,March28, 2006 (age88 years, 222days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Howard Malcolm Baldrige (1922-1987) — also known asMalcolm Baldrige;MacBaldrige —of Woodbury,LitchfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Omaha,DouglasCounty, Neb.,October4, 1922.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;businessexecutive; delegate to Republican National Convention fromConnecticut,1964,1968,1972;delegateto Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District,1965;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1981-87; died in office 1987.Congregationalist.Awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in1988.Died afterfallingoff ahorsewhile practicing rodeo,July 25,1987 (age64 years, 294days).Interment atNewNorth Cemetery, Woodbury, Conn. | | Warren Earl Burger (1907-1995) — also known asWarren E. Burger — of St. Paul,RamseyCounty, Minn.; Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.Born in St. Paul,RamseyCounty, Minn.,September17, 1907.Republican.Lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota,1944,1948(alternate),1952(member,CredentialsCommittee;speaker);Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1956-69;ChiefJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1969-86; took senior status 1986.Presbyterian.Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanJudicature Society;FederalBar Association.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. Died, ofcongestiveheart failure, inAlexandria,Va.,June 25,1995 (age87 years, 281days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Michael Joseph Mansfield (1903-2001) — also known asMike Mansfield — of Missoula,MissoulaCounty, Mont.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,March16, 1903.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;miningengineer;universityprofessor;U.S.Representative from Montana 1st District, 1943-53; defeated inprimary, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention fromMontana,1944,1948,1952,1956,1988,1996,2000;U.S.Senator from Montana, 1953-77; U.S. Ambassador toJapan, 1977-88.Irishancestry. Member,AlphaTau Omega.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Died, ofcongestiveheart failure, at theWalterReed Army Hospital,Washington,D.C.,October5, 2001 (age98 years, 203days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.  | George Pratt Shultz (1920-2021) — also known asGeorge P. Shultz — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,December13, 1920.Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;economist;universityprofessor;U.S.Secretary of Labor, 1969-70;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74;U.S.Secretary of State, 1982-89; survived anassassinationattempt in South America, August 1988; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom, 1989.Episcopalian.Member,Council onForeign Relations;AmericanEconomic Association.Died in Stanford,Santa ClaraCounty, Calif.,February6, 2021 (age100 years,55 days).Interment atDawes Cemetery, Cummington, Mass.  | Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989) — also known asClaude Pepper — of Tallahassee,LeonCounty, Fla.; Miami, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.Born near Dudleyville,ChambersCounty, Ala.,September8, 1900.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;lawyer;member ofFloridastate house of representatives, 1929-30;U.S.Senator from Florida, 1936-51; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Florida,1940(alternate),1944(alternate),1948(alternate),1960(alternate),1964,1968(alternate); member, Platform and Resolutions Committee,1944;speaker,1944,1988;candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President,1944;U.S.Representative from Florida, 1963-89 (3rd District 1963-67, 11thDistrict 1967-73, 14th District 1973-83, 18th District 1983-89); diedin office 1989.Baptist.Member,Moose;Woodmen;AmericanLegion;Forty andEight;Freemasons;Shriners;Elks;Kiwanis;American BarAssociation;PhiBeta Kappa;OmicronDelta Kappa;PhiAlpha Delta;SigmaUpsilon;KappaAlpha Order;UnitedWorld Federalists.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Died inWashington,D.C.,May 30,1989 (age88 years, 264days).Interment atOaklandCemetery, Tallahassee, Fla. | | George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) — also known asGeorge F. Kennan — of Pennsylvania. Born in Milwaukee,MilwaukeeCounty, Wis.,February16, 1904.Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul inTallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul inBerlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador toSoviet Union, 1952;Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Uniondeclaredhimpersonanon grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956PulitzerPrize in History for his bookRussia Leaves the War;received the 1968PulitzerPrize in Biography for hisMemoirs; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1989.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Died in Princeton,MercerCounty, N.J.,March17, 2005 (age101 years,29 days).Interment atPrincetonCemetery, Princeton, N.J. | | Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) — also known asMargaret Chase — of Skowhegan,SomersetCounty, Maine.Born in Skowhegan,SomersetCounty, Maine,December14, 1897.Republican.Schoolteacher; business executive for MaineTelephone&TelegraphCo., for a countrynewspaper,and for the CummingsWoolen Co.;member ofMaineRepublican State Committee, 1930-36;U.S.Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1940-49;U.S.Senator from Maine, 1949-73; defeated, 1972; candidate forRepublican nomination for President,1964.Female.Member,SigmaKappa.Inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 1973; received thePresidential Medal ofFreedom, 1989.DiedMay 29,1995 (age97 years, 166days).Cremated;ashes interred atMargaretChase Smith Library, Skowhegan, Maine. | | William Joseph Brennan Jr. (1906-1997) — also known asWilliam J. Brennan, Jr. — of New Jersey. Born in Newark,EssexCounty, N.J.,April25, 1906.Lawyer;major in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior court judge inNew Jersey, 1949-52;associatejustice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1952-56;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1956-90; took senior status 1990.Catholic.Irishancestry.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom. Died in anursinghome in Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.,July 24,1997 (age91 years, 90days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives: Sonof William J. Brennan and Agnes (McDermott) Brennan; married,May 5,1928, to Marjorie Leonard. | | | | Cross-reference:MichaelChertoff —AbrahamDavid Sofaer | | | | See alsofederaljudicial profile —Wikipedia article —Ballotpedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —ArlingtonNational Cemetery unofficial website | | | | Books about William J. Brennan: KimIsaac Eisler,AJustice for All: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions ThatTransformed America — David E. Marion,TheJurisprudence of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. —Hunter R. Clark,JusticeBrennan: The Great Conciliator — Charles M. Haar &Jerold S. Kayden,LandmarkJustice: The Influence of William J. Brennan on America'sCommunities — Frank I. Michelman,Brennanand Democracy |
| | Richard Bruce Cheney (b. 1941) — also known asRichard B. Cheney;Dick Cheney;"Shooter" —of Casper,NatronaCounty, Wyo.Born in Lincoln,LancasterCounty, Neb.,January30, 1941.Republican.U.S.Representative from Wyoming at-large, 1979-89;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1989-93;VicePresident of the United States, 2001-09.Methodist.Member,Council onForeign Relations;TrilateralCommission.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom on July 3, 1991. Still living as of 2025.| | Relatives:Married,August29, 1964, to Lynne Ann Vincent. | | | | Cross-reference:DonEvans | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile | | | | Books by Richard B. Cheney:KingsOf The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of AmericanHistory, with Lynne V. Cheney (1996) —InMy Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (2011) | | | | Books about Richard B. Cheney: StephenF. Hayes,Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial VicePresident — Barton Gellman,Angler:The Cheney Vice Presidency | | | | Critical books about Richard B. Cheney:John Nichols,Dick:The Man Who is President — Clint Willis,TheI Hate Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice. . .Reader: Behind the Bush Cabal's War on America — DanPiraro,TheThree Little Pigs Buy the White House — Lou Dubose andJake Bernstein,Vice:Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the AmericanPresidency | | | | Fiction about Richard B. Cheney: HenryBeard,TheDick Cheney Code : A Parody |
| | William Hedgcock Webster (b. 1924) — also known asWilliam H. Webster — Born inSt.Louis, Mo.,March 6,1924.Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;U.S.Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1959-61;U.S.District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1970-73;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1973-78; director,Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1978-87; director of CentralIntelligence, 1987-91.ChristianScientist. Member,PsiUpsilon.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1991. Still living as of 2014. | | James Addison Baker III (b. 1930) — also known asJames A. Baker III — of Houston,HarrisCounty, Tex.Born in Houston,HarrisCounty, Tex.,April28, 1930.Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Texas,1972(alternate),1988;candidate forTexasstate attorney general, 1978;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1985-88;U.S.Secretary of State, 1989-92.Member,Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Still living as of 2025.  | Colin Luther Powell (1937-2021) — also known asColin L. Powell;"Balloonfoot" —Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,April 5,1937.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S. Armygeneral; National Security Advisor, 1987-89; chairman, Joint Chiefsof Staff, 1989-93;U.S.Secretary of State, 2001-05; received 3 electoral votes forPresident,2016.Africanancestry.Recipient of theSpingarnmedal, 1991; twice recipient of thePresidential Medal ofFreedom, in 1991 and again in 1995.Died, fromCOVID-19,atWalterReed Medical Center, Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,October18, 2021 (age84 years, 196days).Burial location unknown. | | William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) — also known asWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November24, 1925.Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidateformayorof New York City, N.Y., 1965; candidate forNew Yorkstate assembly 2nd District, 1966.Catholic.IrishandSwissancestry. Member,Skulland Bones.Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor ofNational Reviewmagazine;authorand lecturer; host oftelevisionnews show "Firing Line"; recipient of thePresidential Medalof Freedom on November 18, 1991.Died, probably ofdiabetesandemphysema,in Stamford,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,February27, 2008 (age82 years, 95days).Cremated;ashes interred atSt. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.| | Relatives: Sonof William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brotherofJamesLane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who marriedLeoBrent Bozell); married1950 toPatricia Alden Austin Taylor. | | | | Political family:Buckleyfamily of New York and Connecticut. | | | | Cross-reference:FredericR. Coudert, Jr. | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.:GettingIt Right (2003) —Godand Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'(1951) —Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) —Nearer,My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) —TheLexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive WordLover (1998) —Airborne: A Sentimental Journey (1984) —InSearch of Anti-Semitism (1992) —BrothersNo More (1995) —UpFrom Liberalism (1959) —TheCommittee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee onUn-American Activities (1962) —Elvisin the Morning (2001) —Executioneve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) —Fourreforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) —Gratitude: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —Nuremberg: the reckoning (2002) —Overdrive: a personal documentary (1983) —UnitedNations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) —Theunmaking of a mayor (1966) —RonaldReagan: An American Hero (2001) —TheReagan I Knew (2008) | | | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.:StainedGlass : A Blackford Oakes Novel —MarcoPolo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —Savingthe Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —SeeYou Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —Tucker'sLast Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —Mongoose,R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —AVery Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —HighJinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —Who'son First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery —TheRedhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator JoeMcCarthy | | | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:John B. Judis,WilliamF. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —Lee Edwards,WilliamF. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.Bogus,Buckley:William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of AmericanConservatism | | | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,Jr.: David Miller,ChairmanBill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
 | Thomas Phillip O'Neill Jr. (1912-1994) — also known asThomas P. O'Neill, Jr.;"Tip" —of Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,December9, 1912.Democrat. Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1937-52;Speaker ofthe Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1949-52;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts,1952,1960,1964;Honorary Chair,1984;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1953-87 (11th District1953-63, 8th District 1963-87);Speaker ofthe U.S. House, 1977-87.Catholic.Irishancestry.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Died, ofcardiacarrest, in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,January5, 1994 (age81 years, 27days).Interment atMt.Pleasant Cemetery, Harwich Port, Harwich, Mass.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.| | Relatives: Sonof Thomas P. O'Neill and Rose Anne (Tolan) O'Neill; married,June 17,1941, to Mildred Anne Miller; father ofThomasP. O'Neill III. | | | | The O'NeillTunnel(opened 2003), which carries Interstate 93, Highway 1, and Route 3,inBoston,Massachusetts, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile | | | | Books by Thomas P. O'Neill:Manof the House : The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker TipO'Neill (1989) | | | | Books about Thomas P. O'Neill: JohnAloysius Farrell,TipO' Neill and the Democratic Century: A Biography —Chris Matthews,Tipand the Gipper: When Politics Worked | | | | Image source: Public Officers ofMassachusetts, 1979-80 |
| | Vernon Anthony Walters (1917-2002) — also known asVernon A. Walters — of Florida. Born in New York City (unknowncounty), N.Y.,January3, 1917.Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; deputy chief of theCentral Intelligence Agency, 1972-76; U.S. Ambassador to, 1981-85;Germany, 1989-91; U.S. Representative toUnited Nations, 1985-89.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. Died, at Good SamaritanMedicalCenter, West Palm Beach,Palm BeachCounty, Fla.,February10, 2002 (age85 years, 38days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) — also known asRonald Reagan;"Dutch";"The Gipper";"The GreatCommunicator";"The Teflon President";"Rawhide" —of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles,LosAngeles County, Calif.Born in Tampico,WhitesideCounty, Ill.,February6, 1911.Republican. Worked as asportsbroadcasterin Iowa in the 1930s, doing localradiobroadcastof Chicago Cubsbaseballgames; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professionalactorin 1937-64; appeared in dozens offilmsincludingKings Row,Dark Victory,Santa FeTrail,Knute Rockne, All American, andThe WinningTeam;president ofthe Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member ofCaliforniaRepublican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate toRepublican National Convention from California,1964(alternate),1972(delegation chair);Governor ofCalifornia, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination forPresident,1968,1976;Republican Presidential Elector for California,1968(voted forRichardM. Nixon andSpiroT. Agnew);Presidentof the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside theWashington Hilton hotel, he and three others wereshotand wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received thePresidential Medalof Freedom, 1993.Disciplesof Christ. Member,ScreenActors Guild;Lions;AmericanLegion;TauKappa Epsilon.Died, frompneumoniaandAlzheimer'sdisease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles,Los AngelesCounty, Calif.,June 5,2004 (age93 years, 120days).Interment atRonaldReagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.| | Relatives: Sonof John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married,January25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married,March 4,1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923;actress)andNancyDavis (1921-2016); father ofMaureenElizabeth Reagan. | | | | Political family:Reaganfamily of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. | | | | Cross-reference:KatherineHoffman Haley —DanaRohrabacher —DonaldT. Regan —HenrySalvatori —L.William Seidman —ChristopherCox —PatrickJ. Buchanan —BayBuchanan —EdwinMeese III | | | | Ronald Reagan Washington NationalAirport(opened 1941; renamed 1998), inArlington,Virginia, isnamed forhim. —MountReagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. — The Ronald ReaganBuildingand International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle,Washington,D.C., isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by Ronald Reagan:RonaldReagan : An American Life | | | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,PresidentReagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon,GovernorReagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer,Reagan'sWar : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final TriumphOver Communism — Lee Edwards,RonaldReagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor,Godand Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary BethBrown,Handof Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of RonaldReagan — Edmund Morris,Dutch:A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan,WhenCharacter Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — PeterJ. Wallison,RonaldReagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of HisPresidency — Dinesh D'Souza,RonaldReagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an ExtraordinaryLeader — William F. Buckley, Jr.,RonaldReagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley,Reagan'sRevolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started ItAll — Richard Reeves,PresidentReagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan,MyFather at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.Bossie,RonaldReagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,TheReagan I Knew — Chris Matthews,Tipand the Gipper: When Politics Worked — Mike Resnick,ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:Haynes Johnson,SleepwalkingThrough History: America in the Reagan Years — WilliamKleinknecht,TheMan Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main StreetAmerica |
| | Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) — also known asCésar Estrada Chávez — of Delano,KernCounty, Calif.Born in Yuma,YumaCounty, Ariz.,March31, 1927.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;farmworker;co-foundedthe National Farm Workers Association, which became the United FarmWorkers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,1968.Catholic.Mexicanancestry.Awarded posthumously theMedal of Freedom, in 1994. Died in San Luis,YumaCounty, Ariz.,April23, 1993 (age66 years, 23days).Interment atCesar Chavez National Monument, Keene, Calif.  | Arthur Sherwood Flemming (1905-1996) — also known asArthur S. Flemming — of Kingston,UlsterCounty, N.Y.; Delaware,DelawareCounty, Ohio; Eugene,LaneCounty, Ore.Born in Kingston,UlsterCounty, N.Y.,June 12,1905.Republican. Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1939-48;president,Ohio-Wesleyan University, 1948-53;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1958-61; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Ohio,1960;president,University of Oregon, 1961-68;president,Macalester College, 1968-71.Methodist.Member,AmericanSociety for Public Administration;AlphaSigma Phi;DeltaSigma Rho;OmicronDelta Kappa.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1994. Died ofacute renalfailure, at aretirementhome inAlexandria,Va.,September7, 1996 (age91 years, 87days).Interment atMontreposeCemetery, Kingston, N.Y. | | Robert Henry Michel (1923-2017) — also known asRobert H. Michel — of Peoria,PeoriaCounty, Ill.Born in Peoria,PeoriaCounty, Ill.,March 2,1923.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;administrative assistant to U.S. Rep.HaroldVelde, 1949-56;U.S.Representative from Illinois 18th District, 1957-95; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Illinois,1964,1968,1972.Member,Order ofAhepa;AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;DisabledAmerican Veterans;Amvets;SigmaNu;PiKappa Delta;PurpleHeart;Jaycees.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. Died in Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.,February17, 2017 (age93 years, 352days).Burial location unknown.  | Barbara Charline Jordan (1936-1996) — also known asBarbara Jordan — of Houston,HarrisCounty, Tex.Born in Houston,HarrisCounty, Tex.,February21, 1936.Democrat. Member ofTexasstate senate, 1967;U.S.Representative from Texas 18th District, 1973-79;speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988.Female.Africanancestry.Lesbian.Inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 1990; received theSpingarnMedal in 1992, and thePresidential Medal of Freedom in1994.Died ofleukemiaandmultiplesclerosis,January17, 1996 (age59 years, 330days).Interment atTexasState Cemetery, Austin, Tex. | | Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (1915-2011) — also known asR. Sargent Shriver, Jr.;"Sarge" —Born in Westminster,CarrollCounty, Md.,November9, 1915.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;lawyer;organized and directed the Peace Corps, 1961-66; U.S. Ambassador toFrance, 1968-70; candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1972; candidate for Democraticnomination for President,1976.Catholic.Germanancestry. Member,DeltaKappa Epsilon.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. Died, fromAlzheimer'sdisease, in SuburbanHospital,Bethesda,MontgomeryCounty, Md.,January18, 2011 (age95 years, 70days).Interment atSt. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Centerville, Mass.| | Relatives: Sonof Robert Sargent Shriver and Hilda (Shriver) Shriver; married,May 23,1953, to Eunice Mary Kennedy (daughter ofJosephPatrick Kennedy, Sr.; sister ofJohnFitzgerald Kennedy,PatriciaKennedy Lawford,RobertFrancis Kennedy,JeanKennedy Smith andEdwardMoore Kennedy; aunt ofKathleenKennedy Townsend andRobertFrancis Kennedy Jr.); father of Maria Owings Shriver (who marriedArnoldAlois Schwarzenegger) andMarkKennedy Shriver; nephew ofJamesCausten Shriver; grandson ofThomasHerbert Shriver; great-grandson ofThomasJohns Perry. | | | | Political family:Kennedyfamily of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Sargent ShriverElementarySchool, inSilverSpring, Maryland, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about R. Sargent Shriver: ScottStossel,Sarge:The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver — Mark Shriver,AGood Man: Rediscovering My Father, SargentShriver |
| | Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1928-1998) — also known asA. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. — of Pennsylvania. Born in Trenton,MercerCounty, N.J.,February25, 1928.Member, Federal Trade Commission, 1962-64;U.S.District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1964-77;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1977-93.Africanancestry.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1995; receivedtheSpingarnMedal in 1996.Died, following a series ofstrokes,in ahospitalat Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,December14, 1998 (age70 years, 292days).Burial location unknown. | | Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (1918-1999) — also known asFrank M. Johnson, Jr. — of Jasper,WalkerCounty, Ala.; Montgomery,MontgomeryCounty, Ala.Born in Haleyville,WinstonCounty, Ala.,October30, 1918.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Alabama,1948;U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1953-55;U.S.District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, 1955-;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1979-81;Judgeof U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-92.Legendary for civil rights decisions; recipient of thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.Died ofpneumonia,in Montgomery,MontgomeryCounty, Ala.,July 23,1999 (age80 years, 266days).Interment atHillCrest City Cemetery, Haleyville, Ala. | | Antonia Pantoja (1922-2002) — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in San Juan,San JuanMunicipio, Puerto Rico,September13, 1922.Democrat.Schoolteacher;welder;socialworker; founder, in 1961, of ASPIRA, a non-profit organizationwhich promotes education and community for Puerto Rican and otherLatino youth;delegateto New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967;received theMedal of Freedom, 1996; inducted into the HunterCollegeHall ofFame.Female.PuertoRican ancestry.Lesbian.Died, ofcancer,in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May 24,2002 (age79 years, 253days).Burial location unknown. | | Morris King Udall (1922-1998) — also known asMorris K. Udall;Mo Udall — of Tucson,PimaCounty, Ariz.Born in St. Johns,ApacheCounty, Ariz.,June 15,1922.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; playedprofessionalbasketballwith the Denver Nuggets, 1948-49;lawyer;co-founder and director,Bank ofTucson;PimaCounty Attorney, 1953-54; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Arizona,1956,1972;speaker,1984,1988;U.S.Representative from Arizona 2nd District, 1961-91; candidate forDemocratic nomination for President,1976.Mormon. Member,American BarAssociation;AmericanJudicature Society;AmericanLegion;PhiKappa Phi;PhiDelta Phi.Lostan eye in an accident when he was a boy. Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.Died, ofParkinson'sdisease, in the Veterans AdministrationHospital,Washington,D.C.,December12, 1998 (age76 years, 180days).Cremated;ashes scattered inaprivate or family graveyard, Pima County, Ariz.; cenotaph atSt.Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz. | | William James Perry (b. 1927) — Born in Vandergrift,WestmorelandCounty, Pa.,October11, 1927.U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1994-97.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1997. Still living as of 2014. | | Robert Joseph Dole (1923-2021) — also known asBob Dole — of Russell,RussellCounty, Kan.Born in Russell,RussellCounty, Kan.,July 22,1923.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;lawyer;member ofKansasstate house of representatives, 1951-53;U.S.Representative from Kansas, 1961-69 (6th District 1961-63, 1stDistrict 1963-69);U.S.Senator from Kansas, 1969-96; resigned 1996;Chairmanof Republican National Committee, 1971-73; candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1976; candidate for Republicannomination for President,1980,1988;candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1996.Methodist.Member,AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons;KnightsTemplar;Shriners;Kiwanis;Elks;American BarAssociation;DisabledAmerican Veterans;KappaSigma.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1997. Died, fromlungcancer,December5, 2021 (age98 years, 136days).Burial location unknown. | | Dante Bruno Fascell (1917-1998) — also known asDante B. Fascell — of Coral Gables, Dade County (nowMiami-DadeCounty), Fla.; Miami,Miami-DadeCounty, Fla.; Clearwater,PinellasCounty, Fla.Born in Bridgehampton,SuffolkCounty, Long Island, N.Y.,March 9,1917.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member ofFloridastate house of representatives, 1951-54;U.S.Representative from Florida, 1955-93 (4th District 1955-67, 12thDistrict 1967-73, 15th District 1973-83, 19th District 1983-93);delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida,1956(delegation vice-chair),1960(alternate),1968(alternate).Italianancestry. Member,AmericanLegion;Lions;American BarAssociation;Council onForeign Relations;MilitaryOrder of the World Wars;Jaycees;KappaSigma.ReceivedPresidential Medal of Freedom, 1998. Died, ofcoloncancer, in Clearwater,PinellasCounty, Fla.,November28, 1998 (age81 years, 264days).Interment atSylvanAbbey Memorial Park, Clearwater, Fla. | | Elmo Russell Zumwalt Jr. (1920-2000) — also known asElmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.;BudZumwalt —of Virginia. Born in Tulare,TulareCounty, Calif.,November29, 1920.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in theU.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Chief of U.S. naval operationsin 1970-74; candidate forU.S.Senator from Virginia, 1976.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Died, following twocancersurgeries, at Duke UniversityMedicalCenter, Durham,DurhamCounty, N.C.,January2, 2000 (age79 years, 34days).Interment atNavalAcademy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md. | | Evelyn Dubrow (1917-2006) — also known asEvy Dubrow — ofWashington,D.C.Born in Passaic,PassaicCounty, N.J.,May 6,1917.Democrat.Labororganizer;vicepresident andlobbyistfor the International Ladies Garment Workers Union for many years;delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,1984,1988,1996.Female.Received theMedal of Freedom in 1999. Died, in ahospitalatWashington,D.C.,June 20,2006 (age89 years, 45days).Burial location unknown.  | Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913-2006) — also known asGerald R. Ford;Jerry Ford;LeslieLynch King Jr.;"Passkey" —of Grand Rapids,KentCounty, Mich.; Rancho Mirage,RiversideCounty, Calif.Born in Omaha,DouglasCounty, Neb.,July 14,1913.Republican.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to RepublicanNational Convention from Michigan,1948,1960,1964;U.S.Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1949-73; resigned1973; member, President's Commission on the Assassination ofPresident KNDY, 1963-64;VicePresident of the United States, 1973-74;Presidentof the United States, 1974-77; defeated, 1976.Episcopalian.EnglishandScottishancestry. Member,Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons;Shriners;AmericanLegion;Veterans ofForeign Wars;Amvets;Sonsof the American Revolution;Forty andEight;Jaycees;DeltaKappa Epsilon;PhiDelta Phi;HumaneSociety;Elks;American BarAssociation.Shotat in two separate incidents in San Francisco in September 1975. On September 5, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, follower of murderous cultleader Charles Manson, got close to the President with a loadedpistol, and squeezed the trigger at close range; the gun misfired. On September 22, Sara Jane Moorefired ashot at him, but a bystander deflected her aim. Both women wereconvicted and sentenced to life in prison. Received theMedal ofFreedom in 1999.Died in Rancho Mirage,RiversideCounty, Calif.,December26, 2006 (age93 years, 165days).Interment atGeraldR. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.| | Relatives:Step-son of Gerald Rudolph Ford, Sr.; son of Leslie Lynch King, Sr.and Dorothy Ayer (Gardner) King Ford; half-brother ofThomasG. Ford Sr.; married,October15, 1948, toBettyWarren. | | | | Political family:Fordfamily of Grand Rapids, Michigan. | | | | Cross-reference:RichardM. Nixon —L.William Seidman | | | | The Gerald R. FordFreeway(I-196), inKent,Ottawa,andAllegancounties, Michigan, isnamed forhim. — The Gerald R. FordInternationalAirport (opened 1963, given present name 1999), nearGrandRapids, Michigan, isnamed forhim. — The Gerald R. FordFederalBuilding andU.S.Courthouse, inGrandRapids, Michigan, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail | | | | Books by Gerald R. Ford:ATime to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford(1983) | | | | Books about Gerald R. Ford: John RobertGreene,ThePresidency of Gerald R. Ford — Edward L. Schapsmeier,GeraldR. Ford's Date With Destiny: A Political Biography —James Cannon,Timeand Chance : Gerald Ford's Appointment With History —Douglas Brinkley,GeraldR. Ford — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Michigan Manual1957-58 |
| | | Oliver White Hill (1907-2007) — also known asOliver W. Hill — ofRichmond,Va.Born inRichmond,Va.,May 1,1907.Democrat.Lawyer;served in the U.S. Army during World War II; in 1947, he was electedas thefirstBlack member of Richmond's city council since Reconstruction;Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia,1972.Africanancestry. Member,NAACP.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1999, and theSpingarnMedal in 2005.Died inRichmond,Va.,August5, 2007 (age100 years,96 days).Interment atForest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Va. | | Elliot Lee Richardson (1920-1999) — also known asElliot L. Richardson — of Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,July 20,1920.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;U.S.Attorney for Massachusetts, 1959-61;LieutenantGovernor of Massachusetts, 1965-67;Massachusettsstate attorney general, 1967-69; defeated in primary, 1962;resigned 1969;U.S.Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970-73; delegate toRepublican National Convention from Massachusetts,1972;U.S.Secretary of Defense, 1973;U.S.Attorney General, 1973; U.S. Ambassador toGreat Britain, 1975-76;, 1977-80;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1976-77; candidate forU.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1984.Episcopalian.Member,Freemasons;Council onForeign Relations.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. Died, of acerebralhemorrhage, at Massachusetts GeneralHospital,Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,December31, 1999 (age79 years, 164days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va. | | Wesley Kanne Clark (b. 1944) — also known asWesley K. Clark;WesleyKanne —of Little Rock,PulaskiCounty, Ark.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,December23, 1944.Democrat.Rhodesscholar; served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; U.S.Army General; Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000; candidate forDemocratic nomination for President,2004.Baptist;laterCatholic.Jewishancestry.Recipient,Medal of Freedom, 2000. Still living as of 2014. | | Mildred Jeffrey (1910-2004) — also known asMillie Jeffrey;MildredMcWilliams —of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Alton,SiouxCounty, Iowa,December29, 1910.Democrat.Organizerfor the AmalgamatedClothingWorkers in the 1930s;director,Women's Bureau, and later the community relations and consumeraffairs departments, UnitedAutomobileWorkers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan,1956,1960,1968,1976,1980;member, Arrangements Committee,1964;member ofMichiganDemocratic State Central Committee, 1957-61; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from Michigan, 1961-69; candidate fordelegateto Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County12th District, 1961; member ofWayne StateUniversity board of governors; elected 1974.Female.Member,Americansfor Democratic Action;American CivilLiberties Union.Received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. Died, in anursinghome at Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,March24, 2004 (age93 years, 86days).Burial location unknown.| | Relatives:Married1936 to HomerNewman Jeffrey. |
| | Aretha Louise Franklin (1942-2018) — also known asAretha Franklin;"Queen ofSoul" —of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Memphis,ShelbyCounty, Tenn.,March25, 1942.Democrat.Singer;performed, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;inducted to the Rock and RollHall ofFame, 1987; received thePresidential Medal of Freedom in2005.Female.Died, frompancreaticneuroendocrine tumor, in Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.,August16, 2018 (age76 years, 144days).Entombed in mausoleum atWoodlawnCemetery, Detroit, Mich. | | Gillespie V. Montgomery (1920-2006) — also known asG. V. 'Sonny' Montgomery — of Meridian,LauderdaleCounty, Miss.Born in Meridian,LauderdaleCounty, Miss.,August5, 1920.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in theU.S. Army during the Korean conflict;insurancebusiness; member ofMississippistate senate, 1956-66;U.S.Representative from Mississippi, 1967-97 (4th District 1967-73,3rd District 1973-97); delegate to Democratic National Conventionfrom Mississippi,1996.Episcopalian.Member,KappaAlpha Order.Recipient,Medal of Freedom, 2005. Died, in Jeff Anderson RegionalMedicalCenter, Meridian,LauderdaleCounty, Miss.,May 12,2006 (age85 years, 280days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Meridian, Miss. | | John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921-2016) — also known asJohn Glenn — of New Concord,MuskingumCounty, Ohio; Columbus,FranklinCounty, Ohio.Born in Cambridge,GuernseyCounty, Ohio,July 18,1921.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;Astronaut;in February 1962,firstAmerican to orbit the earth; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Ohio,1964,1996,2004,2008;U.S.Senator from Ohio, 1975-99; candidate for Democratic nominationfor President,1984;received theMedal of Freedom in 2012; also inducted to theInternational Air & SpaceHall ofFame, the National AviationHall ofFame, the International SpaceHall ofFame, and the U.S. AstronautHall ofFame.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons.Died in Columbus,FranklinCounty, Ohio,December8, 2016 (age95 years, 143days).Interment atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives:Married1943 to AnnaMargaret Castor. | | | | The John Glenn ColumbusInternationalAirport (Port Columbus International Airport until 2016), inColumbus,Ohio, isnamed forhim. — John GlennHighSchool, inNewConcord, Ohio, isnamed forhim. — John GlennHighSchool, inWestland,Michigan, isnamed forhim. — John GlennHighSchool, inBay City,Michigan, isnamed forhim. — John GlennHighSchool, inWalkerton,Indiana, isnamed forhim. — John GlennHighSchool, inNorwalk,California, isnamed forhim. — John GlennMiddleSchool, inSanAngelo, Texas, isnamed forhim. — Colonel GlennRoad,inLittleRock, Arkansas, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Internet Movie Databaseprofile | | | | Books by John Glenn:JohnGlenn: A Memoir (1999) | | | | Books about John Glenn: Robert Green,JohnGlenn : Astronaut and U.S. Senator (for youngreaders) |
| | Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (b. 1930) — also known asDolores C. Huerta;Dolores ClaraFernández;Dolores Clara Head —of Delano,KernCounty, Calif.; Keene,KernCounty, Calif.; Bakersfield,KernCounty, Calif.Born in Dawson,ColfaxCounty, N.M.,April10, 1930.Democrat.Schoolteacher;co-foundedthe National Farm Workers Association, which became the United FarmWorkers; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,1968(alternate),1972,1988,1996,2000,2008;Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for California,1968(on behalf ofHubertH. Humphrey andEdmundS. Muskie); received theMedal of Freedom in 2012;Democratic Presidential Elector for California,2012(voted forBarackObama andJosephR. Biden, Jr.).Female.Mexicanancestry.Still living as of 2019.| | Relatives:Daughter of Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez; married to Ralph Headand Ventura Huerta. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle |
| | Lee Herbert Hamilton (b. 1931) — also known asLee H. Hamilton — of Columbus,BartholomewCounty, Ind.Born in Daytona Beach,VolusiaCounty, Fla.,April20, 1931.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1965-99; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Indiana,1968,1996;received theMedal of Freedom in 2015.Methodist.Member,American BarAssociation;TrilateralCommission;Rotary;Jaycees;AlphaTau Omega.Inducted into the Indiana BasketballHall ofFame.Still living as of 2018. | | Cicely Tyson (b. 1924) — of Atlanta,FultonCounty, Ga.Born in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,December19, 1924.Democrat.Model;actress;speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984.Female.Africanancestry. Member,DeltaSigma Theta.Recipient of theSpingarnMedal in 2010, and thePresidential Medal of Freedom in2016.Still living as of 2019. | | Orrin Grant Hatch (1934-2022) — also known asOrrin G. Hatch — of Midvale,Salt LakeCounty, Utah.Born in Homestead,AlleghenyCounty, Pa.,March22, 1934.Republican.Lawyer;U.S.Senator from Utah, 1977-2019; candidate for Republican nominationfor President,2000;delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah,2004,2008;received theMedal of Freedom in 2018.Mormon. Member,FederalistSociety.Songwriter,author of dozens of religious and patriotic songs.Died in Salt Lake City,Salt LakeCounty, Utah,April23, 2022 (age88 years, 32days).Burial location unknown. | | James Daniel Jordan (b. 1964) — also known asJim Jordan — of Urbana,ChampaignCounty, Ohio.Born in Troy,MiamiCounty, Ohio,February17, 1964.Republican.Athleticcoach; member ofOhiostate house of representatives 85th District, 1995-2000; memberofOhiostate senate 12th District, 2001-06;U.S.Representative from Ohio 4th District, 2007-; in 2018, he wasaccusedby former Ohio State University wrestlers of ignoringsexualabuse by the team physician; he denied this, but refused tocooperate with aninvestigation;in a lawsuit, he waschargedwithwitnesstampering andintimidation;received theMedal of Freedom on January 11, 2021;speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.Still living as of 2024.
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